Re: Fw: Gnome extensions

2017-10-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 12:20 +0100, Sam Bull wrote: > I also have not seen any issues like this, and have been using btrfs > with GNOME for atleast a couple of years, on Ubuntu and Gentoo. Ditto. > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 01:46 +, Leslie S Satenstein via gnome- > shell-list wrote: > > Do not (as

Re: Notifications are easy to dismiss by mistake

2017-02-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 20:15 +0100, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > I've thought about two different solutions: > > - A different approach would be to just disable this behavior and > > require the user to click the notification or the "x" button on it, > > to acknowledge it has been read and dismiss it

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
this is what I was remembering, not specifically legacy > status icons which as you correctly said has a number of flaws. > Strangely, I don't really miss the tray icons.. So, victory? Neither do I [miss the tray icons]. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 16:05 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, at 15:58, Sam Bull wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 09:42 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 14:31 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ns other than an e-mail client as examples. > What will you do for them ? The question is - what do you want done with applications in the background? They are in the background; there is zero reason for me to care about them until (a) I need them or (b) they need me. -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
gent, an SSH agent, the zeitgeist-datahub, etc... I see nothing from them unless I need to. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing li

Notifications [Was: My gripes with Gnome Shell]

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I see indication of notifications in the toolbar next to the time. And I can toggle on/off notifications per application. I have many detailed options - out of the box. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems

Notifications [Was: My gripes with Gnome Shell]

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Evolution all day and I don't see anything missin g. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
f packages include the XDG. Simply distribute an XDG file with your application start-script. > Why can't the developers make some of these things work correctly? They work perfectly. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 S

GVFS Working, But Corresponding FUSE Mounts Are Not

2015-08-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
The folder created in gvfs looks like: "?? ? ? ? ?? sftp:host=yannigan -orange.example.com,user=bcreswel" I looked at the output of journalctl and do not see anything that obvisously looks like GVFS crashed. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemic

Re: Default extensions for ldap users

2015-07-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
s that actually work for this? [finally something like a roaming profile in GNOME] - because this would be AWESOME. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnom

Re: Gnome Design wishlist

2014-12-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
l as what you are talking about. To get influence on such a topic you need to participate. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gno

Re: Gnome Design wishlist

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ll using a stacking WM, so the windows do stay, Leave my windows alone! :) I use multiple apps simultaneously to perform complex tasks. I want things where I put them, simple. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Gnome Design wishlist

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
s the worst gnome design idea > (my opinion)! Like OSX you have to search far from > your application window! Why? What is the logic? Why > should I found some options in the title bar and > others in the application menu? -- Adam Taun

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ations independently. Does anything prevent someone from making a Shell Extension which overrides the volume control behavior? -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA __

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:41 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:07 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > >> Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go &g

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:58 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all > > the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound settings. > > It would really like to

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:07 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all the > way up to above > 100% without having to go into the sound settings. It would really like to > see an option like > that in Gnome-Shell as well. Since 100% is

Re: Window animations in Gnome-Shell.

2014-07-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
eding-up/slowing-down window animations. Search <https://extensions.gnome.org/> -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-she

Re: A suggestion for GNOME 3

2014-03-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ut - it is a nice addition. And, as usual, installed effortlessly. Great work. > I seem to remember there was a discussion about this issue on > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-shell > but I can't find the particular bug right now... maybe someone else can &

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
since before 1.0 and Ubuntu since Dapper, it is > such a pain I might just get a mac, which is a shame as really think > libre software is important and am adamantly cross platform in the > code I care about. Your experience is not normal. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@wh

Re: Bugs

2014-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have filed have mostly all been dealt with. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.or

Re: Bugs

2014-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:47 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > this is a logical fallacy: software is not a car. But people do *LOVE* that metaphor. It seems as though, in America, **everything** is a car. And, BTW, nobody *else* knows how to drive, they are all 'idiots'. -- Adam T

Re: Bugs

2014-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
you have the source - so you can fix it yourself, find the project a new maintainer, or pay to have it fixed. > Well, enough of my rant. I think you can see where I am coming from. A misunderstanding of the concept of "bug"? -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill.

