Bug 8470

Summary:	Renovate the graphical UI
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin>
Component:	graphics	Assignee:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Alexandru Georgescu <alexandru.c.georgescu>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	alexandru.c.georgescu, jku, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	2.1 M2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Alexander Kanavin 2015-10-09 10:04:26 UTC

My thinking is that we can bring Sato up to date (so that it's using exclusively gtk3 and other modern libraries), or package gnome-shell, or even do both. The latter option requires gobject-introspection support.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2015-10-09 10:35:44 UTC

gnome-shell is pretty huge.  Porting Sato to GTK+3 would be bug 3169.

Comment 2 Jussi Kukkonen 2015-10-09 11:14:10 UTC

Yeah I had a look at gnome-shell the other week and unfortunately there seems to be a lot of stuff we wouldn't want that is pretty deeply integrated. I think fixing sato makes sense for now: obviously at some point the fact that our desktop doesn't work with wayland becomes a real problem but I guess we can postpone solving that for a while.

I think the g-i work is useful on it's own, FWIW.

Comment 3 Ross Burton 2015-10-15 14:38:50 UTC

Do we all agree that this is a duplicate of 3169?

Comment 4 Alexander Kanavin 2015-10-15 15:11:49 UTC

I agree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3169 ***

Comment 5 Alexandru Georgescu 2015-11-23 12:10:42 UTC

Verified as per above comments.