Re: No preupgrade for F17-F18?, [Bug 872876] WONTFIX

2012-11-11 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:46 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: We should make fedup obsolete preupgrade. But we should have a gui first . I had a look at fedup and it seems in a very early stage of development - so a bit like the Anaconda change (with hindsight) the new isn't quite ready

No preupgrade for F17-F18?, [Bug 872876] WONTFIX

2012-11-08 Thread Camilo Mesias
List, cc Chris, I reported a bug after trying to use F17 to preupgrade to F18. It didn't work using Anaconda (I am aware Anaconda is a WIP) but I was surprised at the response. If preupgrade is being canned then presumably it needs fixing to no longer offer the non-working and WONTFIX option to

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I don't understand why people want that annoying feature at all. It's a mistake to project your annoyance with a given feature onto the masses. I always enable the feature but it is an ongoing annoyance that it is

Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

2012-09-18 Thread Camilo Mesias
Thanks for all the suggestions, I took the X11 config option which *just works* I honestly think this should be the default. At least, if there is a setting it should be system wide rather than personal / effective only after login, because devices with touchpads are predominantly personal

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-20 Thread Camilo Mesias
resistance is futile On Apr 20, 2012 8:49 AM, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: That is obscure UI design, and therefore doesn't resolve the current UI obscurity. So I see very little efficacy in the idea. To contribute

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-19 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: No, it is not. I've said so the first time, and I have not changed my opinion. Make it a notification. All this discussion is obscuring the original problem. Although a notification is easy, if it is dismissed, it fails

Re: Chromium

2012-03-21 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: which (right now) has precisely one other hit on Google. If you search for the demangled symbol, there are more references: v8::internal::I18NExtension::get() -Cam -- devel mailing list

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Il 29 febbraio 2012 13:02, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com ha scritto: I think he's got a point http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torvalds_requiring_root_password_for_mundane_things_is_quot_moronic_quot_

Re: Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

2012-02-14 Thread Camilo Mesias
I wonder if there is a way to accurately gauge hours spent using one DE or another. I've only ever used Gnome although I tried KDE briefly (at least one major release ago) and tried other distros Suse and Ubuntu, but only when Fedora was unstable on my hardware. I blogged a few 'gotchas' with

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-19 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, I tried some of these changes and they seemed to work reasonably well apart from the grub2 infrastructure is still a bit immature at running without initrd... specifically * I couldn't find a way to tell the grub2 scripts in /etc/grub.d (10_linux) that I didn't want initrd; I can edit out

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-04 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: The XP I occasionally can not avoid to use, in its system control menus has controls to switch between normal, big very big fonts and expert/advanced controls one can specify fonts sizes for many details of the DE

Re: Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

2011-10-04 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: I am clearly going to have to explain this one more time, forever. Let's see if I can't write it authoritatively once and simply answer with a URL from here out.  (As always, use of the second person you herein is plural,

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-03 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, A daft question perhaps, but I thought... I'm not sure how we can make DPI magically be correct in gazillions of broken displays' EDID. How do other OS' do it? -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available Now!

2011-09-16 Thread Camilo Mesias
I wasn't able to install from the live CD, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964 Anaconda didn't make a bootable system, some kind of bootloader config problem by the look of it. -Cam On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at

Re: Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

2011-07-14 Thread Camilo Mesias
What are the typical faults, and is it impossible to work around them, maybe autodetecting if they are working or not? For a laptop without an external display I would expect it to suspend when the lid is closed, as that is what I usually configure. However, it's not hard to imagine a feature of

Re: [HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

2011-06-29 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hmm, something has broken in F15 for me: Opps, sealert hit an error! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/sealert, line 692, in module run_as_dbus_service(username) File /usr/bin/sealert, line 112, in run_as_dbus_service app = SEAlert(user,

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:21 +0200, nodata wrote: 2. This seems like Trusted Computing, which got shot down in flames. Who shot it and why ? I don't know about Trusted Computing but this does remind me of the Pentium III

