Now that I switched towards using Factory for a fair amount of my time again (How's that for being brave? ;-) I made a couple of observations around the recent GNOME 3.14 update which I figured I'd share to hopefully make the experience a bit smoother for others and hopefully some improvements for openSUSE 13.2. The good: - Things generally work just fine! Performance is fine, the UI fresh, some improvements such as sorting timezones in the Clocks applet (thanks Michael Gorse!), nm-connection-editor no longer referring to FirewallD (thanks Dominique),... have been integrated. And, do not let this mail mislead you, please: I am not meaning to rant, and generally a happy user. Where things work, it's kind of hard to write a lot about it, though. That is why this section is the shortest of the three. ;-) The bad: - As in Gnome 3.12 already, every time I connect to a new wireless network, I have to enter the root password. This is a regression from openSUSE 13.1. Do you want a formal bug report? - Configuration loss: Going from 3.12 to 3.14 lost a number of settings, including the fact that I had "minimize window" and "maximize window" buttons configured via TweakTool. Setting these in TweakTool again under "Windows" fixed it for me, but why did this get lost? Do you want a formal bug report? - Configuration loss: Similarly, gnome-terminal which had been showing black text on white background forever, including the update from openSUSE 13.1 to Gnome 3.12, suddenly appear yellow on black or something after upgrading to Gnome 3.14. What happened there? Do you want a formal bug report? - Most of my Gnome Shell extensions stopped working, including "Media player indicator" and "Openweather". Trying to update these via TweakTool resulted in the button turning "Error". That makes three issues here: 1. Gnome version update breaks extensions. 2. "Update" of Extensions in TweakTool does not work. 3. No useful error messages or other feedback for the above. (Removing the two extensions and then reinstalling them by pointing Firefox to extensions.gnome.org worked just fine.) The ugly: - Being behind a slow and unreliable network for some days, I had to udate the system piecemeal and ran into missing dependencies on a package / package base ( http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=899776 "gnome-clocks lacks dependencies: undefined symbol: gtk_application_get_menu_by_id" ). Luckily it was only this, or I might not have had a running desktop environment for a day or two. - Design: The upstream Gnome designers still force title bars that consume 10% of my screen height (yes, I'm exaggerating, only midly though) upon me. Is there a better way to fix that than hacking title_vertical_pad in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml after every update? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.com> Sr. Director Product Management and Operations, SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org