Re: [Notion-devel] [Notion-general] Notion 4

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 6:17 AM Dima Kogan <no...@di...> wrote:
> I just pushed packages targeting Debian/buster (the current stable) into
> Debian/experimental. They should now be percolating through the system,

Thanks!!

> Broadly, this seems to work. Some notes:
>
> In the debianization I have to tell the build to use the CPPFLAGS from
> the environment in addition to the CFLAGS from the environment. Can we
> update the notion build system to do that instead?

Sure! What changes did you make? Could you share the patch (or even PR)?

> I'm still building the notion-dev package, as we have for a very long
> time. The notion build system doesn't install any .h files, so the
> debianization is doing that. Is this thing useful? Any idea if it works?
> Any idea how to test it?

I suspect its purpose was to allow building 3rd-party modules. I think
that's pretty rare, and anyone building a 3rd-party module would probably
be able to just download the notion sources themselves, so I think it
is probably fine to drop this package.

> The older notion package contained these files, which are no longer
> being installed by the build system. Is this correct?
>
>     /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/notion.mo
>     /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/notion.mo
>     /usr/share/man/cs/man1/notion.1.gz
>     /usr/share/man/fi/man1/notion.1.gz
>     /usr/share/notion/welcome.cs.txt
>     /usr/share/notion/welcome.fi.txt

This is correct: these were introduced or substantially changed under
the Ion License.

> After installing the new package on my box, I could run notion, but it
> started up in some odd state where the look was different, and most (but
> not all) of my bindings didn't work anymore. No error messages.

That's weird.

> I'm not sure if it reverted to the default bindings or not; it didn't tell me.

Reverting to the 'old' bindings requires manual configuration, so that
is probably not it.

> I tried to hit META+/ (window key and the / key) since the migration page
> suggests this shows me the current bindings, but this did nothing. What
> is it supposed to do?

It is supposed to generate a keybindings documentation like
https://notionwm.net/notion4keys.html , except from your current
configuration, to a random directory in /tmp looking something like
"/tmp/notion.nZd2e/" and then open a browser to view it (with
run-mailcap).

This may not work if you have customized ioncore_misc.lua
or your keybindings in ~/.notion ? Any errors in Notion's output?

> As a test I then moved ~/.notion/default-session--0 and restarted
> notion. It came up with the correct keybindings this time, but the look
> was still broken. It is apparently loading the correct .lua file
> defining the look, but it doesn't work anymore.
> Can somebody please see why it's loading incorrectly? The title bars
> should be yellow, but in the new notion they're coming up black.

Perhaps you need to add the 'based_on' fields as documented in the
migration notes?


Kind regards,

Arnout