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

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

2014-10-10 9:32 GMT+02:00 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

I could reproduce it on GNOME 3.14.

> > 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.

Not exactly. polkit-gnome cannot be activated via D-Bus, it needs to
be autostarted in some way.

gnome-screensaver and notification-daemon can be, but developers
decided to remove the D-Bus activation file to avoid race condition,
when the GNOME Shell session starts:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/notification-daemon/commit/?id=1ad20d22098bc7718614a8a87744a2c22d5438d0
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=3365eec74643773d8d5aa92901b39bdc9496e19b

If these files would be restored, then we don't need to autostart them
on login, but may interfere with the GNOME Shell session.

--
György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User