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 23:13 -0200, Evandro Giovanini wrote: > I think he means dragging from the new Application view to the > workspace switcher. That works for me ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 16:35 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Dec 3, 2013 12:55 AM, "Donato Marrazzo" > wrote: > > In the past, it was possible to select an app from the overview (all > app view) and drop in virtual desktop panel without losing the > overview mode. I am on GNOME 3.10.x, and I

Re: webdav rename does not work

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 21:51 +1000, jupiter wrote: > I am running gnome-vfs2-2.24.2 on CentOS 6. I can connect wedav server > but could not rename the name of file / folder, File or Folder? They are two different things. What WebDAV server? > it got error "Bad Gateway". That typically means t

Re: Gnome 3.8

2013-07-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 16:17 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote: > I just installed Gnome 3.8. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I agree completely. Alt+F2's command line is also really quick for the odd-ball thing you need to run. I used to have to have an applet for that, and it was always clunky.

Re: Nautilus no longer has create new file menu??

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 23:31 +0200, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hi All, > > I noticed that nautilus no longer has the right-click menu item to > create a new (empty) file?? Why did you remove it? This was so useful > when you want to quickly create a new file in the current directory > and stick some

Re: Why not add some more convenient features to Shell?

2013-05-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 00:08 +0530, Rahul Jain wrote: > Hiya, it seems to me that everything in Shell has only one autistic, > inflexible way of doing things. I think Shell is polished enough by > now, so why not start adding more features? You can dynamically add features to shell using extension

Re: alt-tab switch application / workspace

2013-05-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ional or not, but the description is: "If true, only windows from the current workspace are shown in the switcher. Otherwise, all windows are included." -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Admini

Re: Override new GNOME Window settings like for Nautilus

2013-05-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
the new system. Please > have some configuration setting that will override the new settings. ?? I'm on GNOME 3.8.1 and I have a close X on the title-bar. I believe this 'configuration setting' already exists, and I have it enabled. GNOME Tweak Tool -> Shell -> Arrange

Re: background with nautilus

2013-04-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
normally [I see the selected background]. nautilus-3.8.0-1.7.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.8.0.1-1.2.x86_64 -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list m

Re: How to get Empathy to always popup msgs

2013-04-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 07:53 +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > so nobody know how to do this? Does this need an extension too? I'm not aware of how to do this [but I'm on GNOME 3.6; I know that 3.8 changes a bunch of notification related stuff]. Generally notifications in GNOME-Shell [at least up

Audio Starts Muted On One Workstations

2013-04-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ser has to remember to do this? (a) Any ideas what might be mixed up to cause that problem? (b) Where are the user's audio preferences saved? I've rooted around in dconf-editor and can't find them. openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, GNOME 3.6 -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrat

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 14:07 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Matthias Clasen > wrote: > > The app really should not make you manually save a copy. That should > > be taken care of automatically. Even if not, there is no excuse for > > not at least making a meaningful

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Emmanuele Bassi : On 4 April 2013 17:46, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Could you give a case where the user would be hindered from doing their work because the modal dialog can be moved independently of the parent window? users tend to lose the modal dialog in the window stack, and if they ma

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 16:09 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:49 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > >> Hmm but shouldn't that setting be in a more obvious place? > > Which results

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
gnome-tweak-tool ["go here to change all the non-standard changable stuff"] or even gsettings. I keep a little script that sets all the gsettings I prefer; on a new GNOME desktop I can just run that and away I go. Sort of like a lame group-policy / roaming-profile. -- Adam Tauno Willi

Re: Very hidden menu in gnome-shell

2013-03-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 21:20 +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > I've been using gnome3 for a year or more now. Same here. > I can say I'm pretty OK > with it but I hope it well get better and better in the next years. I'm far beyond OK; I really like Shell, the extension system, and the way my deskt

Re: Alt-F2 "Run Command" changes in 3.8

2013-03-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ed by accident by people not familiar with > it, they were left with no obvious way out. Also, the improved > consistency with other system modal dialogs does not hurt :-) > For a more detailed discussion, see > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687127 Ah, cool. Ok, I'm sold; see

Re: Alt-F2 "Run Command" changes in 3.8

2013-03-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 12:36 +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > I'm looking for a justification in the change of how ALT-F2 run > command dialog looks in 3.8 but can't find it. Why is that changed to > include an explicit gray textbox? The old one was very sleek and > elegant. I haven't seen it yet, si

Re: Feature request for more presence status in gnome shell messaging integration

2013-03-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:51 +0530, elison.ni...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Gnome shell devs, > Right now we only have the option of "Available" and "Unavailable" as > presence status in the menu. > It would be nice to have other options as well such as "Busy", > "Invisible" (actually sets to invisib