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated from an (insecure) software simulation of the same from a remote viewer's perspective. Also I don't see how it would be used in the world of servers where

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:01:45AM +0100, Camilo Mesias wrote: I am still struggling to see real applications for this. I don't know how a networked system using the technology could be differentiated from an (insecure

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-22 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm curious to know the use case(s) for this technology. Does it enable certain types of behaviour that aren't possible currently? Would it enable a system running Fedora to interact with other systems with a greater guarantee about its behaviour or function? Is it just something that system

Re: what key between Ctrl Alt (was: GNOME3 and au revoir...)

2011-06-17 Thread Camilo Mesias
It looks like a hanky or a napkin to me! -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Gnome Shell Extension manager/framework planned?

2011-06-04 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michael Wiktowy michael.wikt...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/3/11, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: The existence and the proliferation of extensions indicates that a lot of people simply are not happy with what gnome shell does out of the box, and that's

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2011-05-16 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: What you might want to do is try fallback mode, or a desktop other than GNOME, and see how that goes; the problem here may be that there's bugs in the 3D / compositing support for your graphics adapter that become

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2011-05-15 Thread Camilo Mesias
I did an install from the RC3 live CD (on USB) and it went well. However F15 remains very unstable, I don't think I will be able to use it. The main problem is that it will lock up spontaneously (then heats up if left as if in a tight CPU consuming loop). Apart from that any kind of session

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2011-05-15 Thread Camilo Mesias
Thanks, I agree it's a hardware thing although ION / Atom combination isn't that rare and also used to work fine under F14. I have an older, larger laptop with Radeon graphics that works OK with F15. Other machines in the house use F15 and Intel graphics without problems. That said I really don't

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Camilo Mesias
So, reading between the lines, is it fair to say that Ubuntu seem to have chosen a display manager to avoid dbus and consolekit? -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ubuntu to switch to lightdm?

2011-05-12 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think the available information supports any such conclusions concerning motivation.  If you want to know the motivations for the decision hop the fence and go have a polite friendly chat about it with the people

Re: Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

2011-05-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: What and/or how are the extensions to install to help configure/run gnome-3 better?  I have been using KDE but might try gnome-3 again if have access or know where to find them Hi, I have:

Re: Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

2011-05-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: It's entertaining already to see how people [try to] leave Ubuntu because of Unity, and to hear that they like Fedora 15's GNOME 3 better. ;) I did think of commenting that Gnome3 seemed comparable in scope to the

Re: Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

2011-05-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Having used it for a while, I find it more than adequate. Currently F15 is blighted by some undiagnosed crashes for me (Bug 697157) but Gnome 3 just isn't a problem. There are some odd things that can be worked around, but the overall way of working is good. I found myself dragging a Windows XP

Re: GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

2011-04-27 Thread Camilo Mesias
On the other hand it will be awesome when it's finished and possibly will remove the need for fallback mode altogether. -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 gotchas

2011-04-16 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, I made some noises on IRC about people upgrading to F15 (like myself) who would all come across the same surprises and would have to find a way to work around them. I suggested it might help to publish something like release notes but more user oriented, to help to ease the pain (and to

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

2011-04-08 Thread Camilo Mesias
I wasn't aware of the distinction between the candidates and the naming of the files downloaded didn't help, so I think some clarification might be worthwhile. By downloading a couple of TCs I came across this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694915 -Cam On Fri, Apr 8, 2011

Re: manually fixing IPs

2011-03-26 Thread Camilo Mesias
Jon, have you seen nmcli? If you can't do what you want to with it, maybe a feature request is in order. I get the impression that NM will generally do the right thing for most people most of the time, and when we are hacking on firmware, running a tftp server and the like we might want to use

Re: [Test-Announce] 2011-02 Graphics Test Week recap

2011-03-03 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm curious about the accounting method. I see there are some Nouveau bugs listed CLOSED DUPLICATE. I raised one as a result of the test day, 679404, it was later marked duplicate of 679924 (which is in the list). Just wondering what it means when some bugs are listed and some aren't. -Cam On

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha RC1 Available Now!

