hehe.. I just crashed kwin, and was pleasantly surprised to see that xmessage. 
:)  It was kind of cute in a "i'm still in development" sort of way.

My guess is that kppp crashes when you close it.  At least, the code which
catches the signal thinks it does.

It saved my butt, because I was downloading something, and I didn't click "ok"
until it was done.

On 27-Mar-00 dep wrote:
> hi.
> 
> built cvs from yesterday; most things working well. but there's an 
> unusual error message the likes of which i've not seen before ever, 
> that appears when exiting kppp.
> 
> it's a nonmodal pop-up box with "xmessage" as its titlebar and, in a 
> little box in the text field, this: "An application crashed!"
> 
> beneath it is a little oval button, of the kind found in the early X 
> apps, containing the word "okay." clicking on it makes it go away. it 
> returns whenever i close kppp. it seems to do no harm, and kppp seems 
> to be functioning normally.
> 
> thought it might be of interest.
> -- 
> dep
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