Introducing Suzanne Yeghiayan (aka Sly)
by Suzanne Yeghiayan
Hi,
I wanted to introduce myself since I am taking over Kate Carcia's role as the Fedora DevOps Program Manager. I've been at Red Hat nearly 12 years and spent the first 6.5 years as a RHEL Program Manager. I still work for a Red Hat engineering manager as his Chief of Staff but wanted to help out here as well. It's been 5.5 years since I've been in this type of role, so please be patient with me. I'm excited for this opportunity and to work with you.
Thanks,
Sly
sly(a)redhat.com
5 years, 4 months
First Atomic Workstation/WorkstationOstree update
by Colin Walters
In Fedora 27 we released
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/27/WorkstationOstr...
Now that https://pagure.io/atomic-wg/issue/373 is fixed, the first update
is available, i.e. you can `rpm-ostree upgrade`.
```
# rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
fedora-workstation:fedora/27/x86_64/workstation
Version: 27.4 (2017-11-27 18:48:44)
Commit: 2ee80f9aeb4c7fb4abe08c6e54fb0fd494e6ece00044ee3c8d78672cf44b64b7
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 860E19B0AFA800A1751881A6F55E7430F5282EE4
● fedora-workstation:fedora/27/x86_64/workstation
Version: 27.1.6 (2017-11-05 07:09:26)
Commit: 508b92bec034a075873091c57eae549acec3814d2381da103448f980814296fa
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 860E19B0AFA800A1751881A6F55E7430F5282EE4
```
Having an updated ostree commit stream in sync with the bodhi batches
should help with synchronization issues.
There's a bit more information about the project at
https://pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config
I and several other people use it as a "daily driver"; as the page
says I think the project is useful for interested technical users, but
there's a whole lot more to do; I just noticed the rpm-ostree plugin
for gnome-software isn't enabled, going to fix that. I'd also really
like to plumb through automatic updates by default.
A big picture question is how much we stay in sync with Workstation
as it exists today; for example I find
it confusing to have applications both via rpm and flatpak, and I think
it'd make sense to thin things down more. At least drop gnome-boxes
by default, and potentially libvirt too.
In this path we'd really be expecting most users to do package layering
for things like that; personally I use `vagrant-libvirt` a lot for example.
But OTOH there's already PRs like:
https://pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config/pull-request/47
which add things.
5 years, 4 months
Gedit, flatpak version is older than Fedora 27's
by Chris Murphy
Fedora 27 Workstation comes with gedit 3.22.1. But for flatpak it's
3.22.0. Is this expected?
I expect that the flatpak version would show up sooner, or at least
appear at the same time as an updated package for Fedora.
$ flatpak info org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable
Ref: app/org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable
ID: org.gnome.gedit
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Origin: org.gnome.gedit-origin
Commit: 522c9f5e0d05242cd3c9d250c83a6af36b9c41c20b6099513417043bbdc7833e
Location: /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnome.gedit/x86_64/stable/522c9f5e0d05242cd3c9d250c83a6af36b9c41c20b6099513417043bbdc7833e
Installed size: 11.1 MB
Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.24
[chris@f27h ~]$
--
Chris Murphy
5 years, 4 months
Re: Add support of the Totem on the Dell Canvas 27
by Benjamin Tissoires
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess(a)hadess.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 10:36 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess(a)hadess.net>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:38 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Peter Hutterer
>> > > <peter.hutterer(a)who-t.net> wrote:
>> > > >
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> > You didn't answer this bit of my original mail:
>> > > > I think it would be good for Fedora and Gnome to support such a
>> > > > tool,
>> > > > given that studios are the main target for it.
>> > >
>> > > But do we know whether they’re going to use it? It’s not like you
>> > > can
>> > > plop down about 100€ got the functionality, you also need the
>> > > huge
>> > > expensive tablet to go with it.
>> >
>> > Is this actually going to be used?
>>
>> I honestly can not say if it will be bought by studios or not.
>> But the fact that both Microsoft and Dell have nearly the same tool,
>> and that Wacom also has the ExpressKey Remote that you can freely
>> move
>> on the surface
>
> I didn't know the ExpressKey Remote was location sensitive as well,
> thanks.
>
Sorry, I should have been clearer. The ExpressKey Remote is *not*
location sensitive, but you can use it wherever you like, and pictures
shows that it is meant to be used with the second hand, on the surface
as well.
So in a way it is meant to be used the same way, but the software
feedback is different because we lack the coordinates information.
Cheers,
Benjamin
5 years, 4 months
Re: Add support of the Totem on the Dell Canvas 27
by Benjamin Tissoires
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess(a)hadess.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:38 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Peter Hutterer
>> <peter.hutterer(a)who-t.net> wrote:
>> >
> <snip>
>
> You didn't answer this bit of my original mail:
>> > I think it would be good for Fedora and Gnome to support such a tool,
>> > given that studios are the main target for it.
>>
>> But do we know whether they’re going to use it? It’s not like you can
>> plop down about 100€ got the functionality, you also need the huge
>> expensive tablet to go with it.
>
> Is this actually going to be used?
I honestly can not say if it will be bought by studios or not.
But the fact that both Microsoft and Dell have nearly the same tool,
and that Wacom also has the ExpressKey Remote that you can freely move
on the surface makes me believe the trend is that we are going to see
more similar devices.
(side note: I have no insights in MS, Dell, nor Wacom product maps).
MS has integrated the tool in its latest Creative version of Windows
(or whatever it is called), so I guess this is not just a one of.
Cheers,
Benjamin
5 years, 4 months
Re: Add support of the Totem on the Dell Canvas 27
by Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 04:46:39PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 21:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10 Nov 2017, at 11:16, Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmai
> > l.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The Dell Canvas 27 has a new tool called the Totem[1].
> > > This tool is aimed at popping up a menu right around it and the
> > > user
> > > can select the desired menu by turning the tool and pushing it (it
> > > has
> > > an embedded button).
> >
> > Apart from the coordinates telling you where it is on screen, what’s
> > the difference with the USB and later BLE versions of the PowerMate:
> > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_PowerMate
> > https://griffintechnology.com/us/powermate-bluetooth
>
> I also found another stand-alone tool that works similarly, the
> Logitech Craft keyboard:
> https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B074KFNJQJ/
closer to the griffin powermate, imo
> (About 200 units of currency)
>
> As well as 2 devices from 3D Connexion:
> https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B000LB7G00/
> https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00283VWK4/
I have an old version of the second one floating around. These are 3D mice
and not the same as the totem. They're designed for full 3d navigation in
e.g. blender and provide the axes accordingly (they're basically a
joystick). The usage patterns are quite different, I don't think we should
throw those into the same category with the totem.
Cheers,
Peter
5 years, 4 months
