Re: [Radiotray-devel] Different desktop environments status

[Ed B. <ed....@gm...>]

Sounds reasonable.

Can we when installing look at the rev being replaced and if needed
flip that value on?


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Carlos Ribeiro
<car...@gm...> wrote:
> Hmm, nice suggestion. I would make just the following change: instead of a
> version number, it may be just a boolean to display or not a dialog.
> However, by adding a command-line parameter to override that boolean option,
> the user can later display it again. That way, the user can safely choose
> whatever option and later change it if it doesn't work.
>
> What do you think ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos Ribeiro
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Ed Bruck <ed....@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Would adding a version number to the config help at all?  If it's not
>> there then display a preference dialog on first run. If
>> it's lower than the revision running then also display a preference
>> dialog on first run.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Carlos Ribeiro
>> <car...@gm...> wrote:
>> > Trying the newly created mailing list!
>> >
>> > So, prior to release 0.6.4, here's the status around radio tray and
>> > Ubuntu,
>> > Gnome3, etc
>> >
>> > Ubuntu Unity
>> >
>> > It doesn't work out of the box, because radio tray's default mode is
>> > system
>> > tray and it's not available for radio tray.
>> > Solution for 0.6.4: change the default configuration to app indicator.
>> >
>> > In the case of radio tray update, the previous solution doesn't work
>> > because
>> > the user's configuration file is not overwritten.
>> > The solution is to manually change the user configuration or whitelist
>> > radio
>> > tray in the system tray (guides are available on the net). This has to
>> > be
>> > done manually by the user, so a simple guide needs to be provided (maybe
>> > in
>> > the website, or inside the package itself, etc).
>> >
>> >
>> > Ubuntu Classic
>> >
>> > Works perfectly out of the box with the system tray version. However,
>> > the
>> > default will probably be app indicator because of Unity.
>> >
>> >
>> > Kubuntu 11.04
>> >
>> > As reported and tested, it doesn't work. The reason is still unknown and
>> > it
>> > would be important to investigate how well it works on other kde
>> > systems.
>> >
>> >
>> > Gnome 3
>> >
>> > Untested, but the whole system tray is deprecated. However, for the time
>> > being, I think (but not sure) that the system tray wasn't actually
>> > removed
>> > yet.
>> > Solution: none for now, but research needs to be done to figure out how
>> > to
>> > make a decent gui with the new APIs.
>> >
>> >
>> > Conclusion
>> > Fortunately the new plugin branch already has some gui code separation.
>> > So,
>> > in the future, making a new version for Gnome3 should be possible
>> > alongside
>> > the others.
>> >
>> > Because of all this mess, we desperately need a preferences dialog to
>> > make
>> > this changes easier for the user. If we make a preferences dialog we can
>> > dump the current configuration for system tray/appindicator modes and
>> > make
>> > app indicator the default (this would solve the issue with radio tray
>> > updates in unity). And if the user wants to use the system tray version,
>> > he
>> > can easily change it. Care needs to be taken though: if we select a mode
>> > that is invalid for that system, that change needs to be reverted
>> > somehow.
>> > It would be better if we could detect if the system tray is available,
>> > but
>> > I'm not sure if that's possible.
>> >
>> >
>> > Any other ideas ?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Carlos Ribeiro
>> >
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