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

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

4) and 7) are being fixed (in Ubuntu), I expect the fixes to be
available until Tuesday.

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Dmitry Shachnev

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com> 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 ?
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
> 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... :)