desktop March 2009

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11 discussions

gtk print dialog and OOo
by Caolán McNamara 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

We've supported a gtk print dialog integration in OOo for a while, but there has always been a few little gotchas, and now that the "built-in" OOo dialog has some nifty extras there are extra gotchas. So I'll be reverting to the "built-in" dialog for F11, a quick dump of the gotchas are.. *) Need an extra "Selection" option for printing. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344519 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563619 OOo can print just the selected text, selected graphic or selected cells, but no way to show that in the gtk print dialog. *) Way to specify the page size and orientation (esp. when using n-up printing) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551409 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551726 Most OpenOffice.org applications have per-page orientations rather than global per print-job orientation, but when printing multiple pages in one sheet of paper through cups, its desirable to have a way to specify the orientation and page size of the combined sheet. We could do this with a custom tab, but see next entry *) Emit a signal when a printer is selected. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564854 So e.g. a custom tab that should only exist for say, printing to a cups backend, or using save as .pdf file can be shown/hidden depending on the printer selection, e.g. pdf encryption options or pdf "read-only except for filling in fields" directives which only make sense in a save as .pdf context. Hackable around with nasty switch-page callback on the notebook widget if you rummage around horrifically through the dialog hierarchy looking for it. *) Spreadsheet printing No "All Sheets", "Selected Sheets" in addition to the pages options for spreadsheets that may have multiple sheets each of which can span multiple pages. "Page 1 of 2 sheets selected out of 3 sheets in total". Could do a gnumeric and do this in a custom tab though *) Presentation printing Want to select notes, or outline, or handouts. Could do this in a custom tab though.

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xguest in the live cd
by Rahul Sundaram 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi, Since the previous thread seems to be getting ignored, can someone from the desktop team, let me know what you think of this? It would be nice to a guest user by default on the live cd. We can get some feedback, if we make this happen by Fedora 11 beta release. Rahul

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system-config-display ?
by Ankit Patel 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Is system-config-display removed from Fedora rawhide (or F11) ? -- Regards, Ankit Patel http://www.indianoss.org/

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liveusb-creator on Live CD?
by Max Spevack 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi team, One of the suggestions that we received at the Fedora booth this past weekend at Chemnitzer Linux Tage was to add liveusb-creator to the default pacakge set for both the Desktop Live CD and the DVD. Since the package manifest for the Desktop Live CD is the responsibility of this team, I wanted to forward the suggestion on. The package is quite small, and I don't *think* it pulls in any dependencies that aren't already part of the spin. Thanks, Max

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IdeaForge
by Jeremy Hankenson 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

While this is probably not the correct mailing list but the closest I could find. I purpose that Fedora implement a "Ideaforge" or "Brainstorm" like functionality for the Fedora Distribution. These examples can be found at: http://ideaforge.linux.com/ * brainstorm.ubuntu.com to see the kind of functionality I am talking about. I believe an easy way to suggest Ideas to this distribution is a good community effort and is should be implemented through all distributions. Having to the ability suggest, rate, and comment on Ideas the Users want is definitely something that would allow us to put fourth our opinions and suggestions in a easy and convenient way to the Fedora Devs, while leaving the mailing lists for the developers and the "IdeaForge" for the users. Thoughs? _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGT…

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Unwanted muting? We have the answer!
by Bastien Nocera 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Heya, If you've been experiencing muting using the GNOME desktop in rawhide, I believe this would be fixed in the packages at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1236323 Please test, as this needs to get upstream in GNOME, as well as in the Beta for Fedora. Cheers

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Switching to brasero
by Matthias Clasen 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Gnome 2.26 is making brasero the default cd burning application in favour of nautilus-cd-burner. I think we should switch to using Brasero in the desktop spin as well. Bastien has done a lot of the work to make this change not regression. Basically, unless you explicitly start brasero, the cd burning user experience should be pretty much unchanged. Comments ? Matthias

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Re: xguest by default?
by Rahul Sundaram 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Daniel J Walsh wrote: > xguest does not affect other users. > > Only the xguest user will mount tmpfs on his version of /tmp. > > Of course other users will not be able to see files created by the > xguest user in /tmp (Or /home/xguest or /var/tmp) > > I don't see any reason xguest should not be installed by default. Excellent. Can I get the opinions of folks in the desktop team? I would like to see xguest by default in the Fedora 11 Beta Live cd. Rahul

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New Bluetooth manager
by Bastien Nocera 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Heya, gnome-bluetooth is replacing bluez-gnome in rawhide. See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth for details about why. Unless you find packaging bugs, UI problems and bugs should be filed upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-bluetooth Keeps things easier for me. I'll be updating the Bluetooth feature page for F11 soon. Cheers

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Thunderbird 3
by Rahul Sundaram 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi Are there plans to include Thunderbird 3 in Fedora 11? Rahul

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