[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sato desktop upgrade (Gtk3 etc.)

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Jussi Kukkonen
<jussi.kukkonen at intel.com> wrote:
> Here's a snapshot of the Sato upgrade I've been working on (YOCTO
>  #3169). It's based on Ross' work from 2.5 years back. The bigger
> changes currently live as my forks of the upstream projects (gtk3
> branches of various projects at https://github.com/jku), and the
> patchset here modifies recipes to temporarily use those forks:
> this is intended to make testing and review possible but also
> means this is just an RFC: once the upstream changes are merged,
> I'll update this patchset.
>
>
> For those not familiar with it, the goal of the exercise is to
>  1. Bring Sato desktop closer to this decade (Don't depend on
>     ancient components, remove deprecated code)
>  2. Focus more on delivering an environment for validating and
>     testing oe-core, less on building a DE for mobile devices
>
>
> Major changes:
>  * Ports to GTK3: matchbox-desktop, matchbox-panel-2,
>    connman-gnome, sato-screenshot, xsettings-daemon
>  * GTK+ theme is Adwaita (upstream default)
>  * Matchbox WM theme modified to somewhat resemble Adwaita (boring
>    gray instead of in-your-face green)
>  * Matchbox panel is no longer drawn on top of application titlebars
>    because that fails badly with client side decorations. Instead
>    it's a thinner panel always on top of screen, like gnome2 panel.
>  * Custom GTK theme engine is dropped
> Here's a screenshot showing the panel and window decoration:
> http://imgur.com/noqptiu
>
>
> Regressions:
>  * on-screen keyboard: I've not looked very closely but I
>    believe this requires IM work for GTK3
>  * startup notification
>
>
> Questions:
>  * Schedule: this is for Yocto 2.1 in bugzilla (now M3) but got
>    delayed. it's a bigger change and isn't ready to merge
>    (as the upstream patches need review). Should I aim for next
>    release instead?
>  * How should we do review on this? The upstreams are mostly on
>    yoctoproject.org so I could send patches to some YP mailing list...
>    but testing many of the patches is impossible without the patches
>    for the other projects.
>  * Are the regressions listed above blockers?
>  * Anything I've missed? Theme design bikeshedding?

Is matchbox still the way to go? To test OE-Core maybe a custom GTK3
app might be better.

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