Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, GitHub indeed offers many features that Gnome's git web interface doesn't. But may I ask why you chose GitHub and not some other service? I'll tell you why it's important in my humble opinion, to ask this question. As you many have heard already, most Git hosting websites use proprietary

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
The results GitHub brings are not relevant in this case. TONS of useful software have been created - and are still being created - using Microsoft tools, and many other proprietary tools. So what? I think it's somewhat unfair to make the GitHub mirroring automatic and let people send their

Re: Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-07-02 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello Maciej, On ג', 2013-07-02 at 12:09 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 17:52 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Hello everyone, This is a draft of the Quick Start part of a tutorial I'm writing for a data definition language I made. https://gitorious.org/peer

Re: Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-06-29 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
what you think, I'll be thankful. It's s short quick-start tutorial. A primer. https://gitorious.org/peer-review/peer-review/trees/master Thanks in advance, Anatoly On ג', 2013-06-18 at 05:32 +0300, Luc Pionchon wrote: On 17 June 2013 09:43, אנטולי קרסנר tomback...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

Re: Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-06-17 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
could grasp it, and you will also get a better view of the feasibility. Don't care much about user testing, it's up-side down business thinking. Do something useful, and you'll get some users. go ahead! In any case that is certainly a good learning experience On 29 May 2013 18:02, אנטולי

Re: Switching Between Applications in Gnome 3

2013-06-17 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
I agree we shouldn't scroll through tabs with Alt-Tab, but I can understand where the problem comes from. Very frequently I click on a link in Evolution or open containing folder or a file downloaded with Epiphany, and instead of having a new Nautilus/Epiphany tab open, the result is a whole new

PERT and CPM algorithms and utilities

2013-06-11 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, I've been writing a task management app, and I want it to be able to handle PERT, CPM, WBS data, etc. Take some user-defined data, run algorithms and return results, which can then be displayed bu GUI, e.g. Gnome Planner. While sitting in boring lectures I already started writing and

Switching Between Applications in Gnome 3

2013-05-30 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, I've been using Gnome 3.4.2 for long time. I started using Gnome 3 because I believe in innovation and evolution through trial and error. But I noticed a problematic recurring pattern in my usage of my laptop (I don't carry it anywhere, and it's has a large screen, so it can be considered

Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-05-29 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello everyone, I'm an individual not working on any Gnome module. I'll try not to get into much detail (likely to fail on this one), but here's the idea I have: After reading about existing GTD software tools I made the following conclusions: * There are GUI tools * There are plain-text

Re: Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-05-29 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
. New research is always welcome, and if you manage to get random end-users to fluently understand your language system through concentrated user testing, I'll gladly welcome it. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, אנטולי קרסנר tomback...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone

Re: Idea For Semantic Text-Based GTD Application

2013-05-29 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
. Don't care much about user testing, it's up-side down business thinking. Do something useful, and you'll get some users. go ahead! In any case that is certainly a good learning experience On 29 May 2013 18:02, אנטולי קרסנר tomback...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm

Re: loomio

2013-04-26 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
I never said the development teams should use it. I realized technical decisions can't be made by community voting. But - 1. Sometimes a team is interested in seeing what the community/other teams think 2. Some decisions are not technical, like you said the marketing team can find loomio useful

Re: loomio

2013-04-24 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
+0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Hello, I found a tool for collaborative decision making and brainstorming called loomio: https://www.loomio.org/ It's open for private beta, and I think Gnome, as a community project, can really benefit from using it. Currently the communication between

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
I agree, random people can't have the same influence on votes like the people actually seriously involved, but like Sri and Marco said, there are already existing cases in which such a system can be very useful. Seif offered to try it with the Gnome Music team, but anyone else who wants to give

Re: loomio

2013-04-15 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
I agree, I didn't mean to change the way module maintainers make specific technical decisions for their modules. But many decisions are relevant for the whole community, and using such software would allow people to participate more easily and give them a feeling their voice counts. Keeping track

Re: loomio

2013-04-15 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
use cases. Maybe it can, maybe it can't, but don't judge so quickly. On ב', 2013-04-15 at 22:19 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 14:49 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Keeping track of the process would become much easier than the current mix of IRC, mailing lists and wiki pages

