On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Rodrigo Moya <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > So, for next cycle, I would suggest a "small" goal of trying to do patch > upstreaming/cleaning days, maybe once a week or every 2 weeks.
Great idea :) > Also, some Ubuntu-specific patches, like the appindicators ones are > duplicated in lots of packages, so it would be good if we could find a > better way to make upstream apps use them, like, for instance, patching > gtk_status_icon_* in GTK itself to use the indicators when available, > instead of having to patch dozens of apps (and keep those patches > up-to-date and working for every major version upgrade). > Due to the complexity of keeping an UX that makes sense between using a standard menu and context menu, against having only one menu to use in indicators (to just name one constraint), I think it would be rather difficult to make patching GTK itself to handle indicators work properly.. and especially in a way that looks good. I certainly believe that indicator patches are upstreamable in many cases, and already know that Dan in open to including my indicator patch in nm-applet; I think we're getting close to that being completed too ;) Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
