Re: [Geary] Geary title bar on Ubuntu

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Khurshid,

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Khurshid Alam <khurshid alam linuxmail org> wrote:

Yes I can reproduce this with master under yakkety. Please bring back Unity-specific behaviour in master. Unity (or any compiz session) doesn't play well with gtk-headerbar app. For me,  couple of ugly bugs returned in 16.10.

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1478272

2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1570843

3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1387163

As a result it is almost impossible to use headerbar app under these compiz sessions. I can also reproduce crash under mate-compiz and flashback-compiz session as well.

And then there is also window resize issue.  Can't properly resize any headerbar app under unity (example gnome-calendar)

11.x series under 16.04 uses traditional titlebar and doesn't have these issues.

Geary is my primary mail client. And I do NOT want it to fall prey to another compiz bug.

Okay, well that's all pretty problematic. Can you please open a bug with these details so I can keep track getting it into 0.12: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=geary>

I'll look at getting some patches to avoid using CSD under Unity, unless someone wants to have a go at it. *nudge nudge*. Avoiding using a HeaderBar might be more invasive. A good place to start is where the workarounds were pulled out in 7b37e26, but there's been a bunch of changes since then and there is some stuff in there I'd rather not bring back.

//Mike

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