December 2007 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone
by Kevin Dupuy 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

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 :) -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Email: <kevin(a)kevinsword.com> Merry Christmas from Yo.media! -- 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] Main menu bug fixing week: final status
by Federico Mena Quintero 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

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 -- 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 Meeting Thursday Dec 20 at noon EDT/18:00CST/1700 UTC
by JP Rosevear 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). This will be the last meeting before the new year. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071213 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071220 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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 Meeting Thursday Nov 29 at noon EDT/18:00CST/1700 UTC
by JP Rosevear 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). This will be the last meeting before the new year. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071213 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071220 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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] Pango install error
by Chris Arnold 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

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? -- 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] supertuxkart?
by James Ogley 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Can anyone explain why supertuxkart is in GNOME:Community and not one of the games projects? -- James Ogley james(a)usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org GNOME for openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/ Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/in -- 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] ANNOUNCE: Bug fixing week for gnome-main-menu
by Federico Mena Quintero 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

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 -- 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] pulseaudio status
by Rodrigo Moya 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

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. -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.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] PulseAudio
by Darragh O'Heiligh 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

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 -- 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] HOWTO: Clean Factory Install
by Magnus Boman 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

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 -- 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] Re: Problem with pidgin-2.3.0-2.2_i586.rpm: Why is pidgin in /opt/gnome/bin?
by Michael Wolf 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Hi On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:04 +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote: > Hello, > > I found the GNOME Community repository last week, and was glad to get a > version of pidgin for my 10.2 without having to use the > GNOME:STABLE-Repository, which seems very unstable to me (but that is > another issue). > > But: I was surprised to find the pidgin executable no longer in > /usr/bin/, but in /opt/gnome/bin/, which is not in my $PATH, so I had > trouble finding it. > > Any special reason for this? Is this just a mistake, or is this planned, > has this been changed? Before, when using the GNOME:STABLE-Repository, I > found pidgin in /usr/bin, so I was surprised. Maybe you can shed some > light on this issue. The short answer is that it's a mistake and we are aware of it. The longer answer is: In 10.2, GNOME was installed in /opt/gnome. For 10.3, we moved GNOME to /usr. GNOME:STABLE is, at the moment, GNOME as shipped in 10.3, slightly updated and backported to older distros. So GNOME:STABLE installed onto 10.2 will go into /usr. The packages in GNOME:Community assume a vanilla 10.2 (or 10.1 or 10.3) installation, and don't take into account that users with GNOME:STABLE installed have a system quite different. We have created new repositories within GNOME:Community for cases similar to yours. In http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/ you'll see a openSUSE_10.3+GNOME_STABLE repository, and several others like it. James Ogley told me today on IRC that he'll be creating analogous repositories, but for 10.2, soon. He's been busy with Real Life these days, however. If you'd like my help in seting them up, ask away. Once these new repositories have been created, and the GNOME:Community packages have been built for them, the problem should go away. -- 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] upgrade from GNOME:STABLE (10.2)
by Gabriel . 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

I tried to upgrade my 10.2 with the last gnome from GNOME:STABLE repository (x86). It seems there are some packages missing (I will try to list them later). My questions are: * Is this repository enough to update to gnome 2.20 from 2.16 (of openSUSE 10.2) or do I need to do anything else? * Are there any plans to get this repository working ? (I have no plans to upgrade to 10.3) -- Kind Regards Visitá/Go to >> http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Meeting Thursday Dec 6 at 13:00CST/12:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 12:00 UTC (12:00 CET). Please note this is our once monthly meeting shift to accommodate Asian and Australian participation better. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=06&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071129 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071206 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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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