Re: Testers wanted for MPDCon and Zipper

[Fred Kiefer]

On 22.02.2012 09:46, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 06:10 CET, Germán
> > Arias<german@xelalug.org>  wrote:
> >
> > > On 2012-02-17 14:26:53 -0600 "Sebastian Reitenbach"
> > > <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > GAP is proud to announce its two new applications in its
> > > > collection: MPDCon and Zipper. OK, they are not new, but their
> > > > original authors stopped working on them long years ago, but
> > > > after contacting them, they are happy with us giving them a new
> > > > home on GAP, and continuing development.
> > > >
> > > > MPDCon is a Music Player Daemon client, for more information,
> > > > and the changes that happend on GAP in the last couple of days,
> > > > take a look here: http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html
> > > >
> > > > Zipper is a tool for inspecting and extracting the contents of
> > > > compressed archives, for more information, and the changed that
> > > > happend on GAP in the last couple of days take a look here:
> > > > http://gap.nongnu.org/zipper/index.html The support for BSD tar
> > > > is known to be broken, so you need GNU tar, and the default
> > > > open application (View menu entry) is known to not to work,
> > > > we'll probably keep a solution for that for a next release.
> > > > Interesting here is whether it works with all the different
> > > > versions of the command line (un)archivers out there.
> > >
> > > I'm testing with current gnustep in SVN. With Zipper I have
> > > these problems:
> > >
> > > * If you open the preferences panel and then close it, Zipper
> > > crash.
> >
> > OK, I get that too, looking into it.
>
> Me too :-) It looks like this is a bug in gui, which closes the panel
> but doesn't abort the modal session. However, I'm not very eager to
> fix this bug because the idea of running a preference panel in a
> modal loop is a BIG user interface bug in the first place and that
> really should be fixed in Zipper.

I am not able to reproduce this behaviour here (OpenSuse 12.1, gcc 4.6,
64bit). I get plenty of horrible compiler warnings from Zipper (current 
CVS), which really should be fixed before looking deeper into any issue 
with that application.
Could you please describe in detail all the steps required to reproduce 
the crash?