desktop October 2011

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What launches notification-daemon?
by Christoph Wickert 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

What launches notification-daemon in F15? dbus? And why is it not started in F16 any longer? The LXDE spin has no notifications and I'm wondering when/why this has changed. Regards, Christoph

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Fedora 16 Final RC1 desktop validation: help required!
by Adam Williamson 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hey, everyone. It was a hard slog, but we finally managed to do an F16 RC1 build yesterday. We only have a few days before the go/no-go meeting on Tuesday so we could really do with your help to get through validation as fast as possible. If RC1 proves to pass validation we have until Tuesday to do it, but really it'd be great if we could complete validation over the weekend, so if any further issues are found, we have a fighting chance to re-spin and re-validate on Monday. The RC is available here: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC1/ The desktop validation page, with all the tests, results matrix, and testing instructions, is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Final_RC1_Desktop Please, if you have any spare time at all this weekend, grab the DVD or live image for your desktop and help us fill out the validation matrix! If you hit a bug which is clearly a 'fail' - the test just doesn't pass at all - if you're testing GNOME Shell, GNOME fallback, or KDE, file a bug and mark it as blocking 'F16Blocker'. (If you don't have the privileges to do this, mail me the bug ID and I'll do it). If you're testing any other desktop, file a bug and mark it as blocking 'F16-accepted'. Then report your result for the test as {{result|fail| username|bugid}}. If you hit a bug while doing a test but it doesn't really mean the test is completely failed - just some issue that happened to come up while you were doing the test - file the bug, and report your result for the test as {{result|warn|username|bugid}}. use your judgment as to whether the bug should be proposed as a blocker or nice-to-have or not proposed at all, depending on how serious it seems. We fixed quite a lot of desktop issues for RC1. For Desktop, we fixed the issue with clutter-dependent apps crashing when hardware 3D acceleration is not available and the subsequently-discovered issue where clutter-based video playback and capture fails when hardware 3D isn't available. For KDE, we fixed the two issues which prevented KDE running properly in a VM with either qxl or cirrus drivers: KDE should now work fine inside KVMs. For Xfce, we took a bunch of the NTH-nominated fixes. So, I'm hoping this means we've already had quite a lot of testing with the TCs, and the RCs should be pretty good. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 16 Final TC2 out: desktop validation required!
by Adam Williamson 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hey, folks. We just released Fedora 16 Final TC2: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.TC2/ It would be great if people could grab the TC and help fill out the desktop validation results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Final_TC2_Desktop We need to make sure we have good coverage and know where all the blockers are ahead of the RC phase, which comes next week. I didn't mention TC1 because it had a major issue with live image installation which is what we usually use for desktop validation: this build should have that bug fixed, so installations from the live images should behave. Thanks for any help you can give! In addition, if you could all check the blocker list for remaining bugs relating to your desktops and prioritize work on those, that'd be great: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=713568&hide_resolved=1 though there actually aren't a whole lot of desktop bugs there right now. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Broken dep in control center prefents creation of nightly livecds
by Christoph Wickert 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

For quite some time creation of nightly spins is failing because of: DEBUG util.py:247: Error creating Live CD : Failed to build transaction : 1:control-center-3.2.0-1.fc16.i686 requires libnm-gtk.so.0 I wonder how this could happen after beta and I don't see an update for NetworkManager to fix it. Did I miss something? Regards, Christoph

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firewalld missing from default install
by Gianluca Sforna 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

I just wanted to add a printer in Fedora 16 and the System Settings application told me: "FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client enabled on firewall." Maybe firewalld needs to be added to default installation? -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://identi.ca/giallu - http://twitter.com/giallu

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Adding "install to hard drive" and Terminal to favourits/left pannel
by Danishka Navin 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi, I was trying to add "install to hard drive" and Terminal to favourits/left pannel. I have changed the fedora-live-desktop.ks as follows but no luck.. # make the installer show up if [ -f /usr/share/applications/liveinst.desktop ]; then # Show harddisk install in shell dash sed -i -e 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/' /usr/share/applications/liveinst.desktop "" # need to move it to anaconda.desktop to make shell happy mv /usr/share/applications/liveinst.desktop /usr/share/applications/anaconda.desktop cat >> /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.gschema.override << FOE [org.gnome.shell] favorite-apps=['mozilla-firefox.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'empathy.desktop', 'rhythmbox.desktop', 'kde4/amarok.desktop', 'vlc.desktop', 'shotwell.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop', 'anaconda.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'liveinst.desktop', 'kde4/k3b.desktop'] FOE # add installer to user menu mkdir -p ~liveuser/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ Installer(a)shell-extensions.fedoraproject.org cat >> ~liveuser/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ Installer(a)shell-extensions.fedoraproject.org/metadata.json << FOE {"shell-version": ["2.91.91"], "uuid": " Installer(a)shell-extensions.fedoraproject.org", "name": "Installer", "description": "Install OS from user menu"} FOE -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/

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