2011-02-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
I tested the live image and reproduced a problem seen with the nouveau test day image (and added more detail here) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679404 I hope something can be done for this or F15 will be off limits for machines like mine (Nvidia Ion netbook) -Cam -- devel

Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-23 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi I wanted to second these questions... 2011/2/22 Jóhann B. johan...@gmail.com: Will there be any performance penalties making this move? [...] What benefit will this switch bring to the novice desktop end users? Will the novice desktop end user ever take advantages of any of the features

Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-23 Thread Camilo Mesias
Josef, On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Your impression is wrong, there has been quite a bit of work done to make BTRFS work well on small devices, it is the default filesystem for meego which goes on phones, which is much smaller than anything you are

Re: SSD support in Anaconda/F14

2010-12-26 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm confused now about what Anaconda has done. I checked with the commands from this site: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ And starting fdisk with different arguments gives more sensible looking results. Note that I haven't changed the

Re: ABRT opt-out (was Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting)

2010-12-10 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: if it just invisibly doesn't run, I'd try it again, but if I'm running it from the console and it spits out a clear fatal error and crashes, yeah, I'm not going to run it again. That'd be pointless. I would hope

Re: insane -19 nice level for system service (mailgraph) - is it acceptable?

2010-12-08 Thread Camilo Mesias
Perhaps the issue is that the coding of the priority isn't intuitive. I thought -20 was 'highest priority' and high numbers were 'lower priority' Would something more meaningful and unambiguous be better? -Cam On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds now and then. It seems to recover and I can't see any obvious log messages around the time of the freeze. It does survive suspend/resume, which is great. My

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
At least it's winter now and a hot netbook is less of a problem than in the summer. On 9 Nov 2010 21:22, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gno... You're probably not. nouveau basically has

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
That's true, using freenx to access a whole desktop works well with xfce and no sound. I can't imagine it working so well if trying to run gnome-shell, sound etc remotely. I get the impression a lot of the current desktop infrastructure doesn't make sense when accessed remotely, eg if I ssh'ed

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, how do you enable the missing 3d support for Nouveau? It came with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. I just wanted to say thanks, I am running with this now, it seems to be certainly more than adequate ;-) to run gnome shell. No more akmod-nvidia for a while! -Cam -- devel mailing list

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. I wonder if there will be someone saying (when all the apps are native Wayland apps) If I wanted to step back to the pre-stetic* era, I'd run X I get the impression that comparing current Fedora and Linux in general running on varied

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Is Fedora for developers or what? If it is exclusively for developers with the exclusion of general purpose features such as web browsing, photo management, and multimedia consumption then I'll have to find a more general purpose OS. I count myself as a developer but concede that I have a life

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. Indeed. It's not the point that it's possible or not. I could do much of that on a Windows 3.11 machine... Be honest with yourself, is it every bit as good as the experience

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:51:32PM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. Indeed. It's not the point

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Boeckel maths...@gmail.com wrote: Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in November[1]. --Ben [1]http

Re: Yubikeys are now supported

2010-10-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm not a security expert but I understood that the usual way to use these keys was to have one server that the key authenticates with, and further sites would be accessible through openID or similar - so the authentication is always with one server. Using the same device with mutliple servers is

Re: Need proventester karma for firstboot-1.113-4.fc14 (was: Re: bodhi v0.7.9 deployed)

2010-10-02 Thread Camilo Mesias
I think the moral of this story is that the input to the process is fallible. Shit always happens. Automated systems that filter or delay the 'happening' should be backed up by statistics to show that they help... Otherwise, when they filter and delay attempts to fix problems by people who are

