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

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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...

Hum, as Sri is not a release team member, here's a +1 to replace his
:)


        Fred