xfce4-panel 4.7.x upload(ed) in natty
 

Hi there,

I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).

It provides many new features and bugfixes that should close most of the
existing issues (disappearing panels, no d'n'd, no randr 1.2 support).
However, a few ABI changes have been introduced, so existing panel
plugins have to be rebuilt to work with this new release. This will be
done in the next days (if you want to help on that, feel free to get in
touch with me and pick an item on [1]). However, if you have manually
compiled some plugins, you will have to rebuild them by yourself,
otherwise they will seem to have disappeared (and your
~/.xsession-errors will be full of warnings about that).

In the meantime, if your package manager in natty says that some
packages are "on hold", this is normal: it will prevent the panel
upgrade as long as one 'not-rebuilt-yet' plugin is installed and no
rebuilt version is available. If you decide nonetheless to force the
upgrade, it will probably propose you to uninstall all old plugins.
Obviously, if you decided not to wait, please don't file bugs about
uninstalled panel plugins.

You can use [1] to track progress (I try to keep it up-to-date), or the
weekly meetings' minutes ("technical" entry at [2]). I'll also send
another mail when it's safe to upgrade and file bugs again. ;)

Thanks!

Cheers,
Lionel


[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Natty/Xfce4.8
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings

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On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:26:42 +0100
Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
> be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).
>
> It provides many new features and bugfixes that should close most of the
> existing issues (disappearing panels, no d'n'd, no randr 1.2 support).
> However, a few ABI changes have been introduced, so existing panel
> plugins have to be rebuilt to work with this new release. This will be
> done in the next days (if you want to help on that, feel free to get in
> touch with me and pick an item on [1]). However, if you have manually
> compiled some plugins, you will have to rebuild them by yourself,
> otherwise they will seem to have disappeared (and your
> ~/.xsession-errors will be full of warnings about that).
>
> In the meantime, if your package manager in natty says that some
> packages are "on hold", this is normal: it will prevent the panel
> upgrade as long as one 'not-rebuilt-yet' plugin is installed and no
> rebuilt version is available. If you decide nonetheless to force the
> upgrade, it will probably propose you to uninstall all old plugins.
> Obviously, if you decided not to wait, please don't file bugs about
> uninstalled panel plugins.
>
> You can use [1] to track progress (I try to keep it up-to-date), or the
> weekly meetings' minutes ("technical" entry at [2]). I'll also send
> another mail when it's safe to upgrade and file bugs again. ;)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Lionel
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Natty/Xfce4.8
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings
>

Thank you very much for this update. As I am one of those running Natty
daily, I will be looking forward to this and all the plugins, too.

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thanks chuck!





































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Sent: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 10:43 am


Subject: Re: xfce4-panel 4.7.x upload(ed) in natty














On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:26:42 +0100


Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit@ubuntu.com> wrote:





> Hi there,


>


> I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably


> be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).


>


> It provides many new features and bugfixes that should close most of the


> existing issues (disappearing panels, no d'n'd, no randr 1.2 support).


> However, a few ABI changes have been introduced, so existing panel


> plugins have to be rebuilt to work with this new release. This will be


> done in the next days (if you want to help on that, feel free to get in


> touch with me and pick an item on [1]). However, if you have manually


> compiled some plugins, you will have to rebuild them by yourself,


> otherwise they will seem to have disappeared (and your


> ~/.xsession-errors will be full of warnings about that).


>


> In the meantime, if your package manager in natty says that some


> packages are "on hold", this is normal: it will prevent the panel


> upgrade as long as one 'not-rebuilt-yet' plugin is installed and no


> rebuilt version is available. If you decide nonetheless to force the


> upgrade, it will probably propose you to uninstall all old plugins.


> Obviously, if you decided not to wait, please don't file bugs about


> uninstalled panel plugins.


>


> You can use [1] to track progress (I try to keep it up-to-date), or the


> weekly meetings' minutes ("technical" entry at [2]). I'll also send


> another mail when it's safe to upgrade and file bugs again. ;)


>


> Thanks!


>


> Cheers,


> Lionel


>


>


> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Natty/Xfce4.8


> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings


>





Thank you very much for this update. As I am one of those running Natty


daily, I will be looking forward to this and all the plugins, too.





