desktop August 2012

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adwaita-firefox as a default Firefox theme for Fedora 18 GNOME installs
by Elad Alfassa 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

I'm pretty sure you are all familiar with the adwaita-firefox [1] theme. It makes Firefox looks more "native" on GNOME, thus making the user experience more consistent. I suggest we package it and make it default for the desktop spin. This requires: 1) Packaging the theme itself 2) Make firefox use it by default (example from Suse [2]) 3) Make sure we don't update Firefox without the theme being updated as well I think this would be a noticeable improvement in user experience. [1] https://github.com/adwaita-firefox-team/adwaita-firefox [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=firefox-branding-openSUSE-… -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Request for review: new desktop groups
by Bill Nottingham 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

As part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReworkPackageGroups, I've been working on redoing some of the groups that make up installation choices in anaconda. The idea is to offer a simpler interface, where the user simply selects which environment they want to run in, plus options for that environment. Based on what's in the kickstart file for the Desktop spin, here's what I have for the Desktop: GNOME contains: desktop-backgrounds-basic control-center dconf gnome-panel gnome-session gnome-shell gnome-themes-standard metacity notification-daemon abrt-desktop aisleriot at-spi2-atk at-spi2-core avahi baobab brasero-nautilus caribou cheese deja-dup eog evince evince-nautilus file-roller file-roller-nautilus fprintd-pam gcalctool gdm gedit glib-networking gnome-backgrounds gnome-bluetooth gnome-color-manager gnome-contacts gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility gnome-disk-utility-nautilus gnome-documents gnome-font-viewer gnome-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-extras gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-packagekit gnome-screensaver gnome-screenshot gnome-system-log gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-user-docs gucharmap gvfs-fuse gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-smb libcanberra-gtk2 libcanberra-gtk3 libproxy-mozjs librsvg2 libsane-hpaio mousetweaks nautilus nautilus-sendto NetworkManager-gnome NetworkManager-openconnect NetworkManager-openvpn NetworkManager-pptp NetworkManager-vpnc orca PackageKit-command-not-found PackageKit-gtk-module PackageKit-gtk3-module policycoreutils-restorecond polkit-gnome seahorse sushi xdg-user-dirs-gtk yelp firefox icedtea-web and has the following 'options' available: gnome-apps: empathy evolution evolution-help evolution-NetworkManager gnome-boxes gnome-games shotwell simple-scan sane-backends-drivers-scanners vinagre vino gnome-media: brasero rhythmbox sound-juicer totem totem-mozplugin totem-nautilus libreoffice: libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-graphicfilter libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-writer libreoffice-xsltfilter I welcome any and all sanity-checking of this, and ideas for additions/removals. You can open the current F18/F19 comps files and see the data that makes this up - the 'gnome-desktop' environment defines what groups go into GNOME, and which are shown as options, and the groups referenced there define what packages make them up. Thanks, Bill

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Packagers needed for GStreamer 1.0
by Bastien Nocera 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Heya, GStreamer 1.0 will be coming at the same time as GNOME 3.6, and a number of applications are getting ported to it as we speak. See https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGstreamer1 for a list of GNOME applications that rely on GStreamer, and their port status. We would need enthusiastic packagers to create the first versions of the parallel-installable GStreamer 1.0 package. This means 1.0 packages for: gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad-free Anyone want to get that started? Cheers

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How Do I Prevent Apps from Opening in Maximized view
by Clyde E. Kunkel 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Current Fedora Rawhide Gnome 3 opens applications in maximized view (by default?). How do I change to default to unmaxize view? TIA -- Regards, OldFart

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Out-of-the-box broken spell-check with desktop spin
by Máirín Duffy 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Hi, A friend reported to me today that spell-checking in gedit was broken on their Fedora 17 desktop live cd install. After some searching around on the web, they figured out a workaround: installing enchant-aspell. To me, it seems like a bug to ship with broken spellcheck. There seem to be issues with both gedit and AbiWord: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825449 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750981 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771089 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818995 It looks like the dictionaries were pulled out of the spin when the ISO was just squeezing under size limits to save space: https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks I don't think we're that space constrained today, are we? The spell checking packages (to support English) seem to only be a couple megs compressed. I'm wondering, since the live cd spin is only focused on English-speaking users anyway (IIRC only English translations are available on it), would it be worth considering shipping the English dictionaries to save space yet still have functioning spell check? It's also pretty unclear how to add dictionaries should you discover they aren't there (maybe some packagekit integration needed?): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750986 Or perhaps not installing/enabling spell-check in gedit by default since it doesn't work by default? :-/ Anyway, this looked to me like it's been a problem for a few releases now, across multiple bugs and apps, so I thought this might be a good place to point it out. Thanks, ~m

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