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[opensuse-gnome] #opensuse-gnome
by Casual J. Programmer 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi jpr, can you please review the agenda for the upcoming meeting ? Also please be sure to include reponsibility and audience ( user / developer ) when adding agenda items during the meeting, as it is rather difficult for me to guess from the irc log who is responsible and what audience is intended. For the next couple of weeks I will not be able to attend the meeting online, so please send me ( or have somebody send me ) a copy of the IRC log after the meeting. Thank you, Casual -- 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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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Go Elsewhere?
by Alberto Passalacqua 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello, >There is indeed an issue of anti-DE at times in #suse, there are times >when it is GNOME that gets it, sometimes it's XFCE that cops a bucket >full of buck shot. On the odd occasion I have seen KDE attract the >swarm of locusts. As people have said, this is slowly increasing; so >much so that I am copying the board and Zonker in to ensure that they >are aware of the issue, and hopefully they can advise and assist us in >how best to educate everyone. At the end of the day, I'm pretty sure >that there is a lot of things in KDE that none of us know. I agree there is some anti-GNOME behaviour in #suse, but I don't see it increasing at all. In the past, when I joined the community some years ago, it was a lot more evident. At those times it was really happening that systematically all GNOME users were instructed to use KDE. Today it's not that way anymore, even if there still is some tendency to do that. I don't think it is fair, but I think there are some reasons for that, and I will try to explain commenting the following lines. >The issue of openSUSE's GNOME release being inferior to other distros >is certainly a concern, and I think it is up to the GNOME team (both >Novell employees and community militia ;-) ) to rectify with mass >marketing. This is exactly the consideration I expected and I have heard in years of being around the GNOME team and the GNOME channel on IRC, and it is one of the reasons why I gave up in trying to do something for GNOME in openSUSE. Everything is considered a marketing problem, when it is actually, and quite evidently from a user point of view, a software quality problem. First release a state of the art GNOME, then market it. Before it's just premature and counterproductive. You are already experiencing that. I will sum up the main problems I think contributed to this situation about DE's in openSUSE: - GNOME is constantly released in a untested "beta state" in the final release of openSUSE, with evident bugs (read memory leaks, not working apps). Patches to these issues are released after long time, leaving the user with problems. This gives the sensation that the team considers openSUSE simply as a beta product to experiment with, where the last idea and the last application can be pushed, while the KDE team doesn't do that. Examples: yast-gtk, PulseAudio, package-kit, tasque, main-menu (in 10.3 it was a disaster with the memory leak, and people doesn't forget so quickly). - GNOME is bloated in openSUSE, causing major performance issues compared to other distributions (see Fedora). - Problems are patched too slowly compared to other DE's. It takes months or almost a release cycle to have (if ever) the major bugs fixed, while other distributions do this in about one month. One clear example are Fedora and Ubuntu: they released with PulseAudio in a clearly worse state than openSUSE, yet they fixed it quickly. OpenSUSE has some minor problems and are almost all still there. >I think a good spate of education for the diehard users of other DEs >would be a good start, lets try and do something fun and informative >for all of us. Education and information are useful if there is a base to build them upon. And that base has to be a quality release. I saw improvements from 10.3 to 11.0, that's evident, and I'm pleased of that. But we still are not at the level of RH/Fedora, and the reasons are not clear. The GNOME team used all the possible excuses that might justify the difference in quality between GNOME and KDE, and GNOME in openSUSE/GNOME in other distributions. It is time to stop hiding behind the excuse that SuSE was a KDE-centric distribution, and that it takes time (the typical "wait for next release and see!") to have a good GNOME implementation, because the team had a whole release cycle (10.x) to do that. It missed the opportunity because instead of preparing a solid base and then adding features simply skipped the first step, hoping to fix the problems as they come out. It doesn't work that way on the long run. Just my two cents. Alberto -- 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] Upcoming #opensuse-gnome Meeting 2008/08/07 12:00 UTC ( please check times for your location thoroughly )
by Casual J. Programmer 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi all GNOME addicts, The next openSUSE-GNOME project meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-gnome IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE-gnome) on upcoming Thursday: 2008/08/07 12:00 UTC (14:00 CEST) For an overview what time this is in different timezones, use: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=07&month=08&year=20 08&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-GNOME. Please review your topics on the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20080807 as soon as possible. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About <http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About> For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ <http://www.irchelp.org/> ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ <http://freenode.net/> ; ( not affiliated with openSUSE either). Have a lot of fun .. Casual J. Programmer (on behalf of the openSUSE-GNOME team) -- 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] [PATCH] gnome-settings-daemon: add apport monitoring
by Nikolay Derkach 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi, I would like to suggest a patch that adds Apport[1] monitoring to gnome-settings-daemon. The purpose of the patch is to monitor a directory (/var/crash) for incoming Apport crash reports and run a reporting tool (apport-gtk). I implemented this functionality as a gnome-settings-daemon plugin. This patch is just a draft since it has some issues. Please help me to solve those: - I built packages with modified gnome-settings-daemon [2], but for some reason this patched daemon doesn't work as supposed. Although, I tested gsd-apport-manager with a testcase included in my patch and it worked fine. - Does GIO has something similar to inotify's CLOSE_WRITE monitor? I need GIO to handler file-closed-after-write events. As for now I ended up with G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_ATTRIBUTE_CHANGED but it's just not fine to lauch crash checking tool several times. - Does GTK has any out-of-the-box applet notifying methods? I need something similar to libnotify, but I don't think it's worth adding one more dependency to gsd. Hopefully I haven't missed something and I'll appreciate any feedback. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Interactive_Crash_Analysis https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport [2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/nderkach:/branches:/home:/r… -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach

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[opensuse-gnome] go elsewhere
by Casual J. Programmer 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hi all, while I think that the discussion has elements that are partly paranoid, I feel it might be worthwhile to put the issue on one of the upcoming meetings agenda. I'd like to know what the differences in GNOME among distributions might be, and if and how these differences are perceived by the audiences. Furthermore I'd like Vuntz's opinion on the topic, as he should have a pretty good picture from his upstream background. Have a lot of fun... Casual P.S. I didn't chose openSuSE for the desktop, I decided on GNOME for the heck of it and independently found openSuSE the distribution to go with for various reasons...

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[opensuse-gnome] Mail issues
by Vincent Untz 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hi there, Just wanted to tell that several people of the team didn't receive mails of the list (and all other opensuse mailing lists) from July 24 to July 31 (approximately). Unfortunately, mails from July 24 to July 27 seems to have been removed from the queue, so we didn't receive them :/ -- at least, I didn't receive them. If there's any mail sent in this period where there was no reply, maybe you can resend it... Thanks, 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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