desktop May 2009

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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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PolicyKit changes in F12
by Matthias Clasen 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Just a heads-up: We hope to land a new PolicyKit version (which will turn into 1.0, eventually) in F12 soon. The new version simplifies the API and will require PolicyKit-using application to be ported. For more information, have a look at the feature page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne It also has pointers to api docs and a (terse) porting guide. We already have a collection of patches for quite a few PolicyKit-using apps, so the transitions should be relatively painless. Matthias

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welcome to fedora
by Valent Turkovic 29 May '09

29 May '09

http://images.howtoforge.com/images/the_perfect_desktop_linux_mint_7_gloria… I saw this and thought that it would also be a nice idea to have in fedora, like a welcome screen "Wellcome to Fedora" or something similar... What are your thoughts on this? -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Re: PolicyKit changes in F12
by David Zeuthen 18 May '09

18 May '09

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:57 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > ? No kit_* OOM handling in the new library > > > means ? > > > > The old kit_* functions used to handle OOM (out of memory conditions) > > and report back the correct error. The new library is more GLib like, > > and doesn't handle OOM very well at all. It's likely you didn't care > > about OOM before, so this change won't affect you. > > Well there are two ends to this. The client app side (eg virt-manager) > we don't care about OOM, since we're using GTK and that just aborts all > the time. For the service end, eg libvirtd, we do care about OOM handling > and we test for it, so this change is an unfortunate regression :-( No, there is no regression here. As I tried to explain in the reply to Veillard: 1. In libvirtd, simply check for authorization by speaking to the polkitd-1 using either the D-Bus API (via e.g. libdbus-1 which handles OOM) or a through helper. 2. virt-manager will not have to know _anything_ about PolicyKit And if either polkitd-1 or the helper aborts() due to OOM, then you will get a D-Bus error back (or if using a helper, WIFEXITED(status) != 0) and you can check the authorization again - this works because the bus daemon (which handles OOM) will then reactivate polkitd-1. David

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sound recorder problem
by Praveen Kumar 17 May '09

17 May '09

hi, i have sony vaio VGN-CR32G laptop i installed fedora 10 everything working fine but my sound-recorder not working and i need it for my work.can enybody tell me how its work fine.It is big problem for me please help me out. thanx in advance...

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Anyone packaging gnome-shell?
by Rahul Sundaram 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, Would be good to get it packaged to encourage people to test and provide feedback, even if it is a custom repo Rahul

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Desktop background Idea for F12 feature..
by "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" 14 May '09

14 May '09

There was pointed out to the art list [1] MS plans for personalization [2]. It would be good to get some developers input on idea I had. Is it possible to add an feature to "gnome-appearance-properties" in "backgrounds" A) Browse online "gallery(s)" ( Each distro and upstream DE can have it's own gallery to present to its end users ) B) Preview selected image(s) to the end user C) Set that image as the end user background E) Add the ability so that each user can have his own background ( User A has background image A, User B background image B etc ) D) Save the background in user home folder By having an online background browser it save the bandwith footprint and disk space usage and the work related to package "selected" background images. Thoughts/input [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-May/msg00135.html [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx -- Viking-Ice One of my gods has a hammer your's was nailed to a cross You do the math!

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Gnote 0.3.0 - includes applet and more plugins
by Rahul Sundaram 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, Just a quick heads up. I am now building gnote 0.3.0 for Fedora 11 and Fedora 10. There has been a number of important change my last mail about gnote to this list. It now includes several plugins, ability to spell check notes and most importantly, a GNOME applet. I believe the only major feature left that was discussed here is the ability to import Tomboy notes on first start which is the next item on the developer's list along with sync abilities. Gnote is on a weekly release schedule now (every wed) so I am sure we will be getting good updates soon. I will keep you folks informed as we move forward. Rahul

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nautilus-gdu for Fedora 10?
by Rahul Sundaram 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, Any plans to do this? I saw a user request for gnome-format and directed him to nautilus-gdu instead but it has not been built for Fedora 10. Rahul

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