On 8/18/16, Adam Williamson wrote:
> There is a bug nominated as a Fedora 25 Alpha blocker:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367321
>
> on affected systems, it prevents boot entirely, which is obviously
> pretty bad. But we're not sure yet how many systems would be affected
> by t
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> Most Fedora users are not developers. If they have to jump through hoops
> to figure out where to report bugs, then they won't report the bugs. The
> "one-stop shop" that Red Hat bugzilla provides as a point of entry for all
> bugs that us
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> I have little interest in wasting my time engaging in pointless "mediation"
> that is just going to boil down to he-said, she-said,
If mediation is not something you're interested in, because your time
is too valuable (but apparently, the
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>
> The maintainer closed an abrt crash report about a package with
> INSUFFICIENT_DATA. He didn't actually ask the reporter of the issue for any
> additional information before closing it. I asked why in the bug, and he
> responded, "No ste
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi folks! We need karma on the following updates that are in Final RC2
> and need to be pushed stable:
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-blivet-0.17-1.fc19,anaconda-19.30.12-1.fc19
> (+1 this if install works...)
> https:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Honestly, I don't quite get why anyone would run a
> 32-bit guest, unless you're somehow still stuck with a 32-bit only host
> machine
>
performance?
http://superuser.com/questions/407072/why-do-some-applications-run-faster-on-a-32-bit-gue
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone else has tested F19 (32bit) on Virtualbox guest
>
> Yes, several people.
Hi Adam,
Apparently not with the guest additions installed. There is a bug, that
affects the X server only in the 32bit Fedora. It's been repor
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> As UPX requires executeables to be decompressed during startup
have you ever used upx? the executable decompresses itself in ram when
its executed, the process is totally seamless to the end user and in
fact the executable loads FASTER t
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Andre Robatino
wrote:
> NOTE: The 64-bit Live LXDE is over its size target (700 MiB) and will
> not fit on a standard 700 MiB CD.
I guess the devs have heard ab UPX?
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/20036777/dir/fedora_18/com/upx-3.08-2.fc18.x86_64.rpm.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
wrote:
> The USB port could not boot from a 16 GB jump drive.
Chuck,
I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0.
So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port
using "mass storage devi
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Andre Robatino
wrote:
> *IMPORTANT*: Same images as with 19 Alpha TC3, TC4, and TC5 are over
> their size targets (all DVDs and Lives with the exception of Live KDE
> and Live SoaS).
>
> As per the Fedora 19 schedule [1], Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 1
> (RC1)
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Patrick Lists
wrote:
> You always jump in Oracle's defense when someone sticks it to them and get
> all wound up about it.
Of course, I support companies that support open source development. I
don´t support attempts to balkanize foss projects or wrestle control
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> * If mysql is to still be available in F19, we should check
> it can be installed and used
Considering MySQL 5.6 has been just released
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-10.html
with GPL Community Edition
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Karel Volný wrote:
>
> because resources are limited
I´ll have to trust your word.
> do you volunteer to maintain and test MySQL?
If I find a volunteer, will you continue shipping it?.
I smell a proxy war against Oracle for their Oracle Linux efforts,
totally
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> Yeah, 'all the compatibility testing' is something of a vague idea to
> pin down :)
Why can´t Fedora ship both? let users decide whether to use MySQL
Community edition or MariaDB.
After all it isn´t like size is an issue, given the DVD
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz <
mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl> wrote:
>
> To be honest - it's very confusing. I've managed to install Fedora 18
> over my old Fedora 17 side by side with Windows 7 and I feel so geeky
> now. I spent about 15 minutes only partitioning (not changed
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> You will note that the large number of posts on all aspects of the UI
> design actively solicit comments, and the designer interacts extensively
> in the comments.
>
Thanks for the note. The OP will surely apreciate that and send comments
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:24 AM, drago01 wrote:
> That's nonsense .. you don't create a good UI using a voting process
no but you can get input from users about what they expect or what is
confusing, and then develop a handful prototypes that users can voice their
opinions on.
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On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Hey I have an idea.. since you are so good at designing stuff.. what
> do you want it to look like versus tearing apart some other persons
> work.
>
perhaps if developers in their ivory towers consulted with the actual USERS
and gave
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:46 PM, drago01 wrote:
> Pretty good summary why I think this screen is just a mess from an UI pov.
Agree it´s a disaster. And if you´re a coder and you can´t take negative
feedback from users, "please, go do something else". *to paraphrase a
poster higher in this thread
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I have a number of 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies available.
