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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> 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 : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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