On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 16:30 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have often, over the years, asked questions about how to do things in gnome, and more often than not, they go unanswered. Do we have to aggressively rant in the wrong list to get explanations on how to do things, to get the help I need?
Point valid that this has been a problem over the years, although I must say when I visit the #opensuse-gnome freenode channel at a well-timed hour, I usually get fairly good replies back. The last few days alone have been extremely helpful (thank goodness, because it is the holiday season and I was worried no one would be around, hehe.) To be sure, there really isn't a plethora of GNOME users who can be on stand-by to answer general support questions in the openSUSE mediums. But I do wonder if that's really a bad thing. If we have a question/issue about the GNOME desktop, shouldn't we be going over to the GNOME Foundation's mediums? Except for very specific openSUSE-implementation aspects of GNOME, the general experience is the same across distros and you'd get a wider audience to hear/answer your questions. By the way, I wanted to go back to an earlier issue you mentioned. You stated that you didn't want to install extensions for GNOME unless they could be zyppered in. Turns out, many (but not all) of the extensions are in fact available via Zypper (as I found out last night) and in fact installing extensions even from the web browser is ridiculously simple. Just click on the "on/off" button in your browser next to the extension and it will automatically install for you. Couldn't be easier! (Thanks to Richard Brown for pointing this out.) And indeed there's an extension to give you notifications called EvilStatusIcon. I installed it but haven't configured it yet, but seems its popular out there to do exactly what you wanted. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org