Re: Making the panel re-appear in the lock screen after removing it from the shield

2017-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 8:31 AM Jason DeRose wrote: > I apologize if you are already past this, but all extensions are > disabled when the screen shield is displayed. > That would make sense since you don't want to have random bits of code running at that point since it is before

Re: Reassign ownership of gTile extension

2017-10-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:30 PM Sergey Cherepanov wrote: > Hi, > Can we get reassigned ownership of gTile extension on e.g.o. > > Reasons: > Stuck PR > Largeish support community > Complaining users > Old version of gTile on e.g.o. does not work after 3.22 > > We formed

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:20 AM Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM 0x90 <0...@phocean.net> wrote: > >> Le 28/09/2016 à 08:03, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : >> > >> > Jean-Christophe Baptiste : to answer your quest

Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

2016-09-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
> [deleted thread with various bits of hostility] I'm disappointed that this thread went so off track. We should honestly try to answer these questions instead of aggressively question people's work flows. There is more hostility that is warranted and we should strive to keep GNOME mailing

Re: New Commer

2015-11-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
It is important that you take a look at https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers You can find projects to work on. Please make sure you visit us on #newcomers on irc.gnome.org using polari as your irc client.. We can try to help with questions. Thank you for your interests. If you're still confused,

Re: Improvements to new system tray panel

2015-10-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:24 AM Olaf Hering wrote: > Am 19.10.2015 um 05:27 schrieb Bastián Díaz: > > Hello, from 3.16 I like the design approach used to address the problem > > of legacy tray icons. > > Do you actively use and _work_with_ applications which are now banned > and

Re: addressing extensions breakage..

2015-09-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:38 AM Sam Bull <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 01:51 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > 1) Document a public api that we know will not be subject to a lot of > > changes. We aren't providing guarantees, but merely tha

Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

2014-08-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Gabriel Rossetti rossetti.gabr...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 17, 2014 9:04 PM, Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
What might be interesting is to have a liaison who can help track changes in shell that needs to be communicated to extension authors so that there is less breakage every release. Maybe like a release porting guide that we can make as part of the shell release? This could also help you figure

testing extensions with gnome-continuous

2014-05-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
How can we get automatic testing with gnome-continuous? I'm looking for a methodology that would download an extension, install it, and then test for errors and then post a status. This doesn't seem that hard at first glance, but I'm not sure how to integrate it with gnome-continuous? This

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Albert optimi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There are a lot of extensions waiting for review since some weeks ago. I suppose this is done by volunteers and time is priceless, but there is cool stuff waiting to improve the shell. Unfortunately, Jasper doesn't have

Re: Extensions review

2014-05-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Sam Bull sam.hack...@sent.com wrote: On ven, 2014-05-23 at 14:08 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Unfortunately, Jasper doesn't have time to look at them and is stepping back from the responsibilites of maintaiing the website. We will need to find a group

Re: How to manage applications using the system tray?

2014-02-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Feb 10, 2014 8:11 AM, Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have used Gnome Shell on and off for a while, but now it's my main DE. I have to use a couple of applications like Skype, HipChat and Dropbox I use the extension topicons. Works reasonably well. I think there are

Re: Http in an extension

2013-12-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
You need to use libsoup. Here is some sample code, since I'm currently trying to do it myself and boy I wish I had it as well. The code is for synchronous interaction. That's why there is no main loop. The only difference is that you need to use soup_session_queue_message with a callback.

Re: Dropping icons from Overview

2013-12-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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 found that capability quite interesting when I want to launch more than

Re: Gnome keeps degrading every release.

2013-07-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: We are very concerned with the performance of gnome-shell across all devices. Unfortunately, given the large range of PC combinations that can be built, it's hard to ensure that we're always improving. What CPU,

Re: [PATCH] teak-tool: Add attach-modal-dialog tweak

2013-04-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com wrote: dvh...@linux.intel.com Thank you, Darren for your first patch! :-) I have creaetd a bugzilla entry for your patch here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699267 sri

Re: Using XDnD in extensions

2013-03-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: Joakim, The best way to submit code/patches is via gnome.bugzilla.org, will more likely be seen by the relevant devs then. +1 Please do this, Joakim. Thank you for your contribution! I hope the maintainer merges it! sri

