Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/31 drago01 drag...@gmail.com On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:29, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Probably, inability to configure your

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:17 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:29, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Probably,

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread drago01
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 05/31/2011 09:17 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha Rpashar...@gmail.com  wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D. Clintonm...@jasonclinton.com  wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread ergodic
- drago01 gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius freenet.de wrote: On 05/31/2011 09:17 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha Rpashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D. Clintonjasonclinton.com wrote:

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:45, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Care to explain the logic behind this? Because it is really beyond my understanding. No, I don't. Your attitude is too antagonistic. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 08:56 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:45, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Care to explain the logic behind this? Because it is really beyond my understanding. No, I don't. Your attitude is too antagonistic. I don't think there is

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:45, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Care to explain the logic behind this? Because it is really beyond my understanding. No, I don't. Your attitude is too antagonistic. Yes, I am.

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Frederic Muller
On 05/31/2011 10:37 PM, Pasha R wrote: Yes, I am. Some people suddenly force me to either change distribution or to lose access to many functions I found useful and essential, Hi! I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. GNOME 3.0 is a .0 release and thus bleeding edge. One would

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:37, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I am. Some people suddenly force me to either change distribution or to lose access to many functions I found useful and essential, and access

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Steven Haigh
On 1/06/2011 1:36 AM, Pasha R wrote: Unfortunately, Jason's answers on this list and other forums I read indicate unwillingness of at least some Gnome developers to listen to users, but I really hope I'm wrong here. You should see some of the replies I've had over the years about bugs in

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Steven Haigh net...@crc.id.au wrote: On 1/06/2011 1:36 AM, Pasha R wrote: Unfortunately, Jason's answers on this list and other forums I read indicate unwillingness of at least some Gnome developers to listen to users, but I really hope I'm wrong here. You

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/31/2011 11:27 AM, Pasha R wrote: This Fedora release is simply too useless for me - DSL connection is just one of many features I lost with this release (actually, it isn't, I never used NetworkManager before as it never supported configuration that I want to use). Speaking of network

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:21 -0700, Scott Doty wrote: Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: It's already been explained to you that it hasn't been replaced. The old and new interfaces are co-deployed intentionally. Alas, this turns out not to be the case. My Gnome 2 panel has

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:30 -0400, ergodic wrote: Screensavers has lost there use years ago. With today's screens they don't really save anything but simply waste power for no reason whatever. Be careful! A Plasma display needs the screensaver to prevent image burn. Well, no, it

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:45 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:37, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I am. Some people suddenly force me to either change distribution or to lose access to many functions I found useful and essential, and access to this

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:04 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 05/31/2011 11:27 AM, Pasha R wrote: This Fedora release is simply too useless for me - DSL connection is just one of many features I lost with this release (actually, it isn't, I never used NetworkManager before as it never

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:25 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/31 09:09 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: Er, this thread is about NetworkManager. Nothing to do with panels. Judging by its generic subject line and length, it is about anything and everything remotely related to

RE: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On May 31, 2011 12:32 PM, John Dulaney j_dula...@live.com wrote: So, what I use is 'nm-applet'. For some reason, it is still there in /usr/bin (not that I'm complaining). It works fine standing alone without any other Gnome components loaded. Since it was included in my clean F15 install, I

RE: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread John Dulaney
Yes, we use the exact same applet in GNOME 3 Fallback Mode so we have an interest in its continued maintenance for the foreseesble future. Indeed. Maybe that's how I got it, from testing fallback? Anyway, it still has all the functionality that it had before, or at least everything I use. I

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:42, John Dulaney j_dula...@live.com wrote: Yes, we use the exact same applet in GNOME 3 Fallback Mode so we have an interest in its continued maintenance for the foreseesble future. Indeed.  Maybe that's how I got it, from testing fallback?  Anyway, it still has all

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread drago01
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:17 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Mon,

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Jan Wildeboer
On 05/31/2011 08:11 PM, drago01 wrote: A screensaver isn't the right tool for this ... there are lots of dedicated apps for viewing family pictures. Some of my machines (servers) are connnected via KVM to a single screen. I like to see at one glance if they are doing sth (screensaver) or not.

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/31/2011 01:11 PM, drago01 wrote: A screensaver isn't the right tool for this ... there are lots of dedicated apps for viewing family pictures. Displaying random pixels (that just happen to be in the shape of photos) is not a proper tool for screen saving? Huh? I believe he is not using

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread drago01
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 05/31/2011 01:11 PM, drago01 wrote: A screensaver isn't the right tool for this ... there are lots of dedicated apps for viewing family pictures. Displaying random pixels (that just happen to be in the shape of

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:11 PM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:17 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/31/2011 02:53 PM, Pasha R wrote: Generally, screensavers were part of computing experience for a long time (15 years at least). People developed tons of different screensavers -- ranging from some chaotic graphics to cartoon Lots of business computers use screenvertizing to show

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/31/2011 01:26 PM, drago01 wrote: You missed the point. Cutting out important parts of e-mails is something I used to do. It helped emphasize when I missed the point. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread cornel panceac
2011/5/30 Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:09 +0300, Pasha R wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:47 +0600, Angel wrote:

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Pasha R
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM, cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/30 Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:09 +0300, Pasha R wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Adam Williamson

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:24, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: why Fedora maintainers decide to replace functional software by software that lacks many essential features or even replace existing It's already been explained to you that it hasn't been replaced. The old and new interfaces are

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:29, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Probably, inability to configure your screensaver is much more noticeable than inability to stop copy operation. :) Now *that* is intentional. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Richard Ryniker
I don't understand why Fedora maintainers decide to replace functional software by software that lacks many essential features ... I have no direct connection to Fedora decision-makers, but I doubt this is something they decide to do. It happens because Fedora seeks to package very recent

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:42 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote: I don't understand why Fedora maintainers decide to replace functional software by software that lacks many essential features ... I have no direct connection to Fedora decision-makers, but I doubt this is something they decide to do.

