Re: Removing fallback support code

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 17:14 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> 2012/11/9 Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>:
> > Heya,
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > There's going to be more changes in the future including:
> > - removing gnome-screenshot as a dependency for taking screenshots
> > - move background rendering to the shell
> > - move media-keys handling to the shell (or at least fix shortcuts in
> > the overview)
> 
> For this last point in particular, there is code and discussion
> happening in the years old
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613543 , and my opinion is
> that the media-keys plugin is legacy and should be replaced with an
> integrated solution.

Well, it would be legacy if mutter didn't use the legacy X11 core events
for input capture ;)

There's also a lot more work (in addition to using XI2 for events
capture) that would need to be done if we were to remove all the key
capture from gnome-settings-daemon, namely the hacks Rui has been adding
for layout switching using modifier keys.

So it's not as cut'n'dry as you make it sound. Let's discuss this on the
bugs anyway.

> IMHO, environments that are still using g-s-d, or that considering
> light-forking it (like AFAUI Unity), should take the code before it is
> dropped and turn it into a downstream patch.

I'm pretty certain they'll be able to use git to retrieve the old code.
It's not like it disappears from the face of the earth.