VirtueDesktops and Smart Crash Reports.

On both of my macs, every time I reboot I get a dialog asking me if I want to install Smart Crash Reports. I always refuse but the dialog even reappears regardless of a “Don’t Ask Me Again” tick box that it presents. It took me a good hour to figure out that VirtueDesktops was responsible for presenting the dialog - it does not mention VirtueDestops at all.

No matter how useful SCR is to the developers of VirtueDesktops the integration was clearly not well implemented. Desktop software should never a) present anonymous dialogs and b) ignore preferences specified by user. And to boot it turns out SCR is a source of some concern.

I nearly uninstalled VirtueDesktops but I noticed they have ‘fixed’ this by removing SCR from more recent builds of VirtueDesktops - which ones I’m not sure though so I cannot verify the fix. But there you go, an hour of my life gone tracking this down (and writing this post to hopefully save others similiar pain).

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 mac

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