Re: Sending message to message tray

2012-01-04 Thread G. Michael Carter
...@mecheye.netwrote: notify-send should work. Do you know why it fails? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Thurman tthur...@gnome.org wrote: On 4 January 2012 17:42, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I have some back ground scripts that I want to sent a message to the message tray

Simple Extension to display text

2011-12-22 Thread G. Michael Carter
I have scripts running which dump monitoring stats to a text file, which I then display using conky. I was thinking of moving it to a bubble on the top bar. Anyone have a simple extension I could bastardize for my purposes? Michael ___

Detecting need for fallback

2011-07-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
How does gnome shell detect it's not compatible on a system and fallback is needed? Or is it a case of just waiting for gnome-shell to crash? The reason I ask, I've built a livecd (PXE booted actually) that is text based and grabs things like the hardware profile. As a test I wanted to check

Shell.AppSystem (gnome-shell-extensions)

2011-06-27 Thread G. Michael Carter
Is there a Shell.AppSystem.get_userarea()?Where do I find doco on Shell.AppSystem? I'm playing with a respin/livedvd and I want to add a menu item for help which is in ~liveuser/.local/share/applications/ Michael ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: Shell.AppSystem (gnome-shell-extensions)

2011-06-27 Thread G. Michael Carter
Just realized I'm asking the wrong question. Where's the source for imports.gi.Shell ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread G. Michael Carter
I've basically had this bug open for 2 years. Gnome3 makes things worse. Here's the symptoms. When I first startup everything is working great. After having, thunderbird and/or rdesktop and/or vnc and/or google chrome, open for a while ( 30 minutes - 1 hour) the system eventually starts to

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread G. Michael Carter
to type this message so it wasn't open when the mess started. Mikey On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.frwrote: Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 10:16 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : 1. Anyone have any idea where I should start looking for my issue. It's like

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread G. Michael Carter
better. This time still not back to the original speed but still under 1sec. If I log out completely I'm good again. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.frwrote: Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 10:29 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : On the RAM comment

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread G. Michael Carter
24 juin 2011 à 15:34 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : snip Problem remains even after gnome-shell is rebooted. start closing all the applications and it got much better. This time still not back to the original speed but still under 1sec. If I log out completely I'm good again

Screen recording

2011-06-17 Thread G. Michael Carter
So the CTRL-ALT-SHIFT R works good for recording the video... what about audio? Any way to record the mic with it? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Settings and wiki

2011-06-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
Interesting people's definition of broken. I loaded F15 on my wife's desktop. I didn't have to give her a tour she just started using it, and had no problems. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Bob Gustafson bob...@rcn.com wrote: If the user interface is not intuitive, it is broken. On Thu,

Virtual Box Desktop Icons.

2011-06-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
I created Virtual Box desktop icons by click the menu option in VB. Of course it's rather useless since Gnome 3 has no desktop. Is there place I can copy them to in the /home/myname area? or is the only place for Gnome 3 to pick them up in the /usr/share/applications ?

Re: Virtual Box Desktop Icons.

2011-06-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
That worked thanks. Now I just have to tag them better. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: ~/.local/share/applications is the place to put user-local .desktop files On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote

Re: Gnome 3 Extensions/Themes Website?

2011-06-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
Got a sample we can start bitching about now [?] Or should we wait till the release date to tell you everything that's wrong with it... [?] Michael On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sven K

Re: Gnome 3 Extensions/Themes Website?

2011-06-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
/privacy purposes) for smileys, lots of people are going to miss the sarcasm and just assume you're a jerk. :) On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:39 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: Got a sample we can start bitching about now [?] Or should we wait till the release date to tell you

Workspaces as a Grid

2011-06-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647874 Crap. Anyone up for a challenge... pretty please someone write an extension to do this... *big smile* Mikey ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: [Extension] CPU Temperature - Shows CPU Temperature on Gnome Shell Panel

2011-06-01 Thread G. Michael Carter
I just tried and gnome-shell kept crashing. Is there any required plugins? Also is there any plans to have a wiki page or a common places for all these extensions (something like google chrome or firefox extensions pages)? I can see this being a scattered mess with extensions popping up all

Re: [Extension] CPU Temperature - Shows CPU Temperature on Gnome Shell Panel

2011-06-01 Thread G. Michael Carter
. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: I just tried and gnome-shell kept crashing. Is there any required plugins? Also is there any plans to have a wiki page or a common places for all these extensions (something like google chrome or firefox extensions pages)? I can see this being

Having multiple admins

2011-05-30 Thread G. Michael Carter
I have three people I want to make admins. I've used the user area to make them admins and added them to the wheel group. But when I get the authorization from this step: [mcarter@liandra ~]$ epiphany bash: epiphany: command not found... Install package 'epiphany' to provide command 'epiphany'?

