Re: Previous awesome background images

2020-04-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
> On 17. 04. 20 16:07, Kamil Paral wrote: > https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2018/03/06/fedora-28s-desktop-background-design/ > > I am sad we haven't followed the pattern. (However I don't know the reasoning > for stopping that.) That's not true, we didn't stop the pattern. F32 is G for Goffman. F

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
> If this is, why has the project chosen to not document that in their > code/docs? That would, it seems, help contributors stay focused on > the goal. > https://wiki.list.org/DEV/Home?action=show=DEV I went to list.org, clicked on developer wiki, it's on the front page. This is veering a bit

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
Oh and I should also point out - you shouldn't have to read all of that, the point was to make our mailing lists accessible to folks who aren't mailing list users, who are less technical, younger, etc., to be more conclusive. Same reason Discourse is being peddled here. Big diff is we keep the

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-20 Thread Máirín Duffy
Check my blog, where there are even scans of the napkin sketches. Or Google "hyperkitty ux" my blog and my outreachy interns blog pop up. ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
Gerald, I'm the person who designed Hyperkitty's concept on a napkin on a shuttlebus with Luke Macken some years ago. Your characterization of it here is incorrect. I say this with respect, please try to listen more than you post. Hyperkitty stats show you're dominating this conveesation. ~m

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
> I just couldn't use it for day-to-day communication. Not necessarily any > single thing, but lots and lots of fundamentals. How do I get a list of new > threads? How do I get a list of threads I've read but which have new > responses, and ideally show only the new responses? How can I mute a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
Re: teenagers and timelines, I'm just addressing the specific concerns that were raised to me. ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
So our Hyperkitty version is old here. I can't reporduce the issue on mailman3.org's HK, which is newer. I suspect this is a bug that's been fixed. ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Attention Gmail users, please turn off HTML mail

2018-10-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:27:02PM -, Ray Strode wrote: > > Unfortunately, all is not rosy there. See this thread on the users' list > from this fall about confusion with hyperkitty quoting: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.o... It's hilarious

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
I'm open to all of those suggestions as well as committing to design and CSS work for them. I would need a web dev to help me though; I'm not great with Django. Please note, the reason Hyperkitty didn't cause this sort of thread or honestly any sort of drama or controversy when it was deployed

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-10-02 Thread Máirín Duffy
I don't know that the cloud images are necessarily not it either though - Randy's vagrant set up uses the vagrant cloud image... Whatever the story is, we should be straight on it! ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
> On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 11:04 +0000, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Even though I do this, I find it helpful to be able to completely > destroy the VM and re-create it, knowing that all the information to > re-create it is in git (via the Vagrantfile + Ansible playbook). Before > I used i

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Alex, this is great. Thanks for pointing me at it! Cheers, ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
I'm willing to put some skin in the game but it's unclear to me how we'd lay things out. Is anybody interested in meeting up about this and talking through it? I think the website / positioning / docs type stuff is addressable, but the big challenge here is figuring out the strategy we want.

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
I just tried it. I was able to connect to remote hypervisor, it showed my VM - pretty impressive. It was a little flaky in that when I right clicked to view properties of the VM it hung (with a, wait / force quit dialog popping up) but I was eventually able to load the dialog. It seems to

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
So the environment I'm trying to set up involves a backend that consists of three separate containers, and the web front end is separate from that. Because setting up the environment is a difficult task, I'd like it in a VM so I can clone it once it's configured so that I can reproduce it

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Is there a way to use a vagrant image that works with virt-manager? ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Randy, I did consider Vagrant but there are a few issues with it: - There is no GUI for it that I can find. I just like GUIs, especially for this sort of work that I might do for a stretch at a time and then not have to do for months afterwards and have to relearn next time. - I have had -

Fedora for Web Development fail

2018-09-25 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi fedora-devel, This morning I set out to set up a VM for web development for a project I've been working on so I could access my development environment from multiple locations / workstations without having to set it up again and again on different systems. I had a surprisingly difficult

