Online Accounts - Google Drive
by wgelpi@redhat.com
At present I'm on Fedora 25 (Gnome 3.22.2) with all updates applied. I'm using a Lenovo T440s with 12GB of RAM.
I am experiencing spotty reliability when trying to connect to Google Drive via Online Accounts. I have had success mounting the "drive" and gaining access to my documents. However, I do not have success when trying to "Print to PDF", for example, and saving to Google Drive folder. I don't experience any error messages, but it just eventually times out. Anyone else experiencing this or know of any bugs logged for this that I can follow?
7 years, 2 months
Distro policy regarding GNOME shell extensions
by Alexander Ploumistos
Hello,
Some time ago (not really sure when) the GNOME shell integration
Firefox add-on stopped working. That made it impossible to install or
update extensions from extensions.gnome.org and users had to either
settle for the extensions provided by GNOME software or hunt down
zipped packages from the extension creators and install them manually.
Then internet posts started appearing, telling people to install this
add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnome-shell-integration/
which obsoletes the Fedora-provided add-on of the same name and which
also requires Fedora users enabling a copr repo and installing the
connector. However, the version of the connector in copr is buggy and
crashes firefox on shutdown. Even the current github snapshot has its
issues, e.g. on startup you get these messages:
firefox.desktop[30690]: 1486903163318
addons.webextension.chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org WARN
Loading extension 'chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org': Reading manifest:
Error processing background.persistent: Event pages are not currently
supported. This will run as a persistent background page.
firefox.desktop[30690]: 1486903163324
addons.webextension.chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org WARN
Loading extension 'chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org': Reading manifest:
Error processing author: An unexpected property was found in the
WebExtension manifest.
firefox.desktop[30690]: 1486903163325
addons.webextension.chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org WARN
Loading extension 'chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org': Reading manifest:
Error processing externally_connectable: An unexpected property was
found in the WebExtension manifest.
firefox.desktop[30690]: 1486903163325
addons.webextension.chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org WARN
Loading extension 'chrome-gnome-shell(a)gnome.org': Reading manifest:
Error processing optional_permissions: An unexpected property was
found in the WebExtension manifest.
and it too leads to Firefox crashes, albeit fewer and farther between.
Has there been any "official" recommendation regarding this situation?
I have been getting input from users frustrated because either they
can't update their extensions or their Firefox crashes whenever they
close it. Given that Workstation comes with GNOME and that GNOME
extensions are really important to the user experience, we can't have
a semi-official, un-reviewed package popping up to provide core
functionality, halfway through a stable release.
Best regards
7 years, 2 months
WG meeting call for agenda Mon 2017-Feb-13
by Paul W. Frields
If you have additions or corrections for this agenda, please send by
the end of this weekend. Our meeting will be held as usual on Monday,
2017-Feb-13 at 1400 UTC (09:00 US Eastern).
* Performance tuning the Workstation (stickster, et al.)
* Was there general consensus this can be tuned per-edition by WG?
* systemd-readahead
* CFQ vs. deadline scheduler for storage
* Flatpak production (otaylor)
* Outcome from Brno meetings/DevConf.cz
* Need follow-up discussion on this
* Any distinguishing Workstation features upcoming for F26/27 beyond
Flatpak development?
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7 years, 2 months