The GNOME release-team met yesterday and reviewed the blocker reports in GNOME Bugzilla by splitting them into “must-fix”, “should-fix” and “nice-to-have” categories. These are the results.
17 Blocker issues
Data taken from Bugzilla (bug reports with GNOME Target field set).
- caribou: Make it run on GNOME 3
- cheese: Cheese requires clutter-gtk-0.10 but latest is 1.0
- cheese: GTK 3 porting
- cheese: Make cheese widget work again
- gnome-control-center: add and remove printers
- gnome-control-center: datetime: Missing artwork
- gnome-panel: Minimize differences between 3.0 panel and gnome-shell
- gnome-session: avoid being locked into fallback by session saving
- gnome-shell: Experimental network manager applet
- gnome-shell: font size setting is ignored
- gnome-shell: Doesn’t suspend when in overview mode
- gnome-shell: Chat scrollbar needs to move to the bottom when new messages are received
- gnome-themes-standard: Toolbar doesn’t follow gtk 3 theme
- libgnomekbd: layout indicator issues
- metacity: Disable control-alt-d “”show desktop”” shortcut for GNOME 3
- metacity: sync window decoration style with mutter
- pygobject: Handle functions that take string+len args
26 Important issues that should get fixed for 3.0, however won’t block the 3.0 release.
Data taken from Bugzilla (bug reports with “[gnome3-important]” whiteboard entry).
- cheese: Cheese is not able to do live theora encoding
- empathy: Don’t use a status icon if the notification server supports persistence
- epiphany: Revamp download management UI
- evince: remove NoDisplay=true
- gdm: GNOME foot icon at login is lowres
- gnome-control-center: (Re-)Add checkbox for disable touchpad
- gnome-control-center: shell resizing issue
- gnome-icon-theme: Some icons missing in larger sizes (256×256)
- gnome-icon-theme: some rtl variants needed
- gnome-keyring: Password prompts don’t show up with an app name in GNOME 3
- gnome-panel: Port to GSettings
- gnome-screensaver: top bar != shell top bar
- gnome-session: remove SM crap for 3.0
- gnome-session: gnome-session-is-accelerated too slow
- gnome-shell: Calendar: UTC/localtime mixup
- gtk+: tabs not displayed correctly when they fill the screen
- gtk+: [gnome-terminal] When using theme colors,white-on-white text
- gtk+: [Tracker] Missing accessor functions
- gtk+: No way to programmatically update visual state of a button
- libgnomekbd: keyboard layout preview window issues
- metacity: Improve keybindings and descriptions
- metacity: Migrate to GSettings
- mutter: a11y: visual alert only works per-window, not screen
- orca: Migrate to GSettings
- orca: Make the gconf dependency optional
- pygtk: Remove deprecated GTK+ symbols
