Playing with Big Board
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
I have been running Big Board ever since it was brought up on this list.
Some questions and observations:
Is this meant to replace both the top and bottom GNOME panels? I don't
see a equivalent of a task bar if it's meant to replace them both. Why
hasn't the package been submitted for review? The color on the panel is
a plain white and doesn't match the rest of GNOME system colors. I see
no way to move the panel around either. I can understand the lack of a
quit option if it is meant to replace the panel.
Is big board tied to mugshot? What if I don't have a mugshot account?
Trying to change the pic shown on the identity, application
descriptions, more button in calendar etc launches mugshot pages.
The icons including facebook, flickr etc doesn't have any tooltips. The
functionality of deskbar is not obvious.
The more link on applications launches a side panel. The descriptions
near the search button sometimes overflows the boundary. Example:
Epiphany. Installing a new application via the menu launches a command
line yum command. Though it works this is crude. You should be using the
Yum API and integrating with Pirut instead. Clicking on another area of
the desktop doesn't close this menu or even move it away which is annoying.
There are three sections - applications, photos and calendar. If i don't
intend to use any or all of these sections in the panel there is no way
to remove them although clicking on it minimizing the section within the
panel.
Rahul
16 years
Upgrade Issue FC5 to FC6
by Jim Duda
I recently upgraded to FC6 from FC5 via yum. All appeared fine for a
few days. Today, my desktop was hosed. I finally figured out that I
was missing the nautilus program. According to yum, nautilus was
installed, however, the binary was missing from /usr/bin (maybe I
deleted it accidentally somehow).
Is there anyway to have yum scan all the rpms to make sure what should
be installed is actually installed?
Thanks,
Jim
16 years
shiny desktop, anyone?
by Valent Turkovic
On 5/23/07, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:39 +0800, Ken YANG wrote:
> > as we see, suse 10.2 has the animation grub, it looks good.
> >
> > can fedora has this kind of grub?
> >
>
> We (the desktop team) hope to get rid of the grub menu in the default
> boot sequence instead of making it nicer. See
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup
>
Great! Go desktop team, go! :)
I really believe that presentation of linux is one of the most
important things... it must be shiny and preeeeety :) Nice kernel
hacks and speedups are nice... but those are things that most desktop
users don't care and don't know even exist... but they know good
interface and nice boot grub screen when they see one.
So please make grub as nice as possible... the test of Fedora is
really nice... I really like it graphically wise.
I can only share one comment of my apple osx friend who was an ex
windows user after installing Fedora 6:
"This looks like windows 98."
And when I looked it from his perspective I saw he was right. Don't
get me wrong I love Fedora theme... but when windows looks like osx I
think Fedora needs also a little polish to make it shine...
I saw UbuntuStudio theme, that is an other extreme... but still a good
try. It is too dark an a bit too shiny... but I guess that that is
what users expect to see.
Just my 2c.
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16 years
shutdown compared ubuntu vs fedora
by Valent Turkovic
I used Mint Linux (ubuntu derivative) and loved it's shutdown button.
This looks to me much more user friendly than one we have on Fedora.
First buttons for shutdown, restart, sleep and log-off have icons -
and fedora has only naked buttons.
The screen dims when you click on shutdown - really nice effect.
This looks to me as standard Ubuntu button and not something ubuntu
has made them selves so I was puzzled when I didn't see it in Fedora 7
test 3 or 4.
Can you also include this - a much better version of shutdown button
than one fedora currently uses.
It is much more usable, and user frendly - and it has logoff button
integrated in it and not separate (as it should also be on fedora
IMHO).
Please look at the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWuZvOAAE9c
Thank you.
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16 years
Re: network profiles - do they work for you? they are broken for me!
by Valent Turkovic
Can you please look at my youtube video and then respond if I use
system-config-network how it is not supposed to be used or if
system-config-network is broken?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoy9k5euZRQ
On 5/17/07, John DeDourek <dedourek(a)unb.ca> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried using network profiles on my Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7
> > systems and they don't work for me.
> >
> > Can you tell me if you use network profiles build into
> > system-config-network and system-control-network tools?
> >
> > When I use gui system-config-network to setup network profiles no
> > matter which one I choose and edit I end up with all the profiles with
> > the same settings!
> >
> > I can't setup two different profiles!
> >
> > Can you please explain how do you use network profiles via
> > system-config-network ?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> First, I am doing this from home, from memory, so I can't
> give you exact wordings of menu items, nor exact location
> of menus. But this general procedure works for FC5. I can't
> at the moment verify it for FC6 or FC7.
>
> I use the following procedure.
> --I leave the configuration of all the interfaces as installed
> --I leave the contents of the default profile as installed
>
> When I want a new profile, say for my home lan, using the
> GUI:
> -- Make a "copy" of the appropriate lan interface
> -- Edit the copy of the lan interface (leaving the original
> alone); I usually change the name of the interface from
> the "Copy of eth0" to something like "HomeLan"; I also edit
> whatever other features I want to select for the home LAN,
> e.g. static or dynamic IP, etc.
> -- Create a new profile, say HomeLan; it doesn't bother me
> to have a profile and interface named the same; however
> if you find that confusing, name the interface "HomeLanIface"
> and name the profile "HomeLanProfile"
> -- Make sure only the appropriate interface (e.g. HomeLan" is
> now checked from the profile (HomeLan)
> -- Save it; (I think File->Save
> You're done
>
> What is hapening behind the scenes:
>
> Each of those interfaces is a script file containing bash
> variable assignments. You need a separate file for the LAN
> interface for each profile, because they need to have different
> values assigned to the variables. When you say that all the
> profiles are the same, I am presuming that you are not making
> a separate copy of the interface for each profile. So of course,
> you are always essentially constantly changing the values in
> the one and only interface file. These files are kept somewhere
> like /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/
>
> Each of the profiles is a directory, I think under
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ In that directory is
> a symbolic link to each of the "device" files that is
> configured for that interface.
>
> When you switch profiles, the "device" files (which are
> named something like "ifcfg-HomeLanIface") for the old
> profile are deleted from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and
> the "device" files for the new profile are copied in.
> Actually, I think that's wrong; the scripts are probably not
> copied, but links are created. I seem to recall that they
> are hard links rather than symbolic links.
>
> BTW, if you use the commands /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown rather
> than the GUI to bring the interfaces up and down, use the
> device name (interface name) that you created in the GUI,
> not the Linux interface name as you would use it in
> /sbin/ifconfig. That is, use
> /sbin/ifup HomeLanIface
> /sbin/ifdown HomeLanIface
>
> Hope this is useful to you.
>
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will there be a "cd/dvd burning application" in Fedora 7?
by Valent Turkovic
Will there be a "cd/dvd burning application" in Fedora 7?
I don't see any "cd/dvd burning application" in gnome menu after a
clean Fedora 7 test 4 install. Why is that?
I know nautilus has burning functionality - but usability wise it is
terrible located and I can bet that no standard user will ever find
it.
Don't you do usability testing? Put a your mum, dad or some fiends and
ask them do try and burn a dvd or cd... and watch what they do.
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