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

2013-05-31 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 31 mai 2013 à 00:08 +0530, Rahul Jain a écrit : 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? For example, the right click desktop menu can be

Re: Application with multiple icons

2013-05-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 19:12 +0200, Donato Marrazzo a écrit : Thank you very much. You're right both windows: WM_CLASS(STRING) = IBM Notes, IBM Notes WM_CLASS(STRING) = IBM Notes, IBM Notes So you should report this bug to IBM... Whille the icon names are differents... WM_ICON_NAME(STRING)

Re: Application with multiple icons

2013-05-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 27 mai 2013 à 09:45 +0200, Donato Marrazzo a écrit : There's no hope to address this issue? Please run 'xprop' and click on each of the windows, and past the value of WM_CLASS. Please also copy the value of the StartupWMClass field (if present) from the .desktop file associated with

Re: Application with multiple icons

2013-05-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 27 mai 2013 à 15:36 +0100, Neil Bird a écrit : Around about 27/05/13 09:40, Milan Bouchet-Valat scribbled ... Most likely, the WM_CLASS is the same for all of the three applications, so the Shell is not able to distinguish them. That would need fixing in Lotus. It sounds like

Re: Static dash

2012-09-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 septembre 2012 à 18:22 +0200, Sandy Herman a écrit : Hello, Is there an option to make the dash static? As a journalist, I have to switch between my applications quite often (browser, email, writer, ...). Have a look at the Dock extension:

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

2012-09-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 23:09 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : 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?

Re: Evolution does not display new mail indicator when closed?

2012-09-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 01 septembre 2012 à 00:05 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl a écrit : If this hasn't been integrated yet I understand, but it seems pretty pointless to have to keep Evolution running by not clicking X, to receive a pop-up at the tray telling me I have mail. If I want to keep it running I can

Re: Wifi tries to connect even though I am connected using 3G

2012-08-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 15 août 2012 à 23:12 +0200, Gabriel a écrit : Hi all, I have a super annoying issue on Gnome Shell: I connect using my phone's 3G connection via bluetooth (DUN) but the wifi tries to connect to all the access points it finds. This mean that I get the popup dialog asking me

Re: getting default applications

2012-07-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 26 juin 2012 à 14:10 +1000, Amy C a écrit : Hi all, How may I determine the default chat and email applications (from an extension)? I noticed I have a file `.local/share/applications/preferred-mail-reader.desktop` which I can use to get the default email application - can I

Re: gnome-shell got memory leaks ?

2012-06-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 17 juin 2012 à 18:11 +0800, 邓尧 a écrit : I'm using gnome-shell 3.4.1 under ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, ubuntu official binaries. Right after logging in, top utility shows that gnome-shell consumes about 1.3G memory. IMO, 1.3G for a window manager is a lot, but still acceptable. No,

Re: Keyboard shortcuts don't work in activities overview

2012-06-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 05 juin 2012 à 23:33 +0200, tuxor1...@web.de a écrit : Hi all, using Fedora 17 and Gnome 3.4, I can't use any sort of hotkey or keyboard shortcut in activities overview. - Any custom shortcuts don't work (like shortcuts that are supposed to start certain applications). -

Re: Idea For Pinnable menus

2012-05-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 12 mai 2012 à 08:23 -0400, Anthony Gasparetto a écrit : I used to use a program called GeoWorks. One of the best features it had were the pinnable menus. The menus contained a spot that stopped the menus from collapsing when an item is selected. I proposed this idea at the Ubuntu

Re: Problems with gnome-shell networking interface

2012-05-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 06 mai 2012 à 15:41 +0200, Javier Domingo a écrit : Hi, I don't know if the design team has thought about gnome-shell's networking interface, but it is quite horrible that if you are connecting to a wifi ap, you cannot switch it off it is specially when the connection halts

Re: slow display

2012-04-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 avril 2012 à 17:43 +0200, Pascal Obry a écrit : Hi, I'm using GNOME Shell from Debian sid. Since the switch to libcairo 1.12.0 (some days ago) the display is slow especially when moving out of a workspace with icedove or thunderbird. I remember having this problem long time

