File previews (sushi) is broken on Wayland

[Elad Alfassa]

Hi all,

I just wanted to bring this bug to your attention:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295031

The tl;dr is that file previews in nautilius (aka sushi) will not work on
Wayland, and thus will be broken by default in F25.

We have two options going forward, we can either do one of those, or both:

1) We can patch sushi in Fedora to use the X11 backend (and thus XWayland),
as suggested in one of the upstream bugs. I'm not sure if this will work
since I don't have time to test this at the moment, but it might "fix" the
problem, at least in the short term.

2) We can remove sushi from our default installation. Shipping something
that will just crash when used with our defaults (ie. Wayland) doesn't make
much sense and it's probably violating our final release criteria that says
default applications must work as expected.

I hope I'll have time to test if "solution" #1 works soon and report the
result.

Anyway, I think the WG should decide what will happen to this package.

[Michael Catanzaro]

libgnomekbd is broken too:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768113

On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 21:39 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> I hope I'll have time to test if "solution" #1 works soon and report
> the
> result.
>
> Anyway, I think the WG should decide what will happen to this
> package.

Matthias just fixed it. Thanks Matthias!

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Michael Catanzaro 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 21:39 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > I hope I'll have time to test if "solution" #1 works soon and report
> > the
> > result.
> >
> > Anyway, I think the WG should decide what will happen to this
> > package.
>
> Matthias just fixed it. Thanks Matthias!

You're right. I've should have checked myself instead of relying on info in
bug reports!

Sorry for the noise.

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Elad Alfassa 
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Michael Catanzaro 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 21:39 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > > I hope I'll have time to test if "solution" #1 works soon and report
> > > the
> > > result.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I think the WG should decide what will happen to this
> > > package.
> >
> > Matthias just fixed it. Thanks Matthias!
>
> You're right. I've should have checked myself instead of relying on info
> in bug reports!
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> -Elad.

Sorry for the noise again, but, nope, I was wrong this time, it's not
working.

It doesn't crash, it just shows an empty window instead. My laptop was not
running wayland (even though I clicked "GNOME on Wayland"! I had to log out
a second time and click it again and this time it worked) when I tested.

I made sure I'm running wayland now, and I can see that it's not working.

So yeah, sushi is still not working, and my original email still stands.
The git log indicates that the change Matthias made is not enough to make
it work, it's right there in the commit message.