On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have switched from Yakkety to Zesty right after the release and this > replaced my very stable Unity 7 by Unity 8. After the second crash of my > desktop (required a system reboot) I switched over to GNOME.
Do you mean that the unity7 entry disappeared from the login options, or that the default changed to unity8? Either way, that sounds like a bug, unity8 was never meant to become default or replace unity7 altogether in zesty. > To do so I installed "gnome-session", then logged out, clicked on the Ubuntu > logo near the user name, and selected GNOME and logged in again, getting > rewarded with a shiny GNOME desktop. > > Note that "GNOME with Wayland" does not work for me. I simply get a black > screen (I have a 2nd-gen Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Intel GPU). Try removing unity8-desktop-session. That did the trick for me. > I tried the same on my Artful VM (QEMU), but there the LightDM has no Ubuntu > logo at the user name. How do I switch desktops there? > > To start the printer setup tool I have clicked the upper-right of the screen > to open the each-and-everything menu, then clicked the round tools button at > the bottom of the menu to get into the System Settings. Clicking on > "Printers" opened the new GNOME tool inside the System Settings Window > instead of popping up the beloved system-config-printer (to which I have > contributed frequently during the last 10 years). > > The main screen looks more polished and also show more info about the > printers, not only icons and names. In addition, model, status, and > ink/toner level are shown, also a "Restart" button for stopped printers. > > What is missing is that the default printer is not marked as such. You have > to click on the Gear button to see whether "Default Printer" in the pop-up > menu is checked (Feature request). > > On the upper right is an "Add" button to create a new print queue. This > leads to a pop-up listing all discovered printers. Clicking an entry and > then "Add" in the upper right corner immediately creates a print queue fully > automatically, using a default driver and backend. For my HP DeskJet Ink > Advantage 2540 it uses correctly the "hp" backend from HPLIP and also the > PPD file from HPLIP. A "Please wait, creating print queue" window would be > nice here (Feature request). > > The automatic driver selector seem at least to make use of my work on driver > selection optimization, as a scp-dbus-service.py process gets started during > queue setup. scp-dbus-service.py is a D-Bus service providing all the > "dirty" work of system-config-printer. > > The list of discovered printers contains some strange entries, for example a > printer named "Series" so something is still wrong here (BUG!). > > Wrong driver choices can be corrected once a printer is set up. > > On each print queue entry are two buttons, one says "No active jobs" and is > grayed out. Probably it gets activated when there is at least one job and > then it would open a job viewer. > > The second button has a gear icon and allows to change settings or remove > the print queue. A pop-up menu shows the options. The first entry opens a > dialog to set option defaults, looks all OK for me. The second allows to > change further settings, like name, description, and driver, but in contrary > to the option dialog it has no top bar (with "X" button) nor a "Close" > button near the lower right corner. You have to use Enter or ESC on the > keyboard (BUG!). > > The choice for removing a print queue has no "Are you sure?" dialog (BUG!). > > Compared to system-config-printer the interface is much simpler, and the > look of the main window is more polished. Also the main window provides more > info. A very good feature is that it is made use of the D-Bus service of > system-config-printer to make driver decisions. > > The presentation of discovered printers (when creating a new print queue) > seems to have some bugs and there is also a bug with the printer properties > dialog missing title bar and "Close" button. Also "Please Wait" and "Are you > sure?" dialogs are missing. > > This is simply a quick first impressions review. Later I will probably post > some bug reports. > > till -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
