The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 15, 2011 20:58 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by nirbheek
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

It is true that, if "Pictures folder" is chosen, the images there are pre-populated from XDG_PICTURES_DIR (see ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs) -- and there's no way, it seems, to change this.

However, there is a '+' button that lets you pick your own image from a different folder to add to the list. ISTR it only starts appearing in the 2.9x.* betas, because I do remember having this problem the first time I switched to Rawhide, a month or so ago.

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Posted Mar 15, 2011 21:05 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (5 responses)

I'm running control-center-2.91.6; no "+" button in site here. Does it show up in a later version than that?

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 6:28 UTC (Wed) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111) [Link] (3 responses)

2.91.6 is a very old beta, tons of new features and bugfixes have landed since then. I strongly believe that 2.91.92 (to be released on Monday) or at the very least 2.91.91 (released March 9th) should've been reviewed.

Most of the reviews I've seen have reviewed the older betas, and often criticized GNOME 3 for bugs, glitches, and missing features that are already fixed. I had hoped LWN's coverage would be more up-to-date, especially since 2.91.6 was released 1.5 months ago.

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 13:11 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm running what rawhide packages - as noted in the article. Gnome-shell is at 2.91.91, for what it's worth.

According to the GNOME git repository, control-center 2.91.6 was tagged on February 2. The next release was 2.6.90, three weeks ago; I'm not sure why rawhide hasn't pulled it in yet.

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 14:18 UTC (Wed) by yaneti (subscriber, #641) [Link]

Often in this stage of development the prerelease branch has newer stuff than rawhide. You could try

# yum update --releasever=15 --enablerepo updates-testing --skip-broken

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:20 UTC (Wed) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111) [Link]

Ah, well, I suppose we should blame the rawhide folks for not updating it :)

However, the fcrozat has been releasing weekly livecd images[1] with GNOME 3[2] on them, although I haven't given them a spin myself.

1. http://blog.crozat.net/2011/03/gnome-3-live-image-010-rel...
2. http://gnome3.org/tryit.html

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Posted Mar 16, 2011 6:32 UTC (Wed) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111) [Link]

To answer your question about the add button in the gnome-control-center backgrounds panel, it was added a week after 2.91.6 was released:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?...