nautilus crashes in gnome 3 if gnome on wayland selected on gdm login screen

2015-03-04 Thread Joachim Backes
Installed F22 Alpha TC8 from Workstation Live with gnome desktop. I'm using nautilus as desktop file manager. If I select gnome on wayland as gdm login option, nautilus crashes after login. Starting nautilus manually, I get an error message: (nautilus:7149): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid

Gnome 3, Fedora 18, ATI Mobility Radeon HD2400

2013-04-25 Thread Joerg Lechner
Hi, when I bootet Fedora 18 this morning I got the following message (German, I have German language installed): Das laden von GNOME 3 schlug fehl,...Das bedeutet, dass ihre Grafik Hardware nicht fuer die vollstaendige GNOME 3 Umgebung geeignet ist. (.Your Grafik Hardware

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-19 Thread cornel panceac
2012/4/19 John Morris jmor...@beau.org On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 15:04 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: I know this doesn´t solve my problem, but I´m outraged. In general, we expect an application to bring a suitable desktop file so

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 09:07 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: with a chance this was already mentioned, what's a good place to learn how to create those .desktop files? If you want to do it by hand, the easiest thing to do is probably just to copy an existing one and modify it to your needs. --

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Jan Wildeboer
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 -- Jan H Wildeboer| EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH |

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Richard Ryniker
But no, right clicking on empty space doesn't do diddly squat in the Gnome 3 Applications screen. I do not think a click on nothing is persuasively intuative as a way to create an application launcher. Who wants diddly squats littering the screen, anyway? For programs that can be found through

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:55, Jan Wildeboer jwild...@redhat.com 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 app

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Joachim Backes
On 04/18/2012 07:56 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Ryniker ryni...@alum.mit.edu 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

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
heard of it... And I´ve used a number of desktops from GEOS back in the Commodore 64 days to AmigaOS to the OS/2 Workplace Shell. None were as awkward and incomplete as Gnome 3.x is in some areas. I know this doesn´t solve my problem, but I´m outraged. FC -- test mailing list test

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:48, Richard Ryniker ryni...@alum.mit.edu 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

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On 18/04/12 19:07, Fernando Cassia wrote: It has worked that way from the OS/2 Workplace Shell (whose paradigm was ´everything is an object´) to Windows, too... (and previous Gnome versions). Unfortunately CUA is going (gone) the way of the DoDo -- Regards, Frank Jack of all, fubars --

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:10, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com 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 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On 18/04/12 19:15, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:10, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com mailto:frankl...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately CUA is going (gone) the way of the DoDo Hi Frank, What, you read my rant? :)

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 15:17, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: No, just studied sw design for a bit. :)) FC -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: No way to add a new app launcher from Gnome 3.x GUI?

2012-04-18 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 15:04 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: I know this doesn´t solve my problem, but I´m outraged. In general, we expect an application to bring a suitable desktop file so it is usable after you installed it. That is

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:02:31PM +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: With Gnome3 there is really no connection to old Gnome at all -- and I sincerely believe this project would have found a more comfortable niche had it been named something different entirely. The name Gnome Shell seems to have been a

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel? No. Does anyone understand the logic behind

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread Kamil Paral
Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu by the app. https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu How can I access that by keyboard? -- test mailing list

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread drago01
: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel? No. Does

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu by the app. https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu How

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
-foop) menu has moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 03/26/2012 08:26 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu by the app.

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu by the

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread drago01
: This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
--- On Tue, 2012/3/27, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/27 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp: --- On Tue, 2012/3/27, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: No. If you say so... but I'd like to point out that having a place where an application might or might not place some

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread Kamil Paral
Didn't GNOME developers really think about people who want to access the global menu with a single shortcut? Suggest one and file a bug (upstream). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672909 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-27 Thread 夜神 岩男
Gnome at all was to make it an easy shoe-in for Fedora (and later Red Hat) mainstream acceptance by promoting this very misconception, for example. The backward compatibility issue and the confusion about how interfaces are supposed to be designed by application developers for Gnome 3 trace back

Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Horsley
This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel? Does anyone understand the logic behind this apparent wildly popular meme of hiding essential controls

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
itself to the gnome-shell panel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4 My reaction to this is What in the $#@! is going on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by accident when you happen to mouse over the unity

