Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity

[Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>]

I'm the maintainer of metacity package in Arch Linux. Thank you for
your work to continue developing metacity. We have these patches:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/metacity

I tested git master, and the following fixes are still needed:

- fix_compositing_startup.patch:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658036
  Hide random color rectangles for two seconds after login when
compositing enabled. It caused by a debugging variable 'show_redraw',
which is uninitialised on startup.

Available in master.

 

- fix_force_quit.patch:
  https://bugzilla.gnonautilusme.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687938
  Update meta_show_dialog for gtk's removal of --screen. This is
required for compatibility with zenity 3, otherwise the Force Quit
dialog never shown.

Will this patch work? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/review?bug=643683&attachment=183626

Without keybindings.c part?

 

- enable_compositing.patch
  Enable compositing by default. This is required for the desktop
rendering feature of nautilus 3.8. Now nautilus draws a transparent
root-window with the desktop icons, so compositing is required to make
the desktop background visible.

Done. I know that nautilus is drawing transparent background. This is fix for users who can run compositing manager, but what to do with user that can not?

Create patch for nautilus? In case of no compositing manager nautilus could draw fake transparent background. Is there any chance than nautilus devs will accept patch?