Re: Matching Java WM_CLASS or matching two WM_CLASS values

2012-04-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 07 avril 2012 à 12:09 +0200, Alessandro Crismani a écrit : Il giorno sab, 07/04/2012 alle 11.45 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat ha scritto: Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Alessandro Crismani a écrit : Hi everybody, I have a problem with a Java application that sets its

Re: Matching Java WM_CLASS or matching two WM_CLASS values

2012-04-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Alessandro Crismani a écrit : Hi everybody, I have a problem with a Java application that sets its WM_CLASS value to either wm-class-a or wm-class-b (the two real ones are garbage, e.g. java-lang-thread). The application is beyond my control and I

Re: gnome shell 3.3.92 can't show the shell

2012-03-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 08:37 -0700, Jason Gaston a écrit : On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:39:04PM +0800, henry cui wrote: I upgraded gnome shell to 3.3.92 yesterday. Then I login gnome desktop,it's empty there.there's no

Re: mutter: garbled,slow rendering on browser,image viewers while scrolling

2012-03-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 25 février 2012 à 08:22 +, prakash j kokkkattu a écrit : As a Last resort, I tried nouveau driver. with nouveau driver, Gnome-3.2 shell is working fine. Please report this to NVidia. That's most probably their fault, since it doesn't happen with Nouveau. GNOME developers cannot fix

RE: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

2012-02-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 16:51 +, Gabriel Rossetti a écrit : Sorry, using a terrible email client, can't reply inline well. I don't agree, he wants to be able to login graphically without having to use a password, not by commandline. I think both aren't great, but at least the 1st one

RE: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

2012-02-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 24 février 2012 à 09:13 +, Gabriel Rossetti a écrit : Ok, thanks for the info. I would like to also point out that Ubuntu no longer uses GDM but LightDM instead. Not sure what changes in what you said, does anyone else know? Have a look at /etc/pam.d. There must be a 'lightdm'

Re: Helpme

2012-02-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 13 février 2012 à 14:04 -0600, Pedro Mismith a écrit : hello happy gnome group would like to ask please help I have a concern that no onecould answer me I'm from central america and my problem is that gnome3 clock and itshows me the day but show me such Friday all lower case and apart

Re: The lost screensaver

2012-02-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 19 février 2012 à 13:17 +0100, Peter Petrisson a écrit : 2012/2/19 Gabriel rossetti.gabr...@gmail.com: What do yo mean no plans for a screensaver? I currently just have it blank the screen after 10 min and ask for a password if I come back, you're telling me this will go away if

Re: Extension Thunderbird Integration

2012-01-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 20 janvier 2012 à 14:15 +0100, Paul Neulinger a écrit : Hey, I have developed an extension for a better integration of Thunderbird some time ago: https://github.com/tanwald/gnome-shell-extension-thunderbird-integration This extension uses the GNOME Shell notifications system

Re: XML parser under an extension

2012-01-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 01 janvier 2012 à 15:47 +0330, bijan binaee a écrit : Hi I'm very sorry about my lot's of question I want know how can i parse XML file and extract element in gnome shell extension If the file you want to parse is simple enough, you may be able to use GLib's XML parser, which

Re: Proposal for Workspace Labeling / Tagging

2011-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 15 décembre 2011 à 01:19 -0500, Nanley Chery a écrit : Hello everyone, I've been a longtime user of GNOME shell ever since its beta stages. I've found the design and workflow natural and easy to use in all but one aspect - working with multiple workspaces. Due of the small size of

Re: Search through open search providers on the overview pane not working

2011-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 03 décembre 2011 à 22:06 +0530, Abhijith Madhav a écrit : My default browser is firefox. When I fire a google or a wikipedia search from the activities pane, only the browser is launched with a blank page. The search is not fired in the browser.I suspect that firefox is not being

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2011 à 14:15 +, Ross Burton a écrit : That isn't going to help when the size possible is larger than the screen, ie evolution preferences doesn't fit in 600px. Moving the window by hand is hardly a good workaround for users. The dialog should fit on the screen. I

Re: Connecting bluetooth headphones

2011-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 16:51 +0100, Alessandro Crismani a écrit : Hi everybody, I've just bought a pair of bluetooth enabled headphones, the Creative WP-300. I've got no problem pairing them with my laptop using the bluetooth module of gnome-control-center, however I am having kind of

Re: Open with Files?

