A PPA for the Unity2D fallback patch

[Shahar Or]

On 1 April 2012 22:25, Haggai Eran <haggai.eran at gmail.com> wrote:

> The new version is available in the PPA for testing.
>
>
Dear Haggai,

Excellent! It works and looks great.

I'm proposing a freeze exception. Watch the bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/963682

Thanks and Blessings,
Shahar

> Haggai
>
>
> On 1 April 2012 18:40, Shahar Or <mightyiampresence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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