2009/9/11 Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com>: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:01 -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote: >> Hi SunToolkit.setOverrideRedirect team, > > Hi Martin, > >> Google engineers have found that >> 6708392: Provide internal API to create OverrideRedirect windows, XToolkit >> is a showstopper bug, >> (for folks using NX on Windows or Mac) >> and that the fix in openjdk7 fixes it, >> when trivially backported to openjdk6. >> >> Many thanks to Brian Duff for the hard work of >> testing and debugging. >> >> I'd like to commit this fix to openjdk6. >> >> Webrev: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk6/SunToolkit.setOverrideRedirect/ > > This is a rewrite of a similar fix I made: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2008-May/000248.html > It fixes some issues with MetaCity and solves some TCK failures. > > It has been in IcedTea for a long time. > http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/file/tip/patches/icedtea-override-redirect-metacity.patch > > The difference with the IcedTea patch rewrite is discussed here: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2008-August/000309.html > > Cheers, > > Mark > >
We're also still carrying the patch in IcedTea7 despite it presumably now being made redundant by this other patch. I guess I missed the discussion Mark referenced, presumably because I wasn't subscribed to awt-dev back then. Martin, thanks for bringing this up and please commit the patch to jdk6. -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8