Re: Fw: Gnome extensions

2017-10-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 12:20 +0100, Sam Bull wrote: > I also have not seen any issues like this, and have been using btrfs > with GNOME for atleast a couple of years, on Ubuntu and Gentoo. Ditto. > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 01:46 +, Leslie S Satenstein via gnome- > shell-list wrote: > > Do not

Re: Notifications are easy to dismiss by mistake

2017-02-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 20:15 +0100, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > I've thought about two different solutions: > > - A different approach would be to just disable this behavior and > > require the user to click the notification or the "x" button on it, > > to acknowledge it has been read and dismiss

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
hat I was remembering, not specifically legacy > status icons which as you correctly said has a number of flaws. > Strangely, I don't really miss the tray icons.. So, victory? Neither do I [miss the tray icons]. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 System

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 16:05 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, at 15:58, Sam Bull wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 09:42 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 14:31 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
lient as examples. > What will you do for them ? The question is - what do you want done with applications in the background? They are in the background; there is zero reason for me to care about them until (a) I need them or (b) they need me. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whit

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
SH agent, the zeitgeist-datahub, etc... I see nothing from them unless I need to. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-s

Notifications [Was: My gripes with Gnome Shell]

2016-09-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Evolution all day and I don't see anything missin g. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
kages include the XDG. Simply distribute an XDG file with your application start-script. > Why can't the developers make some of these things work correctly? They work perfectly. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Adm

GVFS Working, But Corresponding FUSE Mounts Are Not

2015-08-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
like: ?? ? ? ? ?? sftp:host=yannigan -orange.example.com,user=bcreswel I looked at the output of journalctl and do not see anything that obvisously looks like GVFS crashed. -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python

Re: Default extensions for ldap users

2015-07-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
that actually work for this? [finally something like a roaming profile in GNOME] - because this would be AWESOME. -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
anything prevent someone from making a Shell Extension which overrides the volume control behavior? -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:41 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:07 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all the way up

Re: A suggestion for GNOME 3

2014-03-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
. And, as usual, installed effortlessly. Great work. I seem to remember there was a discussion about this issue on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-shell but I can't find the particular bug right now... maybe someone else can help. -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
cross platform in the code I care about. Your experience is not normal. -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: Bugs

2014-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
, or pay to have it fixed. Well, enough of my rant. I think you can see where I am coming from. A misunderstanding of the concept of bug? -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

Re: Bugs

2014-01-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:47 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: this is a logical fallacy: software is not a car. But people do *LOVE* that metaphor. It seems as though, in America, **everything** is a car. And, BTW, nobody *else* knows how to drive, they are all 'idiots'. -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 16:35 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Dec 3, 2013 12:55 AM, Donato Marrazzo donato.marra...@gmail.com wrote: In the past, it was possible to select an app from the overview (all app view) and drop in virtual desktop panel without losing the overview mode. I am on

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 23:13 -0200, Evandro Giovanini wrote: I think he means dragging from the new Application view to the workspace switcher. That works for me ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: webdav rename does not work

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 21:51 +1000, jupiter wrote: I am running gnome-vfs2-2.24.2 on CentOS 6. I can connect wedav server but could not rename the name of file / folder, File or Folder? They are two different things. What WebDAV server? it got error Bad Gateway. That typically means the

Re: Gnome 3.8

2013-07-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 16:17 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote: I just installed Gnome 3.8. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I agree completely. Alt+F2's command line is also really quick for the odd-ball thing you need to run. I used to have to have an applet for that, and it was always clunky.

Re: Nautilus no longer has create new file menu??

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 23:31 +0200, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hi All, I noticed that nautilus no longer has the right-click menu item to create a new (empty) file?? Why did you remove it? This was so useful when you want to quickly create a new file in the current directory and stick some info

Re: Why not add some more convenient features to Shell?

2013-05-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 00:08 +0530, Rahul Jain wrote: Hiya, it seems to me that everything in Shell has only one autistic, inflexible way of doing things. I think Shell is polished enough by now, so why not start adding more features? You can dynamically add features to shell using extensions.

