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MacOS X Tiger + RescueTime 0.9.2 + QuickSilver preferences = Choose application dialog
Hi, the reported problem from Leopard now appears in Tiger. When accessing the Quicksilver prefs, the "choose application" dialog pops up and, on occasion, it may cause the data collector to crash.
I’m hoping this will be fixed soon
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Inappropriate?The "Choose Application" dialog is something we've been working hard to squash. If the "Choose Application" dialog does appear, you can manually select QuickSilver.app and that setting should persist through restarts of RescueTime (so you only have to choose it once).
Let me know if the choose dialog is still popping up for QuickSilver, even after you've manually selected it from the application list.
We hope to have a fix for ALL applications that cause this soon, some changes we made to fix some Leopard issues has compounded the problem.
Thanks for reporting it!
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Inappropriate?Hi Joe,
Choosing does solve the problem for now. Good luck finding all the applications that cause the problem.
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Inappropriate?Hi Joe,
The same thing happens when working with VMWare Fusion in Unity mode. Unity mode means you can run Windows applications, but they're not running in a Windows window, but rather they're free to roam about the desktop. They appear in the dock and they also appear in the process list (Activity monitor). It's pretty much the same as Parallels Coherence mode (only better :-).
Here, you're solution is not so good, since the application itself does not appear in the list of available applications (since it's a Windows app). I'm not sure how you were planning on solving the whole Virtualization issue (I can install RescueTime on my Windows side as well, but it will log my time twice?), but this is just a bug.
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Inappropriate?I will do some testing with VMWare Fusion and Parallels to see how to best handle these when they are running in the Unity/Coherence mode. I typically only run my virtuals in a window, so I'm not surprised that we may need to do some tweaking there.
What I do with both Parallels and Fusion: I have separate Windows data collectors installed on each virtual os. In the RescueTime settings, I have set both Parallels and VMWare Fusion to ignore - so my time is not doubled. This works great in windowed mode, but I will need to do some testing with the Unity/Coherence modes.
With the Windows virtuals, as long as they don't have focus, the Windows RescueTime will idle them out - and with the ignore on the Parallels and VMware side, my OS X time doesn't double up.
The "Choose Application" dialog issue is something I want to handle differently, i.e. - prevent the Finder from even trying to guess the application, so we don't have to hunt down the offending applications. I've got some ideas that I'm testing there, so I hope to have a solid solution soon!
I'll let you know how my testing goes.
Thanks for the additional feedback!
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