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[opensuse-gnome] Maintainer of Tracker-> Please update to 0.8.2
by Anshul Jain 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, To the maintainer of Tracker, can you please update the version to 0.8.2. This has a significant fix regarding memory leakage (it was fixed in 0.8.1). More details at:- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2010-April/msg00061.html Regards Anshul -- 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] What happened to Gnome in M6
by Rastislav Krupanský 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

2010/4/30 Stephen Shaw <sshaw(a)decriptor.com>: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:32, Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400(a)aim.com> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> I installed the two packages gconf2-branding-openSUSE and >> gtk2-branding-openSUSE plus dependencies and a log-out did it for me. >> Except that I had to delete some configuration files to get back to the >> one panel arrangement. Adding a new user might also do the trick. >> -- >> Atri > > yeah, the way the gconf2-branding-openSUSE works is that it sets the > default settings. So, once you have logged in its already set some of > those defaults. > > > Stephen > Thanks. Added to the most annoying bugs, just to be sure. -- 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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[opensuse-gnome] Fwd: [opensuse-factory] What happened to Gnome in M6
by Stephen Shaw 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:32, Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400(a)aim.com> wrote: > > Hi! > I installed the two packages gconf2-branding-openSUSE and > gtk2-branding-openSUSE plus dependencies and a log-out did it for me. > Except that I had to delete some configuration files to get back to the > one panel arrangement. Adding a new user might also do the trick. > -- > Atri yeah, the way the gconf2-branding-openSUSE works is that it sets the default settings. So, once you have logged in its already set some of those defaults. Stephen -- 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] What happened to Gnome in M6
by Rastislav Krupanský 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi. Is anything wrong with Gnome in M6? Installation process uses Clearlooks theme (probably) [1] No sonar theme is used by default (never mind, because i don´t like this theme). By default is used Clearlooks. Although are Sonar and Gilouche themes installed, they aren´t available in Appearance ->Theme. Main menu (SLAB) is missing by default. Menu bar is used instead. Two panels are used - top and bottom, not only one. No network icon available in systray. What does it mean? Can we expect some radical modifications? Or is it just a bug? Here you are screenshot [2], what i can see after boot from LiveCD and after installation also. [1] http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/4483/screenshotinstall.png [2] http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9649/screenshotm6gnome.png -- 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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[opensuse-gnome] Re: [Unscannable Attachment] [obs submit-request 38995] GNOME:Factory/brasero: created by gberh
by Dominique Leuenberger 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

>>> On 4/28/2010 at 13:23, <guido+opensuse.org(a)berhoerster.name> wrote: > > home:gberh:branches:GNOME:Factory/brasero -> GNOME:Factory/brasero > > https://build.opensuse.org/request/diff/38995 > > Description: split off brasero-nautilus so that brasero does not depend on > nautilus, this is needed in order for it to replace xfburn in the > openSUSE-lxde pattern no objection from my side regarding the change, it looks good. But I would like to see one addition: Can you extend the -nautilus subpackage with: Supplements: packageand(brasero:nautilus) This would allow the package to automatically be triggered for installation if brasero and nautilus have been selected for installation (thus not requiring the user to know about this split out package). 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] Bring back Gwibber 2.0?
