Backport S6438179 from openjdk6 to icedtea6-1.9

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:11 Tue 24 Aug     , Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to backport the fix for S6438179: 
> "XToolkit.isTraySupported() result has nothing to do with the system 
> tray" [1] from openjdk6 to icedtea6-1.9. This fixes RH569121.
> 
> Any concerns?
> 

This seems similar to the OpenType case.  If we backport this fix,
we really should backport that too.

How about we commit this fix to HEAD, give it another two weeks
(so the 7th of September) and then consider this again?  They
can both probably go into 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 if no issues occur
in the meantime.  Certainly, I'd like to see them have chance
to be built by developers and tested by the various autobuilders
before hitting release branches.

That might be a sensible policy for most backports.  I don't
think we should be blindly applying to branches at the same time
as HEAD.  Instead, they should have some 'soak time' in HEAD,
much the same as backports have some time in OpenJDK7 before
being backported to 6.

With regard to NetX and the plugin, there's no regular test cycle
for these, which is a shame.  It really has a different stability
level to the rest of IcedTea so I think the separation mentioned
in the previous e-mail is the right way to go with that.

> Cheers,
> Omair
> 
> 
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/ac23e40d3880

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