Thanks Victor! Glad to see it get some love. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Victor Eduardo <victoredua...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 >> >> > -- Best Regards, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org
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