Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-24 Thread Glynn Foster
On 22/07/2009, at 3:54 PM, Calum Benson wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 20:06, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Obviously the alleged pointlessness of something that we are arguing about is relevant. Whether or not there are--you know--actual people using said OS is what this is really about. And

Re: Why have a ChangeLog file if you already have commit messages?

2007-09-17 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Callum McKenzie wrote: For some modules, like gnome-applets or gnome-games, with lots of small - loosely related - programs inside, the ChangeLog has a finer granularity than the commit message. The ChangeLog provides a coherent story for the sub-module - something the commit messages

Re: Proposing GtkUnique 1.0 as a blessed external dependency

2006-11-15 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hi; On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:10 -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: Even if it implemented tabs, it's likely that the apps run on different workspaces, and it's nice to have the help browser right next to the app for which you seek help. GtkUnique would only be

Re: proposed architecture evolutions for GConf

2006-11-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Davyd Madeley wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 12:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: There are several ways to deal with a single-session, single-host configuration engine. Real problems arise when the user can log in several times on different machines, with a shared filesystem. With the

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, Steve Frécinaux wrote: Martin Ejdestig wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:11 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: The menu thing looks like the Mac menu, but doesn't behave anything like the real thing does on Mac OS. And the slab thing looks like Windows' start menu but doesn't behave anything like

Re: Clarius

2006-08-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Shaun McCance wrote: I'm going to coin a new term: key churn. This is when people make frivolous and unnecessary changes to GConf keys or their default values. It sucks for large deployments. Gnome is bigger than your personal desktop. I don't really care too much about the name

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-14 Thread Glynn Foster
Calum Benson wrote: Quim Gil wrote: El dv 14 de 07 del 2006 a les 08:41 +0200, en/na Murray Cumming va escriure: Should anyone ever get around to creating some GNOME personas Someone started http://live.gnome.org/Personas months ago. Yeah, and I tried to do something like that for

Re: Call for comments on where to have GUADEC in 2007

2006-05-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, Anne Østergaard wrote: Dear GNOME Foundation Member, You are invited to comment on where you would prefer to have at GUADEC in 2007. The period for comments stops on June 15th 2006. The board (minus Dave Neary and Vincent Untz who are behind the French invitation) will make the final

Re: Mono bindings a blessed dependency? [Was: Tomboy in 2.16]

2006-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:28 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 à 14:19 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit : So, new question we have to address before addressing Alex's proposal: Should Mono be a valid dependency and C# a blessed language? I believe the answer should be yes.

Re: Proposal to add Orca to GNOME 2.16

2006-04-10 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:45 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: 2) Add orca to the Startup Programs entries for gnome-session. I've never been quite sure why this wasn't something that was done for the current assistive technologies - was it because the Startup Programs dialog requires so many

Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

2006-02-09 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 16:10 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On 2/6/06, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was there a reason to do that instead of using Glynn's patch from bug 327335 to revert this specific change? 1) I was not aware of that bug and patch 2) We also want the

Re: NLD10 and GNOME

2006-02-09 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:52 +, Alan Cox wrote: Nor does the committee argument stand up. It is perfectly possible to post in advance that we are going to do this, we've created a temporary alternate repository for the work and if you want to join in or help merge stuff back as it

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:28 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: + quite a few people were assuming that 0.10 was the plan for 2.14 and were totally unaware that 0.8 had even been on the plan. Ubuntu and Fedora development versions (i.e. the distros that Elijah checked or found out

Solaris 10 University Challenge

2005-10-19 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Some people might have seen this already - http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/contest/univ_challenge.jsp There's a whole heap of project suggestions, some of which are related to desktop development [including GNOME]. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to answer

Re: Moving Applets (was: Fish in GNOME Panel)

2005-10-15 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 22:23 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: The applet's code base might be small, but badly suffers of bit-rotting; and some applets are outside the gnome-applets mantle, e.g. the dicionary applet - which is under gnome-utils. I'm giving gdict-applet some love - namely,

Re: Moving Applets (was: Fish in GNOME Panel)

2005-10-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 00:16 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: People have struck on a topic I started thinking about a little while ago. This thinking is highlighted on the wiki space (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeApplets). In short we would create a gnome-applets-extras. The purpose of

Re: bug buddy configuration

2005-10-11 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:44 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote: Hi, right now you can globally disable bug-buddy dialog setting globally the env variable GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG (you can do in the system profile, for example). You could hack bugzillas xml file to set up another

Re: Certification for GNOME apps

2005-07-13 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, There can be a useful intermediary between 'having no docs at all' and 'here is a documentary that explains what we promise to support for ever and ever, amen.' I believe the goal here is to document what we do now, and how to usefully integrate with that. Yeah, I do agree - I guess if

Re: Kicking off planning session planning

2005-05-08 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, How about copying pasting the basics of your mail into the wiki as a skeleton to hang a session on? http://live.gnome.org/Stuttgart2005/FreeformSessions I hope we have a problem of overlap - which will mean that there are lots of great sessions planned. If that's the case, we will

Re: Kicking off planning session planning

2005-04-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, The 4 tracks I propose are: * Interoperability - everything to do with making GNOME work better with KDE, OO.o, XFCE, Mozilla - not just a freedesktop session, but primarily. * Developers platform - gtk+, glib, atk, gconf, gnome-print, libgnome: All the infrastructure we share

GUADEC - new sessions

2005-04-10 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, GUADEC is just around the corner, and we're slowly starting to finalize the GUADEC schedule for Stuttgart. The current schedule is available here - http://2005.guadec.org/schedule You'll notice that we have some new things to try out at this years conference. Lightning Talks