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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Victor! Glad to see it get some love.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Victor Eduardo <victoreduardm@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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