And I have a number of audio tapes aka cassettes, suitable for recording
Commodore 64 programs with a datasette. ;)
I am sure someone else must have punch cards too
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> Aside from the fact that Mathias didn't submit the SuperFeature for
>> 3.6 (I let him know yesterday that it looks like he forgot to move
>> it over to featurereadyforwrangler) - it looks like it is coming
>> along.
>> https://fedoraprojec
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> Yep, and the Initial experience feature is approved/in featurelist as
> well. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/InitialExperience
>
Great news.
I hope art of InitialExperience includes a way to set the GDM screen lock
background wal
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I've also chatted about
> this with Matthias, and we've considered various options. One
> possibility to keep in mind is that the F18 schedule slips; we obviously
> don't actually _want_ this, but equally it's true that it always has
> befo
Due to release schedules, it seems obvious to me that F18 will not include
the upcoming Gnome 3.6 which will go into beta in a week, but will be
released by late September.
One of the much anticipated features in Gnome 3.6 is Skydrive support in
addition to Google Docs files.
So the $1M question
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Scott Poore wrote:
>
> No text mode installs at all? That seems like a pretty critical function to
> me.
exactly, many ARM releases depend on interactive install using a rs232
connection as terminal.
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Karel Volný wrote:
> but the warning should not prevent _any_ eligible user from
> powering off/rebooting, it should just provide a possibility to
> reconsider
+1
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Chris Lumens wrote:
> (3) The time for making major design decisions was the first half of
> 2011, when we started talking about this.
so it´s a done deal, that´s what you´re saying.
OK, then. There isn´t much point in havng arguments about done deals, then.
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Chris Lumens wrote:
> (1) In our experience, most people will decide they are advanced (they
> genuinely think they are advanced, or don't want to feel like they're
> missing something, etc.) so there's little point to dividing the
> interface like this.
then the p
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Christopher A. Williams
wrote:
> Why not instead have a good set of defaults in the installer, with a
> "Don't try this at home unless you're a professional" button to open up
> options for those who choose to do so, and then highly polish the whole
> thing. Is that
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Dariusz J. Garbowski
wrote:
> This is once again an imaginary, or made-up user, so that you can support
> your arguments and ignore real Fedora users. How is it that this practice of
> making up users to support cases for writing software for idiots has spread
> so
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> So try adding an appropriate MimeType= field to your custom .desktop
> file, and run update-desktop-database, and maybe log out and in again
> just for luck, and see if it shows up in the list then.
>
> As for 1), I'm not 100% sure. It soun
I've been pulling my hair about this for hours and going in circles.
After removing Shotwell from my system, I associated JPG images with
Paint Shop Pro (running under WINE).
Now, when I want to select what program to use to open a given .JPG
file, if I select "Open with ->" I get as options GIMP
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> P.S.: I think, this mail is off-topic for this list.
Thanks to it I learned about man page placement and formats. I think it
could be considered on-topic as the OP was asking what manpage format is
currently the norm for Fedora in oth
Hi there,
I hit a nasty bug with regards to OpenJDK 7 and GTK file requesters.
Currently the Sun Bugparade datase is having hiccups and it cannot display
bug reports (nevertheless it accepted my bug report and assigned it a bug#).
Despite this, I think I may have found a "way too similar" bug rep
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:25, Karel Volný wrote:
> So, feel free to join me with the moment of silence for the good
> old GIMP that is just getting buried.
>
I share your pain. I've given up on Linux image editors.
For simple stuff (circling text on screenshots, writing text over them) I
just
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 15:55, george2 wrote:
> But also note that few women are involved in the approval processes. The
> banking crises was in part formed by many individuals sensing something
> wasn't right but did not take any personal responsibility to act.
From Bonsai and Origami to Human
I do not have LibreOffice installed on my system, I have Apache
OpenOffice 3.4 RC1.
However, launching the system updater notifies me that there is an
update available for URE-Runtime (a component of LibreOffice) and
proceeds to
install such update.
If this breaks Apache OpenOffice 3.4 who's to b
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 16:07, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Lets not delay the release.
+1
who cares about the name?
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 18:34, Adam Williamson wrote:
> That is not 'the usual procedure'. The usual procedure is 'setenforce
> Permissive', boot with 'enforcing=0' or 'selinux=0' (but the last is a
> last resort to be used only if permissive mode isn't enough).
Thanks. Well, it was "the usual pr
What would be the right procedure to test why F17 doesnt' mount my sd
card reader?
