[Bug 43322] Re: EOG crashes when stopping slideshow

[Emmanuel Touzery]

please consider applying the patch maybe... upstream doesn't react but i
think the bug is serious enough to consider that.

the patch is small:

 libeog/eog-full-screen.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 libeog/eog-full-screen.h |    3 +++
 libeog/eog-job.c         |   10 ++++++++++
 libeog/eog-job.h         |    1 +
 shell/eog-window.c       |    1 +
 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+)

and that is with 10 lines of comments inside.
i think the patch is really trivial, too. and you can immediately see that it's not malicious.

that bug doesn't cause dataloss so it's not catastrophic. but it really gives a bad image of linux & ubuntu that such a trivial thing causes a crash in my opinion.
it was not so bad in breezy because it was hard to make a slideshow in EOG (you had to "open directory"), now that it's much easier i think many people will notice that bug. i mean, who doesn't have a digital camera nowadays?? everybody wants to see slideshow of their pictures.

that means once more the best way to have slideshows will be gthumb, and
for that you must explain to people that they must learn another way of
browsing their folders, which is annoying, esp. for beginners.

but it's your call... i won't comment on this bug anymore unless
upstream reacts...

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EOG crashes when stopping slideshow
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43322