FS#52456 - [terminator] Upgrade 1.0 -> 1.90 breaks layout loading

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Aleksei (yupi) - Monday, 09 January 2017, 14:09 GMT
Last edited by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 02:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Terminator 1.90 seems to be a pre-release.
In particular, it breaks layout loading,
see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1655027

I am not sure what to do about it except for raising the heat on that launchpad bug.
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Closed by  Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 02:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Monday, 09 January 2017, 16:01 GMT
Even though 1.90 is a (pre-)release as they themselves put it[0], terminator 1.0 won't accept any bug reports[1] and development is taking place on the GTK3 branch only, unfortunately.

I made a conscious decision of pushing 1.90, even though I knew some things would break, but we can at least create bug reports for it upstream. I will try to replicate your bug and will search for duplicates upstream.

[0] https://launchpad.net/terminator/+announcement/14358
[1] https://launchpad.net/terminator/+announcement/14357
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 13:02 GMT
I was able to replicate it. Commented on upstream bug report and linked it back here also.
Comment by Aleksei (yupi) - Monday, 16 January 2017, 12:18 GMT
It seems that the upstream fix may take a long time.

In the presence of a nice GTK3 alternative, terminix, which seems much healthier and can do almost everything terminator can (except transparency) plus has a working layout saving/loading (terminator's layout saving is a pain too), this bug might be killing terminator's usage in archlinux (maybe not, but at least I use it primarily for saved layouts).

Is it possible/worth it to globally downgrade package version? Or should there be a terminator1 (or, e.g., terminator-gtk2) release (maybe in aur)? What do you think?

Sure, one can use the downgrade package meanwhile, but it's not that clean a solution.
Comment by Louis Tim Larsen (louis) - Wednesday, 01 February 2017, 14:17 GMT
Many issues for the GTK3 branch of Terminator have already been fixed upstream like lack of transparency and grey area around the red topbar.

I recommend updating the package to the latest branch (r1687 in writing). Forks missing features from the gtk2 branch of Terminator can use terminator-bzr in the meantime or downgrade to Terminator 1.0.
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Wednesday, 08 February 2017, 00:47 GMT
Downgrade is not an option. And packages on community shouldn't build from git branches, except under exceptional circumstances. Even though there are several nuisances, terminator still works as a terminal emulator. I knew this upgrade would bring some issues on the short term, but we will have a better terminal emulator on the long run (and one we can report bugs on and they get fixed)
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 02:14 GMT
I just released 1.91 which includes a fix for this bug.

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