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xfce4-panel 4.7.x upload(ed) in natty
 

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
> be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).
>
> […]
>

Hi again,

I just rebuilt the last panel plugin working with xfce4-panel 4.7. Daily
images should be back tomorrow. It should now be "safe" again to
dist-upgrade in natty, and report bugs. ;)

However, I couldn't upload some plugins, because they won't work with
Xfce 4.8:
* xfce4-cddrive-plugin: it relies on the exo-mount executable, removed
from exo 0.5;
* xfce4-places-plugin: same, relies on exo-mount and thunar-vfs;
* xfce4-volstatus-icon: relies on exo-mount, thunar-vfs, and the
exo-hal-0.3 library, also dropped with exo 0.5.

The first one can probably work by replacing exo-mount with pmount (I
didn't check). The other ones need to be ported to GIO to work with Xfce
4.8, because one can't unmount with thunar-vfs/hal a volume mounted with
gio. Upstream developers don't have enough time currently, so anyone is
free to provide a patch. :P

I dropped yesterday xfce4-places-plugin from the default install until a
solution is found.

I'll remove these 3 plugins from natty on February 24th (Feature
Freeze[1]) if they haven't been ported at that time (this should give
enough time to people willing to "save" these plugins to work on them
;).

Best,
Lionel

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:38:23 +0100
Lionel Le Folgoc <mrpouit@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
> > be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).
> >
> > […]
> >
>
> Hi again,
>
> I just rebuilt the last panel plugin working with xfce4-panel 4.7. Daily
> images should be back tomorrow. It should now be "safe" again to
> dist-upgrade in natty, and report bugs. ;)
>
> However, I couldn't upload some plugins, because they won't work with
> Xfce 4.8:
> * xfce4-cddrive-plugin: it relies on the exo-mount executable, removed
> from exo 0.5;
> * xfce4-places-plugin: same, relies on exo-mount and thunar-vfs;
> * xfce4-volstatus-icon: relies on exo-mount, thunar-vfs, and the
> exo-hal-0.3 library, also dropped with exo 0.5.
>
> The first one can probably work by replacing exo-mount with pmount (I
> didn't check). The other ones need to be ported to GIO to work with Xfce
> 4.8, because one can't unmount with thunar-vfs/hal a volume mounted with
> gio. Upstream developers don't have enough time currently, so anyone is
> free to provide a patch. :P
>
> I dropped yesterday xfce4-places-plugin from the default install until a
> solution is found.
>
> I'll remove these 3 plugins from natty on February 24th (Feature
> Freeze[1]) if they haven't been ported at that time (this should give
> enough time to people willing to "save" these plugins to work on them
> ;).
>
> Best,
> Lionel
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
>

Thank you for all this work.

There is an application available that could replaces "-places-plugin"
called, appropriately enough, Thunar File Manager. Adding this to the
panel as a launcher allows access directly to thunar, with shortcuts on
the left. It doesn't allow complete functionality of Places, but it
works quite well.

Python still has the daily images broken for us, as of 2010-12-12.
Alternate images have been building, but even Ubuntu Desktop images are
on hold for python 2.7. Even though the alternate images are building,
they fail to install for Python 2.7 errors.

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xfce4-panel 4.7.x upload(ed) in natty
 

Hi,

On lauantai 04 joulukuu 2010, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
> I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably
> be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).

Btw. This reminded me of an Xubuntu panel configuration issue which was
present at least in latest LTS release and I was wondering whether something
has been done for it by now (AFAIK there's no bug on it[1])...

[1] I use myself Debian, I've just installed Xubuntu for an older relative
who encountered this issue and for whom I needed to help with it.


This happened when running out of memory by opening too many huge photos in
Gimp, and kernel OOM killed processes to recover. As a result, besides
Gimp, the top panel applications and places applets disappeared.

I think desktop had "save session" option enabled as when my relative
rebooted the machine he didn't get the applications or places applets back.


I think the default applets in Xubuntu panel should be such that user needs
to explicitly remove them, they shouldn't disappear just because they
happened to die.

(I'm pretty sure e.g. Gnome handles this fine. At least its problem earlier
was rather that it tries forever to restart dying desktop processes although
there isn't enough memory for them.)


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On 14 December 2010 20:59, Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:

Hi,



On lauantai 04 joulukuu 2010, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:

> I'm going to upload xfce4-panel 4.7.5 in natty (well, it will probably

> be already uploaded when you read this mail ;).



