desktop May 2011

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19 discussions

GNOME Shell fixes
by Misha Shnurapet 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Hello, teams! Is there any chance for this to land in Fedora 15? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701609 It is rather an important fix because it changes the label of the search bar in Overview mode which is currently mistranslated. The fix is on its way to upstream, but they say the earlier it shows up is the next version of GNOME 3 that is to come out this Autumn. Getting it in sooner is strongly desired. Thank you. -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Russian L10N Team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shnurapet shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306

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Ready to support
by joseph reni 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

My name is Joseph Reni, I am a research psychologist by trade (I am a civilian scientist for NAWCTSD) , I work specifically in interface design research. Most of my experience is in setting up and deploying user analyses research through surveys and interactive assessments. I love prototyping and the interface development workflow. I am also a masters student at Iowa state University. I am excited to start working with Fedora usability and design. I would love it if someone seasoned within this community could give me a call to help get off to a running start, direct email would also be fine. I am hoping to find my niche within a Fedora community and start being a valued contributor. Thanks. Joseph Reni OS: Fedora 15 4079525163 (please call any time)

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GTK+2 Adwaita-y theme
by Adam Williamson 31 May '11

31 May '11

Hey, folks. So I recall it was mentioned before that the reason there isn't a real Adwaita for GTK+ 2 is simply that no-one got around to doing it yet. There's a thread on the -devel list which linked to a thread in the Ubuntu forums where some people have apparently been doing this off their own bat: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1764856 the -devel list poster recommended the version done by ceramicm, which can be found on page 3: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1764856&page=3 I don't know if this work is clean enough to be upstreamable, but if so, maybe we could contact ceramicm to try and get the work integrated? (Note I haven't actually tested / looked at this theme yet, I just thought it would be a good idea to pass it along to a relevant list.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Hello All
by joseph reni 28 May '11

28 May '11

My name is Joseph Reni, I am a research psychologist by trade (I am a civilian scientist for NAWCTSD) , I work specifically in interface design research. Most of my experience is in setting up and deploying user analyses research through surveys and interactive assessments. I love prototyping and the interface development workflow. I am also a masters student at Iowa state University. I am excited to start working with Fedora usability and design. I would love it if someone seasoned within this community could give me a call to help get off to a running start, direct email would also be fine. Thanks. Joseph Reni 4079525163 (please call any time) -- Joseph Reni

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Installer + InitialSetup
by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 21 May '11

21 May '11

Now this is what I call an Installer and Initial setup for the novice desktop end users! Finally the time has come where my mom ( given her old age ) can Install linux ;) This is excellent work. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Installer https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/InitialSetup It would be good to get this landed as soon as possible in rawhide if the intent is to introduce this during F16 development cycle since we need to perform extensive testing on installation. JBG

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Dropped 'Other' category release criterion
by Adam Williamson 18 May '11

18 May '11

As discussed between QA and desktop teams on these lists, I've now dropped the Final release criterion which stated "There must be no ''Other'' menu or category" (referring to the system menus). I also adjusted the desktop menus test case - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_menus - to reflect this change. Vhumpa, if you could adjust your desktop validation test results accordingly that'd be great :) For the record, the diffs are: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_15_Final_Release_Criteri… https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=QA:Testcase_desktop_menus&diff=… thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Disabling effects per display
by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 17 May '11

17 May '11

Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer? If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show. Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the mouse to "Activities" will produce a sound from you partner at the same time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on the laptop at the same time.... JBG

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Multiseat support
by Sergio Pascual 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi list. Is there any advance in multiseat support in Fedora from what is explained here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Multiseat? Regards

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Fedora 15 Final RC3 available: desktop testing needed!
by Adam Williamson 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hey, everyone. So the third release candidate for the final Fedora 15 release is now up, and this time we have live images, that work! I'm so excited. (For RC1 and RC2 we had a couple of bugs which stopped some of the live images from composing, and stopped those that *did* compose from actually booting). So as always, we need some desktop validation testing! You can find the images at http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Live/ . The desktop test instructions/results page is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Desktop Grab an image, go to that page, click on the 'test case' links, do the tests, and enter your results in the 'Test Matrix' table. I'm afraid there is no 'profit' step, except the warm fuzzy feeling you get when contributing to a new Fedora release. We need to do all the tests for the 'desktop', 'fallback' (GNOME 3 fallback mode), and 'KDE' columns at least, and it'd be good to get the tests done for the other desktops too so we know where they stand. If you hit any bugs which are complete fails for any of the tests, please file them at http://bugzilla.redhat.com and mark them as blocking the bug 'F15Blocker' (or if you don't have the privileges to do so, poke me and I'll do it). Thanks! If you have any questions, do go ahead and ask. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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user dirs in f16
by Matthias Clasen 12 May '11

12 May '11

Since gnome3 does no longer show the desktop folder contents on the desktop, having 'Desktop' show up in the file chooser is confusing, at best. Thankfully, GTK+ already hides it if it is the same as HOME. So, for F16 I plan to change the default xdg-user-dirs configuration to set Desktop=HOME. Existing users will not be affected by this change. Matthias

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