Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Williamson said: > It's only people who are coming from an existing desktop - like GNOME 2 > - for which they already know all the shortcuts who are getting > frustrated, because they've changed, and now some of that knowledge you > built up doesn't apply any more, and you k

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 00:33 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 19:53 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > It's only people who are coming from an existing desktop > > This happens to be most users, whether GNOME 2, Windows, or OS X. There > is *one* way computers work for most peopl

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Angel
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Someone made a comparison to Mac OS being new and different as a goal > - that was not the case May be, this was not a major goal, but of course this was in their mind people who initially designed it. Else there has not much sense

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/22/2011 10:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:57 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: ... > > Aunt Tilly (or Uncle Tilson) wouldn't be setting up any apps which > didn't provide their own menu entries. You can't expect Tilly / Tilson > to be writing their own shell scripts,

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/22/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Scott wrote: > On 22 April 2011 00:03, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> When you mouse-over "Activities" in the upper left your get a selection of >> "Windows" and "Applications". The available "Windows" are shown over on the >> right side. It seems, that if you want to pi

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 19:53 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It's only people who are coming from an existing desktop This happens to be most users, whether GNOME 2, Windows, or OS X. There is *one* way computers work for most people, and it involves panels in certain locations that work in certai

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 13:35 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I am seeing the same thing you are (on F15), so I don't think > it is a rawhide > only issue. If you find a solution I'd like to hear about it. > >

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:57 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:54:03 +0100 > mike cloaked wrote: > > > > You could try just learning a bit about it before writing it off > > > forever. > > > > I think Gnome3 has the potential to work very well but it is new and > > it is a learnin

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:57 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/22/2011 11:37 AM, Angel wrote: > > > > > A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications or > > ~/.local/share/applications/. > > > > > Great - Aunt Tillie can learn to use Emacs and XML at the same time .. > yay

Re: Multiple F15Beta bugs in under an hour

2011-04-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 15:40 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > Dne 21.4.2011 15:51, Adam Jackson napsal(a): > > It's even easier than that. Click on the black title bar in the Display > > capplet and move it to the monitor you want it to appear on. > > Unfortunately, it took me twenty minutes before I fi

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:35:02 -0500, "Jason D. Clinton" wrote: > http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/04/13/gnome-panel-is-dead%2C-long-live-gnome-panel%21 The advice there on using alt right click to adjust panels worked. I haven't set everything back up, but I have one larger panel at th

F-15 Branched report: 20110422 changes

2011-04-22 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Fri Apr 22 13:15:24 UTC 2011 Broken deps for x86_64 -- collectd-mysql-4.10.2-2.fc15.x86_64 requires libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) collectd-mysql-4.10.2-2.fc15.x86_64 requires libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlc

Fedora 13 updates-testing report

2011-04-22 Thread updates
The following Fedora 13 Security updates need testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/SimGear-2.0.0-5.fc13 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libmodplug-0.8.7-3.fc13 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates

Fedora 14 updates-testing report

2011-04-22 Thread updates
The following Fedora 14 Security updates need testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat6-6.0.26-20.fc14 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc14 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/couchdb-1.0.2-1.fc14 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Re: nvidia/nouveau problems

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Per Bothner wrote: > I'm hoping someone can reverse engineer at least how to disable nvidia. Looks like you are in luck. People have started to reverse engineer it and have made some progress towards an easy-to-use tool[1] to switch between cards. [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.

TESTING Fedora-15-Nightly-20110421.22-i686-Live-soas.iso and Fedora-15-Nightly-20110421.22-i686-Live-desktop.iso with sugar-emulator

2011-04-22 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Link to tests on wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Fedora-15-Nightly-20110421.22-i686-Live-desktop.iso ===Fedora-15-Nightly-20110421.22-i686-Live-desktop.iso=== *Install sugar-desktop: : yum install @sugar-desktop sugar-emulator *sugar-emulator and sugar(from g

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:13:27 -0500, JDC wrote: > This is not the list to have this flame war again. This is the test@ list > for QA for the branched release. What I wrote was not supposed to start a flame war, so please don't try to push me into that corner. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedor

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 14:10, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Exactly that ought not happen. Instead, Rawhide would typically move ahead > of the F-15 branch due to packagers dropping even newer stuff into > Rawhide [1], and then updates to F-15 branched no longer inherit from > Rawhide. Plus, _that_

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:05:31 -0500, JDC wrote: > I'm not a Fedora packager but I do read these mailing lists consistently and > it's pretty clear from discussion in the past few weeks that the situation > is--essentially--the following: > > In an ideal world, rawhide would be updated at the same

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:35:02 -0500, "Jason D. Clinton" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I think you have different problems. Some of what you are seeing are likely > migration bugs. Other problems are user issues: > http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2011/0

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:52 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > One wonders...what is rawhide for if we're not supposed to run it? I run it to keep up with what's going on. But in order to do this, I purchased an additional (personal) netbook that just runs rawhide. When I travel, I will sync down ev