2011-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 05:13 +0100, Onyeibo Oku a écrit : That's odd. Any time I plug in an external drive I get a toaster notification saying Open with Files and Eject. That first option is so ambiguous. Grammar wise, its confusing. What is Files? Should that not read Open Files

Re: Gnome 3.2 freezes, then goes 100% CPU

2011-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 05 décembre 2011 à 06:01 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : 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

Re: Extension security?

2011-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 05 décembre 2011 à 23:14 +0100, Gabriel a écrit : Hi all, I may be missing something, but the really nifty extensions site prompted me to ask this, are there not potential security issues with extensions being able to be installed by clicking on a webpage? Ans since extensions

Re: Multiple issues with wallpaper handling

2011-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 03 décembre 2011 à 23:57 +1100, Chris Dekter a écrit : A bit of an update... I tested running mutter directly, however as I don't know how to (or whether you can) get the overview animation running without shell running, it seems kind of moot. The problem is only noticeable

Re: self-selecting items

2011-11-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 27 novembre 2011 à 21:10 +0700, John Francis Lee a écrit : Hi, I updated my ubuntu to 11.10, discovered that they'd done away with gnome, further discovered gnome shell and installed that. Now I have problems. Hovering over links now selects them. Is this a 'feature'? How do

Re: Touch interface - where to start?

2011-11-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 27 novembre 2011 à 11:44 -0800, Brion Vibber a écrit : I found Carlos's slides from https://desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/towards-multitouch-gnome-shell covering a little of the current state issues; if someone wanted to start helping out at improving these things (in the

Re: windows stuck

2011-11-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 19:30 +0100, Peter Hagen a écrit : Ill attempt to post a bug soon, but have to find some time. Would it be enough if I post this story? Sure, a bug needs to start somewhere. If you had to wait for a full explanation of the problem, we would rarely see bug reports.

Re: GNOME Shell Becomes Unresponsive

2011-11-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 à 14:24 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : 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

Re: gnome-shell and sqlite

2011-11-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 11 novembre 2011 à 13:15 -0400, Yunier Soler Franco a écrit : I need some help about work with sqlite database from gnome-shell. What are you talking about? There are no SQLite databases in gnome-shell. Regards ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: windows stuck

2011-11-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 20:07 +0100, Peter Hagen a écrit : Hi there, I'm quite new to this mailinglist, but have been using Gnome for quite some time. I love the new Gnome 3 and had it on ubuntu 11.04 already, and now of course with 11.10 also. Currently I have 3 installations, with

Re: gnome-shell and custom desktop files

2011-11-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 08 novembre 2011 à 10:52 +0100, Aurélien Naldi a écrit : My bad, the name of the desktop file should be in lower case, now the matching works for me. Fixing the case problem would be nice (the doc says case does not matter) Please file a bug, we need to fix either the code or the doc.

Re: gnome-shell and custom desktop files

2011-11-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 08 novembre 2011 à 10:41 +0100, Aurélien Naldi a écrit : On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:57:02AM +0100, Aurélien Naldi wrote: * manually installed applications: I rely on some manually installed applications

Re: Copy-paste doesn't work with ALT + F2

2011-11-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 08 novembre 2011 à 19:14 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit : If I remember correctly, this feature was implemented in 3.2. Satish is probably using 3.0. Ctrl+V works here with 3.0 (Fedora 15). ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: clutter assert at gnome-shell startup

2011-11-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 06 novembre 2011 à 12:17 +0100, Bastien Durel a écrit : Hello, I built gnome-shell 3.2 with jhbuild on Debian Compilation was successful When I try to run it with jhbuild run gnome-shell --replace I got this error (and gnome-shell exits leaving a core) : Window manager

Re: How to disconnect a broadband connection?

