Rawhide First Impressions

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 31 00:57:31 UTC 2008


Martin Sourada wrote:

> Mixed feelings:
>  * Seems like we are more permissive in what an ordinary user can do. I
> opened some config dialogs without noticing, that I gained more
> rights... while it simplifies life a lot I am not sure it's the right
> thing to have it so much permissive by default...

Can you be more specific? If you have given permissions via PolicyKit 
you can choose to retain that authentication for the current session or 
permanently.

>  * Totem youtube plugin works, but totem cannot play the files, even
> with all the gstreamer-* lot form livna installed.

File a bug report?

>  * The packagekit package management tool cannot import gpg certificate
> for livna (so I had to install the first package in CLi via yum).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439728

>  * During yum transactions I'm getting 
> error: failed to stat /home/martin/.gvfs: Permission denied 
> but it does not seem to do any harm

This is just FUSE IIUC. You can ignore it.

>  * When I looked into system monitor I noticed that gvfs-fuse-daemon
> occupies nearly 7 GiB of my HDD space... Is there a way make the loss
> smaller?

Bug report?

>  * Compiz does not work (again regression). Starts fine, but after a
> while freezes whole ui (well, freeze is a bit strong... the ui is just
> not responsive and cursor stays the same), so I have to wait for the
> dialog to timeout. If I happen to close the dialog prior to freeze,
> killing X seems necessary...

Know issue. Should be fixed in an update.

Rahul




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