Re: Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

2012-03-26 Thread drago01
on?!?. Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel? No. Does anyone understand the logic behind this apparent wildly popular meme of hiding essential controls where no one

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-06 Thread Michele Baldessari
Hi, On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 06:25:09PM -0300, pringle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i upgrade to fedora 17 from fedora 16 with no issues. I try to login to Gnome Shell but the warning that say Oh no! and ask to logout show up. I had the same problem and there were some javascript errors from

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-06 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Michele Baldessari mich...@acksyn.orgwrote: Hi, On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 06:25:09PM -0300, pringle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i upgrade to fedora 17 from fedora 16 with no issues. I try to login to Gnome Shell but the warning that say Oh no! and ask to

gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
Hi, i upgrade to fedora 17 from fedora 16 with no issues. I try to login to Gnome Shell but the warning that say Oh no! and ask to logout show up. The funny thing was that in my setup (dual monitors) the rest of the login process continue (in one monitor the warning in the other the rest of stuff

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ruy, Are you using i386 or amd64 version of Fedora17? How did you upgrade? Please provide us with the steps to reproduce the problem. I am about to do an upgrade on a Fedora 16 i386 host right now for testing

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread Dan Mashal
Ruy, I will be testing that right now and will get back to you shortly. Thanks, Dan On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM, pringle...@gmail.com pringle...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ruy, Are you using i386 or amd64 version of

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread Dan Mashal
Ruy, Did you install using preupgrade or the DVD? I used preupgrade and got a kernel panic. Dan On Mar 5, 2012 1:31 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Ruy, I will be testing that right now and will get back to you shortly. Thanks, Dan On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM,

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 15:20 -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: Ruy, Did you install using preupgrade or the DVD? I used preupgrade and got a kernel panic. preupgrade is highly likely to be completely borked at present, to my knowledge no attempt has been made to set up preupgrade to work for f17

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 15:20 -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: Ruy, Did you install using preupgrade or the DVD? I used preupgrade and got a kernel panic. preupgrade is highly likely to be completely borked at present,

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread Dan Mashal
Ruy, I was able to upgrade using the DVD from f16 i386 - f17 i386. I am able to login to both Gnome, KDE and XFCE. Can you give us some more details on the errors you are getting? Dan On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM, pringle...@gmail.com pringle...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread pringle...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Ruy, I was able to upgrade using the DVD from f16 i386 - f17 i386. I am able to login to both Gnome, KDE and XFCE. Can you give us some more details on the errors you are getting? Dan On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM,

Re: gnome 3 problem in f17

2012-03-05 Thread Dan Mashal
Yes, it's definitely possibly your hardware breaks with the new kernel. I'm using virtualbox so life is easier for me. I would suggest running a yum update or compiling kernel 3.3rc6 next from source and see if that helps. kernel 3.3rc6 should be in the updates-testing repo soon either way. Dan

Bizarre happenings with Gnome 3

2011-06-05 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
I am not enamoured with Gnome 3, ergo I switched to graphics off mode, and found that when I put a launcher on the top bar (bar where date is in the center), that by clicking on that launcher (which by the way is not removable or moveable), then Gnome crashes, with a logout occurring. I chose

Re: Bizarre happenings with Gnome 3

2011-06-05 Thread Frederic Muller
On 06/05/2011 09:59 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: Another bug is in gnome3 mode, with the many icons, it seems that from the quick launch bar, I may not start two copies of a program. In the past I often had two terminals open, which implied two distinct processes and had two terminals on

Re: Bizarre happenings with Gnome 3

2011-06-05 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:59, Leslie S Satenstein lsatenst...@yahoo.comwrote: which by the way is not removable or moveable Use ALT-click to modify panel applets in fallback mode. (By the way, your use of table for the body of the email made it extremely difficult to trim the quoted text of

Re: Gnome 3

2011-06-02 Thread Pasha R
have read several of your posts expressing concerns over the state and functionality of Gnome.   Fedora is so much more than Gnome 3 ... I would encourage you to try a different DE - most people I know who have not been thrilled with the direction of Gnome have turned to either xfce or kde - you

