On Jul 9, 2013 11:40 PM, "John Morris" <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 20:34 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > This email was not helpful nor being excellent to each other. It also shows
> > a biased view that shows that the user didn't even try the version that
> > shipped in at least alpha onward which does not use gestures but just a
> > space or return. Next time try to actually be useful.
>
> Agreed. But then GNOME itself isn't too helpful and excellent hasn't
> been a word applicable to it for a couple of years now. Ya know we
> wouldn't get ticked off at this stuff if we didn't care about it, and it
> bothers us that stuff that was good and useful for years is now unusable
> rubbish and it was (intentionally?) made impractical to even keep the
> old stuff that worked. The whole bit with Cortez burning his ships
> might have worked out for him in the history books, but I bet his men
> didn't like it much at the time. Good grief, now I can't just ditch
> GNOME and move on, I'm going to gave to replace gdm as well.
>
> But no, not an earlier copy of Fedora. I installed the F19 release in a
> VM and banged away on the keyboard to no visible effect once it timed
> out and went to the tablet/phone style lock screen with the clock on it.
> Only the mouse would get a reaction from it. Just retried it to avoid
> doubling down on stupid. :) Fired up the VM and worked through more
> email until the lock screen appeared. Typed a character and the blanker
> did clear but my account name remained on the screen and that was as far
> as I could get without the mouse.
>
> Admitted that there are enough display/input bugs on F19 in a KVM
> (hosted on F18) that one could be biting me on this, but this doesn't
> look like a virtualization problem. Until the username is pointed to it
> doesn't light up and if it isn't lit it doesn't receive keyboard input.
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Please be careful with your use of the term "us", as this issue doesn't really "bother" me at all; mine was necessarily only that of an observation than anything resembling a complaint.
Thanks for the attention Mr. Smoogen,
Richard
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