Re: gnome-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 23

2005-01-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 12:49 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:32 +0100, KTG wrote: > > > As a matter of fact I was given the answer for hiding, not disabling (in > > my understanding of this word[*]) the Trash. When I tried to remove a file, > > it was moved to some "invi

Re: gnome-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 21

2005-01-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 17:04 +0100, KTG wrote: > Takis Diakoumis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you can remove it... > > > > change the gconf entry for /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible to > > false > > > > as for your remarks that gnome is heading towards windows... can of > > worms an

Re: anjuta-docs

2005-04-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:11 -0700, Tim Hanson wrote: > Does anyone know what program I can use to read the .xml files for > anjuta-docs? I've tried epiphany, firefox, and OpenOffice.org, all of > which purport to read .xml files. It depends on what kind of XML it is. If the docs are in DocBook X

Re: Help viewer crashing

2005-05-19 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 21:21 -0500, kareemy wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing 3 different types of undesired behavior recently in > gnome 2.10 all related to clicking help within an application. > > In gconf-editor when I click Help>Contents, it crashes. A pop up comes > up with "The Applicati

Re: Desktop switch w/ pop-up

2005-08-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 21:41 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 14:35 -0400, Michael R Head wrote: > > I tend to just use ctrl-alt- to scroll around the virtual > > desktop space. > > Yes! It's OK for me. > 3 fingers, but OK. If you want to change it to a 2 finger sequen

Re: how to focus on desktop automatically if no windows open?

2005-11-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:28 -0500, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > I'm using Gnome 2.10.2 on Debian. Sometimes I like to use the keyboard > instead of the mouse to navigate the desktop. However, if I close a > window (using, e.g., M-F4) I go into what appears to be a 'no-focus' > state: pressing th

Re: how to focus on desktop automatically if no windows open?

2005-11-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 21:39 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:49 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:28 -0500, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > > > I'm using Gnome 2.10.2 on Debian. Sometimes I like to use the keyboard > > >

Re: how to focus on desktop automatically if no windows open?

2005-11-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:31 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 11/11/05, Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elijah Newren wrote: > > >It's the designated no-focus-window (a window created by Metacity that > > >the user never sees but is around to ensure that global keybindings > > >work...).

Documentation Love Day

2006-01-12 Thread Shaun McCance
The feature freeze is nigh, and that means it's time for our intrepid writers to dig into our documentation. As valiant as they are, they can't do this alone. We need your help. Sunday, January 15 will be the first Documentation Love Day of the 2.14 release cycle. This is an excellent opportuni

Re: From KDE to GNOME. Experiences, suggestions and comments

2006-04-15 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 21:09 +0300, Janne Ojaniemi wrote: > Regarding the features: I could REALLY like GNOME to have similar > "network-agnosticsm" as KDE has. Meaning: remote files and folders could > be worked on just like they were on the local machine. An example: I > have some photos on a remo

Re: Yelp fails to display DocBook files

2006-05-31 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:35 +0300, Red Blue wrote: > After updating Gnome from 2.8.2 to 2.12.3 (from Debian amd64 Sarge to Etch > packages, as well as bunch of other stuff), Yelp no longer displays Gnome > DocBook help files and spits "There is no default action associated with > this location."

Re: Change in gnome-doc-utils.make file

2006-06-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:07 +0530, Ravishankar Haranath wrote: > > The line continuation mark '\' were missing for the if construct > starting at line 506. > It has been added properly for this if construct > > if ENABLE_SK \ > _ENABLE_SK = true \ > else \ > _ENABLE_SK = false \ > endif > >

Re: Copy keybindings from one machine to another?

2006-07-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:26 +0200, Martin Man wrote: > Hi, > > Larry Hunter wrote On 2006-07-19 02:05,: > > Folks, > > > > I've put some effort into getting my personal favorite keybindings set > > up in Gnome (2.14). Is there some convenient way of copying those > > keybindings to another machi

Re: Where Is "File Types and Programs" Tool?

