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

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 2:50 AM, 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
> mate-panel has been shipping it also, so I pushed it. :)

Thanks!

> 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.

Too late for Saucy, sorry. But we'll be able to push it to one of GNOME 3 PPAs.

> 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 ?

It mostly works fine. There are issues with keyboard layouts switching
and shortcuts, but I hope they will be resolved soon.

> 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.

+1. This is even worse because the Compiz session is has many bugs
(crashes, draws windows behind the panels, Alt+RightClick doesn't
work, etc).

I propose the names "Gnome Flashback (with Compiz)" and "Gnome
Flashback (with Metacity)". Again, too late for Saucy, but I'll apply
this change in 3.8 packages.

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Dmitry Shachnev