Re: [Design-team] Testing the wireframes of the Fedora Community App

2018-05-16 Thread Máirín Duffy
=a2aa10albzVO4GPTETM7K8maNo3aObl9zCrhZx3lcvu7ylZRY5xY4eQ98lPy On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:00 PM Máirín Duffy <du...@redhat.com <mailto:du...@redhat.com>> wrote:     Hi Abhishek!     The 4 tasks this appears to be assigning disappear when you get to     the mockups - can you provide the list of tasks so

Re: [Design-team] Testing the wireframes of the Fedora Community App

2018-05-16 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Abhishek! The 4 tasks this appears to be assigning disappear when you get to the mockups - can you provide the list of tasks so we can have it to reference as we go through the mockups? Also I don't see any kind of survey or other method of providing feedback on each task? How should we

[389-devel] Re: Improve the demo objects from install

2018-01-10 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/10/2018 10:58 AM, Mark Reynolds wrote: So you could do a filter like this for your example above: "(|(sn=*brown")(sn=*brown west"))" So the case I'm thinking of for the front end is a directory listing, in which case you wouldn't be so specific to know to add the West. or "(|(sn=*

[389-devel] Re: Improve the demo objects from install

2018-01-10 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/10/2018 10:20 AM, Mark Reynolds wrote: Would this miss someone who had two surnames, say Sally Brown West, who chooses not to hyphenate? "(sn=*brown*)" Wouldn't that also match Brownwyn James and Brown West Smith? ~m ___ 389-devel mailing

[389-devel] Re: Improve the demo objects from install

2018-01-10 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi William, With displayname you can only sort by "order of the displaynames". So we can at least consistently sort this given the scenario above! Imagine a phone book sorted this way. In the US in any given town there would be 50 pages of Johns, making wayfinding really difficult. Is

[389-devel] Re: Improve the demo objects from install

2018-01-09 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi William, I'm one of the Fedora UX designers and was pointed to this thread by charcol on another list. I would like to express enthusiastic support for having by default a display name field and a legal name field. This is of particular benefit and interest to women as you clearly

Re: Self Introduction: Richard Kellner

2017-08-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Richard, On 08/23/2017 05:53 PM, Richard Kellner wrote: my name is Richard Kellner and I am a Python developer. In my free time, I am also a PyCon SK volunteer. Recently I have got this crazy idea to submit some of my packages to Fedora, so here I am. I have just submitted my first package

Flock hotel discount code is available + Last-minute CFP reminder!

2017-06-14 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi everyone, Our hotel discount code for Flock went live yesterday. It is... *drumroll* "FLOCK". Here are the rates: - A $139/night* rate per double, queen, or king room is available from August 27 to August 31. You will need to use the "Group Attendee" code "FLOCK" on the hotel

Flock hotel discount code is available + Last-minute CFP reminder!

2017-06-14 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi everyone, Our hotel discount code for Flock went live yesterday. It is... *drumroll* "FLOCK". Here are the rates: - A $139/night* rate per double, queen, or king room is available from August 27 to August 31. You will need to use the "Group Attendee" code "FLOCK" on the hotel

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/15/2015 02:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Oh, I wasn't criticizing the *current* plan, I was wondering whether if we stuck another thing on top of the pile it might be going too far... FWIW the hubs IRC client was the new thing in my mind. If there's something else being proposed I'm

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/14/2015 03:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:19:00AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: The only thing that concerns me is that at that point we'd have the new thing, IRC, Ask, *and* the mailing lists, soon with Hyperkitty which in some senses overlaps with all the

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/14/2015 03:28 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 02:40:26PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: So the intention with hubs is that it would have a web based chat interface that would use IRC. So if you prefer your old IRC client, keep using it; if you're a newbie and not familiar

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/15/2015 08:27 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:15:50AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Is there a plan for dealing with IRC nicks and the Hubs chat? There's an IRC nick field in FAS. My thoughts were by default for new users we'll prepopulate it with their FAS account

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/15/2015 12:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I mentioned - just as an as-it-came-into-my-head thing, not a serious proposal - the possibility of setting up one of the F/OSS Slack-a-likes that are going around. I think Hubs would essentially be that thing. Especially with the planned

Re: Better irc policies?

