Re: Restarting gnome-shell

2011-07-14 Thread Adam Williamson
> gnome-shell to restart. Just kill the gnome-shell process: 'killall gnome-shell' is an easy way. It will auto-respawn. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: Window List Extension

2011-07-14 Thread Adam Williamson
h of the things running on their system should be using 100% CPU for five minutes, and which shouldn't - but I think it's extremely difficult to figure out heuristically. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net ___

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-13 Thread Adam Williamson
y by using icons on the desktop; these should show up in 3.2 or 3.4. If you look for 'finding and reminding' on the GNOME wiki you should find some information about this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Adam Williamson
c. In that particular way it's somewhat like android although the > comparison is more like an eagle vs a flying squirrel. Yeah, they > both fly in the air but they do just about everything else > differently. er, it does? I've got a Droid sitting here and it doesn't seem to d

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Adam Williamson
erent system for managing network connections. Their notification systems are very different. I'm struggling in fact to think of any way in which the two are particularly similar besides the fact that it's possible to bring up a grid of application icons in both, in some fashion. That's a

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-11 Thread Adam Williamson
the things that used to be there have been designated 'system functions' and moved to the top right instead.) I was kinda hoping GNOME 3 would have some kind of smart solution for this. But I can't really complain if I can't think of anything better, I suppose. -- Adam Willi

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
notification system which GNOME 3 just isn't covering very well at present. Is there a strategy for this? Do we want people to figure it out with extensions? Do we really want to use (some would say abuse) permanent notifications for this? Does someone have a smart solution that hasn't p

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
> > This is not true. The message tray is a central interaction point for a > well defined set of applications (chat, music, email, etc). You're confused. We're talking about the 'system area in gnome-shell' (i.e. the top right, where the user menu, NM menu, Bluetooth men

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
l is very similar. What I do not know is wether it > is it limited to the shell and extensions, or if any application can > add something as well. It's limited to the Shell (and extensions), by design. The Shell developers want the Shell interface to be consistent, not vary between users,

Re: Remember window states

2011-07-01 Thread Adam Williamson
n the wrong place. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Configure date/time display

2011-07-01 Thread Adam Williamson
weak-tool can do that right now :/ > > File a bug then - the setting exists, gnome-tweak-tool just isn't I filed a bug to propose including the date - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653845 . -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwi

Re: Configure date/time display

2011-06-28 Thread Adam Williamson
27;t fit, but in that case it could just automatically switch to time-only display. I can't really think of any argument in favor of defaulting to time-only. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___

Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
ested. It's not terribly easy, but you can...=) (ring finger hits alt, middle finger hits shift and ctrl, forefinger hits down. Using the alt, shift and ctrl keys on the right hand side of the keyboard, obviously.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill

Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
ld try and split different web pages between different 'types' in different Firefox windows, I guess, but it feels like it'd be more work than it would be worth. I don't really find it a problem and I just keep everything in one workspace, but I certainly feel like this aspect of

Re: Searching for files

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Williamson
me for recently used files. I don't believe a more comprehensive file search is implemented yet - it's simply not been written, though it's planned. But if I type part of the file name of a text file I recently edited in gedit, it shows up. -- Adam Williamson Fedor

Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Williamson
d not require keyboard. It doesn't require it. You already discovered how to do it without the keyboard, but you complained it was too slow and disruptive. Someone recommended a method that was faster and less disruptive, and instead of saying 'hey, thanks', all you can do is come u

Re: Cheap PCI graphic cards for GNOME Shell

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
d the older ones...and GeForce 4 may be a slightly unsafe bet too) and any Radeon from R300 onwards (so Radeon 9500 and later) should work. It doesn't look like it should be too difficult to source a compatible PCI adapter. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk

Re: Changing how I work in Gnome 3

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
text > editor (which is the only method I have seen). alacarte can do this, I believe. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Custom launchers in Gnome 3

2011-06-07 Thread Adam Williamson
or desktop and editing it with right click, or by dragging a URL from > browser to panel. Aside from the replies you already got, I believe some people have found alacarte can do this too. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedorapr

Re: Sensors Extension.