2006-08-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 10:32 -0400, Kent Eschenberg wrote: > The "Gnome 2.8 Desktop User Guide" describes how to start the "File Types and > Programs" preference tool this way: > >Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced >-> File types and programs > > What are they talking about

Re: Make GNOME aware of custom URI Scheme

2006-12-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:13 -0500, David Turvene wrote: > Greetings - > > I am trying to add a custom URI Scheme, "idoc:" for internal use > on our Fedora/Firefox/GNOME based computers. I have added a url-handler > definition to GNOME using "gconftool-2" with a command calling > gnome-helper. Ba

Re: Make GNOME aware of custom URI Scheme

2006-12-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:00 +, David Turvene wrote: > Shaun McCance gnome.org> writes: > > > How do I set up GNOME to recognize a proprietary scheme? I searched > > > through the GNOME archives and found a number of tangential references > > > to this - s

Re: Iconify instead of minimize

2007-03-20 Thread Shaun McCance
It's very likely that you will also have to tell Nautilus not to draw the desktop, since the window manager will need to manage the desktop itself. Set the gconf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false. -- Shaun On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 07:11 -0500, Diego Escalante wrote: > I think t

Re: Can't make directory link to Desktop

2007-04-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 22:33 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi, > > Using Gnome 2.14 on Debian. Let's take a user Gavin who is in the > Domain Users group. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id > uid=1007(gavin) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /home/share > drwx

Re: Trouble with viewsvn diff views

2007-05-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:32 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > When trying to viewcvs diffs like: > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/trunk/src/trackerd/trackerd.c?limit_changes=100&r1=563&r2=564&pathrev=564 > > I get the following error: > > An Exception Has Occurred > Python Traceback >

Re: using MOD4 (aka super or "window key") as keyboard shortcut *modifier*

2007-05-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:43 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I would like to use mod4 as a modifier key for keyboard shortcuts. > > I have done this in the past and those shortcuts still work fine > (eg mod4-f2 brings up the "run application" dialog). > > But I can't add any new ones. Say I want h

Re: Quick gripe about gedit key bindings

2007-06-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 01:19 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 8 Jun 2007, at 04:54, Gustav van der Merwe wrote: > > > The keyboard shortcut for switching between documents in gedit is CTRL > > +ALT+PAGEUP/DOWN compared to the standard CTRL+PAGEUP/DOWN across the > > rest of the Gnome tabbed interfac

Re: Looking for the existing 'natural language processing' project

2007-07-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:39 -0700, matt wrote: > A few months ago I stumbled onto a project that was working with natural > language processing on the gnome website. I wanted to have a look at the > code, but I have not been able to find it again. Does anyone know what > I'm talking about? > >

Re: Using Gnome desktop icons in a non-computer context

2007-07-30 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:42 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I would like to use some icons from the GNOME desktop environment in a > printed brochure that has nothing to do with computers, just because > they are very handy. > > 1. Can I use them under a Creative Commons Attribution -

Re: changing rights

2007-10-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 18:35 +1100, Robert Moonen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > following problem: When I load files from a CD-ROM onto my harddisk, > > they are all read-protected. In Gnome there is no easy grafical way > > to do this. > > > > In KDE it is (like in Windo

Re: terminal disappears

2007-11-15 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:34 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > On date Friday 2007-11-09 08:51:22 -0500, Lowell Thomas gnomed: > > Hi, > > > > I'm an experienced C/C++ developer with a little UNIX experience years ago, > > but a complete newbie to Linux and GNOME. I just installed Debian 4.0r1 with

Re: gnome-volume-manager settings

2007-12-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:55 +1030, Ian wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 21:25:34 Ian Collier wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +1030, Ian wrote: > > > I'm deploying a group of workstations running opensuse & gnome. The > > > gnome-volume-manager is set by default to make banshee run

Re: Can I use gtk_widget_unref() to releasetthe object created by gtk_invisible_new()?

2008-01-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 18:07 +0800, Brian Lu wrote: > Hi, experts, > > I found following codes will crash in gnome 2.21 environment: > >... >GtkWidget *foo = gtk_invisible_new(); >gtk_widget_unref(foo); >... > > But it works well if gtk_widget_unref() is replaced with > gtk_widg

Re: Disable changing desktop with scroller

2008-01-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 07:43 +0100, Freek wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just bought a new mouse which has "smooth" scrolling wheel (let's > skip commercials :-) ). > The problem is that whenever the background in gnome gets "scroll" > event, it changes desktop. > And as the wheel is smooth it just sta

Re: A bridge too far ...

2008-02-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:06 -0800, Clark Dunson wrote: > And Gnome overrides su/root?!? Whathehellis this dialog box?!?: > > > "You are not allowed to access the system configuration" > > > That is really bogus. I'm root!!! Actually, unless you've heavily customized Ubuntu, you're not. Neith

Re: A bridge too far ...