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-03-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
s to another; that doesn't give either side a moral high-ground [and it is really JUST A @*$&*@ MENU AFTER ALL]. It will probably settle down to a defacto standard given time. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 10:36 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: > >Developers have regular meetings on IRC. > I expect that IRC channel is for people actively involved in > developing and design. Yes, exactly. > As "normal" user, I'd like left an "asynchronous" feedback... and > since it seems that ma

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 02:35 +0100, Florian Scandella wrote: > On 23/02/13 00:30, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > If you make the case that something is not fulfilling or violating > > the design goals then it should be put in as a bug. Then it is up > > to the designers and the maintainer to figure

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 11:42 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: > My feedback is about the current design, let me know if there is > another place where to share such kind of feedbacks. Developers have regular meetings on IRC. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing lis

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 12:19 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: > I understand your pain... but strictly speaking you can switch window > with just one click: 1) move to active corner 2) pick the window (one > click) Alt-Tab, Alt-` work too. Very fast. You even get pretty pictures of the windows so yo

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
nus. I pretty much agree; I suppose there are some reasonable exceptions out there somewhere, seems like there always is. But what you say seems like a very good guideline. > I don't think it's confusing if only one is used. If there is no menu > bar on the application, then it is o

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 15:16 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Feb 22, 2013 3:13 PM, "Adam Tauno Williams" > wrote: > > BTW, is there a hotkey bound to the current applications AppMenu? > That > > would make it somewhat less silly. > f10 Ah! Nice, thanks. N

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
here it is. <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678169> Personally I would add 4) Most of the time there is little to anything useful in it. Often it contains the option "Quit". My 4 would be 3 since I do not accept your

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
//bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688105 Nice, I've added myself to the CC of that one. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Evolution -> New Window does not open a new window

2012-12-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have an Evolution window open on a workspace. I go to a different workspace. In the activity bar I right-click the Evolution icon and select "New Window". A new window does not open. To get a second Evolution window I need to go to the first window and select File -> New Window This is true

Re: To GTK and Gnome Shell Theme authors

2012-11-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:55 +0200, alex diavatis wrote: > I am building a page for allowing people to download and install > themes directly from their browser. All they have to do is to install > a browser plugin. > You can watch an old demo [1] Very cool. Will you have some means to verify t

Re: GNOME 3.6 & Screen Brightness Extension

2012-11-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 00:36 +0100, Schubi wrote: > Am 30.10.2012 00:25, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: > > I can adjust screen brightness via xrandr - > > awilliam@workstation:~> xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.4 > > awilliam@workstation:~> xrandr --output VGA-1 --

Re: Windows List extension

2012-11-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 08:31 -0400, Guillaume Saumure wrote: > Le 2012-11-02 02:44, Amy a écrit : > > You will probably get a better response if you ask at the window list > > github repository[0]. +1 Going to the project / maintainer(s) is alwasy good. > 1st : I have study and try to modify man

Re: Windows List extension

2012-11-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 01:30 -0400, Guillaume Saumure wrote: > I currently use the "Windows List extension" to make Gnome-Shell more > usable on desktop and even on laptop computer. Unfortunately, someone as > been modify this extension to make it to work in an unusable way by > grouping the Wind

GNOME 3.6 & Screen Brightness Extension

2012-10-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
ns.gnome.org/extension/231/brightness-control/> does nothing. Either on my laptop or my workstation. Anyone know anything about this extension or how it goes about adjusting brightness? GNOME 3.6 openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 -- Adam Tauno Williams

gnome-terminal resized on focus out

2012-10-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 GNOME 3.6 gnome-terminal-3.6.0-95.2.x86_64 mutter-3.6.0-112.2.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.6.0-141.2.x86_64 If I open a gnome-terminal, open another tab, and resize the window - as soon as I focus out it snaps back to its previous size this is rather frustrating. Is it a bug or

Profiling login? & .xsession-errors

2012-10-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Logging into openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 GNOME 3.6 can be a bit slow. The hard-drive activity light is on solid for quite some time. Is is possible to somehow profile login? To record that is happening and some estimate of how long it takes? Also, related, the .xsession-errors log file doesn't contain

Application / Global Menus

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
GNOME 3.6 moved the application global menu into the status bar [top bar]. This works well for maximized applications ... but how are you supposed to get to this menu for an application that is not maximized? Emphathy in particular, this switches to be the menu for another application if I mouse

