Re: [gnome-flashback] State of Gnome Flashback

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu> wrote:
> Am 25.05.2014 16:29, schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
> > I *am* testing the git snapshots on Debian experimental and Ubuntu 14.04.
> > It mostly works well, on Debian there are some issues like keyboard
> > layout switching not working,
> > *but* it is definitely better than our current release (3.8.0).
>
> Good to hear that. Could you prepare a list of which version of relevant
> components (g-s-d, g-c-c etc.) you have installed on each distribution,
> and which regressions you see where ?

Debian experimental:
- gnome-settings-daemon 3.12.1
- gnome-control-center 3.12.1
- nautilus 3.12.0

Known issues on Debian experimental:
- sometimes missing cursor,
- shortcut to switch keyboard layout not working,
- drive automount not working,
- missing background.

Ubuntu 14.04:
- unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140414 (yeah, a very weird
version number)
- unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140410
- nautilus 3.10.1, heavily patched by Ubuntu

Everything works fine.

> Also, by "git snapshots" I assume you mean master, right ?

Right.

> > Re the version number, I think we should choose 3.8.1 as there aren't
> > any new features, just bug fixes.
> Yes, but if I am not mistaken, we still have ABI breaking commits in
> master, that were not reverted. So then we cannot release 3.8.1 without
> either reverting those, or releasing from the 3.8 branch, with some
> fixes cherry-picked to it.
>
> Also the version number should reflect what gnome ecosystem we recommend
> as a base, but that consideration is secondary to our ABI guarantees.

Right, I forgot that we had an ABI break. I have compared 3.8.0 and
master, the two removed symbols are (both removed in
c96e85f3dfe8eb4f524a59f4683197dfe9539d2e):
- panel_applet_bindings_clean
- panel_applet_bindings_init

I think we can re-add those two methods, make them no-op, and mark as
deprecated.

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Dmitry Shachnev