Re: AppMenu design feedback

2013-02-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Donato Marrazzo donato.marra...@gmail.comwrote: Please remove AppMenu! If I could make a suggestion. When making such requests, it's best to simply state the problem and not recommend the solution. I for one am not so arrogant to know what the solution

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

2012-08-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Pedro Bessa pedbe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Hi there! Thanks for the suggestions. There are some short term issues with people adjusting to GNOME shell but I think the experience is going to improve vastly in 3.6. I think there is an underlying debate on

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

2012-08-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Florian Scandella f...@chilicode.comwrote: I too like how gnome-shell works. I like the clean desktop, how you start applications and how the notifications work. I like how gnome uses (and drives) development of freedesktop standards instead of reinventing

Re: Ati/amd hardware

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Michael Hill mdhil...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have this in a ThinkPad and got it running with the fglrx driver in May, but by September had switched to the radeon driver. It has mostly worked perfectly (openSUSE). I have a potential volunteer also having problems

Re: Design choice for suspend option only

2012-03-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Mark Blakeney mark.blake...@bullet-systems.net wrote: Can somebody please post a reference to a discussion amongst the gnome3 developers about why they decided to only provide a suspend option on the user menu (and hide the power off option with the alt

Re: The lost screensaver

2012-02-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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 I upgrade to 3.4? Gabriel On 02/19/2012 07:12 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Donato Marrazzo donato.marra...@gmail.com

Re: The lost screensaver

2012-02-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Donato Marrazzo donato.marra...@gmail.comwrote: Somebody know where did the screensaver go? Any hope to see it again in 3.4? There is no plans for a screensaver. That I'm aware of. sri Thanks, Donato ___

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome! As Sam mentioned you can check out our bug server and find out what needs to be worked on. You should also subscribe yourself to the gnome-love mailing list (go to http://mail.gnome.org/ (read the code of conduct)) It is a mailing list to ask questions on the GNOME stack. You can also

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
aware of. But someone else here probably knows way more than I do about it. sri Sincerely, Josh On Feb 10, 2012 12:00 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Interested in development

2012-02-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, but on a related topic, a guide to getting gnome shell running on Wayland 0.85 would be nifty too, though I guess not terribly important. Sincerely, Josh On Feb 10, 2012 12:08 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Josh Leverette coder

Re: Two or three things I see coming in gnome-shell

2012-01-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: Ensure that Evolution is running in the background but without a GUI and / or have a daemon that checks the mail. For rhythmbox, make music playback or radio is being transferred to a body that plays the

Re: GNOME Development setup

2011-12-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Best place to start is in the gnome-love mailing list. You'll need to setup 'jhbuild' (search for jhbuild and gnome, you'll get the link) and it will tell you how to get started. There isn't a lot of documentation on extension development, you'll have to ask developers on #gnom-shell, look at

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Gantry York gantry.y...@digitascio.comwrote: On 12/05/2011 06:12 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 05:50 -0700, Gantry York wrote: Does this extension allow me to move the workspace manager to a different location on the screen and give

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Gantry York gantry.y...@digitascio.comwrote: On 12/05/2011 05:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It's not ready for the corporate market, we've only had two releases and things move slowly in the corporate world. Why not look into programming some

Re: Please provide more configurability for workspace

2011-12-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
win32). sri On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Gantry York gantry.y...@digitascio.comwrote: On 12/05/2011 05:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It's not ready for the corporate market, we've only had two releases

Re: Window Focus

2011-12-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Gantry York gantry.y...@digitascio.comwrote: I think if you make it hidden enough, it appears to be removed functionality. So after a little reading, I figured out that I have to install gconf-editor. OK, I get it. It's like the Windows Registry. It is

Re: extensions.gnome.org - Public Alpha Now Available

2011-12-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: There is no single sign on at the moment. Vinnicus Depizzol's study mentioned that users would like a single sign on, and I'm all for integrating with it once it appears. This seems to be something we could add to

Re: Highlight the Activities button on boot

2011-10-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Nishant Agrwal nishantagrwal12...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2011-10-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Jordi Chulia jorch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I would like to propose a new feature fon gnome-shell: What about being able to save the state of a workspace (opened apps/files and maybe window geometry) in order to automatically restore this state on login in

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-09-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Ralph Hofmann hofmann2...@arcor.de wrote: Am 31.08.2011 20:03, schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ralph Hofmann hofmann2...@arcor.dewrote: I like the idea of javascript based plugins like in Firefox. I think that could become

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ralph Hofmann hofmann2...@arcor.de wrote: I like the idea of javascript based plugins like in Firefox. I think that could become the killer feature of Gnome3. Of course Gnome3 is far from ready now. But is has a lot of potential. Potential discoverable by the

Re: SweetTooth and Live Extension Enabling/Disabling

2011-08-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: Hey guys, it's Jasper. Again, the last time I talked about SweetTooth, it was a month ago. I'm here to say that enabling/disabling of extensions has landed! Extension authors, you have to update to the new APIs

Re: Please add a configuration option to make 'Power Off...' the default!

