Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 12:38 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets? Did you mean the kind of >>> desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? >> >> No, I wrote screen

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets?  Did you mean the kind of >> desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? > > No, I wrote screenlets and that's what I meant: > http://screenlets.o

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets? Did you mean the kind of > desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? No, I wrote screenlets and that's what I meant: http://screenlets.org/index.php/Information -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 10:49 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>   So a weather notification that we are familiar >> with on the taskbar will not be permanently visible in gnome3 - but >> there may be some weather  information available for access via the >> calenda

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 10:49 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > So a weather notification that we are familiar > with on the taskbar will not be permanently visible in gnome3 - but > there may be some weather information available for access via the > calendar or similar - the is significantly different to what w

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 18:49 +, mike cloaked wrote: > Since gnome3 will be the default desktop for us at the next release I > felt it was pretty important to try and understand what it will and > will not do, and test it now that it is starting to become functional > in rawhide. May not want t

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> For example I would like to have an >>> icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that >>> would be added to the dash - is th

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> For example I would like to have an >> icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that >> would be added to the dash - is that possible in Gnome3? > > I don't know much about Gnome3,

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > For example I would like to have an > icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that > would be added to the dash - is that possible in Gnome3? I don't know much about Gnome3, but I presume you'd do that the same way as you do now:

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't expect GNOME 3.0 to be functionally equivalent to GNOME  2.x. > GNOME Shell does support extensions and I hope some of them cover the common > use cases over time.  Netspeed is something I depend on as well Sure it is very different

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:13 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:05 PM, mike cloaked > wrote: > > > Now downloading the live image linked from the test day page and will > > use that as soon as I get a block of time to test. > > I did take an hour this evening to run a test on a la

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:05 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Now downloading the live image linked from the test day page and will > use that as soon as I get a block of time to test. I did take an hour this evening to run a test on a laptop which has nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] graphics a

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have the latest live image (from 30th!) from the nightly directory - > and it depends on getting a block of time to run the tests - though I > will try through the weekend if possible... Now downloading the live image linked from the test d

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:02 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> In the meantime it will be very valuable to see as many tests as >> possible being executed on as wide a set of different types of >> hardware as possible for the gnome 3 test days

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:02 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > In the meantime it will be very valuable to see as many tests as > possible being executed on as wide a set of different types of > hardware as possible for the gnome 3 test days to maximise the chance > that the largest number or users will

Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-04 Thread mike cloaked
With the advent of Gnome3 not far around the corner and with a huge array of different desktop and laptop machines with many different chipsets and graphics cards in use by the community, I wondered if there is a list of likely supported hardware that will have a reasonable chance of being able to