Bug 371161
| Summary: | metacity-firefox-workaround-2.patch breaks pidgin behaviour | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adrian Reber <adrian> |
| Component: | metacity | Assignee: | Colin Walters <walters> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | deryni, walters, yaneti |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482354 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-07-14 18:25:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Adrian Reber
2007-11-08 13:53:02 UTC
I confirm this behaviour and also think this is a regression. Same thing with liferea and its behavior on clicking the notification icon. CCing Colin, who did that patch What's happening here is that the Pidgin buddy list feels very similar to a menu popup, but is actually implemented as a regular window. Pidgin seems to be one of the few applications where the application relied on the behavior of gtk_window_present() bringing windows to the current workspace. On Compiz it seems to have the same behavior, which is interesting, because before Compiz and Metacity differed on the gtk_window_present(), so there must be some Pidgin-specific differentiation occuring somehow. Anyways, since the Firefox patch was removed before Fedora 8, there isn't much point to having this patch in Fedora 8 either. I will remove it and add an update. We will figure out how to fix Firefox and Metacity together for Fedora 9, and update them in sync. This sounds like pidgin is trying to use _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW as a hack to simulate "launching" the buddy window? It could just launch it and then we know to move it to the right workspace... For the record pidgin has no policy decisions on what should or shouldn't happen when the use clicks the tray icon. All pidgin wants is that the buddy list window be presented to the user as such using gtk_window_present is the correct thing for us to be doing. Any policy decisions on what that means for pidgin are squarely in the realm of the window manager, desktop environment, and user preference. So again, pidgin itself relies on no specific behaviour out of gtk_window_present other than that of 'presenting the window to the user'. Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 9. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '9'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 9's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 9 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |