Reporting Metacard Bugs

[Bob Warren]

Ken Ray wrote:

 >Bob, are you using the "straight" version of Ubuntu Breezy Badger, or 
are you using Kubuntu? Just curious...

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Yes, the straight version with the Gnome interface. Being the first 
produced, it is more stable than the KDE version, and anyway Kubuntu 
looks too much like Windows, which puts me off because I have become 
allergic to it.

Anyway, since yesterday when I was thinking of blaming Ubuntu, I have 
discovered that it is probably not the case. Since Ubuntu is 
Debian-based, I thought I would go to the horse's mouth by ripping out 
my Ubuntu and installing Debian to see how MC behaved. That was a 
disaster! It consists of 14 CDs with no description as to how many of 
them are really necessary for a basic graphical installation. So I tried 
downloading a minimal version that was more minimal than I expected: no 
graphical interface at all! Anyway, I managed to discover how to extend 
it with the X-Window system, but the hardware options to be chosen 
during the process were so technical that I did not succeed in getting 
it to work.

I then decided to install the latest Beta version of Ubuntu Dapper Drake 
(due for final release next month). Boy, was that smooth! VERY nice! 
When I tried MC in it, it didn't run. However, after re-booting the 
system, it did run. The result was exactly the same as I had experienced 
with Breezy: problems when minimizing windows.

So then I had the idea of running the Brazilian Linux called "Kurumin" 
(KDE) from the Live CD (i.e. without installing anything on the HD). 
This is also a Debian-based distro. MC ran perfectly, but the same 
difficulty of minimizing windows occurred.

With this experience, I can now tell you more precisely what happens in 
MC, and it is exactly the same under the 3 Debian-based distros (using 
both Gnome and KDE interfaces)I have tried:

1) If you minimize the PROPERTIES BOX or the MESSAGE BOX, everything 
disappears from the screen, and you are left with an icon for the Menu 
Bar only in the task bar at the bottom.

2) There is no way of restoring anything except the Menu Bar.

3) The above is not intermittent, but guaranteed every time.

Of course, the practical solution would be to minimize nothing at all, 
but this is not very practical really because one window gets put on top 
of another, and since in some cases a window cannot be dragged, the only 
thing you can do is resize it until it is small enough to reveal the 
windows underneath.

Bob