Nautilus default in spatial mode?
by Martin Sourada
Hi,
I know this was discussed hundred times already, but I again ran to a
F8T2 review [1] which mentions this. Why is the nautilus defaulted to
spatial mode? IMHO, the browser mode is much more effective, has the
very useful sidepanel (treeview and bookmarks are the most usefull
ones), and opens only one window. Is there any reason to stay with
spatial mode, while almost anyone complains about it?
Thanks,
Martin
PS: I know, that I can change it very fast, but shouldn't the default be
the more effective one?
References:
[1]
http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/09/fedora-8-test-2-nano-review.html
16 years, 7 months
Replacing the bittorrent client
by Bastien Nocera
Heya,
Does anyone have any objections to me replacing the "official"
bittorrent client (~2 megs) with Transmission (~500k)?
Transmission is better integrated in the desktop, smaller in size, and
better maintained.
Cheers
16 years, 7 months
Reducing fonts on KDE-LiveCD
by Sebastian Vahl
Hi.
Due to some changes in the past (anaconda requires zenity requires yelp
requires firefox / wallpaper is now in gnome-backgrounds which requires
desktop-backgrounds-basic) the size of the kde livecd is exploding. I
think the easiest way of saving some space is to remove some fonts. But
I need some help with this to not remove some essential fonts for some
people.
The included fonts atm are:
bitmap-fonts
cjkunifonts-ukai
cjkunifonts-uming
dejavu-lgc-fonts
fontconfig
fonts-arabic
fonts-bengali
fonts-chinese
fonts-gujarati
fonts-hebrew
fonts-hebrew-fancy
fonts-hindi
fonts-ISO8859-2
fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi
fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi
fonts-japanese
fonts-kannada
fonts-KOI8-R
fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi
fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi
fonts-korean
fonts-malayalam
fonts-oriya
fonts-punjabi
fonts-sinhala
fonts-tamil
fonts-telugu
fonts-truetype-apl
fonts-x11-apl
ghostscript-fonts
jomolhari-fonts
liberation-fonts
libfontenc
libXfont
libXfontcache
sazanami-fonts-gothic
sazanami-fonts-mincho
urw-fonts
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-misc
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
xorg-x11-font-utils
Suggestions?
Sebastian
P.S.: The full package list of my actual version is listed here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SebastianVahl/CurrentPackageList
16 years, 7 months
Suggestions for Firefox benchmarks
by Arthur Pemberton
Hello,
I find Firefox on Fedora Core 7 to be near unusably slow. As such, I
am hoping for some suggestions on how I came quantify Firefox's
performance.
At present, I only have relative evidence:
On Firefox/Fedora I only have "Dom Inspector", "Adblock", and
"DownloadThemAll" where as on my much slower laptop machine
Firefox/WinXP has the same addons, plus many more with no noticeable
slowdowns.
I do have Flash 9 installed, however, I have seen no correlation
between Flash and slowdowns. At one point i hit a vmsize for firefox
of over 900MB, unfortunately I didn't take proper note of the
circumstances.
Since I haven't done anything special to Firefox, I'm hoping to gather
some more objective information, possible find out if there is really
a problem.
Please advise,
Arthur Pemberton
--
Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine
( www.pembo13.com )
16 years, 7 months
Can Name=GenericName go away now, please?
by Rex Dieter
<rant>
yes, this is a pet-peave of mine, bear that in mind while I vent
</rant>
Can apps start using better menu names now, so users know which apps are
really behind the mysterious generic items in menus, e.g.,
Internet->Contacts (evolution)
Internet->Email (evolution)
Internet->Internet Messenger (pidgin)
Internet->IRC (xchat)
Office->Calendar (evolution)
Office->Word Processor (oowriter)
Office->Spreadsheet (oocalc)
...
please please, pretty please?
-- Rex
16 years, 7 months
Reminder: Desktop SIG meeting today
by Matthias Clasen
Meeting will take place at 2pm EST (19:00 UTC) in #fedora-meeting on
freenode.
I don't have a big agenda prepared; and I assume that we will be
somewhat short on people today, with the X team still at XDS and some
other people travelling as well.
Matthias
16 years, 7 months
no epiphany.i386 package for Fedora x86_64 ?
by Anuj Verma (Kevin)
Hello,
I use epiphany as my default browser of choice instead firefox. This goes
well on i386 installs of Fedora but on x86_64 installations this becomes
a trouble, if tools like nspluginwrapper are not working fine or if 64bit
JRE plugin is not there yet.
Fedora for x86_64 has a firefox.i386 package for 32bit compatibility,
should epiphany also have epiphany.i386 package in x86_64 repo ?
Kevin
16 years, 7 months
meeting time
by Ray Strode
What time should we have the desktop SIG meetings?
We currently do 2-3 on Wednesday.
--Ray
16 years, 7 months
Desktop SIG meeting today
by Matthias Clasen
I just realized that I will not be able to attend the meeting today (for
some reason I thought it was at 1, not at 2). Here are the notes that I
had for things that could be discussed today. I hope someone else can do
the cheering/dancing/leading. Chris are you going to be there ?
Matthias
Anyway, here are my notes:
test2 status
• what desktop features are in and testable ?
∘ animated backgrounds
∘ bluetooth printing, browsing, smsing
∘ pulseaudio
∘ codecbuddy
∘ policykit - not much there yet, need to check with david,
intlclock, gnome-device-manager still missing
∘ lots of quirks for suspend/resume and keyboard handling
∘ new theme (partially)
∘ bigboard
• which desktop features are not yet in ?
∘ new NM
∘ xulrunner
desktop spin status (from booting a spin built with yesterdays rawhide)
• udev slow
• tries to set up lvm - why ?
• rpcbind/statd/idmapd - should be turned off
• autofs too
• do we want rhgb on the livecd ?
• starting avahi fails - needs to be after NM ?
• dhcdbd should go out with the new NM
• avoid getty on vt1 ?
volunteers needed
• test2 feature testing and bug hunt
• side-by-side comparison to ubuntu, opensuse, etc
wiki
• SIGs/Desktop vs Desktop is confusing to me, can we have just one ?
16 years, 7 months