2008-02-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:34 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:33 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:06 -0800, Clark Dunson wrote: > > > And Gnome overrides su/root?!? Whathehellis this dialog box?!?: > > > > > > >

Re: gnome changes

2008-05-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:57 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > Throughout the last two gnome releases, I have noticed that less > applications use gnomeprintui and more use gtkprint. There is also the > gnome-vfs to gvfs/gio migration. I also noticed that less application > use libgnomeui. > I have a

Re: key bindings

2008-05-15 Thread Shaun McCance
Cutting d-d-l from the Cc. Not the appropriate list. On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 19:03 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote: > On 15.05.2008 18:39, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:44 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote: > > > > > Using the Windows key as a modifier is currently not supported for

Re: file association quiestion

2008-07-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 07:52 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:46:52AM -0400, yitzle wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > I have some question default program to open some files likes > > > jpeg,jpg,png,bmp.

Re: Alternatives to yelp

2008-08-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:36 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote: > Well... are there any drop-in replacements for yelp? I'm not aware of > any. No, not really. For a time, SuSE used khelpcenter in Gnome, because we lacked search capability. (This has now been fixed.) But they had to effectively conver

Re: disable copy/paste feature in gnome

2008-11-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 15:24 +0200, Catalin wrote: > Is there any way to disable copy/paste feature for a Gnome desktop? This begs the obvious question, "Why?" That aside, you could write a program that runs in the background and continually steals ownership of the X clipboard. It wouldn't make m

Re: Linking problems - newbie problems

2008-12-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 15:56 +0530, sasank.kuntima...@wipro.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to programming with GTK and am trying to create a small test > window. I am getting a linker errors. Can someone please suggets me a > solution for this. > > The code in my program is: > > #include >

Re: How to determine which icon set is used

2009-01-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:43 +0200, cyberpython wrote: > Hi, > I would like to ask if there is a way (e.g. a settings file) to > determine the name of the current icon theme (e.g. Oxygen-Refit) apart > from the gconf command line tool. > > (Note: I am interested to determine the icon-theme name pro

Re: drag and drop into gnome launchers

2009-01-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 23:59 -0800, Bostjan Vilfan wrote: > Hello, > > I use Gnome as my Suse Linux desktop, and I wonder whether it is > possible to make a Gnome launcher icon behave as a Windows icon in the > sense of launching a program with parameter(s) by dropping a file or > files into it. I

Re: where is gnome-keyring-1?

2009-02-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:55 -0500, tj wrote: > In trying to build gnome-games on a slackware 12.2 I had to install > libgnomeui, which requires gnome-keyring-1. I found gnome-keyring on > ftp.gnome.org, but no keyring-1. Where do I obtain it's source package? gnome-keyring-1 is the name of the l

Re: where is gnome-keyring-1?

2009-02-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 07:20 +0800, Michael Nechkin wrote: > And what is the purpose of gnome-keyring? Is it possible to switch off > gnome-keyring? gnome-keyring is used by various applications to store passwords and other sensitive data in a secure fashion. There's no desktop-wide switch to tur

Re: style sheet error when building games

2009-02-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:49 -0500, tj wrote: > Well, I think I am slowly closing in on building gnome-games. But, I > have run into another roadblock. > When make'ing it I get: the following error: > > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/user1/src/gnome-games-2.24.3/aisleriot/help' > xsltproc -

Re: fedora 10 live cd

2009-03-04 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:05 -0500, chad wrote: > Hi i'm totally blind and i tried the fedora 10 live cd but having > problems. > I set up orca and it said accessability for gnome has just been > enabled you need to log out and log in for the change to take effect. > I pressed y for yes and i'm stuc

Re: GSoC 2009 - Mind Mapping Tool

2009-03-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:39 -0600, Eddy Zavaleta wrote: > Hi everybody, > > My name is Eddy Zavaleta, an student from ESCOM/IPN (National > Polytechnic Institute), which is in Mexico City, Mexico. > > I want to participate in GSoC 2009, I would like to get involved with > the gnome project, I wan

Re: spreadsheet

2009-04-06 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:11 +0100, John Taylor wrote: > Have just installed Gnome spreadsheet which works well enough but how do > I convert the sheets to dpf files for emailing > > Any help would be appreciated In most applications, you should be able to "print" to a PDF file as if it were a p

Re: How do I get my typing monitor icon back?

