desktop September 2015

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Darktable Copr
by Josh Boyer 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hello, Today FESCo resolved ticket 1475[1], which was discussing how to handle the Darktable package. As Stephen Gallagher noted, this is a somewhat popular package for Workstation setups. It was suggested that Workstation include the more up-to-date Copr of Darktable in it's "playground" or "included by not enabled" repository setup. I'm forwarding this request to the Workstation group for review. Thank you. josh [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1475

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Distribute R-core package with a launcher and appdata
by Bastián Díaz 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hello everyone, my proposal is this: -Include a desktop launcher *.desktop for R (terminal=true) -Include information about application (aka appdata) In gnome-software working to promote appdata, but unfortunately only consider applications with GUI and for good reason, but I think you can give some exceptions like R. For example, Octave before its version 4.0 and official GUI, was distributed with desktop launcher and now has appdata, making it easy to install with gnome-software. R, it is a project with great reputation and widely used in research and academia. The benefits: -Very visible (easy to find and install/remove) -Easy to launch through the application view (gnome-shell) -Quick access to the project website -Rating and other benefits of gnome-software (running out-of-the-box, usage statistics?, etc.) Additional info: R now have a nice flat logo -> https://www.r-project.org/Rlogo.png Cheers -- Bastián Díaz

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Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Sep-16
by Paul W. Frields 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

I heartily apologize for this email being way too late, since I like to circulate a call for agenda a few days ahead of the meeting. I'm having a hard time finding what we need to decide in a WG meeting this week. There has been good discussion that started about Darktable -- resolved the specific issue for now, although there are spinoffs happening, albeit without a clear agenda-ready question. Am I missing a clear decision point for which we need to meet this week? -- Paul

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WG meeting today canceled
by Paul W. Frields 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

There's not sufficient reason to meet today; we'll plan to meet again in two weeks per normal. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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GDM memory leaks
by Michael Cronenworth 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Why is GDM kept around for Gnome logins? Is there a way to disable this "parent" GDM process? Over the course of a few days the GDM user process of gnome-shell balloons in memory usage from very small to very large. The following stats were produced on a box with a 5 day uptime and 8 GB of RAM. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1051 gdm 20 0 3024276 1.513g 23336 S 0.0 19.4 0:45.92 gnome-shell 1594 mcronen+ 20 0 2484876 469104 51276 S 3.0 5.7 47:02.37 gnome-shell This is a recurring theme[1]. Are there known fixes? (Only in Gnome Shell 3.18+?) Michael [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196190

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GNOME Terminal downstream patching: missing translations
by Adam Williamson 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Fedora is still insisting on diverging from upstream GNOME Terminal. I'm on the side that this isn't a great idea, but whatever, it's a valid thing to do. However, it's not good that bugs *introduced* by this downstream patching seem to be ignored: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208266 the package patched back in the "Use dark theme variant" option, but did not patch back in its translations, so it appears only in English. This was reported 5 months ago but hasn't received even an acknowledgment. If we're going to do this can we at least maintain the variance properly? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Sept-02
by Michael Catanzaro 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Next meeting is Wednesday, 2015-Sept-02 at 1400 UTC / 10:00am US-Eastern. Agenda additions are welcome, but might be deferred to the next meeting, since I have a big list. My plan is to get through the first four items rather quickly, and focus the meeting on Atomic. But we'll see what happens! - i686 install media no longer "primary/blocking deliverable" for F24 - Is the text on for the workstation product on getfedora.org OK? - SecureBoot enabled causes Win 8 UEFI to not start from grub - Drop Shotwell/Transmission for F23? - What are the next steps for Atomic Workstation?

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Is the text on for the workstation product on getfedora.org OK?
by Ankur Sinha 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hiya! We were recently discussing what marketing collateral we should have for the different products[1]. To paraphrase the rather long thread, the design and marketing teams have suggested that we have a timeless flyer for each product. ("Timeless" implying that the flyer will not be release specific and will not be updated per release). As part of this, we'd like the product WGs to please go over the text on getfedora.org and see if the text is OK or if they'd like to update it before F23. The idea here is to keep the text on the websites and the flyers in sync for a better, more uniform marketing system. Could this rather tiny task please be put on the WG's agendas? I'll file trac tickets if required :) [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2015-July/0177 45.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/Marketing_Collateral _Ideas#Plan.3F -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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DevAssistant vs. Interface Guidelines (Applications installed by default)
by Tomas Radej 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hi, DevAssistant upstream here. We're acutely aware of the DA GUI not conforming to the guidelines, and not only for that reason, we intend to drop it entirely and replace it with an in-house Web UI for Fedora 24. The replacement is a part of the larger effort of converting DA to a client/server model, which is underway, and should be ready for F24. If, then, there is someone willing to write a GTK-based GUI client for DA from scratch (the current GUI will not be usable at all due to reworked architecture), we'll be more than happy to help them make it happen (We already have some design sketches from Mizmo, so the design part is taken care of). Mind you that none of us really understands GTK, PyGObject, and the like, so it's the inner workings we can help with rather than making the GUI itself. We'll have a public DA server API out soon, so I can point the person to it once it's done. In any case, we're very much interested in DevAssistant staying installed by default, so we'd like to work this out before the actual suggestion of dropping it makes it to the table. If you have any questions or comments, please post to devassistant(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, or come to #devassistant at Freenode. Cheers, -- Tomas Radej

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Important workaround for brw_meta_fast_clear segfaults on some Intel GC
by Enrico Tagliavini 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Hi, this bug generated quite some fuss already in the internet, so probably you are aware of it. Since it is quite important I would like to bring it to your attention if it has been not. The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259443 This heavily (and mainly) affect desktops installation, especially KDE spins, but also multimedia applications. Since user experience is heavily affected (to the point I just recompiled mesa with the named workaround to get my work desktop usable again) I thought it was a good idea to point it out on the mailing list to hopefully get a workaround in quickly. Thank you for your help. Best regards Enrico

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