GNOME Photos as default app for F25
by Michael Catanzaro
Hi,
We've discussed replacing Shotwell many times in the past. I believe
consensus was that gThumb would be better, but we would instead wait
for GNOME Photos to mature a bit more so we don't change the default
photo app so many times. Photos is pretty clearly more polished than
Shotwell at this point, and I think we're ready to make the switch. Of
course it is still under active development, but let's not make perfect
the enemy of the good. If you care about this change, please either +1
or object.
Note that Image Viewer (eog) would still be the default app for opening
images, as it already is. That's not changing at this time.
Michael
P.S. As I've sort of become the "default app guy," I'll mention that I
have no further changes proposed for F25. The only other change for F25
(made a few months ago) was to drop Vinagre in favor of GNOME Boxes.
7 years, 8 months
Testing for rpm-ostree based Workstation
by Paul W. Frields
One of the topics in the Workstation WG's most recent meeting was a
public preview of the rpm-ostree based Workstation. This is a project
David King's been working on recently, and reported on at Flock 2016
in Krakow.
I wanted to start a discussion to find out what testing criteria (and
commensurate testing) we need to establish for this to be a public
thing. Moreover, what can the Workstation WG participants do to
contribute to that testing? We are specifically looking to avoid any
"throw it over the wall" to QA here, but rather participate in the
testing to help move the project forward.
Adam, can you or other QA team members comment on what our next steps
should be here?
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7 years, 8 months
Workstation WG meeting recap 2016-Aug-17
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-17/workstation.2...
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-17/workstation.2...
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-17/workstation.2...
* * *
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#fedora-meeting: Workstation WG
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Meeting started by stickster at 14:00:01 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-08-17/workstation.2...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (stickster, 14:00:04)
* F25 talking points (stickster, 14:06:07)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist
(stickster, 14:08:34)
* ACTION: mclasen revise Workstation tasklist on wiki with work items
from 3.22, GUADEC, etc. next week-ish (stickster, 14:12:46)
* talking point: Wayland as default (still TBD but looking more
likely) (stickster, 14:15:07)
* talking point: early preview of rpm-ostree based Workstation
(potential) (stickster, 14:19:05)
* talking point: more flatpak support in GNOME Software (install,
update, remove, auto-install required and related runtimes)
(stickster, 14:21:33)
* ACTION: stickster contact Matthew Miller + Stephen Gallagher to get
outputs from the Flock session on updated Workstation PRD
(stickster, 14:24:26)
* ACTION: stickster start rpm-ostree Workstation testing discussion on
desktop@ list w/ adamw & QA team -- e.g. what testing is mandatory,
what can the WG help with (stickster, 14:31:30)
* Open floor (all other business) (stickster, 14:34:37)
* === Wayland readiness === (stickster, 14:35:28)
* LINK: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/409682/71445042/ if anyone
_really_ cares. (tibbs, 14:44:13)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=wayland
(mcatanzaro, 14:47:34)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=WaylandRelated
(mcatanzaro, 14:47:38)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=WaylandRelated
(mcatanzaro, 14:47:58)
* ACTION: stickster make sure "Wayland by default" is top of next
agenda (stickster, 14:55:33)
Meeting ended at 14:57:41 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* mclasen revise Workstation tasklist on wiki with work items from 3.22,
GUADEC, etc. next week-ish
* stickster contact Matthew Miller + Stephen Gallagher to get outputs
from the Flock session on updated Workstation PRD
* stickster start rpm-ostree Workstation testing discussion on desktop@
list w/ adamw & QA team -- e.g. what testing is mandatory, what can
the WG help with
* stickster make sure "Wayland by default" is top of next agenda
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* mclasen
* mclasen revise Workstation tasklist on wiki with work items from
3.22, GUADEC, etc. next week-ish
* stickster
* stickster contact Matthew Miller + Stephen Gallagher to get outputs
from the Flock session on updated Workstation PRD
* stickster start rpm-ostree Workstation testing discussion on
desktop@ list w/ adamw & QA team -- e.g. what testing is mandatory,
what can the WG help with
* stickster make sure "Wayland by default" is top of next agenda
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* mcatanzaro (38)
* mclasen (21)
* zodbot (17)
* sgallagh (8)
* dgilmore (7)
* ryanlerch (4)
* kalev (3)
* nathan95 (2)
* tibbs (2)
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7 years, 8 months
Consider tuned-gui as an important element for "advanced" users on
the Fedora Workstation
by Bastián Díaz
Tuned is an excellent tool to monitoring system and apply profile-based
configurations. This tool is very powerful and its use is relegated to
the servers systems, however, it can be put to good use for fedora
Workstation for users seeking advanced settings via a user interface
(tuned-gtk).
For example, a good use of tuned in the Workstation is the advanced
power management, even with the possibility of using custom profiles
through powerTOP (laptop users). My experience says that in most cases I
have used systems tuned for that purpose, there has been an increase in
battery life (is not the only use case).
Part of my proposal considers:
• Improve the design of tuned-gtk (like gnome-tweak-tool design)
• Add categories to target profiles to facilitate user choice (Eg.
Workstation, Cloud and Server)
• Add/modify new default tuned profiles for desktop/laptop use, similar
to those available in the "tuned-profiles-compat" package
• Add settings to create a powerTOP profile or add it from a report
(html file)
All these options would expect for an average user or an advanced user
to enhance the options available for their device.
I intend to present it in the list and not directly to the authors, is
that this tool can greatly improve the user experience for the target
audience of fedora workstation. For example, the web is full of requests
"to improve power consumption in Linux" and there are several responses
that lead to programs that do not have a user interface and are
complicated to use. Tuned-gtk would be used for the range of user need
only choose a predefined profile to those who want to create their own
custom profiles graphically.
When I talk about advanced users, I'm making the parallel with the
application gnome-tweak-tool, but the big problem here is that the user
needs root permissions to use the application, although a change in this
area would help the whole family derived from fedora, as RHEL or CentOS.
Thanks
7 years, 8 months