desktop January 2008

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14 discussions

Mozilla Prism in Fedora?
by Valent Turkovic 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I really like gmail as webmail app. And running it in Prism is even better that running it in full browser because you get full screen for gmail and a separate window - that also helps. If you are like me you have 40 tabs open and you constantly searching in which is your email :) Have you heard of Mozilla Prism[1]? I believe that this app would be a great addition to Fedora Desktop. Only thing missing for Prism are Firefox extensiona; Better Gmail[4] plugin in Prism would make me jump with joy :) So please tell me if you find out if it is possible to install firefox extensions in Prism. Download[2] Prism and check it out. Cheers, Valent. [1] http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ [2] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism#Latest_version [3] http://www.linux.com/feature/118170 [4] http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-gmail-2… -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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swfdec in fedora
by a3ukasz Peb3szynski 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hello, I think fedora should provide good and reliable software. Swfdec isn't working properly with most sites. It should be included as optional package - just as it is now. That mess with american law is stupid. American law sucks - and mostly patents for algorithms. See you!

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making the i386 livecd fit
by Bill Nottingham 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Here's a diff to the livecd config that makes the i386 livecd fit in brief testing. The biggest reason why the desktop one keeps flowing over is because it tries to include support for all languages, including input method. What these changes do is: - don't include groups where upstream gnome is < 50% translated - don't include fonts that are only referenced in %fonts and those groups - remove ekiga, just because it drags in so much other stuff Comments? Bill

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Orphaned: beagle
by Alexander Larsson 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Beagle really needs the love and care of someone, and I've done a really poor job on that. And I don't really have time to do it, so I've orphaned it in pkgdb and it is looking for a new owner. Anyone that uses beagle a bit and is interested in it is a better owner than me. Please care for the puppy!

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Need help creating account.
by Robi 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I need help. I've been doing everything like in directions, but it constantly give me this error when I'm trying to sign the CLA (Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement): With regards to "Re: Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement". Your message could not be processed. Reason: The signature could not be processed. The signature may have been created or attached improperly, it might not match the key ID you have registered in the Account System, or the public key may not have been found on the key server. For guidance, please see the following page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/CLAHowTo I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please help!

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Proposal: Install swfdec by default.
by Brian Pepple 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi all, Currently, we don't install any free flash implementations by default, but now that swfdec-gnome has become part of GNOME(1), I would like to propose that we install swfdec-gnome (& possibly swfdec-mozilla) by default starting with F9. (1) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2008-January/msg00001.ht… Thanks, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E

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What should the desktop spin for F9 look like ?
by Matthias Clasen 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Jonathan tried to kick off this discussion earlier, with some success. I think we should revive the desktop SIG and start to work out some concrete goals for what we want to improve in the desktop spin for F9. Here are some things that we might want to discuss: - menus + switch from "generic name" style to "name - generic name" ? + "too much" - what to get rid of in the menus, and how - login screen + can we make the special live-cd situation more intuitive ? - bootup + should we look at the nm dispatcher work by jon nettleton ? - content + people have proposed to add some free content to the cd - anything else people want to see improved Matthias

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Flash videos in Fedora 9 via swfdec or proprietary plugin?
by Valent Turkovic 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi, I just got back from testing a bit rawhide and new Firefox 3 works great and one thing I noticed is that there is a flash plugin in rawhide. I didn't know about swfdec project [1] before only about gnash [2]. I tested a bunch of flash video sites and I only got flash based ads to play. Every video I tried it failed - file plays but only audio. Is this an isolated bug I came across or swfdec is just too early in development to be able to play videos? Will there be an easy way of installing flash proprietary plugin (as much as we hate it all) if swfdec has no ability to play flash videos? Because users expect that things JustWork, especially their precious youtube :) Sites I tested and got no video: http://fedoratv.com http://www.ted.com http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.redtube.com http://www.metacafe.com http://www.videojug.com http://sclipo.com/ http://www.blip.tv http://www.dailymotion.com http://video.google.com/ http://crackle.com http://www.revver.com http://www.veoh.com/ http://video.msn.com [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Cheers, Valent

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Media handling changes in F9
by Matthias Clasen 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

I thought I should give a bit of an overview of some media handling changes that we have landed in rawhide over the last weeks. The handling of automatic mounting and running of applications when media is inserted has been moved from gnome-volume-manager to nautilus. This is part of the longer-term plan to kill gnome-volume-manager, or at least make it totally unnecessary. Together with this, the first two tabs of the "Removable Drives and Media" capplet have been removed (which makes the name a bit of a farce...). The config ui for media handling can now be found in the "File Management Preferences" capplet, on the "Media" tab. The content for this tab is driven by the MimeType field in desktop files, by means of a set of new "content types". Conceptually, these content types are close to mime types, but not quite the same. While mime types describe the format of individual files or data streams, content types describe containers or media. Currently, the following content types have been introduced: x-content/blank-cd x-content/blank-dvd x-content/blank-bd x-content/blank-hddvd x-content/video-dvd x-content/video-vcd x-content/video-svcd x-content/video-blueray x-content/video-hddvd x-content/audio-cdda x-content/audio-dvd x-content/audio-player x-content/image-dcf x-content/image-picturecd If you maintain an application that can handle one of these types, making it show up in the correct combo boxes in that dialog is as easy as adding the x-content/foo to the MimeType field in the desktop file, or adding a MimeType field if there isn't one already. Note that lists in desktop files end with a ;, ie MimeType=application/x-ogg;x-content/audio-player; is correct, MimeType=application/x-ogg;x-content/audio-player is not. Matthias

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ZCS Evolution Connector
by Matthew Barnes 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Just wanted to mention that evolution-zimbra packages are now available for Fedora 8 and Fedora Development. I'll be pushing the F-8 packages through the updates channel, but you can retrieve them now from Koji. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/evolution-zimbra/0.1.0/ evolution-zimbra is an Evolution extension that allows it to talk to a Zimbra server [1], similar in concept to evolution-exchange. It was developed by Zimbra (now part of Yahoo!) and recently donated to the public domain. The "upstream" project is now hosted at SourceForge [2], and I've taken over maintainership at least for the time being. Currently it does not work on 64-bit architectures. That's a known problem and something I hope to correct soon. Feel free to report other bugs to Red Hat's Bugzilla or the bug tracker at SourceForge. Matthew Barnes [1] http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra_linux_mac_server.html [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/zimbraevo

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