Annoying emacs resizing bug in F7 and F8.

[Dean S. Messing]

Martin Marques wrote:
: Dean S. Messing escribió:
: > Dean Messing wrote:
: > : A few weeks ago I asked if anyone running 64bit F7 with KDE was having
: > : resizing problems with Emacs and several here confirmed the bug.
: > : 
: > : Today I had a few minutes and so I built both the F7 and F8 src.rpm of
: > : Emacs on a 32 bit FC6 laptop (which was all I have access to today) and
: > : experienced the same problems.  Evidently the move to Emacs-22.1 in F7
: > : has introduced this bug and it has nothing to do with the machine
: > : arch.  That's my guess.
: > : 
: > : Would two or three of you confirm this for 32-bit F8?  Just fire up
: > : emacs and bink on the maximise button. Then bink it again and see if
: > : Emacs returns to its original size.
: > : 
: > : I'd like to know the behaviour under both Gnome and KDE.  I only have
: > : KDE where it's broken for me.  Thanks.  I'll add your results to:
: > : 
: > : <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393441>
: > : 
: > : and see if I can get some action on this bug.
: > 
: > Sorry to reply to my own message.
: > 
: > I just discovered that this is a "well-known" bug w/in the emacs
: > development crowd (including Richard Stallman)[1].  There is evidently
: > a nasty interaction between Emacs-22 and KDE which is causing this
: > annoying bug.  (Explains why I am not seeing it with Gnome.)  As of
: > Dec. 8th, they were working on it.
: > 
: > Please ignore the above request for tests.  Fedora
: > probably won't touch this if it's being worked on upstream.
: > 
: > [1] <http://www.nabble.com/-werner@suse.de:-Several-problems-in-KDE-KWin--td14216807.html> 
: 
: Add this to the bugzilla you filled, so that others know too.

Good idea.

Done.