Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Flashback 3.26+

[Khurshid Alam <khurshid alam linuxmail org>]

Hi Albert,

is anyone using / testing GNOME Flashback 3.24? I would like to receive some feedback to know on what things I should focus.

I can test if there is a proper PPA for it. The daily build PPA (https://is.gd/VBIlKO) currently building from master has the version 3.25 !. 

Not sure where it is getting that version number (recipe is using {debversion}~{time})

- Do we have new regressions compared to previous versions?

Weather-applet doesn't work. It doesn't show any weather data.

Heavy screen flickering for csd windows under compiz. 

Still testing for more.....

- What are most biggest, most important problems / bugs to you?

1. Window resize area for csd windows under compiz. To tackle the problem, Mate give us mate-compiz plugin which uses transparent resize areas.

May be you could do the same? As of now csd windows under compiz is completely useless.

Honestly I will switch to metacity if:

       a) I can disable min/max animation

       b) I can use something similar to window spread (i.e compiz scale) which can spread all windows from all workspaces &

           can be tied to hot corner. Very productive.

Mate's marco (fork of metacity) can do both now (window scale plugin in work-in-progress).

2. No GUI to change metacity theme.

3. Absence of a default global menu applet. 

4. When I use vnc session in remmina, I can not send keystroke (modifier + key) to other machine even 

when "grab-keyborad" options is enabled. may be something to do with gnome-settings-daemon?

- Does anyone use metacity with "gtk+" theme? Or everyone is still using old "metacity" themes?

Metacity with gtk+. This should be default setting. There is no way change old metacity theme through GUI.

User change their theme and then gets frustrated as their titlebar doesn't change at all. Will you please change this in GSettings?

- Anything else?

Yes. How can add mate's new brisk menu applet (https://github.com/solus-project/brisk-menu) to panel? I installed mate-applets. But it doesn't 

appear in applets window. Not sure why?

Also I am searching for help, there is just too many things for one developer who works only in free time. For example, gnome-applets are basically unmaintained... :(

Right. Most of them doesn't work properly. They look pretty bad as well.  Can we theme clock-applet with css?

With help I mean anything:

- Testing and reporting bugs.

- Writing patches. I will be happy even about small patches that fixes build warnings and/or simple deprecations. gnome-panel and gnome-applets are full of build warnings and deprecations...

- Money, either as bounty for fixing certain bugs or simply saying thank you. In case you want support me - https://www.paypal.me/muktupavels.

- Something else...

I will be happy to help. I will file bugs after bit more testing. Keep up the good work.

Thanks.