Re: GDM login issues F13: kbd switches to US keymap, mirror screens stops working

2010-08-31 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi I noted on your first bug that it sounds like one I had: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552397 Regards, -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-29 Thread Camilo Mesias
We wish we weren't and we want to learn from our mistakes rather than repeat them. In the case of the start page I believe it was a concession combined with the hope that it would be replaced with a free solution in the future. It at the very least should not used as a shining example of the

Re: [Test-Announce] Call for testing: F14 Alpha RC3/RC4 with Radeon graphics adapters

2010-08-15 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, I have an ATI Mobility Radeon X300 based laptop (x86) and tried to boot the boot.iso by using livecd-iso-to-disk but the installer could not see the image (CD/DVD not present, other options NFS, local disk - not including the USB device, URL, etc) once the laptop booted from usb. It did not

Re: Testing Fedora? Please enable SELinux if you can

2010-07-30 Thread Camilo Mesias
Andrew, SELinux is very configurable, and its various protections can be turned on and off for each individual case. That's interesting, I think the last problem I ran into was having to set a boolean to get Picasa3 to run. This wasn't the whole fix, just one step. I was under the impression

Re: Testing Fedora? Please enable SELinux if you can

2010-07-30 Thread Camilo Mesias
OK, an update. I reinstalled F13, added Picasa 3 from the Google repo. It does run although it triggers tens of SELinux alerts about mmap_zero on unknown. The messages are pretty confusing really, they are complaining about unknown, They say I need to change booleans to allow the access and give

Re: Testing Fedora? Please enable SELinux if you can

2010-07-30 Thread Camilo Mesias
We recognize there may be situations when SELinux causes problems and you need to make it permissive or turn it off temporarily, but please try and keep it turned on if you possibly can, and if you're in a situation where you need to disable it, please let the developers know by filing a bug,

Re: Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

2010-07-11 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Upstream wants to talk to somebody who's actually experiencing the problem, not to a forwarding monkey. Really? I would have thought upstream would be grateful for any reports, preferring that to silence. If the actual

Re: Bug on NetworkManager (#600656)

2010-06-05 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, You can either run dbus_send --print-reply --system \        --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \        /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \        org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wake or run service network-manager stop rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state service

preupgrade / anaconda's final stage

2010-05-26 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, I ran a couple of preupgrades to go from F12 to F13 last night and it all went very smoothly. I have only one slight criticism and that is that the final stage of the upgrade takes a subjectively long time, during which the progress indication is a frantic bouncing progress bar. What is

Re: Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

2010-05-11 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What was that for? To start another flamewar including the challenge for a explicit person? Quite, a possibly valid point losing out to a flamebait codicil. -Cam -- devel mailing list

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
Personally I think Fedora is good at what it does, and although it causes me some frustration that Fedora isn't better at wooing mass market users, I wouldn't want to make radical changes to structures and processes to chase some goals. There would be much easier and more painless ways to woo

Re: Reasons for hall monitoring

2010-05-04 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:45:53PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: This thread  is now closed. We've received repeated complaints about the redundancy of it. No further posts to this thread will be allowed. I'm disappointed that the thread is closed when there seems to be an issue that isn't

Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

2010-02-27 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: this is a *terrible* idea. We may see users as a 'resource', but they don't see themselves this way. We should not interrupt their usage of their computer to try and exploit them to our ends. What if it was an opt-in

Re: Call for F13 release slogan suggestions

2010-02-24 Thread Camilo Mesias
How about... Prepare for launch Escape velocity Throttle up Go supernova Ignite -Cam -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Camilo Mesias
Can we draw any parallels from work in the commercial world? (I was going to use the word 'professional' but don't want to disparage open source work... it's just a different ecosystem) So at work we have to produce a software product. We test the product to the best of our ability / to test

Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

2010-01-17 Thread Camilo Mesias
cores typically compress fantastically well, too. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel