** This isn't a rant or a rave** :)

We love progress, we love old, we love familiar, we love new. We support Free Software and the accompanying options. It's all about *free* as in liberating. I know several of us have been speaking about why GNOME 2x, which that is fine and all, but really lets be problem solvers not complainers.

So!! Why doesn't someone maintain a 2x branch?

I'm not volunteering for the job; I got my own time problems.

Hello all,

(yet another negative feedback, probably among thousands of others on the net, and hence, may not be worth reading by developers, but I still hope my voice gets counted somehow)

I wish Gnome3 would use "classic" computer hardware, like keyboard and mouse with 3 buttons (and a wheel) -- *fully* exploiting these classic hardware controls (I won't explain, probably everybody who tried Gnome3, understands what I mean).

Hello!

Please don't take the following explanation as attack on you or your
work. What I want is helping you and GNOME!

The problem of GNOME3 is not the GNOME Shell, it is the constant removal
of features. To make this even more worse, the developers don't
communicate their plans and didn't react on well meant critic. Instead
the developers believe that the bloggers, the press or the users just
hate new things like the GNOME Shell[1].

GNOME 3.0 introduced a complete new user-interface and also some things
did't get ported from GNOME2.

Hi list, this is my first message on the list. I have a doubt about
the name GNOME, I know that is a acronym GNU Network Object Model
Environment, because I am reading the Ubik book by Philip Dick, and in
him names the word gnome in the chapter 10, relative a the rotary
motor (Wankel's motor), may be that not have nothing that see, but
somebody know some to respect?

Regards,

Hello everybody,

I've a few questions about how closures should be used. I'm writing a GLib wrapper for OpenCL, and I feel the need to use callbacks. I'll try to explain what I don't understand about closures.

g_cclosure_new takes a pointer to user data as argument. This is passed to the callback in its last argument. But then, when I call g_closure_invoke() I need to pass a GValue array containing the arguments to the callback, and I guess user_data is included here. I see this as a redundant action, so my guess is I've got something wrong. I hope you can clarify this a little bit for me.

I have asked
the KolibriOS team to insert accessibility features to the free and open
source OS Kolibri.

They have responded well, but need technical help as they state below.

Hello! Thank you for your reply. We are very interested in implementing of
Accessibility standards, but we don't sure what exactly do we need to
implement.

As for now, we have only Magnify (not very useful though) and Speak engine
(not very good though). Do we need add something else? Do we need some
text-to-speech interface for software? May be something else?

So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my
notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D
acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my
friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for
desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if

[1] <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/" title="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/">https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/</a>

I'm cross-posting this, as this seems to be a more active list, and
hopefully it will find it's way to the right people.

On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 05:53 +0100, Stef Walter wrote:
On 03/15/2013 11:33 PM, fox_rplvhh wrote:

opensuse v12.2
linux v3.4.28-2.20-desktop x86_64
gnome 3.4.2
nvidia gt 470, nouveau driver

A little black box appears on the display screen; it shows on all
desktops. It is about 4px x 8px. It shows at different places on the
screen after logging in. Sometimes it is in a location that is not
noticeable; other times it is in the center area. It sometimes
disappears, then reappears.

Has any one else seen this? Is there a cure?

This guy is an example of someone who should shut up, listen to his users,
and never ever try championing his cause until he decides to get off his
ego. There are a myriad of user comments ever since Gnome 3 came out, and
even during its alpha/beta phases. Hell, I myself also had concerns during
the beta, but I liked the original ideas.

When I upgraded from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, scrollbars for me became
almost unusable. The GTK Theme that GNOME by default installs omits the
scrollbar-end arrowheads. and alters how the screen behaves when the
user clicks in the scrollbar but outside of the slider.

I'm used to using a GUI (i.e., the scrollbar) to vertically move my
view, whenever the amount of data exceeds window-height.

I've just come back to Gnome after being away for over a year[1].
I've found some things have improved since then and I've decided to
give Gnome another try.

Since I last used Gnome I've moved back to my native Sweden and
Swedish keyboards have a layout that isn't at all convenient for
programmers. Earlier, when using LXDE+LXDM, I had a setup where I
modified the keymap using a per-user XKB configuration via ~/.xprofile
[2]. However, now I find that this scheme no longer works.

Hi,

Recently, I have been hacking on the gnome-system-monitor code, to
implement some aesthetic changes, for things that have long bothered
me about GSM. the big change that i have been working on - adding
rounded corners to the graphs (rather than having rectangles that
don't even use the same background as the notebook bg color in many
cases (ie: you end up with notebook/graph colors not matching on many
themes + it just looks (imho) a bit ugly / unrefined).

Hey,

I was having a look at the network tools' source code in Gnome:
network-manager-applet network-manager-openvpn

I wonder how does all these fit together. I mean the network applet in
gnome-shell, network-manager-applet, etc.

Can some one help me understand the broader picture?

