[gnome-flashback] Patches and Branding (was: Debug-ability; getting gnome-panel 3.8 out)

[Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu>]

Hi Dmitry,

Am 26.09.2013 17:41, schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
> Hi Philipp, and thanks for your analysis.
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu> wrote:
> > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/experimental/gnome-panel/debian/patches/10_bookmarks_limit.patch?view=markup
> > Was not sure about the rationale for this one. Now looking through the
> > launchpad bug, I'm still confused. Is it so that the menu doesn't start
> > folding when a lot of XDG_USER_DIRS are declared ?
> > If so, what about netbooks ? They have a low screen height. Ubuntu has
> > shipped this patch for a while, so I guess I'm asking if it has caused
> > you any problems. :)
> I am not aware of any problems with that, though I didn't use
> gnome-panel on netbooks for the last two years...
mate-panel has been shipping it also, so I pushed it. :)

> > > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/saucy/gnome-panel/saucy/view/head:/debian/patches/85_disable_shutdown_on_ltsp.patch
> > Drat, meant to re-investigate this one. Is that because a gnome user on
> > LTSP is talking to the remote GDM ? However, what about LTSP clients
> > that use a local gdm as server chooser ? The gdm greeter session would
> > not have LTSP_CLIENT set, correct ?
> This is something Jonathan should know better.
Pinged him, let's see if he can complete our mental picture of LTSP.

> > Is the Ubuntu packaging also in some kind of VCS ? (Is the bazaar one
> > listed above canonical, and if so, what's the root URL ?)
> We have packaging imported into lp:ubuntu/gnome-panel, but it's
> usually not for humans to push changes to (though forking it and
> filing merge proposals is possible).
OK, will try to watch that irregularly. But feel free to ping here about
interesting patches. :)

Are you guys planning to push gnome-panel 3.8 into saucy ? It seems that
you picked up all interesting patches that went into 3.8.0 anyway,
modulo my wrapper script and translation updates. So rebasing on 3.8.0
shouldn't bring any new regressions.

Oh I see that you are already shipping gnome-session 3.9.90 in saucy.
How has your experience been there, together with gnome-panel ?


One more personal request:
When the user selects "Gnome Flashback", you launch gnome flashback
including compiz. This gives a somewhat different user experience. I'm
not too sure how I feel about that.
How would you feel about renaming that to "Gnome Flashback (with Compiz
effects)" or similar ?

Don't get me wrong, I'm quite happy that you guys (meaning, in this
case, Ubuntu) picked up the brand I suggested, and help push it out to
the world. But I'd like it to mean the same thing across different
distributions.

Cheers
  Philipp

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Philipp Kaluza
Ghostroute IT Consulting