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[Archisman Panigrahi <1879183@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel, the reason I asked you to make a separate PPA is that, your PPA
says "Random experiments. Use at own risk.", which might discourage
people to try out the patched version of Cheese.

It should instead say something like "This PPA provides a version of
Cheese with this patch(link), which enables user to use preferences in
non-GNOME DEs, and it is a workaround for all these bugs(links). For
more details see https://askubuntu.com/q/1133058/124466 ", so that
affected users would want to try it out, without fearing to severely
break the system.

This bug is absent in Ubuntu 18.04 (it looks like the person who asked
this question in Ask Ubuntu manually installed 3.32 in Bionic and got
this error. I can access preferences in Cheese 3.28 in Bionic).

However, this bug is also present in Debian Buster (Cheese 3.31) (see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52 ). I made this PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~apandada1/+archive/ubuntu/cheese-headerbar-
buster) for Debian Buster by applying the same patch, and someone
confirmed that it works
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52#note_913663). I
checked that PPA package also works in Bionic with KDE.

I can't say whether/when GNOME devs will accept this patch upstream, as
this bug report ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52 )
was closed because the devs could not reproduce it in GNOME (the fact
is, it does not affect GNOME, but affects every other DE. The patch has
been proposed in GitLab a month ago, but so far no developer of Cheese
made a comment on it in GitLab. I fear they might ignore the patch
because the bug does not affect GNOME.).

If someone knows how to do so, please backport this patch to Ubuntu
20.04, without waiting for upstream to include it (multiple people have
already confirmed that the bug exists, and the patch fixes it). If
possible, also submit the patch to Debian. (I don't know how to submit
patches to official packages in Ubuntu/Debian, otherwise I would be
happy to take the initiative).

Related Debian Bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949297

** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues #52
   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #949297
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949297

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  Cheese  does not show preferences/options/menus to non-GNOME Users

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