Re: Freeze break: fix bug with Mutter and toolkit window positioning

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > Would like to push the patches:
> >
> >  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736719
> >
> > The bug they fix is fairly bad misbehavior with non-GTK+ apps, in particular with Qt apps.
> >
> > They are pretty straightforward, and basically are reverting back to an earlier version
> > of the code and I specifically tested that they also fix the original problem with
> > VirtualBox.
>
> +1 from me, anything that helps play nice with non-gtk+ apps for this
> release will be good from an engagement perspective.

Second +1, with a cautionary note on the dangers of refactoring old
code like this, in particular when it affects interoperability with
other toolkits/wms, and we don't have sufficient automatic testing in
place...