Re: Making the panel re-appear in the lock screen after removing it from the shield

2017-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 8:31 AM Jason DeRose wrote: > I apologize if you are already past this, but all extensions are > disabled when the screen shield is displayed. > That would make sense since you don't want to have random bits of code running at that point since it is before you are logging i

Re: Reassign ownership of gTile extension

2017-10-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:30 PM Sergey Cherepanov wrote: > Hi, > Can we get reassigned ownership of gTile extension on e.g.o. > > Reasons: > Stuck PR > Largeish support community > Complaining users > Old version of gTile on e.g.o. does not work after 3.22 > > We formed organization github.com/gT

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:20 AM Florian Müllner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM 0x90 <0...@phocean.net> wrote: > >> Le 28/09/2016 à 08:03, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : >> > >> > Jean-Christophe Baptiste : to answer your question in regards to the >

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
> [deleted thread with various bits of hostility] I'm disappointed that this thread went so off track. We should honestly try to answer these questions instead of aggressively question people's work flows. There is more hostility that is warranted and we should strive to keep GNOME mailing lis

Re: New Commer

2015-11-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
It is important that you take a look at https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers You can find projects to work on. Please make sure you visit us on #newcomers on irc.gnome.org using polari as your irc client.. We can try to help with questions. Thank you for your interests. If you're still confused,

Re: Improvements to new system tray panel

2015-10-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:24 AM Olaf Hering wrote: > Am 19.10.2015 um 05:27 schrieb Bastián Díaz: > > Hello, from 3.16 I like the design approach used to address the problem > > of legacy tray icons. > > Do you actively use and _work_with_ applications which are now banned > and discriminated due

testing gnome extensions for 3.18

2015-09-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'd like some help. I am putting together a set of instructions to test extensions. What I am looking for is to see if this set of steps is re-producible: 1) Download http://build.gnome.org/continuous/buildmaster/images/current/gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug.qcow2 2) run the image under gno

Re: addressing extensions breakage..

2015-09-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:38 AM Sam Bull wrote: > On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 01:51 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > 1) Document a public api that we know will not be subject to a lot of > > changes. We aren't providing guarantees, but merely that using these > > api that

Re: addressing extensions breakage..

2015-09-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:12 PM Carlos Soriano wrote: > > Now, it would be nice if we can figure out if each > > extension has a pointer to a git repository and bug tracker though. I > don't > > know if we have something like that. > > Yes we do, is a field on the metadata, and we kinda require

addressing extensions breakage..

2015-09-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We had a BOF during GUADEC to address the extensions breakage that we have every cycle. The consensus is that we would work on two things: 1) Document a public api that we know will not be subject to a lot of changes. We aren't providing guarantees, but merely that using these api that it is goi

extensions QA

2015-02-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hello folks, I'm really interested in seeing the next release of GNOME to be complaint free when it comes to extensions. What can we do to make sure that we see no disruptions with what people use for extensions. Let me ask you this, do we have a gnome extensions community that we can rely on th

RE: gnome-session-3.14.0 will not start

2014-12-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Dec 24, 2014 5:28 PM, "John Frankish" wrote: > > > > > > Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 17:37 > > > > > To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > > > > > Subject: gnome-session-3.14.0 will not start > > > > > > > gnome-session1[16546]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' failed > to register b

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > On Aug 17, 2014 9:04 PM, "Christian Dysthe" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all >> the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound settings. >> It would really like t

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > This was more of a problem for the tens of "put ___ in the top bar!!" > extensions we used to get, and several extensions that let you change the > Activities text. > > For more complex widgets like docks, bottom panels, I'm fine with > "

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:57 PM, drago01 wrote: > 2) Duplicates: Yeah forgot to tell you about that in the last mail > while doing a review check for dupes and if there is one don't approve > it either get both authors to work together or if one gets abounded > let the new user become the owner