Btw. This reminded me of an Xubuntu panel configuration issue which was

present at least in latest LTS release and I was wondering whether something

has been done for it by now (AFAIK there's no bug on it[1])...



[1] I use myself Debian, I've just installed Xubuntu for an older relative

who encountered this issue and for whom I needed to help with it.





This happened when running out of memory by opening too many huge photos in

Gimp, and kernel OOM killed processes to recover. *As a result, besides

Gimp, the top panel applications and places applets disappeared.



I think desktop had "save session" option enabled as when my relative

rebooted the machine he didn't get the applications or places applets back.





I think the default applets in Xubuntu panel should be such that user needs

to explicitly remove them, they shouldn't disappear just because they

happened to die.



(I'm pretty sure e.g. Gnome handles this fine. *At least its problem earlier

was rather that it tries forever to restart dying desktop processes although

there isn't enough memory for them.)





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*Hi,

I would suggest a global "restore to Xubuntu defaults" option in the settings manager. This should restore the panels,startup processes, background etc... to* vanilla Xubuntu. Should be as easy as deleting the configuration files so that the default ones are used instead.


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Hi,

On keskiviikko 15 joulukuu 2010, Kaspar Kööp wrote:
> > This happened when running out of memory by opening too many huge
> > photos in Gimp, and kernel OOM killed processes to recover. As a
> > result, besides Gimp, the top panel applications and places applets
> > disappeared.
> >
> > I think desktop had "save session" option enabled as when my relative
> > rebooted the machine he didn't get the applications or places applets
> > back.
...
> I would suggest a global "restore to Xubuntu defaults" option in the
> settings manager. This should restore the panels,startup processes,
> background etc... to vanilla Xubuntu. Should be as easy as deleting the
> configuration files so that the default ones are used instead.

How user gets to Settings manager if Applications menu has disappeared?

(most users don't necessarily know that right click on desktop allows also
running applications)

And how users whose machine is set up by someone else, even knows about
Settings manager in general?


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On 15 December 2010 18:57, Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:

Hi,



On keskiviikko 15 joulukuu 2010, Kaspar Kööp wrote:

> > This happened when running out of memory by opening too many huge

> > photos in Gimp, and kernel OOM killed processes to recover. *As a

> > result, besides Gimp, the top panel applications and places applets

> > disappeared.

> >

> > I think desktop had "save session" option enabled as when my relative

> > rebooted the machine he didn't get the applications or places applets

> > back.

...

> I would suggest a global "restore to Xubuntu defaults" option in the

> settings manager. This should restore the panels,startup processes,

> background etc... to *vanilla Xubuntu. Should be as easy as deleting the

> configuration files so that the default ones are used instead.



How user gets to Settings manager if Applications menu has disappeared?



(most users don't necessarily know that right click on desktop allows also

running applications)



And how users whose machine is set up by someone else, even knows about

Settings manager in general?





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Hi Eero,

As you answered your own question, all I have to add in comment is that people using xfce usually know about the right-click menu. At least the people I know use it frequently. May be they tried it in accident, read it from the forums or got it from a guy with a pony tail. To be honest, I don't really care how they know this. It is the same thing with Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+FX etc. Should we make a default wallpaper with simple (and useful) key commands written on it? may be we should :)


All I'm saying is that I would really like to see that as an option. When people first get to play with xfce, I am quite sure they will look at the settings manager to try out different themes, wallpapers etc or fix their screen resolution, multiple monitor setup or whatever. If there was a BIG "set to default" button to reset all settings, people would see it and understand what it means. Later, when in trouble, they would just need to get to the settings manager to click on it. NOT ONLY in case of loosing the panels, but also when something else goes wrong. And when they have the panel, it would be easy to navigate to settings dialog.


I hope I made my point a little more clear. I understand if you have objections, but saying that all Xubuntu users are ignorant of the right-click menu is just factually wrong.

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Hi,

On torstai 16 joulukuu 2010, Kaspar Kööp wrote:
> All I'm saying is that I would really like to see that as an option. When
> people first get to play with xfce, I am quite sure they will look at the
> settings manager to try out different themes, wallpapers etc or fix their
> screen resolution, multiple monitor setup or whatever. If there was a BIG
> "set to default" button to reset all settings, people would see it and
> understand what it means.

While that is useful, I think it's for a different purpose. Settings and
processes are different things.

If crucial desktop processes terminate abnormally, they should be restarted,
instead of this new "setup" being saved as part of user's session...


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