Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

2005-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Why not just create desktop-devel-ng and discuss it there? That sounds appropriate right? sri On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:16:31PM +0200, Ikke wrote: project soylent has moved away I might notice we only changed to galago.info's wiki because Christian seems not to like the wiki

Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

2005-05-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:23:24PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 21:52 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: But still, wasn't gnome 2 more or less a rewrite of gnome 1? Yes, GNOME 1 to GNOME 2 is in many ways exactly what I'd want to avoid. ;-) We salvaged it and got some

Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

2005-05-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:55 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: Of course, trying to rewrite MacOS nearly killed the company several times ... and it was only necessary because MacOS 9 was an unworkable POS. Not something you can say about

Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:37 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Some may think that it could encourage people to add more capplets, but that's already happening, in the last 2 releases we've added Multimedia systems selector,

Re: cleaning up themes

2005-07-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:32:41PM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Perhaps we should consider moving these into the -extras package. What I think would be really cool is having a level of integration that allows you to install themes right off art.gnome.org from your favourite web

Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session

2005-10-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:43:26PM +0200, Markus Jonsson wrote: What about when the system shuts down? Can I be informed about that? Can I be alerted and logged out in a nice way when someone else runs shutdown -h on the system? If you're in this situation it's most likely not going to be at

Re: Making GNOME crash

2005-11-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm not really for this at least on the HEAD branch. Although, one idea would be to branch off the ubuntu mirrors and get people who want to test it build off of that? You can use the diffs of whatever the changes are into bugzilla. Just a thought. I think I mentioned this in IRC. sri On

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:46:11AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:52 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: If this is what Redhat thinks of the work done I thought it was obvious, but I'd like to point out that I'm not speaking on behalf of Red Hat on this matter. It's

Re: Notification icons hell (was Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager)

2006-04-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
You missed my second point. If the icon is the application, then we should provide an easy way for the application to use an applet instead of the notification area. Sort of like minimize to applet or something? That's not going to work well until applets and application use the same main

Re: System-wide settings for the panel?

2006-04-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I hope that you might also contribute your time in helping to make Sabayon more useful for other systems administrators who might also want to do the kind of things we're doing. It'll be useful to understand the kind of models systems administrator would want. sri On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at

Re: Tomboy in 2.16

2006-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So I'm seeing that everybody is up for Tomboy as part of the desktop. Yes? sri On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:03:38PM -0700, Alex Graveley wrote: Ya, that makes sense to me. I'd like to move towards a pluggable storage backend approach anyway, to support network storage or shared notes, so

Tomboy in 2.16 (lets get this over with)

2006-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
If nobody responds with any serious objections by Monday, then let's just assume it's in. sri ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:43:49PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:26:59 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Here at Sun, we have been talking with Fluendo about licensing these plugins. As you can imagine, it is fairly expensive to acquire a license that allows a vendor to

Re: Intellectual Property Plugins and GNOME

2006-06-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:29:54PM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Personally I suspect this will mean that Sun will take a wait-and-see attitude with the forthcoming WMA/WMV plugins and allow end-users to purchases the plugins directly from Fluendo if they want them rather than bundling them and

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

2006-07-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:37:34PM +0100, Iain * wrote: Some questions that I don't have answers for: Does GNOME have a product to market? How many people really get GNOME from GNOME as opposed to the distros? Is it more the distros place to take the software we write and put it together as

Re: GNOME git repositories? (was Re: GNOME subversion migration)

2006-12-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:44:58PM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: That is a big misunderstanding about how it works. Using a distributed source system doesn't mean that doesn't exist any central ('main') repository. Moreover, it can works the same way it has been working until now. The

Re: GNOME git repositories?

