Re: source.unseenCount's strange behavior

[Thiago Bellini Ribeiro <hackedbellini gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> 2012/10/14 Thiago Bellini Ribeiro <hackedbellini gmail com>:
>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Giovanni Campagna
>> <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
>>> 2012/10/9 Thiago Bellini Ribeiro <hackedbellini gmail com>:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Giovanni Campagna
>>>> <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
>>>>> Ok after digging a bit, the problem is that .acknowledged is only set
>>>>> for notifications that are in the queue, but
>>>>> (notificationDaemon.js:564) resident notifications are not queued if
>>>>> the originating app is currently focused. A good fix, for which you
>>>>> can prepare a patch if you want, is to mark those notifications as
>>>>> immediately acknowledged, since that's the point.
>>>>> All other cases, including resident notifications for background apps
>>>>> (such as rhythmbox changing song), should be already covered.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to create a patch for this. Actually, I would love to
>>>> start contributing code to gnome, but I'm having a hard time with
>>>> jhbuild.
>>>>
>>>> I'm on Debian Testing and trying to run "jhbuild build gnome-shell"
>>>> always ends in a lot of dependency problems, since packages there tend
>>>> to be older than needed to build (specially on freeze). Even at the
>>>> beginning of 3.6's development, I never got gnome-shell to build.
>>>>
>>>> What should I do? I mean, what can I do to setup a working environment
>>>> for coding/testing/etc gnome's apps that works on Debian?
>>>
>>> If you're using the official modulesets, jhbuild sysdeps should
>>> install the necessary system packages (that are supposedly good enough
>>> on all modern distros), while everything else is built from scratch.
>>> Nothing should fail anymore for 3.6, although for core development you
>>> may want to switch to 3.8. Try jhbuild build --ignore-suggests
>>> gnome-shell, to skip anything you don't need.
>>> We don't have (yet) a SDK or anything like that for building
>>> applications, and in any case I don't think it would be inclusive
>>> enough for shell hacking.
>>
>> Great! Will try that!
>>
>> Just a little doubt: Taking a look at [1], it's not very clear that
>> those packages will be installed at my system or just for jhbuild (at
>> /opt/gnome).
>> I imagine that it's not going to install anything in my system,
>> possibly breaking other packages..am I right?
>
> jhbuild sysdeps will fetch system dependencies from the normal
> distribution channels (i.e. apt-get under debian), so the installation
> will be in /usr and you will be asked for root's password. For some
> system dependencies, if not found in the repositories it will download
> and build an upstream tarball (in which case the resulting binaries
> will be in /opt/gnome )

Great! :)

Thanks for the hints and everything.
Hope I can provide a patch for the issue soon!

>
> Giovanni



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