xfce May 2011

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Goal: Make XFCE rock in Fedora
by Martin Sourada 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi all, as some of you might have noticed (on fedora planet) I have switched from gnome to xfce and I like xfce very much. However, IMHO there are issues that need to be addressed to make xfce a first class citizen. I put together an initial list of them in my wiki space: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mso/XFCE Feel free to chime in and edit the page (or its Talk: page) if you feel something is missing/wrong. Since next major release of xfce (4.10) is scheduled for next January we're probably talking here about Fedora 17 time frame. So let's join forces and make XFCE rock in Fedora 17. Cheers, Martin

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Thank you for the invite
by Todd And Margo Chester 30 May '11

30 May '11

> > Hi Todd, > > as Greg already pointed out this has nothing to do with Xfce itself, > however it is somehow specific to Fedora's Xfce spin. For questions like > this we have a dedicated mailing list at > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > > Please join us! The list is really low traffic and you can reach both > Fedora's Xfce maintainers as well as other Xfce users there. > >>> > > Am I missing something in the Fedora Code Xfce spins that forces >>> > > system-config-network into that horrible test mode? > We have removed system-config-network in favor of NetworkManager's > nm-connection-editor. The only reason the -tui version is in the Xfce > spin is that it's a dependency of the installer. > > Hope this helps. See you soon on our Fedora Xfce mailing list. > > Regards, > Christoph Hi Greg and Christoph, The nm-connection-editor seems like a sweet tool. Although it crashes when you try to edit an adapter, so back to system-config-network. Rats! (If I get some free time, I will post the symptom over on the Fedora forum.) Thank you both for inviting me to the fedora specific list! -T

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XFCE 4.8 for EPEL 6
by Orion Poplawski 20 May '11

20 May '11

I've been building the XFCE 4.8 stack for EPEL 6 and I think I have the core components done. The F15 comps mandatory and default components are: "mandatory">desktop-backgrounds-compat * See below "mandatory">Thunar * Built "mandatory">xfce-utils * Built "mandatory">xfce4-panel * Built "mandatory">xfce4-session * Built "mandatory">xfce4-settings * Built "mandatory">xfconf * Built "mandatory">xfdesktop * Built "mandatory">xfwm4 * Built "conditional" requires="imsettings">imsettings-xfce * See below "conditional" requires="pinentry">pinentry-gtk * Core "default">gdm * Core "default">mousepad * See below "default">NetworkManager-gnome * Core "default">openssh-askpass * Core "default">orage * Built "default">polkit-gnome * Core "default">Terminal * Built "default">thunar-archive-plugin * Built "default">thunar-volman * Built "default">tumbler * No branch "default">xarchiver * Built "default">xfce4-appfinder * Built "default">xfce4-icon-theme * See below "default">xfce4-mixer * Built "default">xfce4-power-manager * Built "default">xfce4-session-engines * Built "default">xfwm4-theme-nodoka * See below I'm assuming we want basically the same structure for el6. So notes follow: - EL6 does not appear to have any desktop-backgrounds* packages. What to do? - EL6 does not appear to have imsettings-xfce. What to do? - Do we really still want xfce4-icon-theme? It is at version 4.4.3 and nothing appears to require it. For the el6 packages, I've patched it to use gnome-icon-theme. - Not yet branched for el6: mousepad, tumbler, xfwm4-theme-nodoka. I'm going to put in branch requests. Once I have mousepad, tumbler, and xfwm4-theme-nodoka built I'm going to put together an update of the above packages. I'm going to leave it to others to build the various "optional" xfce-desktop packages. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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F16 systemd-gtk
by Frank Murphy 19 May '11

19 May '11

Is it possible to include systemd-gtk on the F16 LiveCD, it makes systemd pointy-clickey. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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F15 Nightly GDM?
by Frank Murphy 19 May '11

19 May '11

Installed Fedora-15-Nightly-20110518.06-i686-Live-xfce Back to GDM? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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LightDM F16?
by Frank Murphy 18 May '11

18 May '11

Came across this on the devel user list: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-May/151382.html Would it be suitable for xFce? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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Fedora 15 Final RC3 available: desktop testing needed!
by Adam Williamson 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hey, everyone. So the third release candidate for the final Fedora 15 release is now up, and this time we have live images, that work! I'm so excited. (For RC1 and RC2 we had a couple of bugs which stopped some of the live images from composing, and stopped those that *did* compose from actually booting). So as always, we need some desktop validation testing! You can find the images at http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Live/ . The desktop test instructions/results page is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Desktop Grab an image, go to that page, click on the 'test case' links, do the tests, and enter your results in the 'Test Matrix' table. I'm afraid there is no 'profit' step, except the warm fuzzy feeling you get when contributing to a new Fedora release. We need to do all the tests for the 'desktop', 'fallback' (GNOME 3 fallback mode), and 'KDE' columns at least, and it'd be good to get the tests done for the other desktops too so we know where they stand. If you hit any bugs which are complete fails for any of the tests, please file them at http://bugzilla.redhat.com and mark them as blocking the bug 'F15Blocker' (or if you don't have the privileges to do so, poke me and I'll do it). Thanks! If you have any questions, do go ahead and ask. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Feedback for two updates required
by Christoph Wickert 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hi, we ened feedback for two Xfce updates: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694900 Once these updates are approved, we have made it for F15. All Xfce blockers [1] are fixed already and for the targets [2] we only have the two listed above and the ones that are outside our scope, e.g. where we depend on GNOME. Regards, Christoph [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678917 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678916

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Mousepad F15?
by Frank Murphy 10 May '11

10 May '11

Upstream appear to be dropping it for the moment. Will this affect text editor for F15? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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Slim F15
by Frank Murphy 08 May '11

08 May '11

Is it a modified Slim used in the F15-Xfce-live? If so where can one grab it. As a pure F14-->F15 gives the old Slim. (No Langange selection) -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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