Re: some bugs

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

I started adding comments to some of these (at least some are known and
filed) but it just got too long :) Suffice to say... we're not ready for
prime-time yet. I think jdub is sending an email out on this topic at
some point. 

For my part as bugmaster:
Bugs that don't get reported in bugzilla don't get fixed... I hear
people bitch in IRC and other places that 'feature foo doesn't work.' I
can, and do, bitch/cajole/what have you at people to fix feature foo.
But I don't/can't if they aren't filed. DON'T ASSUME THE MAINTAINER
KNOWS IT IS A PROBLEM... people assume it is. And that's very often not
the case. If you file a bug, and the maintainer already knows, then
great; they've got a report they can use to track the problem. If you
file a bug, and they didn't know about it, then... great. They might fix
it. They definitely weren't going to fix it before.

None of this is a bitch at you, Havoc... you've obviously got other
things to do with your time :) But for most people, filing bugs isn't
something that is part of their routine, and it ought to be.

Luis
Bug Bitch 

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 00:03, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I rebuilt everything this morning and checked how many bugs I could
> find in a short time. ;-) I don't know when I'll have time to
> bugzilla-ize these notes, so I thought I'd mail them for now.
> 
> Lots of these are showstopperish.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> - Panel doesn't seem to get default settings, may be the 
>   GConf locale bug

Works here; lots of other problems with panel, though.

> - Background properties capplet appears to be totally non-working, it
>   has no effect on the background for me.  Maybe a Nautilus
>   issue. (Also, what happened to Seth's prettier capplet?)

Nautilus issue; patch is in the works.

> - Desktop theme selector comes up with no themes available, 
>   and spews several g_warning. Crashes on exit.
>   
> metatheme_selector_capplet (pid:1742): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gparamspecs.c: line 1614 (g_param_spec_enum): assertion `g_enum_get_value (enum_class, default_value) != NULL' failed
> 
> metatheme_selector_capplet (pid:1742): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gobject.c: line 267 (g_object_class_install_property): assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed
> 
> metatheme_selector_capplet (pid:1742): ** CRITICAL **: file
> mtm-control-list.c: line 121 (mtm_control_list_select_default): assertion `GTK_IS_OPTION_MENU (clist)' failed
> 
> metatheme_selector_capplet (pid:1742): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file
> gdkdraw.c: line 274 (gdk_drawable_unref): assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

New one; please file it if you have a chance :)

> - Fontsel spews a warning from tree view when opening font 
>   sel dialog:
> 
>  gnome2-font-properties (pid:1745): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file
>  gtktreeview.c: line 6192 (_gtk_tree_view_find_path): assertion `node
>  != NULL' failed
> 
> - Fontsel capplet is not instant apply, I sat there for literally 10
>   seconds wondering why it hadn't worked. Also you have to click 
>   both OK on the fontsel dialog and Apply on the capplet itself, 
>   which is kind of annoying.
> 
> - Cursor blink setting in keyboard properties doesn't seem to work

Filed, I'm pretty sure.

> - Global panel properties still contains "keep panel above/below"
>   and other non-implementable options, also contains 
>   crackrock option "automatically re-check menus", and thinks 
>   "Key bindings" is two words. 
>   
> - The panel global keybindings do not work, AFAICT.
> 
> - "Save current session" should probably be in Actions not 
>    in Applications/Preferences/, not sure if this is just 
>    caused by old GNOME 1 .desktop files
> 
> - GTK+ truncates Nautilus bookmark menu for some reason (makes it
>   scrollable with plenty of space).  I was getting this in
>   gnome-terminal Go menu also, I think it's caused by dynamically
>   changing the menu.
> 
> - bug-buddy "updating products list" you have to hit Stop 
>   manually

I thought Jacob said he'd fixed this one... works here.

> - bug-buddy locks up calling sendmail, should use g_spawn_async()
>   instead of synchronous method, and allow cancel.
> 
> - tasklist properties has the wrong buttons (should be help 
>   on the left and Close, instead of Help/Done both on the right)

Filed, I'm pretty sure.

> - CD player seems to have a problem loading configuration, though
>   gconf is working fine for the rest of the desktop?  LANG=C doesn't
>   help. I get a dialog about "failed to load configuration (null)"
>   (btw the dialog is apparently passing NULL to a printf %s, which
>   will segv on Solaris)
> 
> - Volume control spits a bunch of warnings:
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot
> register existing type `GtkShadowType'
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gparamspecs.c: line 1610 (g_param_spec_enum): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_ENUM (enum_type)' failed
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gobject.c: line 267 (g_object_class_install_property): assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot
> register existing type `GtkOrientation'
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gparamspecs.c: line 1610 (g_param_spec_enum): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_ENUM (enum_type)' failed
> 
> gnome-volume-control (pid:1771): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file
> gobject.c: line 267 (g_object_class_install_property): assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed
> 
> - Everything is spewing warnings about the "response_id" property on 
>   GtkButton, I think this is either glade or libglade's fault.
> 
> - Logout dialog buttons are packed in some ugly broken-looking way
> 
> - Lock Display results in "no screensaver is running" and does nothing
> 
> - Metacity and panel get in an infinite loop where panel sets
>   _NET_WM_STRUT and WM_NORMAL_HINTS over and over.
>   May or may not happen with Sawfish. Fills up metacity.log in 
>   a hurry.
> 
> - choosing "panel manual" for the panel starts Nautilus 
>   instead of yelp, and prints this warning:
>    gnome-panel-2 (pid:1730): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gerror.c: line 222
>   (g_propagate_error): assertion `src != NULL' failed
> 
> - "No Icon" text for the icon picker is truncated if you have a large
>   font
> 
> - opaque resize looks ugly with Nautilus icon view, maybe need to 
>   set ForgetGravity for the background of the icon view?
> 
> - Selected icons in Nautilus have text that looks like ass
> 
> - Calculator has a funny space at the end of the 
>   entry that can't be deleted but can be arrow-keyed over.
> 
> - Description of calculator in about dialog needs help
>   ("like xcalc" - what's an xcalc)
> 
> - Help doesn't come up in gedit
> 
> - gedit spew:
> 
> gedit (pid:11084): ** CRITICAL **: file gedit-recent.c: line 914
> (gedit_recent_g_slist_deep_free): assertion `list' failed
> 
> - Dictionary takes ages to come onscreen, trying to make some network
>   connection? then locks up for a while when you try to use it, 
>   probably the same blocking operation
> 
> - Dictionary has Preferences under Settings menu, should be under 
>   Edit menu.
> 
> - Text "100" for Nautilus zoom control isn't centered in the
>   magnifying glass.
> 
> - pager doesn't clip workspace names to the mini-workspace, so when 
>   it's too small it looks kind of worse than it could otherwise.
> 
> - Changing number of workspaces doesn't work with Metacity, 
>   metacity's fault.
> 
> - panel crash
>   
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73325
> 
> - nautilus crash
> 
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73327
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