Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-09-01 Thread Markku Kolkka
1.9.2011 16:12, Tim kirjoitti: I've often wondered how such languages are typed. Whether the keys pressed to construct a character relate to drawing certain shaped lines in certain places (a stroke here, a stroke there), some sort spelling out the word that the character represents, Both of

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:17:00PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I don't think I've hit the freezing-emacs bug. What triggers it? What's the BZ #? In my case it happens whenever the Emacs window is minimized and then reopened. I have to maximize it and then select a buffer each time to get it

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, different graphics hardware. As installed, all three were kinda OK. After recent updates all three now take about 5 seconds to change windows. A warning box popping up is a minimum 10s activity - 5 seconds to appear, and

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/31/2011 09:02 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: using the mouse is slow, so we need to be able to define a shortcut for everything. And how are you going to remember them all? Or have enough keys to give everything a unique hotkey. I can only ever

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:17:00PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I don't think I've hit the freezing-emacs bug. What triggers it? What's the BZ #? In my case it happens whenever the Emacs window is minimized and then reopened.

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Dave Cross
]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15? You have two ways to go, either learn to love gnome or quit gnome :-( Not quite

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread gpe
On 08/29/2011 05:23 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. I still remember the times when KDE4 was born. It was terrible comparing to 3.5. After a while it was started to evolved, it became more stable and more user friendly. Seems

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 08/30/2011 06:05 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: On 08/30/2011 08:24 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/29/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: What makes you say its designed for tablets? Its design seems far less suitable for a tablet than a desktop. The basic layout, the loss of the second panel and

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/30/2011 06:05 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: You could certainly interpret the look as being inspired by a tablet, but the total inability to use it without a very steady hand makes totally unsuitable for portable devices. Its clearly inspired by the Marquis de Sade. Not having actually

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/30/2011 11:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, etc., to recover lost functionality. Right now, I'm running XFCE 4.6 on my desktop, but I've used a third-party repo to upgrade my laptop to 4.8. (I'm always a tad more careful with

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/29/2011 09:23 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 29.08.2011, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Seems nobody likes it (me included). Frankly, Gnome3 is broken by design and a f*cking piece of cr*p :-) All the students at my college who

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 05:30 AM, gpe wrote: On 08/29/2011 05:23 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. I still remember the times when KDE4 was born. It was terrible comparing to 3.5. After a while it was started to evolved, it became more

9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

2011-08-30 Thread Jorge Rivera
I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 Jorge J.Rivera Tech Support Analyst T. + 52 55 21229114 M. +52 5514526200 Mexico D.F., Mexico e-mail: jriv...@tpmex.com http://www.teleperformance.com/ cid:image007.png@01CBEE17.5B058CE0 http://teleperformance.com

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/30/2011 12:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: XFCE: 1) Does XFCE allow creation of new panels, left/right/top(or bottom) with features such as hiding panels which appears only when the mouse is moved into the screen edges? Yes, it does. From the Main Menu, go to Preference,

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2011 11:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, etc., to recover lost functionality. Right now, I'm running XFCE 4.6 on my desktop, but I've used a third-party repo to upgrade my laptop to

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/30/2011 12:48 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Good idea, a Gnome-2 to Gnome-3 migration tool? This might work if done as an upgrade, but can this tool be smart enough to ask if one wishes to import after a fresh install, be it a partition or virtual space? I don't see why not. All it has

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread stan
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, etc., to recover lost functionality.

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2011 12:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: XFCE: 1) Does XFCE allow creation of new panels, left/right/top(or bottom) with features such as hiding panels which appears only when the mouse is moved into the screen edges? Yes, it does.

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, stan wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work

Re: 9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

2011-08-30 Thread stan
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:45:26 -0500 Jorge Rivera jriv...@tpmex.com wrote: I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 Your question renders as without meaning, not clear, in English. So you probably won't get any responses. I think there is a Spanish list for Fedora.

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/31/2011 02:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, different graphics hardware. As installed,

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Julius Smith
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Underwood ste...@coppice.org wrote: I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, different graphics hardware. As installed, all three were kinda OK. After recent updates all three now take about 5 seconds to change windows. A

Re: 9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

2011-08-30 Thread Julius Smith
If you are referring to my general comments re. GNOME 3, then yes, that's on Fedora 15. - jos 2011/8/30 Jorge Rivera jriv...@tpmex.com I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 ** ** *Jorge J.Rivera* Tech Support Analyst T. + 52 55 21229114 M. +52

GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Cross
I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15? Cheers

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 03:08 PM, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:38:16 +0100, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Tim Evans
On 08/29/2011 09:36 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x releases. One wonders how this

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.08.2011, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Seems nobody likes it (me included). Frankly, Gnome3 is broken by design and a f*cking piece of cr*p :-) All the students at my college who use(d) Linux/Gnome2 before have switched, and

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/29/2011 03:36 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Personally I'm now using XFCE. As am I. I wonder how many people are walking away from Gnome because they don't want to use a UI designed for a tablet on their desktop or laptop? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:46:46 -0700 Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 08/29/2011 03:36 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Personally I'm now using XFCE. As am I. I wonder how many people are walking away from Gnome because they don't want to use a UI designed for a tablet on their desktop or

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/29/2011 06:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that Fedora along with

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 10:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: It's opensource - Everybody has the liberty to take these $$$-OSes source packages and to adopt them for ones needs, rsp. to submit these packages back into Fedora. In theory, yes. In practise, not many people are typically interested in doing

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:02:14 -0500 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that Fedora along with

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that Fedora along with

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/29/2011 11:53 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote: There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream, which no longer exists. That depends. Nautilus exists. Metacity bug fixes probably are common to Mutter and sometimes patches will have to be written from scratch as well

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.08.2011 20:23, schrieb Chris Kloiber: On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be something you need to keep in mind. This

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:28:25 -0500 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 29.08.2011 20:23, schrieb Chris Kloiber: On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Note that GNOME 2.x

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:02, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: In the short run you can use fallback mode, which has a very similar feel to gnome 2. In the long run, no one has started a gnome 2 fork Oh really? ;-) A Fork Of GNOME 2: The Mate Desktop Posted by Michael Larabel on August

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 16:12, Ranjan Maitra mai...@iastate.edu wrote: Perhaps XFCE? I use LXDE, but I don't know if it could be considered to have functionality. I've pulled my hair trying to tweak LXDE. I've found XFCE is much better, with similiar low memory requirements but without the

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/29/2011 12:58 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Power and memory requirements of KDE, Gnome, XFCE and LXDE compared http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_desktop_vitalsnum=1 This is with Gnome 2.29.1 and XFCE 4.6. I'd like to see Gnome 3 and XFCE 4.8 compared this way. --

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 16:50:01 -0300, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: A Fork Of GNOME 2: The Mate Desktop I usually read Phoronix, but I missed that article. That provides an opportunity for someone to package it for Fedora. There still could be issues with doing so, but at least

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/30/2011 12:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/29/2011 03:36 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Personally I'm now using XFCE. As am I. I wonder how many people are walking away from Gnome because they don't want to use a UI designed for a tablet on their desktop or laptop? What makes you say its

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/29/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: What makes you say its designed for tablets? Its design seems far less suitable for a tablet than a desktop. The basic layout, the loss of the second panel and the dependence on gestures all sounds like something designed for a tablet, or at