2011-08-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
There is an extension that will put that back. It's relatively harmless. On my desktop I actually do not shut down now I just suspend. 450 watts of power saved when not in use. :-) sri On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:13 AM, iki sham ikis...@gmail.com wrote: Just to make it clear, I'm talking about

Re: UI guidelines for extensions?

2011-08-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Ricardo Gladwell ricardo.gladw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sri Thanks for the tip, I did consider writing a service but wasn't sure because: a) Only my Gnome Shell extension would be consuming the service at this point, so re-factoring the code to read from

Re: Best way for extensions to include external JS files

2011-07-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote: I want to bundle log4javascript with my gnome-shell extension. I obviously don't want to copy paste it into my extension.js, so I'm wondering what the best way to bundle it with my extension is. I know someone has done

Re: Window List Extension

2011-07-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Tassilo Horn tass...@member.fsf.orgwrote: Kurt Rottmann kurtrottm...@gmail.com writes: Hi Kurt, Congratulations, Gnome Shell is wonderful and it's a great job. It's very well designed but I think it needs a window list. I did an extension in case anyone

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 22:52 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android - 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android - 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is the Overview; Android does not have anything like this. It has an app Actually, they do have an overview although it is an overview of workspaces. So if you

Re: New system monitor extension

2011-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno sab, 21/05/2011 alle 14.17 +0200, Florian Mounier ha scritto: Hi ! I wrote a gnome shell extension displaying memory / swap / cpu usage in status bar. My code is far from perfect but I thought

Re: Workspaces slowing me down.

2011-05-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.frwrote: 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

Re: Using 2 monitors

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Federico Di Gregorio f...@initd.org wrote: Anyway, my question has to do with using 2 monitors (that, especially in the case of a laptop + external monitors, can be of different size). The usability problem I see is that the lower right corner, used to popup

Re: Blocked

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Allan E. Registos allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph wrote: As you wish. I am now trying to answer constructively, just tell us plainly of what is wrong with our words as I am trying to get neutral on any issue at hand. Scaring us won't work. I think

Re: Using 2 monitors

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 07:45 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: If you're using Ubuntu I do not believe that is implemented yet. I know for sure it is in Fedora 15. Can't speak for OpenSUSE. They don't need

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:25 +0200, David Prieto wrote: Denys, Having suddenly to learn a new UI is not what I planned to do this weekend. I have some other work to do. You do realize

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: I just installed F15 (Rawhide). It uses Gnome 3. I resisted the temptation to switch to Fallback mode, because quick googling showed me that Fallback mode will be phased out in not-so-distant future. Therefore I am

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Is it a policy of Gnome Desktop to shoehorn users into fixed UI style instead of offering them reasonable choice? What next, hardwired window title color and size? -- There is no policy as such. As I said earlier,

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 18:55, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:48 -0700, Micah Carrick wrote: I'll give you a quick answer to that... When we first switch to GNOME 3, many of us did not

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:08 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: Is it a policy of Gnome Desktop to shoehorn users into fixed UI

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Denys Vlasenko dvlas...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:03 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: When F15 is release we should put this DL on auto-reply. So many of these I don't like Gnome 3 e-mails and they all end the same way. Does it ring some

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 19:29, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com wrote: There are hidden negatives too - the linux users in my office, for example, tried

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Boy i wish I read my responses more carefully.. my English is generally better than this :P sri On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 19:29, Sriram Ramkrishna s

Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

2011-05-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 21:44, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Boy i wish I read my responses more carefully.. my English is generally better than this :P sri Please don't worry on my account - my fingers tend

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, David Prieto frandavid...@gmail.com wrote: Jasper, This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html That's very, very interesting. One

