[Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:12 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya at canonical.com> wrote:
> > >> How would this affect application authors, would they need to go update again?
> > >>
> > > what do you mean?
> > 
> > Basically do we have to go from app to app adjusting them again or is
> > this a change we can do in one place?
> > 
> well, the proposal I've made is to patch gtk_status_icon_* API in GTK,
> so that we don't have to patch any app at all, as they would be already
> be using the GTK API. So this means no more indicator patches. So yes,
> it would be a change in one place + the removal of all the appindicator
> patches in our packages

That doesn't really work because we add explicit menu support which
GtkStatusIcon doesn't have.  Most applications just respond to the
signals and then build the menu.  So we'd have to add API to
GtkStatusIcon and then have patches to the individual applications to
support that API.

		--Ted

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