2009-04-28 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:11 +, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I have two computers on my desk running Solaris 10, more-or-less > identically configured (a consequence of our NFS environment at work), > running Sun's Java Desktop System, which is, I believe, really Gnome. > > For more than a year I ha

Re: How to disable display of user accounts at login prompt

2009-05-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 16:56 -0700, jus...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello, I just joined this list so I hope I am posting my question in > the right place. > > I have Fedora 10 system running gnome. When the computer is booted the > user is presented the option to login with a list of accounts or > selec

Re: dragging windows across workspaces

2009-06-03 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 11:47 +0200, Franco Marenco wrote: > > Hello, > > This question may seem silly but I hardly try to drag windows across > workspaces in Gnome but don't get the desired effect. With brightside > installed I can actually drag a window into another workspace but I > cannot have

Re: Reading man pages

2009-06-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:15 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 01:34 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:24 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > I know I can read them from a terminal however, previously when I was > > > running KDE I could read them from Konqueror using man:, is

Re: Disabling the padlock icon for read-only .desktop files

2009-07-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:14 +0100, Calum wrote: > Hello all, > > I am locking down a desktop, and when the .desktop files for a user > are made root:root 644, a padlock icon is shown by them. > > I would like to avoid this, as it makes the desktop look more unfriendly. > I have looked in GConf, b

Re: Error in documentation at http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mimetypes-source-xml.html.en

2009-07-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 18:52 +0200, armen...@gmail.com wrote: > There is a possible error in the documentation at > http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mimetypes-source-xml.html.en > > quote (near the beginning): > > "Table 5-1 gives a brief description for each of the element

Re: Mistake found in gbrany

2009-07-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 22:39 +0200, Deluxe Chaos wrote: > There is a translationerror in the german version! > In the jpg i´ve send to you, there it says "ziffern"(numerics) > This means in german: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 BUT NOT 10,11,12,.. > This aren´t "ziffern"(numerics) this are "Zahlen"(numeray)!

Re: Info about active window

2009-08-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:39 -0300, Naira Kaieski wrote: > Hi, > > I want monitoring the users that login em a workstation with Ubuntu 9.04. > I want monitor this with SNMP and a external script. This monitoring > will be remote. > > I want to monitor only those applications that are being used,

Re: Where can I make suggestions about Yelp?

2009-11-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:29 -0500, Luis Felipe López Acevedo wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some questions and suggestions about Yelp but I can't find it in > the list of projects of GNOME's website. Where should I post them? The best place is gnome-doc-l...@gnome.org There's also a development

Re: remove interface tab (please don't)

2010-02-24 Thread Shaun McCance
ooking for properties it might be fun to set. But that is the answer you'll get. And gSTM does need to be fixed. -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/ ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: remove interface tab (please don't)

2010-02-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 22:51 +, phil wrote: > On 25/02/10 02:42, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > > > These two screenshots convey the exact same amount of information > > to me and the other 10% of males in the world who are color-blind. > > > > > >

Re: Unicode character entry

2010-06-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:50 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > > I found some advice to use ibus instead, but so far I've not been > able to > > get ibus to do what I need without having it interfere with my > normal > > typing. I just need a quick way to type common symbols found in > English text > > (

Re: How can I create a filetype association that uses the filename's extension?

2011-01-04 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Dear List, > > I have several kinds of files that Gnome detects as "plain text > documents": some with the extension .py, some with .txt, some with > .mht . . . you get the picture. The .py files I'd like to open with > gVim, the .txt file

Re: How can I create a filetype association that uses the filename's extension?

2011-01-07 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 01:49 +0100, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > So, the problem is "no obvious way to 'register a new/unknown > extension'," rather than the "extension ignored when determining > filetype" I initially reported. Sorry about that. Which would be a > problem with the Nautilus 'Open With' di

Re: behavior of gnome-panel

2011-02-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:45 -0800, Wil Willis wrote: > Hey folks, when I double click on a hyperlink (url) in Thunderbird, I > have to go to the panel and click on the pulsing blue minimized tab to > maximize the page. > > Isn't there a way to get the focus to behave such that the brower will

Re: Newly installed UBUNTU is crippled --- Help!

