Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME LiveCD and Installer

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Brown
Hi, Thinking out loud, isn't this is going to be more of an interesting issue in 12.1? if it's going to be GNOME 3, it wont be ABLE to have any icons on the desktop Maybe an application icon is the way to go forward.. Richard >>> Andreas Jaeger 6/21/2011 12:54 PM >>> Hi, in the past the Li

Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME LiveCD and Installer

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Brown
-shell does not show icons on the desktop, so you have to go poking around the file system or using your valid YaST approach R >>> Basil Chupin 6/21/2011 1:26 PM >>> On 21/06/11 22:15, Richard Brown wrote: > Hi, > > Thinking out loud, isn't this is going to be m

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Banshee in GNOME:Apps

2011-07-15 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Nelson, I'd like to see banshee-community-extensions in GNOME:Apps Do you know why the openSUSE banshee-community-extensions is missing the visualisation extension that normally comes in that bundle? Rich >>> Nelson Marques 7/14/2011 10:12 PM >>> Hi all, A few time ago I've sent an ema

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Banshee in GNOME:Apps

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Brown
you mean). I'm going to check this later on and test it. If > we can provide it, I'll enable it... though from a first approach I > think this is most likely to keep backward compatibility with older > releases of *SUSE. > > I'll report back about this soon. > > T

[opensuse-gnome] Remove Tracker in 12.1?

2011-09-19 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All, Along the same vein as the decision to include Shotwell by default,I would like to propose the removal of Tracker from the default GNOME installation pattern in 12.1 Unlike previous versions, tracker is no longer well integrated into GNOME - it is not used by the gnome-shell search w

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Remove Tracker in 12.1?

2011-09-19 Thread Richard Brown
And it looks like brasero in factory requires it.. welp looks like there's a ton of good reasons not to get rid of tracker, I'm going to learn to live with it :) Richard / Ilmehtar >>> Pavol Rusnak 09/19/11 11:04 AM >>> On 09/19/2011 11:58 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Actually, GNOME is moving

[opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-artwork] Sonor

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Again Marcus, Probably best you discuss this on opensuse-gnome (cc'd) There was discussion at the GNOME 3 session at oSC which decided that it was highly likely we will be using the default theme in 12.1, but perhaps with Sonar-GTK3 packaged as an option Since then, half-left, the person

[opensuse-gnome] alt-status-menu as default?

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Brown
remain as the default behaviour for lid close (changeable in tweak-tool) and upon ACPI power button (with no easy way of changing) Time is getting short so vuntz suggests we have a deadline of Tuesday to discuss this.. please say yes, or have really good arguments for why not! :) Richard Brown op

Re: [opensuse-gnome] alt-status-menu as default?

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Brown
>>> Malcolm 10/21/11 3:33 PM >>> >Hi >My vote is for No. Shutdown is still there via the alt key? My problem with this is, how are users (many of whom will be new to GNOME 3.x) know to press the Alt key? >Why, all the shell extensions will move to be user based via the >sweettooth browser plugin

Re: [opensuse-gnome] alt-status-menu as default?

2011-10-28 Thread Richard Brown
vendredi 21 octobre 2011, à 14:47 +0100, Richard Brown a écrit : > I therefore propose adding gnome-shell-extension-alt-status-menu to our default patterns Thanks to Richard, this should now be done. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse-gnome] 12.1 is done, what's next? :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Richard Brown
p software.o.o? (and in the process make something better for all openSUSE users, not just GNOMErs) I think I've got a few other things bubbling away that I'd like us to think about but those are the top 4 that spring to mind.. Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College

[opensuse-gnome] How does Nautilus detect 'remote' file systems?

2011-11-20 Thread Richard Brown
I'm curious as to how Nautilus is meant to detect 'remote' file systems, for the purpose of the 'Local Files Only' option in Nautilus's Preferences > Preview Tab Does anyone know how it's meant to work? I have a machine with a number of mounts to remote NCP volumes Unfortunately nautilus seem

[opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-project] stupid 12.1

2011-12-21 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Albert, As your email focuses very much on gnome, I'm CC'ing this reply to the opensuse-gnome mailinglist so my fellow gnomers can read your feedback. 1. Differences: In my opinion, the responsibility of a project like ours, producing Linux distributions, is to provide a solid, stable, in

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Default extensions for our implimentation.

