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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME status (12/06/2009)
by Vincent Untz 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Hey, It's been a while since the last status mail -- May was busy with the community week, so that could explain part of it (but not all ;-)) I'll start by saying that we could still do with help on various things: highlighting major bugs that need to be fixed, making some stats for our progress, etc. There are also quite some apps that we'd like to see packaged. How to help? Easy, just join #opensuse-gnome on IRC or mail the list :-) Summary: + GNOME:Factory saw lots of action, and now features GNOME 2.27.2 + GNOME:STABLE:2.26 was updated to 2.26.2 + openSUSE 11.1 LiveCD Reloaded with GNOME 2.26 + we have GNOME:Contrib! New packages! And we should migrate GNOME:Community packages there + some osc gnome fixes GNOME:Factory ============= It moved a lot :-) Since last time, we move to GNOME 2.27.2 (with some 2.27.1 and 2.26.2 love before that). Various interesting tidbits: + as featured in milestone 2, we have a new default look with Sonar (theme) and the fifth leg font used for window titles. Comments and bugs welcome! + we started migrating packages to xulrunner191. This is not finished, and help to complete the task is welcome. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501397 + we moved monsoon to Mono:Factory, where it will be better maintained + Tambet pushed the new NetworkManager stack. Yay! + we have DeviceKit-disks (thanks Magnus!), but also gobject-introspection! And probably some other new packages I forgot... + there's a new rarian-scrollkeeper-compat package, that installs scrollkeeper-compatible binaries. If we want to completely move away from scrollkeeper, this is a good first step. Note that you need to use update-alternatives to setup your system to use those binaries instead of the ones from scrollkeepr. + we created a bundle-lang-gnome-extras package, as a complement to bundle-lang-gnome. It contains translations for packages not handled by bundle-lang-gnome. You'll love it. As of today, we're mostly up-to-date for our packages. The current list of build failures: + beagle-index: usual build failure, now... It breaks easily with Factory anyway + clutter-cairo: it's deprecated and should get dropped. I filed a request for this already. + clutter-gst: doesn't build with the new clutter. A new upstream version should be out soon. Not a big problem since nothing depends on it right now. + dmxviewer: fails to build on 11.1. No idea, someone would need to look at it. + gnome-do-plugins: fails to build because we need flickrnet in openSUSE. Trying to get someone of Mono:Factory to push it. + telepathy-idle: fails to build because of a glibc headers issue. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507930 And not-up-to-date packages: + epiphany: this is the switch to webkit. The main issue here is that we'd need a new epiphany-extensions tarball that isn't out. But we can use the version from git. Any volunteer to work on that? + gnome-games: I have it ready here, except that it doesn't build because it requires a newer unreleased clutter... Should be out soon. + gnome-packagekit: 2.27.2 is out but one patch doesn't apply. Scott might be looking at it, not sure. + gobby: we finally have a solution here. We'll rename the current gobby to gobby04, and accept the submission. Just need to do it :-) I also just pushed the latest GNOME:Factory to openSUSE:Factory. GNOME:STABLE:2.26 ================= It now has GNOME 2.26.2, and it's all cool. We've been working on a LiveCD with openSUSE 11.1/GNOME 2.26. It's living at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gnome-reloaded&project=GNOM… Jigish might have an update to share there. But I guess it's nearly ready? We have some good documentation on how to use G:S:2.26: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/2.26 Feel free to edit the page to improve it. We also have a tracker bug for G:S:2.26 bugs: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493750 GNOME:Contrib ============= So this is all new. We now have a GNOME:Contrib project for packages that don't live in the main openSUSE repository but that we want to maintain, following the openSUSE development cycle. Those packages will end up in the Contrib project. We have 17 packages there right now (glom! jhbuild! gwibber! and more). So now we could start migrating packages from GNOME:Community to GNOME:Contrib. This is tracked at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Packaging/GNOME:Contrib osc gnome ========= An updated version of osc-plugins-gnome should soon land in openSUSE:Tools (you can grab it from home:vuntz for now). It contains a few interesting things: + works with latest osc. Can be useful. + stop update/setup commands if there are uncommitted changes in an already checked out package. + add details for some blocked/expansion error/broken during the build/buildsubmit commands. This is a small change that is actually awesome. 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] Mozilla firefox is not accessible with Orca in openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0116-i686.iso
