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[curtis martz <1879183@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ha, I know right? That would fit the pattern of decreased functionality
if the fix was just to disable the menu in Gnome too! saboteur style : )
Maybe they'll allow burning of blue ray data disks someday too? umm
er... sorry.

> On Oct 6, 2020, at 19:35, Brian Murray <1879183@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see this tested in an Ubuntu Gnome session to confirm that
> it does not regress there.
> 
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> Title:
>  Cheese  does not show preferences/options/menus to non-GNOME Users
> 
> Status in cheese package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in cheese source package in Focal:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in cheese package in Debian:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  [Impact] 
>  Cheese no longer displays its menu button on non-GNOME desktop environments.
>  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/62
> 
>  Xubuntu uses cheese as its default camera program. Advanced users can
>  still change these settings through dconf-editor, but this is neither
>  convenient nor intuitive.
> 
>  [Test Case]
> 
>  Use the cheese program in Xubuntu/xfce, Kubuntu/KDE or other non-GNOME
>  desktop environments. Notice missing menu in titlebar.
> 
>  [Regression Potential]
> 
>  The most likely regression would be if the patch disabled the menu in
>  GNOME. Testing has not shown this to be an issue.
> 
> 
>  [ORIGINAL REPORT]
>  Cheese has removed the GUI method of accessing preferences for non-GNOME users.
>  https://github.com/GNOME/cheese/commit/48882da6a6dc4fc1c19e15f5210c9e10feb67ff5#diff-b2b45275b16940829b5f6f068943108d
> 
>  I'm not sure if upstream cheese devs care enough to fix it:
>  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/62
>  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52
> 
>  Should Xubuntu default to a different camera program, such as
>  guvcview?
> 
>  (Partial?) WORKAROUND is to use dconf-editor:
>  dconf-editor /org/gnome/cheese
> 
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** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues #52
   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese/-/issues/52

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