desktop December 2007

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15 discussions

What should the desktop spin for F9 look like ?
by Matthias Clasen 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Jonathan tried to kick off this discussion earlier, with some success. I think we should revive the desktop SIG and start to work out some concrete goals for what we want to improve in the desktop spin for F9. Here are some things that we might want to discuss: - menus + switch from "generic name" style to "name - generic name" ? + "too much" - what to get rid of in the menus, and how - login screen + can we make the special live-cd situation more intuitive ? - bootup + should we look at the nm dispatcher work by jon nettleton ? - content + people have proposed to add some free content to the cd - anything else people want to see improved Matthias

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How to remove some mounted partition icons?
by Valent Turkovic 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi, I have Fedora 8 and on the gnome desktop I see some icons from my partitions that I don't wan't on my gnome desktop. I don't have a problem with having my storage partition on my desktop but I also have also 4 other linux distos on my laptop and I see all of their system partitions on my desktop! I know that there is a way to disable ALL partition shortcuts but then I wouldn't see my usb drives on desktop when I plug in usb flash drives and I don't want that. So how do I remove only the shortcuts I don't want from my desktop? I saw an Ubuntu (which obviously also uses Gnome) trick which doesn't work on fedora On ubuntu only drives that are in /media are shown on the gnome desktop. I edited /etc/fstab so that partitions I don't want on desktop are mounted in /mnt - that worked on my Ubuntu but it didn't work in Fedora And ideas? Thank you -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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gvfs in rawhide
by Matthias Clasen 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hey, in gnome 2.22, gio and gvfs will start replacing gnome-vfs as the vfs layer of gnome. gio is part of glib, gvfs is a standalone module. I have now completed the builds of glib2, gvfs, eel2, nautilus and libgnomeui that bring gio and gvfs into rawhide. Note that a few things are not working yet, e.g. authentication for remote filesystems, and the http/webdav backend is not there yet. If you want to try gvfs in the file chooser, change /desktop/gnome/interface/file_chooser_backend to "gvfs". Happy holidays, Matthias

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nautilus extensions
by Matthias Clasen 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

I noticed that nautilus 2.21 also changes the extension api slightly (the only changes seem to be in nautilus-file-info.h). Also, nautilus looks for extensions in /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0 now. Packages which install nautilus extensions will at least have to be rebuilt and possibly need some porting. Here is a list of affected packages: nautilus-share eiciel nautilus-python nautilus-actions nautilus-image-converter nautilus-sendto nautilus-flac-converter totem nautilus-cd-burner file-roller evince nautilus-extensions control-center seahorse gnome-mount-nautilus-properties nautilus-search-tool nautilus-open-terminal

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gvfs in rawhide
by Matthias Clasen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hey, I have put the

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metacity compositor in rawhide
by Matthias Clasen 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Just thought I should mention that todays metacity build, 2.21.5-1.fc9, includes a new compositor. It is xrender-based (derived from xcompmgr) and thus works on systems where compiz doesn't. It certainly still has kinks, therefor it is not turned on by default yet. To play around with it, set the gconf key: /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager Matthias

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automatic unlocking of keyring
by Matthias Clasen 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

As some may remember, we turned automatic unlocking of keyrings at login time off at a late time in the F8 schedule, since it was not working properly with our pam configuration. pam has meanwhile gained a new feature that will hopefully allow this to work reliably (substack). I have built gdm-2.21.2-0.2007.11.20.4.fc9 and gnome-keyring-2.20.2-2.fc9 in rawhide with this turned on. Please try it and tell me if it works for you. Matthias

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KDE4 notes/problems
by Mark Bidewell 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

I don't know if these are know problems, or if KDE4 is to the point of filing bugzillas but I noticed two things after updating to KDE4 ( rawhide today) 1) /bin/dbus-daemon has selinux issues. Running in enforcing mode yields "permission denied". permissive mode works fine. 2) after the splash screen, I get no desktop. Mark Bidewell

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hot to participate in testing
by a3ukasz Peb3szynski 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hi, I marked testing repository in pirut and how should I report possible bugs? Is there any fedora-tool to do such a thing ? Greetings

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[Fwd: DBus Bindings for Javascript]
by Christopher Aillon 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Figured I'd forward this over here, as it's pretty interesting stuff...

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More packaging work
by Bastien Nocera 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Heya, I've just filed a review request for totem-pl-parser, which is necessary for the new devel Totem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414721 Anybody fancy reviewing this small library? Cheers

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fedora 9 kernel
by a3ukasz Peb3szynski 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi! I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb. 8kb stack works as good as 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper straight from livna-repo. (atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack) Maybe there should be 8kb stack in fedora 9 kernel ? Greetings Lukasz

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Making the Live CD slicker
by Jonathan Blandford 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hey, Having just taken a look at the live CD, here are a couple of specific changes that would make that experience better. - The initial gdm screen is a bit of a hack. The message that you can click on the Fedora feels ugly. If we must have the GDM screen for keyboard or language, we might want to go through firstboot or something. - While signing up for a wireless network, it gnome-keyring prompts me for a keyring password. - nautilus shows the Live CD on the desktop, and lets you try to eject/unmount it. - Just as a minor annoyance, not all the default applications are installed (dasher is missing) Any other suggestions? Thanks, -Jonathan

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Packaging work?
by Bastien Nocera 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Heya, I was wondering if anyone was interested in packaging up libepc for Fedora. This would allow me to enable the "Publish" plugin in Totem: http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/2007/12/03/totem-playlist-sharing/ libepc 0.3 has just been released: http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/2007/12/04/libepc-0-3-released/ Cheers

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Firefox 3 feature
by Colin Walters 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Hi, I tossed up a Feature page for Fx3: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFirefox3 I put my and Chris' name on it. Tentatively thinking of making a branch in CVS where we could collaborate on it and do koji scratch builds from; any opinions on that?

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