September 2008 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] 11.1 Feature Review
by JP Rosevear 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Ok, I've done some more clean up of the 11.1 feature ideas page: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1 Its still messy and some ideas are a bit vague, but we can still have a discussion around various features. First off, packaging related things, there are a number of items that would simply require packaging: 1) gypsy (G:C) 2) viking (G:C) 3) nautilus-extensions (G:F) 4) crashbit icons (Stanislav's branding repo?) 5) gartoon icons (Stanislavs's branding repo?) 6) GNOME Online Desktop (G:F) Then there are a couple of things that just need testing: 1) Bluetooth mice 2) Bluetooth keyboard (other than pairing at gdm screen) 3) Bluetooth printing (via bluez-cups) 4) fonts.conf work 5) GDM splash screen disabling - the new one should be nicer for this And there are some policy related questions: 1) Face browser for GDM 2) Pidgin defaults And some pattern questions 1) xdg-user-dirs 2) raw-thumbnailer For individual topics where some discussion (IMHO) is needed, please comment where you feel strongly: Accessibility: 1) Would be nice to assess what (if anything) is improved/solved Desktop: 1) Panel tweaks need a yes/no 2) Gilouche window border color needs a yes/no 3) Color management, don't think we have a real hope of doing this right for 11.1, but we could make sure all apps that support color management have it enabled and shipping xicc, Mandriva might have a patch for gnome-settings-daemon 4) Clean app menu - kind of makes sense, but we'd need a list of overlap problems in a default install 5) Settings location - difficult now because sound, network, printer, bluetooth all have GNOME gui equivalents 6) For the sudo stuff, I think we need to restate this as a need to get pk-su or equivalent for PolicyKit 7) unified password manager - in general i think pidgin is our main hold out 8) Root priviliges in nautilus - this comes up a lot actually 9) baoaob/nautilus - push to 11.2 i think, its not critical 10) nautilus replace dialog issue - push to 11.2, its not critcal 11 Fix bug that is making a unnecessary extra space between notification area and volume icon. - not sure what bug this is Doorman: 1) I'd like to see this happen in general, but we have no one to work on it currently Dual Head: 1) It looks like the only item here is done, but we have a tracker bug for 11.0/11.1 Fonts.conf 1) for subpixel stuff, I think its simply a wontfix because of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408997 GDM 1) Clutter based face browser should just be dropped or pushed to 11.2, no time really Hardware Integration 1) latency-policy is going into F10, have to figure out if we need it or not Icons 1) Switching away from tango is a no go, but getting them packaged would be fine Infrastructure - this should probably be moved elsewhere Misc 1) Not really sure what the state of Hal device icons is, needs research Multimedia 1) gstreamer codec install - sreeves and ensonic need to talk 2) Podcast creation should be punted i think, no time 3) Polish photo workflow - not really clear whats required here Online Desktop 1) is conduit enough? it does most of the service integration work for us P2P 1) should reject, its not HIG compliant and an option to minimize to tray exists Performance 1) Can be done after feature freeze? Remote Desktop 1) Anyone know of a knx equivalent? SuSE Integration 1) Would love this, need someone to work on it though Synchronization 1) Hopefully conduit gets open 2) Ifolder - need to bang on people internally UX 1) Suggest we drop this, i think GNOME Online Desktop is it for us right now -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Moving branded desktop icons to desktop-data-openSUSE
by Federico Mena Quintero 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi, Stanislav, I'm working on a patch to let sysadmins define desktop icons to be shown in users' desktops. We can also use this to set up our branded desktop icons ("Online Help", "openSUSE") without special stuff in /usr/bin/gnome. I want to move those .desktop files from our gnome-session package into desktop-data-openSUSE. We can install them in a new directory, /usr/share/desktop-icons. I would also need to change a GConf default for the new key /apps/nautilus/desktop/predefined_item_dir to point it to that directory. My question is how to set/unset that default. Can I just put this in the specfile? gconftool-2 --direct--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ --type string --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/predefined_items_dir /usr/share/desktop-icons Plus the corresponding --unset for uninstallation time. Thanks, Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/09/04 16:00 UTC
by Rodrigo Moya 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/09/04 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=04&month=09&year=20 08&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080904 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About <http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About> For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ <http://www.irchelp.org/> ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ <http://freenode.net/> ; ( not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Rodrigo Moya (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Topic for next meeting
by Vincent Untz 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi, (btw, the meeting will be on the first Thursday of the month, so it'll be earlier, right?) In the next meeting, I'd like to discuss briefly a osc plugin I wrote. This plugin should make it easier for us to organize our packaging work. If you have some time to look at it before the meeting, just do this: git clone http://www.vuntz.net/git/osc-plugins.git/ mkdir -p ~/.osc-plugins cp osc-plugins/obs-dissector/osc-gnome.py ~/.osc-plugins osc gnome --help Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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