Re: on suspend

2011-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:09:38PM -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: Suspend works great for me on my laptop. On my desktop, however, my graphics card (FireGL 5200) fan spins up to high speed on resume (as it does briefly while

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.orgwrote: * Web pages. There are just too many of them in a single day! Gnome-activity-journal helped here by grouping them in an expandable item, N web pages, rather than showing all the crap you visited during a day. An

Re: Feedback

2011-05-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Allan E. Registos allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph wrote: On Saturday, 30 April, 2011 09:40 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: == Suspend instead of Shutdown == Surely this has been discussed extensively, I just want to mention that suspend simply does

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Diego Fernandez aiguo.fernan...@gmail.comwrote: Alright I might have been a bit harsh, but I have seen many points argued with very solid evidence and even a proposal of how to fix them; however, I have not seen a single one accepted on the list. Maybe you

Re: Thumbs up!

2011-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:56:15AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Design decisions don't really occur in a mailing list. There is just too much noise when we do that. You need to put in a bug and discuss it within

Re: Help running gnome-shell from git on an existing gnome shell(fedora 15)

2011-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula vamsikrishna.brahmajosy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Fedora 15 aplha and I built gnome shell from git sources using jhbuild. when i tried gnome-shell --replace Out of curiosity, why not just use the distro version instead

Re:

2011-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Allan E. Registos allan.regis...@smpc.steniel.com.ph wrote: Hi there jordan, I believe that early releases (including the stable GNOME 3.0) does not fit in your setup as per your screenshots. As I am thinking through the reading of this list that those who

Re: Autohide Top Bar?

2011-04-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:25 -0400, Mystilleef wrote: I opened a bug report for this. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643662 I don't think there's any interest in it. It's my biggest

Re: NetworkManager dependency on Gnome-Shell

2011-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: I decided to give up on my overview page speed issue and look at empathy. Empathy wasn't connecting at all. Kept reporting I had no network connection. Turns out if NetworkManager doesn't control the network -- ie

Re: Idea: having a hotkey, dialog box for searching apps?

2011-04-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:08 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: I'm not giving up gnome-do regardless. I find gnome-do more efficient when I'm launching apps in the same workspace. Eg more terminals, a quick browser. I use the overview when I want to start a new task in

Re: New GNOME Shell video on Youtube

2011-04-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM, J. Adam Craig jadamcr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:16 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: Great video... little wordy but good show. Thanks, Michael. I'm a historian and a writer along with my interest in technology -- Linux

Re: New GNOME Shell video on Youtube

2011-04-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, J. Adam Craig jadamcr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sriram, On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: You interested in doing content for our youtube GNOME channel? You sound a perfect fit for doing that kind of thing.. maybe sort

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: What exactly are you doing in your tasks? There is a shortcut dash on the overview, so you can do things with one click. Even with GNOME

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: The course is already set and ship has left the dock, we can't turn back now. Your changes effectively mean reversing 2 years of design

Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

2011-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:59 -0400, Mystilleef wrote: Hello, Congratulations on the release of GNOME 3. GNOME Shell behaves odd on my multi monitor setup. When I switch workspaces the screen on the external

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna sri@... writes: ... Well, as I said I had read Fedora users comments on GNOME 3 subject and they were mixed, even from long time GNOME users. I tested it few days ago and I started switching between open

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mark Curtis merkin...@hotmail.com wrote: So now you're pulling a no true scottsman? What, exactly, makes GNOME Shell psedo-innovation[sic] and not true innovation? I don't understand why we are continuing this conversation? You can't convince someone

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Mark Curtis merkin...@hotmail.com wrote: I tried it and it just doesn't work for me. Now I need to take 3 steps for basic tasks that needed 2 step before. When I want to start an

Re: GNOME 3 from Fedora user's perpective - request for changes

2011-04-05 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:25 PM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna sri@... writes: ... JB needs to try the shell for a week or so and do the challenge and then come back to us. JB, go back and try the shell for a week and come back to us. We need to end this thread.sri

Re: want dash to be always-visible dock

2011-04-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Adam Dingle a...@yorba.org wrote: On 04/03/2011 08:13 AM, Ryan Peters wrote: On 04/03/2011 09:12 AM, Adam Dingle wrote: I've been using GNOME Shell recently on Fedora 15. Aesthetically it looks nice, and I like the full-screen application launcher with

Re: gnome-shell port for Apple II

2011-04-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
You know Shawn, your timing is slightly suspicious. :-) looking at date sri On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Shawn Thompson superfox...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson superfox

Re: gnome-shell port for Apple II

2011-03-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson superfox...@gmail.comwrote: Despite the fact that Gnome-shell isn't truly complete yet, me and a friend have actually begun to create a version of it for the Apple II. Now, you might be thinking, why would you want to change the desktop of an

Re: new calendar idea for gnome-shell

2011-03-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Pierre Benz benz.pie...@gmail.com wrote: Like I said before, the calendar is great as it is, but I do think that it would be nice to extend the calendar into more than just a task-lister. If this idea sounds like crack, please feel free to ignore it.

