RE: midnight commander strikes again

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Not to be mean or anything, but consider upgrading to the newest ver of gmc
before giving a bug report. Alot of bugs have been fixed since 4.5.26.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Adam Moyes [SMTP:adam@macfar.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Friday, April 09, 1999 9:35 AM
> To:	gnome-list
> Subject:	midnight commander strikes again
> 
> Well, I have to say I love gnome but, although I appreciate that a lot
> of work has gone into it, gmc has to be it's weakest element.
> 
> I have v4.5.26 installed and decided to try copying files from my local
> machine to an archiving machine via ftp. I opened up one window localy
> and another with a local ftp URL and used drag and drop between them to
> move files from my PC to the server. All was going swimingly until I
> dragged 3 files from my local archive directory into the remote 'X'
> directory and dropped them. The ``copy in progress'' popup did not
> appear and my remote directory became empty.
> 
> Thinking this was just a display problem, I re-scanned the directory
> - still empty, I then logged into other machine via telnet and checked
> the directory - 'X' didn't even exist!!! I don't know what it did, but
> our archive directory of X apps has gone missing! bummer, back to
> backups (I hope)
> 
> Other problems I have noticed with gmc are:
> 
> 1. The progess box on ftp copying does not seem to correspond to the
> ftp transfer status.
> 
> 2. The x/y (I'm assuming file x of y files total) goes up to 8/5 etc
> which seems a bit strange.
> 
> 3. gmc seems to be single threaded, so as soon as you do anything
> requiring a bit of time (ie a network connection) ALL of your other
> gmc windows and icons refuse to re-draw or do anything else.
> 
> 4. When I install new icons on the desktop the icon images sometimes
> get mixed up and only a re-start will fix them.
> 
> 5. I am using enlightenment as a window manager, and I have six virtual
> desktops. Elastic bands, mouse right click and moving icons around
> only works on desktop one.
> 
> I have been out of the mail group for a week so I hope I am not 
> re-iterating other peoples points.
> 
> Adam.
> 
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