I'm currently working on packaging the Slab menu from suse (WIP at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199681) for fedora extras. One of its 'nifty' functionalities is 'Recently used applications'. To enable this functionality, they have developed 2 patches against gnome desktop, and gnome panel. Both patches can be viewed here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/slab/patch/ I was wondering if they could be included in fedora's gnome-{desktop,panel} packages so we can offer this functionality too. I do know their not the smalest of patches, and are relatively intrusive .. but if i don't try there's no chance of succeeding right? :-)
It might be hard given that test2 is already frozen. I'll add it to the Target tracker though and we'll see what happens.
I'd like to see this functionality upstream first.
Upstream is probably not going to happen anytime soon. Only the slab menu uses this particular recently used apps feature. Not the regular gnome menus. The current Fedora slab package in review has already patched it out and replaced it with "places" since the recently menu feature depends on panel patches too. We would achieve feature parity by doing this and monitor progress of upstream. This does mean deviating a bit from our policy of staying close to upstream but we have made exceptions. Prominently Xen in FC6.
There is a good case to be made from the usability perspective, something slab has been made for .. Favorites are apps you never want to forget how to get too, and recent are apps you use a lot .. from their 'better desktop' video's this seems to work very well in practise, so it is a great boost to the usability aspect of slab to have this functionality
> Only the slab menu uses this particular recently used apps feature. Sounds like a great argument to wait for upstream to vet these patches.
Yes, upstream probably can vet these patches and that might even be you but the question is just whether we are willing to carry these patches for a release or two meanwhile for us to provide the slab menu functionality properly. If not please close this request. Thanks.
well we missed the fc6 and fc7 feature freezes for this. I think I agree with Matthias. We should get the patches upstream. is there an upstream report?