Blocking bugs for Xfce-oriented distros

[Nick Schermer]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Marek Kozlowski
<kozlowsm at mini.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
> On 01/30/11 22:25, Andreas Radke wrote:
>> Am Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:21:58 +0100
>> schrieb Marek Kozlowski <kozlowsm at mini.pw.edu.pl>:
>>
>>> Works under both Gentoo and Arch Linux (x86_64, 1440x900, 120 DPI).
>>> Unfortunately...
>>> I observe quite a strange behavior: the weather icon in the panel
>>> sometimes gets XXXL in size ;-) while sometimes it is displayed as a
>>> very small one. Cannot observe any regularity... Sometimes (quite
>>> often) it works fine.
>>> I suppose that there is some scaling change in the new lib...
>>
>> Same here in Arch. Sometimes the icon is small and temps are shown,
>> sometimes the icon is too big and no temp is shown. But this is only
>> one plugin and it is based on a git shot and a patch from the bug
>> tracker, it's not an official release. So I don't think it's a major
>> blocker. You should report it somewhere to the tracker anyway.
>
> Tested under x86 (both systems) and the same result. Fortunately: the
> 'xfce4-panel -r' usually helps. The problem of too large icon and no
> temperature occurs mostly during the first XFCE session after booting.
>
> I know it's only one plug-in but I find it very important: all people
> that use the XFCE I know are using it. Maybe cause we have quite
> changeable weather in Poland this year... ;-) It's only one quite simple
> plug-in so I hope that for experienced XFCE developers it requires a
> very little work to fix it. A very little effort and a lot of
> appreciation :-)

I'll take a look at this and directly port the plugin to 4.8 panel.
There is some new api in libxfce4panel the plugin will benefit from
with the icon size handling, there are more problems with that.

Nick