[iyonix-support] Re: Alt-Select Click renaming bug
- From: root <mistymornings@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:34:25 +0100
In message <4738170E.9020106@xxxxxxxxxx>
John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Thanks Martin
>
>Martin Wuerthner wrote:
>> In message <4f4080d34clists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> John Williams <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <e17380404f.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> Here, with 5.13, doing Alt-Select-Click over an object merely
>>>> highlights it. What should it do?
>>
>>> Over the name, not the icon. Seems to work here with 5.12.
>>
>> Of course it works in general. The bug in question was that it
>> *sometimes* fails to work. I have never seen the problem.
>>
>> So, anyone asking for a fix had better supply some more information,
>> i.e., the precise original and edited names of a file that is not
>> renamed and the names of all other files in the same directory.
>> Without anyone being able to reproduce the bug there is little chance
>> for a fix.
>
>This goes for any bug.. there are said to be repeatable bugs using
>various program combinations that occasionally occur.
>
>Realistically, without a recipe to reliably (repeat reliably!) reproduce
>a bug in less than, say, a minute it can be extremely difficult (and
>hence time costly) to track it down.
>
>So.. when reporting a bug (and LTS particularly comes to mind here) it
>can be VERY helpful if a stretgy for reliably and quickly repeating the
>bug can be offered.
>
>It is even more helpful if the bug can be shown to occur ONLY with
>iyonix supplied software, not third party. This is because we,
>obviously, do not have source for 3rd party software.
Sorry my memory is at fault here. I seem to remember that it *had* been
found and fixed. It is now clear that it has not been.
Regards
Stan
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Damae Jannette Jongkind
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