Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-09 Thread John5342
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 15:27, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Anything that directly or indirectly uses QtWebKit or QtScript also requires execmem, unless we disable the JavaScript JIT, which we used to do, but got users complaining about the slowness. See also:

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Daniel J Walsh wrote: Any time I go into a rawhide I enable the tightest controls. Then relax them as we get closer to Beta. I am thinking of dropping execmem protection from user apps altogether as I see almost all applications that a user relies on needing execmem. The attached regular

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
John5342 wrote: I don't know if you noticed but that bug shows it isn't and never has been assigned to anybody so it is not entirely impossible nobody has actually seen it... Well, that's a failure of upstream's process then. Somebody has to look at incoming bug reports, you cannot treat your

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-08 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:33 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: You won't be able to convince Gnome3 zealots. That's a bit harsh, I think. They are just very impressionable folk. :-) Believe me, a lot of people tried. I would like to

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-08 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:43 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Good luck then. Thank you. Three words of hope: nautilus spatial mode. :-) -- Bojan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver.  This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests. There are probably bugs!

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 09:37 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: What's the plan for rather old, limited hardware? Have you personally got XO-1, XO-1.5 units to test? We'll be testing it (with some trepidation) at OLPC, but it's

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 22:42 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Not true ... I recommend reading https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/#Activities_Overview I read that a long, long time ago, of course. In fact, I have written a constructive critique of

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:11 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: For now let's say yes, but that's more like implementation detail than fundamental property. Clutter'd be perfectly happy atop a GLES renderer, we just don't have that wired up. Ok -- that doesn't sound so terrible. Are there

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:55 +, Peter Robinson wrote: Details of rawhide builds for them here[1], the XO-1 build isn't tested but the XO 1.5 one works fine, I'll be testing further and likely the next build I do I'll add all the components to test the llvmpipe feature on them. Don't freak

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:55 +, Peter Robinson wrote: Details of rawhide builds for them here[1], the XO-1 build isn't tested but the XO 1.5 one works fine, I'll be testing further and likely the next build I do I'll add

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:33 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: You won't be able to convince Gnome3 zealots. That's a bit harsh, I think. They are just very impressionable folk. :-) Believe me, a lot of people tried. I would like to believe that a rational argument eventually prevails. Vote with

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net writes: Reading all sorts of stuff or trying to but havcen't found yours yet (don't like it neither, so wanted to see your thoughts on it too) If you google 'on gnome 3 bojan', it should come up in top 10. -- Bojan -- devel mailing list

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net writes: Reading all sorts of stuff or trying to but havcen't found yours yet (don't like it neither, so wanted to see your thoughts on it too) If you google 'on gnome 3 bojan', it

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: And if you really loved Gnome 2 so much If this is what think, then you really completely missed what I'm trying to say. The main reason I'm using the fallback mode is the insanity of overview in gnome-shell. Don't worry - I'm sure someone

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Just point people to the link directly if you want them to read it (should be easier for both sides). Spamming the list with links to my own site is not something I want to do. If someone really wants to read that, they'll find it. -- Bojan -- devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
Bojan Smojver bojan at rexursive.com writes: Don't worry - I'm sure someone will write an extension that will nuke the stupid Activities button sooner or later. I'm behind times: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html Open source - it's a wonderful thing. -- Bojan -- devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 16:05 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:55 +, Peter Robinson wrote: Details of rawhide builds for them here[1], the XO-1 build isn't tested but the XO 1.5 one works fine, I'll be testing further and likely the next build I do I'll add all the

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: I think what will most likely happen is that someone out there will come up with an extension to nuke the Activities button and replace it with Applications button. And that will be the end of that discussion. There's been one for

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: There's been one for months, and yet 'the end of that discussion' does not appear to have come, and not all Shell users use it. http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html Yeah, guilty as charged on the discussion bit. -- Bojan --

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/08/2011 12:45 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: I think what will most likely happen is that someone out there will come up with an extension to nuke the Activities button and replace it with Applications button. And that will be the end

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: It seems like a similar bug has come up before in clamav: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573191 This issue affects many JITs. The WebKit JIT is affected too. Actually, the execmem boolean has been enabled by default for a while, did it get disabled again

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 04:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: It seems like a similar bug has come up before in clamav: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573191 This issue affects many JITs. The WebKit JIT is affected too. Actually, the execmem boolean has

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:31 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:33 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: You won't be able to convince Gnome3 zealots. That's a bit harsh, I think. They are just very impressionable folk. :-) That's also a bit harsh I think, and I'd appreciate it if

