[Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya at canonical.com> wrote:
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> So, for next cycle, I would suggest a "small" goal of trying to do patch
> upstreaming/cleaning days, maybe once a week or every 2 weeks.

Great idea :)

> Also, some Ubuntu-specific patches, like the appindicators ones are
> duplicated in lots of packages, so it would be good if we could find a
> better way to make upstream apps use them, like, for instance, patching
> gtk_status_icon_* in GTK itself to use the indicators when available,
> instead of having to patch dozens of apps (and keep those patches
> up-to-date and working for every major version upgrade).
>

Due to the complexity of keeping an UX that makes sense between using
a standard menu and context menu, against having only one menu to use
in indicators (to just name one constraint), I think it would be
rather difficult to make patching GTK itself to handle indicators work
properly.. and especially in a way that looks good.

I certainly believe that indicator patches are upstreamable in many
cases, and already know that Dan in open to including my indicator
patch in nm-applet; I think we're getting close to that being
completed too ;)

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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