Re: loomio

2013-04-15 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
the whole infrastructure for it. I would say the sooner the better. Cheers Seif On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:33:06PM +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: So I'm not attacking the relevance of existing tools. I'm

loomio

2013-04-14 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, I found a tool for collaborative decision making and brainstorming called loomio: https://www.loomio.org/ It's open for private beta, and I think Gnome, as a community project, can really benefit from using it. Currently the communication between people in the project is done in several

Re: [OT] Re: [Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
+0200, Andre Klapper wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 01:46 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Fact: many of them know it's bad. Fact: it doesn't make them stop using it. Fact: if Gnome is good enough without Facebook, it can help them stop using it. Fact: it supplies integration and GOA accounts, thus

Re: [OT] Re: [Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
-04-12 at 19:29 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 19:40 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: What does competing on the market mean? Do you get a salary for working on Gnome projects, which depends on how many people use your software? Primarily, markets are based on interest

Re: [OT] Re: [Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
-04-12 at 19:29 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 19:40 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: What does competing on the market mean? Do you get a salary for working on Gnome projects, which depends on how many people use your software? Primarily, markets are based on interest

Re: [OT] Re: [Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello Karen, I must say I really like your writing skill and excellent verbal expression ability :) Thanks for making things clear. I agree with you, providing access to popular services is a pre-requisite for many people, while providing free-software alternatives is still a primary goal, and

Management Tools used by Gnome project

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello everybody, I'm gathering information about how free software projects are managed and I'll be thankful if someone can explain briefly which technologies are used by Gnome. As far as I know, there's no special project management software in use. I do know some tools: The GnomeLive wiki,

Re: Management Tools used by Gnome project

2013-04-12 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
On ו', 2013-04-12 at 18:05 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 03:59 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Hello everybody, I'm gathering information about how free software projects are managed and I'll be thankful if someone can explain briefly which technologies are used

Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas

2013-04-11 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
The first idea sounds good, but I don't think the second one is worth anyone's effort. Just a personal opinion, but as a Facebook user in the past, I've seen how loads of notifications keep you addicted and distracted and don't let you do the useful things you planned to do. There may be some

Re: [Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-11 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
--- Da: אנטולי קרסנר tomback...@gmail.com A: daniel.mustie...@gmail.com CC: mat...@member.fsf.org, GNOME Desktop Development List desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Oggetto: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas Data: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:30:42 +0300 The first idea sounds good, but I don't think the second one

Tools for Sharing Tasks

2013-04-02 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hi, This is a somewhat technical question, I hope this is the right place for it. I'm writing a GTK application which manages tasks and projects. At the moment it's more or less like GTG (Getting Things Gnome). I want to add task sharing, and I've been thinking what's the right way to do that.

Re: Tools for Sharing Tasks

2013-04-02 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
and the easier way to go. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, אנטולי קרסנר tomback...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is a somewhat technical question, I hope this is the right place for it. I'm writing a GTK application which manages

Re: Tools for Sharing Tasks

2013-04-02 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
could start by getting an ESource from libedataserver, and use it accordingly. Cheers, Matteo Il giorno mar, 02/04/2013 alle 19.25 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר ha scritto: Hi, This is a somewhat technical question, I hope this is the right place for it. I'm writing a GTK application

File usage design - store aplication data in home folder

2013-04-02 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hi, I couldn't find advice on the web for a question related to designing file usage of desktop applications (and gnome software in general): Assume I have an app which allows the user create notes or tasks or messages or similar pieces of text, usually not more than a few paragraphs long. I

Question: Standard formatting of date/time strings

2013-02-06 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hi, In Glib there's a structure GDateTime, and there's a function which converts it into a string using a given format string, passed as a parameter. (Personally I work with glibmm, i.e. I use Glib::DateTime) I'd like to convert my datetime object to a string, but how do I choose the format? I'd

Undo system for Gnome applications

2013-02-06 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, I noticed each Gnome application (Gedit, Gnote, Planner and many many more) has its own way to implement undo-redo capabilities. Is there a reason we don't use a common undo-redo interface? Even if the interface itself is very simple (and it is), using a common one minimizes code