Bug 8470 - Renovate the graphical UI
Summary: Renovate the graphical UI
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 3169
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: graphics (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.1 M2
Assignee: Ross Burton
QA Contact: Alexandru Georgescu
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Reported: 2015-10-09 10:04 UTC by Alexander Kanavin
Modified: 2015-11-23 12:10 UTC (History)
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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.