2015-10-14 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/14/2015 02:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The only thing that concerns me is that at that point we'd have the new thing, IRC, Ask, *and* the mailing lists, soon with Hyperkitty which in some senses overlaps with all the others. All of these are good things but would we have a coherent

Re: Fedora developer portal - proof of concept

2015-07-21 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 07/21/2015 10:48 AM, Adam Samalik wrote: There is no C and C++ - Sory guys, again, the homepage is just filled up with random stuff. C and C++ will be definitely a part of the content! I promise I will use Lorem Ipsum more often to avoid these unpleasant situations :-) I don't know if

Re: Fedora developer portal - proof of concept

2015-07-21 Thread Máirín Duffy
(resending with my fpo email; my rht email isn't sub'ed to devel@) On 07/21/2015 09:51 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: I'm curious how this is going to be tied into the Fedora Hubs work? If it isn't, I'm curious why not :) So Fedora Hubs' main audiences are folks who are contributing to Fedora,

Re: To Whomever: You Made My Day

2015-02-26 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 02/26/2015 08:31 AM, John Florian wrote: Yesterday I was browsing the Fedora pkgdb/git/bohdi pages and this morning I returned to go backwards thru my web browser history when I stumbled upon a real hidden gem for a HTTP 500 response. Our hot dog armed with a ray gun against a nuclear panda…

Re: Decision on Fedora Product branding: Fedora $PRODUCT 21 vs Fedora 21 $PRODUCT

2014-10-21 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi, On 10/21/2014 08:28 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: * Should we start all of the Products at version 1 and say built on the Fedora 21 platform? Is there any intention to release the products on different schedules? ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Decision on Fedora Product branding: Fedora $PRODUCT 21 vs Fedora 21 $PRODUCT

2014-10-21 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/21/2014 08:42 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - Hi, On 10/21/2014 08:28 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: * Should we start all of the Products at version 1 and say built on the Fedora 21 platform? Is there any intention to release the products on different

Re: Decision on Fedora Product branding: Fedora $PRODUCT 21 vs Fedora 21 $PRODUCT

2014-10-21 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 10/21/2014 09:36 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:28:16AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: A few specific comments that have been made on the Board ticket (to avoid rehashing them). * Fedora Server 21 sounds like we've had 21 releases of Fedora Server and we certainly

Re: [RETRACTION] Re: Unofficial Poll: Flock 2015 (North America) Bids

2014-09-24 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 09/23/2014 02:37 AM, Matthias Runge wrote: On 22/09/14 17:18, Haïkel wrote: Proposals are supposed to provide travel costs from pre-determined airports at the *targeted* period. If I trust informations from the proposals, SLC would be too expensive to cover travel expenses for EMEA folks.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, On 04/22/2014 07:40 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Is it safe to assume that research is backup by public usability tests? On 04/22/2014 07:55 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: When I invoke Máirín, I usually find it safe to make that assumption, but I'll let her speak for herself on

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 04/22/2014 09:13 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So one of the key questions here is whether the current policy on essentially hiding (protecting?) the user from these external software sources is truly in keeping with our Foundations, Mission and general project health. To be honest, I'm

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi, On 04/22/2014 10:14 AM, H. Guémar wrote: Well, we may end up lawyered by Legal, but I think it's good we try to realign ourselves and clear up few misunderstandings. How do you propose we do that? ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-03 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 04/02/2013 03:47 PM, Pete Travis wrote: I'm considering system specs at this point, but establishing the roles deployed might aid in targeting more comprehensive documentation. Beyond a basic desktop, what use cases would you like to see us represent? FWIW I primarily use Fedora as a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: - (Nobody explicitly stated this, but) Displaying information geared towards power users by default is intimidating / confusing to less-knowledgeable users. I'd call this to be an urban legend. A boot menu is self-explanatory, even to new-comers.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 12:47 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I read the blog and I was NOT talking about your blog post. Rereading what I wrote does show that I did not convey that clearly. What I was trying to refer to was that over the long winding thread others have pointed out that this would be

