Hello! I would like to ask for some help what to do with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324881 I've been pondering it for some time, but I know too little to know what to do. It's about the old amusement xpenguins. (A program showing small penguins walking on the windows and jumping between them.) As can be seen in the bug report, it doesn't show anything in e.g. Gnome. From what I understand this is because Gnome doesn't show the actual X root window. It has a second window covering the entire screen as background, and this window hides all the penguins. A first question is if this is indeed correct? If so, could anyone describe it in more technically correct terms. I would like to write a warning about the issue in the description of the package. To handle the issue, I've considered to blacklist environments that do something like the above in the desktop file with a line "NotShowIn=GNOME;..." for Gnome and other environments doing something like this. (I fear that it would mean most modern environments.) Even better would be if there were some way to dynamically check if the "real root window" was available. But I'm not aware of any way to test that, nor any way to let the desktop file use that information if I had it. But a problem is that "NotShowIn=GNOME;" doesn't seem to have any effect in the current Gnome version. There is no menu to exclude xpenguins from, and when I try it seems just as available regardless of that setting. As you may have guessed I'm not a regular Gnome user, but that is what I see when I test it. So a second question is if anyone has any advice on how to best handle this? How to best make sure Gnome users don't get fooled to use a program that do not work in their environment. Any advice on the subject would be appreciated! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