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Sam Bull wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Carlos Soriano Sánchez > wrote: >> Sriram, >> Still, that's more work for developers, who already seems to be working on >> something else more important upstream. At the end, what we need is someone >> to go tro

testing extensions with gnome-continuous

2014-05-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
How can we get automatic testing with gnome-continuous? I'm looking for a methodology that would download an extension, install it, and then test for errors and then post a status. This doesn't seem that hard at first glance, but I'm not sure how to integrate it with gnome-continuous? This seems

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
er way to find out is to use GNOME continuous and find out which extensions break and map it backwards. It doesn't do full coverage but can document immediate breakage. I would love to see this automated on a web page so that we know what is broken. I will start a new thread for that,

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
What might be interesting is to have a liaison who can help track changes in shell that needs to be communicated to extension authors so that there is less breakage every release. Maybe like a release porting guide that we can make as part of the shell release? This could also help you figure out

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > On ven, 2014-05-23 at 14:08 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> Unfortunately, Jasper doesn't have time to look at them and is >> stepping back from the responsibilites of maintaiing the website. We >> will need to find

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Albert wrote: > Hi, > > There are a lot of extensions waiting for review since some weeks ago. I > suppose this is done by volunteers and time is priceless, but there is cool > stuff waiting to improve the shell. > Unfortunately, Jasper doesn't have time to look a

Re: Request for comments on security of authentication/authorisation UIs

2014-04-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Apr 9, 2014 2:41 AM, "Allan Day" wrote: > > Hey Steve, > > Dodier-Lazaro, Steve wrote: > ... > >> As with any detailed design discussion, face-to-face discussions are > >> important also. There might be conversations about this at a couple of > >> upcoming hackfests [2, 3]. Let me know if you'

Re: Request for comments on security of authentication/authorisation UIs

2014-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Dodier-Lazaro, Steve wrote: >> You might want to check with the other people involved in this - there >> might be some documentation out there already. Eventually it would >> definitely be good to have a page for this on the wiki, but we should >> ensure that it ge

Re: Extension porting to 3.12

2014-02-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:34 AM, drago01 wrote: > Hi, > > I looked over the changes in mutter / gnome-shell / gjs that might > affect existing extensions and made a (not guaranteed to be complete) > summary of the changes that should help you get your extensions > running with GNOME 3.12: This i

Re: How to manage applications using the system tray?

2014-02-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Feb 10, 2014 8:11 AM, "Christian Dysthe" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have used Gnome Shell on and off for a while, but now it's my main DE. > I have to use a couple of applications like Skype, HipChat and Dropbox I use the extension topicons. Works reasonably well. I think there are others too.

Re: Http in an extension

2013-12-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
You need to use libsoup. Here is some sample code, since I'm currently trying to do it myself and boy I wish I had it as well. The code is for synchronous interaction. That's why there is no main loop. The only difference is that you need to use soup_session_queue_message with a callback. Anywa

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Dec 3, 2013 12:55 AM, "Donato Marrazzo" wrote: > > In the past, it was possible to select an app from the overview (all app view) and drop in virtual desktop panel without losing the overview mode. > I found that capability quite interesting when I want to launch more than an app in a short seq

Re: Gnome keeps degrading every release.

2013-07-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > We are very concerned with the performance of gnome-shell across all > devices. Unfortunately, given the large range of PC combinations that can > be built, it's hard to ensure that we're always improving. > > What CPU, GPU, and driver ar

Re: [PATCH] teak-tool: Add attach-modal-dialog tweak

2013-04-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > dvh...@linux.intel.com Thank you, Darren for your first patch! :-) I have creaetd a bugzilla entry for your patch here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699267 sri ___ gnome-shell-li

Re: Using XDnD in extensions

2013-03-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Tim wrote: > Joakim, > The best way to submit code/patches is via gnome.bugzilla.org, will > more likely be seen by the relevant devs then. > > +1 Please do this, Joakim. Thank you for your contribution! I hope the maintainer merges it! sri > Tim > > On 21

