Re: Evince and annotation support

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 08:26 -0400, joseph reni wrote:
> Have you used Mendeley Desktop, I know they make a Linux version [1].
> It will track all of your refs, plus it will store all your pdf files
> and allow you to annotate them.
> 
> 1. http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/linux/
> 
> 

Hello Joseph,

I have used Mendeley, and while it's amazing, I'm really looking for a
FOSS tool kit at the moment. There are various tools for various
purposes, but none that does them all (organizing, referencing,
annotations etc.) really. I'm just going through their respective road
maps to see what else is planned. 
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Evince and annotation support

Hello folks,

I've been looking for a pdf reader that provides annotation support.
It's a must for us research students that need to go through large
amounts of academic text. I ran into this bug[1] that says that Evince
would have annotation support in F15 (It was closed as "rawhide" long
back). I'm on the latest F17 system, but I can't find this in Evince
here. Would someone know what the status is? I've filed a fresh bug
too.[2]

I'm considering moving to okular or xournal which appear to have
annotation support out of necessity. However, I'd much prefer to stick
to my gnome set of tools :)

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530238
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825198
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InstallFedoraButton for LiveCD

Hello Desktop SIG,

I have created a gnome-shell extension for Fedora Desktop LiveCD which should make the Fedora Installer
more discoverable. I have discussed it on devel list:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/165234.html

and then proposed to include it into anaconda:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2012-April/msg00212.html

Since your interest is the desktop and its default look and feel, could you please voice your opinions on one
of those lists (preferably probably devel)?

Thanks.
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Beta RC3 available, please help with desktop validation

Hey, folks. 17 Beta RC3 is finally available now, please help with
desktop validation!

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC3/

KDE, Xfce and LXDE are pretty close to RC2, I think. GNOME 3.4 is in, so
Desktop has changed. We did test with an unofficial 'pre-RC3' live image
with GNOME 3.4 built in and found it passed all validation tests, so
that's good, but we should re-do them with the official build just to
make sure. Thanks!

As always, instructions and results matrix at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC3_Desktop

thanks again!
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Only fingerprint authentication to unlock screen in Gnome3 F16?

Hello,

I recently got my fingerprint reader to work. I can now use it to log in
to my system as an alternative to entering the password. However, when I
lock my screen (ctrl alt l), or when it gets locked with the
screen-saver automatically, I cannot enter my password to unlock it. The
only way to unlock it is the fingerprint reader. The text box is greyed
out. Is this intentional? Shouldn't both methods be available? eg
(happened today): If I'm snacking at my desk and my right hand is
unclean, I would like to type in my password with my left hand and get
on with some work (like check mails or view a video or surf the web
etc.) Of course, in this scenario my right index finger is the
registered one.

If I click on switch user and go back to the gdm login screen, I can
then use both the password and fingerprint reader to login to my user
again, but this isn't the same really. 

Can someone please confirm this behaviour? I shall file a bug if it is
one. 
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Fedora 17 Beta RC1 desktop validation needed

Hey folks!

By some miracle we've managed to get Fedora 17 Beta RC1 out almost on
time:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC1/

As always, we need to do the desktop validation for it. See the desktop
validation page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC1_Desktop

And please, if you can, help us to fill in the results for your
desktops. Desktop team, I know we didn't get 3.3.92 into Beta and sorry
about that, but we do need to check it passes the validation tests - the
ones for Beta aren't too difficult and shouldn't take long to do, so if
you can help that'd be great.

I have done a smoke test on all four desktops; they all boot okay to a
sane looking desktop and successfully install to hard disk and boot from
hard disk, so they're all clearly testable, not DOA.

Thanks everyone!
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Fwd: Re: Release Notes Update

From the docs@ list, FYI, in case someone has some time in which they
can contribute to release notes for desktop, system daemons, web
servers, or for that matter any other existing beats:

----- Forwarded message from "John J. McDonough" <wb8rcr <at> arrl.net> -----

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:27 -0400, Christopher R. Antila wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have some unexpected extra time today, so I'll finish the Desktop beat.

That would be much appreciated.  I need to get cracking on the RPM or it
won't make it into beta.  I see we have KDE there but no GNOME.  Without
some help there will be no mention of GNOME 3.4 in the RNs (other than a
word in Overview).  Also, there are some minimal notes in Musicians.  Do
they need to be embellished or will we leave that beat blank?

On https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats I have marked as
empty those beats that I think will be empty in the release notes.  If
anyone feels like that is a problem you only have a few hours to fix it.

I'm going to get working on the Multimedia beat.  If anyone could grab
the Daemons beat it would be much appreciated.  Or the other way around,
if someone wants to take Multimedia while I work on Daemons that would
work, too.

Also, Yuri made some notes in Web Servers.  If he or someone else could
embellish those it would be good.

I anticipate building the RPM around 1800Z. I will then be looking for
folks to quickly give it some karma.

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Testing Empathy: audio and voice calls

I am looking for someone who will be interested in acting as a dummy
to test audio and video calls using the Empathy / Telepathy stack in
Fedora 17.

The way I plan to do it is to place a few audio calls to the dummy
from a few Jabber servers, and then ask the dummy to call me back.
Will repeat the process with video calls.

If something does not work as expected, we might have to repeat the
particular call to try and reproduce the problem, save the logs, etc..

Please contact me offlist if you are interested.

Thanks,
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Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience [FIXED MESSAGE]

Looking at the desktop archives to make sure my message got into the
list, I noticed it was split in a strange way. I don't know who's
fault is that, gmail or mailman.
To make sure you all got this message properly, here is a copy of it.

Sorry.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elad Alfassa <elad <at> fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor
but kinda important for user experience
To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
<desktop <at> lists.fedoraproject.org>

1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default
and given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name
in the menu?
From IRC:
<adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was
previously called Date and Time. see the problem with that?
<elad661> yes, I do
<elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control
panel provides the functionality) or find a better name.
<elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop
file might be a good idea

2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought
gnome boxes provides this functionality now.

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