openSUSE 12.1 RC1 is out, with GNOME 3.2.1

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At the end of last week, we unleashed RC1 of our next openSUSE release (12.1, scheduled for November 16th), and it comes with GNOME 3.2.1, which went out only a couple of days before RC1. Go grab a live image if you want to play with either openSUSE or GNOME 3 :-) There are still a few bugs here and there to iron out, but overall, the experience is very solid!

Anonymous openSUSE 12.1 user

"I upgraded to openSUSE 12.1, and this dramatically improved my life!" — Anonymous

It really feels good to have this openSUSE release nearing, as we missed the GNOME 3.0 boat (openSUSE 11.4 was released one month before GNOME 3.0): I, and I assume a few others, felt that we were stuck in the past with GNOME 2 in our world for so long. Sure, the work on backporting GNOME 3.0 and then 3.2 to openSUSE 11.4 helped, but we really wanted to share what was in Factory... Especially as there was really a lot of work to properly integrate this new GNOME.

I'm obviously really glad to see the GNOME 3 love in openSUSE, but looking back at the last few months, what is even greater to me is that we got many amazing people contribute to the GNOME team through-out this cycle. I'm sure I'll forget some of them (apologies for that, let me know so I add your name!), but here's a quick list:

Atri Bhattacharya
Bjørn Lie
Casual J. Programmer
Dominique Leuenberger
Frédéric Crozat
Gary Lin
Guido Berhörster
Joey Zheng
Kirill Kirillov
Malcolm Lewis
Nelson Marques
Richard Brown
Sankar P
Scott Reeves
Stephen Shaw

Their various contributions include updating packages, fixing bugs, testing, polishing the experience, supporting users, providing ideas, and more! Go ahead and thank those people when you meet them (virtually or in the real life): they all make the GNOME team rock! And who knows, maybe next time you'll also be one of those rock stars?

Comments

1. Juanjo Marin [24/10/2011@20:32]

openSUSE 12.1 RC1 is much better than the previous beta. It works great ! :-)

2. Soren Hauberg [24/10/2011@20:53]

I'm shopping around for a new distro (leaving Ubuntu), so I tried the LiveCD. A few comments from brief usage (think of this as first impressions)

It's beautiful; I mean, wow, Gnome 3 looks better than anything I've seen elsewhere (the Window decorations look a bit pale, but that I can live with). And it's fast and smooth! Nice!

I want to get online. A notification appears telling me that I can press on it to connect to WiFi; somehow, I guess I didn't press the right place, because nothing happened when I pressed the text. Should I have pressed the icon rather than the text in the notification?

Anyway (still trying to get online), I went to the top of the screen and clicked on the network icon and selected my WiFi. I was then greeted with a dialog asking for the password for my WiFi, but the dialog did not have focus, so I ended up typing my password into the Gnome Shell search box. Not nice, I just showed my password to people around me :-( Finally, I clicked on the dialog, entered my password, and got online.

The LiveCD assumes that I'm using an American keyboard, which I'm not (I'm using a Danish keyboard). It would be nice if this was detected during startup.

But I must say, first impressions are quite good :-)

3. Soren Hauberg [24/10/2011@21:09]

Sorry to keep ranting, but I just tried playing with the online account stuff... I clicked on the user name (Live-CD User) at the top right corner and clicked "Online Accounts". This greeted me with a mostly empty window. Took me a little while to realise that I had to press the small "+" button at the corner of the Window to add an account; it would have been nice with something easier to discover (possibly even a Wizard when you don't have any online accounts activated).

Okay, so I clicked the "+" button and selected a Google account. This presented me with a Window that was too small to see (with out scrolling) the entire Google web page that I had to fill out, so that was a bit annoying. Anyway, I filled it out and clicked my way through the web stuff. At some point the keyring manager popped up asking me to create a password for the keyring such that my Google password is remembered; that seems reasonable. Since I'm just running of a USB stick right now, I went with the empty password. This presented me with the following dialog:

"
Store passwords unencrypted?

By choosing to use a blank password, your stored passwords will not be safely encrypted. The will be accessible to anyone with access to your files.

Cancel Use Unsafe Storage
"

Okay, that seems fine, except I cannot press neither the "Cancel" button nor the "Use Unsafe Storage" button due to some focus issue (I guess). So now I'm stuck with a dialog I cannot interact with :-( I guess that'll teach me not to use unsafe passwords!

4. Vincent [24/10/2011@22:19]

@Soren Hauberg: thanks for the good feedback!

Most of the issues you're highlighting are upstream issues that only affect people on first use, so that's something that gets less testing, and it's good that you reported them! I'll make sure we have bugs filed for this. For instance, the online accounts issues are https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug... and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug...

As for the keyboard layout on the live cd: in the grub menu, you can press F2 (iirc, or maybe F4) to change this.

5. tom [25/10/2011@03:53]

Klaas will hate you for using that picture ;-)

6. Inge Wallin [28/10/2011@14:14]

The guy in the picture is not Anonymous but Klaas Freitag. And the reason he looks so happy is because he is a KDE user and contributor. :-P

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