Bug 691787

Summary: App Panel icons flash when panel is on left or right of screen and 9 or more apps running
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Brian Gollaher <bgollahe>
Component: libwnckAssignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3CC: kem, rstrode, swaikar
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brian Gollaher 2011-03-29 13:26:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
Application panel flashes when positioned on the left or right side of the screen and 9 or more apps are running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GNOME 2.28.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Position app panel on left or right side of screen
2. Start 9 or more application windows
3.
  
Actual results:
Application panel flashes and wnck-applet uses 50+% CPU

Expected results:
Stable icons in the panel and much lower CPU usage

Additional info:
Appears to exist in RHEL 6.1 as well
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-03-29 13:57:42 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-09 17:08:08 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-09 17:28:11 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-22 12:19:30 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 12 Siddharth 2013-01-18 10:44:18 UTC 
attached the patch that fixes the issue. but need some modification because when opened number of application all merged to single window.
Comment 13 Siddharth 2013-01-18 10:44:57 UTC 
Created attachment 682315 [details]
patch
Comment 17 Andrius Benokraitis 2013-10-07 01:41:38 UTC 
This Bugzilla has been reviewed by Red Hat and is not planned on being addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and will be closed. If this bug is critical to production systems, please contact your Red Hat support representative and provide sufficient business justification.