Fedora 16 Beta RC3: desktop validation requested
by Adam Williamson
Hey, everyone. We have one final Beta RC (hopefully!) for desktop
validation:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.RC3/Live/x86_64/
We could really use some help ensuring the desktop validation tests are
done across all the desktops to make sure they're in shape for Beta.
More info and the results page here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Beta_RC3_Desktop
It's easy to do the tests and file the results, there's full
instructions there, but do feel free to poke me or anyone else in
#fedora-qa if you have trouble.
At minimum we need the Alpha and Beta tests for Desktop, Fallback and
KDE to be complete in order to sign off on the Beta release, but it'd be
great to have results for all of the tests for all desktops.
We got the tests done for Desktop and KDE in RC2, and there should be no
difference with RC3 - the only changes between RC2 and RC3 are an
updated libreport to fix a bug with reporting bugs from the installer,
and dropping gnome-documents from the default install as it crashes on
start - but we still need to check. Fallback mode is highest priority as
that wasn't tested in RC2.
Thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years
fedoraproject.org slide design for fedora 16
by Elad Alfassa
Hi,
Just reminding you that we need a new main slide design for
fedoraproject.org. We don't want Mo to do it in the last minute like when we
released fedora 15, so someone should better start now.
Our deadline, as far as I'm concerned, is 1 hour before GA. But It'd be
really helpful to get it sooner.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
12 years
Building 3.1.92
by Matthias Clasen
Hey,
I'm starting to do 3.1.92 builds now. I think we can probably get away
without the f16-gnome tag and just build things into
f16-updates-candidate as usual. I still want to do a big update
collecting most of the 3.1.92 modules; I think that has worked fairly
well for the past few releases.
If people feel like helping out with builds, feel free to do so and let
me know which builds you want me to pick up for the update.
Matthias
12 years
tracker in F16
by Adam Williamson
Hey, folks.
So, in F16, totem has grown a dependency on tracker, via grilo-plugins.
This means tracker is now present and active in default F16 installs,
where it wasn't before. This is leading to the problems that have been
endemic to desktop search mechanisms ever since the first one crawled
out of the fiery pits of hell - excessive resource consumption, viz:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102688.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102770.html
peter robinson reckons it would be easy to split out grilo-plugins'
dependency on tracker and hence get tracker out of the default package
set again, if that's desired:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102730.html
so, what's the plan here? is tracker's default inclusion a mistake which
can be rectified as per pbrobinson's plan, or should we be trying to get
tracker excessive-consumption bugs fixed?
if it's going to be in there by default, it should probably have a less
aggressive indexing policy by default. it installs with its
aggressiveness set to max, a fairly expansive set of search paths
(including removable media), and without the config tool which lets you
tweak these things, as nothing has a dep on tracker-search-tool.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years
Mouse activate clicks not working for KDE programs
by Clyde E. Kunkel
From the G-3 desktop in both F16 and rawhide I can mouse left or right
click to select (highlight) a button in KDE programs, but I have to use
keyboard enter to activate it. I don't have the full kde desktop
installed, just some of the programs I like (k3b, dolphin, kate, etc).
Anyone have an idea what is going on or what the workaround is? I would
bz this, but don't know what package to name.
TIA
--
Regards,
OldFart
12 years
compiz
by snwbrdr＠mail.ru
compiz - What are the minimum system requirements?
thx.
12 years
gnome-menu changes
by Christoph Wickert
Hi there,
can you please share some insight on the latest changes in gnome-menu?
1. The python module is no longer shipped, is this intended?
2. redhat-menus is no longer used. IHMO think this is a step in the
wrong direction because we no longer have consistent menus
between desktops. What is the future of redhat-menus?
3. Now that redhat-menus are not used anymore, can we please have
all *.directory and *.menu files from gnome-menus properly
prefixed with "gnome-"?
Regards,
Christoph
12 years
New Transifex: TM, QA controls, .desktop, Private projects
by Dimitris Glezos
Hi all!
A quick announcement that we've done a major upgrade on Transifex.net, which
brings a few exciting features for Fedora's developers and translators,
including a brand-new theme. Some of these were advocated by the Fedora
community itself, so thank you for your feedback!
http://blog.transifex.net/2011/09/freemium/
http://fedora.transifex.net/
Here are the most interesting features introduced:
- Quality control tools for developers
- New file formats incl. .desktop & XLIFF
- Translation Memory & Spell-checking
- Brand new look-n-feel!
- Translation of private & proprietary projects
## QA features for developers:
- **Pseudo files**: Developers can download special auto-generated files to
test their project's internationalization support before translations. This
will help catch strigs which were not marked for translation or spot ones
which will render badly in certain locales (too tall, wrap around).
- **Live developer comments**: Give translation instructions on specific
strings straight from the web editor.
## QA features for translators:
- **Transation memory**: Transifex now stores your project's past translations
in a Translation Memory and offers them in the web editor when a similar
string appears. This greatly helps translators save time and increases the
quality and consistency of your translations.
- **Integrated spell-checker**: The Web Editor now warns on simple and common
language mistakes when translating.
## New file formats: .desktop, XLIFF, etc
Developers can now submit .desktop files for translation in Transifex.
Translators will work with them just like with any other file, watch them for
changes, translate online & offline etc.
Read more information about the changes and background info on our dedicated
blog post and our help pages.
http://blog.transifex.net/2011/09/freemium/
http://help.transifex.net/
Hope you like these new features & use them to improve our translations. =)
-d
--
Dimitris Glezos
Transifex: The Multilingual Publishing Revolution
http://www.transifex.net/ -- http://www.indifex.com/
12 years
desktop comps
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
Just going through and reviewing a F-16 install and I've some queries
about various deps listed in the comps file for gnome-desktop to see
if I can trim the size a little.
gok: does this need to be default now with the new keyboard in gnome
3.2? Can it be made optional as its the only thing that pulls in
ORBit2 and a couple of other deps and saves about 12mb
Also why are there various libraries specified in the comps file, its
only really suppose to specify apps and the libs then get pulled in as
deps when needed. There's a few more meg to be save by dropping
libsane-hpaio and its not used in the default install.
Not huge but helps.
Peter
12 years
