LWN: Comments on "GNOME 3.18"

GNOME 3.18

daenzer — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:56:44 +0000

Try this gnome-shell extension : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7/removable-drive-...

GNOME 3.18

pabs — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 01:51:07 +0000

Characters is the JavaScript rewrite. I have it installed now and it definitely has feature regressions (and additions), in particular it doesn't allow browsing by Unicode block; you can't browse apart from search results and various symbols. Also it doesn't show the Unicode information that gucharmap does.

GNOME 3.18

mathstuf — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:07:06 +0000

I've just been using adb push and adb pull, but I also haven't looked at MTP in a long time either. That Marshmallow allows ext4 SD cards is going to be a vast improvement too :) . Finally I can have UTF-8 filenames for my music files.

GNOME 3.18

zlynx — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:12:17 +0000

It has been several years since I last used a phone that mounted as VFAT. I don't miss it. :-)

MTP is so much better. For example, instead of unmounting it I can just yank the plug and go. And the phone doesn't lose access to its own drive while plugged into USB.

But I think there is some kind of FUSE filesystem for MTP which would probably work well with the automount technique.

GNOME 3.18

mathstuf — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:03:24 +0000

Something like that might be better for automount:

/etc/auto.master:
/mnt/phone /etc/auto.phone --timeout=1,--negative-timeout=1

/etc/auto.phone:
myphone -fstype=vfat,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,noexec,noatime,nodev,context="system_u:object_r:removable_t" :/dev/disk/by-uuid/XXX

(uid= and gid= aren't needed for non-vfat, non-ntfs filesystems)

Then drop a file in /etc/udev/rules.d to set UDISKS_IGNORE or UDISKS_AUTO for the phone (your preference; the latter will allow you to unmount with udisks still) set so that it doesn't get caught up in the udisks stuff.

Then entering /mnt/phone/myphone will mount it as needed and unmount it after a second of non-use to keep it in a consistent state. Trying if it is not there will expire the failure after 1 second as well so downtime is minimal as well.

Then just add a bookmark to the mount location in Nautilus (or whatever it's called these days; Files?).

GNOME 3.18

cebewee — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 19:34:13 +0000

And contrary to the other notifications, this one does not vanish by itself, but you have to explicitly close it ... very annoying, as the USB connector of my phone is loose and I have to replug it quite often .

GNOME 3.18

sramkrishna — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:42:10 +0000

It shows up as a notification and you have the option to open it up in Nautilus at that point.

GNOME 3.18

spaetz — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:01:21 +0000

> Ah, that's not too bad, though still annoying.

Quite so. When I plug in an USB stick, I am quite likely to actually use/access it.

GNOME 3.18

cortana — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:28:15 +0000

Ah, that's not too bad, though still annoying.

GNOME 3.18

zlynx — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:21:26 +0000

Sorry I should have clarified. Gnome 3.18 Nautilus added a "Other Locations" button that you have to click now. Once you click that it shows everything that used to be on the location sidebar.

GNOME 3.18

cortana — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:39:35 +0000

WTF, how are you meant to safely remove them! And/or navigate to the files in the first place...

GNOME 3.18

zlynx — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:32:31 +0000

I don't get why they decided to hide removable USB drives from the File Manager / Nautilus. They claim it removes "clutter" but they left Google Drive and cell phone entries in the list? If USB drives are adding clutter to what's already there, they must have been testing with some system with more than four drives or something else crazy.

I can get "clutter" if I use a 10 port USB hub and plug in every thumb drive I own, but I don't think that's a reasonable use case.

Ejecting my backup drive to move my laptop is now even more inconvenient for no benefit.

GNOME 3.18

robbe — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:44:35 +0000

Don’t they dogfood? They could have used this Characters app to write „Göteborg“ as its inhabitants do.

GNOME 3.18

cortana — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:10:41 +0000

gucharmap 3.18 here, View → By Unicode Block should (I think) give you what you want. For me it orders the blocks with Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, ...

GNOME 3.18

sramkrishna — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:42:00 +0000

It's actually a little better because it adds an overview search. So you can hit meta, and then type in smile or something and get some emoticons and what not. It also has a recently used list so you can quickly use the characters you frequently used.

GNOME 3.18

flussence — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:06:11 +0000

I wish gucharmap 2.x was still supported — it used to sort by numeric codepoint of a block, but the GTK+3 version sorts by alphabetical block name. It may look subjectively pretty that way, but it's also useless for usability since the implicit visual metadata of the original ordering has been lost.

The old version still works, but that only has character data up to Unicode 6.0, and the developers seem to have omitted the data update script from the tarball.

GNOME 3.18

b7j0c — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:41:16 +0000

Google Drive integration looks cool. I use Drive all the time and this is a very nice feature.

GNOME 3.18

josh — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:36:04 +0000

Looking at Characters, I wonder how much it shares with gucharmap, and whether it really needed a rewrite or just a UI refresh.

I also hope the new Characters app still has the same functionality gucharmap did for browsing by Unicode block; I don't see obvious indications of that in the screenshot.

GNOME 3.18

coulamac — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 03:52:51 +0000

Congrats to the Gnome developers on another nice release! I look forward to seeing xdg-app bundles develop in the future.