Now that I switched towards using Factory for a fair amount of my time
again (How's that for being brave? ;-) I made a couple of observations
around the recent GNOME 3.14 update which I figured I'd share to
hopefully make the experience a bit smoother for others and hopefully
some improvements for openSUSE 13.2.
The good:
- Things generally work just fine!
Performance is fine, the UI fresh, some improvements such as sorting
timezones in the Clocks applet (thanks Michael Gorse!), nm-connection-editor
no longer referring to FirewallD (thanks Dominique),... have been
integrated.
And, do not let this mail mislead you, please: I am not meaning
to rant, and generally a happy user. Where things work, it's kind
of hard to write a lot about it, though. That is why this section
is the shortest of the three. ;-)
The bad:
- As in Gnome 3.12 already, every time I connect to a new wireless
network, I have to enter the root password. This is a regression
from openSUSE 13.1. Do you want a formal bug report?
- Configuration loss: Going from 3.12 to 3.14 lost a number of
settings, including the fact that I had "minimize window" and
"maximize window" buttons configured via TweakTool. Setting
these in TweakTool again under "Windows" fixed it for me, but
why did this get lost? Do you want a formal bug report?
- Configuration loss: Similarly, gnome-terminal which had been showing
black text on white background forever, including the update from
openSUSE 13.1 to Gnome 3.12, suddenly appear yellow on black or
something after upgrading to Gnome 3.14. What happened there?
Do you want a formal bug report?
- Most of my Gnome Shell extensions stopped working, including
"Media player indicator" and "Openweather". Trying to update
these via TweakTool resulted in the button turning "Error".
That makes three issues here:
1. Gnome version update breaks extensions.
2. "Update" of Extensions in TweakTool does not work.
3. No useful error messages or other feedback for the above.
(Removing the two extensions and then reinstalling them by
pointing Firefox to extensions.gnome.org worked just fine.)
The ugly:
- Being behind a slow and unreliable network for some days, I had to
udate the system piecemeal and ran into missing dependencies on a
package / package base ( http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=899776
"gnome-clocks lacks dependencies: undefined symbol:
gtk_application_get_menu_by_id" ). Luckily it was only this, or I
might not have had a running desktop environment for a day or two.
- Design: The upstream Gnome designers still force title bars that
consume 10% of my screen height (yes, I'm exaggerating, only midly
though) upon me.
Is there a better way to fix that than hacking title_vertical_pad
in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml after
every update?
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer