Re: Request to break hard code freeze to fix Tomboy crasher

["Sanford Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 9/11/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le mardi 11 septembre 2007, à 06:50 -0700, Sanford Armstrong a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Recently bug #475516 was reported for Tomboy, basically stating that
> > the first time Tomboy is started (as an applet) after a user creates
> > note with the old Sticky Notes applet, Tomboy's Sticky Notes Import
> > addin causes Tomboy to crash.
> >
> > Attached is the proposed fix, which solves the problem by only showing
> > the import results dialog if the user explicitly initiates an import
> > through the Tools menu.  This is a very minor UI change that should
> > not affect the documentation.
> >
> > I request to break hard code freeze in order to apply this patch.  I
> > believe this is a very important bug to fix considering that several
> > distros ship with Tomboy in the panel by default.
>
> I must admit I find it weird that this fixes the crash. I mean,
> something else showing a dialog during startup will make tomboy crash
> too, won't it?

You're probably right, but nothing else in Tomboy shows a dialog on
startup.  Unfortunately I just don't have time to do a lot of
detective work on this bug.  This change is probably the UI behavior
we should have had in the first place, anyway.

So yeah, a better understanding of the crash would be nice, and I'd
gladly take any patches or suggestions...but for now this is the fix I
have.

Sandy