Bug#768652: gnome-system-log: apparently lagging at version 3.9.90

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 02:29:28AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
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> Andreas, Emilio et al: thoughts?

gnome-system-log is suffering from severe bit-rot. I've tried to
rescue it from the worst fails I could see, but I'm not interested
in spending more time on it.

AFAIK gnome-logs is not a full replacement as it only reads from the
journal (and is a much better application from doing so).

IIRC gnome-system-log was still an official part of gnome core
(upstream) last I looked. We should probably have this discussion
together with upstream who probably also wants to drop gnome-system-log
from the official set.

I would personally recommend dropping gnome-system-log, but I'm not
going to touch this for reasons you might be able to guess.

By the way, someone should apply
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-logs/commit/?h=gnome-3-14&id=5b9c09aa12caa5fadd2fb0c54bfaa449f1e5791f
so that gnome-logs is actually launchable via the desktop file.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

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