October 2009 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Hackfest
by Bryen M Yunashko 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hey guys, I've been invited as a representative of the GNOME-A11y team to participate in the upcoming GNOME Marketing Hackfest on November 10-11 right here in Chicago! I'm still in shock that something actually happens in Chicago (aka Windowsland) Essentially, its a hackfest to examine current material used to market GNOME to the masses and update/create new material. While I am there as a representative of GNOME-A11y, I still thought it would be useful to get all of your thoughts from an openSUSE GNOME perspective on what you think needs to be considered for marketing. Your thoughts (No, Magnus... Not *those* thoughts!) and comments are truly welcomed. Thanks, -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- 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] Different layout of YaST-GTK software management in RC1 and RC2
by Rastislav Krupanský 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi. Yast GTK software management has another layout in RC2, as was in RC1. It uses the same as is in 11.1 and as was in Milestones, before RC1. Was it changed on purpose? And why am i asking? Software management in RC1 was fully translated and now, in RC2, some of buttons (like Avilable, Upgrades, Installed, All...) aren´t translated. Attached screenshots of layout in RC1 and RC2. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto

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[opensuse-gnome] Coming up with a plan to test GNOME 3 in 11.2
by Vincent Untz 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hey, I think it'd be nice to make it easy for people to test the GNOME 3 stuff in 11.2. A few things this could imply: + having a nice http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/3.0 page explaining how to setup everything (with one-click install links), what should be tested, etc. + have good documentation (with one-click install) on at least those topics: - gnome-shell - new accessibility stack - zeitgeist? + make it easy to choose to log in GNOME Shell instead of the traditional metacity + panel from gdm. This implies: - adding a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions - setting up a specific directory that will contain new autostart files, mostly for gnome-shell. The desktop files will contain X-GNOME-Provides=panel and X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager (we might be able to merge this into one with "panel;windowmanager;") - start the gnome session as usual, but with a different XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable that will let us add our new autostart directory. Any other ideas? Any volunteers? :-) 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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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Navbox in the wiki
by Federico Mena Quintero 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi, everyone, I've just created this template in the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Template:GNOME_Navbox You can include it in a page by putting this at the bottom: {{GNOME Navbox}} The navbox is a "navigation box" similar to the ones in Wikipedia. For GNOME, this basically a more compact version of our main GNOME page. It is not as visually compact as I would like, but we can fix that later. I've started to include the navbox template in some of the GNOME subpages (GNOME/*). If you have an important page in the GNOME hierarchy, feel free to use the template and improve it! 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] 11.2 RC1 Display blanks after login
by Sankar P 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I upgraded to 11.2 RC1 and after whenever I login to my old user, nothing gets displayed. The monitor goes idle. during the upgrade I retained my /home partition without any change. I created a new user and everything works fine in the new user. Attached is the xsession errors file for the old user where things doesnt work. Need to file this as a bug ? -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com

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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0 (was Re: [opensuse-factory] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0)
by Dominique Leuenberger 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

>>> Rastislav Krupanský<rastislav.krupansky(a)gmail.com> 10/16/09 11:22 AM >>> >Hi. >Why were removed suspend/hibernate options from gnome-power-manager 2.28.0? Interesting question. It's something we inherited from GNOME upstream (check commit http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-power-manager/commit/?id=b36e51d35e7a816ca4… ). The rationale MIGHT be that those actions are available from the 'Shut down' menu, but I'm not sure about that. Dominique -- 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] Bug 436758 & 386359 - Renaming YaST in the menu and Control Center tasks
by Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Both bugs 436758[1] and 386359[2] have been open for a year or more, both relating to YaST & the Control Center. The first recommends YaST, in the right hand side of the Computer menu, should be renamed to something more descriptive, like "Administrator Settings". This was originally opened against 11.1 but was pushed back. [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436758 The second recommends re-adding Common Tasks to the Control Center, as we had during 10.2. It was quick shortcuts to tasks (like Add a Printer, Manage Accounts, Change Default Applications) that can be quickly done in either the Control Center or YaST. This was originally opened against 11.0(!). [2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386359 Is there enough time to get these two usability issues settled before 11.2? Thanks, -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy openSUSE Project Member http://www.twitter.com/KevinYeaux -- 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] Sonar-icon-theme by default
by Atri 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

The sonar-icon-theme (available on factory but not used by default) blends better with the sonar-theme used in gnome. It also automatically solves https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545540 Would it not be better to use it by default, instead of the current icon- theme? -- Atri -- 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: [opensuse-factory] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0
by Carlos E. R. 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

On 10/17/2009 10:11 PM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: >>>> "Carlos E. R." <> 10/17/09 3:25 PM >>> >>> Run "rpm -q --changelog gnome-power-manager|head -20" shows me: >>> >>> - Change the default of show_actions_in_menu to FALSE >> >> What is the procedure to trigger hybernation now? > > Hibernate and suspend are available from the 'shutdown menu'. There you have options to: > - Shut down > - Reboot > - Suspend > - Hibernate Ok, tested. It works now, it didn't on M6,7. >> Can a user re-enable the menu? > > You can re-enable it using gconf-editor. Browse to the key > /apps/gnome-power-manager/ui and set show_actions_in_menu to true (select it). > > That will revert to the previous state. It shows. Later I'll test if it works. Shouldn't it simply be in "preferences" of the power manager context menu? I hate having to use the regedit-like gconf-editor >>> so, a feature. >>> >>> Please ask such questions on the opensuse-gnome mailing list in the future, >> >> In my experience, user's questions asked there are ignored. :-/ > > We're just too few active contributors, but just as here I would have answered the same question in the other mailinglist as well. -Factory is > definitiv NOT the place for this kind of questions. The thing is, if that there are few active contributors here, and most are devs, this list is of little use to users asking user's questions. We users tend to ask where most of our questions are asked, not where they "should" go. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2-factory "Emerald" RC 1) -- 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] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0 (was Re: [opensuse-factory] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0)
by Rastislav Krupanský 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hi. Why were removed suspend/hibernate options from gnome-power-manager 2.28.0? ------- Posunutá správa ------- Od: "Andreas Jaeger" <aj(a)novell.com> Komu: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org Kópia: Predmet: Re: [opensuse-factory] Missing susped/hibernate options in gnome-power-manager 2.28.0 Dátum: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:30 +0200 > On Thursday 15 October 2009 21:46:57 Rastislav Krupanský wrote: >> Hi all. >> I'm running on RC1 and i've noticed that i can't suspend/hibernate >> directly via gnome-power-manager 2.28.0 icon in systray. When i left >> click on the gnome-power-manager icon, susped/hibernate options are >> missing. Bug or feature? > > Run "rpm -q --changelog gnome-power-manager|head -20" shows me: > > - Change the default of show_actions_in_menu to FALSE > so, a feature. > > Please ask such questions on the opensuse-gnome mailing list in the > future, > > Andreas -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- 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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