Setting administrators from command line?

2011-05-25 Thread G. Michael Carter
I see to make a user an administrator you go into the system area - users. How do you do it via command line? Michael ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Workspaces slowing me down.

2011-05-16 Thread G. Michael Carter
Well using the short cut keys for Desktop 1-9 is rather useless. You close mail for what every reason and there's no way to put mail back on Workspace 2, without putting it on WS 2 then moving all other windows in WS2 to WS3. WS3 windows to WS4... etc to WS8 windows to WS9. With dynamic

Workspaces slowing me down.

2011-05-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
Usually I work on dual 24 monitors so I'll have maybe 2 virtual windows open. But I was working on a laptop all this week and with the 15 screen I've had about 9 workspaces going. Moving between them I find is slowing me down in Gnome 3. One thing slowing me down is when I need to go from 1 to

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
So when we finish talking this issue to death, does it go on a todo list somewhere? Or should I be logging an enhancement bug? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
I really do need to move it. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I've seen comments in this list before about the dialog box needing to move so you can see what's underneath, and people pointing to setting to undock it. Seems pointless to keep

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
really do need to move it. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I've seen comments in this list before about the dialog box needing to move so you can see what's underneath, and people pointing to setting to undock it. Seems pointless to keep

Having active applications in search

2011-05-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
Without thinking I wanted to get to my browser so I hit the Win key, typed goo and thought wait a minute. Active windows aren't going to be there. Is this something that could be added? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
Let's try adding the list now. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: For me moving the dialog isn't always needed. My recent case I just needed to see under the add entry box of revelation so I could see how I formated the name of the previous entires

Re: Why Favorites are not on the top bar?

2011-05-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
What about writing the dock extension so it's a button like the places or drive menu. That way people can get their Menu sort of speak with out interfering with the design. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 05/06/2011 08:46 AM, Denys Vlasenko

Re: Why Favorites are not on the top bar?

2011-05-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
Sorry I was referring to the Favorites. I read the subject line. I agree that it would be a duplicate but extensions are more add-ons for people to have choice. In any case if the Gnome developers don't like it... there's no reason a third party (like the fedora team) couldn't write one. [?]

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:25 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:22 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:03 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: When F15 is release we should put

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
and that the marketing could do more to reach out to existing GNOME user-base. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.comwrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:25 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu

Managing Extensions.

2011-05-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
I was just going to suggest a extension manager in the system tools area... then thought... I guess we already have one for enable/disabling gnome-shell-extensions. It's called PackageKit. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.orgwrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 08:01 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: On Friday, 06 May, 2011 01:54 AM, G. Michael Carter wrote: That's the best thing to do and will certainly reduced people complaining the same thing

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
it. (or is that like screaming RTFM?) In anycase I really do like the help pages. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 20:59, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill

Re: Unity feature I'd like to see in Gnome-Shell

2011-05-03 Thread G. Michael Carter
The main issue I've been seeing on this list is people with a 1920x1080 screen want it one way, and people with a 1024x600 or 960x640 screen want something else. I agree we need to make things like this optional (or even auto detect based on resolution). That is if we want Gnome-Shell to run

Re: Apps and Places Menu buttons for gnome shell.

2011-05-03 Thread G. Michael Carter
Any way we can get this into the GIT area of the existing extensions? On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula vamsikrishna.brahmajosy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have tried to build a couple of extensions for the shell. Apps Menu and Places Menu buttons on the

Re: Gnote

2011-05-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
...@whitemice.orgwrote: On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 09:31 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: Last I looked Gnote was part of the gnome suite. Is there any plans to make it more Gnome-Shell friendly? I've always used Gnote as a quick way to write things down or keep references (like commands for LVM

Unity feature I'd like to see in Gnome-Shell

2011-05-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
I just downloaded unity/Ubuntu 11.04 and was playing with it. One feature I really like is the application menu is in the top bar. (ie: the File Edit View Go Bookmarks Help) Can we do that in the application thing right beside the Activities? or is this something planned already?

