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[Jackson Doak <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can i please add that ppa:ubuntu-gnome-packaging/shell-3.16 will contain
all the extra parts needed to make the gnome shell work properly with GTK,
so if you're on ubuntu-gnome, it would help to have this installed

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While we continue to develop LXQt, please do some heavy testing on
> this new version of GTK3 which is likely to land in vivid. There's
> more on [PPA testing][] in the wiki.
>
> I point this out especially to the artwork team as it sounds like
> there are some bugs we may have to watch out for.
>
> [PPA testing]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPA_Testing
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Call for testing: GTK 3.15.4
> To: "ubuntu-quality@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ubuntu-quality@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Some good classic desktop fun and testing. Have at it if you've not played
> yet.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Call for testing: GTK 3.15.4
> Date:   Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:22:35 +0000
> From:   Iain Lane <laney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     ubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC:     lars.uebernickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> Desktop fans,
>
> We're thinking about having the released version of GTK3 in 15.04 be
> 3.16, which is the current in-development version to be released towards
> the end of March.
>
> This version contains lots of cool stuff
>
>   https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK+/Roadmap#line-58
>
> but the main motivation from our side is that it contains an
> implementation of overlay scrollbars that will allow us to remove our
> existing GTK module which is becoming harder and taking longer to
> maintain over time.
>
> Please test the versions I've just uploaded to the Ubuntu desktop PPA
>
>   ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa
>
> and let me know if you see any new bad behaviour not mentioned below or
> if you have any good reason we might not want to do this.
>
> Some known issues which we'll try to fix for the release:
>
>   - There's a black notification shown in the greeter
>   - Not all apps have overlay scrollbars (devhelp, gnome-terminal, ...)
>   - gnome-terminal shrinks to 1x1 sometimes (cherry-pick
>     07fe194eb60aa9ec2eacdafdb4ba6ac91a636f34, but we suspect this may be
>     incomplete)
>   - Overlay scrollbars aren't styled like ours were
>   - They hide completely when inactive, meaning that you don't know how
>     far you've scrolled
>
> Cheers,
>
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