Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/20/2011 07:22 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Rahul Sundaram wrote: GNOME 3 menu has categories in the right as well but in any case, the common apps are in the dash and using a keyboard with a search as you type interface isn't the same as using bash. Let us not be

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors to install it on factory shipped netbooks. Latter is not true. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Evandro Giovanini wrote: I'm not really sure I get what you're asking for here. GNOME 3 does have the classic (Win95-like) design installed by default and all you have to do is enable fallback mode in order to use it. 1) I was not aware of classic mode, it was clearly not

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Rahul Sundaram wrote: GNOME 3 menu has categories in the right as well but in any case, the common apps are in the dash and using a keyboard with a search as you type interface isn't the same as using bash. Let us not be dramatic. With Everything missing, most of it

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/20/2011 01:22 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: ... gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors to install it on factory shipped netbooks. Perhaps, tho I suspect Android won that market already ... but perhaps its worth a shot, things can change. Again, I'm

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Probably not, but I wouldn't say they're equivalent. I don't think many people expect their desktop to have a screen recorder built in. I can't think of any other desktop that _does_. When I said Shell was fully mouse

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 11:40 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: Remember how long it took for git to get from hated, complicated, I-dont-know-how-to-use-it thingamagic to best thing since sliced bread? I'll let you know when I finally figure out how to use it ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:22 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors to install it on factory shipped netbooks. ooh! another conspiracy theory for the collection! (takes note) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw |

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 06/17/2011 11:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 17.6.2011 11:14, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/17/2011 11:36 PM, Evandro Giovanini wrote: those who are want to rewrite/modify GNOME3. No, I'm not. There are several working extensions *today*, I'm simply suggesting that people not 100% satisfied with the default GNOME 3 experience go out there and experiment with them. It's

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: For more 'advanced' users, the keyboard shortcuts are there, and you're probably going to want to use them if you don't want to gnaw your own legs off out of boredom. No, they're not particularly discoverable: it's

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 08:42 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: For more 'advanced' users, the keyboard shortcuts are there, and you're probably going to want to use them if you don't want to gnaw your own legs off out of

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: That's a pretty unique example. It's really not core desktop functionality; it's an easter egg, really. I think it was initially put in purely for the use of GNOME PR / documentation people, and left in because it

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:00 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Just to be clear, eould you also consider the binding the Prnt Scrn labeled keyboard key to the screenshot took as non-core easter egg functionality? Probably not, but I wouldn't say they're equivalent. I don't think many people expect

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!) and found that many people had significant trouble navigating the typical Windows / GNOME 2 nested menu

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.06.2011 03:59, schrieb Adam Williamson: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 01:19 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: My impression is that GNOME3 is trying to compete with Android and FrontRow, but have forgotten all of us who still uses desktops/laptops. We don't have touch screens yet The

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!) and found that many people had significant trouble navigating

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 17.6.2011 11:14, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!) and found that

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 11:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 17.6.2011 11:14, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world

RE: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Henrik Wejdmark
The workflow is: 1) Move the mouse to the to left corner (move is enough, you don't have to click. You even can drag and drop through activities, so learn to not click there.) 2) Type on the keyboard few character of the application name you want to run, e.g. cal and on your screen will be

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/17/2011 02:26 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!) and found that many people had significant trouble navigating

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 17.6.2011 11:57, Henrik Wejdmark napsal(a): The workflow is: 1) Move the mouse to the to left corner (move is enough, you don't have to click. You even can drag and drop through activities, so learn to not click there.) 2) Type on the keyboard few character of the application name you

RE: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Henrik Wejdmark
Since you recommend not using the application menu, in other words, you agree that the application menu is useless? It is useful when you are looking for something and you don't know what exactly it is. In that case, it is much much better then the previous menus, because you have nice

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/17/2011 03:50 PM, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: On my desktop it's not on one page, it's a mile long listing so you get no overview at all. In Gnome2 at least all the apps are categorized. If the graphical user interface _requires_ you to use the keyboard to type the command it has failed it's

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 12:16 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 17.6.2011 11:57, Henrik Wejdmark napsal(a): It is useful when you are looking for something and you don't know what exactly it is. In that case, it is much much better then the previous menus, because you have nice overview on one page and