Really tiny/thin borders

2012-09-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
With openSUSE 12.2 and GNOME 3.4 and now GNOME 3.6 the edges / corners of windows and the draggable panes of windows have *REALLY* thin borders. It is difficult to resize windows or a pane in a window. Is there some mechanism to tweak or adjust this? I assume through themes, but that is really t

Re: my gnome shell ideas

2012-09-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 21:19 -0400, Earl Cameron wrote: > This is my first post on the gnome shell mailing list, so forgive my > breaking any understood formatting. Here are my suggestions and > designs for gnome shell. Take a look and tell me how bad it is. Link > here > http://www.thinkteletronics

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: > Il 19/09/2012 14:56, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: > > Yes, Alt-F2, lg, click "Windows", reveals a wmclass of - > >com-install4j-runtime-launcher-Launcher > > - which I'm assuming is a

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: > Il 19/09/2012 14:56, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: > > Yes, Alt-F2, lg, click "Windows", reveals a wmclass of - > > > >com-install4j-runtime-launcher-Launcher > > > > - which I

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:50 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: > Il 19/09/2012 14:40, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: > > Is there a trick to getting the expected behavior [with Java apps??]? > What is the WM class of the application windows istances? You can see it > by opening th

Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I use the completely amazing SQL database client/tool DbVisualizer in GNOME 3.2 on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64. DbVisualizer is a mammoth Java application. I create a ~/.local/share/applications/dbvis.desktop file so that GNOME3 knowns the application exists and I can start if via Alt-F1, dbv. It appe

Re: about gnome-shell desktop widget

2012-09-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:25 +0800, russel wrote: > Dear All > I know how to develop a gnome-shell extension, but how to write a > desktop widget like KDE plasma widget? I doubt the gnome-shell-list is the appropriate place to ask. You can probably find an appropriate forum @

Re: Turning off clippy...er...I mean tracker

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:09 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > Hello List, > Ok, I open up the "Search and Index" application and uncheck > everything under "Semantics". Do I need to do anything else to get > those tracker-* services to stop popping up and needlessly burning > cycles on my cpu? (1)

Re: web page with instructions ... [gsettings/dconf/profiles]

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 12:29 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 4 September 2012 12:21, Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 07:13 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: > >> > On 08/07/12

Re: web page with instructions ... [Enabling Icons on the desktop via dconf CLI]

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 07:13 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: > > On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: > > > Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your > > > page, and to

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: > On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: > > Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your > > page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much useful information. > it's not HOW MUCH information, but rathe

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 13:05 +0200, Clemens wrote: > >> I disagree, core should remain thin so people can easily go in whatever > >> direction they want. Verses the old first-I-go-remove-all-this-crap. > > How much "thicker" does the core get by having a restart menu item in the > > status menu?

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 19:59 +0200, Clemens wrote: > Not everybody wants to have a dock to launch application. I have never > used the "dock" inside the overview or dash and in the 2 days i was > using that the dock was the most annoying thing. > imho alt + f2 is much faster than using the mouse

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 19:12 +0200, Florian Scandella wrote: > I like how gnome uses > (and drives) development of freedesktop standards instead of reinventing > everything and hacking arount short term limitations. +1 > So while i'm happy with gnome-shell, i'm all for integrating some of the >

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 18:40 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > Lot of people are complaining about gnome-shell, fine. But people loving > it should also say it... I love it. > So just to say that I really like gnome-shell > and after some weeks of use I just wasn't able to go back. Ditto.

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:31 -0300, Pedro Bessa wrote: > You're receiving lots of complaints, because of Gnome Shell's > usability problems. I've posted several messages about how great it is, and read several such messages from other users. > http://extensions.gnome.org/ has personalized solution

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 17:10 +0300, Sami Pietilä wrote: > > How? Certainly not a poll, there is no way to contact "GNOME users" > > The vast majority of GNOME users I'd suspect never get go to the web page. > I am confident that it is possible to find an acceptable method of > gathering user input

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 21:54 +0300, Sami Pietilä wrote: > Anyway, I think that the big question is that what do users want. Do > users like gnome-shell way of doing things or do users prefer old > gnome-panel approach? Works great for me. > Is there something that can be done to gnome-shell to im

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Trans : On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Quoting Trans : I just wish there were and easier way to switch windows with just the mouse. Without a task bar there is an extra step now, and as much as I've tried, I find it annoying Swing left, activity

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Trans : I just wish there were and easier way to switch windows with just the mouse. Without a task bar there is an extra step now, and as much as I've tried, I find it annoying Swing left, activity view activates, click window. Same number of motions and clicks as a taskbar, but with