Re: new calendar idea for gnome-shell

2011-03-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Federico Mena Quintero federico.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 08:04 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: I still think the Calendar should be a separate tab on the overview that does all that and more, and that clicking on the date/time would

Re: mutter tiling

2011-03-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jeffery Olson olson.jeff...@gmail.comwrote: Also: have you even given javascript a chance? Please don't let it's history in the browser bias you against it; it's a marvelous language with a lot of really interesting features that makes nice, expressive code

Re: No minimise/maximise (again)

2011-03-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Marshall Neill ramie...@windstream.netwrote: On 03/14/2011 10:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: Hey, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Florian Müllnerfmuell...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10

Re: No minimise/maximise (again)

2011-03-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Jesse Hutton jesse.hut...@gmail.comwrote: Right-click - minimize. Done. I'm sure you'll be able to bind a key combination for ultra fast minimizing, too (even faster than shooting for that minimize button with your mouse pointer). For me it is IRC, I don't

Re: 'gnome-suites-core-3.0' - jhbuild:Error during phase configure of gtk+:

2011-03-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Robert Park rbp...@exolucere.ca wrote: I was having a similar problem with a different package. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Andrew Swartz atswa...@gmail.com wrote: checking for GLIB - version = 2.27.3... *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0'

Re: Visual cues

2011-02-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Bob Hazard linuxoflon...@googlemail.comwrote: Balloon tips drive me crazy. I would rather have the Activities button glow, bloom or pulsate in some enticing way on first run. That would be kind of nifty actually. -- Sent from my Amiga I used to own one

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-02-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:34 -0500, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: While the close operation is common, it's not frequent, and therefore might not require visual representation on-screen all the time. Huh, I

Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-02-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: OK, I promised Jon McCann to write a mail here giving information on my thoughts on removing the minimize and maximize buttons since I've been resisting the request of the Why do people minimize windows?

Re: How to hibernate?

2011-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Stefano Facchini stefano.facch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how can I hibernate (aka suspend-to-disk) my laptop? Closing the lid just causes the system to suspend-to-ram (which is the behavior I want), while the power button only offers the possibility to turn off

Re: missing workflows with gnome-shell

2011-02-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Alessandro Crismani alessandro.crism...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno ven, 04/02/2011 alle 12.15 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat ha scritto: I believe fixed number of workspaces are something every developer will have. May be we should try to implement in the core

Re: More Build Errors

2011-02-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Onyeibo Oku twoho...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/05/2011 03:18 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote: According to this page: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/43957 ... this is a planned update and should not be affecting jhbuild However, IT IS AFFECTING

Re: More Build Errors

2011-02-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Actually it looks like the problem has been fixed. What you need to do is do a git pull on your jhbuild area to get the new changes. Jhbuild now builds from cvs for libxklavier. So I suggest you do that instead of the work around I stated. sri ___

Re: More Build Errors

2011-02-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Onyeibo Oku twoho...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/05/2011 04:26 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me mailto:s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Actually it looks like the problem has been fixed. What you need

Re: minimize-to-tile would make for a more seamless experience

2011-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM, William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Johannes, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! ATM I find myself switching to activities overview very often just to find a minimized (or obscured)

Re: Difficulties hovering the mail-notification icon

2011-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Thomas Bouffon thomas.bouf...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Again a new thing I complain on : what a weener ! ;) I Like the notification system which is hidden at the bottom, but I think the right left animation is a bit too much : the vertical one already hides the

Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

2011-01-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Onyeibo Oku twoho...@gmail.com wrote: I'd file a bug in bugzilla so that someone working on gnome-shell can address it. Okay, I'll try that Although I'm not *quite* sure if this is gnome-shell or empathy (I assume you;'re using empathy?) Its

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