RE: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Henrik Wejdmark
GNOME 3 menu has categories in the right as well but in any case, the common apps are in the dash and using a keyboard with a search as you type interface isn't the same as using bash. Let us not be dramatic. Rahul As has been stated earlier in this thread, having the hot spot in the top

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Evandro Giovanini
Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 11:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius escreveu: On 06/17/2011 11:36 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 17.6.2011 11:14, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread 夜神 岩男
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/17/2011 03:50 PM, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: On my desktop it's not on one page, it's a mile long listing so you get no overview at all. In Gnome2 at least all the apps are categorized. If the graphical user interface _requires_ you

RE: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:20 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: Since you recommend not using the application menu, in other words, you agree that the application menu is useless? It is useful when you are looking for something and you don't know what exactly it is. In that case, it is

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/17/2011 03:59 PM, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: As has been stated earlier in this thread, having the hot spot in the top left corner and categories far right causes a lot of mouse movements. Common apps in the dash only opens the first instance, after that it switches to the existing instance,

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:48:14PM +0800, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:20 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: Since you recommend not using the application menu, in other words, you agree that the application menu is useless? It is useful when you are looking for

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 17.6.2011 12:29, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a): On 06/17/2011 12:16 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 17.6.2011 11:57, Henrik Wejdmark napsal(a): It is useful when you are looking for something and you don't know what exactly it is. In that case, it is much much better then the previous menus,

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/17/2011 01:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:48:14PM +0800, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:20 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: Since you recommend not using the application menu, in other words, you agree that the application menu is useless? It

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 12:48 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:20 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: You can search for bro and among the results will be Nautilus and Firefox (hint: Gnome Shell also searches in the application description, and both are browsers). A keyword search is

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 17/06/11 12:17, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 06/17/2011 01:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I can't believe real usability testing was done on the final version of GNOME 3. I keep hearing about all these completely undiscoverable keyboard shortcuts that appear to be necessary to use

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Domingo Becker
2011/6/17 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com: On 06/17/2011 03:59 PM, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: As has been stated earlier in this thread, having the hot spot in the top left corner and categories far right causes a lot of mouse movements. Common apps in the dash only opens the first instance,

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Evandro Giovanini
Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 13:43 +0200, Ralf Corsepius escreveu: On 06/17/2011 12:48 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:20 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: You can search for bro and among the results will be Nautilus and Firefox (hint: Gnome Shell also searches in the application

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Domingo Becker [17/06/2011 14:21] : Access through keyboard was something missing in previous GNOME. End users go faster if they only use keyboard (of course, the program and the desktop environment should be prepared for that). Agreed. Before installing F15, I was sceptic about having to

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: With Gnome3 you 1stly have to tick on Applications (located left top on the screen), then hit this tiny scroll bar located ca. 1 in/2cm left of the right screen (not an easy task - Requires travelling almost the whole

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:01:57AM -0300, Evandro Giovanini wrote: I would argue that simply typing a keyword related to the task you're trying to perform is far more effective and easier to use than manually browsing a long list of applications artificially categorized, specially in this age

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 02:53 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Ralf Corsepiusrc040...@freenet.de wrote: With Gnome3 you 1stly have to tick on Applications (located left top on the screen), then hit this tiny scroll bar located ca. 1 in/2cm left of the right screen (not an easy

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/17/2011 06:51 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: ... you mean by holy ghost intuition, feel tempted to press a key to access a hidden feature, where once was a simple feature? Alt+F1 which was the shortcut for accessing the menu still works. For GUI users, they just hit the hot corner. For

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 03:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/17/2011 06:51 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: ... you mean by holy ghost intuition, feel tempted to press a key to access a hidden feature, where once was a simple feature? Alt+F1 which was the shortcut for accessing the menu still works. For

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/17/2011 07:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 06/17/2011 03:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/17/2011 06:51 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: ... you mean by holy ghost intuition, feel tempted to press a key to access a hidden feature, where once was a simple feature? Alt+F1 which was the

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: ... you mean by holy ghost intuition, feel tempted to press a key to access a hidden feature, where once was a simple feature? The question really isn't whether or not to make use of the newer keys. The real question is

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:36:21 +0200 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: So in conclusion it is not that surprising at the end, that W7 and G3 are pretty similar. Tha's no excuse. Also the icons are getting bigger on both platforms. Yes and the text labels are tiny. Most icons are

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Considering the frequent calls of Gnome 3 has failed at its task or the GUI has failed if the user must makes me wonder: Where is the task definition or specification against which the implementation has

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 01:19 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: My impression is that GNOME3 is trying to compete with Android and FrontRow, but have forgotten all of us who still uses desktops/laptops. We don't have touch

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread 夜神 岩男
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:04 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Considering the frequent calls of Gnome 3 has failed at its task or the GUI has failed if the user must makes me wonder: Where is the task definition

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!)

