<div dir="ltr">Indeed, the need for this has been expressed in a long forgotten ticket.  I do think it's something we should support in some fashion, and something worth a look for 9.1.  More comments on the ticket:<div> <br></div><div><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1166#comment:8">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1166#comment:8</a></div><div>(The "in the ring" activities mentioned are now "in the top edge of the frame".)</div> <div><br></div><div>- Eben</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Bernie Innocenti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Today I was testing Paing in Joyride and managed to hung it in a<br> way that hogs the CPU.<br> <br> There seems to be no way to kill such an activity from Sugar.<br> Stop just tries to close the X window, which is ineffective in<br> such cases.<br> <br> We'd need to fire a timer to check if the activity is still there<br> after a few seconds and, in that case, send a SIGKILL.  A safer<br> design would pop a Wait/Force Quit window before proceeding.<br><font color="#888888"> <br> -- <br>  \___/  Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a><br>  _| X |  Sugar Labs Team  - <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>  \|_O_|  "It's an education project, not a laptop project!"<br> </font></blockquote></div><br></div></div>