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 is to use the Simple Bug Guide. This 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. More details on bugs already reported can be found at our Bugzilla. Among the most prominent GNOME 2.4 bugs:
The Stock Ticker applet is unable to download data in GNOME 2.4.0.
GPDF does not support printing in GNOME 2.4.0. It is planned to add this functionality later in the GNOME 2.4 release series.
The Panel stores configuration in format different from previous versions of GNOME. The configuration is migrated to the new format when the Panel first starts. After that, changes made to the configuration in GNOME 2.4 will not be reflected in older GNOME sessions and vice versa.
The desktop is now located in the directory Desktop, instead of .gnome-desktop. If you are running GNOME 2.4 in parallel with an older version of GNOME, you should place a symlink to the Desktop directory inside the .gnome-desktop directory so that you can access your new desktop from an old version of GNOME.
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