Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity 3.14.0

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

2014-10-14 15:43 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels 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).
>
>
> I am not going to use this patch. Also I am not going to use schema that is
> installed with gnome-shell-extenstions. I don't want to use patch because it
> does not solve problem fully. Also I don't want to duplicate setting that
> already exist.
>
> Does anyone knows if someone has started work on session-dependent defaults
> to GSettings?
>
> If this will not be available for 3.16 then we could make first-run /
> welcome window in gnome-flashback module. Where we could ask user if he
> wants back all buttons. Ask for layout he prefers and then update
> org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides and
> org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout. This way it should work nice
> for both sessions - metacity and compiz.

I agree that a partial solution was not the best idea. I don't know
what is the current state of the session-dependent defaults in
GSettings. Alberts, could you contact with GNOME developers about
this, please?

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György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User