Re: Serious gnome2 / gtk2 bug

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com> writes:

> I ran across, what i think is quite a serious bug in the UI, and i am
> not sure what component (gnome or gtk) causes it, so where to report
> it.
> 
> What the problem is:
> 
> Goto a dialog with mixed checkboxes, apply button, and text entries. I
> used control-center -> Def applications -> Help browser in this case
> (works in other dialogs to in different gnome 2 applications).
> 
> In the dialog, change the text entry (in this case from 'nautilus' to
> 'randomtext'), then (with your mouse!) click one of the checkboxes
> (Start in terminal forinstance).
> 
> How click 'Apply'
> 
> You will notice, the text entry restores back to 'Nautilus' loosing
> its changed value!

I had this behavior earlier from a bug in GConf a few days ago.  Please
update your GConf and try again.   Regardless of which, it is certainly
not a bug in GTK+ -- entries most certainly do work. (-:

> Seems quite 'severe' to me, but now to find a good place to report
> this bug!

Bugs should be filed in bugzilla.gnome.org in general.

Thanks,
-Jonathan