2011-11-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 00:06 +0100, Gabriel a écrit : Hi all, I connect my laptop to the internet at times using a broadband connection. I can't figure out how to disconnect the connection using the connection menu, I was expecting a disconnect option but didn't find it. I also

Re: Gnome Shell usability design

2011-11-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 10:44 +0100, Donato Marrazzo a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm using gnome shell since 3.0 release, now I'm using 3.2 (Fedora 16 beta). I found many concepts really interesting but I'd like suggest a couple of improvements. Is this the right place to discuss such

RE: How to disconnect a broadband connection?

2011-11-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 10:17 +, Gabriel Rossetti a écrit : Because it's not the same thing, disconnecting it (and the wifi, etc) means I no longer want to use the connection, switching it off means I want to deactivate the broadband card, wifi card, etc, it's like the hardware

Re: Highlight the Activities button on boot

2011-10-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 15 octobre 2011 à 16:34 +0530, Nishant Agrwal a écrit : One of the oft-mentioned weaknesses of Gnome Shell, compared to other shells like Canonical's Unity, is that unlike its counterparts, Gnome Shell does not give a new user any immediate indication of how to launch applications or

Re: Feature proposal: Save/restore-at-login workspace state.

2011-10-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 14:49 +0200, Jordi Chulia a écrit : What do you think? Yeah, that's an old idea that would need somebody to really work on it if we want it to be implemented one day. I had drafted a few ideas and some code almost two years ago, but I never finished it. Though the exact

Re: Copy and Paste Issue

2011-10-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 09 octobre 2011 à 12:50 +0200, Ralph Hofmann a écrit : Hello everybody, This copy and paste problem is small but annoying: When I copy and paste with ctrl+c and ctrl+v, the copied content will be filled in twice. If I use mouse middleclick instead for pasting, it works

Re: Suggestion for the `Activities Overview`

2011-09-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This existed in previous releases of the Shell, and was removed upon request of the designers. It's been discussed a thousand times since then, and won't come back unless somebody convinces them (which is unlikely). Cheers ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-09-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 02 septembre 2011 à 08:51 -0400, D.H. Bahr a écrit : Our current Windows-like desktop is a G2 transformed, with the panel in the bottom and a few other tweaks, so it is Windows-like, but it doesn't really look like Windows. The idea is not rewriting from scratch the new

Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-09-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 31 août 2011 à 10:01 -0400, D.H. Bahr a écrit : We would use this for changing the Information Architecture of the shell itself. Allow me to explain myself: our biggest client is the Public Sector which is instructed to migrate from privative to free software thus becoming our

Re: The path of least blame

2011-08-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 04 août 2011 à 22:50 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : Slightly off-topic, but I consider it quite interesting that almost everyone complaining about shell's single-window approach picks the terminal as example. We would probably get rid of all complains by special-casing terminals,

Re: GNOME Shell 3.0.2 Tweak Tool 3.0.5 -- notes on observed bugs

2011-06-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 30 juin 2011 à 16:57 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim a écrit : Hi all, When using the aforementioned combination, the following features either do not function or require workarounds: * Shell - Arrangement of buttons on the titlebar: requires restarting gnome-shell before it

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 26 juin 2011 à 15:26 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : Defiantly NOT a Gnome 3 issue. Gnome 3 is just the symptom. Just figured on this DL you'd have greater knowledge on what Gnome 3 is using to narrow the component. Eliminating all the variables is the first step in tech

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 10:16 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : 1. Anyone have any idea where I should start looking for my issue. It's like there's a memory leak when using programs that get's cleared when I shut down all programs. Run free -m and see if that's a memory issue? If it is,

Re: Gnome3 slowing down.