Re: alt-tab switch application / workspace

2013-05-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
or not, but the description is: If true, only windows from the current workspace are shown in the switcher. Otherwise, all windows are included. -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome

Re: Override new GNOME Window settings like for Nautilus

2013-05-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
some configuration setting that will override the new settings. ?? I'm on GNOME 3.8.1 and I have a close X on the title-bar. I believe this 'configuration setting' already exists, and I have it enabled. GNOME Tweak Tool - Shell - Arrangement of buttons on the titlebar -- Adam Tauno Williams

Re: background with nautilus

2013-04-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
see the selected background]. nautilus-3.8.0-1.7.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.8.0.1-1.2.x86_64 -- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awill...@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell

Re: How to get Empathy to always popup msgs

2013-04-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 07:53 +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: so nobody know how to do this? Does this need an extension too? I'm not aware of how to do this [but I'm on GNOME 3.6; I know that 3.8 changes a bunch of notification related stuff]. Generally notifications in GNOME-Shell [at least up

Audio Starts Muted On One Workstations

2013-04-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
to remember to do this? (a) Any ideas what might be mixed up to cause that problem? (b) Where are the user's audio preferences saved? I've rooted around in dconf-editor and can't find them. openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, GNOME 3.6 -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 14:07 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: The app really should not make you manually save a copy. That should be taken care of automatically. Even if not, there is no excuse for not at least

Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

2013-04-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: On 4 April 2013 17:46, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Could you give a case where the user would be hindered from doing their work because the modal dialog can be moved independently of the parent window? users tend to lose the modal dialog

Re: Very hidden menu in gnome-shell

2013-03-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 21:20 +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: I've been using gnome3 for a year or more now. Same here. I can say I'm pretty OK with it but I hope it well get better and better in the next years. I'm far beyond OK; I really like Shell, the extension system, and the way my desktop

Re: Alt-F2 Run Command changes in 3.8

2013-03-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 12:36 +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: I'm looking for a justification in the change of how ALT-F2 run command dialog looks in 3.8 but can't find it. Why is that changed to include an explicit gray textbox? The old one was very sleek and elegant. I haven't seen it yet, sill

Re: Feature request for more presence status in gnome shell messaging integration

2013-03-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:51 +0530, elison.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gnome shell devs, Right now we only have the option of Available and Unavailable as presence status in the menu. It would be nice to have other options as well such as Busy, Invisible (actually sets to invisible) and

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-03-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
A @*$*@ MENU AFTER ALL]. It will probably settle down to a defacto standard given time. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 10:36 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: Developers have regular meetings on IRC. I expect that IRC channel is for people actively involved in developing and design. Yes, exactly. As normal user, I'd like left an asynchronous feedback... and since it seems that many share

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 12:19 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: I understand your pain... but strictly speaking you can switch window with just one click: 1) move to active corner 2) pick the window (one click) Alt-Tab, Alt-` work too. Very fast. You even get pretty pictures of the windows so you

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 11:42 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote: My feedback is about the current design, let me know if there is another place where to share such kind of feedbacks. Developers have regular meetings on IRC. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 02:35 +0100, Florian Scandella wrote: On 23/02/13 00:30, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: If you make the case that something is not fulfilling or violating the design goals then it should be put in as a bug. Then it is up to the designers and the maintainer to figure out

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
myself to the CC of that one. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
of the time there is little to anything useful in it. Often it contains the option Quit. My 4 would be 3 since I do not accept your 3. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 15:16 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: On Feb 22, 2013 3:13 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: BTW, is there a hotkey bound to the current applications AppMenu? That would make it somewhat less silly. superf10 Ah! Nice, thanks. Now I can pop

Evolution - New Window does not open a new window

2012-12-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have an Evolution window open on a workspace. I go to a different workspace. In the activity bar I right-click the Evolution icon and select New Window. A new window does not open. To get a second Evolution window I need to go to the first window and select File - New Window This is true on

Re: To GTK and Gnome Shell Theme authors

2012-11-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:55 +0200, alex diavatis wrote: I am building a page for allowing people to download and install themes directly from their browser. All they have to do is to install a browser plugin. You can watch an old demo [1] Very cool. Will you have some means to verify the

Re: GNOME 3.6 Screen Brightness Extension

2012-11-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 00:36 +0100, Schubi wrote: Am 30.10.2012 00:25, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: I can adjust screen brightness via xrandr - awilliam@workstation:~ xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.4 awilliam@workstation:~ xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.9 awilliam@workstation

Re: Windows List extension

2012-11-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 01:30 -0400, Guillaume Saumure wrote: I currently use the Windows List extension to make Gnome-Shell more usable on desktop and even on laptop computer. Unfortunately, someone as been modify this extension to make it to work in an unusable way by grouping the Windows

Re: Windows List extension

2012-11-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 08:31 -0400, Guillaume Saumure wrote: Le 2012-11-02 02:44, Amy a écrit : You will probably get a better response if you ask at the window list github repository[0]. +1 Going to the project / maintainer(s) is alwasy good. 1st : I have study and try to modify many

