Bug#381509: metacity: Please apply the double-click-menu-button-to-close patch

[Adalbert Dawid]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.14.5-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Many people wish to be able to double click the menu button (which is by
default on the upper left) in order to close a window. See the discussion at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83892

There Thomas Thurman provides a small patch, which *just works* (I just
tested it). You can grab the patch from
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=67516&action=view

The gnome devs find the patch ok, but nevertheless they decided not to
include it by default, unless many distros will be applying it.

Comment from Elijah Newren  (metacity developer):
"I think Thomas' patch is great, as it will allow us to point people to
it if they are really adamant if they want it. I'm assuming it'll be a small
minority. But if by chance it actually gets picked up and widely distributed
and appears in most of the distros (which has happened in similar cases with
other patches in the past, but is really unlikely and rare but is a great
way of demonstrating that we perhaps made the wrong decision about a feature)
then we can start having a discussion about whether we should reconsider
whether to include it."

So I ask you to apply this patch in debian, so our distro will be one of
the "pioneers" wrt applying the patch. I think many people will say: "Gee,
in debian's metacity one can double click the menu button in order to close
the window. That distro is really cool! They care about their users!"

If someone really doesn't want that feature, he still has the option to
leave it disabled, as there is an appropriate gconf option for turning
it on and off.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.1-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.14.0-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.18-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      1:1.0.0-3   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0                 1:2.14.5-1  library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       1:1.0.0-4   X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0     0.8-1       library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-7   X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                  1.1.5.2-5   X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.0-4   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1                 1:1.0.1-4   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                   2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                  1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  metacity-common              1:2.14.5-1  Shared files of lightweight GTK2 b

metacity recommends no packages.

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