desktop August 2015

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Repeat post
by Andrew Walton 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

Sorry, last post was sent from my wrong email address. Please use this address for replies. Dear Fedora Team, I recently raised this issue with security@ and it was suggested that desktop@ might be a more suitable place. Please note that I'm talking about the average home user here. He has one computer and one printer. If he mentions networking he's talking about connecting to his ISP, and he has to be his own sysadmin with little or no knowledge. The feature needed for home users is the ability to block programs from accessing open network ports in a very similar manner to the older 3.x series of Zone Alarm for Windows. The standard options of “accept” and “deny” are not enough, they also want the option “always ask”. For people that live in rural areas internet access is slow and incredibly expensive, at the moment just disabling packagekitd saves $10 a month, but I don't think this is an ideal solution. People in cities don't seem to understand the inconvenience that comes with this too, Packagekit doing a 25 Mb download means the internet connection is too slow to be used for anything else until Packagekit has finished – roughly 40 minutes. It would be so much better if the firewall popped up a box saying "packagekitd is trying to access the internet. Do you wish to allow this? [y n ?]" And it's not just software updates that are helping themselves without asking, try using Wine. These issues became important to me when Win8 first came out, people hated it so much that that one third of my community is now running Fedora. Now that I've got a little more information and feedback about Win10 I predict that number will double. That means a wider range of devices and drivers including propriety drivers. As they become more popular they'll become more sophisticated and start including spyware. “Your Canon printer driver is trying to access the internet. Do you wish to allow this? [y n ?]” Just blocking :80 is not going to be very helpful. Please make this topic part of your discussions, there's a lot more people living in rural areas than you might think. Cheers, Andrew.

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Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Aug-05
by Paul W. Frields 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Next meeting is Wednesday, 2015-Aug-05 at 1400 UTC / 10:00am US-Eastern. * What are the next steps for Atomic Workstation? I've kept the agenda short because there wasn't time for this item last meeting, and I think it will easily consume the hour. (The password policy can and should be sorted out on list at this point.) However, if there are urgent additions please feel free to respond with a suggestion! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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Workstation WG Recap 2015-Aug-05
by Paul W. Frields 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-08-05/workstation.2015… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-08-05/workstation.2015… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-08-05/workstation.2015… NOTE: It looks like we were missing quite a few people this time. Hopefully this is related to GUADEC travel, since there were no other comments on the meeting time. * * * =============================== #fedora-meeting: Workstation WG =============================== Meeting started by stickster at 14:00:14 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-08-05/workstation.2015… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll call! (stickster, 14:00:25) * mcatanzaro sent a note with regrets -- he can't make this meeting or the next one, but in general this time will work for him going forward (stickster, 14:02:21) * Quorum (stickster, 14:05:55) * No quorum for this meeting, also missing at least one principal for ostree topic (stickster, 14:10:20) * AGREED: Defer to next meeting -- which is Wed Aug 19 at 1400 UTC / 10:00am US-Eastern (stickster, 14:11:18) * Any other non-quorum business before we adjourn? (stickster, 14:11:38) * nada (stickster, 14:13:14) Meeting ended at 14:13:15 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * stickster (30) * kalev (5) * rdieter (4) * zodbot (4) * jwb (4) * Southern_Gentlem (1) * pingou (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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F23 talking points draft
by Gabriele Trombini 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Hi all, as usual marketing team drafted the talking points page [1]. I'm not sure about the correct splitting up between the flavours and, of course, I'll be glad if you do correct any mistake in that page. [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_talking_points Thanks. Gabri

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Re: make gnome-terminal window border visible
by Chuck Anderson 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 01:08:11AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Is there a way to make window border in gnome-terminal visible or make > it wider or a different color? > > See this post and screenshot (not mine, but I agree with the problem): > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1738832 > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/yui5prrz0v4esl0/Screenshot%20from%202015-07-29%20… > > When I have two overlapping gnome-terminal windows, the text from one > runs into the other, making it hard to distinguish the contents of one > terminal from another. This is a real usability problem. > > Thanks. I found a bug on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232298

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make gnome-terminal window border visible
by Chuck Anderson 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Is there a way to make window border in gnome-terminal visible or make it wider or a different color? See this post and screenshot (not mine, but I agree with the problem): http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1738832 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yui5prrz0v4esl0/Screenshot%20from%202015-07-29%20… When I have two overlapping gnome-terminal windows, the text from one runs into the other, making it hard to distinguish the contents of one terminal from another. This is a real usability problem. Thanks.

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