Re: GNOME 2.12 is slated to be our worst release -- ever!

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:05 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 9/5/05, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> > On 9/5/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > > > > 2. crash in file selector while open a directory
> > > > > Many dupes. This would have been a blocker. However, a patch has > > > been committed. The patch seems to fix the issue. Should be
> > > > > verified. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310270
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I'm worried about this one...
> > >
> > > Last comment: "I can still reproduce this. The crash happens in every
> > > app, with or without HAL running, when opening any directory, except
> > > for home (home==desktop).
> > > Interestingly, only selecting a directory and adding it to the bookmarks,
> > > then opening it from there works OK."
> > >
> > > Alex: any comment on this one? Is it really fixed?
> > 
> > The person making the last comment didn't state what version of gtk+
> > he was using; it appear Alex's patch is too recent to be in any
> > tarball release of gtk+, so he may well have been using an version
> > that was too old.  Of course, this does bring up the issue that
> > although this bug may have been fixed on gtk-2-8 branch, we don't have
> > a release that includes it.  Should we wait off until there is one?
> > CCing Matthias for his comments too...
> 
> Alex found the problem with the remaining person claiming to get the
> bug--they were getting a crash due to a translation problem(!).  So
> the newer gtk+ should fix bug 310270.  Was this an issue that affected
> enough people that we need a new gtk+ release before releasing Gnome
> 2.12.0?  (I didn't see the bug myself and one of the three patches
> went into ORBit and maybe that's enough, but I don't know...)


I can do another GTK+ release if you want, but probably not before
tomorrow.

Matthias