Reporting Metacard Bugs

[Bob Warren]

Bob Warren wrote:

 >> 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.

Richard Gaskin wrote:

 >This appears to be different from the behavior on OS X and XP,
 >suggesting a problem in the engine unique to Linux.

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What, if anything, do you think could be done next?

Since this is the same 2.6.1 engine I am (not) using for Rev, does it 
mean that any alteration for the benefit of MC might also affect Rev?
Or conversely, when finally they produce Rev 2.7 for Linux, MC might 
behave differently?  Can requests be put forward to the Rev development 
team to accommodate MC in the engine, or is MC officially dead? If so, 
that would be a pity, because as far as I can see this little thing of 
the minimization of windows might be fairly simple to correct.

Who is allowed to mess around with the engine anyway? I imagine it is 
protected and that only Rev engineers are allowed to, is that correct?

Interestingly, although I have only really played with MC Linux a little 
and not really tried developing an app, there is no sign so far of the 
kind of instability (e.g. unexpected crashes, the IDE getting stuck in a 
loop because it cannot decide which window to put at the front, etc.) 
that I have experienced in Rev. Does this mean anything other than the 
fact that the MC IDE is stable, but that the Rev IDE isn't? Or is it 
more complex than that?

Sorry if I'm asking goofy questions, but I've never had the opportunity 
of delving into the inner workings of the system before.

Bob