Re: [gnome-flashback] Broken parts of GNOME Flashback with GNOME 3.12

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

2014-10-10 2:06 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com> wrote:
> > 2014-10-10 1:19 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels
> > <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > notification-daemon is unmaintained and it is crashing at least on
> > > > > ubuntu
> > > > > 14.10. Is not there any alternative that is still maintained? What
> > > > > GNOME
> > > > > is
> > > > > using for notifications? Something built-in in GNOME Shell?
> > > >
> > > > I fixed the crash[1], and I fixed also handling long notification
> > > > text[2], so it works quite well on my system. I may try to fix
> > > > deprecations if someone would review and merge my patches. Personally
> > > > I prefer this project over other implementations
> > > > (mate-notification-daemon, notify-osd, xfce4-notifyd), because it
> > > > keeps unread notifications on the system tray, and it was originally
> > > > designed for GNOME fallback mode, so it would be essential to use it
> > > > also in GNOME Flashback. GNOME Shell has a built-in notification
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728157#c7
> > > > [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687724#c3
> > >
> > >
> > > How about integrating notification-daemon in gnome-flashback module?
> >
> > I would prefer keeping it as a separated component, because it can be
> > used also in other desktop environments. But I think it should be part
> > of the GNOME Flashback project along with gnome-applets,
> > gnome-flashback, gnome-panel, gnome-screensaver, metacity and
> > polkit-gnome.
>
>
> Ok. If current maintainer will agree then I will take over maintaining this
> module too.

Thanks. I have some patches for gnome-screensaver too, which looks
like abandoned by its developers:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/log/

It's not used by GNOME any more, because they reimplemented the lock
screen within GDM and GNOME Shell. Could you take it over also?

--
György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User