desktop July 2009

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gpointing-device-settings
by Gianluca Sforna 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi all, it seems there is a specific project for exposing additional input device controls in gnome-mouse-properties http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gpointing-device-settings/ so I packaged it and submitted for review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509310 But after reading: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.h… and the linked bugzilla.gnome.org bugs I'm not sure it's needed at all. Any idea? -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna

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Fedora desktop spin size issues, update
by Matthias Clasen 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

After a week of dieting, things are looking a bit better... iso size: 691MB -> 708MB packages: 989 -> 1011 Compared to last week, we still have the following big additions: webkitgtk 18MB - pulled in by empathy libicu 19MB - pulled in by webkitgtk atlas 12MB - pulled in by pygtk2 via numpy but we managed to rid of most of boost, and replaced cpp by mcpp. So, some progress, some more to do ! Matthias

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Re: Champlain
by Bastien Nocera 12 Jul '09

12 Jul '09

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 15:22 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > On 07/11/2009 02:37 PM, Brian Pepple wrote: > > I've been working on updating libchamplain to 0.3.3 in Rawhide, but > > until it gets ported to the clutter-0.9 api (or we do a clutter-0.8 > > compat) it's a no go for now. > > I've been told to expect clutter 1.0 real soon (tm) :-) Given that the last release on the devel branch was called "rc2", this is hardly insider information...

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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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Re: Re: Fedora desktop spin size issues, update (Action Required)
by postmaster＠boxbe.com 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

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Next Fit and Finish test day: Batteries and Suspend
by Matthias Clasen 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Time to announce the next 'fit and finish' test day. On July 21, we want to look at issues with the user experience around batteries, suspend and power management in general. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-21_Fit_and_Finish:Batteries… Please join us in #fedora-fit-and-finish. Matthias

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Display Configuration test day summary
by Matthias Clasen 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

We've had the first 'Fit and Finish' test day on display configuration yesterday. I'd like to thank everybody who came by on irc and tested something, or filed a bug. If you could not make it, our test cases are still available here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-07_Fit_and_Finish:Display_C… That page also contains the results of our yesterdays testing efforts, if you are interested. The good news is that we have already fixed some of the things that were found broken, and more fixes are on the way. Here is just one exemplary fix: * Tue Jul 07 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com> 2.27.3-2 - gnome-desktop-2.27.3-edid-prop-name.patch: Adapt to RANDR 1.3's new name for the EDID output property. I'll post the date an topic for our next 'Fit and Finish' test day in the next few days. Matthias

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Display configuration test day tomorrow
by Matthias Clasen 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Just a reminder that we are kicking off our 'fit and finish' initiative with a test day on display configuration tomorrow, in #fedora-fit-and-finish. If you go to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-07_Fit_and_Finish:Displa… you'll find more information. We will also have (slightly oversize) live cds available. Please come and join us tomorrow, Matthias

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Blog aggregation
by Paul W. Frields 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

Could I ask each of the Desktop developers on this list to please make sure their blogs are aggregated on the Fedora Planet feed? The instructions are located here, and take about 2 minutes to complete: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_Fedora_Planet Thank you for helping to keep people abreast of the work going on in the Fedora community to expand and improve the free software desktop. Paul

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Re: Raising the bar
by Matthias Clasen 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:55 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:27 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > If you have ideas for > > other areas that could benefit from this kind of attention, please let > > us know. > > I can think of a number of different cross-component tests... [...] Yeah, this is a very nice checklist for 'basic sanity'. And any bug you file about a problem in one of those categories certainly qualifies as a 'fit and finish' issue. But as a test day topic, it might be a bit boring to spend the whole day testing e.g. copy-and-paste between app X and Y to fill a big matrix... Matthias

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