Re: [gnome-flashback] Gnome Flashback

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hey,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Dear maintainers are you still interested in gnome flashback project or not?
> How about some new releases for metacity and gnome-panel?
>
> Phillip, half year ago you wanted to release new version. What happened?
> Have I offended you?
>
> metacity.
> I have working gtk3 port - https://github.com/albertsmuktupavels/metacity.

Did you try to contact Florian, who is the current maintainer? Maybe
he'll allow you to take over metacity maintainership.
(And I think he is not subscribed to this list).

> I have gave attempt to port gtk-window-decorator to gtk3 so it can be used
> with new metacity release. There are still some things to fix, before it
> could be merged, but I think that most work I have done already.
> https://code.launchpad.net/~albertsmuktupavels/compiz/port-gtk-window-decorator-to-gtk3

Wow, that's really nice!

> gnome-panel.
> I think master can be released as new release. Some patches from there are
> already used in ubuntu, debian and maybe in other distros as well.

Exactly what I suggested in my message some days ago :)

> I am ready to push some new patches:
> 1. Patch that will add all gnome-applets in gnome-panel (about 18mb big). I
> think null_applet could be deleted, but for now I did not delete it.
> 2. Patch that makes gweather applet to work with newer libgweather version.
> With this patch I also changed libgweather required version to 3.9.5.
> 3. Sebastian send me patch with little update for run dialog. Currently
> known application list is not expanding vertically. His patch will fix that.

I think you should always go ahead with bug fixes.

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Dmitry Shachnev