Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Flashback

[Khurshid Alam <khurshid alam linuxmail org>]

Hi,

Then we have one major internal problem - GNOME Panel. We have inactive maintainer who does not care about it and yet does not want to transfer maintainership to me. Problems with panel:

1) EDS is broken. Patch for it is available, but I think that I gave only link to patch in launchpad.

What about other eds related bug about previous day's all-day events appearing in today's date? I reported the bug here: http://is.gd/G4GpeH.

Although it could be a ubuntu-only bug (due to forking of gnome-control-center & gsd). Unfortunately I don't have non-ubuntu machine to test it.

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.

Poor style exists for some applets since 3.6. For example, With Ambiance, I want clock-applet to have dark background (similar to Ubuntu's indicator-datetime)...but how to do that? (bug: http://is.gd/eLoYFA). Peeking at gnome-panel.css of other themes doesn't really help as as Ambiance comes with very specific border radius & shadow. Hence even if I change the color, it  doesn't achieve the same polished effect.

5) Adding inprocess applet to panel, then removing and then re-adding will result in crash. Patch available. [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692610] Of course without any response.

6) Now when gnome-flashback is available gnome-panel needs also this - https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/commit/?h=wip/gnome-3.10%2b&id=1ecf19289f9850474d6a94eecb58e38c9cf9eef1. Otherwise gnome-panel will lock/freeze when trying to open shutdown dialog.

Hope these will be cherry-picked for Utopic as distro-patches.

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?

I think,we should keep Flashback project under Gnome, for now, but I kinda like that idea.We can host gnome-related projects outside git.gnome.org. Right? Since we are all using git, I suggest you to start pushing same code somewhere else (github)...so when time comes(if), you can make it upstream. As for a start, 5 different repos should be hosted on github .i.e. gnome-flashback, gnome-applets, metacity, debian & gnome-panel (+ branches 3.8.x, 3.10.x, 3.14.x...etc) with all relative patches & updates (provided there is no license issue :/). 

Thanks.