Dropping desktop-switcher from karmic
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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desktop-switcher (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
unr-meta (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Loïc Minier |
Bug Description
Hi
desktop-switcher has some nasty bugs in the karmic version and we'd like to drop it.
(Looking at:
https:/
should be enough to believe in this :-)
The architecture/design of desktop-switcher of trying to update the live configuration (GConf settings and others) makes it really fragile and error prone; desktop-switcher also takes some backups of gconf settings in ~/ and attempts to restore them, which creates more code pathes and potential problems. It's easy to end up in a completely broken setup with some minutes of playing.
desktop-switcher was intended to help hardy UNR users to disable clutter/opengl when their setup didn't support that nicely. Nowadays, we except these to just work, so it's kind of not required.
Finally, desktop-switcher duplicates the settings from ubuntu-
In karmic+1, we'd like to implement this feature by having an UNR session on the GDM screen along GNOME, that would be a much more solid and clean design. This would also solve the duplication.
So to sum up, we'd like to unseed desktpo-switcher in karmic's UNR and revisit this differently in lucid. We will still attempt to fix top issues if time and complexity of the fixes permit.
Thanks,
Changed in desktop-switcher (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
FFe, UIFe granted.