Re: Going over bugs before release...

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:42 pm, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
> After going over those I marked one by one, there's currently only one
> such bug left (X11 rotated text on unusual platforms...), which I've
> assigned to Ethan, since he claimed at one point in time to have
> reproduced the misbehaviour and understood the patch, too.

I will apply the fix, but I remind you that there is a trade-off involved.
The current bug can be described:
	"If you use a non-white background in the X11 terminal, then
	 rotated text may cause nearby elements to be drawn in the 
	 wrong color"
I am not aware of any platform dependence. The bug is only 
triggered by having a background color that is not pure white.

With the patch applied there is no problem with colors, but any
x11 plot containing rotated text is refreshed very much slower.
This is in particular noticeable when you resize the plot window.
But speeding up window resizing is certainly not release-critical,
so we can address it later.

> We won't release unless all bugs have either been resolved+closed, or we
> have agreed that they're not all that critical right at this time.  E.g. I
> personally don't consider lack of any optional feature by any terminal
> driver a critical bug that should delay the release.

Agreed.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Department of Biochemistry & Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle