I agree with Scott. Clutter can be problematic. We should keep the two options if possible, but I think that the Cairo version should take priority, since we've tested it for a long time.
I'll be working on Slingshot in the following days, so feel free to assign me any bug :) On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Scott Ringwelski <sgrin...@mtu.edu> wrote: > Doesn't clutter NOT work on some older machines? Is this something to > worry about? > > Either way though, I find the current slingshot to be pretty bad anyways > (the middle part is transparent now for me, takes seconds to open), so we > need a dedicated developer for whichever option we choose. > > Scott > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org>wrote: > >> Hey Sergey, >> >> If we can get the critical bugs fixed and there's an active developer >> available to continue work, then I'm all for it. Last time I check though, >> the clutter branch had some serious issues with the window becoming larger >> than the screen. >> >> Either way, I don't think we can really move forward without a dedicated >> active developer willing to work on Slingshot. >> >> Best Regards, >> Daniel Foré >> >> El abr 12, 2012, a las 8:58 a.m., Сергей <shnat...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Those of us who test daily builds regularly probably remember xapantu's >> clutter-based Slingshot; it was merged to trunk branch and was available >> from daily PPA for a while, but then it was reverted to the old Cairo-based >> version because it introduced new bugs that made Slingshot hardly usable. >> However, it fixed a lot of older bugs too, and during the week or so during >> which the clutter branch was in trunk, most bugs closed by it were marked >> as fixed. Then it was reverted, but bugs were not. So now we have a bug >> tracker reflecting a state of a branch other than trunk. >> >> Moreover, the Cairo branch contained a lot of tricky bugs like character >> corruption and disappearing pages which aren't present in Clutter branch. I >> suppose it will be easier to fix up the Clutter branch for Luna than to >> hunt all those insects in the Cairo one. >> >> So I propose merging the Clutter-based branch back to trunk and building >> upon it for Luna. It would be nice to fix >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/slingshot/+bug/960374 beforehand, and >> probably remove the code which causes X error for now (I believe the >> attempt at low-level focus grabbing is malfunctioning). Other than that, it >> should be in no worse shape than the Cairo-based version by now. >> >> Also, there are some Slingshot fixes already which need review: >> https://code.launchpad.net/slingshot/+activereviews >> >> -- >> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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