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Wed 13 Mar 2013 08:53:32 AM EDT, Reindl Harald wrote: i wonder how i survived to learn all this stuff which is so confusing - why do linux need to handhold anybody which does get scared from a simple menu where each trained monkey in doubt seletcs the first entry? Clearly you're a genius,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 09:28 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 13 mars 2013 01:32, Máirín Duffy a écrit : On 03/12/2013 07:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I am saying this because I agree. To me the proposal (not the original but some point in the the 500 ms boot time ideal ) seemed very much

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 10:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: If you're lamenting the cryptical form of the current strings I totally agree with you but I don't think there is any technical limitation that prevents improving this text instead of dumping the baby with the bath water. I'm not. I'm making an

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 10:57 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: I'm with you that users shouldn't see this by default, but rather e.g. upon encountering an error condition (or if configured differently). However, we still could use better wording for such a message, even if we restrict ourselves to English,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 09:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: Then you have good students. Are teens and pre-teens fedora's main target audience now? I'm really not sure what it is anymore. Is there any good reason to exclude them? I started using Linux (Red Hat 5.1) as a 3rd year high school student. ~m --

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 13 March 2013 12:46, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: No, a boot menu is not self-explanatory, and no, this is not an 'urban legend.' How do you even come up with associating the term 'urban legend' to statement saying that a complex screen is confusing to casual computer users

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
From: Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org Why not put it in the control panel on the running system along with other system-level options, though? Doesn't that make more sense rather than separating it out for access only in a completely different context? On 03/13/2013 11:26 AM, john.flor

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 11:46 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: This brings the question, how do you do your update? I actually do updates via the package kit nag thing that pops up from the messaging tray, and I rarely pay attention to the list of packages. I just don't have the time to bother, and if that's

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Wed 13 Mar 2013 12:19:39 PM EDT, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: This is no luck, you are using the exact class of hardware @rh dev use, which is pretty much the safest setup for Fedora (and it's not the least expensive hardware on the market either). This is my last message to this thread. I am

Fedora Knowledge Base / Help Center Idea

2013-03-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/13/2013 11:53 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: I imagine that some kind of well discoverable (e.g. advertised during installation, or in the default browser homepage) knowledge-base beyond installation guides, release notes e.a. could get us a far way, which would have vetted information about

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 08:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote: What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines: Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader This is an interesting idea, but I don't think

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
I tried breaking this thread down into its components and summarizing the discussion and points brought up thus far. I hope it helps: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/03/12/improving-the-fedora-boot-experience/ ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 05:15 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Sure, and I'm sure the rental company wouldn't want you to pop the hood. Not having a rental car break down on the side of the highway in an unfamiliar city is certainly a luxury. ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 02:36 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: sorry, i have no other words for this discussion as braindead Check please! Hall monitors? ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 07:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I am saying this because I agree. To me the proposal (not the original but some point in the the 500 ms boot time ideal ) seemed very much a welded shut view. And as someone who has to worked on welded shut computers for asthetic reasons.. it

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 08:02 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: However, pretty much every operating system out there has a special key or combo to activate a boot menu, which is otherwise not accessible. I don't think Linux users are less capable to find out what they need to press at boot, when things need

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 12:58 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Turn off the graphical grub screen I don't know why - I think grub2 is just a PITA to work with compared to grub - but the intention here was that it should be turned off by default in final releases, and on in alpha/beta releases. I think we

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around. If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. How

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that point. For example, translations - can we render Indic or CJK glyphs to the screen at this point in the boot

