Developer Kamila Szewczyk fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, a legacy Linux window manager, that caused desktop freezes when processing files with long names. The root cause was a window-title truncation algorithm lacking iteration limits, causing infinite loops in the middle-ellipsis search. The fix demonstrates ongoing maintenance and relevance of decades-old open-source projects.
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Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
Developer fixes a 20-year-old infinite loop in Enlightenment E16's window-title truncation algorithm—an unchecked iteration limit that froze desktops on long filenames—proving legacy open-source infrastructure still attracts maintenance.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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