F16 on the same machine worked just fine.
Although on previous Fedora versions (F10 or thereabouts) I used to
have to disable SELinux to get the card mounted as I always got a
SELInux exception when plugging my SD c
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 15:00, Matej Cepl wrote:
> But please check first that it is not a duplicate of already filed bug.
Thanks Matej
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I was using the "Add Remove programs" in F17 and scrolling down to
find the name of a bash util I did install yesterday but whose name
didn't remember (and it being a bash shell, obviously it didn' t show
up in the Gnome "Applications" screen).
So had to type "mount" on the Add/Remove Apps searc
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 17:24, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> What is useradd trying to write on /run?
>
Absolutely no idea, and what I pasted was the ´details´ view of the Selinux
alert dialog. But since I was running lots of software at the time, it´s a
bit difficult to tell. That included Virtualbox
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 16:13, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> So, I´d really appreciate if someone more knowledgeable about Xorg snafus
> would give me a generic recipe to get my system back to at least vesa mode.
>
> I guess booting from grub 2.0 in single user mode would be first righ
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:12, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> So, I´m running out of clues as to what to do. I´m curious if any of you
> running F17 with the testing repos experienced any hiccup wrt X not
> starting up?.
>
> If not, I´d really appreciate clues wrt how to get my s
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:17, Frank Murphy wrote:
> No, just studied sw design for a bit.
:))
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:10, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Unfortunately CUA is going (gone) the way of the DoDo
Hi Frank,
What, you read my rant? :)
http://news.techeye.net/software/software-gui-design-going-to-hell-in-a-basket
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Ryniker wrote:
> I do not think a click on nothing is persuasively intuative as a way to
> create an application launcher.
Right clicking over something to obtain a pop-up menu of actions to
perform on it is an almost universal metaphor in the GUI world. If
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:59, Joachim Backes
wrote:
> I think that should be done by alacarte, but it's broken actually.
Joachim,
I appreciate your reply, and don´t get me wrong, but anybody else
understands how counter-intuititive this whole thing is?. Why need to
call an external program to
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Ryniker wrote:
> I suspect your concern may be for an easy way to add new programs
> to the Applications function, which is a more obscure matter. Something
> that creates a .desktop file in the right way, perhaps?
Exactly.
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:55, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> On 18.04.2012 07:46, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> Am I missing something obvious?
> Run program, right-click entry in sidebar, click Add to Favorites, perhaps?
> Jan
who mentioned favorites??
Let me repeat:
I download a Java a
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 13:00, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Should I file a bug fix about this?
>
> No, you'd be wasting your time. It's hidden intentionally because it's
> considered deprecated in GNOME 3. The GNOME devs don't like the whole
> session handling stuff and consider it fundamentally t
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>
> Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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OS/2 lists Felix, welcome. :)
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Folks,
All was well with my F17 system until yesterday night when I did a yum
update and rebooted.
Now, I get the Fedora logo ¨filling up¨ until it switches to text mode and
I see it shows
"started display manager" and hangs there.
Of course I can log-in in text mode via ctrl-alt-f2, but for some
Perhaps it's time for bed for me, but apparently there is no way to
manually add a new app launcher from the Gnome 3 gui? is that possible?
This page here (describing Ubuntu and Gnome3)
http://bloggezmoy.com/2011/05/17/how-to-add-an-application-to-the-gnome-3-application-launcher/
details the manu
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 00:09, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> So, Why-oh-why doesn't 'startup applications' appear in the list of apps
> under "system tools" or in the "System settings" folder view, specifically
> under "System" ?
> Isn't a
# yum install alacarte
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Dropbox | 951 B 00:00
fedora/metalink | 36 kB 00:00
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
google-chrome/primary
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 18:52, Matej Cepl wrote:
> a) it is not that bad on Fedora (which I don't have now), where all Gnome2
> packages are still maintained,
>
So you mean it'd be technically possible to have a running Scribes in
current Fedora?
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 18:47, John Morris wrote:
> Well once upon a time I'd have agreed. But these days when you see
> something totally insane you can't just assume it is a bug. Because
> half the time when you do just report it as one it gets instantly closed
> as not a bug. So people have
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 17:17, Adam Williamson wrote:
> you're a long
> way ahead of Beta already, because Beta is built from the frozen
> 'stable' package set not including updates-testing packages.
> --
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Good to know. Thanks Adam!
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 17:26, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Look in System Settings->Removable Media. There are a bunch of settings
> there that might help you.
