Mouse capture issues when running in VMware (F22)
by Everaldo Canuto
Hello.
Fedora 22 is not working well on VMware (Fusion or Workstation). Neither
X11 or Wayland it working well and some of us still using Fedora
virtualised for different reasons.
Theres two bug reports about this but I don't know if someone is working on
it. Also, I don't know how too found information about someone working on a
bug report.
Theses are reports:
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214474
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204393
Is there someone looking at this bug reports? Isn't it a release breaker
since it works well on Fedora 21?
Cheers.
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9 years
Re: Why people are not switching to Fedora
by Norman L Smith
On Sun, 10 May 2015 11:41:13 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> We don't ship any system-config-* utilities anymore, and we will not
> add any ever again (system configuration belongs in gnome-control
> -center), so this isn't relevant to Workstation at all. This sounds
> like a complaint for the KDE SIG.
I agree system configuration belongs in gnome-control-center. I
am not a gnome-shell hater. I use gnome-shell on all of my systems,
but if things are replaced, they should be as good as what is replaced.
system-config-printer is better than gnome-control-center with printers.
The problem is the system-config-* utilities functions are not always
completely replaced by the gnome-control-center.
An example is you cannot share printers from gnome-control-center.
Sharing printers is relevant to Workstation. A very popular solution
from The Google is system-config-printer or Cups via localhost:631.
See Gnome Bugzilla 692532
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692532 opened 2013-01-25,
last comment 2013-02-15, last history entry 2013-04-19 "ui-review".
It is interesting to read Red Hat Bugzilla 1136588
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136588 in this context
where there is a reference to localhost:631.
I like the idea of Workstation. I have used Red Hat Linux and then
Fedora since Apollo. I subscribed to this mailing list after reading
about the new approach for Fedora. I get the impression from reading
this list popularity as measured in number of users is a goal.
A dubious goal... <with apologies for bluntness>
A better goal is to be good at what you do. For me in the past Fedora
has been very good to me. It is better to be good than popular.
With all due respect,
Norman
9 years
Why people are not switching to Fedora
by Christian Schaller
Hi, so a couple of weeks ago I blogged** about who Fedora Workstation is an integrated system, but also asking for
feedback for why people are not migrating to Fedora Workstation, especially asking about why people would be using
GNOME 3 on another distro. So I got about 140 comments on that post so I thought I should write up a summary and
post here. There was of course a lot of things mentioned, but I will try to keep this summary to what I picked up
as the recurring topics.
So while this of course is a poll consisting of self selected commentators I still think the sample is big enough that we
should take the feedback into serious consideration for our plans going forward. Some of them I even think are already
handled by underway efforts.
Release cadence
Quite a few people mentioned this, ranging from those who wanted to switch us to a rolling release, a tick/tock
release style, to just long release cycles. Probably more people saying they thought the current 6 Month cycle
was just to harrowing than people who wanted rolling releases or tick/tock releases.
3rd Party Software
This was the single most brought up item. With people saying that they stayed on other distros due to the pain of
getting 3rd party software on Fedora. This ranged from drivers (NVidia, Wi-Fi), to media codecs to end user
applications. Width of software available in general was also brought up quite a few times. If anyone is in any doubt
that our current policy here is costing us users I think these comments clearly demonstrates otherwise.
Optimus support
Quite a few people did bring up that our Optimus support wasn't great. Luckily I know Bastien Nocera is working on
something there based on work by Dave Arlie, so hopefully this is one we can check off soon.
Upgrades
Many people also pointed out that we had no UI for upgrading Fedora.
HiDPI issues
A few comments on various challenges people have with HiDPI screens, especially when dealing with non-GTK3 apps-
Multimonitor support
A few comments that our multimonitor support could be better
SELinux is a pain
A few comments about SELinux still getting in the way at times
Better Android integration
A few people asked for more/better Android device integration features
Built in backup solution
A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution
Also a few concrete requests in terms of applications for Fedora:
http://www.mixxx.org
http://www.vocalproject.net
https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/
http://peterlevi.com/variety/
http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org
choqok for GNOME (microblogging client)
** URL - https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/04/20/fedora-workstation-more-than-th...
9 years
gnome-builder in the Featured section of gnome-software
by Elad Alfassa
Hi,
Should we make gnome-builder a "featured" application in Workstation for F22?
Builder, while still young, is already a very useful IDE for both C
and Python from my experience, even when not working on GNOME
apps/libraries.
Additionally, right now when searching for "IDE" in gnome-software,
IDEs like Code:Blocks and Anjuta rank higher in the search result.
I'll send a patch upstream later to improve Builder's appdata and
keywords to try to get it higher on the list.
I really think Builder is something we should promote in Workstation,
it is a very useful tool for our target audience.
--
-Elad.
9 years
formal apology
by kendell clark
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Hi all
Boy, is this hard.
I want to send out a formal apology to the mailing list for the ...
less than helpful responses I've sent out, two in the last couple of
minutes. My only excuse, poor as it is, is I've just had two beers
last night before going to sleep, and I guess it affected my temper.
That, and "windows just works" comments really irritate me. I should
really try not to take it out on people, but I'm not good at that. Now
that we're on the subject, suggestions on how I can avoid this in the
future are welcome. I seem incapable of doing it myself.
I'm all for using what you want, but sometimes I get carried away with
what I use, and forget that other people use other distros. An obvious
one, but shrug.
Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
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9 years
Workstation WG Recap 2015-May-11
by Paul W. Frields
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-05-11/workstation.20...
Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-05-11/workstation.20...
Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-05-11/workstation.20...
* * *
======================================
#fedora-meeting: Fedora Workstation WG
======================================
Meeting started by stickster at 13:00:10 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-05-11/workstation.20...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Roll call (stickster, 13:00:19)
* Workstation report for FESCo (stickster, 13:03:49)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Fedora_22_Workstation_FESCo_re...
(stickster, 13:03:55)
* F23/F24 Workstation planning (stickster, 13:05:56)
* LINK:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/SUSE:SLE-12:Update/gnome-shell
(mcatanzaro, 13:17:22)
* IDEA: Improvements to AD/FreeIPA domain behavior (integrate WS into
mixed env) (stickster, 13:20:36)
* IDEA: Container tools for developers to use on projects / integrate
with DevAssistant (stickster, 13:20:52)
* IDEA: Make home printers easier to access without admin authN
(stickster, 13:21:12)
* IDEA: Access to Active Directory printers and file-shares should be
simplified (sgallagh, 13:23:03)
* IDEA: Talk to purpleidea about packaging oh-my-vagrant as part of
container tooling (stickster, 13:39:06)
* ACTION: stickster assign people to each of the #idea parts to make
sure we have a better defined problem (and maybe solution ideas?)
for next meeting (stickster, 14:00:57)
Meeting ended at 14:01:41 UTC.
Action Items
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* stickster assign people to each of the #idea parts to make sure we
have a better defined problem (and maybe solution ideas?) for next
meeting
Action Items, by person
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* stickster
* stickster assign people to each of the #idea parts to make sure we
have a better defined problem (and maybe solution ideas?) for next
meeting
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9 years
Re: Firefox crashing when trying to play youtube html5 videos
by Heiko Adams
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I figured out that "dnf remove gstreamer1-libav \*libva\*" seems to
solve the problem.
Reinstalling one of them makes firefox crashing again.
Am 06.05.2015 um 14:05 schrieb Ankur Sinha:
> On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 10:53 +0200, Heiko Adams wrote:
>
> Shouldn't be anything related to rpmfusion packages, should it?
> Probably a FF issue?
>
- --
Regards,
Heiko Adams
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