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[opensuse-gnome] 11.4 Gome system sounds disabled as default
by Marco Calistri 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Dears, As per 11.2 I noticed again that 11.4 keeps on stay "mute" in terms of system sounds (login, logout, alerts,...) Differently by KDE 4.5 and 4.6 wherein such feature is enabled as default. Wonder if it is a design choice and if are planned changes. This is not an important issue nor a bug, but I guess that especially for newer users of openSUSE it would be better to have a more interactive desktop which responds with sounds to the user actions. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid. -- P.J. O'Rourke -- 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 3 Question
by William Witt 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

I have GNOME 3 installed on my laptop for testing from fcrozat's home repository. It works well and I'm looking forward to the release. The question I have is this: Is there a way to force it into non-openGL mode? Will -- 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] Yet another question...
by Nelson Marques 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Dear all, I've been toying with SUSE Studio and reached nice accomplishments with the ayatana indicators from ubuntu. I'm considering making a openSUSE spin out of it featuring maybe some software we can't distribute in openSUSE, some examples: * sub-pixel font rendering (using the work of another contributor, if this goes forward, I'll ask him to join the efforts); * ayatana indicators; * Fan artwork: + Faenza icon theme (as it supports the indicators features, and 0.9 is pretty nice an integrates well); + Custom wallpaper pack; + Customized GTK+/Metacity themes (a revamped version of clearlooks, so it's a bit mac looking blueish); * Pre configured repositories: + repos for the software above; + packman-essentials (so people can install the missing codecs); * Focused on end user stuff/artistic stuff (gimp/inkscape) Of course a LiveCD can't hold everyting, and some sacrifices are going to be done... The main purpose for this 'project' is to give take the fight to other distro's spin's such as Mint, Fusion, Fuduntu, but going a step further and demonstrating the supremacy of openSUSE Build Service and damaged brains (like mine). I'm consulting GNOME team because your opinion is important as I believe such project could improve the visibility of GNOME. This is not for a battle to win end users, instead to demonstrate a few cool things you can do with openSUSE. I haven't also run this through legal (which needs to be done). Would this be of GNOME team interest? As always any ideas will be taken into consideration (most likely applied). NM -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- 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] Any volunteer(s) to help with security updates?
by Vincent Untz 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hey, Until now, I've been handling most of the GNOME-related security update alone, and it's an area where people can easily help too. Is there any volunteer(s) for that? Ideally, someone else than Atri, since he's already working on various maintenace updates ;-) I also think it'd be cool to have another person than him with additional knowledge! FWIW, security updates usually involve: - keeping things private for a bit - looking for patches upstream, and sometimes pinging upstream maintainers - testing the fix (when possible; sometimes, there's no way to easily reproduce the issue) - when it's fine to have the issue public, push the fix in the build service, and submit it for a maintenance update; no patchinfo involved (handled by security team) I'll obviously help the volunteer(s) (at least, at the beginning) ;-)). Cheers, 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] Icon themes and branding packages...
by Nelson Marques 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Dear all, I'm currently packaging the latest version (0.9) of the Faenza icon theme for GNOME, one of the nicest in my opinion, though a bit squarish. The main goal is to provide this icon theme for GNOME:Ayatana project since it features all the required icons for the new functions in the Ubuntu/Ayatana indicators (specially on monochrome icons). For those wondering, yes, this is one of the few 3rd party icon themes that provides nearly all icons for a default openSUSE GNOME installation (except for YaST). This icon theme provides icons for many distributions (Fedora, Mandriva, Frugalware, Debian, openSUSE, Ubuntu, GNOME, etc). I'm currently deleting all of those icons except for openSUSE and GNOME and would like to make two branding packages (one for GNOME/upstream, and another for openSUSE). Anyone could point me some online documentation or icon themes example packages where I can see a bit more about this 'branding packages' ? Thanks in advance, NM -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- 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 11.4 GNOME installation problem
by mussie 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi There, I just installed opensuse 11.4 gnome on this system..... http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_b9c24c0d-7eb6-4e67-8a2c-a2cb9a37dbaa with an IBM ThinkVision lcd monitor on it. This system goes great on a VESA setting. The problem is that the hardware is not capable of desktop effects. Yet they are on a VESA setting (old) enabled. After installing this gives a big mess as you will understand. Can't you set VESA settings "disable desktop effects" that would be great for alot of people running this OS on an older machine. btw the rest is fine and GREAT!!! Regards Hans -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- 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] Anyone aware of this? EXDE?
by Nelson Marques 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

http://www.exde.org/ -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- 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 - March 17th, 2011, 1530 UTC
by Sankar P 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi, We have rocked with a successful openSUSE 11.4 release. There are some good reviews, like http://www.cio.com.au/article/379481/opensuse_11_4_now_available_gnome_3_pr… and we seem to have done a great job with 11.4 With 11.4 gone, we have the next release work already in pipe. Also we need to discuss about maintenance updates, GNOME 3 and few other things. Join us for an openSUSE GNOME meeting at #opensuse-gnome or Freenode IRC, on March 17th, 2011 1530 UTC Please add items to the agenda wiki if you have something to discuss. It is also rumored that Vincent Untz will be singing a song in praise of all the contributors, in flawless french. Don't miss it. For detailed information: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_meeting Useless Trivia: Last month, also we had the meeting on 17th and it came on a Thursday. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.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] Join the GNOME Team group on connect!
by Vincent Untz 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hey, Apparently, many people were not aware of the GNOME Team group on connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/10633/gnome-team/ So now you know about it. Everybody is welcome to join :-) Cheers, 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] Unity requires new patch on GTK...
by Nelson Marques 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Dear all, The recent version of Unity does require a new patch on GTK+. The required patch is 044_grips.patch and can found on the GTK+ package in Ubuntu[1]. According to Ken VanDine this patch has been merged upstream for GTK3. So from this point on, it would be probably wiser to continue Unity only for the upcoming GNOME3 and for the next cycle of openSUSE. If we still want to make Unity for 11.4, then I can merge the backport into the stack I've already modified for the indicators. NM [1] - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/gtk+2.0/2.24.1-1ubuntu3/+files/g… -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- 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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