Comments on: A quick look at Gnomebuntu 12.10 Alpha!

By: Links 1/10/2012: September News of Interest | Techrights

Links 1/10/2012: September News of Interest | Techrights — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:19:51 +0000

[...] A quick look at Gnomebuntu 12.10 Alpha! [...]

By: alex285

alex285 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Hello Stinger,
I didn’t have any issue to install Gnome Ubuntu :)
Thank you for the info though!

By: Stinger

Stinger — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Hey Alex
It’s a bit tricky to install the Ubuntu Gnome Remix 20120902, but not
impossible.
Here is how I did:

– Boot the live CD / USB into a live session
– Launch a Terminal and use the following commands:
– sudo apt-get update
– sudo apt-get upgrade ubiquity

Now you can proceed with your installation routine.

If you, like me, use the manual partitioner, please be sure you install the
boot loader on your hard drive (sda) , ubiquity likes to install it to your
USB-drive, a known bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/987418
Here is another tread to follow the Ubuntu GNOME Remix developer snapshot
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2052509

Cheers !

By: Zareason ships Gnome 3 pre-installed in Ultrabook! | woGue

Zareason ships Gnome 3 pre-installed in Ultrabook! | woGue — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:46:05 +0000

[...] A quick look at Gnomebuntu 12.10 Alpha! [...]

By: alex285

alex285 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Oh I see. I don’t know if Global menus can work with Gnome 3.6. At least with Nautilus menu.

By: hictio

hictio — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Alex, thanks, I know it is not a Global Menu per se, but the GNOME 3 implementation works like that way. That’s why I asked.
Even if this is not a proper Global Menu, I personally prefer that than having each window with its own menu.

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/InstallGnome3
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/get-global-menu-in-gnome-shell.html

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:17:00 +0000

Oh, this isn’t Global Menus. It’s called Application Menu. Global Menus is what Unity has. GTK3 Apps can have normal menus plus the application menu. The point on that is that App Menu affects the whole application, while the normal menu affects the current context.

Synaptic is still on GTK2.

By: hictio

hictio — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Hey, on the “Software Application” screenshot there seems to be support for GNOME Global Menu like menus; but then again, on the “Synaptic” screenshot the application window has the traditional menu options on the application same app window.
There will be more development towards the Global Menu?

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:56:00 +0000

Gnomebuntu has been dropped (I think) as a name. I just call it like that coz of http://gnomebuntu.org/

By: Michael O.

Michael O. — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:42:00 +0000

Gnomebuntu, what an ugly and long name. Could you guys name it, just Gubuntu? Who cares about Goobuntu from Google, that one is not a distro available for use. So, guys name it short and beautiful. After this, everything looks great.

By: Jeremy Bicha

Jeremy Bicha — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:14:00 +0000

Yes, that’s the reason GNOME Shell 3.5.90 isn’t in the Ubuntu archives yet. You probably got it from ricotz’s testing PPA which is more bleeding edge.

Try installing gdm and setting it as default.

By: jsnj

jsnj — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:15:00 +0000

Yes. That would be ideal and hopefully that extension will also recognize urls as unity dash/lens does.

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:11:00 +0000

It’s a complete removal. I don’t know if you can use the search providers of Shell for making something similar. But I liked the proposal in this bug report for having “gg:” and “wk:”. I hope they do that as an extension for 3.6.

By: jsnj

jsnj — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:04:00 +0000

I couldn’t tell from reading that bug report whether they plan on a reimplementation using a different method or if they are just going to leave it at its present state of removal. I personally removed the wikipedia search and instead used a customized version of the Google search, “browse by name” which allowed me to type urls or searches directly from shell. So if they don’t bring it back or if an extension won’t be created, I’ll definitely miss it. Only KDE has the feature built into its desktop, but I prefer gnome-shell

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:44:00 +0000

Yes, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670168

By: jsnj

jsnj — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:09:00 +0000

Have google & wikipedia opensearch been removed from activities overview search in 3.5.90?

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:33:00 +0000

yeap, same issue here.

By: jsnj

jsnj — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:27:00 +0000

“–> GNOME Shell is only at 3.5.4 because newer versions require GDM to be running <–."

I'm currently using GS 3.5.90 in quantal. Not sure if it's in ubuntu's repository or ricotz's ppa, because I've added that ppa. But most is working fine with LightDM. The only issue I've noticed is when the screen locks. Lock screen w/clock etc… looks great but when you raise the "curtain" to unlock, no dialogue appears, just a gray screen and it won't accept keystrokes(to log out) obviously because it's locked. Fortunately, I use easystroke and am able to use a gesture to log out from the lock screen which sends the command 'gnome-session-quit –logout'. That's the only real issue I've found with the lack of GDM, but logging in/out of a session is not a problem.

By: alex285

alex285 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:23:00 +0000

My bad, fixed! Keep up the good job!

By: Jeremy Bicha

Jeremy Bicha — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:16:00 +0000

Thanks for the review.

It might be worth noting that Synaptic isn’t pre-installed but is available for install like any other Ubuntu app.