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

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On 29.09.2013 12:20, Philipp Kaluza wrote:
> 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:
Indeed thanks for testing for future release. Although Flashback 3.8 was
just released, GNOME 3.10 has been released too. So they lack like
6months behind.
> 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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