[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

Mon Feb 25 01:57:33 CET 2013

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Sebastian wrote:
+
+>> Not to mention there is serious doubts the the 3.8.0 release
+>> will be good enough to work properly for all endusers when the
+>> fallback is dropped, so it would need atleast a update to 3.8.x
+>> as a followup later to provide something that actually works,
+>> wich comes back to lack of maintainers...
+>
+> I don't think Mageia providing GNOME 3.8 with the new classic mode made using 
+> extensions, rather than the old fall back mode, would cause loads of 
+> problems: http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-classic-not-classic-all/
+
+You are not making sense, those screenshots show that these gnome-shell 
+extensions can't replace gnome-panel. Also, software 3D rendering is slow, 
+you do not want to use it in a VM. However, we may be able to keep our 
+"GNOME Classic" session using gnome-panel 3.6.x even with gnome 3.8. This 
+would have to be tested, though. Do you even use it?
+
+Shouldn't we first fix totem, for example? It has 2 menu bars: "Videos" 
+and "Movie/Edit/...". Then, audio files stop playing after 1 second when 
+"visual effects" are enabled. 5.1 channel audio also doesn't work right, 
+but the same happens in parole (vlc and mplayer do proper downmixing).
+
+Finally, totem can't play WMA files because of ffmpeg 1.1. I have a fix 
+for that ready (update gstreamer1.0-libav to git HEAD) but maybe I need to 
+worry about gnome 3.8 instead. Such an update at this time should be done 
+properly: packaged and tested on the packager's machine first, and only 
+when it all works committed to svn and uploaded. But even then we will 
+likely find new problems that need to be fixed before release.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+