2011-06-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 15:34 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : snip Problem remains even after gnome-shell is rebooted. start closing all the applications and it got much better. This time still not back to the original speed but still under 1sec. If I log out completely I'm good

Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-06-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 23 juin 2011 à 22:00 +1200, John Stowers a écrit : On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:48 +0200, ecyrbe wrote: thank you john for the bits of history of the design. i do know about server programming, as in fact it's my job to make high load servers in c++. i also understand the design

Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-06-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 21 juin 2011 à 17:11 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : I'm not going to do an upgrade automatically. Instead, the user will get a simple notification telling him that extensions can be upgraded. Clicking on it will open the extensions.gnome.org website, where he can upgrade at his

Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-06-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 21 juin 2011 à 17:11 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : I'm not going to do an upgrade automatically. Instead, the user will get a simple notification telling him that extensions can be upgraded. Clicking on it will open the extensions.gnome.org website, where he can upgrade at his

Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-06-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 21 juin 2011 à 17:11 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : I'm not going to do an upgrade automatically. Instead, the user will get a simple notification telling him that extensions can be upgraded. Clicking on it will open the extensions.gnome.org website, where he can upgrade at his

Re: Please Help - How to change some behavior

2011-06-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 16 juin 2011 à 19:21 -0300, Job a écrit : Dear Gnome-Shell People, I would like to know 1 - How to change the position of Left Bar, its very important to me, because I can see only with the right eye. 2 - How to access the Access Bar without resizing others windows and

Re: The system network services are not compatible with this version

2011-06-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 10:45 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 15:42 +0200, Denis Washington wrote: Am 14.06.2011 15:37, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: I have one openSUSE 11.4 workstation [desktop] that is having problems after upgrading to GNOME 3. Going into

Re: Gnome 3 Extensions/Themes Website?

2011-06-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 11:25 +0100, Allan Day a écrit : One possibility for extensions would be to turn them into something more akin to Google Labs - that is, something that is communicated and structured as an experimentation ground, rather than a market place that we encourage users to

Re: Is this the correct place?

2011-06-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 09 juin 2011 à 01:09 -0430, Dokuro a écrit : I really like, Gnome 3 and shell. but ... I found that has some mistakes, then I come to share my opinion and Ideas. Is this the correct place to share Ideas and experience about Gnome 3 and Shel? Yes! But I suggest you have a quick

Re: feature request: grouping two tiled windows

2011-06-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 07 juin 2011 à 17:33 -0700, Lewis Chung a écrit : Using alt+tab and the activities overview makes sense to me. However, when I tile two windows next to each other, for example, evince and libreoffice writer, and I switch to firefox, I expect to be able to switch back to evince and

Re: Custom launchers in Gnome 3

2011-06-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 06 juin 2011 à 17:27 +0400, Sergey Zolotorev a écrit : I think you can just create a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart, find it in Overview screen and pin to Dash. In ~/.local/share/applications/, actually! ;-) ___ gnome-shell-list

Re: Weekly Work Summary- Week 2

2011-06-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 04 juin 2011 à 00:22 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : Hi. I'm magcius. Here's how I discovered this: gnome-shell-build-setup.sh checks out jhbuild in ~/Source/jhbuild, but puts your gnome-shell checkoutroot/installroot in ~/gnome-shell/, so I usually change my

Re: Comments about Finding and Reminding

2011-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 02 juin 2011 à 13:00 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit : (03:23:55 PM) aday: * i'm not convinced by the 'pending' part on the right - i don't want to be reminded of what i have to do every time i go to open a document, nor do i particularly like the idea of introducing more

Re: Gnome 3 vs scientists (ie., external monitor problem)

2011-05-31 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi! I can't answer on the technical part (hope others will), but I can answer this: Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 11:20 -0400, Jan Skowron a écrit : Also, if one have learned that his card would not sustain external monitor, how he would disable the standard Gnome Shell and set fallback as a default

Re: using gsettings / gconf in extensions

2011-05-31 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 31 mai 2011 à 16:02 +1000, Tim Cuthbertson a écrit : On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: A good question, I didn't think of that. In which case, the only solution (except for env var hacks) lies in glib loading schemas from

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 17:27 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : Well, preserving the preference is a statement of sorts. If the devs really just wanted to make it flat impossible to minimize windows it would be easy enough to make it no longer possible to do it even via gsettings. Be careful,

Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

2011-05-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 à 20:19 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 22:20 -0400, Cyril Arnaud wrote: There is no minimize per say in Gnome Shell (there not even a button for this). Yes, there is. Right-click on the window title, and click minimize. There is also a dconf

Re: Clear Recent Documents?

