Re: [gnome-flashback] Regressions from previous gnome-panel releases

[Erick Brunzell <lbsolost yahoo com>]

Hi Alkis,

On 02/21/2014 08:18 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Στις 21/02/2014 12:52 μμ, ο/η Philipp Kaluza έγραψε:
> > Just as an aside, I tried to follow this thread, but it seems mostly
> > ubuntu-specific. Is there anything in here we need to look at from an
> > upstream perspective ?
>
> Hi Philipp,
> in my initial mail, I separated the upstream issues (#1-#5) from the 
> Ubuntu-specific ones (#6-#10):
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-flashback-list/2014-January/msg00001.html 
>
>
> In the meantime, #3 was solved, and I think that Dmitry mentioned that 
> #6 should be solved upstream.
>
> So, here are the issues that I think are unresolved and are upstream 
> ones:
>
> 1) The Applications menu is now a mess. Applications that were 
> previously in the Accessories menu now appear in Accessories, 
> Utilities, Sundry and Other. The System Settings submenu was moved 
> under Applications instead of System Tools. Etc etc, the changes don't 
> make much sense except maybe only for gnome-shell. Is it possible to 
> somehow ship/use the previous version of 
> /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu ?

I filed bug reports here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1267787

And here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722056

> 2) The panel needs more than a minute to load (LP: #1256961).
> I provide a crude workaround in comment #8 there.
> I saw it was also mentioned in the mailing list here.

That should be fixed now thanks to Alberts and Dmitry.

> 4) When I try to move applets, they get stuck in the top left side.
> I think this patch by Albert addresses that:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/commit/?id=d7d0efa55a26cce3f62b05610b80b37cfd61a8a3 

I have noticed that relocating (dragging) applets in the panel is not as 
"smooth" as it had been in Precise. Not sure just when that behaviour 
changed.

> 5) The panel sometimes only gets half-loaded in LTSP clients (LP: 
> #1078679)
>
> 6) The indicator-keyboard applet doesn't respond to switching layouts 
> (LP: #1260226).
> (The upstream issue here is that I think Dmitry said that gnome-panel 
> needs a new keyboard layout applet)
>
>
>
> Just for completeness, here are the unresolved Ubuntu-specific ones:
>
> 7) nm-applet, the pidgin applet etc don't appear at all in 
> indicator-applet-complete.
>
> 8) Indicator-session assumes there's only one active user: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1263438
>
> 9) indicator-session menus are not policykit aware: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/474392
>
> 10) Having the real user names on the panel was very nice in the last 
> versions, so com.canonical.indicator.session show-real-name-on-panel 
> should be true by default... And when it's true, the "gear" icon 
> should be in the right side of the name like it used to be... :)
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