2 Apr
2014
2 Apr
'14
5:27 a.m.
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I was hoping I could fix the menu disappearing bug in kompmgr, but I
couldn't. After watching several users on R14 not know why their menus
were randomly not appearing and hard rebooting off their computers (the
logoff/reboot option is normally available from Kicker, which is a popup
menu), I realized that this was a significant usability issue that should
block the R14 release.
To avoid any
long discussions, how about the main dev team (myself,
Darrell, Slavek, and you) simply cast votes on this one-time override?
My vote: switch to compton-tde as the official compositor, but do not
disable or delete the kompmgr sources until the next release after R14.
Hi Tim,
I understand the reasons why you added compton-tde.
I am not an expert on compositors. From a release point of view, I would
prefer a more conservative approach, to avoid introducing potential new
bugs just a few months before a major release that could affect TDE
reviews in a negative way.
We should consider releasing v14.0.0 using kompmgr as the official
compositor, but keeping the compton-tde code in the repo and plan the
switch for v14.1.0, so we will have enough time to test compton throughly. Anyhow, if you think that compton-tde is stable enough
to be used as the
official compositor, I will second your thoughts and agree with its
inclusion, because you have already done a lot of work on it and because
it is going to take at least 3 months before v14.0.0 is ready, so there is
still time to fix eventual small problems. But if we start to see several
new issues, we should consider reverting to kompmgr for v14.0.0, as said
above.
Agreed.
On a side note, IMO between here and the v14.0.0
release date it would
perhaps be better to discuss all together in advance if we have other
major changes in mind.
Agreed again. I am just getting back into the swing of things here on the
TDE project (life is finally allowing this!) and didn't think twice about
the commit--all those years where TDE was primarily a one man show make it
hard to break old habits. ;-) My apologies for introducing confusion.
Tim
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