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Donato Marrazzo wrote: > Please remove AppMenu! > > If I could make a suggestion. When making such requests, it's best to simply state the problem and not recommend the solution. I for one am not so arrogant to know what the solution should be. In this case, th

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Florian Scandella wrote: > > I too like how gnome-shell works. I like the clean desktop, how you start > applications and how the notifications work. I like how gnome uses (and > drives) development of freedesktop standards instead of reinventing > everything and

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: > Hi, > > > > Hi there! Thanks for the suggestions. There are some short term issues with people adjusting to GNOME shell but I think the experience is going to improve vastly in 3.6. I think there is an underlying debate on whether you want

Re: Overview animation

2012-06-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Alexandre Kaspar wrote: > Hi, > > I've been with Gnome-Shell since it's early time before 3.0, but am now > using it > daily on Fedora 17 (and previously 16), and I start to find the overall > thing a bit painful to use, > mostly because of one flaw which is the

Re: Ati/amd hardware

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > I have this in a ThinkPad and got it running with the fglrx driver in May, > but by September had switched to the radeon driver. It has mostly worked > perfectly (openSUSE). > > I have a potential volunteer also having problems with ATI and cl

Re: Design choice for suspend option only

2012-03-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Mark Blakeney < mark.blake...@bullet-systems.net> wrote: > Can somebody please post a reference to a discussion amongst the gnome3 > developers about why they decided to only provide a suspend option on the > user menu (and hide the power off option with the alt mod

Re: The lost screensaver

2012-02-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
for a screensaver? I currently just have it >> blank the screen after 10 min and ask for a password if I come back, you're >> telling me this will go away if I upgrade to 3.4? >> >> Gabriel >> >> On 02/19/2012 07:12 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >

Re: The lost screensaver

2012-02-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Donato Marrazzo wrote: > Somebody know where did the screensaver go? > Any hope to see it again in 3.4? > > There is no plans for a screensaver. That I'm aware of. sri > Thanks, > Donato > > ___ > gnome-shell-list mail

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
n a related topic, a guide to getting gnome shell running on Wayland 0.85 > would be nifty too, though I guess not terribly important. > > Sincerely, > Josh > On Feb 10, 2012 12:08 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:06 A

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
have to know about wayland that I'm aware of. But someone else here probably knows way more than I do about it. sri > Sincerely, > Josh > On Feb 10, 2012 12:00 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" wrote: > ___ gnome-shell-list mailin

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome! As Sam mentioned you can check out our bug server and find out what needs to be worked on. You should also subscribe yourself to the gnome-love mailing list (go to http://mail.gnome.org/ (read the code of conduct)) It is a mailing list to ask questions on the GNOME stack. You can also

Re: Two or three things I see coming in gnome-shell

2012-01-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > > Ensure that Evolution is running in the background but without a GUI and > / > > or have a daemon that checks the mail. For rhythmbox, make music > playback or > > radio is being transferred to a body that plays the songs, Rhythmbox w

Re: GNOME Development setup

2011-12-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Best place to start is in the gnome-love mailing list. You'll need to setup 'jhbuild' (search for jhbuild and gnome, you'll get the link) and it will tell you how to get started. There isn't a lot of documentation on extension development, you'll have to ask developers on #gnom-shell, look at oth

Re: gnome-shell-list Digest, Vol 38, Issue 27 Message 6

2011-12-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Thomas C Gilliard < satel...@bendbroadband.com> wrote: > > > On 12/09/2011 04:00 PM, > gnome-shell-list-request@**gnome.orgwrote: > >> Message: 6 >> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:31:30 +0100 >> From: Bjoern Schiessle >> To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> Subject: small

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
eatures into our corporate network (which is heavily win32). sri > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Gantry York >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 12/05/2011 05:58 PM, Sriram Ra

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Gantry York wrote: > > > On 12/05/2011 05:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > It's not ready for the corporate market, we've only had two releases and >> things move slowly in the corporate world. >> >> Why not look