Profiling login? .xsession-errors

2012-10-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Logging into openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 GNOME 3.6 can be a bit slow. The hard-drive activity light is on solid for quite some time. Is is possible to somehow profile login? To record that is happening and some estimate of how long it takes? Also, related, the .xsession-errors log file doesn't

gnome-terminal resized on focus out

2012-10-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 GNOME 3.6 gnome-terminal-3.6.0-95.2.x86_64 mutter-3.6.0-112.2.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.6.0-141.2.x86_64 If I open a gnome-terminal, open another tab, and resize the window - as soon as I focus out it snaps back to its previous size this is rather frustrating. Is it a bug or

Application / Global Menus

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
GNOME 3.6 moved the application global menu into the status bar [top bar]. This works well for maximized applications ... but how are you supposed to get to this menu for an application that is not maximized? Emphathy in particular, this switches to be the menu for another application if I

Really tiny/thin borders

2012-09-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
With openSUSE 12.2 and GNOME 3.4 and now GNOME 3.6 the edges / corners of windows and the draggable panes of windows have *REALLY* thin borders. It is difficult to resize windows or a pane in a window. Is there some mechanism to tweak or adjust this? I assume through themes, but that is really

Re: my gnome shell ideas

2012-09-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 21:19 -0400, Earl Cameron wrote: This is my first post on the gnome shell mailing list, so forgive my breaking any understood formatting. Here are my suggestions and designs for gnome shell. Take a look and tell me how bad it is. Link here

Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I use the completely amazing SQL database client/tool DbVisualizer in GNOME 3.2 on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64. DbVisualizer is a mammoth Java application. I create a ~/.local/share/applications/dbvis.desktop file so that GNOME3 knowns the application exists and I can start if via Alt-F1, dbventer.

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:50 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: Il 19/09/2012 14:40, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: Is there a trick to getting the expected behavior [with Java apps??]? What is the WM class of the application windows istances? You can see it by opening the Looking Glass

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: Il 19/09/2012 14:56, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: Yes, Alt-F2, lgEnter, click Windows, reveals a wmclass of - com-install4j-runtime-launcher-Launcher - which I'm assuming is a 'generic value'. Hmmm... that sucks

Re: Launcher for a Java application doesn't 'collect' application instances

2012-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, Alessandro Crismani wrote: Il 19/09/2012 14:56, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: Yes, Alt-F2, lgEnter, click Windows, reveals a wmclass of - com-install4j-runtime-launcher-Launcher - which I'm assuming is a 'generic value'. Hmmm... that sucks

Re: about gnome-shell desktop widget

2012-09-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:25 +0800, russel wrote: Dear All I know how to develop a gnome-shell extension, but how to write a desktop widget like KDE plasma widget? I doubt the gnome-shell-list is the appropriate place to ask. You can probably find an appropriate forum @

Re: Turning off clippy...er...I mean tracker

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:09 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hello List, Ok, I open up the Search and Index application and uncheck everything under Semantics. Do I need to do anything else to get those tracker-* services to stop popping up and needlessly burning cycles on my cpu? (1) you can

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much useful information. it's not HOW MUCH information, but rather

Re: web page with instructions ... [Enabling Icons on the desktop via dconf CLI]

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 07:13 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much

Re: web page with instructions ... [gsettings/dconf/profiles]

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 12:29 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 4 September 2012 12:21, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 07:13 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 18:40 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: Lot of people are complaining about gnome-shell, fine. But people loving it should also say it... I love it. So just to say that I really like gnome-shell and after some weeks of use I just wasn't able to go back. Ditto.

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 19:12 +0200, Florian Scandella wrote: I like how gnome uses (and drives) development of freedesktop standards instead of reinventing everything and hacking arount short term limitations. +1 So while i'm happy with gnome-shell, i'm all for integrating some of the

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 19:59 +0200, Clemens wrote: Not everybody wants to have a dock to launch application. I have never used the dock inside the overview or dash and in the 2 days i was using that the dock was the most annoying thing. imho alt + f2 is much faster than using the mouse and

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 13:05 +0200, Clemens wrote: I disagree, core should remain thin so people can easily go in whatever direction they want. Verses the old first-I-go-remove-all-this-crap. How much thicker does the core get by having a restart menu item in the status menu? This is an

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!

2012-08-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:31 -0300, Pedro Bessa wrote: You're receiving lots of complaints, because of Gnome Shell's usability problems. I've posted several messages about how great it is, and read several such messages from other users. http://extensions.gnome.org/ has personalized solutions

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 17:10 +0300, Sami Pietilä wrote: How? Certainly not a poll, there is no way to contact GNOME users The vast majority of GNOME users I'd suspect never get go to the web page. I am confident that it is possible to find an acceptable method of gathering user input. For

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 21:54 +0300, Sami Pietilä wrote: Anyway, I think that the big question is that what do users want. Do users like gnome-shell way of doing things or do users prefer old gnome-panel approach? Works great for me. Is there something that can be done to gnome-shell to

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Trans transf...@gmail.com: I just wish there were and easier way to switch windows with just the mouse. Without a task bar there is an extra step now, and as much as I've tried, I find it annoying Swing left, activity view activates, click window. Same number of motions and clicks as

Re: web page with instructions for getting 'gnome 2' experience back

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Trans transf...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Quoting Trans transf...@gmail.com: I just wish there were and easier way to switch windows with just the mouse. Without a task bar there is an extra step now, and as much

Re: Can't change LCD brightness

2012-08-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 23:15 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: On Aug 1, 2012 11:11 PM, Onyeibo Oku twoho...@gmail.com wrote: Why is this feature missing in Gnome3? Educated guess: the hardware doesn't expose an interface to adjust the brightness (or one that is not supported by Linux) Yep, it

Re: Standardization of Function Keys

2012-07-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 22:30 -0400, Trans wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Trans transf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jasper St. Pierre No it wouldn't. Not to mention that Ctrl+F5

Re: Standardization of Function Keys

2012-07-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 09:14 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Trans transf...@gmail.com wrote: A long time ago I used an early DOS-based application, I believe it was a spreadsheet, but I do not recall the exact program at this point. However I do recollect

Extension Categorization [Was: lack of attention for gnome shell extensions]

2012-07-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 08:00 -0400, Diego Fernandez wrote: Not exactly on topic, but is there any plan to start categorizing extensions and organize them better on the site? it's starting to become a hassle to look for extensions You could look for, and potentially file, a bug.

Re: lack of attention for gnome shell extensions

2012-07-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 03:15 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Pedro Bessa pedbe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to know why gnome shell extensions isn't default and easily accessible in Gnome Shell, but I want a behind the scenes view, because I want to

Re: Query about Future Gnome-shell

2012-07-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:45 +0800, Symon Cadwalader wrote: anything to the Overview such as Journal running zeitgeist like originally planned a couple years ago This already exists today, via the Journal extension. It works quite well. It is a much simpler presentation of the awesome

Re: Query about Future Gnome-shell

2012-07-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:45 +0800, Symon Cadwalader wrote: I see alot of other good working coming out of the gnome camp +1 GNOME3 is fantastic and constantly getting better. I just fear that gnome-shell is forever planned to be highly unconfigurable/tweakable without knowledge of the css

Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:23 +0200, Clemens wrote: Am So 17 Jun 2012 18:17:09 CEST schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: Can you just try using nouveau for a day or two to tell if it's the driver's fault or not? On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:50 AM, 邓尧tors...@gmail.com wrote: After using for about

Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

2012-06-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 06:19 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:23 +0200, Clemens wrote: Am So 17 Jun 2012 18:17:09 CEST schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: Can you just try using nouveau for a day or two to tell if it's the driver's fault or not? On Sun, Jun 17, 2012

Re: Using GNOME Shell on a remote display

2012-06-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 00:26 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: I've recently attempted running a full GNOME 3 session on a remote display, and I've now hit a pretty big roadblock. My use case for doing this is that I'm running Fedora 17 as a fully-virtualized domU on Xen and I figured I might get

Re: Wogue needs your participation :)

2012-05-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 05:09 +0300, alex diavatis wrote: First off, sorry to publish to this ML, but this is the most popular one -I am wondering why :) Because GNOME shell rocks! We released a blog totally dedicated to GNOME and we need your help. Basically we want to publish on a broader

Re: About show-desktop-icons

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:58 +0800, 史晶 wrote: In fedora16 , the option to display icons on the desktop need to use Gnome-tweak-tool. I want to know how to show the icons on the desktop default when install the system without using gnome-tweak-tool. rpmbuild and reinstall this package, it

Restricting new windows to primary display?

2012-05-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I almost always run my laptop connected to a second display. This works *AWESOME* [thank you GNOME and Xorg people]. The workspaces, et all stick to the primary [built-in] laptop display and the second display is global. I like how that works. Frequently that second display is a BIG screen or

Re: Design choice for suspend option only

2012-03-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
impression. So enable the extension that changes the behavior, then be happy. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5/alternative-status-menu/ -- System Network Administrator [ LPI NCLA ] http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com OpenGroupware Developer http://www.opengroupware.us Adam Tauno Williams

Re: Gnome 3.4 breaks sloppy mouse focus?

