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[Victor Eduardo <victoreduardm@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Scott. Clutter can be problematic.

We should keep the two options if possible, but I think that the Cairo
version should take priority, since we've tested it for a long time.

I'll be working on Slingshot in the following days, so feel free to assign
me any bug :)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Scott Ringwelski <sgringwe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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