Any technical details about the infamous Arrange Documents panel plugin bug?

[Samoreen]

Hi,

A lot of users are hit by this bug that appears when installing certain
plugins under CS4 (Nik Software plugins for example):

- the menu bar buttons that should be highlighted in color when hovering
them switch to a full grey area.
- the 2 top Panels in the Arrange Documents drop down menu are
invisible.

Adobe say this is a problem with older plugins and a misunderstanding
about how resources are managed in plugins (read : it's a developer
mistake) and plugin vendors don't make any firm statement about this
issue.

I'd like to know whether Adobe published a document about this bug (be
it on the PS or the plugin side) that appears to affect many plugins
from various vendors. This way, users could be able to tell the
technical support team of their misbehaving plugin, "This is a known
problem, please have a look at this document.".

Thanks.

--
Patrick

[Tom Ruark]

This is a Photoshop problem.

My hope is to find a way that plug-in developers could work around it. We are having no such luck so far and I am waiting for some plug-in developers to get back to me with possible work arounds.