Comment 29 for bug 743265

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:51:48 -0000
Jacob Nevins <email address hidden> wrote:

> @Karl: I tried your 2.2.7 PPA freeciv-client-gtk package on my Natty
> live CD, and when launched from the start-menu-equivalent it correctly
> disabled the global menu, and the diplomacy UI was accessible. When
> launched as "freeciv" or "freeciv-gtk2" from the command-line, global
> menu was used; it looks like you used the .desktop fix, so that's
> expected. It otherwise seemed to work as far as I tested it (which
> wasn't very far).

Thats good to hear.

> However, it looks like the .desktop Unity workaround will be
> superseded by Michael's work.

Seems so, would have been good to know someone else was working on it;
could have spent the afternoon doing something else.

[...]

> However, it seems quite likely that we won't release another 2.2.x in
> the Oneiric timeframe, and any patch almost certainly won't go in
> 2.3.0 either (unless something else goes wrong with the RC). So it'll
> probably be necessary for you to apply the patch in your packaging.

We haven't released 2.2.7 in debian yet, if the patch that Michael
wrote applies cleanly to that we could include it.

> I'll make sure that clean patches against both 2.2.7 and 2.3.0 are
> available, so that you have the choice of which version to put in
> Oneiric. The patch can be removed for Predictable Penguin :)

hopefully 2.2.7 can still make it into oneiric by sync request, so let
me know if you'd like us to get it uploaded.
thanks,
kk

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