Re: Request for code freeze breakage approval in Epiphany

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:36 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:35:58 +0100, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le lundi 07 mars 2005 �9:08 -0500, Luis Villa a �it :
> > > Blah. I'm scared about a patch this big at this point in the game,
> > > even though I think it fixes a really critical bug. How many people
> > > have tested this? And do you think we can wait until 2.10.1?
> > > Luis
> > 
> > Since time was short, I was the only tester :/
> > I've tested it with and without presence of user-created gedit.desktop
> > file in ~/.local/share/applications/.
> > 
> > If we release without this patch, users which have user-created
> > local .desktop files will have non-working View Source functionality.
> > Since that's rather rarely used, we could wait for 2.10.1 if you feel
> > this is not important.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather wait until 2.10.1 considering how late it is
> and the addition of the untranslated string to the UI.

Just an additional data point. I sort of fear there may additional,
undiscovered bugs caused by using the gnome_desktop_item code. It's a
totally different (duplicated) code path in respect to
gnome_vfs_application_launch, and I doubt it had the same level of
testing for this use case. I'm guessing that code is used in epiphany
also to open downloaded files...

How much test did the gnome_desktop_item code in epiphany have? (How
long time ago was introduced?)

Marco