2012-05-22 Thread Richard Brown
>>> Andrew Wafaa 05/22/12 10:02 AM >>> >I would rather we had no extensions shipped by default, but that's just >me :-) I'd agree, if the alt-status-menu functionality was built in by default Having that extension as a default is exceptional to solve what I consider to be a very important usabi

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Any interest in a green Adwaita theme?

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Brown
>>> "Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar" 03/12/2012 >>> 09:02 >>> > >Quoting Michael Catanzaro : >> >> 1) Am I nuts for wanting this? Anyone else interested? Could something >> similar happen for 12.3? >Not at all! Not to long ag

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Any interest in a green Adwaita theme?

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Brown
>>> Michael Catanzaro 12/05/12 2:04 AM >>> >Yes, I'd found that but I think the images are all stored in a binary >file, so it won't be quite as simple to modify as the stuff I've done so >far. And I'd been hoping that the color wouldn't be baked into a PNG, >but I guess it is. Well still learning

Re: [opensuse-gnome] gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu not working?

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Aj! I've just tested this - it looks like the problem was a miss-match between the Extension version and the gnome-shell version on the RC1 DVD If you update to the latest packages in the 12.3 repositories, you'll see the issue is resolved, so I'm going to close your bug Thanks for the report

Re: [opensuse-gnome] gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu not working?

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Brown
On 11 February 2013 13:16, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Is this a missing recompilation or is something missing here? I'll test > later today... > > Cheers, > > Andreas We've had this happen quite a bit in the past with our extensions packages (which is why this is the last one left) - because an ex

[opensuse-gnome] Unable to click anything/gnome shell freezing - looking for people with the same symptom

2013-05-05 Thread Richard Brown
I'm having a very weird problem with one of my machines The Symptom - shortly after logging in, gnome-shell will be 'non-responsive' with the hot corners, Super/Windows Key, etc all failing to do anything. Clicking on the Activities or User Menu gets no response However, the machine is otherwise

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Some changes to the patterns

2013-09-03 Thread Richard Brown
On 3 September 2013 15:39, Marco Calistri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Il 03/09/2013 00:25, Michael Catanzaro ha scritto: >> Hey GNOMEers, >> >> I've got some suggested changes to the applications we install by >> default: >> >> >> Proposed additions: bijiben, deja-

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: > Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1 because it results being no > more working to setting up new app/icons in main Menu and we must > proceed by hand making custom /usr/share/ .desktop entries. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, > > -- > Marc

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On 15 January 2014 10:41, Richard Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: >> Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1 because it results being no >> more working to setting up new app/icons in main Menu and we must >> proceed by hand mak

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On 15 January 2014 12:52, Marco Calistri wrote: > Il 15/01/2014 07:46, Richard Brown ha scritto: >> On 15 January 2014 10:41, Richard Brown wrote: >>> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: >>>> Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1 because

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On 15 January 2014 13:17, Richard Brown wrote: > On 15 January 2014 12:52, Marco Calistri wrote: >> Il 15/01/2014 07:46, Richard Brown ha scritto: >>> On 15 January 2014 10:41, Richard Brown wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: &g

Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME 3.12 and openSUSE 13.1

2014-03-27 Thread Richard Brown
On 27 March 2014 22:51, Mathias Homann wrote: > Am Donnerstag 27 März 2014, 21:05:12 schrieb Efstathios Iosifidis: > >> As you probably know, GNOME 3.12 is out. >> What is the plan for openSUSE? >> I guess extra repository that will add GNOME 3.12. >> Any instructions? Any ideas when we'll have it

Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME 3.12 and openSUSE 13.1

2014-04-02 Thread Richard Brown
On 2 April 2014 13:46, Mathias Homann wrote: > Am Donnerstag 27 März 2014, 23:36:40 schrieb Richard Brown: > >> Um, openSUSE 13.1's OSS repos includes GNOME 3.10 so :-p >> If people want it for other versions and are willing to step up to >> package, test and main