2011-06-01 Thread Adam Williamson
t as a way to roll up and 'bless' the most commonly used and officially 'accepted' applets so they'd be maintained and released along with the rest of GNOME. Perhaps the same will happen with GNOME 3 and there'll be a gnome-extensions later. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA

Re: Sensors Extension.

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
;s more about lack of distractions. But again, that's the vision of the GNOME design team, and there's no law saying extensions have to follow that vision... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.ne

Re: Sensors Extension.

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:41 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:14 +0100, Another Sillyname wrote: > > > There's plenty of space on the top bar to allow them, so what's the logic? > Sorry if that was long, but I wanted to make it as clear as possibl

Re: Sensors Extension.

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
ar more ways!' is the optimistic way of looking at it. All that needs to happen is for the same (types of) people who wrote extensions for GNOME 2 as panel applets to write similar (but probably better!) extensions for GNOME 3, as extensions. Sorry if that was long, but I wanted to mak

Re: Gnome 3 vs scientists (ie., external monitor problem)

2011-05-31 Thread Adam Williamson
rsions for all of them on your system, bearing in mind distribution backports? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 10:33 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 17:27 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > Well, preserving the preference is a statement of sorts. If the devs > > really just wanted to make it flat impossible to minimize windows it &g

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-29 Thread Adam Williamson
ts. If the devs really just wanted to make it flat impossible to minimize windows it would be easy enough to make it no longer possible to do it even via gsettings. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedor

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-27 Thread Adam Williamson
-tweak-tool provides an interface to this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gno

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 21:38 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > (This is actually one area where the kernel folks and distros - like us! > > - seriously need to pull their finger out and either fix up the current > &g

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
ed? I use an IRC proxy (and an IM-to-IRC gateway in combination with it). So should everyone. ;) http://www.bitlbee.org/img/comic_3.0.png -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
nds when I come back. I'd never do a full power cycle in the same situation. Ditto getting up to feed the cat, do some laundry, take out the trash, go to the store for half an hour... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT or

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
ike to do by default is hybrid suspend, like on Macs, but this is rather impractical given that you can't actually _do_ hybrid suspend on Linux, yet, with a stock setup.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject D

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
the GNOME 3 re-design - but that's not true of many users. > Here in Germany people power off their desktops and then switch off the > power extension, > because electricity is not cheap and we value our environment. (That > used to be mandatory > at my old job) Generaliza

Re: using gsettings / gconf in extensions

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 17:50 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Why not installing system-wide? It's just a matter of "pkcon install What if you have other users on the system who don't want that extension? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Adam Williamson
stumbled to my desk in the morning it'd be up and running and in the state I left it immediately. Now, I can suspend it at night and resume it in the morning and achieve the same result. For me, working and conveniently-accessed suspend mode results in me saving power, not using more. -- A

Re: New system monitor extension

2011-05-21 Thread Adam Williamson
adds these somewhere else, like to the overview somehow? Or for weather, to the clock? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Paper prototypes for Finding and Reminding

2011-05-12 Thread Adam Williamson
ab' on the Shell. This is starting to feel like panel applets, to me - an invention of convenience that's going to get overloaded. Every time we add some major feature to the Shell, is it going to wind up being another overview tab? Is that what we really want? If it is then great, I just w

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 21:19 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:51 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > > > Explaining: > > > Now I need to move it upwards, then downwards. > > &

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
;ll keep it > bound the old way. So, use alt-f1, or bind some other key for the overview. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mail

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:22 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > I've seen the lack of a menu come up so many times > > What does it tell to a developer when he sees the same complaint > coming up again and again? That negative reaction to change is common. -- Adam Williamson

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Williamson
+Space"? Muscle memory? > > Hmmm. There was no hot-key assigned when I went into the keybindings; > it was "Disabled". I wasn't aware there was a default. > > I looked about and couldn't find documentation of the 'official' default > key bindin

