Re: Control center shell, panel and breaking compat

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:03 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > So, I put 2.17.90 in rawhide over the last few days
> > > and watched our Fedora menu layout break on the way.
> > >
> > > It appears that the switch to using the cc shell by default in
> > > upstream gnome broke the panel menu code for anybody who prefers
> > > to stay with the previous submenu layout for the preferences menu.
> > >
> > > I don't think that is acceptable from a compatibility point of view.
> > what do you mean exactly? that we should keep both the old submenu and
> > the new layout?
>
> The layout is configuration that is not controlled by the panel, but by .menu
> files that can and will be tweaked by users/distros. There is nothing
> wrong with changing the default configuration shipped with control center.
> But I did expect my FC6 menu configuration to keep working with the new panel.
>
> I thought not breaking existing configurations was an explicit part of
> staying within
> the 2.x line.

I *think* the reason for this breakage is that we're waiting for a 
release of gnome-menus that includes a patch to fix it. I could be wrong.

-Thomas