Re: [MiNT] Potential bug on mouse wheel

[p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk]

>---- Original Message ----
>From: "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>
>>From: <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>

>> The broken Thing is the symptom not the cause. I very much doubt
>
>Maybe, but what is the cause? As nobody has reported this bug in anything 
>else than Thing 1.27, you'd have a hard time convincing people that the 
>problem is anywhere else but in Thing.
>
>> they the developers of Thing used some evil hack just to open
>> a dialogue box.
>
>No, but even they can make mistakes.
>
>Jo Even 

It looks to me like the dialogue is opened and although it is
visible the AES doesn't think it is topped and so no amount 
of clicking on it gives a response.

By switching to any other app and back to Thing it is then
topped and repsonds to a click.

I believe there was a lot of XaAES work done on topping and focus a
few years ago with ideas about permanently topped app windows etc.
for task managers, toolbars etc.

I had a dig back to see some early reports of the 3 "bugs":

http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.200505/0001424d.019b49b218d8@smtp.freeola.net.text
http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.200507/00059d1e.01b2a9b218b8@smtp.freeola.net.text
http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.200711/0013b120.0175cae81b61@smtp.freeola.net.text

The MTU bug was never resolved, I just worked around it and use an MTU setting that
means slower broadband.

The floppy problem seems to be related to syslogd holding a lock but what
is causing that ?

Having a complete new release with all the accumulated work of the past
5 years might well fix some of these.

Anyone looking at the Sparemint website would assume Mint is dead.
There hasn't been a public release since 1.16.1 and there hasn't
been any RPM updates for years either.

I think we should try to create a Mint Roadmap and lay out some basic
tasks.

Quarterly public builds would be good so that we aim for a stable
release. It gives a goal and tasks can be ticked off the list.
Progress can be seen.

I know it's all a bit managerial and we shouldn't get upset if
a release date is missed but I feel this approach would help a
great deal.

Peter