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Lawrence E Graves lgra...@risingstarmbc.com wrote: I have read all of the opinions about Gnome 3 and was reluctant to participate in the discussion but something would not let me leave it alone. Many of you have purchased new cars and I am quite sure there were

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:46, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: it looks like this car has gas and brake pedals swapped and steering wheel is nowhere to be found.. How can you expect anyone to have a productive discussion with you when the starting point is absurd hyperbole? -- test

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/31/2011 12:05 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: How can you expect anyone to have a productive discussion with you when the starting point is absurd hyperbole? Jason, it seems the discussion is becoming so heated that you are replying to the wrong thread. It might be good for everyone to take

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:07, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 05/31/2011 12:05 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: How can you expect anyone to have a productive discussion with you when the starting point is absurd hyperbole? .. you are replying to the wrong thread. What do you mean?

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:46, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote:  it looks like this car has gas and brake pedals swapped and steering wheel is nowhere to be found.. How can you expect anyone to have a productive

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 14:18, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: So, lets  tackle the screensaver issue again. As I understand from your answer there are currently no plans to return screensavers other than blank screen - it is not a temporary matter of lack of resources. I would like to see

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/31/2011 12:13 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: What do you mean? I quoted the hyperbole. I just received Pasha's initial e-mail, which you quoted. My mistake. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
Lawrence, -- All things are workable but not all things work. Prov. 3:56 -- The quote \begin{quote} All things are workable but not all things work. Prov. 3:56 \end{quote} applies or not? Anyhow, For the users that don't like Gnome 3 I like the Dennis Green Quote :) Q: Who were

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/01/2011 07:49 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: A happy KDE 4.6.X, Gnome 3/Gnome 2.32.X/XFCE/LXDE user:) All/Most of the desktops have an equal opportunity to be in my machines and I am happy to have them too! +1 FWIW, the network management GUIs of both GNOME and KDE have deficiencies

Re: Gnome 3

2011-05-31 Thread Scott Doty
On 05/31/2011 12:18 PM, Pasha R wrote: So, lets tackle the screensaver issue again. As I understand from your answer there are currently no plans to return screensavers other than blank screen - it is not a temporary matter of lack of resources. I would like to see this decision reversed.

OT: GNOME a Linux-only project ? systemd a dependency of GNOME 3 ?

2011-05-22 Thread JB
FYI: GNOME Discusses Becoming a Linux-only Project http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project read the comments below the article ! There are actually two developments (proposals): - proposal for systemd to become blessed external dependency for GNOME 3

Re: OT: GNOME a Linux-only project ? systemd a dependency of GNOME 3 ?

2011-05-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
): - proposal for systemd to become blessed external dependency for GNOME 3 - proposal for GNOME to be Linux-only project Wrong: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00478.html If you want a flame war, there's probably better places than the test list. -- test mailing list test

Virtual box now runs Gnome 3

2011-05-17 Thread Joshua Andrews
of Gnome 3 is rough too. Otherwise Gnome 3 is a pretty and new environment --it's a nice change though I don't that I will adopt it. Great work everyone and props to the virtualbox guys too. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Gnome 3 Color profiling failure

2011-05-12 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 May 2011 23:50, ergodic g...@embarqmail.com wrote: The gnome-control-center crashes every time the Spyder-3 color calibrator is connected to the usb port in Fedora 15_x86_64.  Is this a bug or an incompatibility of the Spyder-3 Elite with Gnome-3?  The Spyder-3 and Gnome-2 have work

Re: GNOME 3 Failed to Load

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 10:31 +0200, A.J. Werkman wrote: On the first login after installation of F15 TC1 a screen comes up telling me, that GNOME 3 Failed to Load. During the installation I that the step Detecting hardware takes a very long time and is done twice. Could this be related

Gnome 3

2011-05-06 Thread John Dulaney
First, I'm going to try to get back into testing. Life has been overwhelming over the past few months (deaths in the family, stolen vehicle with my new laptop inside, two moves, and getting hit by tornadoes). Anyhow, after mucking about with Gnome 3, I do rather like it. I won't use

GNOME 3 Failed to Load

2011-05-04 Thread A.J. Werkman
On the first login after installation of F15 TC1 a screen comes up telling me, that GNOME 3 Failed to Load. During the installation I that the step Detecting hardware takes a very long time and is done twice. Could this be related? Is this of interest and if so, what information is needed

