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[Scott Ringwelski <sgringwe@xxxxxxx>]

Doesn't clutter NOT work on some older machines? Is this something to worry
about?

Either way though, I find the current slingshot to be pretty bad anyways
(the middle part is transparent now for me, takes seconds to open), so we
need a dedicated developer for whichever option we choose.

Scott

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey Sergey,
>
> If we can get the critical bugs fixed and there's an active developer
> available to continue work, then I'm all for it. Last time I check though,
> the clutter branch had some serious issues with the window becoming larger
> than the screen.
>
> Either way, I don't think we can really move forward without a dedicated
> active developer willing to work on Slingshot.
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
>
> El abr 12, 2012, a las 8:58 a.m., Сергей <shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Those of us who test daily builds regularly probably remember xapantu's
> clutter-based Slingshot; it was merged to trunk branch and was available
> from daily PPA for a while, but then it was reverted to the old Cairo-based
> version because it introduced new bugs that made Slingshot hardly usable.
> However, it fixed a lot of older bugs too, and during the week or so during
> which the clutter branch was in trunk, most bugs closed by it were marked
> as fixed. Then it was reverted, but bugs were not. So now we have a bug
> tracker reflecting a state of a branch other than trunk.
>
> Moreover, the Cairo branch contained a lot of tricky bugs like character
> corruption and disappearing pages which aren't present in Clutter branch. I
> suppose it will be easier to fix up the Clutter branch for Luna than to
> hunt all those insects in the Cairo one.
>
> So I propose merging the Clutter-based branch back to trunk and building
> upon it for Luna. It would be nice to fix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/slingshot/+bug/960374 beforehand, and probably
> remove the code which causes X error for now (I believe the attempt at
> low-level focus grabbing is malfunctioning). Other than that, it should be
> in no worse shape than the Cairo-based version by now.
>
> Also, there are some Slingshot fixes already which need review:
> https://code.launchpad.net/slingshot/+activereviews
>
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