Known Issues
All software, when it is released, contains bugs the developers know about but have elected, for a variety of reasons, not to fix before releasing. Free software is no different in this regard from proprietary software, except that with free software, we tell users about them.
We also encourage our users to report bugs so that they can be fixed. The best way to report bugs found in GNOME 2.0.2 is to use the Simple Bug Guide. The Simple Bug Guide will take you through the necessary steps to file a quality bug report, and make sure that it is tagged appropriately. If you're too advanced for anything with the word 'simple' in it, there is also the traditional bug form. Please make sure to add the 'GNOME2' keyword to any bugs reported that way.
More details on bugs already reported can be found at our Bugzilla. Among the most prominent GNOME 2.0.2 bugs:
7.1. Internationalization of gnome-terminal is broken
Unfortunately, gnome-terminal is broken in many non-ASCII locales. A fix for this was proposed but caused many other problems and as a result, was withdrawn. The current progress can be tracked in bugzilla number bug 78007 or in the libzvt-i18n branch of the zvt module.
7.2. Some features formerly provided by viewports no longer available in Sawfish
In order to simplify sawfish code and user interface, viewports have been removed from Sawfish2. The current functionality replaces nearly all viewport functionality, except two-dimensional workspace navigation. This is bug number 82337.
The following has been reported as a workaround when added to .sawfishrc:
;; Get viewports back (setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport)) ;; (setq viewport-dimensions '(NUMBER_OF_COLS . NUMBER_OF_ROWS)) (setq viewport-dimensions '(6 . 1)) ;; example