GNOME Classic & Flashback sessions

[kansasnoob]

Hat tip to Alberts

We may get a sensible menu back:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...l/+bug/1267787

I had an opportunity to raise the issue on the Ubuntu GNOME mailing list:

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntugn.../msg00403.html

Thanks Alberts.

[muktupavels]

Old menu should be back now.

[kansasnoob]

Old menu should be back now.

Looks great

Many, many thanks.

[Cavsfan]

Yeah I got in updates this morning. It's a huge improvement!

Thanks Alberts!

[kansasnoob]

@ Alberts,

Now that we're in the final stretch of the race toward Trusty final I decided to do some fine tuning to the Main Menu

Main Menu appears both in System Tools > Preferences and Accessories and I've tried opening it from both menu items with the same results.

You can open Main Menu but it displays the "old" menu - including Sundry and Utilities - and making changes have no effect at all on the menus

Do you want me to file a new bug report?

If so should I file against 'gnome-panel', 'gnome-session-flashback', or 'gnome-menus'?

[kansasnoob]

Well it's crunch time again

In order that others can follow what I'm doing I'll start posting a lot of "thinking out loud" stuff here. In this case I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Trusty final Beta and I want to record what happens when I install 'gnome-panel':

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
[sudo] password for lance: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  alacarte gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0 gnome-applets
  gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data
  gnome-media gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-session-flashback
  gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-gconf indicator-applet-complete
  libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0 libgoa-backend-1.0-1 libpanel-applet-4-0
  metacity notification-daemon
Suggested packages:
  tomboy gnome-netstatus-applet deskbar-applet cpufrequtils desktop-base
  gnome-themes-standard
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alacarte gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0 gnome-applets
  gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data
  gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
  gnome-session-flashback gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-gconf
  indicator-applet-complete libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0 libgoa-backend-1.0-1
  libpanel-applet-4-0 metacity notification-daemon
0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 117 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 50.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Stay tuned

Edit #1: First flashback w/metacity login looks good:

first_metacity_login.jpg

Edit #2: Flashback w/compiz is broken in many ways, but my focus is on the metacity session anyway. Someone else will have to deal with the complexities of compiz. Sorry but that's just the way it is

Edit #3: I know I'm going to want some additional packages and I'm going to list them one by one:

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
[sudo] password for lance: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dconf-editor
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dconf-editor dconf-tools
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 113 kB of archives.
After this operation, 528 kB of additional disk space will be used.

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gnome-shell-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gnome-shell-common
  gnome-tweak-tool
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,001 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,561 kB of additional disk space will be used.

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install indicator-applet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  indicator-applet
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 77.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,197 kB of additional disk space will be used.

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install shiki-colors-metacity-theme
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  shiki-colors-metacity-theme
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 266 kB of additional disk space will be used.

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install sensors-applet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  hddtemp libsensors-applet-plugin0
Suggested packages:
  ksensors
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hddtemp libsensors-applet-plugin0 sensors-applet
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 159 kB of archives.
After this operation, 898 kB of additional disk space will be used.

I'll probably want to install more but lets see what happens.

Edit #4: Moving the window management buttons to the right has not changed since my OP:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout :minimize,maximize,close

Edit #5: Applying the Shiki-Colors-Metacity theme is the same as Saucy:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme Shiki-Colors-Metacity

Edit #6: Disabling the overlay-scrollbars seems to still work the same:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

But I need to rinse-n-repeat because I think an additional option has been added?

Edit #7: I disabled the webapps:

gsettings set com.canonical.unity.webapps integration-allowed false

Edit #8: I used 'gnome-tweak-tool' to set the desktop to display mounted volumes:

gnome_tweak_desktop.png

And to set the key sequence for killing X:

gnome_tweak_typing.png

It can also be used for changing themes:

gnome_tweak_theme.png

But I had to use the CLI to restore the missing menu icons:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface menus-have-icons true

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface buttons-have-icons true

[muktupavels]

I did not understand.

Where are you getting Sundry and Utilities?

[kansasnoob]

I did not understand.

Where are you getting Sundry and Utilities?

Main Menu appears in two places:

main_menu_one.jpg

main_menu_two.jpg

And both display the same menu:

main_menu_display.jpg

And edits to the menu(s) do not work

[muktupavels]

This is because menu editor by default uses default applications.menu file.

Workaround to this is to open menu editor from terminal:

alacarte gnome-flashback-applications.menu

That way you will see correct menu, but there is probably other bug too. I was able to hide/show whole group (for example Accessories), but I was not able to hide applications.

[kansasnoob]

This is because menu editor by default uses default applications.menu file.

Workaround to this is to open menu editor from terminal:

alacarte gnome-flashback-applications.menu

That way you will see correct menu, but there is probably other bug too. I was able to hide/show whole group (for example Accessories), but I was not able to hide applications.

Let me know if I should file a bug report.

It's not a high priority