top 10 gruesome gnome2 bug list

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

It's friday, so time to push out a list of issues for consideration when
people are hacking crazily on Friday night. [That's what we all do on
Friday night, right?] It was cool that so many from last week's list got
fixed; I hope this week's gets a similar response :)

Before I start, a note: libwnck crashed like crazy this week,
background-capplet totally regressed (hangs on startup), and gdmgreeter
appears to have disappeared off the face of the map. These types of
regression this close to release are Not Good and make me a little
nervous.

Anyway, on to the bugs:

1) A class of bug I'd completely forgotten last week, because it really
isn't filed, but which was already brought up today on this list: the
gnome1/gnome2 configuration integration issue.
	*Metatheme, AFAIK, makes no attempts to integrate gnome1 and gnome2
settings. None of the other theme/font capplets do either.
	*default applications capplet. Aside from the fact that there isn't one
in gnome2 ATM [1] even when it was there it didn't set both gnome1 and
gnome2 defaults.
	*keyboard/mice/sound: ditto. [sound might fall under metatheme?]

2) People have finally tested the mime-types capplet, and... hrm. It
apparently doesn't really do much. No bug open for that yet- it would be
good if someone could rigorously go through and file bugs on every
breakage they can find. [Trever? :) ]

3) Worst crasher out there ATM, probably: nautilus, in background
scaling code: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76179

4) personal peeve, not filed: what happened to gdmgreeter? On restarting
now, I get the regular, old, ugly gdmlogin. :( And I was so used to the
prettiness ;)

5) Low-frequency but sort of old and now repeated system-monitor crash:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71374

6) Nautilus crasher on desktop toggling- several dups.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76342

7) gtkhtml2 crasher with several dups: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78354

8) One more nautilus repeated crash:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75504

Left overs from last week: 

9) Help still busted in /lots/ of apps: 
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2E322DA

10) Menu editing still reeks like French cheese. If George doesn't
seriously tackle this soon, someone else with 1337 hacking skillz needs
to think about taking this on as a pet project RSN. [Sorry, George :/
	*http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72715 and blocking/dependent
family: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=72715

Some relevant lists:
*The other 138 high-priority or greater non-solaris-specific bugs:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I294239B

Note: obviously I think solaris bugs are extremely important... I just
don't put them in here because there are a lot of them and they are hard
for linux-based hackers (which is the vast majority) to debug/trace.

*bugs with PATCHES:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G4F4119B
and hence should be easy fixes for somebody who can review...

*GNOME2 crashers that have at least one duplicate:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5BA219B

Anyway, hope some folks find the time to tackle these...
Luis







[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71632