Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Flashback

[Antonio Ospite <ao2 ao2 it>]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 15:47:33 +0300
Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Alberts, first of all, thanks for your effort, it's appreciated.

Just for the records, I was the author of this article back in 2011:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25249/Gnome_3_Go_to_Shell_Not_Just_Yet_Thanks

And I am still using gnome-panel, even with all its quirks.

[...]
> 4) GNOME Panel looks terrible at least with GNOME 3.14. This is because
> default theme has removed all styling that was used by GNOME Panel. This is
> problem only for those who are using default theme.

Just after I installed Gtk+ 3.13.9-2 on Debian unstable I re-started my
work on an Adwaita-fallback theme, now called Adwaita-flashback, trying
to keep the delta with the default Adwaita theme to a minimum, here is
the basic idea:

        http://git.ao2.it/Adwaita-flashback.git

The theme can be installed in ~/.themes or better in
~/.local/share/themes and selected with gnome-tweak-tool.

For now I just published the PanelWidget backgrounds fixes, I am still
not able to fix the huge icons showing in the menu entries (GVim is an
example of that), maybe this is something to be fixed in gnome-panel?

BTW, working on the theme is now a little easier using gtk-inspector
like this:
        XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:~/.local/share \
        GTK_DEBUG=interactive gnome-panel --replace 

Ah, what about a bluetooth notification applet which works with BlueZ
5, any plans for this?

[...]
> GNOME 3.14 will be released soon and development for 3.16 will start. I
> would like to try to catch up GNOME and make Flashback +/- usable with
> GNOME 3.16 when it will be released. This looks like mission impossible if
> development for GNOME Panel will be same as last year.
>
> I was suggested to publish gnome-panel source code in other place (as last
> option) and use it as new upstream. I don't want this, but it looks like
> that we have no other choice if we want see some progress. Opinions about
> this?

Lets try to keep gnome-panel under the GNOME umbrella, when MATE came
out I tried to put some sense in its main developer, but there was no
room for discussion; I hope that here compromises can still be made
with the actual gnome-panel maintainer to keep _one_ upstream
repository.

With Kind Regards,
   Antonio

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Antonio Ospite
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