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Scott Doty
Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: It's already been explained to you that it hasn't been replaced. The old and new interfaces are co-deployed intentionally. Alas, this turns out not to be the case. My Gnome 2 panel has extensive customizations, none of which appear in Gnome

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-30 Thread Scott Doty
On 05/29/2011 11:24 PM, Pasha R wrote: May be instead of rushing to release Gnome 3 before it can provide not only nice-looking, but also functional DE, they could stop, catch their breath and complete all these missing features. It would be most helpful if someone could post a link, or

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-29 Thread Pasha R
The new connection editor is not finished yet. You can still use the old one; it's in the applications list as Network Connections. P.S. Please assume that we mean well. No problem with that -- road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-29 Thread Vitezslav Humpa
Is the old one /usr/bin/nm-applet ? No, I am not on F15 now, but I believe you can use /usr/bin/system-config-network -- Vita Humpa Fedora QA -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:28:28PM +0300, Pasha R wrote: The new connection editor is not finished yet. You can still use the old one; it's in the applications list as Network Connections. P.S. Please assume that we mean well. No problem with that -- road to hell is paved with good

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:09 +0300, Pasha R wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:47 +0600, Angel wrote: If you click the network icon of the panel then Network Settings, that ´s the different thing (dumbed down to

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 18:49 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: Is the old one /usr/bin/nm-applet ? nm-connection-editor. P.S. Additional benefit is the same advice may work for other window managers as well ... where menu 'names' may be different yet again. This is unlikely, as the system

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-28 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:09, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: Well, unfortunately, my internet provider (and all other internet providers in my country) require me to use PPPoE to connect to internet. And, for some unknown reason (probably something like I don't need it, so no one else

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/28/2011 06:42 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: The new connection editor is not finished yet. You can still use the old one; it's in the applications list as Network Connections. P.S. Please assume that we mean well. Could we start making a habit of naming the executable as well when

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-24 Thread Radek Vykydal
On 05/23/2011 07:58 PM, James Laska wrote: Oh thanks, you are right. I didn't establish a connection during installation, but I did establish a connection manually on my installed system by enabling the device from the . I didn't check whether 'Options' was greyed out prior to activating my

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-23 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 13:13 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 05/23/2011 12:35 PM, James Laska wrote: I just completed a F-15 DVD install (no online repos enabled) on baremetal. After installation and boot-up, the network is not enabled (as expected). When I click the NM icon in

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-22 Thread Alan
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 22:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:47 +0600, Angel wrote: If you click the network icon of the panel then Network Settings, that ´s the different thing (dumbed down to absolute worthlessness). yeah - it's so worthless you can only connect

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/14/2011 06:49 PM, cornel panceac wrote: of course, we all remember when, several years ago, the tool that could've customized gdm (gdmsetup?) dissapeared and was supposed to be rewritten sometimes in the future, soon, anyway. i'm not saying that the gnome team does not want to do the

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/14/2011 06:02 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/13/2011 05:07 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Gnome screen saver's config panel is no where to be found. Right, DPMS (in Screen capplet) + lock status screen makes a lot more sense from a power-saving perspective and use-case perspective. What I

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 18:36 +0600, Angel wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: It's a *temporary workaround*. the GNOME 3 network configuration tools are not feature complete yet, so we keep the old one around to

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-14 Thread Neal Becker
Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:55:13 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Another thing... I cannot find a way to disable the Nouveau kernel module. I have tried all the methods that worked before (rdblacklist and the modules blacklist.) Nothing seems to work. I am going to have to rebuild

My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread alan
I have to admit, this is the most painful Fedora installation I have ever done. (And I have used them all.) The networking came up as IPv6 *only*. My router does not do IPv6 and my ISP (Qwest) does not know when their network ever will. In order to get it to work I had to hack files in

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:55, a...@clueserver.org wrote: The networking came up as IPv6 *only*. My router does not do IPv6 and my ISP (Qwest) does not know when their network ever will. In order to get it to work I had to hack files in /etc/sysconfig and use dhclient to get an address since

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 14:19, a...@clueserver.org wrote: I know. I have been through this before. There is a reason the Greeks considered Hubris a sin against the Gods. Please refrain from insults. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/13/2011 05:07 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Gnome screen saver's config panel is no where to be found. Right, DPMS (in Screen capplet) + lock status screen makes a lot more sense from a power-saving perspective and use-case perspective. What I miss is the ability to disable the power

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Angel
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:55 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: The networking came up as IPv6 *only*. My router does not do IPv6 and my ISP (Qwest) does not know when their network ever will. In order to get it to work I had to hack files in /etc/sysconfig and use dhclient to get an address

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:47 +0600, Angel wrote: If you click the network icon of the panel then Network Settings, that ´s the different thing (dumbed down to absolute worthlessness). yeah - it's so worthless you can only connect to a typical wired or wireless network configuration, y'know,

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/13/2011 11:47 PM, Angel wrote: Go to Activities and then search by the keyword ¨network¨. Now from the search result click Network Connections. This is the old nm-applet of Gnome 2. If you click the network icon of the panel then Network Settings, that´s the different thing (dumbed

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 01:51 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 05/13/2011 11:47 PM, Angel wrote: Go to Activities and then search by the keyword ¨network¨. Now from the search result click Network Connections. This is the old nm-applet of Gnome 2. If you click the network icon of the