Re: [opensuse-gnome] wireless icon in OS 13.1

2014-04-11 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 04:42 +0100, Carl Fletcher wrote: > Using opensuse 13.1 stock gnome > Wireless works fine but the tray icon is flaky. > > It doesn't always display the connected icon even though it has connected. > This can happen about 50% of the time and it can be from a cold reboot or >

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using Yast with QT GUI

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Brown
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 12:08 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: > Hi list, > > Wonder if are there any hopes to have back the QT Yast GUI working in > current and next openSUSE releases, as it was before. > > In my humble opinion the actual Yast GUI (which if I'm not wrong is gtk > based) looks uglier i

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using Yast with QT GUI

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Brown
On 13 May 2014 22:22, Marco Calistri wrote: > I will provide a screenshot as soon I will be in my home but the fact is > that by using Yast itself to choice the default preferred GUI for Yast > and by setting it to be QT then Yast GUI doesn't works at all. > > See you later. > > Cheers, > -- > Mar

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using Yast with QT GUI

2014-05-15 Thread Richard Brown
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 22:24 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: > Il 14/05/2014 11:55, Marco Calistri ha scritto: > > Il 13/05/2014 19:43, Richard Brown ha scritto: > >> On 13 May 2014 22:22, Marco Calistri > >> wrote: > >>> I will provide a screenshot as soon I w

[opensuse-gnome] GNOME:STABLE:3.12 Updated

2014-05-23 Thread Richard Brown
Hi all GNOME:STABLE:3.12 should be in the process of building/publishing the latest packages for 3.12.x I think we've not missed anything, but if I'm wrong or you spot any other issues, please let us know Thanks to Zaitor for doing most of the footwork :) Happy Gnoming! - Richard -- To unsubs

Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME:STABLE:3.12 Updated

2014-05-23 Thread Richard Brown
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 17:18 +0200, Mathias Homann wrote: > > On 23. Mai 2014 17:06:13 MESZ, Richard Brown wrote: > >Hi all > > > >GNOME:STABLE:3.12 should be in the process of building/publishing the > >latest packages for 3.12.x > > > Could there be

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-05-30 Thread Richard Brown
@Marco - > power-management in openSUSE 13.1 is really inefficient and unreliable. I read your email, but I never responded to it as I have personal experience with over half a dozen laptops which behave differently (in fact, exactly as you request). For example, on the x220 I'm using to write th

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-06-01 Thread Richard Brown
On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 01:59 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: > I executed your command but here on my machine something is not > working: > > If I use --no-daemon the result is this: > > marco@linux-turion64:~/upower> > /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gnome-settings-daemon --no-daemon > --debug >

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-06-27 Thread Richard Brown
On 27 June 2014 18:08, Marco Calistri wrote: > Dear Richard, > > I opened a bug some time ago but I am sure nobody have take it to verify: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880869 > BIG SNIP! You're wrong to think that no one has paid attention to this issue. I've been looking at

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-07-30 Thread Richard Brown
On 30 July 2014 21:10, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I am running this now and am pleased about the improvements I am > seeing. Nothing revolutionary, but network management for wired > connections seems improved, some visual improvements (somewhat > approaching Android in terms of messages boxes, inte

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Question re GNOME' future as it applies to Tumbleweed/openSUSE 42.x

2015-07-19 Thread Richard Brown
On 19 July 2015 at 12:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Basil Chupin [07-19-15 03:10]: >> 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

Re: [opensuse-gnome] black background with TW20160105

2016-01-09 Thread Richard Brown
On 9 January 2016 at 17:27, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote: > >> That does not sound intentional at all, no.. and the openQA tests show >> that they have a valid background set. > > openQA works with fresh installs. It also works with upgrades, but the

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Disabling touchpad while typing?

2016-05-22 Thread Richard Brown
On 22 May 2016 at 21:40, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On the other hand, xf86-input-synaptics _is_ installed and when > I manually invoke syndaemon, that addresses the problem. > > > Manually invoking syndaemon does not strike me as an approach we > want to force on our users (and I would not have tho