Some notes from fallback mode

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:05:15 -0600, JC (Jonathan) wrote:

> > The old focus issue was due to a side-effect of a work-around for
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653061
> > which had caused Claws Mail to start minimized. That bug is still
> > not fixed in GNOME Shell, but we have switched to a different work-around.
> > That work-around only takes out a single line of code, so Claws Mail
> > does not even try to start minimized.
> > 
> > Filing a ticket would be a start. Please mention whether it is reproducible
> > with the previous Claws Mail 3.7.9 builds.
> 
> 3.7.9 never showed the problem - 

Let's not argue about that, please. 3.7.9-0.3.20110409cvs was the first to
suffer from focus problems, and 3.7.9-4 was the one to "fix" it.

> I ended up downgrading to that version
> after each attempt with 3.7.10.

> As of this morning, 3.7.10 is working just fine for me (modulo missing
> plugins), but remember: I'm currently stuck in fallback mode.  Until I can
> get back to a working gnome shell, I can't properly test claws in rawhide.

;-)

A working "mutter" that fixes the iconify/deiconify bug linked above
might be a start. Some of the behaviour of Claws Mail in GNOME Shell
I've observed while debugging a bit has been weird.

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