Re: classic mode and wayland

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently GContinuous' smoketest-classic test often fails with:
> http://build.gnome.org/continuous/buildmaster/builds/2016/05/10/42/smoketest-classic/work-gnome-continuous-x86_64-runtime/journal.txt
>
> ```
> nautilus-classic.desktop: ** (nautilus-desktop:1030): WARNING **: Desktop icons only supported on X11. 
> Desktop not created
> gnome-session: gnome-session-binary[682]: WARNING: App 'nautilus-classic.desktop' respawning too quickly
> gnome-session-binary: WARNING: App 'nautilus-classic.desktop' respawning too quickly
> gnome-session-binary: Unrecoverable failure in required component nautilus-classic.desktop
> ```
>
> It seems like this started with:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746286
>
> But it's now a bit more fatal for reasons I haven't investigated.
>
> Is anyone looking at classic + Wayland?  I can just disable the test for now I guess,
> or perhaps we could consider a slightly-less-classic mode that just doesn't draw
> desktop icons?

Nobody is looking at it currently. So far, we've always said: classic
mode can just stay on X.

But we could certainly add a tiny bit of gtk-shell protocol for the
required functionality to let nautilus put a window at the bottom of
the stack.