Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity 3.14.0

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com> wrote:
> You fixed it, thanks! You are very good at fixing bugs. :)

Thanks from me as well. Alberts, are you going to do a new release?

> I attached a patch that adds minimize and maximize buttons back by
> default. It works only with the traditional windows, not with the
> client-side decorations, because GTK+ reads the old location
> explicitly, and we can't overwrite it. For GNOME Classic, they decided
> to explicitly check the session name as a temporary solution:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=add67b516cb6cbd9b36454d880dd2d7156eced19

I am against this as it makes things inconsistent.

For example, in Ubuntu we have a package ubuntu-settings that ships a
GSettings override that sets the layout to close,minimize,maximize: —
and that works fine with the Flashback session. Users of Ubuntu GNOME
remix have another -settings package that sets it to
minimize,maximize,close: — and if they start Metacity, it uses these
settings as well.

If the schema is moved, it would mean that users will need to figure
out why their settings no longer work after upgrade. And I will have
to add a new -settings package in Ubuntu or patch all existing ones
that set the layout.

If you really want to do this, can you use the same schema as the
GNOME Classic mode does? This way it will work with CSDs as well:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c#n343

(That will also mean you will need to change $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP from
GNOME to GNOME-Classic in your distro packages, but I don't think it's
a problem).

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Dmitry Shachnev