Testing needed for Layout fixes

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eelko Berkenpies <fedora at berkenpies.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:26:53 +0100, Jakob Kummerow
> <jakob.kummerow at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> So I've made some more changes today. Please update from Git, test
>>> again, and report here. This is really important for us!
>>
>> (1) Maximizing and restoring breaks the previous proportions.
>> Regression compared to yesterday.
>> (2) Manually resizing breaks the proportions. Regression compared to
>> yesterday.
>> (3) Killing and restarting preserves previous proportions.
>>
>> In summary, I liked yesterday's version better :)
>
> I can confirm this behavior using a clean checkout, build directory, clean
> installation.

Yep, thanks for your feedback, guys. So I will definitely revert most
of that, since it semi-worked yesterday.

However, we should keep this in mind: There seems to be a very serious
bug lurking somewhere (possibly even in Qt), and I'm not very
comfortable with that, until we find out exactly what happens there.
I've started to debug Qt, but it's not easy, as you can guess.

I would prefer to solve this issue entirely (which I think should be
possible somehow), but at least the solution from yesterday seemed to
work in "most" cases. Note that these kinds of situations are among
the most dangerous in software design, stuff that works "sometimes".
Almost always hints at some serious bugs.

Some have suggested to go like "fuck it, we're doing it live". That
is, ignore the whole bug, and just release it like it is (with the
horrible resizing issues). This is one style of working. It's not a
style that I particularly like.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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