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:21 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: On Tuesday 26 of April 2011 17:28:35 Adam Williamson wrote: ... Obsessively follow? All you had to do was install Fedora 12, 13 or 14 and hit the 'GNOME Shell' button in desktop-effects. so ... how do you know there is some 'GNOME

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-05-04 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 05/04/2011 06:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:21 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: snip Well, you had to use Desktop Effects to turn on Compiz, and lots of people seem to have figured _that_ out. It was only in the feature list, and in every Fedora review ever, and, you

Re: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

2011-05-02 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 4/30/11, ergodic g...@embarqmail.com wrote: From: ergodic g...@embarqmail.com Subject: Re: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3 To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases test@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 8

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-05-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
wrote: Fedora, as a volunteeer effort, cannot. It's worse. I fear Fedora will loose contributors, because Fedora is not shipping the DE these users want. We ship every major currently maintained desktop. Which one do you think is missing? Adam, please. All of this thread is about Gnome 3

Re: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

2011-04-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
The attached document Gnome3Help has some good information about Gnome 3.  Compose Key (pg.11) will do for ñ or accentuation like the a in está. For my purposes I assigned TheCompose Key to the Pose/Brake key. May I ask which one is that key? I tried the right alt key to compose, but I

Re: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

2011-04-30 Thread ergodic
has some good information about Gnome 3.  Compose Key (pg.11) will do for ñ or accentuation like the a in está. For my purposes I assigned TheCompose Key to the Pose/Brake key. May I ask which one is that key? I tried the right alt key to compose, but I get a way to switch between

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-29 Thread James Laska
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:21 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: On Tuesday 26 of April 2011 17:28:35 Adam Williamson wrote: ... Obsessively follow? All you had to do was install Fedora 12, 13 or 14 and hit the 'GNOME Shell' button in desktop-effects. so ... how do you know there is some 'GNOME

Re: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

2011-04-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com Subject: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3 To: fedora-test-list test@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:29 PM Dear

Problems (Bugs?) with Gnome 3.

2011-04-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I am testing F15 beta fully updated as of today and have noticed the following: 1. Shut Down is missing, only Switch User, Log Out and Suspend is available. 2. According to the manual (http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/gnome-terminal-get-started.html.en) Gnome-terminal is

Re: Problems (Bugs?) with Gnome 3.

2011-04-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/28/2011 01:04 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I am testing F15 beta fully updated as of today and have noticed the following: 1. Shut Down is missing, only Switch User, Log Out and Suspend is available. Press alt key when the menu is visible or install

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 04/27/2011 09:43 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Debian turned aways from libc, SUSE has always followed KDE, ... Many Fedora packagers do so on the package level, when upstreams die or go nuts. Ein minute bitte.. that's a touch revisionist, isn't it? Yes, Debian was not the first distribution

Re: Problems (Bugs?) with Gnome 3.

2011-04-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/04/11 10:22, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Press alt key when the menu is visible or install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu A side question, yum list gnome-shell-extension* reveals 8 such extensions in total, where can I read detailed about them? -- Erik -- test mailing list

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now (James Catchpole)

2011-04-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 23:14 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 04/27/2011 11:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ... You forgot the other old guideline for all mailing lists 3. Keep ones signature to a minimum. 4) do it in private email instead of blasting the entire group ...

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:22:17PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In other words Gnome and Fedora (Both projects dominated by a single enterprise) haved decided to switch their target audience. I wouldn't say Fedora is dominated by a

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/28/2011 11:19 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:22:17PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In other words Gnome and Fedora (Both projects dominated by a single enterprise) haved decided to switch their target audience.

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 21:48 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: I am sure that list could be compiled I want the following features: 1). The ability to control what is on the panels. I want a clock/calendar applet that I can place in the top-right corner of the screen. I want a session switcher in the

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-28 Thread JB
Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org writes: ... I want the following features: ... In short, I want GNOME 2.x back. It was absolutely perfect for my needs and I had very few non-trivial bug related complaints :) ... Amen, Sir ! It begs the question, you have had a good day today. JB

Re: Problems (Bugs?) with Gnome 3.

