A PPA for the Unity2D fallback patch

[Shahar Or]

On 1 April 2012 18:03, Haggai Eran <haggai.eran at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 1 April 2012 17:46, Shahar Or <mightyiampresence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Firstly, it works. Great !
>>
>> Like I said in previous mail which you can ignore,
>>
>> Question #1: What will happen when there's no Unity 2D installed? I know
>> this isn't suppoed to happen in Ubuntu but it is possible to do and someone
>> might do it and should be able to do it.
>>
> In this case the user will see an error saying they are missing
> 'ubuntu-2d' session. This is similar to what will happen if the user
> doesn't have unity-2d installed, and the system doesn't pass the unity
> support test. Of course this shouldn't happen as the ubuntu-desktop package
> depends on the unity-2d package.
>
>
>
>>
>> Question #2: How do we allow a user to explicitly disable this fall back?
>>
> I should add an override to disable this script. Something like the
> UNITY_ALLOW_RTL variable we had in the previous patch.
>

>
>>
>> Do you think that this script won't break anything else in the X session?
>> Running 'dpkg -S /etc/X11/Xsession.d' shows packages that have scripts in
>> that directory. This would require a few more sets of eye balls.
>>
> I don't think this script will break anything, but it is true that it
> should be tested.
>

Dear Haggai,

So we're all eagerly waiting for the updated nux packages from you.

Thanks and Blessings,
Shahar


>
> Regards,
> Haggai
>
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