by Bryen M. Yunashko 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Ever since the updates in the last few weeks, I have had much distress over the ability to use Gwibber. I'm currently at 2.31 now. It simply doesn't start for me. I was reasonably happy with 2.0 and want to downgrade back to 2.0, but it seems its not in any of the repositories anymore. This is preventing me from doing work-related tasks. Twitter isn't just for play, you know? :-) Here's the errors I get when I attempt to start up Gwibber. Occasionally, I can start gwibber if I restart my computer, but not every time. only about 25% of the time. :-( Additionally, in the few times that I have been able to run Gwibber, it does not save my settings. For example, I have two twitter accounts, and any tweet I send goes to both accounts, which should not happen. When I go into advanced settings, I uncheck "Send" in one of the accounts to prevent it, but as soon as I close the settings, it reverts back and checks "send". ** (gwibber:1340): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum' ** (gwibber:1340): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum' ** (gwibber:1340): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum' ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on com.Gwibber.Service:/com/gwibber/Service: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 67, in <module> client.Client() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 445, in __init__ self.w = GwibberClient() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 26, in __init__ self.model = gwui.Model() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 34, in __init__ self.services = json.loads(self.daemon.GetServices()) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) -- 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] GTK interface of software installer in YaST [yast2-gtk] in Factory
by Atri Bhattacharya 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Dear milestone testers! openSUSE 11.3 looks to be getting in good shape, and there are about two months to go [1] before the first of the RC releases and three until the final release. There are numerous things to be excited about with 11.3 as has been the case with every prior release. One of these is definitely the gtk interface to YaST Sotware Management module [2,3], much revamped since 11.2. It would be very nice of you to test this thoroughly for bugs, but also for usability issues and suggest improvements and peeves :) here and over at bugzilla [4]. In the following I would like to run you through some of the more notable changes in the interface. Please note that there is enough time yet to make minor modifications in the design if required. 1. Main interface revamp: The package-list shown by default is now categorised by (Packagekit) groups and further separation into "Available", "Upgrades" and "Installed" tabs has been done away with. Instead this has been implemented as a separate "Status" filter (below the Category box). By default this filter is set to "Any Status". Selecting the "Upgradeable" filter here for example shows all those packages which have upgrades from the subscribed repositories and brings out an "Upgrade all" button just below the package list. The package-list can now show various columns like repositories, etc. The columns shown by default are Tick-action, package-name, and package-version. Selecting a package for installation is now much easier. For packages that are not installed, check the tick-box to the left of the package-name in the main list and it is selected for installation. Installed packages are already ticked, you have to un-check it to have the package removed. The upgrade button appears just beside the version column for every package that has an update candidate. For such packages both the installed and latest available versions are shown in the version column. When one selects a package for installation/update/removal it brings up a summary line in the status bar along with an Undo button (that undoes this installation/removal request alone) and a link to a "Summary of changes" box [see point 2]. There is a menu-bar at top that largely mirrors the menu-bar in the qt version. 2. A "Summary of changes" box: that contains all the packages selected during the session for installation/update/removal alongwith Undo buttons for the manually selected packages. Selecting "undo" also applies the changes to the corresponding dependencies pulled in automatically by the dep-solver. This replaces the list of changes sidebar implementation which was a part of the package-manager in its 11.2 and previous avatars. Also with a button to access the "History" viewer [see point 3]. 3. A "History of changes" box: that is accessible from either the top-menu "Extras" or from the "Summary of changes" box. This shows the entire history of installed/upgraded/uninstalled packages, and subscribed/removed repositories, categorised conveniently by date (the full history-viewer in all its glory has not made it into M5, it should be in factory [5] soon however and you can already try it from svn [2] if feeling adventurous :) ). You can select a package and hit the "jump-to" button to switch to the package in the main interface and uninstall/re-install a removed package from there. This is in response to feature # 305859. It enables the user to look up a package installed, say, recently that he/she does not like or finds unuseable and remove it and the dependencies it pulled in easily. This should go extremely well if the Unneeded packages group is implemented later [6]. 4. When one switches to the "Repository" categorisation (left-sidebar, select Repositories from drop-down header), the button "Switch all packages to that from this repository" shows up just below the main interface. All the development work thanks to the yast2-gtk maintainers. Discussions pertaining to all points have been taking place at http://groups.google.com/group/yast2-gtk. There is enough time yet for your suggestions regarding the design and usability of yast2-gtk to be given thorough consideration for implementation. Please do use it and let us know what you think of it and the changes you would like to see to make yast2-gtk more useable. You may reply to this mail for general feedback and/or put in a bugzilla report if you meet a crash, etc. Better still you may subscribe to the above google-group and post your suggestions there. Happy testing! Bye -- Atri [1] http://www.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_11.3/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/YaST2-GTK http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/gtk/ [3] Installed and used by default on GNOME; KDE users may install the package yast2-gtk using zypper > sudo zypper install yast2-gtk and use the interface by issuing the following command as root > yast sw_single --gtk [4] https://features.opensuse.org/305859 [5] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Head/ look for yast2-gtk > 2.21.36 [6] https://features.opensuse.org/300758 -- 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] Clarify Control Center and reorganize Menu Bar and Traditional Gnome Main Menu.
