Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone at SUSE, Novell, and the
openSUSE community. It's been great working with you all this year, and
look forward to many exciting things happening in 2008.
Christmas wishes go here :)
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Merry Christmas from Yo.media!
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Main menu bug fixing week --- final status
First of all, many thanks to those who participated in the bug fixing
week!
We started by creating a package in the build service in Federico's
project. This package was used throughout the week to test patches
and get builds.
Scott then took all the main-menu bugs in Bugzilla, and split them up
in performance bugs and behavior bugs. We had three performance bugs,
and a ton of behavior ones :)
We started by pulling in some patches that had been available for some
time, but that had not been integrated into our package for openSUSE
10.3 for various reasons: code freezes, uncertainty on the
correctness of the patches, ripples in the time-space continuum, etc.
These bugs are:
#152846 - Incorrect hard drive space shown for LVM volumes (Federico's patch)
#236463 - Better date info for documents (JPR's patch, also hacked by Lukas)
#258361 - Libslab.pc lists too many dependencies (Andreas Hanke's patch)
#332418 - Clarify the purpose of the "Hard Drive" tile (Magnus Boman's patch)
Then we started actually fixing bugs.
Ivan Zlatev and Lukas Lipka did most of the hacking. Thanks to them
we have patches for these:
#349604 - Display renamed bookmarks correctly (Ivan)
#309058 - Add "remove from favorites" command to Places items (Lukas)
#184735 - Improve "install/uninstall" logic for third-party applications (Ivan)
#310710 - Computer label is cropped (gtk2 bug - Federico)
Each of these patches was kindly tested by the #opensuse-gnome
regulars: suseROCKS, cyberorg, Iznogood, and others (sorry if I
missed your name here!).
Along the way we were able to close some old bugs which had already
been fixed, but which no one had noticed.
There is some work in progress:
* Lukas and Ivan are still hacking on some bugs around the document
and directory tiles.
* Michael Meeks and Magnus Boman have some optimizations for loading
.desktop files.
* Federico is hacking on making thumbnails load faster.
Overall, I'd call the bug fixing week as very successful.
What worked:
* Monitoring the patch status and link to build repositories in the wiki.
* Our tireless testers, always eager to break their machines.
* Our tireless hackers, always eager to unbreak other's machines.
What didn't work:
* All those slackers who went to the beach, or to do holiday shopping,
or to spend time with their families, or to engage in cultivating
activities of the human spirit, instead of trawling through bugs.
Future work:
* Finish doing all the performance work that is in progress.
* Usability / functionality. Do we want something like Gimmie /
Kickoff?
* Usability testing of Magnus's work on the application browser.
Cheers,
Federico
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Using SLED SP1 and trying to get latest python-gtk installed. I used the
G:S repo and wouldn't you know it.........there is an error installing
pango which is a dependency of python-gtk. Here is the error:
usr/bin/pango-querymodules: symbol lookup error:
usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string
error: %post(pango-1.18.2-1.3.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
How does someone get pango installed from G:S?
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Can anyone explain why supertuxkart is in GNOME:Community and not one of
the games projects?
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Dear lovers of fried mollusks,
Next week, December 17-21, we'll be holding a bug fixing week for
gnome-main-menu.
WE NEED HACKERS AND TESTERS!
We need hackers to fix bugs, and testers to see if the hackers aren't
writing bad code due to food poisoning via mollusks.
Here is the wiki page for organizing this bug fixing week:
http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Main_menu_bug_week
As you can see, it is pretty bare right now. Over the next couple of
days Scott Reeves (main-menu maintainer) and I (lover of fried mollusks
in general) will be populating the page with more information.
We hope to see you there!
Federico
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Hi
So that you don't get bored while I'm on vacation (from tomorrow
again :-), I just finished submitting the new packages (pulseaudio, pa*,
libflashsupport and gstreamer010-pulse) from our PulseAudio repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rodrigomoya:/pulseaudio/
The submission to FACTORY is missing the patches in the other packages
(alsa* and glibc), which I'm sending right now to the maintainers, so
things might break and make you swear on me :-)
So, while I'll be on vacation the next 2 weeks, I'll be getting mail
almost every day, so anything you find broken, please send me mail. If
it is very very urgent, you can tell cyberorg or psp250 on IRC,
although, please, be kind to them, they are innocent about the breakage
in FACTORY :)
Apart from that, here's a list of things missing:
* packman packages pa also, so we should make sure their worked is
merged into ours
* we need to find out if we really need /usr/bin/pulseaudio to be SUID
as in Fedora -> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347822
* for all pa* packages, I used the spec file that was in the old
packages in FACTORY, so these should be clean, but pulseaudio and
padevchooser need a bit of .spec file love, since we took the packages
from Fedora and are using some stuff that might not work well on
opensuse. for instance, using %{_smp_mflags} might not be correct, as
well as running rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT from %install. We need to review
them and make sure they are 100% correct.
* .desktop files should be ok now, but a review would be indeed great
* we need to file bugs for the package patterns, so that we get
pulseaudio packages installed for GNOME installations
* we need to probably replace the volume panel applet with padevchooser
in the default setup.
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Hello,
After yesterdays meeting, I did some research on the Pulse Audio package.
It looks like it may cause some issues for accessible log in. By some issues, I mean, it will break it.
>From what I gather, Pulse Audio does not start until after log in therefore apps that use sound output at log in will not work.
Could anyone indicate if this is possible to get around?
Thanks
Darragh
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Hello,
As promised in the last GNOME meeting, here's how to do a clean Factory
Install;
1. Download
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/boot/b… (for x86 and x86_64)
2. Burn it to a CD
3. Boot from CD, select Install, Hit Enter
By default, it will go out and grab everything it needs from
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source
Be aware of the following;
1. download.opensuse.org should redirect you to your closest mirror
server. Depending on the bandwidth and utilization of that mirror, the
install can be very slow
2. There is no guarantees that the repository is fully synced, which
means that you might get errors half way through an install.
3. Factory is experimental. At any point in time, it might break in any
of the following ways; a) Machine wont boot anymore, b) X wont start, c)
GNOME wont start etc, so unless you know what you are doing, never
install on anything but a lab machine.
Personally, I mirror the repo to my local network every so often to
minimize the time it takes to install.
Cheers,
Magnus
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