Re: Default App: xdiagnose

2017-06-09 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On 09.06.2017 03:43, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > The GNOME Activities Overview makes default installed apps much more > prominent so any app installed by default should work and be generally > useful. > > xdiagnose does not work with GNOME on Wayland (LP: #1616742) because > of the pkexec issue I

Re: Default App: remmina and vino

2017-06-09 Thread Khurshid Alam
Hi, On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: remmina was recently removed from the soon-to-be-released Debian 9 "Stretch". [1] Frankly, remmina has not been that well-maintained recently. See the Debian bug. Partially true. Remmina only abandoned older 1,1.x

Re: Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey, Le 09/06/2017 à 11:09, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : > GNOME Weather is a simple app to show you the weather. It is written > in gjs. It has been part of GNOME core since GNOME 3.20. It has no > universe runtime dependencies and is well-maintained in Debian and > Ubuntu. I don't believe there has

Re: Default App: remmina and vino

2017-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Khurshid Alam wrote: > Partially true. Remmina only abandoned older 1,1.x version. Their developer > encourages everyone to use 1.2.x. It is well maintained (see commit history: > https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/commits/next But

Re: Default App: remmina and vino

2017-06-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 09/06/2017 à 10:53, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : > But that version isn't in Ubuntu yet. Seems like an update to do this cycle then? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
GNOME Weather is a simple app to show you the weather. It is written in gjs. It has been part of GNOME core since GNOME 3.20. It has no universe runtime dependencies and is well-maintained in Debian and Ubuntu. I don't believe there has been any security issue with this app. If GNOME Weather is

Weekly newsletter 9th June 2017

2017-06-09 Thread Will Cooke
Friday 9th June 2017 = GNOME = We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our investigations it became apparent that we would need to invest a considerable amount of time making changes to get everything

Re: Default App: remmina and vino

2017-06-09 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On 9 June 2017 at 10:53, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Khurshid Alam > wrote: >> Partially true. Remmina only abandoned older 1,1.x version. Their developer >> encourages everyone to use 1.2.x. It is well maintained

Re: Default App: gnome-sushi

2017-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Robert Ancell wrote: > I was expecting the right click menu to have a "Preview" entry (i.e. beside > the open with entries) and spacebar would be a shortcut. It seems you can > only know this feature exists if you've read the docs /

Re: Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > - is having more things using gjs going to make it more difficult to > update mozjs/gjs for security reasons? I believe we wouldn't want an SRU to break universe apps either, especially apps in GNOME "core" regardless

Extended Application Menu

2017-06-09 Thread info i...@opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com
Hello Ubuntu Desktop Team, I would really like to share an idea I have for the Ubuntu Desktop. A problem that occurs with both the Unity and the GNOME desktop is that switching between multiple windows of the *same* application is distractive and/or unclear. The user is either confronted

Re: Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2017-06-09 06:24 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey, > > Le 09/06/2017 à 11:09, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : >> GNOME Weather is a simple app to show you the weather. It is written >> in gjs. It has been part of GNOME core since GNOME 3.20. It has no >> universe runtime dependencies and is

Re: Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 09/06/2017 à 11:38, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : > I think it uses geoclue along with a database maintained in > libgweather. libgweather is minimally maintained so it may not be > precise enough for some people, but libgweather has been in Debian > since 2008 so it should work in most cases. We

Re: Extended Application Menu

2017-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:49 AM, info i...@opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com wrote: > I’m really curious about your thoughts and I’m really looking forward to > your feedback. Hopefully this idea could be of value to the Ubuntu Desktop. Thank you for taking the