desktop June 2009

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Re: Interested in scanning?
by drago01 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:23 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> Heya, >> >> Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release, >> and saw this: >> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan >> >> gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more >> integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners >> easier in GNOME and Fedora in general. >> >> Any takers? >> >> I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting >> up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that >> gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default >> installation. >> >> Cheers >> >> /Bastien, who doesn't own a scanner > > I have a scanner, but it's a rather well-behaved one (an HP ScanJet > 2100C). As long as SANE is installed you don't really need to do > anything to set it up - you can just run GIMP or xsane directly and get > to scanning. > > Looking at gnome-scan, I see the author is asking for help: > > http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/ > > testing it out, it seems a bit odd - it certainly has a nicer interface > than xsane's horribleness, but it seems a bit weird in places. It > defaulted to a rather odd scanned image size for me, and the preview tab > would only show that area of the page. I then switched to the 'Letter' > size on the main tab, previewed again, and the preview seemed to come > out right - but I couldn't then click and drag to resize the area to be > scanned. I had to go back to the main tab, switch back to 'Manual', then > go back to the preview tab before I could click and drag to resize - and > if I then tried to refresh the preview, it didn't preview correctly > again, it only previewed a tiny corner of the area and I couldn't click > and drag the selection to make it any bigger. > > So I think the gnome-scan interface is nice but if my results are > reproduced by others, we can't really replace xsane with it until it's a > bit less buggy. It would be nice if any coders with scanning interest > could contribute to the code I guess (I'm unfortunately not a coder). The thing that I did not like about gnome-scan is the interface. It resize the window without any reason so that the buttons do not fit on the screen (I have no idea why it does resize the window at all in this stage). I just went back to xsane but probably I should file a bug.

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Re: Interested in scanning?
by Matthias Clasen 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 17:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:50:40PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 09:35 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > So I think the gnome-scan interface is nice but if my results are > > > reproduced by others, we can't really replace xsane with it until it's a > > > bit less buggy. It would be nice if any coders with scanning interest > > > could contribute to the code I guess (I'm unfortunately not a coder). > > > > IMO the obnoxious license dialog that xsane still subjects you to is > > sufficient reason already to replace it. We don't tolerate dialogs like > > that in other default-installed components... > > Why don't we patch it out then.... > Ok, lets try that: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504344

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Re: Interested in scanning?
by Matthias Clasen 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 09:35 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > So I think the gnome-scan interface is nice but if my results are > reproduced by others, we can't really replace xsane with it until it's a > bit less buggy. It would be nice if any coders with scanning interest > could contribute to the code I guess (I'm unfortunately not a coder). IMO the obnoxious license dialog that xsane still subjects you to is sufficient reason already to replace it. We don't tolerate dialogs like that in other default-installed components... Matthias

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F11: What's the deal with Control-Center?
by Björn Sund 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

System->Preferences is a mess. Control-Center only shows via user-switch-applet. Is there any ideas around this?

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Re: Interested in scanning?
by Paul W. Frields 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:56:47AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On 06/05/2009 06:23 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Heya, > > > > Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release, > > and saw this: > > https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan > > > > gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more > > integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners > > easier in GNOME and Fedora in general. > > > > Any takers? > > > > I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting > > up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that > > gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default > > installation. > > Perhaps we could target some specific scanners on the first attempt? We > might be able to get some hardware donated to the effort. > > ~spot, who has several scanners of varying age and quality in a box ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Same here. Paul

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yum reconfiguration
by Shrikant 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hi, I am using FC9. I am not able to use yum to download extra packages such as xine. My yum configuration seems to have messed up. How can I reinstall / reconfigure yum ? Shrikant

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List of packages installed by default.
by Ankit Patel 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Do we have a wiki page or some document, where one can find the list of packages installed by default? -- Regards, Ankit Patel http://www.indianoss.org/

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Gnote in F12
by Matthias Clasen 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

I have now changed the default panel configuration in F12 to include gnote instead of tomboy, and changed comps to make gnote default and tomboy optional. This won't replace tomboy in existing installations, but new installations will get gnote instead of tomboy. This also means that gnote should show up on the live cd (where we excluded tomboy previously, due to no space for mono). Some things are still needed for a 100% smooth experience: - pick up existing tomboy notes (less urgent now, since we do not replace tomboy...) - don't show the 'start here' note initially Matthias

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RE: General Use
by Hristo Petkov 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hi, Yesterday I read in the posts that some people are working on F10 Desktop to make it a FLOSS Desktop. In my view it is glossy enough, rather than that perhaps it needs CLASS and STYLE. Well, I am not engaging anyone with my opinion. First, suppose we use the plain background of the desktop ('dark green') with the icons as they are at present - this may be called Classic Engineering (style). Now, let us change the background to 'Space outlook'. In my view the background is pretty good and shiny, however it does not go well with the icons and we need the general appearance, not only the background. If it is completed with icons of 'that style' (for example the desktop icons to look like famous satellites - Nimbus III, Hotbird 6, Hubble Telescope, etc.) this may be called for example Adventure Style or Scientific Style. Let us change the background to a flower. The classic icons do not look good here as well. If this background is completed with icons looking like cups of coffee, flowers, chocolates, champagne, etc. this could become a Romantic style. If we need a Hard Rock Cafe, maybe we should use our imagination to make the background and the icons completed in hard rock stuff, etc. Guys, if you have any fresh ideas, you may send me an e-mail. Best Regards, Hristo Petkov

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by Hristo Petkov 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

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