July 2010 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] Warning for G:F users: do not upgrade for a few days
by Vincent Untz 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, Dominique has submitted his branch with tons of changes to G:F, and we will start accepting the changes shortly. I highly recommend that people using G:F do not upgrade in the next few days unless they really know what they're doing :-) It should all still work fine, but since we don't know yet... 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] Pet Peeves in GNOME
by Atri Bhattacharya 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi! I hope this is taken in the right spirit, but I wanted to list a few of my pet peeves with the GNOME desktop in openSUSE. I want to do this so that I can help get these fixed [by tracking in upstream bugs, openSUSE bugs or trying to see if I can fix them so on], hopefully by the next release. I think it would be a good thing to list the minor problems GNOME users face generally or in openSUSE alone, and I will list them somewhere in the Wiki [probably just in my user page first], so that we can start looking into these issues very early for the next version of openSUSE. Let us just keep this list to minor usability issues, so that something like "YaST-GTK vs YaST-QT [Redux]" is probably not very contextual. My pet peeves:- 1. openSUSE: Notification/tooltip theme in openSUSE -- openSUSE 11.3 comes out in a couple of days, but it still uses the same notification/tooltip theme used in the earlier versions. Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.04 on the other hand have moved to a much more elegant tooltip/notification theme [see http://static.arstechnica.com/assets/2010/03/ubuntu_darktheme-thumb-640xaut… ] which does add some beauty to the desktop. 2. Upstream: Icon scrambling in the desktop -- Too often something like this happens: insert USB disk, safely remove USB disk, create a document "X" in the desktop (around the same location where the USB disk icon was), and re-insert USB disk. The USB-disk icon and the X icon appear on top of each other, making it impossible to click on one without dragging the icon of the other to some other place in the desktop. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613111 3. openSUSE: The menu thing (bug 595912), but that looks fixed in Factory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-06/msg00013.html 4. openSUSE: CD drive getting locked in by the GNOME desktop https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=418944 -- Happens only in GNOME, and not on KDE. Also does not happen in Fedora/Ubuntu. Please let me know your pet peeves about the GNOME desktop in this thread. Bye -- 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] Team reports & other stuff
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello Mates, i would like to invite you to publish your weekly review in our Weekly News. Maybe you have seen, that we have a special place for team reports there. You can send news, suggestions and other stuff to: own- submit(a)opensuse.org. Thanks a löt for your work, :-) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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[opensuse-gnome] Applets rearranging on panel due to resolution change
by Atri Bhattacharya 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi! I thought this problem was solved already. From the GNOME 2.30 Release Notes:- "In addition to a number of bug fixes, GNOME Panel has fixed a long outstanding bug in that when you change your screen resolution, applets will no longer randomly change position." Yet, I continue to see this problem [see http://imagebin.us/images/f1b5zvfpwba55abg7b9.png ] Is this an openSUSE issue? Should I file a bug? -- 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] Fwd: What is the plan for themes for new gdm? (Offensive Word Found In Message)
by Sankar P 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

I believe this thread will be interesting for us also. One more annoying problem with the current gdm is the Userlist always shown. Sankar

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[opensuse-gnome] Looking for testers on 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 :-)
by Vincent Untz 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi, I'm playing with the GNOME:STABLE repositories, and we'd need a few people to test things if possible: + if you're running openSUSE 11.1 and if you use GNOME:STABLE:2.26 or want to use it, please tell us: we can do a few more updates in G:S:2.26 but we'd like to double-check our changes are fine with some testing. + if you're running openSUSE 11.1 or 11.2 and if you use GNOME:STABLE:2.28 or want to use it, same thing: there are updates we can do, and some testing would be welcome. + if you're running openSUSE 11.2 or 11.3 and if you're interested in the latest GNOME 2.30 packages, you can help by testing GNOME:STABLE:2.30. It's currently not published, but I want to make sure first that there are people who can test it if I publish it, so we can fix issues quickly. So here's a summary of GNOME/openSUSE versions where you can help: GNOME 2.26 GNOME 2.28 GNOME 2.30 openSUSE 11.1 X X openSUSE 11.2 X X openSUSE 11.3 X We're only asking you to install packages and report any big new issue quickly. That's really all we need, and we're blocking on testers before we push any changes in those repos so you are the ones who can make things move :-) 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] gnome-shell on 11.3 (virtual) failure
by Marco Calistri 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi List, Attempted to install and start gnome-shell on a 11.3 virtual-machine failed and now reverting to gdm seems impossible since I get a blank (white) screen whenever I try to login into Gnome. Cheers, Marco -- 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] testing G:S:2.30
by James Ogley 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

I've upgraded to G:S:2.30 (zypper ar/zypper dup) The dup worked flawlessly, wasn't told about any busted dependencies or anything. Once it had finished, I rebooted, to ensure a clean system. One bug I had open for 11.3 is now fixed. One niggle is that the GDM greeter doesn't show my user image any more and when I logged in, I got the message telling me that the GDM Greeter couldn't support save current session and would have to be restarted next time. -- 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] Creation of G:S:2.30
by Vincent Untz 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, I just created G:S:2.30: it's something we should actually have done earlier, but we were busy. It's currently empty, but I'm attaching a list of packages from G:F, with three categories: + the first one is what I think we should copy (assuming there's a diff between the package in G:F and the one in 11.2, or there's a new upstream version) + then there's a "not sure" category: we need to look if it's really useful to copy it to G:S:2.30 + and finally a category for packages that probably shouldn't be copied. I'm hoping that people can review this list and start pushing stuff to G:S:2.30. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

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[opensuse-gnome] Reviewing the release cycle of openSUSE 11.3 / GNOME Team
by Dominique Leuenberger 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Dear openSUSE GNOME interested users / contributors. openSUSE 11.3 has landed and in a unstoppable effort, development on the next release has certainly already started. Yet, we should try to step back for a few minutes, trying to analyze what we did right in this cycle, what went wrong, what do we want to repeat and what certainly has to be avoided. I think, from my point of view, we managed pretty well during the entire cycle to stay up-to-date with upstream development and packages were almost up-to-date the same day GNOME Upstream had a release. We had some very valuable bug reports coming in, but on those I'm afraid a big bunch started only coming in during RC phase, which was very difficult for to get all of them addressed in time. Organizational, I would have to say though that we, the gnome team, were lousy in keeping up to any outlined schedule for meetings. Shame on us on this one! I'm sure having those regularly could make it easier for not-yet-contributors to jump in, having a decent starting point. Also, I feel we're lacking a up-to-date ToDo list, which we could also hand out to willing contributors to catch up with us (there are several application / packaging requests in openFATE of course... but not everybody wants to do packaging). So, let's rumble, let's get all the feelings, good and bad out, let's learn from our mistakes and let's keep the good behaviour we developed for the next release. 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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