Updated GNOME 2.24 Showstopper Review

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

After the last Showstopper Review, there have been several comments on
other important issues. Thanks everybody for the feedback!
So here's a quick updated list of those urgent and/or important issues.

Anybody feel free to take a look and help out by testing or providing
patches.
Keep in mind that Hardcode Freeze is already on next Monday!


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EKIGA
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Jitter buffer problem with PCMA/PCMU
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551200
Patch available, waiting for review.

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EPIPHANY
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The favicon Python extension still imports and uses GnomeVFS
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516844

Component registration sometimes lost at runtime
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535127
Dataloss bug.

crash in IA__gtk_tree_model_get_valist
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512313
Patch available, but probably not the right way to fix this.

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EVOLUTION
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Camel Disk summary bugs
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543389
This is a meta bug. Not all of the dependencies need to be resolved for
2.24, but there are two or three major issues. Srini is working on this.

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GNOME-APPLET
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crash in Keyboard Indicator (gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523583
Comment 40 and 68 have useful traces. There has been much activity to
fix this though the bug has been existing since 2.18.

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GNOME-PANEL
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crash in gtk_rc_reset_styles()
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446183
1006 duplicates (20 last week) and still happening in 2.22, related to
theme problems.
Any investigations and more comments appreciated!

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GNOME-SESSION
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bug-buddy gtk module not loaded by default
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546522

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GNOME-SETTINGS-DAEMON
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Exit due to unhandled X error when updating resolution
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537592
svu has problems reproducing this, more input and help tracking this
down very appreciated, as we expect lots of users running into this.

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GVFS
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nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS
network
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524485
This is a regression from 2.20.x. A patch is available and Tomaš is
looking at it this week.

Unable to browse smb shares
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547597
This has come up lately and so far there has been no activity to fix
this.

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METACITY
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install desktop file into XDG application dirs
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549479
Nearly fixed thanks to Marnanel, vuntz and Jon.


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GNOME GOALS not yet completed:
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* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas :
atk - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339259
Can anybody please reproduce Li Yuan's problem or also test this?

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoptGOption :
GnomePython - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507174
Patch available waiting for review.

* http://live.gnome.org/GtkPrintPort :
gnome-python-desktop, anjuta, gnome-devel-docs (update), GnomePython

* http://live.gnome.org/GioPort :
Volunteers providing patches for 
    gnome-python-desktop, gnome-utils, anjuta
highly welcome!
PATCHES already available and waiting for review:
    alacarte, gnome-utils, sabayon, gnome-build

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Changes/Fixes since the last real review[2]:
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Fixed issues for 2.24: 515948, 550647, 213072, 546747
Not a blocker anymore (less dups or change of importance):
504600, 529971, 528902

[1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree
[2]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-June/msg00119.html
[3] http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ShowstopperReviews

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