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Gantry York wrote: > > > On 12/05/2011 06:12 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 05:50 -0700, Gantry York wrote: >> >>> Does this extension allow me to move the workspace manager to a >>> different location on the screen and give each workspace

Re: Window Focus

2011-12-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Gantry York wrote: > I think if you make it hidden enough, it appears to be removed > functionality. > > So after a little reading, I figured out that I have to install > gconf-editor. > > OK, I get it. It's like the Windows Registry. > > It is NOTHING like the win

Re: extensions.gnome.org - Public Alpha Now Available

2011-12-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > There is no single sign on at the moment. Vinnicus Depizzol's study > mentioned that users would like a single sign on, and I'm all for > integrating with it once it appears. > > This seems to be something we could add to "online accounts"

Re: Highlight the "Activities" button on boot

2011-10-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Nishant Agrwal < nishantagrwal12...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the oft-mentioned weaknesses of Gnome Shell, compared to other > shells like Canonical's Unity, is that unlike its counterparts, Gnome Shell > does not give a new user any immediate indication of how to

Re: Feature proposal: Save/restore-at-login workspace state.

2011-10-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Jordi Chulia wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to propose a new feature fon gnome-shell: What about being > able to save the state of a workspace (opened apps/files and maybe > window geometry) in order to automatically restore this state on login > in the future?

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-09-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Ralph Hofmann wrote: > Am 31.08.2011 20:03, schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna: > > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ralph Hofmann wrote: > >> >> I like the idea of javascript based plugins like in Firefox. I think that >> could bec

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ralph Hofmann wrote: > > I like the idea of javascript based plugins like in Firefox. I think that > could become the killer feature of Gnome3. Of course Gnome3 is far from > ready now. But is has a lot of potential. Potential discoverable by the > user. > The ki

Re: SweetTooth and Live Extension Enabling/Disabling

2011-08-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > Hey guys, it's Jasper. > > Again, the last time I talked about SweetTooth, it was a month ago. > I'm here to say that enabling/disabling of extensions has landed! > Extension authors, you have to update to the new APIs if you want your >

Re: Please add a configuration option to make 'Power Off...' the default!

2011-08-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
There is an extension that will put that back. It's relatively harmless. On my desktop I actually do not shut down now I just suspend. 450 watts of power saved when not in use. :-) sri On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:13 AM, iki sham wrote: > Just to make it clear, I'm talking about something like a

Re: UI guidelines for extensions?

2011-08-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Ricardo Gladwell wrote: > Hi Sri > > Thanks for the tip, I did consider writing a service but wasn't sure > because: > > a) Only my Gnome Shell extension would be consuming the service at this > point, so re-factoring the code to read from Google Reader into a sepa

Re: UI guidelines for extensions?

2011-07-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Ricardo Gladwell < ricardo.gladw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I'm writing a Gnome Shell extension for Google Reader. > My recommendation is to ask in #gnome-design to see how you could integrate with GNOME 3 desktop. We have a lot of other things under the

Re: Best way for extensions to include external JS files

2011-07-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: > I want to bundle log4javascript with my gnome-shell extension. I > obviously don't want to copy & paste it into my extension.js, so I'm > wondering what the best way to bundle it with my extension is. > > I know someone has done this. I d

Re: Window List Extension

2011-07-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Sriram Ramkrishna writes: > > >> - if the system is under heavy load, I really don't enjoy switching to > >>the overview > >> > > You want notification if the system is behaving out of spec

Re: Window List Extension

2011-07-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Kurt Rottmann writes: > > Hi Kurt, > > > Congratulations, Gnome Shell is wonderful and it's a great job. It's > > very well designed but I think it needs a window list. I did an > > extension in case anyone needs it or wants to try it. > > >

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 22:52 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does > > Android - > > 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNO

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
> Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android - > 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is the > Overview; Android does not have anything like this. It has an app > Actually, they do have an overview although it is an overview of workspaces. So if y

Re: New system monitor extension

2011-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Giovanni Campagna < scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno sab, 21/05/2011 alle 14.17 +0200, Florian Mounier ha scritto: > > Hi ! > > I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage > > in status bar. > > My code is far from perfect but

Re: Critical Notifications

2011-05-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Christopher Baines wrote: > When using notify-send to deliver critical notifications from a bash > script, I noticed that they do not really have the urgency I imagined. > They just seam to be a bit more persistent, I would think it better if > they flashed, pulsed

Re: Workspaces slowing me down.

2011-05-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 10:51 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : > > 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 ab

Re: Using 2 monitors

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 07:45 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > If you're using Ubuntu I do not believe that is implemented yet. I > > know for sure it is in Fedora 15. Can't speak for OpenSUSE. > > They d

Re: Blocked

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Allan E. Registos < allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph> wrote: > As you wish. I am now trying to answer constructively, just tell us > plainly of what is wrong with our words as I am trying to get neutral on any > issue at hand. Scaring us won't work. > > > I think

Re: Using 2 monitors

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > Anyway, my question has to do with using 2 monitors (that, especially in > the case of a laptop + external monitors, can be of different size). The > usability problem I see is that the lower right corner, used to popup > notificati

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:25 +0200, David Prieto wrote: > > Denys, > > > > Having suddenly to learn a new UI is not what I planned to do > > this > > weekend. I have some other work to do. > > > > You do realize that y

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > On 5 May 2011 21:44, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Boy i wish I read my responses more carefully.. my English is generally > > better than this :P > > > > sri > > Please don't worry on my account - my finge

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Boy i wish I read my responses more carefully.. my English is generally better than this :P sri On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > >> On 5 May 2011 19:29, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> &

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > On 5 May 2011 19:29, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: > > >> There are hidden negatives too - the linux users in my office, for > >> example, tr

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:03 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: > > When F15 is release we should put this DL on auto-reply. So many of > > these "I don't like Gnome 3" e-mails and they all end the same way. > > Does it ring some sort of bell

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:08 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Denys Vlasenko > > wrote: > > Is it a policy of Gnome Desktop to shoehorn users into fixed > > UI s

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: > On 5 May 2011 18:55, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:48 -0700, Micah Carrick wrote: > >> I'll give you a quick answer to that... > >> When we first switch to GNOME 3, many of us did not realize we were > >> not upgradin

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > Is it a policy of Gnome Desktop to shoehorn users into fixed UI style > instead of offering them reasonable choice? What next, hardwired window > title color and size? > > -- There is no policy as such. As I said earlier, why not try

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > I just installed F15 (Rawhide). It uses Gnome 3. > > I resisted the temptation to switch to Fallback mode, because > quick googling showed me that Fallback mode will be phased out > in not-so-distant future. Therefore I am using the new inte

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, David Prieto wrote: > Jasper, > > > This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz >> started about "GOA" >> >> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html >> > > That's very, very interesting. One thing cau

Re: Designing "Finding and Reminding"

2011-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > * Web pages. There are just too many of them in a single day! > Gnome-activity-journal helped here by grouping them in an expandable > item, "N web pages", rather than showing all the crap you visited > during a day. An alternative

Re: on suspend

2011-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:09:38PM -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: > > Suspend works great for me on my laptop. On my desktop, however, my > graphics > > card (FireGL 5200) fan spins up to high speed on resume (as it does > briefly > > while bootin

Re: Feedback

2011-05-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Allan E. Registos < allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph> wrote: > On Saturday, 30 April, 2011 09:40 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > == Suspend instead of Shutdown == >> >> Surely this has been discussed extensively, I just want to mention that >> suspend si

Re: Feedback

2011-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > == Switching Applications == >> >> Before actually testing Gnome Shell in "production use" with many open >> windows, I had imagined that switching applications in the expose view would >> work a bit faster and more efficient. W

