Re: top 10 bugs [was Re: GtkHtml 1, 2 and 1->2]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:56, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > Luckily, that list
> > > would be fairly short- there really aren't many of those type of bugs
> > > left, unless there are some lurking deep in libraries with no
> > > user-visible impacts visible yet. This help thing was far and away the
> > > worst.
> > 
> > So, I lied- there is still at least one very visible, implementation
> > incomplete bug- menu editing. It's still unclear how to do this or even
> > if it can be done at all. If there is a top ten list soon that will be
> > the #1 item on it, since it's not just a bug but a serious
> > implementation question.
> > 
> 
> Indeed. I'd also consider the current lack of an
> "appearance/themes/colors" capplet to be fairly significant.

Yeah. This is one we'd all really like to see, I think*, but I don't
think it's an obvious, huge blocker in the way that menu editing of the
help system is. Very close, though.

*the release team has considered it a blocker, but obviously, if Rachel
or one of the distributors do not have the time to work on it, then... I
dunno where that leaves us :)

> Moving into random pet issues of mine ;-) there's some sense that the
> panel gconf setup needs a lot of work - I think we don't have a way to
> lock down the set of existing panels, and the panel really doesn't
> seem to handle notifications, and these things mean that we don't know
> whether the schemas are correct. It also means the code is organized
> in a wholly wrong way, using the "set value then assume the set
> happened" method instead of the "set and then handle the notify in all
> views" method. Possibly lots of work to address.

*cough*file a bug*cough* ;)

> In gnome-terminal, the lack of "factory" mode and lack of "new window
> with profile" are important feature gaps.

FWIW, the crash on transparent terminals seems to be a much more
frequent issue with terminal; it's probably the most frequently reported
open crash in g2 ATM.

> I guess we can probably live with punting all those things though,
> which means we aren't all that doomed.

Yeah. I'm just going by (1) what I see in bugzilla (2) what I hear in
#bugs and (3) my own intuitions. In particular, for (1) and (2), I'm not
exactly seeing this clamoring demand for, say, --use-factory ;) so I
haven't really flagged that as a showstopper or anything. It would
definitely be something to throw on a list, though.

Are there other things that other people are looking at? If I'm going to
be making up lists, I need to have feedback- bugzilla is a start but it
only gets us so far for this type of list.

Luis