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
utes I either manually open the notification tray and look for the xchat bubble, or alt-tab to the xchat window - but as Koppanyi neatly points out, our having to do this is completely destroying the concept behind the transient notifications, and we're actually _more_ distracted than we were be

Re: Designing "Finding and Reminding"

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
o rely on a special folder for privacy =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mai

Re: on suspend

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
notoriously difficult =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/lis

Re: RFC: compat list

2011-05-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 12:48 +0200, Robin Stocker wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > NVIDIA - GeForce and higher (I may be a bit out here; it may be > > GeForce > > 2 and higher). > > Except that newer cards aren't supported, like the GTS450: > > https

Re: Feedback

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
ating system was also considered and acknowledged as something that should be handled, AIUI, but an acceptable design hasn't yet been implemented. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___

Re: Feedback

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
distro backers and other entities with a stake in kernel development to focus on improving suspend support. *Especially* for desktops; suspend is more problematic on desktops because it's been considered pretty unimportant by almost everyone up till now, while everyone agrees at least in princ

Re: Feedback

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
ot; > > in a terminal? I hope you realize this is an extremely inaccurate test; there are many many motherboards out there whose BIOSes claim suspend support, but for which suspend in Linux simply does not work. Testing for support reported (or not) by the BIOS is never going to get close

Re: RFC: compat list

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
by the session-is-accelerated check. NVIDIA - GeForce and higher (I may be a bit out here; it may be GeForce 2 and higher). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
er (i8xx is expected to be buggy). Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.

Re: Can you turn off idle in chat?

2011-04-28 Thread Adam Williamson
urned it off... now it looks like I work 24-7 > > > Needless to say I want to keep that practice. Your boss is clearly buggy; I'd report them to _their_ boss. ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: ada

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 08:29 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Designing the Shell not in the way it would work best but in order to > > work with extremely limited (by modern standards) graphics drivers > > comes under

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 08:20 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > And instead of one operation to see all the thumbnails (overview) you > > have to mouse over each one, one at a time, to see each thumbnail, one > > at a ti

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
verview that you toggle. When you go to applications, windows and workspaces go away. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
sion > would so would be better to upgrade the hardware or switch to > something like KDE, XFCE, or LXDE. > > > I just needed that confirmation so I could layout my parents options. My 'should' was a request to the developers :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey

Re: Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
ll, so > we don't want to spend the considerable amount of time necessary to > debug the drivers and get them working with GNOME Shell.) In this case, the fallback detection should detect such chips and run the fallback mode on them; trying to run Shell and giving a poor experience is n

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
My point stands. And instead of one operation to see all the thumbnails (overview) you have to mouse over each one, one at a time, to see each thumbnail, one at a time. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
verely cripple the Shell', in my chart. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mai

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
x27;s a release process thing (and an entirely sane one), nothing to do with being convinced the decision is irreversibly perfect. You don't make major changes after code freeze. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedorapr

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:01 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > This mail could perhaps do with more details. :) > > The gist of it is: > > - fallback mode means two Gnome experiences, so people like myself that > h

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-25 Thread Adam Williamson
hrough Fedora 15 Beta, I cannot > say the same thing. :-( This mail could perhaps do with more details. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gn

Re: My first impression of GNOME 3

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Williamson
and to me it just isn't an issue. I can't use that space for anything else, and the icon isn't hurting me by being there. I just ignore it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraprojec

Re: My first impression of GNOME 3

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Williamson
ould default to not treating twitter-type service messages as notification-worthy, since they're not really conversations. But I can't really speak much to this as I don't use empathy or anything like twitter and my workflow for this stuff is somewhat 'different' - I

Re: Messaging Balance with Empathy

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Williamson
n't map to xchat-gnome at all. I guess I could switch back to vanilla xchat, if push comes to shove. Some people do seem to be working on a 'GNOME 3' branch of xchat-gnome (check git), but I don't see anything towards messaging integration, yet. -- Adam Williamson Fedora

