Wrong "Application Not Responding" Dialogs When Closing Applications

[Jay Cliburn]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 06:49 -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have encountered a problem since I upgraded from FC4 to FC5 where a
> Warning dialog box would come up saying something like
> 
>   "The window 'blah blah blah' is not responding.
>    Forcing this application to quit will cause you to
>    lose any unsaved changes."
> 
> whenever I try to close an application and the application is taking
> some time to close down.
> 
> For example,  if I open GEdit, type a character, and then click on the
> close ('X') button, the warning dialog mentioned above would pop up
> less than a second after the "You haven't saved the document.  Do you
> want to save the document?" dialog pops up..
> 
> As another example, sometimes, when I click on the close ('X') button
> on Thunderbird, and Thunderbird needs to do some time consuming
> clean-up work (like expunge deleted emails on an IMAP server), the
> above mentioned warning dialog box would pop up briefly and then go
> away when Thunderbird is done with the time consuming task.
> 
> There are two problems here:
> 
> 1. The warning dialog should never have popped up in the GEdit example.
> 2. The warning dialog should not have popped up so early in the
> Thunderbird example.
> 
> I'm just wondering if this behavior is cause by me not doing a clean
> install or if anybody else have experienced similar problems.

I'm seeing the same behavior.  I thought it was just me.  I've seen it
primarily on Evolution, but on other apps as well (including
Ethereal-gnome, IIRC).