		Known gentoo bugs & problems

This file contains notes on known bugs and problems with the gentoo
file manager program. Its main use is to help me remember things I
may need to redo.

The file is formatted into "records"; each record begins with a
date and contains a bulleted list of items.

1998-08-23
* Styles are added with the currently selected style as parent,
  to make building hierarchies easier. While fine, this breaks the
  similarity with other config pages, where the "Add" button
  generally doesn't care which item is selected.
* This file is incomplete, since I created it too late.

1998-08-24
* The 'modified' boolean used in many config pages is bad design.
  It is too easy to forget. Hm...

1998-08-28
* Keyboard support is truly weird right now. The built-in coupling
  of Space to ActivateOther competes with GTK+'s idea of using
  space to activate focused widgets.

1998-08-31
* Sneakily assumes machine is ASCII, for example in xmlutil.c and
  sizeutil.c. These things should be easy to fix, I'm just kind of
  skeptical against the whole idea of non-ASCII machines. I really
  don't think they exist. :)
* The sze_get_size() routine in the sizeutil-module uses doubles
  to represent integers, for maximum flexibility. This imposes some
  interesting limits to precision, which worry me somewhat. However,
  practictal tests indicate that a double can hold the maximum
  value of type size_t (sze_get_size()'s return type), so at least
  on systems using (signed?) 32-bit integers for size_t we're safe. :(

1998-09-20
* When copying files and directories that are write-protected, the
  copy will not have the same mode. User-write (S_IWUSR) is always
  added to the copy, since otherwise gentoo can't write it. It might
  be a good idea to reset the protection after the copy is done...

1998-09-23
* There is currently no way to make "existing" soft links stand out
  from objects of the kind they're pointing at. That is, if you have
  a JPEG named pic.jpeg, and a link pic-link pointing at that file,
  the link row will look *exactly* as the actual picture row. This
  can be very confusing, and I'm searching for a solution. The only
  thing you can do about it right now is to turn on the type-char
  append in the dirpane; the link will then appear as pic-link@.

1998-09-28
* The option menu used in the commands editor seems to have some
  problems with its sensitivity. Very weird.
* The command sequence selection dialog tree sometimes opens up
  not looking proper at all, and the "auto-completetion" used when
  you type in that dialog is also somewhat broken (when erasing).

1998-10-30
* It's not possible to shrink the window to less than the size
  specified in the "Pos & Size" config pane (if these settings are
  being used). This truly sucks, but I find GTK+'s handling of
  window sizes so confusing that I haven't been able to fix it.

1998-11-21
* If you start a program in a command, and that program in turn
  starts other processes, chances are that when gentoo quits, only
  one process will be killed (this is the case with x11amp, for
  example). I know of no easy way in which to fix this...

1998-11-26
* The implementation of the path history touches the 'popwin'
  member of the gtk_combo widgets used. That is a no-no, but I
  really couldn't find another way. :( Suggestions welcome.
