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.

openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1

Definitely some changes. The favourite application bar stays the same, but the application launcher is now different. It now lists your recent applications (or maybe it was frequent?) on the first page, and below the section, there's the tab buttons for recent and all. The bad thing with the recent is that you can't remove it (I wanted to get rid of xterm), but I guess over time they would get replaced with another application.

There's now folders in the application launcher, so things like gnome-terminal and such are in the "Utilities" folder... Which was a bit annoying, seeing as I had to use the search for "gnome-terminal", instead of how I'm used to which is just scrolling for it.

Hmm... All I can remember at the moment. More to follow.

openSUSE 12.3 Part 3

Another couple changes I found, the first being the notification bar. With 12.2 and 12.1, you tap the bottom right corner for the notification bar to appear. Now, you hold your cursor against the bottom of the screen until it comes up which is very nice since I remember accidentally bringing it up when I don't want it. The notification bar also shows up when you tap the top left or hit activities.

The other change is that the workspace preview bar is mostly hidden to the side except for a little bit, so when you move your cursor over there, it slides out showing you the entirety of it. Quite nice, since there's not much of a point to show you something you're probably not looking at.

I forgot I had FGLRX installed for both Mei-chan and Melty, so when I went to append to fstab and something else on Mei-chan, I was greeted with a broken wallpaper and broken GNOME 3 interface. Everything still worked fine, just looked bad. Looked for updates that weren't there, and tweaking then rebooting with no avail. Looked it up online and read on one of them that they didn't have a problem any more after installing FGLRX. (I was quite determined it was a GNOME 3 problem since none of it was broken when I logged in as root.) Installed it and then the background was fine, but I was in mirrored mode. Tried getting it set back up right, and couldn't... Then I remembered about catalyst. Did a bit of configuring/rebooting until I got it set up right, but the bar was on the wrong screen, and I was hoping that I wasn't gonna have to reboot again... I was about to use catalyst to turn the wrong monitor off temporarily, and then I thought to give the regular display option a go first, which was very successful.

After that, I went to backup whatever from Melty before installing and looked to see if I had FGLRX installed, so I would know ahead of time if I needed to install it or not (and I did). Hardly had any problems, minus making simple mistakes since I was still a bit sleepy. It went by decently quick (about 2.5 hours) for preparing, installing, updating, and configuring compared to a fresh installation of windows which took me all day or longer from what I remember... *rolls eyes*

Now I just need to update Lie-chan, though I hardly touch her at all :x

Updates, ugh... Part 2

Well, I thought it was the theme that broke it, so I moved it to where it was supposed to be, but it didn't do anything, so I deleted it, which didn't do anything either. I looked at the log file and couldn't really figure out what was going on, so I'm going to have Mei-chan be the first official installation of 12.3. Hopefully it all goes well.

Updates, ugh... Part 1

Well, I did an update for Mei-chan a couple days ago and X broke... so badly in fact, that I couldn't even get to the login screen to change GUI. I thought it was the same problem I had with Melty a while ago, but after installing unico and mist, it wasn't fixed. I saw "gtk-fallback.css" a number of times in the error log, so I'm thinking it might be my custom theme?

Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the theme I borrowed to make my custom one, and the fact that I didn't post it also bothers me... I think I got it from DeviantArt, so I'll look there when I have the time.

If I can figure out how to switch themes, X might work again... Perhaps deleting the theme itself might help (or it might break it even more XD)

Luckily, it's only Mei-chan that's affected right now, so it's not a huge deal, just annoying.

I think that's all for now.

openSUSE 12.3 Part 2

I'm too lazy to edit, but I forgot to add that LTS is no longer in effect... ALL openSUSE versions have the same lifespan of 2 versions + 2 months. I suppose it makes it easier on the development team (or whoever) to only have 3 (if I'm doing my maths right) versions out instead of 4, the fourth of which would be getting old kinda quick.