Re: Feature freeze break for libwnck and gnome-panel

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 14:43 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> This is a feature freeze break request for libwnck and gnome-panel.
> 
> The patches have been accepted by the module maintainers on condition of
> release team approval.
> 
> The first patch modifies the API of libwnck which Elijah says is not
> subject to the API freeze because it's a desktop module.  The
> modifications are the addition of a function.  If you do not call the
> function then the library continues to behave in exactly the same way as
> it used to.
> 
> The second patch modifies the wncklet applet

What is the wncklet applet?

>  in the panel to use the new
> functionality.  For the second patch, as per the comments in the bugs,
> approval is only being requested to enable the new functionality for
> pixmap backgrounds (not solid colour).  The functionality for solid
> colour will be added in 2.11.
> 
> The relevant bugs are:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167932 (libwnck)
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168117 (gnome-panel wncklet)
> 
> The change should not wait for the next development phase because it's
> nice eyecandy that people will like and it's the one missing piece out
> of all the work that went into making transparent panels look more
> reasonable for the release of 2.10.

Can you explain simply exactly what the user will see, or not see, with
this change? "Better transparency support" is not very informative.

> That being said, the changes are new functionality - and trivial at
> that.

Vincent seems to be suggesting a change to the patch. We'd like to know
that you have thoroughly tested the patch that you would actually apply,
so you'll need to upload the final patch.

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