Re: [Tails-dev] Camouflage: left to do

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Author: Alan
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Camouflage: left to do
Hi,

> Alan wrote (11 Jun 2014 22:24:26 GMT) :
> > I'm sorry but most of this polishing job consists of doing
> > unsupported things... so failed to find a cleaner way and doubt it
> > exists yet for most issues that were identified.
>
> Fully understood. I can feel your pain :/
>
> > I think the palm of the worse tweak is for notification-daemon. Its
> > systray icon uses a vaguely related themed icon with this comment:
> [...]
> > Pidgin taking its systray icons explicitly from the hicolor icon
> > theme (instead of the current theme) is quite interesting too:
>
> I guess that most such problems will affect us again and again, each
> time we have to upgrade the camouflage mode. So, I would find if very
> sound, if not done yet, to report bugs upstream about it.
>
> I'm assuming that a quick look at their latest code should be enough
> to make a rough guess about whether these bugs are still applicable.
> No need to go as far as reproducing bugs on sid or whatnot for such
> trivial matters.
>

Tracked as https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7404

> (I'm aware than notification-daemon has not exactly been very active
> upstream lately, but the MATE folks are apparently taking over more
> and more modules obsoleted by the Shell, dropping some of their own
> forks, and the cool thing is that they're doing in the GNOME
> repositories, so maybe notification-daemon will get fresh energy,
> some day.)
>

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7405 even though I hope we'll stop
depending in this old technology.

> > I could also blame the gpgApplet which doesn't use themable icons,
> > but that's us...
>
> ... even when we are upstream :)
>

https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7406. Please assign this one to you
if you feel in charge of gpgApplet maintenance.

Cheers