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I am seeing the same thing you are (on F15), so I don't think it is a > rawhide > only issue. If you find a solution I'd like to hear about it. > > I can't change the preferences from the desktop. The launchers I had have > disappeared so I

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:09:37 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Up until now, the fallback mode has preserved (to an approximation) my > older panel setup - a single panel, not full width, on the bottom. Today > all that's gone; now I have two panels. My launchers are gone, as is a > fair amo

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:52, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > One wonders...what is rawhide for if we're not supposed to run it? > I'm not a Fedora packager but I do read these mailing lists consistently and it's pretty clear from discussion in the past few weeks that the situation is--essentially--th

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:19:41 -0500 "Jason D. Clinton" wrote: > Are you still running rawhide despite recommendations not to? Yes...my understanding is that updates will be slow while everybody's busy with F15; I honestly didn't expect it to break my panel at this stage. But, then, rawhide is goo

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Rob
On 22 April 2011 18:08, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/22/2011 11:57 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 04/22/2011 11:37 AM, Angel wrote: >>> A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications or >>> ~/.local/share/applications/. > >  Someone made a  comparison to Mac OS being new and dif

Re: systemd and memory

2011-04-22 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, 2011/4/22 Scott Robbins : > I'm using F15 beta full time now.  I note that when I run top, systemd > is using memory and cpu resources.   Memory especially seems rather > high.  (This is just running top, when I was wondering why the system > was suddenly slowing down. > > -- >

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 04/22/2011 06:09 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Up until now, the fallback mode has preserved (to an approximation) my > older panel setup - a single panel, not full width, on the bottom. Today > all that's gone; now I have two panels. My launchers are gone, as is a > fair amount of my vertical

Re: Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Up until now, the fallback mode has preserved (to an approximation) my > older panel setup - a single panel, not full width, on the bottom. Today > all that's gone; now I have two panels. My launchers are gone, as is a > fair amount of my

systemd and memory

2011-04-22 Thread Scott Robbins
I'm using F15 beta full time now. I note that when I run top, systemd is using memory and cpu resources. Memory especially seems rather high. (This is just running top, when I was wondering why the system was suddenly slowing down. -- VIRT RES SHR

Fallback mode further hosed?

2011-04-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Up until now, the fallback mode has preserved (to an approximation) my older panel setup - a single panel, not full width, on the bottom. Today all that's gone; now I have two panels. My launchers are gone, as is a fair amount of my vertical screen space. Is this deliberate? If so, why? It was

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/22/2011 11:57 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/22/2011 11:37 AM, Angel wrote: > >> >> A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications or >> ~/.local/share/applications/. >> > Someone made a comparison to Mac OS being new and different as a goal - that was not the case -

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:54:03 +0100 mike cloaked wrote: > > You could try just learning a bit about it before writing it off > > forever. > > I think Gnome3 has the potential to work very well but it is new and > it is a learning curve. But for months now they've been telling us this new design w

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/22/2011 11:37 AM, Angel wrote: > > A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications or > ~/.local/share/applications/. > Great - Aunt Tillie can learn to use Emacs and XML at the same time .. yay ... certainly new and different as one poster put it ... better .. time till

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Angel
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I think Gnome3 has the potential to work very well but it is new and > it is a learning curve. There are some things I would like to know > will get included - for example will there be some alternative themes > available at F15 release? I wo

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > This is the case with pretty much any desktop. They're fundamentally > sufficiently complex that you can either have very discoverable (but > inefficient) or efficient (but not so discoverable), and all desktops > I've ever seen end up be

Re: Multiple F15Beta bugs in under an hour

2011-04-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 21.4.2011 15:51, Adam Jackson napsal(a): > It's even easier than that. Click on the black title bar in the Display > capplet and move it to the monitor you want it to appear on. Unfortunately, it took me twenty minutes before I figured out this one. ... :( Matěj -- test mailing list test@

Fedora 15 Beta Firewall

2011-04-22 Thread Robert M. Albrecht
Hi, I did a clean install. Browsing the network does work neither for fileshares nor for printers (cups). Disabling the firewall enables the local browsing again. Is this a bug or a feature ? Regards, Robert -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedo

Re: Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Angel
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > I don't understand why as long as there's unused vertical space, the user > menu > can't just be made longer, and the menu items the devs consider bad (like > "Power > Off...") put at the bottom. Anyone who doesn't use them isn't affected at

Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

2011-04-22 Thread Andre Robatino
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > As others have noted, there seems to be a lot of things that > you have to just know the magic keystrokes to find (hold down > Alt, hit ESC, etc), I don't understand why as long as there's unused vertical space, the user menu can't just be made longer, and the me

Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-XFCE.iso boot problem

2011-04-22 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, On my Gateway LT30 netbook, booting halts with: [40.875118 Mounting other filesystems: mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy OK] [FAILED] and then three more lines with "[OK]" before stopping altogether I want to try F15 on this ma