PING: Nimbus patch

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Tue Oct 27 09:32:20 PDT 2009


Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/10/23 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         

[snip]
>> Hello.
>>
>> The 1998-2005 copyright on
>> make/tools/generate_nimbus/Makefile
>> and similar ranges on other new files is a bit surprising, but since that is
>> what appears to be on those files in JDK 7, c'est la vie (for now).
>>
>>     
>
> Strange; I see quite a few of these changes and assume there is some
> reasoning behind them.  Though what I have no idea...
>
>   
>> Approved to go back into OpenJDK 6.
>>
>>     
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/ccbadda19345
>
> There's one final changeset:
>
> changeset:   1652:6115613a3386
> user:        peterz
> date:        Wed Sep 23 21:14:53 2009 +0400
> summary:     6857888:
> closed/javax/swing/JMenuItem/6458123/bug6458123.java fails with
> InvocationTargetException.
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/6115613a3386
>
> but the changes to
> src/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/synth/SynthGraphicsUtils.java in
> that patch won't apply without also applying an earlier fix.
>
> changeset:   277:7d45141e5d30
> user:        mlapshin
> date:        Fri Aug 08 20:49:26 2008 +0400
> summary:     6584657: GTK Look and Feel: Bugs in menu item layout
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/7d45141e5d30
>
> Should I backport both?
>   

The latter patch is large, but it has been in JDK 7 for a while and is 
targeted at Linux platforms.

Please backport both changesets to OpenJDK 6.

Thanks,

-Joe


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