[Sugar-devel] Fedora 22 destroys Gtk.Menu based palettes

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 00:34 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> Ouch.
> Too bad nobody reported this before.

Ouch, ouch,

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2015-February/002762.html

:)

Iain

> I remember a similar error fixed
> by b9d6b628a98fc17f5e92a344450b6336f1a2b2ce
> We don't want invest more time in the Gtk.Menu palettes,
> but would be great find a fix to ship Sugar in F22 on shape.
> 
> 
> Gonzalo
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi All,
>         
>         
>         As per usual, this new Gtk release breaks parts of sugar.
>         Interestingly it breaks the Gtk.Menu based palette system this
>         time!  (Lucky we were having a design discussion about this a
>         while ago)
>         
>         
>         So how does it break the Gtk.Menu palettes?
>         
>         
>         * They are now seizure inducing and change size when you move
>         your mouse.
>         
>         * They have lots of extra borders now
>         
>         * They always position downwards.  Even if that means the
>         palette will be just 100px tall - they go downwards
>         
>         * They don't position correctly to keep the connected look
>         between the frame buttons and the palette.
>         
>         
>         I have done a quick screen capture that demonstrates all of
>         these. [1]
>         
>         
>         So I not looked into what would be needed to solve this,
>         however, do we really want to invest more time in the Gtk.Menu
>         system?  From the previous design discussion ("Palette
>         Animations" thread), we could just use a modal.  I think that
>         that would be a much more simple solution to implement - but
>         might not go well with our release cycle.
>         
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Sam
>         
>         [1]  https://vid.me/hfx4
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gonzalo Odiard
> 
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning 
> 
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