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-07 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: You probably want to switch to Linux Mint 12 when it comes out with their GSME enabled. Now you're being funny. :-) -- Bojan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread drago01
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at writes: I, for one, want my computer to work the way I learned and interiorized a computer works, any innovative interface destroys my automatisms and confuses me. I'm using

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Not true ... I recommend reading https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/#Activities_Overview I read that a long, long time ago, of course. In fact, I have written a constructive critique of Gnome 3 many months ago, based to a large degree on the very

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Not true ... I recommend reading https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/#Activities_Overview Just one link, so you wouldn't say I'm plucking things out of thin air: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/FAQ#Why_no_window_list_or_dock.3F This

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Not true ... I recommend reading https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/#Activities_Overview Just one link, so you wouldn't say I'm plucking things out of thin air:

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Florian Müllner
On dom, 2011-11-06 at 22:42 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: The existence of all those extensions that bring back sanity (apps menu in normal view, workspaces in normal view, persistent dash for switching tasks in normal view etc.) is the proof of the ultimate irony - the (supposedly) biggest

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
Florian Müllner fmuellner at gnome.org writes: Rebuttal only here. No new material. Does that mean that the existence of terminal emulators for X11 is proof of graphical user interfaces being a mistake? Terminal and (I guess other) GUI apps do entirely _different_ things. Apps menu in

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
drago01 drago01 at gmail.com writes: Again, rebuttal only. I didn't comment on whether your arguments are valid or not I simply said that confused users was *not* the reason for the lack of taskbar. distraction != confusion. Now we're splitting hairs, eh? A distracted user is not a confused

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Frederic Muller
On 11/07/2011 07:33 AM, Bojan Smojver wrote: The name of one user that was tempted to switch tasks just because the taskbar/workspace switcher me! I'd click to see what was 'happening' on the other workspace. Fred -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
Frederic Muller fred at cm17.com writes: me! I'd click to see what was 'happening' on the other workspace. :-) -- Bojan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:23:02 +0100 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than forwarding the bugs you're too lazy

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 23:25 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: I did not imply that users that use gnome-shell as is are insane. What I said was that GUI behaviour that introduces many _unnecessary_ steps for _no_ _benefit_ is insane. Did you even read my answer to you earlier where I said that I was

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: instead of complaining and being insulting? Point to one insult please. Constructive criticism is not complaining. -- Bojan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 23:33 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: Please, just give me the name of _one_ user that got _distracted_ by the taskbar in Gnome (or any other OS, for that matter). Look at the value of the « From: » header of this email for a name of such a user. The name of one user that

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: [..snip..] and thanks to my incredibly poor focus [..snip..] Oh, and I don't think I am a Joe Average or an Aunt Tillie: I'm a Fedora package maintainer, Python developer, a release engineer for an in-house Linux distribution at $dayjob,

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-06 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 03:24 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: [..snip..] and thanks to my incredibly poor focus [..snip..] Oh, and I don't think I am a Joe Average or an Aunt Tillie: I'm a Fedora package maintainer, Python developer, a

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread enaut
On 05.11.2011 01:09, Bojan Smojver wrote: Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com writes: This is essentially giving up. It's frustrating to be stuck on overview mode on a four core machine while gnome-shell is doing /something/ but you don't know what. If it worked fluidly it would be okay. For

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Bojan Smojver
w at googlemail.com writes: Yet look at all the happy users of default Gnome 3! I am one of them and I went directly from the tilling-WM Xmonad to gnome 3! So you can't say it's only for absolute noobs :). I installed it and it took about a week to get used to it so that I stopped

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 13:40 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: w at googlemail.com writes: Yet look at all the happy users of default Gnome 3! I am one of them [... snip ...] Please. What would you think of the system that when you click on FF starts FF, Evo and Gimp? I think you would

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 5.11.2011 00:39, Ian Malone napsal(a): Is there any point in me reporting any bug in Fedora bugzilla ever then? Of course, there are plenty of bugs caused by our packaging or moments when one programs stomps on the other one's toes. See

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
enaut wrote: I am one of them and I went directly from the tilling-WM Xmonad to gnome 3! So you can't say it's only for absolute noobs :). The fact that you were using a tiling WM first shows that you are much more willing to adapt to unconventional designs than most other users. I, for one,

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Bojan Smojver
Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org writes: Right now, if I want to start an app, I just hit alt+f2, type the first few letters, hit tab and then enter. No zoom, no search, no expose, no workspaces, no dash. Just see it that way: you have one powerful interface to do advanced