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:02 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: You can search for bro and among the results will be Nautilus and Firefox (hint: Gnome Shell also searches in the application description, and both are browsers). I can't believe real usability testing was done on the final

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 00:30 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:04 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Considering the frequent calls of Gnome 3 has failed at its task or the GUI has failed if the user

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:44:45 -0700 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 00:30 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:04 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Considering the

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Domingo Becker domingobec...@gmail.com wrote: The shortest way is by using keyboard, as Rahul says: 1. Press the key between Ctrl and Alt. 2. Type in what you search, at least the first letters. After that, some icons are shown and you may use up and down

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/17/2011 06:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 06/17/2011 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:43, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Currently, when I open the giant application grid, I get oversized meaningless pictures (yes, oversized - to even see the grid I had to click on the Applications label, which is much smaller than the icons), Yeah, I

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 19:09 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You can also of course use wheel scroll, or the trackpad equivalent. My netbook doesn't have any such device - Just a simple touchpad and 2 buttons. No mouse, no wheel, no fancy buttons. The 'trackpad equivalent' is usually either

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: I wonder why you recommend solutions you can't even get used to. In terms of usability, it is not clear to me kickoff is doing a better job at all. It is a rather convoluted way of organizing menu items and I had to switch it off and use the classic menu instead. I

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think it fails on #1: Makes it easy for users to focus on their current task and reduces distraction and interruption First, this point assumes that there is *one* current task. That is not how I work. I have one main

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:05 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: It all looks very pretty though. Maybe someone can answer this... All of the fade and animation effects that a lot of the toolkits/desktops are using these days seem like they're making the responsiveness substantially worse. I'm not

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:02:14 -0400 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think it fails on #1: Makes it easy for users to focus on their current task and reduces distraction and interruption First, this point

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:02, Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think it fails on #1: Makes it easy for users to focus on their current task and reduces distraction and interruption First, this point assumes that there

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Evandro Giovanini
Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 19:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler escreveu: Rahul Sundaram wrote: I wonder why you recommend solutions you can't even get used to. In terms of usability, it is not clear to me kickoff is doing a better job at all. It is a rather convoluted way of organizing menu items and I

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:12:54PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: One could do that, but that would be an idiotic thing to do. So one doesn't. Its what you said. You explicitly want to divide your attention between multiple tasks. GNOME shell is for people who don't want to do that. --CJD --

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:25:53 -0400 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:12:54PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: One could do that, but that would be an idiotic thing to do. So one doesn't. Its what you said. You explicitly want to divide your attention between

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:46 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:02, Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I think it fails on #1: Makes it easy for users to focus on their

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:34, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:46 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:02, Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:05:08PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: I

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: So Gnome Shell is not for a good many of the people who had been using Gnome before that. YES! I don't know why more people don't realize this: GNOME 2 was a mediocre interface for a lot of people. It COULD NOT be a good interface

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:41:21 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:34, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:46 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:02, Casey Dahlin

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread David Malcolm
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 09:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 00:30 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 10:04 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:18 +0900 夜神 岩男 supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Considering the frequent calls of Gnome

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:47:38 -0400 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: So Gnome Shell is not for a good many of the people who had been using Gnome before that. YES! I don't know why more people don't realize this: GNOME

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Evandro Giovanini wrote: Just curious, did you try any extensions when you played with GNOME 3? No. I gave it 2 minutes at most, so no time to try any extensions. ;-) Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Evandro Giovanini
Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 15:21 -0400, Bernd Stramm escreveu: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:47:38 -0400 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: So Gnome Shell is not for a good many of the people who had been using Gnome before that.

