On Tuesday 29 of September 2009, Jay Mistry wrote:
I am not a programmer. I have no programming skills. All I can do is to report about hassles.
Same here, from a non-technical (non-IT) background.
So you want to help, even if you have no programming skills? How about helping with bug triage then, for example? http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/BugSquashing , http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE/Screening have instructions for KDE. Since you seem to use GNOME, I don't know if GNOME has such a page, but if you write to the opensuse-gnome list, I'm pretty sure Vincent and others will be happy to hear you'd like to help them with it.
Do you use openSUSE w/ Ubuntu ? I am using Ubuntu 9.04 alongwith openSUSE 11.1; though I find oS 11.1 is not as stable as Ubuntu. Sometime back I tried to change the Window Manager (am using GNOME as the default desktop in Ubuntu 9.04) from Metacity to Emerald using the Compiz Fusion Icon utility and ended-up with half the icons lost/not working as expected from the panels. After a reboot, the panel sorted itself out without any user intervention and the icons & shortcuts worked perfectly. Sadly, can't say the same about GNOME in openSUSE 11.1 at this point.
You do realize that Ubuntu 9.04 is about half a year newer than 11.1, with a newer GNOME version, and that as such this may have nothing to do with the actual distribution? -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 084 672 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org