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

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com> wrote:
> > > 3. Clicking on the Clock applet causes an immediate crash
> >
> >
> > It is not crashing for me. Do you have more info?
>
> It's strange, but I can't reproduce it any more with the latest code
> in GNOME 3.14.

I have a similar crash when I am not connected to the internet.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737575

> > > gnome-applets
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > 5. The Invest applet is broken, unable to add it to the panel, no error
> > > message.
> >
> > Interesting. It is working for me in jhbuild session (GNOME 3.14) and on
> > ubuntu 14.10.
>
> Okay, I found the problem: it's unable to import 'defs' for some
> reason. I attached a patch that fixes the problem. It also fixes
> opening help.

That is fixed in my Python 3 port patches (I hope I'll update them
soon to address issues found by Alberts).

> 12. Missing other components
>
> The GNOME fallback mode had the following additional project, which
> are now unmaintained:
> - gnome-screensaver
> - notification-daemon
> - polkit-gnome
>
> I think that all of them should be launched on login (as it was
> happened in fallback mode), either by adding them as required
> components to the session file (therefore the user cannot easily
> replace them), or by implementing a configurable launcher within
> gnome-flashback.

The last two can be D-Bus activated, can't they? And that mean we
should not autostart them.

So, we only speak about gnome-screensaver.

> We need to autostart them in some ways to provide a complete desktop
> session by default. Ideas:
> 1. Launch components from the gnome-flashback binary in an optional
> and configurable way, so users could disable each component in
> GSettings.
> 2. Add .desktop autostart files for each component with
> 'AutostartCondition=GNOME3 if-session gnome-flashback'.
> 3. Add them to RequiredComponents= line of the session file.
>
> I would prefer the first option. What do you think?

Definitely not 2 (as we have other sessions like
gnome-flashback-compiz), I like 1 and 3.

--
Dmitry Shachnev