Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Flashback with GNOME 3.10

[Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu>]

Hi Balló,

Am 29.09.2013 08:49, schrieb Balló György:
> I tested GNOME Flashback with GNOME 3.10 on Arch Linux, and I found
> the following new problems:

I think you are the first one that really tests against Gnome 3.10,
thank you.

I expect these kinds of problems to crop up more and more as Gnome
development progresses, so it'll be good to have a list of what went
missing in each gnome release.

We have the "master" branch open for work on Gnome 3.10.

> 1. The mouse cursor is no longer visible, possibly related to this
> change in gnome-settings-daemon (workaround is to disable GSD's cursor
> plugin):
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=30584577f142199003c22c51851aec0058998d53
As that's interesting. Where does it not show ? Only on the panel ?
I basically expect a number of g-s-d modules to disappear on us, and us
needing to ship them instead.
But this here might be g-s-d _gaining_ new functionality, which breaks
things.

> 2. No longer possible to shutdown or logout, because the corresponding
> dialogs were dropped from gnome-session by this commit:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/commit/?id=705699b2799a3434d1a8f35c9a92868a5057f73e
That's a no-brainer, we could move this into a new g-s-d module, but
it'll be way easier to just add it to gnome-panel. We might need to
expose a new DBus method ?

> 3. Panel menus are displayed as black text with black outline/shadow,
> therefore it's hard to read/ugly.
Hmm, not sure what causes this. Is your g-s-d still setting X properties
for GtkSettings ? Could you send a screnshot (with and without a set
panel background color) so I can get a better mental picture ?

> GNOME 3.10 will be moved soon into our stable repositories on Arch
> Linux, so I will have to drop gnome-panel package if these problems
> are not fixed before that.
Yeah, would be a shame to loose all arch as distributor of gnome-panel.
But of course, ultimately you need to decide what user experience you
want to offer to your users.

> Could someone help me to fix these issues?
We're happy to help and review / test stuff, though as always, everybody
is pressed for time. But I strongly suspect that you are not alone in
wanting to support the Gnome 3.10 stack.

Cheers
  Philipp

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Philipp Kaluza
Ghostroute IT Consulting