Re: A lot of very unhappy Linux and other OS users

[Svante Signell <svante signell telia com>]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:35 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 00:29 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > No replies?
> > 
> > Not from users, nor developers. Something is definitely wrong here.
> 
> Something is wrong because nobody responded to a barrage of emails
> within three hours? I'm a developer. I don't get paid to do this.

Noted, I just got carried away with all the sudden changes by upgrading
to gnome3!

> > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:48 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:43 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 18:31 +0100, x y wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
> > > > > > <lenzi sergio gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> ok... but if you do not have the gnomeshell??  what about those
> > > > > > >> 200 desktops that are unable to display 3D???
> > > > > 
> > > > > Where is the netspeed applet? And why does pidgin not work any longer
> > > > > (not finding a connection that is there?)
> 
> There are no applets in GNOME Shell. The "everything is an applet,
> let's cram everything up there" model of GNOME Panel was a mess,
> and a pain for anybody doing documentation and support.
> 
> I'm sure somebody could write a netspeed shell extension.

So the latest netspeed package is useless in gnome3?

> > > And how do I get rid if the annoying sounds?
> 
> Do you mean the alert sound?
> 
> 1. Click your name on the top bar and select System Settings.
> 2. Open Sound.
> 3. On the Sound Effects tab, select Mute.

Thanks, that worked!

>  And why do I have two users when logging in to gdm3 after the
> > > > upgrade, how to resolve that?
> 
> That sounds like a bug in your distribution's upgrade process.

Maybe, but now it is there. How to get rid of only one of them?

> > > And where do I set the time/date views? I'm not fond of US AM/PM style
> > > in gdm3 login window,
> 
> The date and time display are controlled with the region and
> language formats.
> 
> 1. Click your name on the top bar and select System Settings.
> 2. Open Region and Language.
> 3. Select the Formats tab.
> 
> At this time, you can only select a region that matches the settings
> you like most. I wouldn't mind more fine-grained control myself. (I'm
> in the US, but I don't think weeks should start on Sunday.) I'm sure
> you can manage to set some of this manually by setting various LC_*
> environment variables. 

Let's hope for more fine-grained settings then. Evolution did also force
people to use the defaults according to Region and Language. Now they
have backed out of that nonsense. I normally use English as language,
and Europe/Stockholm as region. But I'm not happy with the defaults
enforced on me with this choice.

> 
> >  and in in the only panel left, how to show the
> > > date in addition to the time?
> 
> gsettings set  org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true

Thanks, that worked. Is there no menu available? How would I ever find
out about the above command without digging very deep in user-guide etc.

> Or just download GNOME Tweak Tool. It has both of these and more.

This should not be necessary, it should be available in the basic
setup :(

Regarding the UI: Why do you enforce a tablet style on all users, even
for people with desktops and laptops? And there is no compatibility mode
available, right?

And why requiring DRM to get reasonable performance under 3D! A 2D mode
should be available, only requiring software openGL rendering. Not
everybody has graphics cards with hardware acceleration. There are also
architectures not supporting hardware rendering. They are just left out
in the cold, not nice!