desktop January 2011

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GNOME 3 Test Day #1: announcement up
by Adam Williamson 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hey folks, just a quick note that I've put up the 'official' announcement of the first GNOME 3 Test Day: http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/31/gnome-3-test-day-1-come-try-the-new… If you can blog it (or dent it or tweet it or whatever the cool kids are doing with the intarwebs nowadays) that would be really great - especially if you can get it on aggregators, particularly Fedora and GNOME Planets, and any news sites you know of. Also huge thanks to John Palmieri, Christopher Aillon and David Malcolm who fed me a huge set of test case ideas today at FUDCon - I definitely have enough to make a really comprehensive set of tests for the event. Right now the page still has the crappy initial set of test cases, but I'll be writing up the ideas I got today and the ones from Cosimo as test cases tonight and tomorrow, probably, and updating the page to be way more awesome. Of course, if you have any time on Thursday (whenever that is, in your time zone) please come and drop by the IRC channel, and do some testing or help out other testers or whatever you can, that would be really helpful too. And please let me know if you have any suggestions or corrections or ideas or anything for the event(s). thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fwd: [Fedora-spins] Nightly composes using XZ spins
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hi Might consider including LibreOffice or parts of it in the Live CD if feasible Rahul -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fedora-spins] Nightly composes using XZ spins Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:18:11 -0600 From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> Reply-To: The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list <spins(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: spins(a)lists.fedoraproject.org The nightly composes switched over to using XZ today. I am not sure if something else changed in rawhide last night, but the kde and desktop spins each dropped about 130 MB which is a lot better than I expected (which was mostly based on the effect I had seen on the games spin in tests). If you see any problems that look like they might be related using XZ for the spins please file a bug against livecd-tools. _______________________________________________ spins mailing list spins(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/spins

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First GNOME 3 Test Day coming up next week: really need help creating test cases
by Adam Williamson 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hey, everyone! Just a reminder that the first GNOME 3 Test Day is coming next Thursday. I have the page up at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha , but what we're really missing is good test cases; for now I've filled in some of the standard desktop validation tests, and I'll update a few of the others to match GNOME 3's mechanics and add those too, but it'd really help to have some more specific test cases for whatever the desktop team considers really important to test. If you don't want to work out the details of writing full test cases, just quick one- or two- liner suggestions in reply to this mail is fine; I can do the work of fleshing them out into test cases, I just need suggestions of the most important things we need to test at this stage. thanks a lot! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Gnome Shell
by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

I just got 2 minor usage issues How to I go about adding something to the top panel? I'm used to have "System Monitor" Displaying various resource usage up there ( cpu memory network swap space etc ) How do I create a custom launcher which I can then add to "Favourites" or any of the menus ( Accessories, Games etc )? JBG

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Gnote and GNOME Shell
by Rahul Sundaram 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Hi Gnote was one of the default icons in the GNOME Panel and in GNOME Shell, the sidebar doesn't have it and it seems that starting it manually puts it in the bottom (message tray?). How do I make it start by default and what is the recommendation for it to integrate with GNOME Shell properly? It seems that in the overview mode, sometimes the icons are not easy or impossible to click (applicable to Gnote, Xchat etc) Is it intended design that it be visible only in the overview mode? Also, Gnote package includes the applet. Should this be split up from Gnote and not installed by default since GNOME Shell doesn't support applets? Rahul

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comps changes for f15
by Adam Williamson 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi, all. Just wondering if changes to comps for F15 (GNOME 3) have been considered already. It'd be good to have any necessary changes made ASAP so that nightlies start to resemble what F15 final will look like, as much as possible. For a start it seems sensible to make gnome-shell mandatory, and maybe gnome-panel would be default rather than mandatory. Per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658605 , we'll also need gnome-themes-standard to be installed by default, and I'm not sure anything currently causes that; though adding it to comps may not be the best approach, as that won't fix updates. Are there any other necessary changes? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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