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

[Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com>]

Using Ubuntu Trusty 14.04, I'm experiencing the following issues, which 
didn't exist in e.g. 12.04.
I've seen references for some of them here in the mailing list, and some 
other references in launchpad, but some of them I couldn't find reported 
anywhere, so I thought I'd gather here the most significant 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.

3) The panel doesn't get re-aligned on resolution changes (or when 
plugging external monitors).
I think I saw a patch in git for that, after 3.8.0...

4) When I try to move applets, they get stuck in the top left side.
I think I saw a patch in git for that too.

5) The panel sometimes only gets half-loaded in LTSP clients (LP: #1078679)


I think the following are Ubuntu-specific:

6) The indicator-keyboard applet doesn't respond to switching layouts 
(LP: #1260226).

7) nm-applet, the pidgin applet etc don't appear at all in 
indicator-applet-complete, so one needs to insert notification-area 
manually in order to see them. I've uploaded a patch for that in LP: 
#1263591, but I think in previous versions indicator-applet-complete 
handled those, there was no need for notification-area.

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... :)


Could someone please upload a newer version of gnome-panel, with the 
latest changes from git, maybe in a launchpad PPA or in debian 
experimental, so that we can test and see if some of those issues are 
already resolved?

Thank you,
Alkis