I love GNOME and Fedora, but “upgrading” from Fedora 17 to 18 did not go well for me. I recommend you wait until either these are all fixed, or Fedora 19+ suits your needs. Here are a list of problems I had, and some workarounds. Hopefully proper patches to these bugs will get merged quickly, so that you don’t need to use these fixes.
Problem: Boot fails after upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18. I used the new “fedup” method.
Workaround: I did a fresh install. Make sure you have backups first, of course. I didn’t feel like spending a lot of time debugging why it broke.
Problem: The <Backspace> key no longer goes “up” in nautilus. I hope this wasn’t a “feature removal”.
Workaround: Add:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace")
to your: ~/.config/nautilus/accels and restart nautilus of course.
Problem: Split view (extra pane) functionality is missing in nautilus 3.6
Workaround: The GNOME developers plan to eventually replace this in a similar form. Until then, you can install the nemo file manager, which is a fork of nautilus 3.4 and is packaged in Fedora 18. (yum install nemo nemo-open-terminal)
Problem: GNOME Shell background is entirely black in overview mode.
Workaround: Using gnome-tweak-tool, under the “Desktop” section, set “Have file manager handle the desktop“, to “OFF“. Unfortunately, this disables viewing of files on your desktop. This wasn’t a problem in Fedora 17.
Problem: Restarting the X server with the familiar Control-Alt-Backspace, can’t be enabled in the keyboard shortcuts menu as it used to.
Workaround: This option is now hidden in the gnome-tweak-tool under typing: terminate.
I hope this scratches your itches!
Happy hacking,
James
Removing the backspace to go up in nautilus: http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=2f1c80cc419b7e77972f63b448afe63d37994c74
Although the reasons seem a bit bogus, couldn’t they have simply figured out a solution that only went activated the binding when the search was not active?
I wish they had. This has annoyed a lot of people :( Now we all use Nemo.
Also, I want my mouse wheel gtknotebook tab scrolling back. Major points to anyone who fixes this!
For the backspace, it was not working for me, the correct line to add was :
(gtk_accel_path “/ShellActions/Back” “BackSpace”)
Damn HTML tidy, add an befor /ShellActions
That’s fine too… Keep in mind, I want my backspace to do “up” not “back” as it historically always has. You’re obviously welcome to have it be “back” instead, as currently it just does nothing.
Yeah but the real missing part is the Action tag (before /ShellActions) which is removed by WordPress in the post and comments :P
Oh yeah! Stupid wordpress ripped that out. I’ve force added it back in :)