GNOME 0.99.7 report and bugs

[Chris Evans <chris ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

Hi,

A pile of nasty bugs in 0.99.3 are fixed so GMC for one works much more
smoothly.

The first thing I noticed is that the animation algorithm for panel/drawer
opening and hiding hasbeen changed, and it's ugly! Argh. Is there an
option to restore the old behaviour?

Also when I start GNOME CPU usage jumps to 100% for 5 secs. I have a fast
machine, and GNOME is fully cached. If anyone wants a more full report on
this mis-behvaiour just ask and I will find out which process is going
nuts and what it is trying to do.

On to a list of bugs.

1) Drawers, when opened, are misaligned with the drawer button on the
panel! This is a new bug, 0.99.3 was OK.

2) GMC: When I launch, say ee by double clicking on a .jpeg file, GMC
freezes until I exit ee (!)

3) GMC: If I drag a file and drop it into a different directory, the
operation is a COPY. I would have thought a MOVE is what users desire when
they try this operation.

4) If I right click on a .rpm file, I get a menu with "FIXME" in it.

5) I should be able to change the default icon for a given file type by
bringing up a file's properties and double-clicking on the icon.

6) If I get up the properties of a .mid file and set "Open" behaviour to
"playmidi %f" it doesn't work. At the very least I should get a box saying
"could not execute playmidi, reason: blah".

7) ee does not seem to accept directory drops from GMC any more.

8) Similar to a bug above. Set "Edit" command on a .jpg file to "gimp %f"
and it is ignored; if I right click on the .jpg file and choose "Edit",
some text editor is launched.

9) Go to "About Gnome" dialog. Go to "Detailed information". The disk
information is wrong. It always reports "0 free" when in reality I have
~200Mb free. Also it always reports "0 inodes"!

10) The theme selector is still generally flaky - especially if launched
with a theme other than the default one.

Cheers
Chris

P.S. Are reports like this considered useful?