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread 夜神 岩男
Perhaps the Gnome3 way of thinking is that calling up an additional application constitutes starting a new task in the work flow, so that the big interruption happens anyway. I don't think that is a good assumption for the design of a DE. This is the sort of criticism that grants a clear

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:46:46 -0300 Evandro Giovanini efgiovan...@gmail.com wrote: Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 15:21 -0400, Bernd Stramm escreveu: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:47:38 -0400 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: So

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Schmit
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0300, Evandro Giovanini wrote: Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 11:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius escreveu: Well, it's obvious to me Gnome 3 is trying to immitate W7, OS X and iOS, but ... may-be you may want to think about why users are not using these and are using

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-17 Thread Evandro Giovanini
Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 22:47 -0400, Scott Schmit escreveu: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0300, Evandro Giovanini wrote: Em Sex, 2011-06-17 às 11:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius escreveu: Well, it's obvious to me Gnome 3 is trying to immitate W7, OS X and iOS, but ... may-be you may want to

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:27 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: plymouth_running()? Plymouth? Systemd knows about plymouth? Why? Because it has implications for the correct handoff of tty1, I believe. This was one of the trickier things to get right in systemd. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 21:35, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com wrote: This is because clicking [Button1 down up] does not temporarily pin the clicked sub-menu. ... The current behavior does not match the expectations of users. Have you seen GNOME 3's Network Manager menu? When a large number

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 22:15, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 18:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 01:19 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: My impression is that GNOME3 is trying to compete with Android and FrontRow, but have forgotten

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 21:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: systemd might be happy if you change it later, but other stuff is not. The canonical example is X, where the hostname was used as the xauth key to allow you to actually talk to the X server. When the hostname changed, there was no

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:53 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: The memory problem is just the share number of file context that we are loading, each line of the file_context file is a regex. Currently the file_context file on my Rawhide machine is 4209 lines. If we can determine the only file

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 21:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: The next example is apps that try to find out your IP address by looking up your hostname. That's completely broken too. Do you have multiple interfaces? Multiple IP addresses? Are you behind NAT? Yeah, all that will torpedo

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:03 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 18:18, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:17 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Lennart,

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephen Smalley s...@tycho.nsa.gov wrote: Ways to improve the situation for systemd would include: - Only load a subset of file_contexts entries, similar to udev. - Only load the file contexts entries temporarily, using selabel_open + selabel_close to bracket

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/2011 11:03 AM, Miloslav Trma? wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephen Smalley s...@tycho.nsa.gov wrote: Ways to improve the situation for systemd would include: - Only load a subset of file_contexts entries, similar to udev. -

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:12:35AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 06/15/2011 11:03 AM, Miloslav Trma? wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephen Smalley s...@tycho.nsa.gov wrote: Ways to improve the situation for systemd would include: - Only load a subset of file_contexts entries,

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 09:40 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 21:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: systemd might be happy if you change it later, but other stuff is not. The canonical example is X, where the hostname was used as the xauth key to allow you to actually talk to

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 06:51:18 AM Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/13/2011 08:14 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Henrik Wejdmark wrote: I have been with this distro since RH4 and have had a great time doing so. Almost every upgrade has been really smooth with only a few minor setbacks like an odd

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 21:44 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: I wouldn't bother much if it would be just one tiny bit of strange code in systemd, but it is FAR from being the only such code. There are lots of similar stuff, and it's not accidental. It is definitely not accidental, but unless you

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/14/2011 12:50 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 21:44 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: I wouldn't bother much if it would be just one tiny bit of strange code in systemd, but it is FAR from being the only such code. There are lots of similar stuff, and it's not accidental. It is

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 18:01, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 17:29 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 13.06.11 15:27, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: kmod_setup(); === ??? We load a couple of kernel modules which

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 17:19, Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:13:39PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: The point of providing a platform is that developers can make

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:13:01AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Denys Vlasenko wrote: Try rm /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon. Works like a charm. Randomly removing pieces of installed packages has never been supported. I think the console-kit-daemon service can be disabled, but xinit prefixes

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 18:01, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: plymouth_running()? Plymouth? Systemd knows about plymouth? Why? Because we need to constantly send updates to it. It's a trivial socket

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 18:18, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:17 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 18:18, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:17 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Lennart, systemd is eating a lot more memory than any other init process I ever

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the most trivial system calls known to

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 13.06.11 22:46, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: In this case you are not better/worse than before, once the network will come up you'll add a script to change the hostname. Setting it earlier in systemd makes no difference. You continue to avoid answering my question:

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 14.06.11 09:20, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 21:44 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: I wouldn't bother much if it would be just one tiny bit of strange code in systemd, but it is FAR from being the only such code. There are lots of similar stuff,

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