Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/18/2017 09:42 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: Mozilla has already admitted they made a mistake and removed Looking Glass from the Fx Studies.  I believe they understand the situation quite well.  It's not helpful to beat a dead horse. Do you think it's a dead horse? I don't. Actually, I thin

adding display authorization to other accounts is broken

2017-12-20 Thread Przemek Klosowski
The primary logged-in session is of course authorized to access the main X11/wayland display, but it's often useful to add display authorization to other accounts. For instance, looking at disk space with 'baobab' works better as root because some areas of the filesystem are not readable to nor

FYI: Fedora/RISC-V second bootstrap

2017-12-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I thought I'd be interesting to say something about Fedora on RISC-V to a wider audience ... and there's some news too. First the basics: RISC-V is a free and open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). You can read more about it on the RISC-V Foundation's website here: https://riscv.org/ Fedora

SONAME Change: nfs-utils-2.3.1

2017-12-20 Thread Steve Dickson
Hello, In the latest nfs-utils upstream release the SONAME has change on the libnfsidmap.so library. The API is was tidied up so internal functions and variable are no longer exposed. As I see it, this change should only effect two patches nfs-ganesha and sssd-nfs-idmap, unless there are other

Re: Call for participation: FOSDEM 2018

2017-12-20 Thread Zacharias Mitzelos
We are closing the call for participation tomorrow evening (23:59 PT) for budget allocation purposes, please open a ticket before then if you you are interested. Happy holidays, Zach On Fri, Dec 1, 2017, at 20:55, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote: > Hello everyone, > > FOSDEM[0], the biggest free and

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 12/19/2017 03:24 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: >> I thought that this was actually a violation of the packaging policies, >> but I can't seem to find it now; I only see the restriction on software >> the requires downloads to be useful. I think simply requiring Mozilla >> to chan

[Test-Announce] Fedora 28 Rawhide 20171220.n.0 nightly compose nominated for testing

2017-12-20 Thread rawhide
Announcing the creation of a new nightly release validation test event for Fedora 28 Rawhide 20171220.n.0. Please help run some tests for this nightly compose if you have time. For more information on nightly release validation testing, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Fedora Rawhide-20171220.n.0 compose check report

2017-12-20 Thread Fedora compose checker
Missing expected images: Server boot x86_64 Server dvd i386 Workstation live i386 Server dvd x86_64 Server boot i386 Kde live i386 Failed openQA tests: 30/106 (x86_64), 1/2 (arm) New failures (same test did not fail in Rawhide-20171219.n.0): ID: 181609 Test: x86_64 Workstation-live-iso des

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > midori is dead upstream. Likely it should be retired, but I keep holding > out hope they will revive development. I definitely would not suggest > more widespread usage of it. https://code.launchpad.net/~midori/midori/ doesn't look that dead. The webKitTwoOnly branch you are

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
On Wednesday, December 20 2017, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> midori is dead upstream. Likely it should be retired, but I keep holding >> out hope they will revive development. I definitely would not suggest >> more widespread usage of it. > > https://code.launchpad.net/~midori/midor

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:37:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > People also ask for patent-encumbered codecs, Flash, etc. It is not always > the right decision to ship what some people ask for. The phrase "cutting off our nose to spite our face" seems relevant here. There is a ginormous differen

Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

2017-12-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 12/20/2017 03:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> midori is dead upstream. Likely it should be retired, but I keep holding >> out hope they will revive development. I definitely would not suggest >> more widespread usage of it. > > https://code.launchpad.net/~midori/midori/ doesn