2011-05-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 08:17 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 00:13 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: That's indeed something that is currently lacking, though it was said to be needed a few times. I think the designers haven't found what's the best way to make

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 16:56 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 21:17 +0100, Martin Häsler wrote: At least my generalizations are based on observations of family, friends and workplace and the See my generalizations as above. When I advise people to power-off

Re: using gsettings / gconf in extensions

2011-05-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 15:55 +0200, Giovanni Campagna a écrit : Currently, extensions that use GSettings use org.gnome.shell.extensions.extension-id and /org/gnome/shell/extensions/extension-id, yes. I think you can follow that prefix, if you plan to have it hosted by

Re: List / Support [Was: We want task bar back. Pretty please.]

2011-05-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 23 mai 2011 à 12:24 +1000, Tim Cuthbertson a écrit : On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Why? This is normal. Most projects have -devel lists / forums and user lists / forums. On this point, is there such a distinction for

Re: New Topic: fallback desktop

2011-05-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 15:03 +0800, lofton alley a écrit : Why bring this up? Well 1) Fedora 15 fails to run on my machine (4 year old core 2 duo with nVidia GPU and 8GB of DDR2 RAM): The gnome shell fails to load, apparently an X problem No need to draw general conclusions from that:

Re: Workspaces slowing me down.

2011-05-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 10:51 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : Usually I work on dual 24 monitors so I'll have maybe 2 virtual windows open. But I was working on a laptop all this week and with the 15 screen I've had about 9 workspaces going. Moving between them I find is slowing me

Re: Narrative for Finding and Reminding

2011-05-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 21:23 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit : On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 03:50 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: [Incoming email doesn't go into the reminders] OK. Is there some place unread email *can* go? Your mail program's Inbox, as always. I want the Reminders area

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 16:21 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : If a dialog requires interaction with another window, the application shouldn't make it blocking. The problem is that some dialogs don't stricly require interaction with the main window, but you need to see the window behind. AFAICT,

Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

2011-05-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 18:36 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:27 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: The problem is that some dialogs don't stricly require interaction with the main window, but you need to see the window behind. AFAICT, the file chooser is the main

Re: Launching Terminal application freezes the GUI

2011-05-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 09:49 +0200, Benoît Thiébault a écrit : Hi everyone, I have installed Gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.04 and I am so far very happy about it. I however noticed that when I launch a terminal application, it takes 6 to 7 seconds before it is ready to use and in the meantime,

Re: Blocked

2011-05-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 14:19 +0800, Allan E. Registos a écrit : Am I being blocked? I've been receiving this error: host sbcmx8.prodigy.net[207.115.36.22] said: 553 5.3.0 nlpi140 DNSBL:ATTRBL 521my_ip_address_here _is_blocked. please confirm... so I can stop responding to the

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 13:37 +0200, Denys Vlasenko a écrit : I don't like disruptive innovation when it is not presented as an option, but showed down my throat by force. Tell me, how the particular bit of innovation which removed the possibility to have app launch icons in top panes is

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 14:06 +0200, Denys Vlasenko a écrit : Fallback mode *is* going to die in one of the next releases. At least that's the stated plan. Pointers? I don't remember hearing anybody saying the panel would die, and now that it's got rid of all deprecated dependencies, there's

Re: wifi and bluetooth icons on the panel

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The network icon is just the old nm-applet if your distribution doesn't ship the latest NetworkManager, which is probably your case. You need to ensure nm-applet is started on login, else it won't be shown, just like in GNOME 2. Or just run it manually. (The Debian screenshot must have had the

