[haiku-development] Re: Tasks done or bugs fixed to make alpha4 happen

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:01:48PM +0200, Humdinger wrote:
> 2012/6/12, pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> [Web+]
> > But it's not so much its slowness as the fact that it will lock the cursor
> > for many seconds at a time, so that I can't even get at the close gadget
> > to get out of the lockup!  Does that not happen to other folks?
> 
> I have a dual core machine and don't see these glitches with Web+,
> though it does take its time an awful lot... I do see second long
> freezes when jamming -qj2 the Haiku source. The cursor and all Tracker
> activity and Replicants freeze. Not during all of the build process,
> but I guess at the most stressing parts.
> 
> Alpha3 didn't have those, so I'd say that's a serious regression tat
> should be fixed for alpha4 if possible.
> 
> 
> Another regression is the Deskbar crashing when moved, ticket #8523.
> Annoying for new users that don't yet see the genius of the default
> position. :)
> 
> Yet another issue: #8124, folder names are no longer translated in
> Tracker and Deskbar. It's an unfortunate mix, setting the locale to
> German you start "Kontakte" from "pplications" and see "People" in the
> Deskbar, while the window title says "Neue Person".
> 
> Of course even worse is that activating the "Translate Tracker/Deskbar
> option" results in #8275, "Deadlocking apps when opening documents"...

Sure, the alpha still needs to pass the usual QA and non-regression
tests.
Let's throw in "MDR removes messages from IMAP mailbox without asking
anything", as well.

You mention ticket numbers in this mail, can you (or someone else) move
them to alpha4 ? They don't sound like they would take that much time to
solve?

-- 
Adrien.

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