Regards

Hi;

I have been developing applications for linux/windows by using
mono and gtk-sharp. I wonder if there is a way to get these apps.
on android by using monodroid or do i have to use android.sdk?

To be more precise; I want to run my gtk-sharp applictions(".exe")
run on android without any change is there a way to to this?

As i understood i have to change my gui layer gtk-sharp codes into
android?

Thank you!

I have a Dell laptop with one of those dual video chips in it (Intel and
ATI) and I normally run the fglrx driver for Xorg and Debian GNU/Linux
unstable. This computer has a VGA port for connecting an external
monitor, and when I connect a monitor to the port, I get a nice
dual-headed display which I can configure through the gnome tool.
However, it will often spontaneously change the configuration, most
often to "mirrored" or sometimes it will turn one or the other display
off.

Hello,

I just installed Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix, and I'm trying to install some
software into it. The problem is I can't find a way to do that. There
doesn't seem to be a software center or similar available for the purpose.
I thought I'm somewhat of a power user, but this one beats me. I've spent a
couple of hours trying to solve the problem, reading the sparse manual and
looking for the answer online too. So help me out and tell how does one
install software in Gnome Shell.

I tried to record a video on Fedora 17.
I installed gtk-recordmydesktop package.
I launched it, clicked 'Record' then above panel disappeared.
Is this a known bug or something?

Alternative way of recording desktop video: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R
How to escape if you meet similar situation: Alt+F2, gnome-terminal,
sudo killall Xorg, re-login.

I'm trying to develop a program that interfaces with gnome. My program
needs to know when the user changes the display resolution from the
Display Preferences. I tried to search for a DBus signal that's sent,
but I couldn't find anything.

Is there a DBus signal that's sent when the user changes the display
resolution? DBus is the easiest to interface with, but it can be from
another mechanism. Is there any way for my program to know when the
user changes the display?

Thank you,

I killed my old system (f16) with a bottle of pepsi last week at IEEE
802 :( Was rather interesting to do my 'slides' on paper and run off
copies at the business center!

Well I have a new system; basically the same Lenovo x120e, but with the
duo core. I installed f17 and have been rsyncing files off the old
drive onto this system. Most importantly my mail folders!

But the joy is getting Gnome 3 customized. I did NOT do a good job of
note taking last time around with f16. I have one critical challenge
for right now and that is <alt-tab> behavor.

Hi,

As you may know Gnome 3.6 got redesigned keyboard layout
management/configuration.
I'm not going to blame its developers, but actually it's not usable at
all for those who speak at least
two languages and uses two layouts. Maybe english-only-speaking devs
did not notice that, but
it's major regression - one can't switch layout via key/key combo he used to.

But there's another issue - I can't configure it via xorg.conf or
startup script with setxkbmap - because
gnome-settings-daemon overrides keyboard layout settings.

Hi Guys:
I am using Suse Linux (sles10sp4 ) , and met a strange issue.

Now there is a same launcher “firefox.desktop” in root user’s desktop directory and non-root user’s .

when login as a non-root user , double-click any desktop launchers for example: firefox.desktop , It doesn’t work .

but I login as root , double-click the desktop launcher can work normally,

sles10sp4:/usr/share/doc/packages/eel # rpm -q nautilus
nautilus-2.12.2-64.62.18

I found when I login as a non-root user , single-click the desktop launcher, ~/.xsession-errors report :
I/O error :permission denied.

right-click

CALL FOR MUSICIANS
==================
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BEAST RELEASE
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This release is largely a bug fix release that improves stability and
interoperation with system libraries.

This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the Better Audio System
and the Better Sound Engine.

Glad to be here. I'm brand new, so I'll lie low for a while till I'm
familiar with the customs here, but, then I hope to be contributing
plenty.

Hello,

Before you dismiss this as another hate letter regarding GNOME 3, let me
stop you. I like the new UI, I like it a lot. I support the decision to
remove the minimize/maximize buttons from application title bars. I also
enjoy the removal of those icons from the desktop. But despite all of these
new and wonderful things, I have switched to KDE.

Why? The System Settings.

When I pick up a laptop, regardless of whether it uses Windows, Linux, or
OS X, the first thing I do is modify the power settings. Why?

Hi,
Hope this works.
I am taking the first steps to building firefox which requires gtk+2.
I have downloaded the prerequisite for gtk+2.
I guess the first thing I have to build is glib2.
I am currently stuck trying to build gio/gfile.c.
I have encountered two problems.
1) undefined symbols:
loff_t
2) undefined function:
result = splice (fd_in, off_in, fd_out, off_out, len,
SPLICE_F_MORE);
I think I solved item 1:
typedef long long __kernel_loff_t;
typedef __kernel_loff_t loff_t;
(Not sure th

Hello everyone, is there a Style Class (or any other way for that
matters) I can assign to a GtkProgressBar so it becomes more thin than
the default height something around the 10px height??

Best regards

10mo.