Google Chrome and proxies

2011-05-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
Can someone with knowledge on how the proxies are set in Gnome 3 put a comment on this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=80453 Thanks. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: Feedback

2011-05-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
: - Original Message - From: G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca To: Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:17:58 AM Subject: Re: Feedback If I'm powering off it's because I'm unplugging the computer. If I'm

Re: RFC: compat list

2011-05-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
: On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 22:13 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: We should have this compatibility list started on the Gnome 3 site. With a spot to put their hardware/experience. That way people can see at a glance what works and what doesn't. I've tried to run such efforts before

Can you turn off idle in chat?

2011-04-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
I have three computers in my office. So depending where the IM is running it could say I'm idle for hours when I'm sitting right here.Is there any way of turning it off like in pidgin? Reason I ask, I used to have a boss who would judge if I was working or not based on my idle times I

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread G. Michael Carter
Adding my 2 cents. I think the shell is good as is, because if you don't like something it's expandable via extensions. My only real concern is the Shell is great on systems it runs well on. What about those running a system with problems? ie: 1. I get about 2 frames for the animation of

Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?

2011-04-26 Thread G. Michael Carter
Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell? gnome-shell isn't expected to work on r100 (or r200) you need = r300 for radeon cards for it to work. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679264 ___ gnome-shell-list

More than 9 users on gdm

2011-04-25 Thread G. Michael Carter
Does anyone have more than 9 users defined? How does the gdm login screen look? Mine has the users selection box bleeding out of it's assigned box. Wanted to know if anyone else has a similar thing? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

What happens when Gnome-Shell isn't behaving?

2011-04-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
Gnome Shell is one of these applications that is amazing, as long as everything is working. But on a system that Gnome-Shell is slow, or glitchy the Gnome-Shell overview interface is complete garbage and totally frustrating. I agree 200ms is fast enough and the overview page is a great concept,

Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
Is there any switch the top bar into an auto-hide mode? Only thing I'd use on it all the time is the clock. Other than that it's 95% of the time wasted space (thinking this would really help those netbook users too). ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Idea: show potential apps in the search

2011-04-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
Thought it would be interesting if the search in the overview page could also search the yum repository. (maybe keep a background cache so the search doesn't slow down) That way if you type music, you not only get the programs you have installed but the potential programs that could be on your

Pidgin - message tray

2011-04-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
Is there a way to get the messenger tray at the bottom to pick up pidgin instant messages or is it an empathy only thing? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

NetworkManager dependency on Gnome-Shell

2011-04-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
I decided to give up on my overview page speed issue and look at empathy. Empathy wasn't connecting at all. Kept reporting I had no network connection. Turns out if NetworkManager doesn't control the network -- ie you've bridged your only network card so you can have virtual machines connect

Is there a tutorial for writing gnome-shell extensions?

2011-04-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
I have the background programs running which create text files of things like drive stats, database processing status. I was thinking if I could write this as an extension might be nice. Is there any tutorial guide for writing extensions? ___

Idea: having a hotkey, dialog box for searching apps?

2011-04-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
There's one scenario with Gnome 3 that's really awkward for me. And is when F15 is released is going to be awkward for my wife who's taking university classes from home. I have a video playing in the corner of the screen. Now I want to take some notes on a scene currently taking place, how do

Re: Idea: having a hotkey, dialog box for searching apps?

2011-04-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
that video and open an app without taking my attention away from the video. Thanks anyways. On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:56 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: On my system with video playing and after the system has been running

Re: Idea: having a hotkey, dialog box for searching apps?

2011-04-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
I'm not giving up gnome-do regardless. I find gnome-do more efficient when I'm launching apps in the same workspace. Eg more terminals, a quick browser. I use the overview when I want to start a new task in another workspace. gnome-do works beautifully for the first scenario. Sometimes,

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
and the way they used to do it ? JB ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- * G. Michael Carter* Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F

Gnome-shell crashing on startup

2011-03-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
I updated to all the latest packages on F15 this morning and rebooted. Now the gnome-shell is repeatedly crashing (or I'm assuming so).I started with startx 1 start.log 2 start.err 3start.oth but still don't have much clue as to why gnome-shell is crashing other than the

Re: No minimise/maximise (again)

2011-03-15 Thread G. Michael Carter
I see this Distraction free computing come up about gnome 3. Watching a movie and you need to bring an application, having all applications disappear and show up as thumbnails on a separate screen seems very distracting to me. I have two montiors and one of my monitors goes blank (well with

Tweak OpenGL Performance?

2011-03-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
Any way to tweak the OpenGL performance? If I go to the activities menu after working for a while it can take a good 5 seconds (some times 10 seconds if I have a video playing or rdesktop open). In KDE I found if I used xrender vs OpenGL everything speed up quite a bit. Wondered if there was