desktop March 2012

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Only fingerprint authentication to unlock screen in Gnome3 F16?
by Ankur Sinha 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello, I recently got my fingerprint reader to work. I can now use it to log in to my system as an alternative to entering the password. However, when I lock my screen (ctrl alt l), or when it gets locked with the screen-saver automatically, I cannot enter my password to unlock it. The only way to unlock it is the fingerprint reader. The text box is greyed out. Is this intentional? Shouldn't both methods be available? eg (happened today): If I'm snacking at my desk and my right hand is unclean, I would like to type in my password with my left hand and get on with some work (like check mails or view a video or surf the web etc.) Of course, in this scenario my right index finger is the registered one. If I click on switch user and go back to the gdm login screen, I can then use both the password and fingerprint reader to login to my user again, but this isn't the same really. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? I shall file a bug if it is one. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Fedora 17 Beta RC1 desktop validation needed
by Adam Williamson 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hey folks! By some miracle we've managed to get Fedora 17 Beta RC1 out almost on time: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC1/ As always, we need to do the desktop validation for it. See the desktop validation page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC1_Desktop And please, if you can, help us to fill in the results for your desktops. Desktop team, I know we didn't get 3.3.92 into Beta and sorry about that, but we do need to check it passes the validation tests - the ones for Beta aren't too difficult and shouldn't take long to do, so if you can help that'd be great. I have done a smoke test on all four desktops; they all boot okay to a sane looking desktop and successfully install to hard disk and boot from hard disk, so they're all clearly testable, not DOA. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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by Sanjay Patil 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

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Fwd: Re: Release Notes Update
by Paul W. Frields 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

>From the docs@ list, FYI, in case someone has some time in which they can contribute to release notes for desktop, system daemons, web servers, or for that matter any other existing beats: ----- Forwarded message from "John J. McDonough" <wb8rcr(a)arrl.net> ----- On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:27 -0400, Christopher R. Antila wrote: > Hi: > > I have some unexpected extra time today, so I'll finish the Desktop beat. That would be much appreciated. I need to get cracking on the RPM or it won't make it into beta. I see we have KDE there but no GNOME. Without some help there will be no mention of GNOME 3.4 in the RNs (other than a word in Overview). Also, there are some minimal notes in Musicians. Do they need to be embellished or will we leave that beat blank? On https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats I have marked as empty those beats that I think will be empty in the release notes. If anyone feels like that is a problem you only have a few hours to fix it. I'm going to get working on the Multimedia beat. If anyone could grab the Daemons beat it would be much appreciated. Or the other way around, if someone wants to take Multimedia while I work on Daemons that would work, too. Also, Yuri made some notes in Web Servers. If he or someone else could embellish those it would be good. I anticipate building the RPM around 1800Z. I will then be looking for folks to quickly give it some karma. --McD ----- End forwarded message -----

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Testing Empathy: audio and voice calls
by Debarshi Ray 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

I am looking for someone who will be interested in acting as a dummy to test audio and video calls using the Empathy / Telepathy stack in Fedora 17. The way I plan to do it is to place a few audio calls to the dummy from a few Jabber servers, and then ask the dummy to call me back. Will repeat the process with video calls. If something does not work as expected, we might have to repeat the particular call to try and reproduce the problem, save the logs, etc.. Please contact me offlist if you are interested. Thanks, Debarshi

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Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience
by Elad Alfassa 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default and given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name in the menu? >From IRC: <adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was previously called Date and Time. see the problem with that? <elad661> yes, I do <elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control panel provides the functionality) or find a better name. <elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop file might be a good idea 2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought gnome boxes provides this functionality now. -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience [FIXED MESSAGE]
by Elad Alfassa 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Looking at the desktop archives to make sure my message got into the list, I noticed it was split in a strange way. I don't know who's fault is that, gmail or mailman. To make sure you all got this message properly, here is a copy of it. Sorry. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org> Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM Subject: Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop <desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> 1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default and given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name in the menu? >From IRC: <adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was previously called Date and Time. see the problem with that? <elad661> yes, I do <elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control panel provides the functionality) or find a better name. <elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop file might be a good idea 2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought gnome boxes provides this functionality now. -- -Elad Alfassa. -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Re: Need help with GNOME ?
by Cole Robinson 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

On 03/10/2012 02:00 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > Is there anything I can help (main packaging related or triage/bug > fix) regarding GNOME in Fedora? > Hey, I was actually about to send a mail that intersects with your request. Take a look at this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=connection_closed_cb Those 60+ f16 rhythmbox bugs are all likely dupes of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739779 which has a lot of people tacked on as well (not sure why abrt couldn't handle the other 60 though...) It ain't glamorous, but all those extra bugs should probably just be duped to that report. The issue is rhythmbox crashes at shutdown quite regularly: doesn't impact app usage really but certainly is wasting time of concerned users who are submitting abrt reports. If anyone with rhythmbox access would like to push a build, this is fixed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670666 http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/commit/?id=26c69b2d7d68fa0e4269fce18b… I think f17 needs the fix as well. Thanks, Cole

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Usb wireless keyboard and Gnome
by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Greetings Yesterday I did an an F15 to an F16 upgrade via preupgrade for a media center for a friend of mine and came across an interesting bug. The upgrade process went with out an hitch except for the wireless keyboard no longer worked for the relevant user account after the upgrade. I confirmed that the usb wireless keyboard worked just fine in grub and gdm and for new user account but as soon as I logged in using the old account it stopped working. Deleting the .config directory seemed to fix this but I'm unsure to what I should be filing against. I should mention that not having the option to reboot was a real pita in this case so the initial design decision to remove reboot/shutdown clearly did not take into the account users that might suddenly find themselves without an working keyboard in Gnome. JBG

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