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-05 Thread Bojan Smojver
Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at writes: I, for one, want my computer to work the way I learned and interiorized a computer works, any innovative interface destroys my automatisms and confuses me. I'm using Plasma Desktop with the Classic menu (not the default fancy Kickoff), only

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 03:42 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com writes: As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver. This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bojan Smojver
Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: That's really a policy decision for the GNOME / Fedora desktop teams, not for ajax. Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the know, so I asked. But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most hardware that

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 06:23 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: That's really a policy decision for the GNOME / Fedora desktop teams, not for ajax. Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the know, so I asked. No more than anyone -

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bojan Smojver
Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the know, so I asked. No more than anyone - there really is no cabal ;) All I know is what the GNOME / desktop team have said in public, but what they've said seems to point in a

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:25:54 + (UTC) Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the know, so I asked. No more than anyone - there really is no cabal ;) All I know is what the

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 23:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most hardware that previously needed the fallback mode is covered, fallback mode will die. AIUI, fallback mode isn't meant to be a GNOME 2-by-stealth for Shell

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Ilyes Gouta
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 23:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most hardware that previously needed the fallback mode is covered, fallback mode will die. AIUI,

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 23:09:12 -0700, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 03:42 +, Bojan Smojver wrote: But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most hardware that previously needed the fallback mode is covered, fallback mode will

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 November 2011 13:21, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:25:54 + (UTC) Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: Yeah, I got that bit. But I'm sure all you folks are in the know, so I asked. No more

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 14:58:47 +0100, Ilyes Gouta ilyes.go...@gmail.com wrote: One nice outcome is that we could end up with an optimized reference s/w renderer (and kernel/user land stack) for all platforms. Which is cool! :) The other graphics related improvement looking possible for

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:10:57 + Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 November 2011 13:21, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:25:54 + (UTC) Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: Yeah, I got

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 14:10 +, Ian Malone wrote: It's frustrating to be stuck on overview mode on a four core machine while gnome-shell is doing /something/ but you don't know what. If it worked fluidly it would be okay. Actually, the responsiveness issue isn't limited just to overview,

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 November 2011 13:21, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:25:54 + (UTC) Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com writes: Yeah, I got that bit.

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
Tell us again where to find that gnome shell for dummies doc? I tried to give it a fair trial, but I found it so non-intuitive/counter-intuitive that I gave up after an hour and switched to Forced Fallback Mode. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kkeit...@redhat.com wrote: Tell us again where to find that gnome shell for dummies doc? The cheat sheet? http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet I tried to give it a fair trial, but I found it so non-intuitive/counter-intuitive that I

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 November 2011 14:36, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: This is essentially giving up. It's frustrating to be stuck on overview mode on a four core machine while gnome-shell is doing /something/ but you don't know what.

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ian Malone wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than forwarding the bugs you're too lazy to file directly at the right place. Kevin Kofler --

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
seth vidal wrote: Bojan, Install xfce. You'll be happy w/that. You should also give KDE Plasma Desktop a try. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:23:02PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ian Malone wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than forwarding the bugs you're too lazy

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Ian Malone wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than forwarding the bugs

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:23:02PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ian Malone wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bojan Smojver
--- Original message --- From: seth vidal Install xfce. You'll be happy w/that. Thanks for the tip. Or maybe I'll just have to find time to (learn how to) hack the shell, remove overview from it, bring back the taskbar and workspaces to normal view and call it

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Shipping bug-free software is the job of maintainers. It's reasonable to ask a reporter to take an issue upstream if you feel that that'll result in the bug being fixed faster, but there's no reason to mandate that and

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 10:17 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Shipping bug-free software is the job of maintainers. It's reasonable to ask a reporter to take an issue upstream if you feel that that'll result in the bug

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip... Just another datapoint, my personal policy here is: a) ask the reporter if they could report it upstream, as they will be able to answer questions and advocate for their bug much better that I can in some cases. b) If they say no, and I agree it's a bug/issue that should be

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 November 2011 17:23, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Ian Malone wrote: If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen different bugzilla accounts by now. So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than forwarding the bugs you're too

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-04 Thread Bojan Smojver
Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com writes: This is essentially giving up. It's frustrating to be stuck on overview mode on a four core machine while gnome-shell is doing /something/ but you don't know what. If it worked fluidly it would be okay. For me, it goes further than that. I do not want

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 17:57 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver. This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests. I said on IRC, but just to reiterate,

Re: F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

2011-11-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com writes: As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver. This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests. For all of us gnome-shell sceptics that prefer the