Am Donnerstag, den 21.04.2011, 23:45 -0500 schrieb Adam Miller:
Hello XFCE land!
I've been unfortunately busy lately and just today got a chance to
download the Fedora 15 Xfce Spin Beta image. I have fired it up and its
*really* good, the install process went great and the Xfce upstream
appears to have nullified the issue with the "ghost mounting" of
something that wasn't there which causes a false error popup during
install, so yey!
Also, major kudos to Christoph for leading the packaging charge for this
release of Xfce! Your efforts are much appreciated.
Thanks a lot! :)
A side note on this: I might be unresponsive from time to time recently
because I am very busy with my dayjob. I have just released the Kolab
Groupware Server 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 is about to follow. The Kolab
development is gaining speed and Kolab Systems is about to take off.
Now on to the "errrm.... " mentions.
It looks like we're still using Slim which seems to prompt for a
password at login of the live user, I don't know that it actually checks
for a password or just accepts anything because I just guessed "live"
and it let me log on. I'm not against sticking with Slim for the release
but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make it autologin?
It is LXDM and not Slim, and you can enter whatever password you like.
Autologin only works on the first time when the live media is started. I
know this is confusing, that's why I changed it back to GDM on April 9th
in
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=commit;h=e46a627...
Next is the default GTK theme, its not using Adwaita which makes
anything the user were to install that's written in GTK3 look ....
"blocky" Can we get some +1's to changing that default config?
This was already changed in xfce4-settings-4.8.1-3.fc15 which was pushed
to stable on April 15th, see
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-settings-4.8.1-3.fc15
Also, I notice the gnome sound applet in the system tray but it
doesn't
appear to do anything and I can't figure out where its coming from
because it doesn't seem to be listed in the xfce settings auto start
under session. So that's strange and looks bad because there's two
sound controllers in the panel this non functional gnome one and the
xfce mixer panel plugin.
This was changed in control-center-3.0.0.1-3.fc15 which was pushed to
stable on April 15th, see
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/control-center-3.0.0.1-3.fc15
I also see we still have Evince installed and I seem to remember
there
being talk of replacing it with xpdf or some other viewer that I can't
seem to remember the name of. I don't mind either way, was just curious
what the status of that was.
Changed to epdf on April 9th, when I added Gnumeric again, see
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=commit;h=54d16ac...
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=commit;h=cbc726f...
Other than that I think everything looks amazing and I have yet to
find
any issues with the default install from the Live media, everything
seems to be running like a champ!
There are a few issues remaining, but we will get them fixed for final.
Taka a look at the tracker bugs
F15Target-xfce:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678916
F15Blocker-xfce:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678917
As you see all of the issues you mention should be fixed already and I
have no idea why they are not in the beta or how to get them in. In the
past I just filed tag requests and rel-eng tagged the packages but now
that we have the NTH and Blocker process and my tag reqzests are closed
invalid. :(
CC'ing Adam Williamson, he might know more.
Adam, as you see it's not just the lxde-common package that has missed
the LXDE Spin beta but also *a lot* of other packages for Xfce. Were you
aware of these issues in the Go/Nogo meetings? If not, what should we
have done to bring them up to your attention? Our Xfce tracker bugs are
already blocking F15-Target and F15-Blocker but on the other hand we are
told that spins cannot block something. I find this very confusing, it
doesn't seem to work out for the spins and in the end, things get less
testing because they are not released in time.
Please let us know how the process is supposed to work in order to avoid
these things in the future.
Regards,
Christoph