Leopard 10.5.4 is released and the verdict is...

The latest update of Leopard was just released, and I was quite excited when I started Numbers to check if I would still be able to reproduce the bug. It took one more cell then usually to initiate the bug but it was still there. I left the computer for over 20 minutes and when I got back so was the "Force Quit" dialog available but with a black border around as had most of the other windows and the clock was still stuck.

Of some reason so did I connect my iPhone to the dock and after just a few moments so was the gui responsive again, just had to drag around the windows to remove the black borders. Sweet was my initial thought, all I have to do is to connect the iPhone and I will regain control of my computer :-).

Time for the second try, this time I used OmniGraffle and even if I don't have an exact procedure to trigger the bug with this program it did aswell feel like it took me just a little more time than usual. I did however still manage to initiate the bug this way as well. I now started to test my theory that connecting an external device, in my case the iPhone would force the gui to regain control, after about 5 minutes without been giving control after repeatly connecting and reconnecting the iPhone I had to consider myself beaten again.

The biggest change from earlier is however that I never manage to get the qui completely frozen, after a few reconnects of the iPhone or so I could notice that the clock had updated or some other small change... progress Apple, progress, but still not sufficient...