Re: gnome-shell-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 122

2011-05-28 Thread Allan E. Registos
On 5/28/2011 7:36 AM, Brian Baker wrote: I must admit I am fed up with reading about power off suspend etc. The thing with Linux is choice, there is always choice! just as some enterprising person created an extension that allows the possibility to shutdown the computer! If you choose use it! G

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-28 Thread Allan E. Registos
On 5/28/2011 12:12 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 08:53 -0700, Diego Fernandez wrote: Well then couldn't there just be a 'Power Off' and 'Suspend' option in the menu then? That doesn't seem too confusing... Suspend = "I'll be back in a bit and want to get back to what I was doing

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Holger Berndt
On Sa, 28.05.2011 11:05, Cyril Arnaud wrote: >I guess that you are missing the point. Workspaces are not graveyards. >They're spaces where you can group activities according to your needs and >workflow. Yes, and dumping random stuff I want open but don't want to look at all the time (MUA, IM, med

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Holger Berndt
On Sa, 28.05.2011 13:25, Erick Pérez wrote: >Well, the visual feedback is solved through desktop notfications. The >specs cover pretty much every single case Desktop notifications deal with incomming messages. They don't deal with status feedback ("Is my MUA currently running and checking mail

Re: St.Entry and 'newline character'

2011-05-28 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
You can try `entry.single_line_mode = false`, but St.Entry may not support that right away. It should, though. 2011/5/28 Erick Pérez > Hi: > > I have a development question. > I'm coding an extension and I need to use St.Entry widget from the > shell, the problem is that when I load text in it,

St.Entry and 'newline character'

2011-05-28 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I have a development question. I'm coding an extension and I need to use St.Entry widget from the shell, the problem is that when I load text in it, the newline character doesn't get write. I don'see newlines, but boxes in the text where the newline should be, and then all the text lies in one

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Erick Pérez
> Nice to hear that this workaround works well for you. I don't think > it's a good solution, though. Neither do I, I don't want to see those windows at all, not lying in some less used workspace > There are some distinct types of applications that users want > running, but not interact with all t

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Cyril Arnaud
I guess that you are missing the point. Workspaces are not graveyards. They're spaces where you can group activities according to your needs and workflow. You can use the workspaces to be more efficient by being less distracted by the unused applications you want to keep open. I was not really us

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Bob Gustafson
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 13:45 +0200, Holger Berndt wrote: > On Fr, 27.05.2011 22:20, Cyril Arnaud wrote: > > >> Any pointers on how I could hack mutter or the shell to make minimized > >> windows not appear in the overview mode? > > The request is actually very similar to my own question about get

Color coding in gnome-shell

2011-05-28 Thread Peter Goetz
Hi gnome-shell list, I've been using gnome-shell now for a few weeks and I am very happy with it. It provides a very fluid workflow! Great work! There is only one thing, however, that I think could be improved and I would like to hear you guy's opinion on it. Here's the problem: Whenever I have

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Holger Berndt
On Fr, 27.05.2011 22:20, Cyril Arnaud wrote: >> Any pointers on how I could hack mutter or the shell to make minimized >> windows not appear in the overview mode? The request is actually very similar to my own question about getting applications "out of the way" from a while ago: http://www.mail

Re: Location-aware GNOME Shell - weekly report 1

2011-05-28 Thread Florian Max
Hi, 2011/5/28 Stéphane Maniaci > Here's the first weekly report of my summer of code project: making the > Shell location-aware with a multi-timezone clock and some weather candy > later (didn't write to the shell list earlier). > Welcome to the list! Quickly realized that I really needed sol

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Sergey Zolotorev
Hello. I need ability to remove ("minize" etc) some windows like Evolution, music player etc from GNOME Shell overview too. Just an idea: it would be fine if GNOME Shell can display two (collapsible) areas or tabs - "Active windows" area and "Background (minimized) windows" area. Currently it is

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 à 20:19 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 22:20 -0400, Cyril Arnaud wrote: > > There is no minimize per say in Gnome Shell (there not even a button > > for this). > > Yes, there is. Right-click on the window title, and click minimize. > There is also

Location-aware GNOME Shell - weekly report 1

2011-05-28 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Web version with nothing fancier available at: http://freesteph.info/post/2011/05/28/Location-aware-GNOME-Shell% 3A-Weekly-report-01 Hello, Here's the first weekly report of my summer of code project: making the Shell location-aware with a multi-timezone clock and some weather candy later (didn't

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Julien Olivier
Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 à 18:25 -0300, theblues gnr a écrit : > Hi, > > > I wanted to say that I really love GNOME 3, nice work all. :) > > > One thing I'm missing is a way to get windows out of the way when I > don't want to work with them. For instance, I keep Evolution running > 100% of the