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 10:20 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : the fact that everyone uses the MIME instead of one of the applications that registered a URI in the list is just that nobody has done it because it's easier to use the default handler for the MIME type; In fact, the Shell

Re: Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : Huh. Should that work? I'm in the activity view, so I see the tiled apps of the current workstation, the left hand applications bar [what is the official name of that thing] and on the right hand the tiled workspaces. I grab

Re: Slow search in Gnome-shell

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 12:24 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : Do we do a linear scan of the things GtkRecentManager, looking for a string match? Hopefully we can switch over to sqlite or whatever Zeitgeist uses then. String matching doesn't take seconds, even on thousands of files, does it?

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 08:43 +1200, John Stowers a écrit : I strongly disagree and would very much like a journal view. I often need to find what I did on a specific day. For example, just this week I have performed the following * where did I put those files I was given during a meeting

Re: session saving in GNOME Shell

2011-04-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 22 avril 2011 à 13:19 -0400, Andre Robatino a écrit : What is the status of session saving in GNOME Shell? Is it supported, or expected to be? Currently, it appears to be unusable. I don't think the Shell does anything special. The problem is probably that fallback-mode components

Re: session saving in GNOME Shell

2011-04-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 23 avril 2011 à 07:13 -0400, Andre Robatino a écrit : On 04/23/2011 06:40 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: I don't think the Shell does anything special. The problem is probably that fallback-mode components like Metacity or gnome-panel are restored with the saved session

Re: How does gnome-shell handle urgent windows?

2011-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 11:21 +0200, David Prieto a écrit : Hi all, Today I was explaining the concept of Gnome-shell to a windows user, and he asked me how it lets you know that a window is trying to attract your attention because something happened with it. To which I realised I

Re: Binding the edge_tiling actions to key shortcuts

2011-04-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
First hint: the tiling code is implemented in Mutter, not in the Shell. I don't know what's the effect of the GSettings key, though. Regards ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: Idea: show potential apps in the search

2011-04-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 12 avril 2011 à 09:44 -0600, Robert Park a écrit : Well, that's why there should be a static cache, perhaps updated only weekly. Store a simple list in a text file somewhere, couldn't possibly be any slower to load than a pile of .desktop files as is done currently. That way you don't

Re: [Usability] Netbook experience

2011-04-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 09 avril 2011 à 11:01 +0200, Mirek M. a écrit : Hi everyone, I have been following Gnome Shell development for quite a while, reading blogs and watching videos of it in action. While I really like its user interface in theory (Hot corner, Exposé, Messaging tray, ...), I was really

Re: can't build gtk3: undefined reference to `gdk_x11_window_set_theme_variant'

2011-04-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I had a similar error today when trying to build an older GTK3 than the one I had (git master). And I've no .la files left. Anyway, it seems there's been a change in symbols that libtool doesn't like. I'd suggest you remove ~/gnome-shell/install entirely, also remove ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk3 and

RE: gnome-shell-list Digest, Vol 21, Issue 9

2011-03-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On lun., 2011-03-28 at 15:36 +1100, Shane.Nuessler wrote: Rather than the word activities, why not have the gnome foot? Because distributors would replace the foot with their own logo, and what is intended OTC with GNOME 3 is a unified look on all platforms. Regards

Re: Command completer in runDialog

2011-03-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On ven., 2011-03-18 at 14:48 +, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I cannot say anything about normal users but I am expecting (i.e. what I do when I press Alt+F2) to have combination of overview and terminal - something like in Gnome 2, Gnome-do or quicksilver. - I'm expecting to be able

Re: Error when building gnome-shell with jhbuild

2011-03-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On sam., 2011-03-12 at 22:21 -0500, Alexandre Kaspar wrote: ... ... cp gnome-shell-jhbuild gnome-shell.tmp mv gnome-shell.tmp gnome-shell GENcalendar-server/org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer.service GISCAN Gvc-1.0.gir GICOMP Gvc-1.0.gir GISCAN St-1.0.gir GISCAN Shell-0.1.gir

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