Re: Some panel bug notes (Fwd: Re: panel bugs.)

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

What bug number is the panel launcher bug? I have about 5 or 10
duplicates of that in our bugzilla, and would like to be able to point
people to the "correct" panel bug.
Luis

On 25 Jun 2001 11:19:55 +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> This is from email between me and George Lebl. Some of it might be
> useful for people.
> 
> The references to things like setup_menu_item and so on are to
> particular functions found in the stack traces, where all the 
> stack traces were line-for-line duplications. 
> 
> They're all from panel bugs, although many of them were found in
> gnome-applets or general. 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 02:24:49 -0700
> > From: George <jirka 5z com>
> > To: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>
> > Subject: Re: panel bugs.
> 
> > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:55:26PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > > another menu_tear_off() crash. And here's another one with the 
> > > launchers".
> > > 
> > > The most fun pairing: 
> > > 53626: panel doesn't save launchers pulled from menus, but saves others
> > > 53759: panel saves launchers pulled from menus, but doesn't save others
> > 
> > OK, figured this one out! Yay!  Actually if you study the bugreports
> > carefully it seems that they were all really one thing and that was
> > "launchers added from the Add to panel/Launcher from menu submenu
> > don't persist".  The problem is people manage to misdescribe the
> > problem in horrible ways :)
> > 
> > The new scheme in the panel is hoarding the desktop files for launchers into
> > my own dir.  And I was forgetting to hoard those.
> > 
> > > setup_menu_item: all old (Added to 53833)
> > 
> > Closed as INCOMPLETE now :)
> > 
> > > init_user_panel: ooh, lots! (Added them all to 54068)
> > 
> > closed as INCOMPLETE now.  This is some bug in 1.0.55 that never shows 
> > up in any other version.  But thanks to bugbuddy of 1.0.55 not requireing 
> > people to even type in garbage, it results in thousands of identical 
> > bugreports with just the stacktrace.
> > 
> > > menu_tearoff: even more! (Added to 54222)
> > 
> > This one is an interesting one.  Still trying to figure out what could be
> > happening here.  I can't figure it out.  The calltree doesn't make sense
> > since it's probably too optimized to be well debugged and doesn't have 
> > enough symbols.  But the printf at the end gives a little bit of a clue 
> > so this may be possible to kill perhaps.
> > 
> > > There's an "interesting" (allegedly) alpha crash at 54221.
> > 
> > Well, the stacktrace has NO interesting info in it.  I'll just close this 
> > bug as INCOMPLETE at some point.
> 
> > > There's another two crashes blamed on the panel which are the
> > > fault of mailcheck applet. I'm sorry. I should have sent you
> > > the applet reports months ago. Mailcheck is evil.
> > 
> > Mailcheck crashes should be fixed.  They are usually the IMAP code which 
> > was pretty buggy in 1.2.  I should look through those and close the relevant
> > ones.
> > 
> > Actually if you think mailcheck was evil before, it's even eviler now.  I
> > have some very cool evil code to make it asynchronious.
> > 
> > George
> > -- 
> > George <jirka 5z com>
> >    How shall we fuck off, o Lord?
> >                        -- Monty Python
> 
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