Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues with gnome-flashback on Ubuntu 16.04

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi all,

2015-11-28 13:53 GMT+03:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm trying out gnome-flashback on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04, and I'll like
> > to provide some feedback about whatever issues I discover.
> >
> > 1) Two nm-applets appear in the systray.
>
> Upstream network-manager-applet does not autostart applet in GNOME any more:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=2a7336451cb6f066dd7ea80bf9faed40881b0ebf
>
> So we have autostart file for network-manager-applet in gnome-flashback:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-flashback/commit/?id=fd578557a888a7bb085e348e11d26751a4268a94
>
> So ubuntu has two options:
> 1) don't install autostart file from gnome-flashback module
> 2) patch network-manager-applet desktop file by adding GNOME-Flashback to
> NotShowIn

I will remove the autostart file in the next gnome-flashback upload.

> > 2) All gnome menus, for example the Applications menu or the Gedit menus,
> > have a large (about 20 pixels) gray border around them. Thunderbird or
> > pidgin don't have that border. I'm using metacity, not compiz.
>
> That is ubuntu problem/regression (at least upstream bug is closed as
> downstream problem):
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1520573
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1518661

Right. As a workaround you can use this:
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/11/fix-large-black-borders-around-header.html

> > 3) Some dialogs (e.g. the "save before exit?" dialog of gedit) have their
> > buttons (Close without saving / Cancel / Save) too wide, so that they fill
> > the whole dialog width.
>
> This has nothing to do with GNOME Flashback.

I think it was intentional upstream change (in GNOME/GTK+).

> > 4) I would like to propose that the window buttons are restored to their
> > pre-Unity settings, menu/minimize/maximize/close.
>
> I think that it is better to stick with ubuntu default layout... It is not
> possible to set different defaults per sessions so trying to use different
> layout will cause problems:
> - Installing override file will change default value for all sessions, so
> not a real option.
> - I have added workaround in gnome-flashback, but that will fully work only
> with metacity session, so again there will be problems for users that use
> compiz session.

I agree with Alberts. The Ubuntu's layout is not specific to Unity. In
fact, it was introduced in Ubuntu 10.04, which used GNOME (Unity
appeared a year later).

I think buttons on the left is a good default choice, but if you don't
like it, you can always change it.

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Dmitry Shachnev