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Utilities to configure the MATE desktop
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Add new capplets: system info #722

Closed zhuyaliang closed 1 year ago

zhuyaliang commented 1 year ago

Other desktops offer this feature, and we should also add it. I use the MATE desktop, but every time I display system information, I have to open the gnome-control-center info-overview

lukefromdc commented 1 year ago

Also note that the strings in ReplaceStrings can quickly become obsolete as new hardware is introduced, which could become a maintainance hassle. Most of this information can be extracted from the output of hwinfo though using that as a shell command called from inside the capplet could include some complex parsing. The popopen() call can do it, but this outputs to a FILE variable which then has to be read into a string, which requires knowing how many bytes to allocate as a buffer and so on. There's almost certainly a better to do that, I just don't know it yet.

zhuyaliang commented 1 year ago

@lukefromdcReplaceStrings come from gnome, and we can follow gnome to update the processor

all the text on the right side of the window (details for each item identified) was greyed ou

To distinguish between names and data, I used two colors

Will this warning appear under all themes? (mate-system-info:421033): Pango-WARNING **: 23:34:55.327: Leftover font scales

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

Will this warning appear under all themes? (mate-system-info:421033): Pango-WARNING **: 23:34:55.327: Leftover font scales

Yes, i get the warning with all our themes. Can we use marco windows-decoration please? Same like the other capplets from Mate.

zhuyaliang commented 1 year ago

@lukefromdc @raveit65 Warning removed

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

@zhuyaliang confirmed, the warning is gone. But the windows-decoration is a csd window which is wrong for Mate. The window should be a normal dialog window wich use metacity/marco decorations.

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

I found a commit where you removed the headerbar in mate-user-admin https://github.com/zhuyaliang/user-admin/commit/137086edb76d88605506020790a5f6e9a19e86fe

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

With last commit the decoration in X11 is fine. @zhuyaliang Can we have a minimize button?

Under wayland it doesn't display in the m-c-c window, same like many other from our capplets. mcc_mate-system-info_wayland For some reasons i can start it from common tasks and it has a csd decoration.

@lukefromdc Those capplets are not visible in mcc-window and menus under wayland.

@zhuyaliang Your recording tool does everything right under wayland. It displays in mcc and it has the correct decoration, ihmo. mcc_mate-screen_recording_wayland

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

Last change gives the best windows-decoration experience under wayland, ihmo.

zhuyaliang commented 1 year ago

@raveit65 Added minimize status button

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

minimize status button works fine in X11.

lukefromdc commented 1 year ago

All the capplets are displayed in wayland unconditionally if the compositor is invoked wirh dbus-launch

raveit65 commented 1 year ago

Indeed, with starting the session from konsole with dbus-lunch the capplets are there in menus and mcc. I am using a login-manager (gdm), better for switching beween user accounts. Honestly, i don't see any progress with wayland. How should a normal user use it without a login manager..... This is only experimental for freaks.

lukefromdc commented 1 year ago

Indeed, with starting the session from konsole with dbus-lunch the capplets are there in menus and mcc. I am using a login-manager (gdm), better for switching beween user accounts. Honestly, i don't see any progress with wayland. How should a normal user use it without a login manager..... This is only experimental for freaks.

Experimental right now. We need wayfire and/or another wlroots compositor to support looking for our .ini file to handle installing a session from a package manager. I have a simple one that works NOW from sddm with a couple scripts, but one of the three files has to be ~/.config/wayfire.ini to work. I will have to submit a feature request to wayfire for looking for session files in /etc

Real point to the wayland work is to be able to continue if distros start dropping x11: insurance. By that time we want our wayland support to be drop-in, ready to go.

lukefromdc commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1929

EDIT: turns out we can create a session for wayland by including wayfire -c /path/to/your/wayfire.ini in the startup script, which for a mate-wayfire session could work with the config file in into /etc/mate, the startup script in /usr/bin, and the .desktop file in /usr/share/wayland-sessions

I should have a session package ready to test in a couple of days based on this

lukefromdc commented 1 year ago

I now have a working, installable mate-wayland session, for now in my own repo at https://github.com/lukefromdc/mate-wayland-session