Bug#767055: gtk3.14 systray applets have awkward mouse click behaviour (was: Re: Bug#765964: mate-panel: Some notification menus hide on mouse up in notification area)

[Matt Horan]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 04:58:14AM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> I carried this around for another day or two and came to the conclusion,
> that this needs to be discussed with the libgtk-3 maintainers.
> 
> Obviously, there has been a change in how systray applets get handled
> (mouse-wise) in GTK3.14. This change results in two classes of system tray
> applets. From a usability point of view, we as Debian maintainers should
> avoid this.
> 
> Unfortunately, with the GNOMEv3 desktop shell, the systray applets have been
> squeezed into some non-usable widget thing (it could be accessed at the
> right-bottom part of the desktop with wheezy, not tested with jessie, so
> far) in favour of appindicator implementations.
> 
> However, libgtk-3 is not GNOMEv3, so I would love to work together on a fix
> that provides some legacy systray applet mouse behaviour for non-GNOME
> desktop shells (I guess LXDE, XFCE, etc. are also affected by this, so I
> have Cc:ed them).

As noted in #765964, an upstream fix is available in GTK3. Applying the
change [1] to Debian GTK source resolved the issue for me. It would be
great to see this fix in Jessie.

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=d9a433d

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Matt Horan matt at matthoran.com http://matthoran.com/
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