desktop May 2016

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host volume changed by VM guest
by Chris Murphy 08 May '16

08 May '16

Hi, Is this related to the earlier pulseaudio flat volumes conversation? Host is Fedora 23, guest is Fedora 24, anytime I boot the VM the host's volume is changed. If I inadvertently chnge the volume of the guest, the host's volume goes to max. If the host's volume is at minimum, and the guest volume is in the middle, successively lowering the guest to minimum increases the host volume to max. It's totally screwy. If this is a different problem and I should file a bug, any suggestion on what component to set it to would be helpful. If it's a known issue then there's no point in cluttering this up further. Thanks, -- Chris Murphy

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The status of Fedora Media Writer (was LiveUSB Creator)
by Martin Bříza 05 May '16

05 May '16

Hi, I was asked to come here and write a few words about the status of the new Fedora Media Writer for Fedora, in a few major points for now. I haven't read through the full meeting log yet so more stuff can follow down the thread. == Mac OS X Support I was not able yet to build a working .app package with the LiveUSB Creator for Mac. I have used probably every tool there is to freeze Python scripts while using direct Qt installs, Macports and Homebrew. Usually I hit issues either with missing dynamic library or broken QML imports. That means there's not a problem with the code itself but with the way how to distribute a usable package to the users. If there is anyone looking to help me on that, I have uploaded just a basic source code package to [1]. It's just a simple PyQt5/QML application with just two source files but fundamentally the same as the FMW. For now, I hope a Python3 port (yes, it's still Python2) will resolve this. An other option is just to ditch the horrible Python mess and rewrite the whole tool to a saner language that's actually portable. == Design I heard there are some raised voices regarding the design of the application, that it's not the same as the design on gnome-design-team's github. While there are some differences, I think they are mostly the same. The main difference now is that now you can choose your achitecture with a radiobox set in the main window below the name of your chosen Fedora flavor instead of a small popup. If you're concerned with the lack of headerbar usage, that's because the app is written in Qt - there's no direct support for putting anything into the header bar. == Windows Support Current plan is to distribute the application as a .exe installer created using NSI. Either the installer or the application (or both?) will have to be signed using a code signing certificate which we currently don't have but can be obtained for I think 14 euros per year for open source projects. As mentioned in the meeting yesterday, due to a communication hiccup between me and releng, I expected I will be the one building and signing the Windows package. Now we're trying to resolve this with dgilmore. Currently it seems we'll have to have a Windows machine running the builds or use upstream binary packages in Wine because it's not possible to just compile upstream Python using MinGW - it'd have to be heavily patched with some shady patches lying on random peoples' blogs. For future releases, it would be good to provide this as a single self-extracting interpreter, though - in a similar way Windows installer itself does it. That's about it for now. I guess there will be questions and I'm here to answer them. Martin [1] https://mbriza.fedorapeople.org/pythontest.tar.gz

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