openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1

Okay. A bit of GUI revamp, mainly what I noticed was the top right menu, which is consolidated to one menu. Most of it should be self-evident, maybe except the user, which just allows you to log out.

The other thing that was revamped was Nautilus (and some other certain programs) where the window bar was removed and the innards of the window redone to allow the user to close the window and such. Before applying the theme I use, Nautilus would glitch out and either close or give me this weird looking window (to which i had to close anyway); I just find it weird that nautilus stabilized after a used a different theme.

Ibus and SCIM still don't work (:/)

The tweak took also had the same GUI revamp as nautilus, and also was reordered and cleaned up a bit as well.

During installation, it asks to use BTRFS. I installed it on the Dell and it seemed to make things work a bit faster. I remember last time I tried to use BTRFS, the system couldn't boot properly. For Triela, I tried it, but after declining the bootloader installation, it notified me along the lines of that it would be impossible to boot... and it was right. (XD)

I'm assuming that booting using BTRFS uses a different method, so it essentially "chain-loads" into it. While I really wanted to try BTRFS out on Triela, I wasn't willing to install and control the bootloader from 13.1, since I'll be installing RC1 over B1 when that time comes.

openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4

Not too much has changed since M1. There's a bit of tweaks in some of the settings, nothing exactly worth mentioning, as it's pretty small.

Had a bit of issues with themes and Xorg. Not sure if it's the Dell, or if there's some other underlying problem. Couldn't get the icon theme to work at all, and every so often, the window border theme would kinda glitch out a bit.

A bit off topic, I've gotten Ibus to work in 12.3, so I can type in Japanese again. With 13.1M4, neither Ibus nor SCIM work; hopefully it's just a development bug.

13.1 Beta 1 should be released next week, so I'll download that and test it out when the time comes (I was going to wait for it, but my 13.1M1 disk got mislabelled or something?).

I'll test 13.1M4 on Triela when I have a chance. More to come.

(Edit)

I've gotten a chance to try it out on Triela. Besides the issue with the icons, some of the problems I had with the Dell didn't show up. Other than that, ibus and scim still won't work.