by Rastislav Krupanský 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hi all. I noticed and realized that the Control Center contains double items in System module. 1) The first is Add/remove software - gnome-packagekit-application, which is package manager for Gnome and the second is Install/remove software - YaST software manager. After overall review i can't see any benefit of package manager for Gnome-gpk-application. So my question is, why do we have double software/package manager in the system? 2) Detto for Software Sources. Do we need this item in Control Center, forasmuch as we can manage repositories in YaST-Software repositories, or in YaST-Software manager? 3) And the last items are Software update/Software updates. In the first we can only install updates and the second is used for update settings. Is it possible to merge these items in one? KDE users have Kupdatepplet, which allows update and change software update preferences. They need not use two different application, one for updates and one for update settings. 4) Next things are Menu Bar (a custom menu bar) and Traditional Gnome Main Menu. Honestly, these menus are big mess in openSUSE. I'm trying Ubuntu nowadays, an i have to say that Ubuntu's Menu Bar is clean, without double items. E.g. openSUSE's Menu Bar: Click on Applications -> System -> Configuration and you can see a batch/mixture of hardware, personal or system items. The same items are available also in System -> Hardware, Personal or System. Or, take a look in Applications -> Utilities -> Desktop and the same is in System -> Look and feel. For clarify what i mean, you can see it on screenshots in attachment. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto

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[opensuse-gnome] Gwibber
by James Ogley 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

I had a message a couple of days ago from Ryan Paul, lead developer on Gwibber. He was apologising basically for the state of the Couch-based Gwibber and telling me that he's dropping it as soon as that version (to which, I think, Ubuntu are committed for their next release) is out the door. He's already started working on Gwibber 3.0 which uses SQLite as a backend (and so, doesn't add any new esoteric requirements). I've done a local build and what I have to say is that, although Ryan says it's a couple of weeks (only a couple of weeks!) off being ready for public consumption, it's already more stable and usable than the Couch version. I'm inclined to commit it to home:Riggwelter:GNOME for a bit more testing. Given that it's already ahead of the Couch version, I'm also inclined to propose it for 11.3 which would mean we could drop the whole Couch stack too as I don't think anything else uses it (hence all the pain in getting it sorted for Gwibber). RFC before I commit. -- James Ogley (riggwelter) openSUSE Member GNOME Team and Planet SUSE e: riggwelter(a)opensuse.org w: http://opensuse.org/GNOME t: @riggwelter w: http://www.planetsuse.org openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org -- 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 our new Users
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Hello new Users, this is an monthly Reminder. He would like to help you in your first Steps. 1.) Official Support: Support for the Box-Version: http://www.open-slx.de or http://www.openslx.com Support Database: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:History Mailiglists: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate openSUSE Forums: http://forums.opensuse.org IRC: http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/IRC Documentation: http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation 2.) Netiquette: For the Mailinglists please read: http://en.opensuse.org/Opensuse_mailing_list_netiquette before posting. Have a lot of fun... -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] syncevolution
by James Ogley 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Would there be interest in me submitting my non-moblin (GTK+ only) syncevolution packages to GNOME:Apps? If anyone wants to test them, they're in home:Riggwelter:GNOME and the package is called syncevolution-gtk - I've been using them for quite a while now and they seem (to me) to work pretty well. -- James Ogley (riggwelter) openSUSE Member GNOME Team and Planet SUSE e: riggwelter(a)opensuse.org w: http://opensuse.org/GNOME t: @riggwelter w: http://www.planetsuse.org openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org -- 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] RFC: xsane vs simple-scan
by Vincent Untz 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hi, I recently packaged simple-scan, which is, hmm, a simple scan application :-) It feels much better as a GNOME app than xsane, and so I'm wondering if we should switch to it by default instead of xsane. Can people give it a try and evaluate it? Note that it doesn't ship with a gimp plugin, so that's one big difference with xsane. 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] Empathy by default. Again :-)
by Vincent Untz 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hey, So it's that time of the year again, where we discuss shipping empathy as default IM client: https://features.opensuse.org/308281 As far as I can tell, the last unresolved issues we have with it are: + the handling of certificates, especially for groupwise + proxies As a reminder, empathy offers a better GNOME integration, as long as several cool features (share your desktop!), and has an intuitive UI. IMHO, if the certificate issue is really just for groupwise, we should ignore it. As for proxies, I'll let Dominique comment there. My guess, though, is that most people don't have to use proxies, so are not affected. People using proxies will know that they have to use one, and can use pidgin instead. What do you think? 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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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Upgraded to 2.30- Evolution Problems <SOLVED>