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Dear core developers, I would like to valuably please You, if You would try to solve The problem, which is persisting for A long time. Mozilla firefox WEB browser is not accessible with Orca not only in The latest development version of Opensuse, but also in The official releases. MOzilla Firefox can not be used with Orca, menus and other user interface elements are inaccessible, WEB pages elements can not be wieved. Please do not think, that this problem can be solved by user of Orca. The onlyone solution, which is now working is to download and run Mozilla Firefox WEB browser by using The following link. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-i686/en… User can simply run Firefox module after extracting The archive and Orca is working ammazingly. But if user want to run Mozilla Firefox from Opensuse by typing Firefox from Run dialog box or by pressing Firefox button at The Gnome main menu, it will never work. Please, would YOu try to find The cause of those issues? There was long discussion about in Opensuse Bugzilla, but i Am not suer, if there was some conclusion how to solve this issue. Thank You for any feetback. The kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- 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] for core developers of expert partitioner
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Dear core developers of Expert Partitioner, This tool can be found in yast and would work fine, but the used external tool for removing partitions is not working reliably. The error is not caused by incorrect transfer of values from The user interface to The external tool, but The algorithm in The external tool, which is used for removing partitions is not correctly vipe all partition related data, so Opensuse can not be reinstalled. The newest version of gparted is using better solution and partitions are removed correctly, so Opensuse can be reinstalled. Would You tell me The exact name and version number of external tool, which You are using while removing The disk partitions in Expert Partitioner? I will directly contact The core developer of this tool. I would also like to suggest The core developers of Expert Partitioner, if they could integrate The algorithm for disabling The svap file, because if user is using The Opensuse Live Cd for removing all partitions, which are used by previously installed Opensuse distribution, user can not remove The svap partition. If it is too complex, please try atleast to tell The management of Opensuse Project, if it would be possible to compile and make awailable The latest version of Gparted which will be awailable in The time of official Opensuse distro will be published. Thank You very much. The kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- 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] suggestion, would be possible to integrate multi-touch technology to The Gnome desktop?
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Dear core developers, I would like to give You a suggestion if You would atleast start to think about incorporate multi-touch technology to The gnome in Opensuse? Thank's to this technology, computers with touch display can be accessed. I Am aware, that this is very complex, but i would atleast like to start discussion about it. Thank's to multi-touch technology, computer can be easily used by hard physically impaired users. Thank You for Your answers or discussion. The kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- 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] Help needed with GNOME demo
by Vincent Untz 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hi, There'll be two openSUSE-GNOME machines at LinuxTag and we want them to be awesome. So we need some demo files, and a list of packages we need to have installed. Are there people interested in working on that? We'd need to have a first version ready for next week, I guess. It's all about showing how good GNOME can be! Note that this is something that we could reuse at later events, so it can really be something useful :-) Cheers, 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] Design new looks for GNOME-Reloaded live CD
by Jigish Gohil 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Hello Community openSUSE-Gnome team has been working very hard to get the latest GNOME available easily via openSUSE Build Service GNOME:STABLE repositories[1] and snapshots of the latest stable in form of a live CD- GNOME-Reloaded[2]. This is a chance for everyone who wants to put their mark on this live media by designing new look, here are the graphics required: 1600x1200 wallpaper.png 1600x1200 bootsplash.png 800x600 welcomescreen.jpg 800x600 bootscreen.jpg Head to http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/GNOME , copy the template section, name your theme, upload images. A jury of openSUSE members will be selecting the best of the submissions for inclusion on the live CD. Spread the word, start sending the new themes, get your loved ones to send one too. Let the fun begin... -J PS: GNOME:STABLE is not the place where gnomes keep their horses, or people keep their gnomes either ;) [1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/ [2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/ -- 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] SubpixelHinting for Gnome
by Rastislav Krupanský 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi all. Why is not available SubpixelHinting for Gnome by default, as is in KDE? I found out that, when i want to enable subpixel for Gnome and Gtk apps(like Firefox, Thunderbird...), i have to reinstall cairo and mozilla-xulrunner190 packages for 11.0 and for 11.1 i have to reinstall cairo package from repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Fisiu/ If i´m correct, system-cairo option is disabled. Why? Any patents? If not, could it be available (not have to be enabled) by default for the next release 11.2? Thanks for explanation. -- 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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