2011-04-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:47 +, sidnie.f...@comcast.net wrote: > Thank you for the reply! > > After browsing around UBUNTU message lists, > I realized yesterday afternoon that I had the UNITY interface > > I found > Ubuntu Documentation > Community Documentation > > UbuntuNetbookEditionUn

Re: Gnome 3 Videos

2011-04-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 01:58 +, optio pack wrote: > Can someone ask Jason to brush his hair before he shoots a video? He > looks like he slept under a bridge in a cardboard box. I'm certain you can find a more productive use of your time than making fun of somebody's hairstyle. If you can't, I

Re: gnome 3: how to add "Desktop", "Documents", "Downloads" etc to favorites?

2011-04-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 08:14 +0200, Christian Resnik wrote: > Hi all > > I'm giving Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 Beta a spin at the moment and I can't > figure out how to add Desktop, Documents, Downloads or any other > pre-configured folder to the Favorites (Activities). > The only folder I can add is F

Re: Disable Drag and Drop

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 00:00 +0200, Esben Stien wrote: > Is there any way to disable drag and drop completely in GNOME?. > > I have a friend with some weird hand problem who uses GNOME, but he > manages to drag everything out of order, because when he left clicks, he > doesn't let go of the button

Re: Empathy status in user menu (was: How to work with GNOME3?)

2011-06-13 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 00:15 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 13 Jun 2011, at 22:19, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > > I purged Empathy from my system, but the entries are still > > there. Anyway, I believe this status information should be > > only there when Empathy is currently running, right? > >

Re: Hibernate via "power off" or similar?

2011-06-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:59 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently not at my GNOME3 machine, so I can't test this right now: > Can I provoke a hibernate (to disk) by using the power button of my PC? > In this case I wouldn't need to patch the user menu. > > TIA & Cheers Yes. 1.

Re: Name display in user menu

2011-06-15 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:18 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting "Frederic Muller" : > > However if you remove it where would you put the drop down menu linked to > > it? > > Not sure, but something smaller and "neutral"? In my office > (GNOME2) it is "System" which I like better. Maybe I sh

Re: Password Problem

2011-10-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 17:35 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Now that I think about it, I don't really want the desktop to timeout at > > all. I am the only user and the only person with access to my computer. > > I'll check to see

Re: A lot of very unhappy Linux user

2011-11-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 00:29 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > No replies? > > Not from users, nor developers. Something is definitely wrong here. Something is wrong because nobody responded to a barrage of emails within three hours? I'm a developer. I don't get paid to do this. > On Fri, 2011-11-11

Re: Gnome 3.2 -- manuals, guides or info !?

2011-12-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 14:38 -0500, William Case wrote: > Going to Gnome 3.2 (and Fedora 16) soon. > > Have there been a good comprehensive Gnome 3.2 manual(s) written yet? I > can get my way around Gnome 3, but I am sure there are tweaks and curves > I haven't discovered yet that I would like to

Re: Deeper problem, Gnumeric comes up without menu bars

2012-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 21:42 -0700, Mark Lytle wrote: > Standard install on Ubuntu 11.10, Gnumeric 1.10.17 comes up without > menu bars, just a minimalist thing across the top with icons for > common operations. How do i get the menu bar that has drop down menus > to appear? This is why I'm sure I

Re: Some things I think GNOME should improve

2013-04-01 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 04:37 +0100, Les Paul wrote: > > - Application settings should be separated from the aplication. Most > users use default settings (I don't). But practically all of us set > the program once, and this function isn't used anymore. You like > minimalism? Move the settings to an

Re: Some things I think GNOME should improve

2013-04-02 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:01 +0200, Les Paul wrote: > 2013/4/2 Shaun McCance : > > Can you elaborate on how you think the help could be improved? > > > > -- > > Shaun > > > > Of course. As I see, "Settings" and "Help" are both required. Bu

Re: Some things I think GNOME should improve

2013-04-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 01:00 +0200, Les Paul wrote: > > People don't want to sit on a computer to solve problems. They want to > get the things done in the easiest way. And if a casual user oriented > application made him to look up a manual, there is something wrong > with it. We don't make manua

Re: Some things I think GNOME should improve

2013-04-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 12:27 +0200, Les Paul wrote: > 2013/4/11 Shaun McCance : > > > We don't make manuals in GNOME. We don't think people should have to > > read documentation before starting to use something. We absolutely do > > not write documentation that