really? (AWN broken in F17)

[solo2101]

so i decided to give f17 a try... then I try to install AWN... and surprice...

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/piper...ry/161219.html

so this means that we will not have AWN on F17?
wow the gnome guys are taking everything from us......

[raveit65]

yes really,
i try to make a rebuild from source rpm.
first there is a missing dependency for libdesktop-agnostic-devel, python-desktop-agnostic and libdesktop-agnostic-bin.
but for them exits a build for fc17 at koji.
Compiling ends up in a vala error like the maintainer has described.

awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:98.18-98.52: warning: unhandled error `DBus.Error'
var conn = DBus.Bus.get (DBus.BusType.SESSION);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:105.7-105.37: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
panel.add_applet (desktop_file);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:109.7-109.31: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
panel.delete_applet (uid);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:116.14-116.61: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
return panel.docklet_request (min_size, shrink, expand);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:129.7-135.48: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:154.7-154.41: warning: unhandled error `GLib.Error'
panel.set_applet_flags (uid, flags);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:70.60-70.64: error: GVariant deserialization of type `GLib.Value' is not supported
public signal void property_changed (string prop_name, Value value);
^^^^^

** (valac:7238): CRITICAL **: vala_gvariant_module_get_basic_type_info: assertion `signature != NULL' failed
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:48.44-48.55: error: GVariant serialization of type `DBus.BusName' is not supported
public abstract uint inhibit_autohide (DBus.BusName sender,
^^^^^^^^^^^^

** (valac:7238): CRITICAL **: vala_gvariant_module_get_basic_type_info: assertion `signature != NULL' failed
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:57.36-57.47: error: GVariant serialization of type `DBus.BusName' is not supported
public abstract void set_glow (DBus.BusName sender,
^^^^^^^^^^^^

** (valac:7238): CRITICAL **: vala_gvariant_module_get_basic_type_info: assertion `signature != NULL' failed
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:48.44-48.55: error: GVariant deserialization of type `DBus.BusName' is not supported
public abstract uint inhibit_autohide (DBus.BusName sender,
^^^^^^^^^^^^

** (valac:7238): CRITICAL **: vala_gvariant_module_get_basic_type_info: assertion `signature != NULL' failed
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:57.36-57.47: error: GVariant deserialization of type `DBus.BusName' is not supported
public abstract void set_glow (DBus.BusName sender,
^^^^^^^^^^^^
awn-panel-dispatcher.vala:70.60-70.64: error: GVariant serialization of type `GLib.Value' is not supported
public signal void property_changed (string prop_name, Value value);
^^^^^
Compilation failed: 6 error(s), 6 warning(s)

For me it looks like that awn have to be adjusted to new glib and dbus versions.

[Dan]

Thread re-titled to something useful.

[raveit65]

........but the fc16 packages are working in fc17.
I've download them from koji and did a quick test in gnome and mate.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=249014
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=263653

....so it's no reason to kick them out from the repo.

[YeOK]

I don't think the issue here is Fedora's packagers. I think AWN is no longer actively developed, seems most of the original team are now busy with Unity. I have been looking for a dock replacement, so far I have yet to find one, though I suspect a Gnome-Shell extension will provide a solution in time.

[solo2101]

Originally Posted by YeOK

I think AWN is no longer actively developed

well i dont think there to much to add, of course it can always be improved... but I feel its working fine the way it is...

i tried to compiled from source but... like raveit65 mention... to many broken things

---------- Post added at 01:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Dan

Thread re-titled to something useful.

Oops... sorry... I will have that in mind next time...

---------- Post added at 01:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:47 PM ----------

well one good thing about F17 is that i didnt have to install the broadcom (BCM4313) drivers after a installation, the device was working out of the box... that is nice...

[AdamW]

yeOK is correct. This has little to do with Fedora and nothing at all to do with GNOME; it's simply that upstream AWN development is slow or dead.