Re: My first impression of GNOME 3

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 08:07 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 April, 2011 06:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Neither Windows nor OS X (nor any > > smartphone OS I'm aware of) provides an official UI and support for > > theming, and there's no

Re: Messaging Balance with Empathy

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
s IRC-fu vastly, or write something new and better than xchat-gnome, or whatever...it'd just be nice to have a shiny new generation GNOME Shell IRC-based messaging experience! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://ww

Re: My first impression of GNOME 3

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Williamson
lly turn it off? This was > not always clear to me. I would have preferred a checkbox, which is > essentially what this is. On a non-touchscreen, it just doesn't make > sense to me. There's already been some discussion of this on the Planet, IIRC. > Last bu

Re: Food for thought - Unity usability test report

2011-04-16 Thread Adam Williamson
rt: It's not. There's a difference between a usability test and an anecdotal personal account. If you read the original link - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html - this might be clearer. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk:

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
n this system, and Shell > > performance is very good). > > nouveau is not capable of running many of my applications very well, > if at all. that is a complete no-go. > nouveau is not an option, at all. The NVIDIA proprietary driver is not yet capable of running the Shell very well.

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
ed to. It's supposed to behave similarly to GNOME Shell, including the design philosophy changes that happened between GNOME 2.0 and now. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
9400GT (using Latest driver 270.41) > Nvidia 9800GT (using 270.41) The proprietary driver is almost certainly the problem here. If you try a recent Fedora live image you could see if it runs better with nouveau, it almost certainly will. (I have a 9400 GT in this system, and Shell performan

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
support for suspend/resume is missing in the kernel (ALSA) driver for most ICE chipset cards (one or two have it implemented, but most don't). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net __

Re: Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
his works. I still want it there when I'm reading mail or a web site, which is most of the time. Plus I tend to switch back and forth between maximized and non-maximized apps a lot, and I don't think I'd like the panel ping-ponging around as I did so. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA

Re: Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
en which aren't maximised and live in front of Firefox and Evo when I want to use them, and I don't want the panel to never appear. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org htt

Re: Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
de it. I'm with Maciej, if we're doing Highly Unreliable Voting: I *hate* autohide with a passion. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnom

Re: UI Changes

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
opy Ubuntu Unity, we have left edge bar with only applications > and worst "Search" in right hand corner was a bad change. The search box is highlighted as soon as you open the overview. You can just open the overview and start typing. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
ated to that I can find is the evas-based > version of their Netbook Desktop Environment, which is a different > beast entirely. He's referring to unity-qt, which is pretty much the equivalent of 'fallback mode' for GNOME 3; an attempt to replicate Unity as much as possible with

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
the fallback mode is being maintained actively and saw significant changes over the last few weeks leading up to release. I've seen no indication that there are any plans to drop it or leave it to rot in 3.2 either. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Ta

Re: using Gnome-Shell with 90% of all applications is absolute garbage.

2011-04-14 Thread Adam Williamson
ave an ICE1724 in this system with GNOME 3 and PA and it works perfectly. Well, it doesn't work across a suspend/resume cycle, but then it never has, with or without PA. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http:/

Re: Terminology (was: Re: Some small ideas for the Shell Panel and Overview)

2011-04-13 Thread Adam Williamson
x27;s a great idea to have mixed interfaces like that. But I guess I'll wait and see how it turns out :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome

Re: Terminology (was: Re: Some small ideas for the Shell Panel and Overview)

2011-04-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:17 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:45 +0300, John Stowers wrote: > > > > > In my use of the shell thus far I have *never* used the applicatio

Re: Some small ideas for the Shell Panel and Overview

2011-04-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:45 +0300, John Stowers wrote: > In my use of the shell thus far I have *never* used the application > menu. Has anyone? once, when I wanted to test gnome-games and couldn't remember the name of anything in it. Otherwise, no, I just search. -- Adam Williamso

Re: NetworkManager dependency on Gnome-Shell

2011-04-11 Thread Adam Williamson
k whether the system is actually using NM, and behave sanely if it finds that it isn't. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list m

