Re: Tiling progress

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:53 AM, John Stowers
> <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
>>
>>> I announced it here when I released the first version, but nobody
>>> replied so I don't really know how other efforts are faring or how
>>> much interest there still is.
>>
>> I tried and liked it, but could not really be bothered to deal with the
>> required mutter fork longterm.
>
> Mmm, fair enough. I had hoped that using 0install would make that
> easy, but it seems that my compiled version either doesn't work for
> some or that people aren't keen on using 0install. Or you may have
> other patches to mutter you want to maintain yourself. I believe
> someone's keeping an arch package up to date for shellshape-mutter,
> which is nice of them.
>
>> I saw in BZ you are trying to get some of the needed bits upstream. How
>> is that going?
>
> Somewhat glacially, I'm afraid. I guess they're not high priority
> compared to fixes and 3.2 features, but it's a bit disheartening. I've
> got one simple patch in so far:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653858
>
> But am still waiting on two more that I've submitted patches for:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651899
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655615

... you didn't attach a patch to this bug?

> ..and the big one, which I have no idea how to fix - keyboard
> shortcuts. This seems like the biggest issue of all, that would
> probably need a decent restructure to accomodate. On the plus side,
> this is not a unique bug for me - it should affect *anyone* who wants
> to add new keybindings after compile-time. But I don't know that
> there's much enthusiasm for allowing that, having received no comments
> after two months:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651901

Florian is working on a keybinding rewrite as part of his port to
gsettings. I don't know how far along that is, or where it is, even.

> I could submit a patch that instead adds all the keybindings I want,
> but I presume that has zero chance of being accepted (they're
> completely meaningless to the rest of mutter).
>
> Cheers,
>  - Tim.
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  Jasper