by Anshul Jain 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Le mercredi 31 mars 2010, à 04:37 +0000, Anshul Jain a écrit : >> Hi, >> I got upgraded to GNOME 2.30 this morning through the >> Factory/openSUSE_11.2 repo. Overall GNOME feels snappy and fast. But >> Evolution seems to be really borked up. Evolution shows only the >> Contacts component and not the Mail, Calendar etc. A screenshot at :- >> http://www.imagebam.com/image/e00b9c74296963 > > Weird, and absolutely no idea what would cause this :/ Anybody from the > evo team that could quickly look at this? > > 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 > > False alarm, I later on noticed that evolution-data-server was not installed. Now its all fine :) My apologies for it..I did notice another thing, everything in Evo seems to be "center jusitified" as opposed to "left justified". The emails in vertical view, the switcher buttons etc are all "center justified". Also, there is no Rhythmbox in the 2.30 repos :( Is there going to be an /Apps repo for 2.30 which contains all of the Apps compiled against 2.30? Regards Anshul -- 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] Request to add new pidgin-embeddedvideo package
by Rastislav Krupanský 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi folks. Ubuntu geek introduces quite interesting feature - Watch videos directly into your Pidgin conversation http://www.ubuntugeek.com/watch-videos-directly-into-your-pidgin-conversatio n.html Could anyone build and add this package into openSUSE repo (i have no skill for building)? Source is available here http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-embeddedvideo/downloads/list Thanks. -- 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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[opensuse-gnome] Why is it not possible to include Brltty daemon to The official Opensuse repository?
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Dear core developers of Opensuse, I woulod like to valuably and with highest respect ask You, why it is not possible to include Brltty daemon to The Opensuse official repository? Brltty is depend on libicui and other libraries and it is really not easy to find compatible libraries to use brltty.rpm downloaded from The official Brltty WEB site. Susbblinux screen reader, eventhough it can be downloaded from repository, it supports only Com serial port and speech-dispatcher and if visually impaired user want to constructively cooperate with Your development team, without access to The console, it is not easy. For example, setting The necessary new values by using gconf. I would like to initiate constructive discussion about including Brltty to The official Opensuse repository. I know, that console based screen readers such as Yasr, Speakup are based on speech-dispatcher to be usable with sound cart and with Espeak synthesizer. Believe me, that i do not want to intrude You, but try to imagine, that You are no sight and You want to access The Opensuse console. Not many new computers are equipped with COM serial port and braille devices, which are using COM ports will be ralely used in future. If suseblinux is now more advanced and can use for example Tieman Braille Voyager connected throught The USB port, please let me know. By the way, i tested Suseblinux and i think, that it is one of The best awailable console based screen readers for Linux in general. It is simple and can reliably read many necessary information without user need to use many complex functions, which can be inwoked by various hod keys. But i found out, that Orca and Espeak are working reliably according to The my attempts, when i executed Orca from The console. And somebody of You modified Espeak and Pulseaudio, so The speech responsiveness is approximately 50 or 60 percent better than while working with Opensuse 11.2 live CD Gnome. So please, if it is not too expensive, would i please somebody of us to try to prepare Brltty.rpm for Opensuse? Here is direct download link for downloading latest .rpm Brltty package. http://mielke.cc/brltty/releases/brltty-4.1-1.i386.rpm Source .rpm can be downloaded by using http://mielke.cc/brltty/releases/brltty-4.1-1.src.rpm Please keep in mynd, that triing to use rpm -i --nodeps .rpm Package file will not solve issues with dependencyes. I did not tried to install Brltty by this way while working with Opensuse 11.3 milestone latest version, but if YOu did not include necessary .so libraryes, on which Brltty depends on, it will probably not work. Thank You for any advice. With 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] Upgraded to 2.30- Evolution Problems
by Anshul Jain 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, I got upgraded to GNOME 2.30 this morning through the Factory/openSUSE_11.2 repo. Overall GNOME feels snappy and fast. But Evolution seems to be really borked up. Evolution shows only the Contacts component and not the Mail, Calendar etc. A screenshot at :- http://www.imagebam.com/image/e00b9c74296963 Regards Anshul -- 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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