Description of Problem:

With control-alt-leftarrow and control-alt-rightarrow under sawfish window
manager I can send a window to a new desktop. This will creates new desktop when
it reaches that highest or lowest desktop, rather than wrapping round. At 32
desktops deskguide is happy. On creating the 33rd, it dies "unxepectedly" and
won't restart. This leaves me unable to reach the other windows, and recover
data there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

"Gnome deskguide_applet 0.4"

How Reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. while focus is inside a window, repeatedly press Control-Alt-Left

Actual Results:

deskguide aborts at 33rd window, leaving all other windows unreachable


Expected Results:

either:

  deskguide should gracefully dynamically cope with pointlessly large numbers of
desktops without exiting.
  deskguide should prevent sawfish from creating desktops beyond the number that
it can handle

Additional Information:

Attempting to run deskguide from a terminal gives

 deskguide_applet 

DeskGuide-Applet-ERROR **: MAX_DESKTOPS limit reached, adjust source code
aborting...
Aborted


I'd suggest "adjust source code" should be of the form of changing from an
arbitary static limit to a dynamic limit. Gnome coding guidlines say that all
developers should follow the GNU coding guidlines, and in turn GNU coding
guidelines "Program Behavior for All Programs" says:

 4.1 Writing Robust Programs

Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including
file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures
dynamically. In most Unix utilities, "long lines are silently truncated". This
is not acceptable in a GNU utility.