Re: 2.4 meeting summary

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Owen wrote:

> This is a summary of an IRC meeting that was held this afternoon with 
> GTK+ team members and Mark McLoughlin as a representative of the GNOME
> release team.
>
> A complete log of the IRC conversation can be found at:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20040216.txt
>
> The general topic of the meeting was getting the GTK+ 2.4 release back
> and track and out in a timely fashion. A primary concern here was
> not holding up the GNOME-2.6 release further; the GNOME-2.6 schedule
> can be found at:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/
>
>
> General areas of concern
> ========================
>
> The first subject of discussion was going over areas of special concern;
> ones mentioned were:
>
> Pango: A lot of open bugs
> GtkFileChooser: Various niggling bugs and the possibility of more UI
> rework
> GtkComboBox: Some important (mostly implementation) issues need fixing 
>   before 2.4.0
> The huge pile of assorted GTK+ bugs
>
> The Will-Fix list
> =================
>
> The biggest problem currently seems to be that we are just in the mode
> of tackling bugs as they come in and not making progress towards
> finishing
> off the release. To combat that, the proposal was made to have a "Will
> Fix"
> list of bugs:
>
> - On the web at http://www.gtk.org/plan/2.4/willfix.html
> - Deadline for adding issues to it is this Friday, Feb 20
>   (important new issues that are found after Friday can be added 
>   as exceptions)
> - Issues on the list should generally either be blockers for
>   the release or bugs with patches
> - Things not on that list will generally not be fixed
Please add the following, which I believe qualify because of the patch 
availability or serious impact on accessibility:
132847 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132847> 	nor 
Nor 	NEW 		gtk+ 	combobox 	GtkComboBox widget is not accessible 	
131226 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131226> [P] 	nor 
Nor 	NEW 		gtk+ 	GtkTreeV 	Unable to select listview files with keyboard 	


132847 is a serious accessibiblity issue for users, and compares poorly 
to GtkOptionMenu.  I believe it falls under your heading of 'important 
GtkCombo issues' but it's not on the WILLFIX list.
131226 points out a serious inconsistency in the user experience for 
list keyboard navigation, depending on how many rows are present in the 
list and whether it's MULTISELECT.  There is a patch available from Padraig.


127430 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127430> 	nor 
Nor 	NEW 		gtk+ 	gtk 	Conflict between entry/completion key bindings 	
112647 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112647> [P] 	nor 
Nor 	NEW 		gtk+ 	menu 	Add indicator-size style property for checkmenuitem


These are possibly lower impact, but I'd at least like to see a review 
of the patch (both are listed as 'Candidate Stoppers' in Calum's 
accessibility bug list); if the patch is OK I think it should go in for 
2.4.0. 
regards

Bill