Yes, but that removes the feature system-wide. Instead, what I propose is a
way to continue having those notifications, but be able to run Sh
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 16:31, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> Do I need to do anything special to get my system in parity with today' s
> beta release?
>
Other than yum update I mean...
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I' ve read on the news wires that F17 beta is out.
I have installed F17 Beta RC3 on this system.
Do I need to do anything special to get my system in parity with today' s
beta release?
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 14:42, Matej Cepl wrote:
> and I cannot fix it (python 2.6 v. 2.7 combined with gnome 2 v. gnome 3)
It seems like the author needs to do a major rewrite. :-( too bad because I
really liked scribes.
I wonder if pehaps there's some automated source code migration tool tha
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:10, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I think it only pops up on media that GNOME considers to be 'photo
> media'.
>
>
Thanks Adam,
That seems to nail it.
I use a USB ´pen drive´ that also acts as a sd card reader.
And yes, it does have a DCIM folder.
Yet I plugged it in to c
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 00:54, Ed Greshko wrote:
> So, I don't see what you are seeing. What else have you installed?
Maybe shotwell is not installed by default on the livecd? I made an
install to hd of f17 beta (rc3).
Upon I got fed up with shotwell and removed it from my system, it
returned t
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:16, Ed Greshko wrote:
> FWIW, when folks say things
> such as"Who in his right mind thought these only two options were the
> only
> possible options?" and write Subject lines like yours, I don't give their
> posts much
> thought That's just me.
>
:) Dramati
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:23, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Please, if you are not willing to file bugs, what you are doing here?
>
> Matěj
>
Who said I wasn' t?. Just posted it here to try see if others shared my
view or maybe there was some trick to make it behave differently.
Best regards...
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:36, Adam Jackson wrote:
> So, if it were me, I'd want to fix wine to use the newer RANDR API when
> available.
>
Thanks so much!
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This is very odd.
System: AMD Opteron 216 (Asus KFN5D)
Video: ATI X1600 PCIX
Linux: F17 Beta (RC3)
Dual-hard setup (one LG E1940T via DVI port, one LG E1940S via VGA port)
$ uname -a
Linux 2cabezas 3.3.1-3.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Wed Apr 4 19:15:37 UTC 2012
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ wine --version
win
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:29, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> This strikes me as non-intuitive, incorrect behavior. How is the end user
> supposed to know where the heck the picture was saved? There's no pop-up
> telling him/her where to look for it.
I think the right approach would be for the screensh
I find the photo import app in Fedora 17 the most intrusive, annoying
piece of software I've seen in a long, long time.
I plug a removable USB drive into the system and the transparent
window pops up telling me if I want to:
1. Import the pictures into this software
2. Eject.
There's no escape.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:46, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> # rpm -i gdm3setup-20120226-1.noarch.rpm
> error: gdm3setup-20120226-1.noarch.rpm: not an rpm package (or package
> manifest):
sorry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fart
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:31, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Is this a different version from the one at people.fedora.org??.
>> Sorry I got confused by the dropbox url. Or did you edit/fix it and
>> uploaded it there?
>
> Sorry yes! That's my updated version.
# rpm -i gdm3setup-20120226-1.noarch.rpm
err
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:08, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Well I wouldn't consider my modifications "upstreamable". It was
> really just a quick hack. The right way would be to fix/work around
> the autoconf errors but I just don't know autoconf well enough.
Okay, I will install your RPM. I just want
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:31, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> Sorry yes! That's my updated version.
I think it'd be nice if you could do a small txt explaining what you
had to change, and then forward it to Matej, the person doing the
builds at the fedorapeople url mentioned on the OP.
I did a Google s
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:15, Richard Shaw wrote:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/scribes-0.4-0.bzr2017r1032.2.fc16.src.rpm
Is this a different version from the one at people.fedora.org??.
Sorry I got confused by the dropbox url. Or did you edit/fix it and
uploaded it there?
Thanks
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 17:56, Richard Shaw wrote:
> You're trying to install the el6 package which must ship with Python
> 2.6. Easiest solution is to download the source RPM instead and
> rebuild it on your system:
>
> http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/scribes-0.4-0.bzr2017r1032.1.el6.src.r
Hi there,
I'm running F17 Beta (RC3) x86.
I'm trying to install the Scribes editor
http://scribes.sourceforge.net/features.html
of which http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/ maintains Fedora RPMs for here
http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/rpms/scribes-0.4-0.bzr2017r1032.1.el6.noarch.rpm
However
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