Re: Ubuntu PPA

2011-04-07 Thread Adam Williamson
/opt/gnome3 or smth, > with minimal dependencies on system-wide things like NetworkManager > etc? > > Sorry if that question is stupid or was already discussed I guess it could, and maybe it does - I haven't looked. But it still makes it a lot more work and more complicated, especi

Re: Ubuntu PPA

2011-04-07 Thread Adam Williamson
0, and AFAIK Ubuntu are not testing at all to make sure the Unity in Natty can run on GNOME 3.0; their supported environment is 2.32+Unity. Don't shoot me if I'm wrong, but that's what it looks like to me, and why it's difficult/impossible to have both at once on Natty. -- Ad

Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

2011-04-07 Thread Adam Williamson
if I can adjust to the new behavior. If I can't > I'll revert back. BTW, one funny thing I've noticed with this behaviour is that the top-left hand corner of the secondary monitor is still 'sticky' - it grabs my cursor - even though it doesn't trigger the overv

Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

2011-04-06 Thread Adam Williamson
n 'overview' for the secondary head, if you put more than one window on it you'll see this more clearly. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:36 +1200, John Stowers wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 07:40 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Adam Williamson > > wrote: > > > Anything I launch a lot > > > gets made a favorite, anything I launch infrequently

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Adam Williamson
it. Anything I launch a lot gets made a favorite, anything I launch infrequently I just search for (which is no clicks: 'start' key, type.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:00 +, JB wrote: > Adam Williamson writes: > > > > > > > > As has been noted, this is very familiar to anyone who uses a smartphone > > > > interface; they do much the same thing. > > > > > > Here we go.

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:20 +, JB wrote: > Adam Williamson writes: > > > ... > > What exactly is it that you _mean_ when you say 'artificial'? > > I mean it does not belong there, it is not a product of a natural need as > a result of using menu system i

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Adam Williamson
RSE any change to that is just an evil plot to make things more difficult', which isn't likely to convince anyone they need to change things. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net __

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Adam Williamson
appen. The fallback mode is a *fallback mode*, not an alternative interface for refuseniks; it exists to handle the case where Shell just doesn't work. Neither GNOME nor Fedora wants to present it as just being 'another choice' of equal value with the Shell. -- Adam Williamson Fed

Re: Command completer in runDialog

2011-03-16 Thread Adam Williamson
not really like using > a mouse. Having keyboard shortcuts is a need. Sure, but they don't have to be alt-f2. alt-f1 works pretty well too. ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

Re: No minimise/maximise (again)

2011-03-14 Thread Adam Williamson
t nice and easy to get rid of your porn session with no minimizing required - just whack the keyboard shortcut to quit private browsing mode and you're right back in your convincingly work-related browser session. I'M JUST SAYIN, IS ALL (of course, if you're on a work network,

Re: Two proposals for Gnome-shell

2011-03-08 Thread Adam Williamson
so (yay quasi-empirical data!), I kinda prefer the stock (icon + label) setup. I think the reason is that the previews render so small in the Shell switcher that they're hard to see; I like the thumbnail setup in Compiz but I think it renders the thumbnails a lot bigger... -- Adam Williamson

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
, > pause, restart? Wasn't this planned anyway? KDE 4 has something like this, I believe. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net ___ gnome-shell-list ma

Re: Gnome-Shell Progress

2011-03-03 Thread Adam Williamson
're using. We didn't get many complaints about performance at the recent Fedora Test Day for Intel, FWIW, and it runs very nicely on my laptop at 1600x900. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://ww

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-03-02 Thread Adam Williamson
button. As a general principle, the removal of features with _no easy alternative_ bothers me much more than the removal of one of many different ways to do something, as long as one of the other ways is not inherently more difficult. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Co

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-03-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:49 +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote: > Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 10:15 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > Oh god, no. > > > > How does a text editor 'know' how big a window 'needs' to be to > > display > > a 500 page d

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-03-02 Thread Adam Williamson
low. I like a full-screen browser window, lots of people think this makes lines of text way too wide. Neither of us is correct or incorrect. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net __

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