[maemo-users] possible bug in N900 Maemo 5 desktop ??

From: Mark wolfmane at gmail.com
Date: Tue Jan 5 18:34:53 EET 2010
2010/1/5 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:36 +0100, ext Alessio Stella wrote:
>> I tried N900 at a Nokia Point and I found a possible bug (resellers
>> "solved" it by switching off and on the device):
>> I opened on the top left the page with all main applications icons
>> then I clicked to the right bottom "Other" (that was "Altre" in
>> Italian but i guess it's other or "Other Applications" in English)
>> which opened a second page of scrollable icons (like Chess for
>> instance..)
>>
>> then i played a little around and closed windows and went back to the
>> page with a second list of icons and I found out that this second list
>> of icons was on top of the first list, causing an annoying
>> justapposition where the first icons were not clicckable, and we
>> couldn't find a way to solve it except switching off the devic
>
> This is one of our oldest bugs, several months old.  The reasons why
> it's not fixed is that it hasn't been systematically reproducable and so
> the "fixes" have been verified just because it happens so rarely.  Some
> of these fixes might help to your case, but we still don't know if the
> problem is completely fixed.  However, the problem will become
> unrelevant at some point because the second level is being removed from
> the UI.
>
> -Kimmo
>
Beautiful. :-/ The "solution" to a bug is to just remove the feature
involved. As if no one will miss the feature...

Mark
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