Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity 3.14.0

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

> > 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).

We can't use the same schema which used in GNOME Classic, because its
schema file (org.gnome.shell.extensions.classic-overrides.gschema.xml)
is in the gnome-shell-extensions package, and therefore we would need
to add gnome-shell-extensions as a dependency of metacity.

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György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User