xfce4-panel: why the change in d&d icon?

Andrzej ndrw.xf at kurumi.co.uk
Sun Oct 30 00:33:23 CEST 2016


On 29/10/16 22:41, Olivier Brunel wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, that change is to prevent out-of-process plugins
>> (like Whisker Menu) from becoming black squares in that exact
>> scenario (drag & drop with no sort order). I think the comment was
>> supposed to reference bug 10656 as that is where the patch came from.
>
> Thanks, yes bug 10656 seems indeed to be the right one.
>
> However, this patch isn't a fix at all, only a "workaround" at best to
> hide things, all the while "breaking" other things, since losing labels
> during d&d is - IMHO - a bad thing.

I encourage you to try and fix this issue. If you can come up with a 
working patch I will be happy to push it to the repo.

We will keep this issue in mind when porting the panel to newer gtk 
versions - if that solves the whisker menu problem we will re-enable 
this feature.

Thanks,
Andrzej


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