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 -- Matt Horan m...@matthoran.com http://matthoran.com/
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