Ryan Lerch

Development Builds of Inkscape for fedora

ryanlerch — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:17:30 +0000

I have recently just started building RPMS for development versions of Inkscape. The previous stable version of fedora was first released back in August 23, 2010, so these development versions have a bunch of new features and improvements. There are currently builds for Fedora 17, 18 and 19 available. I hope to be able to update this to the inkscape trunk at least once a week.

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ryanlerch/inkscape-unstable/

To set this up on your Fedora machine, first download the .repo file:

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-inkscape-unstable.repo http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ryanlerch/inkscape-unstable/fedora-inkscape-unstable.repo

Then tell yum to update inkscape:

sudo yum update inkscape

Fedora Boot Experience

ryanlerch — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:49:54 +0000

In a recent thread on fedora-devel, (warning, it’s > 150 messages) there is discussion on what we should display to the user during a typical boot up. But to change and improve, defining and documenting what we already have is a good place to start.

Here is a quick set of screenshots that shows the screens that typical user may have to see and interact with when booting Fedora 18

1. Grub is displayed

GRUB is displayed by default on boot. There is a 5 second time-out for the user to do something. Or they can just press enter to boot the highlighted entry.

2. Grub boot details

GRUB then displays some output on what it is booting

Optional Disk encryption screen.

If the system has disk encryption enabled, you will see an input box with a lock beside it where the LUKS passphrase is entered.

3. Plymouth Boot

A grey screen appears, and a silhouette of the fedora logo is shown on the screen. It “fills up” with white as the boot progresses. At this point the user may press the ESC key to bring up the gritty details of the bootup sequence.

4. Bootup Complete

When the logo is filled up, the boot sequence is complete, and the fedora logo is shown in full colour

5. Login Screen Shows

The login screen is shown.

How do you stop GNOME applications (like nautilus) from hiding their titlebar when maximised?

ryanlerch — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:32:55 +0000

Easy! There is an Ask Fedora! question that has the answer for you!

We need your Fedora 19 Artwork / Wallpaper Ideas

ryanlerch — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:25:55 +0000

The Fedora Design Team has already started the brainstorming for the default wallpaper and artwork for Fedora 19.
The codename for Fedora 19 is Schrödinger’s Cat, and the Design Team usually tries to make the default artwork and wallpaper tie into the codename somehow.
Sadly, however, cute pictures of cats in boxes do not make good *DEFAULT* wallpapers.

So leave a comment here with your ideas / brainstorms / links to images for how to make a default wallpaper that ties into the codename!

Anaconda didn’t just shed its skin

ryanlerch — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:35:57 +0000

In a recent post, anaconda developer Will Woods provided the amazing statistic that:

about 90% of the Anaconda codebase was rewritten over 2 Fedora release cycles

This means that as well as having refreshed installer interface (aka newUI), the underlying code is cleaner, and easier to maintain.

Planeteria — Hosted blog aggregator planets in seconds!

ryanlerch — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:32:15 +0000

Thanks to the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, I have just discovered Planeteria. It is a hosted service that makes it super easy to create a Planet (like the Fedora Planet). If you want to follow the progress of the changes to Planeteria by Aleta Dunne (the GNOME OPW intern working on it) her blog is the best place.

This service is awesome for the smaller open source projects that do not have the infrastructure to set up their own servers to host a Planet Planet or Venus instance.

Alt + Click & Drag to move windows no longer works in Fedora 18 / GNOME 3.8

ryanlerch — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:56:13 +0000

In previous versions of Fedora running GNOME (pre Fedora 18, GNOME 3.6), a user was able to click and drag anywhere on a window while the ALT key was pressed to move the window. This behaviour has changed in Fedora 18. To replicate this behaviour, the user now needs to hold down the Super key (aka the meta key, or the Command key on an apple keyboard or the Windows key on a windows keyboard) while dragging anywhere on a window. Additionally, holding down ALT and Middle Clicking and dragging on a window previously allowed a user to resize the window. In Fedora 18 and GNOME 3.6, this key is now also the Super Key.

Want the old ALT key behaviour back?

Easy.

Open up the GNOME Tweak Tool
Choose the Windows category, from the list on the left hand side.
Change the option for Modifier to use for modified window click actions from Super to Alt.

Some wisdom on anaconda and major rewrites

ryanlerch — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:56:39 +0000

So, before ranting and raving about anaconda being different (not only from previous anaconda releases, but really significantly different from just about any other Linux installer out there), stop and think. Look for help, open your mind and try to see what it is trying to tell you. You might be surprised. I was.

http://www.zdnet.com/more-on-fedora-18_p4-7000009990/

FUDCon 2013 Photos – Day 1 – Lightning Talks

ryanlerch — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:52:28 +0000

FUDCon Photos – the morning of Day 1

ryanlerch — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:02:00 +0000

Here are some of the photos i took during the morning of day 1 of FUDCon Kansas. I am uploading them as the day goes along on the fudcon stream on google+