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Description of Problem: With control-alt-leftarrow and control-alt-rightarrow under sawfish window manager I can send a window to a new desktop. This will creates new desktop when it reaches that highest or lowest desktop, rather than wrapping round. At 32 desktops deskguide is happy. On creating the 33rd, it dies "unxepectedly" and won't restart. This leaves me unable to reach the other windows, and recover data there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): "Gnome deskguide_applet 0.4" How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. while focus is inside a window, repeatedly press Control-Alt-Left Actual Results: deskguide aborts at 33rd window, leaving all other windows unreachable Expected Results: either: deskguide should gracefully dynamically cope with pointlessly large numbers of desktops without exiting. deskguide should prevent sawfish from creating desktops beyond the number that it can handle Additional Information: Attempting to run deskguide from a terminal gives deskguide_applet DeskGuide-Applet-ERROR **: MAX_DESKTOPS limit reached, adjust source code aborting... Aborted I'd suggest "adjust source code" should be of the form of changing from an arbitary static limit to a dynamic limit. Gnome coding guidlines say that all developers should follow the GNU coding guidlines, and in turn GNU coding guidelines "Program Behavior for All Programs" says: 4.1 Writing Robust Programs Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures dynamically. In most Unix utilities, "long lines are silently truncated". This is not acceptable in a GNU utility.
My memory is that this got fixed in 7.3, but I'd have to verify. Of course it was bogus and wrong to have that limit in there. (Well, a limit is probably good, core dumping when reaching it is a bit silly.)
Bug no longer applies to newer releases.