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Knepher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/04/11 10:22, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Press alt key when the menu is visible or install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu A side question, yum list gnome-shell-extension* reveals 8 such extensions in

Two more GNOME 3 observations

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been fiddling with my f15 beta partition again, trying to use gnome-shell some more and have some additional observations: There is a category of apps in the Applications menu called other. Virtually everything in there is something I'd put in system tools. Network connections, Users, System

Re: Two more GNOME 3 observations

2011-04-28 Thread Manilal K M
On 29 April 2011 06:48, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I've been fiddling with my f15 beta partition again, trying to use gnome-shell some more and have some additional observations: There is a category of apps in the Applications menu called other. Virtually everything in there is

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
want. We ship every major currently maintained desktop. Which one do you think is missing? Adam, please. All of this thread is about Gnome 3 not being a replacement for what used to be Gnome 2, I don't think you carefully read what Adam wrote: We ship every major *currently maintained

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Fedora is not shipping the DE these users want. We ship every major currently maintained desktop. Which one do you think is missing? Adam, please. All of this thread is about Gnome 3 not being a replacement for what used to be Gnome 2, I don't think you carefully read what Adam wrote: I did

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/27/2011 02:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/27/2011 10:21 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't think you carefully read what Adam wrote: I did ... my feel Adam doesn't want to understand. Claiming that the other person doesn't understand whenever there is a disagreement is just not going to

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/27/2011 04:52 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Even if one does a fork, the track record of Trinity KDE shows how many developers are willing to do that type of work and how many users it will likely have. Very true I remember all the uproar with KDE 4 in the Fedora lists. I was just

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/26/2011 11:12 PM, David L wrote: - The panel on the top is mostly wasted space AFAICT and I haven't figured out how to add a custom launcher that my 5 year old is used to. Am I missing something? Clearly, your 5 year old is broken. --

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:56:45 +0200, you wrote: On 04/26/2011 05:23 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: As much as I dislike Gnome 3 and am considering my alternatives, it is very unfair to dump on Fedora for the problems with Gnome 3. Why? I think it's appropriate to dump Fedora because

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:13:53 -0400, you wrote: Is your point that perhaps Fedora community should evaluate and choose it's default DE? Not really, my point was more that Fedora (by default at creation) chose Gnome, not a specific version Gnome. A small difference, but an important one. How

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 09:06 +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote: On 04/27/2011 07:14 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 06:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Fedora, as a volunteeer effort, cannot. It's worse. I fear Fedora will loose contributors, because Fedora is not shipping the

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Adam Williamson
the DE these users want. We ship every major currently maintained desktop. Which one do you think is missing? Adam, please. All of this thread is about Gnome 3 not being a replacement for what used to be Gnome 2, Is any other desktop more of a GNOME 2 replacement than GNOME 3? i.e., would

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 14:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Even if one does a fork, the track record of Trinity KDE shows how many developers are willing to do that type of work and how many users it will likely have. Looking at the Trinity site, it seems active and well maintained, they've

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 09:13 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: How could this be done in Fedora anyway? Its one thing to stay the course and use gnome shell, its another to change it. Does the mechanism even exist ? Who could in fact change the default DE in Fedora ? Is that a FESCO thing or

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/27/2011 08:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I know you're not serious, but I am - I've been working on it, but someone else filed a review for a necessary package and hasn't worked on it since I accepted it for review and requested some fixes, so now I'm stuck, unless I try to take over

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/27/2011 08:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 14:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Even if one does a fork, the track record of Trinity KDE shows how many developers are willing to do that type of work and how many users it will likely have. Looking at the Trinity

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/27/2011 08:29 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:13:53 -0400, you wrote: Is your point that perhaps Fedora community should evaluate and choose it's default DE? Not really, my point was more that Fedora (by default at creation) chose Gnome, not a specific version

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/27/2011 10:15 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but compared to all the rants about KDE 4.0 during its launch, there isn't much talk about the fork. I have a alert set on media reports on it and there has barely been any. Probably it has as much users as Fluxbox. Reasonably successful but

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
launch of a GNOME 2.x fork. By the time anybody gets something like that off the ground and into the mainstream distro repos, I expect most GNOME users would already be satisfied by the state of GNOME 3.x and others would be using a alternative or a distribution with a long updates cycle ( RHEL 5.x/6.x

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