Re: [gnome-flashback] Indicator Applet

["Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx)" <lanoxx gmx net>]

Hi Dmitry,

On 02/06/15 21:58, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi Lanoxx,
>
> indicator-applet itself doesn't use that function, are you trying to
> build some dependency of it maybe? (libido?)
>
> Also, the official tarballs are terribly outdated, to build anything
> from Canonical you need to use bzr snapshots.
I was trying to build indicator-applet (from bzr -- i rarely use 
tarbals) with jhbuild on an Ubuntu LTS 14.04 with Gnome 3.16 target. The 
problem as I see it is this:

 * indicator-applet uses libido
 * libido requires GTK+

I did not build libido with jhbuild but just installed the -dev source 
with apt. Now when jhbuild tried to link indicator-applet it complained 
that the above function was not available (in libido? not sure anymore). 
So I tried to build lastest libido from bzr, but that had its own 
problem, because libido requires a patched GTK+ but I had build the 
vanilla GTK+ from jhbuild.

In the end I gave up and wrote that mail to you. The result right now 
is, that in my jhbuild session I can test the latest version of 
gnome-flashback but I do not have indicator-applet available and I would 
like to use it.
> In Ubuntu lots of apps (and even some toolkits) are patched to use
> indicators. I doubt you will be able to achieve the same effect in
> other distribution.
>
> It doesn't make sense to merge indicator-applet into gnome-applets, as
> it depends on some third-party libraries anyway (so having it in a
> separate source is fine).
>
> I think that if we really want to reimplement the tray, we should use
> the StatusNotifier specifications (which are less hacky, more
> standardized and give us more power). But see Alberts' comments about
> them on this list...
>
> >   * Have you ever build indicator-applet with jhbuild and do you know which
> > patches I need to apply in order to build it?
> No, I don't think anyone has worked on adopting the latest versions to
> be built outside Ubuntu.
Well, this is tricky... technically I am on Ubuntu (14.04 LTS) not 
"outside Ubuntu", but then again I am building with jhbuild so 
everything that is build with jhbuild is lacking the Ubuntu specific 
patches. So what do you recommend to do if I want to test the latest 
flashback but at the sametime use the Ubuntu specific parts such as 
indicator-applets?
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
Cheers
Sebastian
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