RE: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread tnmurphy
I, on the other hand, tried it repeatedly over a month and thought it was a pain in the neck and change with no benefit. Regards, Tim -Original Message- From: Adam Tauno Williams Sent: 31/08/2011, 3:01 AM To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Disliking gnome 3 On Wed,

SweetTooth.

2011-08-31 Thread Joe Pea
When is the SweetTooth extension manager expected to be ready? This will add *huge* benefits for Gnome 3 users. -= Joe Pea =- ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Alt+F2 doesn't find scripts in ~/bin

2011-08-31 Thread Ralph Hofmann
Am 30.08.2011 14:21, schrieb Rui Tiago Cação Matos: On 30 August 2011 04:34, Ralph Hofmannhofmann2...@arcor.de wrote: @gnome-shell developers: I think there should be a way to setup the PATH for alt+F2. It works for me. You can check the $PATH that gnome-shell sees with $ strings

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Ralph Hofmann
Am 30.08.2011 20:45, schrieb Ben Greear: I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3, so I'm posting here. I really just want gnome-2 back. Fallback mode sort of works, but its still not as good as gnome 2 was. I do work on my computer, not just open one or two windows

Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-08-31 Thread D.H. Bahr
Hello everyone! At Nova we have a service we call Customized OS: on which we create a GNU/Linux Distro molded for specific customer's needs. As from the arrival of G3 we have started thinking on adding to this service a Customized Desktop Environment, since GShell loads arbitrary javascript code

Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:29 AM, D.H. Bahr db...@uci.cu wrote: ** Hello everyone! At Nova we have a service we call Customized OS: on which we create a GNU/Linux Distro molded for specific customer's needs. As from the arrival of G3 we have started thinking on adding to this service a

Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-08-31 Thread D.H. Bahr
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 goal to provide a system that facilitates this process. That is why

Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
I understand your goal, but the Shell isn't really designed as a platform for WMs: it's an extensible WM. I think that the approach of taking the parts of the shell that make sense, like gjs, mutter, clutter and st/mx and creating another WM may be the better approach. If you want to pretend that

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Greear
On 08/30/2011 03:36 PM, John Stowers wrote: Out of curiosity, are there any links to this? I'm curious to see how folks actually use the new features productively. The videos on gnome3.org might be a start, perhaps a little simple. Anyway, speaking to *my* own workflow, slightly adapted

GNOME Shell 3.1.90.1

2011-08-31 Thread Owen Taylor
Basically a fix-up release for a couple of critical small issues found in 3.1.90; also includes new support for asynchronous search providers. About GNOME Shell = GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching

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: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Greear gree...@candelatech.com wrote: I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3, so I'm posting here. I really just want gnome-2 back.  Fallback mode sort of works, but its still not as good as gnome 2 was.  I do work on my

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
n Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Pasha R pashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Greear gree...@candelatech.com wrote: I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3, so I'm posting here. I really just want gnome-2 back.  Fallback mode sort of works,

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Greear
On 08/31/2011 11:46 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: n Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Pasha Rpashar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Greeargree...@candelatech.com wrote: I couldn't find a better place to voice my displeasure of Gnome 3, so I'm posting here. I really just

Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Owen Taylor
The idea of a GNOME Shell extension is to let the GNOME community build on top of the GNOME Shell code base, to tweak, to customize, and to prototype new GNOME features and behaviors. GNOME Shell extensions aren't sandboxed, and sandboxing them is fundamentally hard because shell extensions are

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread John Stowers
I use a single work-space. I tried multiple before, but it just never worked out for me. While you only use a single workspace G3 is going to be hard for you. On gnome-2, I could load a system from bare metal and use it with zero tweaks to gnome, aside from dragging a Terminal icon

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Greear
On 08/31/2011 01:53 PM, John Stowers wrote: On gnome-2, I could load a system from bare metal and use it with zero tweaks to gnome, aside from dragging a Terminal icon into the top bar, maybe adding a few applets. Out of interest, which applets? system monitor. Evidently you can find

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
(Just a few comments on what's currently implemented) Obviously, this website and its goals have some parallels with the Mozila Addons site. I have been talking to their engineers and we both decided that doing our own thing would be best for both of us. I have been talking to them about how AMO

Re: Disliking gnome 3

2011-08-31 Thread Jesse Hutton
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:53 PM, John Stowers john.stowers.li...@gmail.comwrote: I use a single work-space. I tried multiple before, but it just never worked out for me. While you only use a single workspace G3 is going to be hard for you. I thought this would naturally be the case, as

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
Of course, Linux users run unsandboxed code with arbitary capabilities every day - applications, for example. So the security question with GNOME Shell extensions is not how we can do the almost impossible job of sandboxing them, but how we can build up layers of social, user interface, and