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[opensuse-gnome] save file dialog
by Olaf Hering 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Are there tweaks to get a better save-file dialog? What happens right now with the attachment link in a bugzilla comment, right-click, link save as... the window can not be moved to see what is behind that file dialog window. How can it be moved? Fiddling with the titlebar just resizes the FF window. Now moving the file dialog window moves both. This can apeparently not be undone, so Abort is the only way out. Inside that filedialog its cumbersome to navigate with keyboard. The focus is appearently in the filename, which makes it easy to lose the info from bugzilla. ctrl+l used to open a path dialog. The only workaround is to use the mouse to navigate starting from /. Fortunately it remembers the last folder in "Recent entries". Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] favorites not displayed correctly in activities
by Olaf Hering 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Sometimes only 8 favourite apps are displayed in the activities menu, but it should be 12. Has anyone seen such misbehaviour? I think they are drawn correctly again if I launch an app from the applist. Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] lack of visual feedback
by Olaf Hering 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

The lack of visual feedback from apps like pidgin or skype is disgusting. Does upstream have some cool new thing cooking for such apps that is just not yet in 3.16? Empathy is appearently still in early development stage. The import wizard is drawn incorrectly, the UI looks odd in many places, it will most likely not import the history of other apps. And the visual feedback it provides is odd as well. There is that topicons extension which is supposed to move the app icons out of that silly tray from the lower left corner. But it does not work for me. Does it work for anyone else? Appearently the API changed and noone bothered to update the extension. I tried the variants from Rub4ek/topiconsmod and anarsoul/topIcons. Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] default app for mimetypes
by Olaf Hering 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '15

How can I influence the default app for a given mimetype? On my system gimp is used for pdf documents, instead of evince. There seems to be nothing for such task in control center. Does digikam/fate and the libs they pull in influence that by any chance?! Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] adjusting ctrl-w setting
by Olaf Hering 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Many months (or years?) ago someone made GNOME3 usable by providing a knob to control the result of ctrl-w. Instead of closing the window it wipes the just typed word, as expected. I think it used to be in control-center,details. Now with SLE12 I can not find this knob anymore. What happend to it, how do I get a usable ctrl-w? Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] pidgin integration
by Olaf Hering 08 Aug '15

08 Aug '15

I just noticed that pidgin fails to notify properly when a new GW conversion is requested. It used to blink the icon, and play a sound. Now neither happens. In the prefs the sounds are set to default, and appearenly pidgin is unable to play any sound. That leaves the visible notification. How is an app supposed to notify that something happend? I just got that silly popup that a window is ready. Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] disable window grouping
by Olaf Hering 07 Aug '15

07 Aug '15

One annoying thing with TW is the grouping of windows per app in the Alt+Tab switcher. While I can get away with a single xterm+thunderbird+whatever window, it becomes cumbersome with private+non-private Firefox windows. Does our version of GNOME contain a knob to get a usable behaviour? If not, please add one. GNOME Tweak Tool does not seem to contain a knob. Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] moving firefox tabs around
by Olaf Hering 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

How does one move firefox tabs from one window to another? With a usable GNOME, as shipped in 11.4, one drags it down to the desired window in the taskbar, which causes it to come to the front. Now the tab can be dropped into that window. Now with TW this is very cumbersome: one has to click to the tab thing in the hope that the window becomes unmaximised or otherwise changes size. This causes the other windows to become visible. Now there is a slim chance that the desired window is visible, and the tab can be moved over to that window. Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Question re GNOME' future as it applies to Tumbleweed/openSUSE 42.x
by Basil Chupin 19 Jul '15

19 Jul '15

Perhaps this question could be best asked in openSUSE Factory but I think that it is more relevant for this list. I selected Gnome as the preferred desktop environment when I installed a trial copy of (the latest snapshot of) Tumbleweed (TW) a couple of days ago. I did this because the KDE desktop which I have always used over the years has been replace by an abomination called Plasma5 and I wanted to see what Gnome now looks like. My question is: will GNOME continue to be as sensible in its configuration and presentation as I now see it (at least in TW I installed) or will it be totally replaced by Plasma5 in openSUSE 42.x which is being planned for release sometime this coming November? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.1.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] First findings on Gnome 3.16
by Gerald Pfeifer 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Yesterday my Factory/Tumbleweed system got updates to Gnome 3.16. Things seem to work in general, though there are some areas where I still see room for improvement and/or need some help. 1. Design: The upstream Gnome designers still force title bars that consume too much of my screen height upon me. In the past I could hack the title_vertical_pad settings in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml. Now those XML-based schemes seem gone. How can I perform such tweaking going forward? 2. Design: (Folder) icons on desktop are quite a bit larger than previous, and way too large for my taste and needs. However I failed to find a way to reducing their size again. 3. As in the past most of my Gnome Shell extensions stopped working. Unlike the Gnome 3.12 to 3.14 upgrade, updating via TweakTool actually is working now, a definite improvement. However many extensions "broke" that actually did not. That is, just hacking 3.16 into .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json made them work again. (And, yes, I also reported all such cases to the upstream authors and they adjusted their extensions within hours.) This remains a design failure that I hope is going to be addressed at one point? Any help with items 1 and 2 will be appreciated. Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> Sr. Director Product Management and Operations, SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner(a)opensuse.org

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