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:56:15AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Design decisions don't really occur in a mailing list. There is just too > > much noise when we do that. You need to put in a bug and discuss

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Diego Fernandez wrote: > > Alright I might have been a bit harsh, but I have seen many points > argued with very solid evidence and even a proposal of how to fix > them; however, I have not seen a single one accepted on the list. > Maybe you have to keep up with mo

Re:

2011-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Allan E. Registos < allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph> wrote: > Hi there jordan, > > I believe that early releases (including the stable GNOME 3.0) does not fit > in your setup as per your screenshots. As I am thinking through the reading > of this list that those

Re: Help running gnome-shell from git on an existing gnome shell(fedora 15)

2011-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula < vamsikrishna.brahmajosy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I use Fedora 15 aplha and I built gnome shell from git sources using > jhbuild. > > when i tried gnome-shell --replace > Out of curiosity, why not just use the distro version

Re: Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:25 -0400, Mystilleef wrote: > > I opened a bug report for this. > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643662 > > > > I don't think there's any interest in it. > > > > It's my biggest disappointment wit

Re: Is there a tutorial for writing gnome-shell extensions?

2011-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > You can try http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/04/gnome-3-shell-extensions.html > > I'm currently trying to write one up for GNOME Journal as well. Although the link posted above does a pretty good job as well. The trick is that the API isn'

Re: NetworkManager dependency on Gnome-Shell

2011-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, G. Michael Carter wrote: > 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 y

Re: Gnome 3: Too much space wasted

2011-04-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Hoang Le wrote: > Gnome 3 is a great leap. I definitely love it: clean, smart and > recognizable. I really appreciate that > > But does anyone notice is that it wastes too much space? To me, all > margins seem to be big. As a developer, I would like to have more

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

2011-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:08 PM, G. Michael Carter wrote: > >> 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

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

2011-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, G. Michael Carter wrote: > Maybe so but doesn't change the fact that I'm watching that video.What > happens to the video when I go to the overview page, especially with a lot > of apps open? > > I guess I kinda got my answer. Gnome 3 isn't going to make it eas

Re: dock mods

2011-04-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Yu Chen wrote: > git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-shell-extensions > cd gnome-shell-extensions > ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/.local --enable-extensions="dock" > make install > > logout and login to load the extension > I think he wants to upload his changes to

Re: New GNOME Shell video on Youtube

2011-04-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:56 -0400, J. Adam Craig wrote: > > > I don't think the problem is so much that Gnome 3 is "broken", but > > just that its new right now, and while its definitely more efficient, > > one doesn't start really realizing th

Re: New GNOME Shell video on Youtube

2011-04-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, J. Adam Craig wrote: > Hi Sriram, > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> >> You interested in doing content for our youtube GNOME channel? You >> sound a perfect fit for doing that kind of thing.. maybe

Re: New GNOME Shell video on Youtube

2011-04-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM, J. Adam Craig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:16 PM, G. Michael Carter > wrote: > > Great video... little wordy but good show. > > > Thanks, Michael. I'm a historian and a writer along with my interest in > technology -- Linux especially. After four years of c

Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

2011-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:59 -0400, Mystilleef wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Congratulations on the release of GNOME 3. > > > > GNOME Shell behaves odd on my multi monitor setup. When I switch > > workspaces the screen on the external > > monito

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

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna > wrote: > > The course is already set and ship has left the dock, we can't turn back > > now. Your changes effectively mean reversing 2 years of design and work. >

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

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna > wrote: > > What exactly are you doing in your tasks? There is a shortcut dash on > the > > overview, so you can do things with one click. Even with GNOME 2, you > h

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

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:25 PM, JB wrote: > Sriram Ramkrishna writes: > > > ... > > JB needs to try the shell for a week or so and do the challenge and then > come > > back to us. JB, go back and try the shell for a week and come back to us. > > We need to end

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