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[Didier Roche <didier.roche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 16/02/2013 07:37, Timo Aaltonen a écrit :
> On 11.02.2013 17:58, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> > On 02/06/2013 01:41 AM, Didier Roche wrote:
> > > Le 05/02/2013 20:18, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
> > > > Hi Didier,
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to make sure we have a closed loop on this issue.
> > > >
> > > > As per UDS plans we're looking to update to xserver 1.14. One of the
> > > > changes is that our pointer barriers work is now included upstream, so
> > > > we can drop the ubuntu PB patch.  However, the upstream version is
> > > > slightly different from what we had before, and so some changes 
> > > > will be
> > > > needed to Unity in order to work with it.
> > > >
> > > > We can provide snapshot builds of the xserver 1.14 pre-release in a 
> > > > PPA,
> > > > but do you know of someone on the Unity side of things who would 
> > > > work on
> > > > adding support for 1.14 style barriers?  Do you have an escalation 
> > > > path
> > > > for key issues like this?
> > >
> > > Hey Bryce,
> > > Argh, we just had our catchup meeting with the Unity team yesterday, 
> > > missed by this >< ! ;)
> > >
> > > So, the unity 13.04 team is really small (3 persons), and we didn't 
> > > plan for that, but let's see (adding Thomas and
> > > Stephen in CC) if they can find some resources so that we can update 
> > > to the new xserver 1.14 and ensuring we can work
> > > with the latest version of pointer barriers.
> > >
> > > Thomas, Stephen, if the Xorg team is providing a ppa with the new 
> > > pieces, do you think we can sneak on the schedule to
> > > dedicate some time to be able to work with the last xserver we are 
> > > going to ship in ubuntu? AFAIK (last time I looked at
> > > this part of the code, last year) the barrier code is pretty trivial 
> > > on the unity side, so it shouldn't take an awful
> > > period of time.
> >
> > Brandon Schaefer of the Unity maintenance team will be working on 
> > this.  I've forwarded the current information to him,
> > please make sure he gets included in ongoing updates.
>
> I did a quick hack to enable testing the new stack with unity, and it 
> works fine except for the indicators which do not show up on the 
> panel, and nothing alarming on .xsession-errors either. I removed 
> support for barrier events and pushed it to canonical-x/staging, 
> here's the diff:
>
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/131298695/unity_6.12.0daily13.02.08-0ubuntu1_6.12.0daily13.02.08-0ubuntu1.1.diff.gz 
>
>
> maybe I'm missing something, but can't see why that would break the 
> indicators? There was an update to lib*indicator, but reverting to old 
> versions didn't help.
You needed to rebuild unity with the fixed indicators, that's maybe what 
you did miss ;)

> Would be nice to get official support for the new code soon :) 
> Planning what to do for 12.04.3 is going to be fun in any case..

Excellent! Stephen, Kevin, may Brandon have a look at it so that we can 
coordinate the Xorg upload

Thanks,
Didier