September 2008 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] Contrib and G:C
by Bryen 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

In today's meeting, we tried to clarify the distinction between the new Contrib repository project and GNOME:Community. In a nutshell, we feel that Contrib is the community version of OSS/Non-OSS, in that packages are stable and released with the distro, and likely will only issue security updates and such during the lifetime of that distro version. Whereas, GNOME:Community (or G:C) is considered to be more bleeding edge. Likely, some things from OSS/Non-OSS might also get moved over to Contrib if enough community members can maintain it, thus relieving Novell of some of the packaging work and freeing up its devs. So it was decided that it is evident that we need to appoint a volunteer to monitor G:C/Contrib/OSS/Non-OSS and coordinate what packages need to be copied over to Contrib. But before we do that, we felt it was important to first determine what guidelines we as a group agree upon for how to determine the criteria for submitting to Contrib. And we're discussing that here and now. Note: No possible criteria was brought up during the meeting itself. Clean slate here. An example package we used in today's meeting was Pidgin. At what point do we feel that Pidgin in G:C is ready to be copied over to Contrib for the next distro release? Let the discussion begin! :-) Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 openSUSE Board Candidate -- 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] Wiki Meeting Summary
by Christopher Hobbs 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Well, for just a whirlwind summary, we met for the wiki cleanup and have come up with a few tasks to take care of. I kept a bulleted list of the discussion here: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Cleanup_Notes I’ll start work on a mockup of a landing page in the next few days. I will also open up discussion on the list once I’ve got something solid in place. The mockup (currently blank) will be available here: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Mockup Thanks to everyone who attended, I appreciate all the input. I think this will work out well for us. Lastly, I have a bit of a support request. We’ll be periodically checking the /GNOME section of the wiki for lost or un-necessary pages. Does anyone know of a simple way to search for lost pages under /GNOME? What about a way to track page changes under that namespace? -- Christopher M. Hobbs, chobbs(a)siloamsprings.com Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs -- 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] Timeshift discussion
by Bryen 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Regarding our weekly openSUSE-GNOME meetings, we had a discussion this morning about our regularly scheduled timeshift meetings which occur first of the month at 11:00 UTC. It was agreed that that hour isn't proving effective in getting regular attendance and that we needed to consider a more optimal time, if we even continue timeshifts at all. I've discussed possibilities with several people in different key areas globally to get a feel and am presenting the findings for discussion on this email thread. Please review and communicate your thoughts. Depending on the responses, we may go with the new timeshift next week: Option 1) Eliminate Timeshifting altogether. This would make it very difficult for people in eastern Asia/Australia to attend meetings. Option 2) Create new timeshift for 23:00 UTC. This seems to get the widest support globally. However, India (Our beloved Evo team) would be left out. I discussed with Srag, and they were unable to attend the old timeshift meeting anyway and for them regular time meetings are best. They said they would be comfortable with missing a timeshift meeting. FYI: 23:00 UTC = 6 p.m. for you folks in the U.S. Midwest and Mexico, and late evening (after Rodrigo's television shows) in Europe and 9 a.m. in Sydney, land of the Magnus. Your thoughts and comments please! Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 openSUSE Board Candidate -- 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] 'osc gnome' documentation
by Vincent Untz 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, I took some time today to write some documentation about 'osc gnome'. You can find it on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/OscGnome Feel free to proofread, improve, comment, etc. 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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[opensuse-gnome] New Timeshift Meeting for openSUSE-GNOME this Thursday
by Bryen 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Heads up, GNOMEies, there's a new TimeShift in town! The openSUSE-GNOME Team is experimenting with a new timeshift meeting time. We regularly host our timeshifted meetings at 11:00 UTC for the first Thursday of the month. This ended up in very low attendance when we wanted to reach out to as many people globally as possible. The new timeshift will be 22:00 UTC beginning this Thursday, October 2nd. To find out what 22:00 UTC means in your area, check out the http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=02&month=10&year=2… link. Be there! -- Bryen Yunashko Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board -- 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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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timeshift discussion
by Kevin Dupuy 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Somebody whose name Windows Mail has garbled said: >> Option 2) Create new timeshift for 23:00 UTC. This seems to get the >> widest support globally. However, India (Our beloved Evo team) would be >> left out. I discussed with Srag, and they were unable to attend the old >> timeshift meeting anyway and for them regular time meetings are best. >> They said they would be comfortable with missing a timeshift meeting. >> >> FYI: 23:00 UTC = 6 p.m. for you folks in the U.S. Midwest and Mexico, >> and late evening (after Rodrigo's television shows) in Europe and 9 a.m. >> in Sydney, land of the Magnus. I support this. I'm unable to attend many meetings at all, because the normal meeting time is during school for me and the timeshift is at 5 or so in the morning (I'm on the U.S. Gulf Coast, Central Time). Having a meeting in the afternoon/evening for the timeshift meeting will work out best for me, so I'm throwing my support towards this. -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Public Mail - kevin.dupuy(a)opensuse.org Meet Bob Barr - Libertarian for President http://www.BobBarr2008.com -- 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] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/09/25)
by Rodrigo Moya 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