Re: Can't change LCD brightness

2012-08-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 23:15 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Aug 1, 2012 11:11 PM, "Onyeibo Oku" wrote: > > Why is this feature missing in Gnome3? > Educated guess: the hardware doesn't expose an interface to adjust the > brightness (or one that is not supported by Linux) Yep, it isn't even ava

Re: Standardization of Function Keys

2012-07-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 22:30 -0400, Trans wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jasper St. Pierre > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Trans wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jasper St. Pierre > > No it wouldn't. Not to mention that Ctrl+F5 already means "clear the > > ca

Re: Standardization of Function Keys

2012-07-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 09:14 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Trans wrote: > > A long time ago I used an early DOS-based application, I believe it > > was a spreadsheet, but I do not recall the exact program at this > > point. However I do recollect the interface

Re: lack of attention for gnome shell extensions

2012-07-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 03:15 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to know why gnome shell extensions isn't > > default and easily accessible in Gnome Shell, but > > I want a behind the scenes view, because I want > > to place myse

Extension Categorization [Was: lack of attention for gnome shell extensions]

2012-07-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 08:00 -0400, Diego Fernandez wrote: > Not exactly on topic, but is there any plan to start categorizing > extensions and organize them better on the site? it's starting to > become a hassle to look for extensions You could look for, and potentially file, a bug.

Re: Query about Future Gnome-shell

2012-07-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:45 +0800, Symon Cadwalader wrote: > I see alot of other good working coming out of the gnome camp +1 GNOME3 is fantastic and constantly getting better. > I just fear that gnome-shell is forever planned to be highly > unconfigurable/tweakable without knowledge of the css

Re: Query about Future Gnome-shell

2012-07-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:45 +0800, Symon Cadwalader wrote: > anything to the Overview such as "Journal" running zeitgeist like > originally planned a couple years ago This already exists today, via the Journal extension. It works quite well. It is a much simpler presentation of the awesome func

Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 06:19 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:23 +0200, Clemens wrote: > > Am So 17 Jun 2012 18:17:09 CEST schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: > > > Can you just try using nouveau for a day or two to tell if it's the > > > driver&#x

Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:23 +0200, Clemens wrote: > Am So 17 Jun 2012 18:17:09 CEST schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: > > Can you just try using nouveau for a day or two to tell if it's the > > driver's fault or not? > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:50 AM, 邓尧 wrote: > >>> > After using for about tw

Re: Using GNOME Shell on a remote display

2012-06-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 00:26 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > I've recently attempted running a full GNOME 3 session on a remote display, > and I've now hit a pretty big roadblock. > My use case for doing this is that I'm running Fedora 17 as a > fully-virtualized domU on Xen and I figured I might

Re: Wogue needs your participation :)

2012-05-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 05:09 +0300, alex diavatis wrote: > First off, sorry to publish to this ML, but this is the most popular > one -I am wondering why :) Because GNOME shell rocks! > We released a blog totally dedicated to GNOME and we need your help. > Basically we want to publish on a broader

Re: About show-desktop-icons

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:58 +0800, 史晶 wrote: > In fedora16 , the option to display icons on the desktop need to use > Gnome-tweak-tool. I want to know how to show the icons on > the desktop default when install the system without using > gnome-tweak-tool. > rpmbuild and reinstall this package, i

Restricting new windows to primary display?

2012-05-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I almost always run my laptop connected to a second display. This works *AWESOME* [thank you GNOME and Xorg people]. The workspaces, et all stick to the primary [built-in] laptop display and the second display is global. I like how that works. Frequently that second display is a BIG screen or a

Re: Design choice for suspend option only

2012-03-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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Re: Gnome 3.4 breaks sloppy mouse focus?

2012-02-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
on’t. > -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

RE: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
yes". At least on openSUSE. That might work. -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams ___ gnome-she

Re: Two or three things I see coming in gnome-shell

2012-01-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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Re: Sugestions worth a look

2012-01-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:05 +0100, Vic Demuzere wrote: > On 24 January 2012 21:58, Fernando Hildebrand > wrote: > > 5 - One thing Unity got wright: On the left panel(apps launcher), small > > triangles indicating if the app is up, and how many windows of it are there > > is a good idea, it's visua

Re: nautilus gnome shell

2012-01-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
.com/2011/11/gaj-zeitgeist-opensuse-121.html> -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams ___ gnome-shell-list ma

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