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

[Sam Parkinson]

Hi Iain,

Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for reporting that and sorry for not fixing it then.

I (personally) have now subscribed to the SoaS ML and will attempt to switch to Fedora's randwhile branch.

Hopefully through improving communications we as a community can fix the regressions before the next SoaS release!

Thanks,
Sam

> :)
>
> 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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