Hey all. I have some thoughts about our current patch situation. After the last big strike regarding patches, which was around the Hackfest, The count of them increased amazingly. We got some new contributers, this year, which do a great work. Some of our old contributers are still hacking like fire and mostly this are small fixes with big impact. Easy to review. I summed up some of them, to show which could get some attention. There are also bigger patches, which would need a coordinated review, but add very nice features (Swyters vbox fix for
example). I am sure that about 10 of them could make it.

Patches that are currently under review or active development
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The following patches are the ones, which actually got some attention. They all are slightly bigger ones.

CORE-10533          PATCH: Fix local network resolving
CORE-10440          PATCH: Fix issues of ws2_32_new
CORE-10367          Implement apphelp sdb layer


(More or less) simple patches, that would be nice2have for 0.4
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These are all the patches from our actual most active contributers. Most of them are very small and easy to understand. Let's not forget them because contributers can become developers, which we need so badly. It would be nice to have them in trunk
before release, if they are correct.

CORE-10550          clipbrd: Load the clipboard contents from a file
CORE-10476 Add a placeholder machine owner at second stage installer to improve UX CORE-10438 [shell32] 'Empty Recycle Bin' should be disabled when no items are present
CORE-10437          [console] Add missing DS_MODALFRAME
CORE-10436 [shell32] OK button in run dialog should be disabled by default
CORE-10410          [fdebug] Manifest and application title
CORE-10393          [RAPPS] Small Database Update
CORE-10310          Automatically format file size & assorted fixes for apps
CORE-9721 [notepad] Let the user know when an opened file is modified
CORE-9959           shell32: patch for SHFileOperation (delete-operation)
CORE-6742 Can't dynamically change the resolution by resizing in VirtualBox

Hacks(?) that would improve the look and feel in 0.4
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These patches contain hacks but it would be nice to have them in release. I don't mean to apply them to trunk, but to the 0.4 branch.
Important is that, if this happens, enough regression testing is done.

CORE-9654 PATCH +Bugfix: UXTHEME draw text with shadows, fix GetThemeSysColor
CORE-9533           Title icons are 32pixel downsized to 16pixel
CORE-5644           mspaint: selection border isn't visible
CORE-9689           Drive's properties theming problem
CORE-8925           Start menu has classic border when themes are enabled

Drive Type related patches
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The author of these patches did some effort to fix the bug, which shows the correct icon for specific drives. I feel like I saw more than this 2 patches but I am not sure and don't find more. We should collaborate with him and take care of this annoying bug,

CORE-10221          Fix icons in My Computer
CORE-9622           Improvement to GetDriveType() Function


Victor's Patches
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These patches are from Victor M. Calvo. He did a big effort to fix bugs, which affect specifig apps and caused registry curruption. He also proved his patches with apitests but almost nothing happened with the patches.

CORE-9673           PATCH: BS_DIBPATTERN8x8 not supported
CORE-9672           PATCH: Rewrite RegQueryInfoKeyW
CORE-9666 PATCH: RegQueryValueExW fails to set properly the REG_NONE type CORE-9665 PATCH: RegQueryValueExW and RegQueryValueExA calls accept bytes not chars. CORE-9398 PATCH: Several fixes for SetupInstallServicesFromInfSectionExW
CORE-8164           Fix a interexchanging values in Vga driver
CORE-8157           Fix a memcpy in Dhcpclient using the length in bytes.
CORE-8156           Fix a sanity check of a returned ConstructBitBlob
CORE-8077           GetDiskFreeSpaceW fixes
CORE-8076           SetVolumeLabelW and GetVolumeInformationW fixes



Cheers

Robert


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