2012-02-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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Re: Two or three things I see coming in gnome-shell

2012-01-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
and calendar components as background processes. -- Adam Tauno Williams http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com System Administrator, OpenGroupware Developer, LPI / CNA Fingerprint 8C08 209A FBE3 C41A DD2F A270 2D17 8FA4 D95E D383 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Sugestions worth a look

2012-01-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:05 +0100, Vic Demuzere wrote: On 24 January 2012 21:58, Fernando Hildebrand fernandohildebr...@gmail.com wrote: 5 - One thing Unity got wright: On the left panel(apps launcher), small triangles indicating if the app is up, and how many windows of it are there is a

External USB CD/DVD-RW Driver Not Managed

2011-12-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 3.1.0-1.2-desktop GNOME3 3.2.1 I have an external USB CD/DVD drive. This drive has always 'just worked' in openSUSE 11.3 11.4 [GNOME 2.x]. However, under 12.1, the drive doesn't seem to participate as a removable storage device. It does not appear in Nautilus when a disc

Re: Gnome 3 desktop issues

2011-12-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 10:58 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: I've been using Linux in one form or another for almost 20 years to write software. Yep, since Iggdrasil kernel 0.91a and languages. I like linux because it is flexable... or was. I keep all these desktops configured roughly the

Re: Gnome 3 desktop issues

2011-12-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 18:23 +, Tim Murphy wrote: Quite a few people have mentioned the same thing on this mailing list, including myself. You'll get told: 1) to keep trying till you change your mind And people keep insisting that asserting #1 is wrong. It isn't. I changed my mind;

Re: Gnome 3.2 freezes, then goes 100% CPU

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:46 +0100, thieba...@artenum.com wrote: Hi Gnome list, I posted a question on Fedora forum (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=273532), but I thought it was maybe more Gnome-related than Fedora-related, so I will ask it here too. I have installed F16

RE: Window Focus

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 08:16 +, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I think it “feels bad” because it sort of looks like the windows registry, it may make users afraid that they will break something. And they can. :) And I agree that when the option isn’t in a [enduser] GUI it looks like you took

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:08 -0700, Gantry York wrote: GNOME3-shell wouldn't be so bad if it maintained much of the functionality that was in GNOME2. Why can we only have dynamically allocated workspaces? There is already an extension for maintaining a number of static workstations. See

Re: Relocatable Dock

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 19:27 -0700, Gantry York wrote: You consider installing an extension to be configuration? OK, when I say configuration, I don't mean installing an extension that puts a workspace manager where ever the author of the extension decided it should go. I also don't consider

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
. It is the means provided to customize the behavior of GNOME shell. On 12/05/2011 04:18 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:08 -0700, Gantry York wrote: GNOME3-shell wouldn't be so bad if it maintained much of the functionality that was in GNOME2. Why can we only have

Re: Gnome Shell Extensions

2011-12-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 21:53 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: Where can I find them? I've been to extensions.gnome.org and find no way to download or install the listed extension. Click the big toggle into the On position. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Application-based launchers and multiple workspaces

2011-12-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:54 +0100, Aaron Sowry wrote: I think most of the criticism about the launcher behaviour is unjustified. +1 For example, the three applications you mention (Nautilus, Terminal, Firefox) all support tabs. Surely this should reduce the need to ever open separate

Re: Application-based launchers and multiple workspaces

2011-12-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 20:16 -0500, Daniel Falk wrote: Normally what I want to do is start up a new window for programs such as nautilus, the terminal, or my web browser if there's no window on the current workspace, otherwise switch to the window on the current workspace. I know you can

Re: Multiple issues with wallpaper handling

2011-12-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 12:58 +1100, Chris Dekter wrote: Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64 with Gnome 3.2.1 Various kernel versions tested in the 3.0 and 3.1 series (all show the Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB RAM running the open drivers Two 24 monitors at 1920x1200@60hz (base system is Core i7 with 8GB of RAM)

Kiosk mode? Disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I'm part of a group that is attempting to build a kiosk-like solution on boxes running GNOME3. We are very close. And with the gsettings lockdown options the system can be pretty well secured. But is there any setting to disable Alt-Tab Alt-` ? All the menus, etc... can be eliminated an the

GNOME Shell Becomes Unresponsive

2011-11-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
We have one workstation where GNOME Shell will periodically become completely unresponsive. This happens very reliably if the user attempts to lock the display; sometimes the display will blank and then be unresponsive other times it will not blank but become unresponsive. In either case the

Extension for notifications?

2011-11-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Is there, or is anyone working on, a GNOME Shell extension to achieve useful notifications? Just curious as I know there are extensions beyond those listed at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions Referencing Notifications Instant Messaging.

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