Hi! I have just been playing around with GNOME in 12.1 Beta and found 3.2 excellent. I have a few openSUSE specific suggestions that I think we could think about and discuss (with relevant bug information wherever applicable):- 1. Please enable showing the date by default in the gnome-shell clock This is bug 722218. I don't know if this goes radically against the design principles of the upstream devs, but I think it makes me uncomfortable to see that users would have to turn to a terminal command to change the present default, which is to only show the weekday and not the date. this could be done by means of a gnome-shell-branding package, for example. 2. There are a number of applications (X Kill, X Refresh, etc) which do not have icons, and which were not there in openSUSE 11.4's application list. Is showing these in the overview intentional (these were also absent from 11.4 + GNOME 3.0)? Bug 722217. 3. There is this package [1] that enables searching from the applications overview for packages in software.opensuse.org. It would be useful probably, to have this installed by default as it adds some (distro-specific) value and makes searching for not installed packages easier. It would also help if this, rather than the present default (Wikipedia) be made the default search engine in the overview. This is bug 722219. 4. I think it would also be great to have the application gnome-documents installed by default and listed as one of the favourite items on the dash. It is not on the Beta. 5. The alt-status-menu extension: this probably goes strongly against the upstream wishes to have by default, but I have found it generally useful because, not to speak of its other advantages, it finally gives me one way to manually hibernate my system. There is simply no other way to trigger this from the GNOME 3.2 desktop. So could we consider also having this by default or would that be really bad? 6. We have not yet found a way to integrate YaST control center into the desktop. We discussed three ways that this could be done earlier [2], and we should probably settle on the easiest of them to implement. 7. Time dependent wallpaper. We had this by default on 11.4, it would be great to have something simlar based on the 12.1 branding. This can of course be done a bit later into the cycle. I hope it is not too late to discuss these and work on them. I would love to help with several of these, and most of them are only minor tweaks, but I am stuck with little to no internet till the 18th of this month at least and I am worried that then it would really be too late. Thanks and bye -- Atri [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gnome-shell-extension-openSUSE-package-search&project=GNOME%3AFactory [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2011-05/msg00009.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org