On 28 September 2012 03:49, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > One topic for UDS, since GNOME is talking about dropping their code for > fallback to just use gnome-shell, we should make sure we stop relying on > that (it would also be good to stop relying on not so maintained code) > > Things I can see in that category: > - turn the "bluetooth indicator" (patch over fallback-session code from > upstream) to a proper indicator > - turn the "keyboard indicator" (the code we patch is going away in GNOME > 3.6) to a proper indicator > - deal with disk mounting in unity (we use the GNOME fallback-session code) > > (It would be good to have design input on the indicator before we start if > we are going to do that, if we rewrite them we can as well do it in a way > which improves the design)
Hi, this topic was discussed in Boston a few days ago. While a final decision hasn't been made, it does indeed sound like GNOME would like to kill the "fallback" session in 3.8 or 3.10. The GNOME developers may officially support a set of GNOME Shell extensions that bring back some of the GNOME2 feel (applications menu, places menu, alternative tab, etc.). Part of "killing" means that they plan to drop a lot of support code and change the remaining code to improve performance and reduce the maintenance burden. I expressed my concerns about how this would affect Unity and requested that they come up with a list of proposed changes by UDS at the end of this month. You can see specific examples by looking at the blocker bugs for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/682858 . I'm also worried that the list will be too long and the Ubuntu Desktop Team will decide to stick with gnome-control-center/gnome-settings-daemon 3.6 so that the work can be stretched out over two cycles. That may very well mean we would be stuck with GNOME Shell 3.6 too. I think this is a strong motivator to look into splitting off the Ubuntu control-center/settings-daemon early this cycle. Jeremy -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
