Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Flashback

[Khurshid Alam <khurshid alam linuxmail org>]

Hi Alberts,

<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

Hi!

I will continue to work on GNOME Flashback only as maintainer! If this is not going to happen then I am leaving upstream.

We all want you as a maintainer. Please do not leave upstream.

3) Merge gnome-applets. Probably I will try to contact with gnome-applets current and/or previous maintainers to confirm that I am right about incorrectly added license (COPYING) file.

That is what Cinnamon & Mate developer did (with some exceptions). That's what I did when I had some issue in licensing in some python-library....get the consent of EACH & EVERY author & move on. However, I don't think it would be that easy here as Flashback is much more complex. But I am sure, you people can sort it out.

4) Not sure, but might try to port all added applets to gsettings.

5) If I will succeed with previous point I would remove remaining gconf parts too.

6) Make 3.9.0 release.

7) Spend some time on desktop-background branch to make it ready for merging into master.

8) Remove some multi-screen code that makes no sense with GTK+ 3.10 or newer.

9) Port at least some of deprecated things.

10) Might release 3.10.0 as experimental release for testing.

11) Will spend extra time on end-session-dialog. Probably here I would try to contact gnome-session developers for some extra info.

12) Might create default styling .css file for use only in gnome-panel to get back old look. I hope that this will be possible in way I am thinking.

13) At this point I hope that most important problems would be fixed and I could release 3.12 or 3.14.

Honesty, as of now, I think, It requires huge amount of work to reach that milestone & become compatible with gtk-3.14/16 or gtk-4.0. Its nice to see that you have some plan to make that happen.

1) Who wants that I am continuing work on gnome-panel? Who wants me as new maintainer?

I do. I really do.

2) And who wants that things does not change? Who wants to watch how gnome-panel slowly dies.

Nobody wants to see that happen. Certainly not me. Gnome-Flashback session is my favorite desktop shell & will always be. Besides, at my office, as a system-admin I have to maintain over 500 machines running gnome-panel. And I have no intention to use anything else.