This page is for tracking items that are currently on my to-do list. Primarily, this is about tracking issues that are blocking proper support for a complete Pantheon desktop environment on fedora, but general bugs I have found are also listed here.

Desktop Components

Session / Screen Locking

There is currently no support for locking the screen from a Pantheon session when it is started from GDM. Since the preferred screen locker for Pantheon (light-locker) explicitly only supports LightDM as display manager, this is unlikely to change soon (RHBZ#1644858).

However, upstream developers are aware of the issues with light-locker and are looking into implementing a screen saver in gala itself (#716).

Gala

While gala now does compile against all versions of mutter that are available on stable releases of fedora, there are still some crashes to be resolved (tracked in #634) before I can switch gala to build against the default version of mutter instead of the compatibility package for the 3.28 branch that I’ve been maintaining for some fedora releases now.

Additionally, the 3.36 branch of mutter introduces new API changes (primarily the removal of the deprecated ClutterTexture), which gala, greeter, and wingpanel still need to be adapted to (#659).

Greeter

There’s a Pull Request (#377) pending for greeter which would also allow it to be built against all stable mutter versions, but – just like with gala – there are still some issues to be resolved with the new support before I can switch to it by default. It also still uses the deprecated API that will be gone from the 3.36 branch of mutter.

Captive Portal Assistant

The fedora package linter made me aware of a possible security issue in this package’s NetworkManager’s dispatch script:

  • Insecure $PATH elements being set by 90captive_portal_test script (#39).

Contractor

The contractor project seems to need some love, some of the issues I reported would be really easy to fix:

  • The DBus service uses the wrong RDNN (#30).

Applications

Camera

  • Camera uses a non-standard icon for the application launcher, which leads to some issues (#32).

Code

  • Opening a previously closed file from the side bar is impossible without opening another file first (#563).

Mail

There hasn’t been a stable release of the completely rewritten Mail yet, and the last release still depends on the retired version of the WebKitGTK+ library (#8).

Videos

  • Videos uses a non-standard icon for the application launcher, which leads to some issues (#23).

Switchboard

Locale plug

This plug plain doesn’t work on fedora at all, probably due to differences in language setting setups on fedora and ubuntu.

  • The current language, region, and format aren’t determined correctly (#76).
  • No backends other than APT are supported for installing language packs (#37).
  • The build system also has inconsistencies with how other switchboard plugs are built, which leads to weird file names (#75).

User Accounts plug

This plug currently doesn’t seem to work right on fedora at all. It looks like it relies on some ubuntu-specific things regarding user creation and management.

  • Newly created users can’t be enabled from the GUI (#92).