Re: Atom a new text-editor built by the Github people...

2014-03-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:41 -0500, Alex GS wrote: Sorry, disegard this message, it's a closed source and useless app, nevermind :-( well they haven't released anything yet, so we can't jump to conclusions - it might be (although unlikely) paid for + open source.. -- Marco Scannadinari m

[Fwd: Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted]

2013-10-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
when three forks of a desktop can't get it right? How did we get on to this anyway? [0] http://mate-desktop.org/ [1] http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ [3] SolusOS Consort (no project or source code page) -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 04:44 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: Gnome is emulating the Android interface citation needed? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Marco Scannadinari
project, then Gnome are free to do what they want with it, in this case, to create a *read-only* mirror on GitHub in the intrest of convenience. -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
because of the similarities between DMZ-Black and the Adwaita cursor theme. The only (noticable) difference is the throbber. -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
And with regards to how I thought that the Tango project created the throbber, I was blindly convinced by these links: commacommacrash.com/2007/08/animated-gif-for-tango-throbber.html commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spinning_wheel_throbber.gif‎ -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Cosimo or Benjamin can tell you more about the specifics. Thanks. By Cosmio and Benjamin, do you mean Cosimo Cecchi and Benjamin Otte? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
) is to revert to the Tango throbbers and subsequently their DMZ-* cursors as well. Not to be rude, but does anyone know why the cursors were forked from DMZ? (Apart from it needing to be black, but there is a DMZ-AA / DMZ-Black anyway...) -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-04-30 Thread Marco Scannadinari
, is this a design desicion? Thanks, - - Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk P.S. Sorry for the HTML email - it was written on a tablet at the time ;) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: loomio

2013-04-24 Thread Marco Scannadinari
not a lot of other people) are not in a position to argue or disprove such a study, so, as much as I would like to see it be implemented, I guess that's that... [0] http://nat.org/blog/2006/02/dan-winship-on-design-by-committee/ -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

2013-04-23 Thread Marco Scannadinari
in desktop-devel), to be later implemented if the response is positive. I think your suggestion of a feature branch can be a worthy compromise, though. -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
, such as the location of the close button on fullscreen apps, could be improved a lot and polls could be used as evidence for user testing or feedback, rather than saying We thought it was the right thing to do. (for example) BTW Aren't decisions made based on user studies if availible? -- Marco

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: If someone posts a proposal on gnome-devel, for example, it would not be efficient or easy for each user to give their approval: Yeah I love Here you clearly assume that it will be used

Re: loomio

2013-04-16 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:49:48PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:21:15PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: [0] (Restricted in that users do not know

Re: loomio

2013-04-16 Thread Marco Scannadinari
So you want to have random people suddenly join, be of the decision and have equal say? I find that a little bit weird. As opposed to the method that we have now which is..? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop

Re: loomio

2013-04-15 Thread Marco Scannadinari
, or that they are allowed to participate. And if they do, they may not be notified of a decision meeting when it occurs.) -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-05 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:10 -0600, meg ford wrote: Hi Marco, If you need detailed explanations you can ask on the gnome-love mailing list [1] or #gnome-love on irc.gnome.org. Thanks, I didn't know about that list -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-04 Thread Marco Scannadinari
global.reexec_self() to org.gnome.Shell? Sorry, I have little to no (g)dbus experience. -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-04 Thread Marco Scannadinari
); proxy.Eval('(s)', 'global.reexec_self();') I'm really sorry - could you explain those arguments to me? - So I can be able to reproduce them not necessarily for this program. -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list

Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-03 Thread Marco Scannadinari
the commandline? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-21 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Thanks everyone for your input. I've decided to go with GTK+ for now because it seems the most supported and integrate-able with GNOME. It's python binding is also quit easy to use. My next choice would be wxwidgets. Thanks, -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk

Re: Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-14 Thread Marco Scannadinari
a good toolkit for these purposes. Qt also looks quite native on the new GNOME 3.6, albeit appearing like the old GTK+ theme. I am actually quite biased towards GTK, but the idea of being able to develop for multiple platforms seems quite attractive (in regard to Qt). -- Marco Scannadinari ma

Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Scannadinari
to the environment. Keep in mind my language of choice is python (3) and am quite new to graphical app development. Thanks, -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org