11.0 updates https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402864 needs some love Contrib and GNOME:Community Need to go over G:C and see what belongs in contrib (all packages not in the distro probably) Need some better explanation of the process of moving packages from repos GNOME guidelines needed AI: suseROCKS to write mail for general discussion Promotion of GNOME within the context of 11.1 Look at features for 11.1 and do screenshots and tutorials Plan to create a 1click install to get 2.24 Wiki work Small but productive meeting yesterday (http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Cleanup_Notes) New layout with a cleaner main page Mockup coming soon -> http://en.opensuse.org/User:Hobbsc/GNOME_Wiki_Mockup Pulseaudio Latest versions of PA and some tools in Factory A couple of upstream patches for 0.9.12 included in the submissions setup-pulseaudio script (for being called from yast2-sound to enable/disable PA system-wide) in submission, although a bit unstable still, please test Multiscreen PolicyKit helper to be added soon GDM / NetworkManager Some changes still cooking will be submitted soon Agenda for next meeting Next meeting time shifted meeting, but Asian people don't attend those meetings, so should we continue time-shifting? American evening meetings? -- 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] GNOME 2.24
by Andrew Wafaa 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Now that the latest and greatest has emerged from the garden shed, I have been asked by a couple of people if GNOME is going to have a 1-click available for users that have no regard for sanity to upgrade to this fine specimen. I have added the topic to the agenda for today's meeting, but I would appreciate some help/advice in getting this done. I have told people it will take possibly a week for me to do it (hopefully I can meet this self imposed deadline). Decriptor has kind of volunteered to help out, but one of the key things I think I need is the package list/pattern for a GNOME install/upgrade. If people have any comments/advice please pass them on, you can however keep your maniacal laughing to yourself - I'm already in a whole world of pain :) Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: GNOME / Marketing / Board Election. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org awafaa(a)opensuse.org | http://www.wafaa.eu -- 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] gnome-applets and PolicyKit
by Magnus Boman 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hello, Should we enable PolicyKit support with gnome-applets? I just checked it, and what it does, is to allow the user to change CPU Frequency Scaling as per the PK-file below. Thanks, Magnus ----------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd"> <policyconfig> <vendor>The GNOME Project</vendor> <vendor_url>http://www.gnome.org/</vendor_url> <icon_name>gnome-cpu-frequency-applet</icon_name> <action id="org.gnome.cpufreqselector"> <_description>Change CPU Frequency scaling</_description> <_message>Privileges are required to change the CPU Frequency scaling.</_message> <defaults> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep_always</allow_active> </defaults> </action> </policyconfig> -- 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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RE: [opensuse-gnome] wiki cleanup meeting reminder
by Andrew Wafaa 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

-- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member GNOME / Marketing / Board Election openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Hobbs Sent: 24/09/2008 17:27:21 To: opensuse-gnome(a)opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-gnome] wiki cleanup meeting reminder Just a reminder that today at 1230 CDT, we'll be having an informal meeting concerning /GNOME wiki cleanup. Thanks! -- Christopher M. Hobbs, chobbs(a)siloamsprings.com Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org ) -- 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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