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Right, because had booting simply worked, instead of a** r8H#@Ig me every 10 minutes, I'd never have become curious about it. Do you remember the days when bootup was so slow that you would sit there for 3-5 minutes watching the ram count up? The

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Jóhann, These are great links, thanks!! So to summarize: On 03/11/2013 05:11 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx The last case these guys go over is the one we care about. They

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:01 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: By hooking this up to keys people would natrually try, such as shift, space, enter, escape, or whatever windows does for their boot menu stuff. FWIW Windows uses F8 ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys triggers for this sounds suboptimal, since you might buttdial the boot menu then, which sounds suboptimal

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/30/2013 01:05 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Actually a lot of research and reason went into GNOME 3's development [1], That's about as relevant as a lot of coding went into $project, which is... not a whole lot when considering which project to make the default. But every release is not a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/29/2013 04:59 PM, Eric Smith wrote: I don't disagree with the more research and reason part, but the current default desktop has only been our default for four releases, F15 through F18. I don't recall any serious research and reason having been involved in the switch that occurred when

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/28/2013 02:06 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: You don't see the point of MATE or Cinnamon? How long did you play with them 5 minutes? Do you remember the GNOME 1.x = 2.x transition? Similarly to how there are forks of GNOME now to 'keep the GNOME 2 candle burning,' there were forks of GNOME 1.x to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/28/2013 11:56 AM, inode0 wrote: What concerns me isn't that Linus and Alan don't like it. To be fair Linus (more quietly) went back to GNOME 3 after his initial loud complaints. He is still using it since he just posted that he was to G+ yesterday. ~m -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon 28 Jan 2013 02:17:29 PM EST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Going away isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official feature of Gnome 3.8.

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/21/2013 07:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: * DO NOT REWRITE code! It will ALWAYS break things! You're joking, right? If nobody ever rewrote code... we wouldn't have Linux. ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Please take discussions like these to the installer development list; fedora-devel is too broad a list to discuss mintuae like this I think. On 01/20/2013 05:15 AM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: we see 3 items, one of them no disk selected it has the same level of importance as the rest two, I believe

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Thu 03 Jan 2013 04:55:22 PM EST, Chris Murphy wrote: Documentation says The GRUB menu defaults to being hidden, except on dual-boot systems. but as far as I know this hasn't been true since Fedora 16 when GRUB2 started being used. Is there a plan to revert back to a hidden GRUB menu at

Re: who broke fedoraproject.org usability?

2010-10-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 19:30 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: Regarding the displaying problem in Firefox, I had that as well first, but reloading the page solved it for me. Yep, sorry about that. It's a caching issue I think. It seems if you've visited fedoraproject.org there's CSS in the old

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 19:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:44 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Sadly enough, this means that a shiny Ubuntu installer is to the whole distribution what GNOME shell is to the GNOME project. It doesn't matter if you've got a lot of bells and

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 22:33 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 21:26 -0400, Máirín Duffy a écrit : On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:02 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'm happy to look for ways to make the other fesco voices heard. Any ideas? I could try making the tickets have

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-14 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi FESCo members, On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:01 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: === #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2010-09-14) === Meeting started by nirik at 19:30:01 UTC. The full logs are available at

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-14 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:02 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'm happy to look for ways to make the other fesco voices heard. Any ideas? I could try making the tickets have some more descriptive subject like HEY VOTE ON THIS PLEASE BEFORE NEXT MEETING: or something. Hmm. Here's a couple ideas I

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:08 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Again, I feel it is necessary to have a survey of Fedora users. That's users you've already got. It might make the users you already have happier, sure, and that's a fine thing to do. Iif you want to grow, though, you may be limiting yourself

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-31 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:41 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Great stuff. And there's more in there too. So the current User_base in addition to being not very well linked and referenced could hardly be described as reflecting all of the views in this particular thread. Should it really reflect all

Re: Is PulseAudio dead?

2010-08-02 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 17:07 +, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: - Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/2/10 9:52 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: People have had this complaint since PA was forced on to the Fedora users.