jnoreiko
July 30th, 2005, 04:19 AM
Why is it there are some bugs that never seem to get fixed?
Usually it's fairly minor bugs that nonetheless make using OSS just that little bit annoying.
It seems like it's quite often I go to file a bug and find it's been in the app's bugzilla already for a couple of years.
Things like the word count feature in OOo that only got implemented in version 2, and a huge list of requests for a "normal" view (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4914).
In GIMP there's the problem with constraining the selection rectangle when you reach the edge of the image (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129189).
In GNOME I've found a bug with dragging files to the Terminal (spaces don't get escaped) that's been in bugzilla since around 2002.
As for Firefox...
menu items unhighlight if you mouse over them after you mouse over an item with a submenu (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260524) -- that one has me booting back into Windows because surfing gets really annoying.
Other tab steals focus with javascript textbox.focus() (hhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124750) -- this is the showstopper as far as I'm concerned. I keep wanting to try to convince my local libraries to switch to Firefox, but this one puts me off.
These are mostly basic usability bugs. And they're things that if you're used to computers, you can adapt for and work around. But for the average user, they're confusing and disorientating. I think OSS needs to look hard at this sort of bug before it can really make headway on the desktop. (What's most annoying of all is when developers comment to say they're not going to fix them :( )
Anyway... rant over :)
Can anything be done from the ubuntu community to get usability bugs fixed?
I don't know C but I got a GNOME helpfile patch submitted :)
Usually it's fairly minor bugs that nonetheless make using OSS just that little bit annoying.
It seems like it's quite often I go to file a bug and find it's been in the app's bugzilla already for a couple of years.
Things like the word count feature in OOo that only got implemented in version 2, and a huge list of requests for a "normal" view (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4914).
In GIMP there's the problem with constraining the selection rectangle when you reach the edge of the image (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129189).
In GNOME I've found a bug with dragging files to the Terminal (spaces don't get escaped) that's been in bugzilla since around 2002.
As for Firefox...
menu items unhighlight if you mouse over them after you mouse over an item with a submenu (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260524) -- that one has me booting back into Windows because surfing gets really annoying.
Other tab steals focus with javascript textbox.focus() (hhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124750) -- this is the showstopper as far as I'm concerned. I keep wanting to try to convince my local libraries to switch to Firefox, but this one puts me off.
These are mostly basic usability bugs. And they're things that if you're used to computers, you can adapt for and work around. But for the average user, they're confusing and disorientating. I think OSS needs to look hard at this sort of bug before it can really make headway on the desktop. (What's most annoying of all is when developers comment to say they're not going to fix them :( )
Anyway... rant over :)
Can anything be done from the ubuntu community to get usability bugs fixed?
I don't know C but I got a GNOME helpfile patch submitted :)