2006-12-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:47:38PM +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: Today at 23:22, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Even better, you don't have to give a cvs/svn account to every contributor. Allowing the barrier of entry to be a lot easier. You guys seem to be engaging in the SVN vs. GIT (or any

Re: some more questions on the control center shell, etc

2007-03-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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Re: build systems

2007-11-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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Re: build systems

2007-11-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
make install methodology that I so liked. sri Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

2007-12-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

2007-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 09:43 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Dec 27, 2007 11:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that's a good question and I'm not sure why not. I think most of us have a single person per computer but I can see where you have one person logged in via

Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

2007-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
peripheral was fully exposed. Warning users that another user is logged on is of course a good idea. Agreed. We really want this. -- Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: Discussions on Pgo was: Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:24:48PM +0200, Anders Feder wrote: I seem to remember a time when there was an actual journalistic team specifically editting and publishing summaries of what had been posted within the community in the past week/month. What happened to that effort? I suppose the

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-04-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Personally, we should cede the desktop to other projects like XFCE that work very well with minimal hardware requirements. I've noticed a lot of projects in GNOMEFiles with goals to write lightweight panels and what not. 10 years is a reasonable amount of time to expect hardware requirements to

Re: Project Proposal: GNOME Innovation

2009-09-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
When we were having discussions on version control systems, one of the ideas that I had thrown out for a git/bzr over a centralized version control was that fact that we could branch all of GNOME on an experimental branch and create a bazaar for ideas. A lot of times in this mailing list we get

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell: I would like to propose Tracker as a new GNOME module. The GNOME release-team will soon decide about module inclusions for GNOME 2.30. To the GNOME

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So, putting this conversation back on track: * What are the barriers for accepting tracker? * What do the tracker folks have to do to address them? I think we're all in agreement that an indexer is needed. sri On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Sandy Armstrong sanfordarmstr...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think I'm with Zeeshan here. It looks like you should have some time to get some real world testing before putting it into the release. Do you guys have objection to that? So the current barriers I see is: * relative newness of the api - will it change further? You guys should have some

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
build momentum from a popular language and have more people from other OSes be able to take advantage of GNOME technologies. My two cents. sri -- -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.orgwrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna sriram.ramkris...@gmail.com wrote: So I was checking to see how popular javascript is compared to the others. Javascript is much more popular than our other bindings

Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

2009-11-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
How about we hide it in gconf or dconf or whatever it is and then document how to change it in a centralized location on our website as tricks and features you don't know about or whatever. The idea then is to generate a community place to go for these things. Then create a link in the

Re: Backup

2009-11-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: I think Alberto's idea of reaching out to nVidia is a great idea - if we can clearly communicate our needs to them it can't hurt to ask. I'd be willing to help reach out to them if needed. Maybe I missed it but why are we

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Activity Journal

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I recall that the framework was desireable, but a lot of the features of GAJ could be sucked into Nautilus and possibly we don't need a separate app. Again this is just from memory, (in a conf, dont' have time to look it up but wanted to chime in) but I'm sure someone from the release team can

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Lucas Rocha luc...@gnome.org wrote: Extra Information - We're planning to do the actual reorganization of the modulesets as soon as possible during this

Re: GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

2010-07-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, A few release team members talked with various people during the first few days at GUADEC to get a better feeling of where we stand on our road to GNOME 3.0. We held a meeting later and decided that GNOME

Re: libnotify and GNOME 3

2010-09-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Boston summit is coming soon, sounds like a good topic to discuss this in person. Someone should add that as one of the items to discuss. sri -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Stefan Kost enso...@hora-obscura.dewrote

Re: Applets and GNOME 3

2010-09-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
It seems to me that we will need to put these things into live.gnome.org. I checked to see if we had something there already but didn't see a cohesive plan on this. I don't mind volunteering to start this. I feel out of the loop these days so it might be worthy short term project for me.

Re: Volunteer needed: Snapshot live image project

2010-12-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I believe someone was maintaining an rpath appliance. The live cds used to come from that some time ago. I rather we only have one solution instead of multiple. If Frederic is going to do it then I'll back off. sri On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: On

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2010/12/28 Sergey Udaltsov sergey.udalt...@gmail.com What you want is not Gnome 3 then. You want to continue using Gnome 2 and there's no one preventing you from doing that. So, why bother maintaining gnome2 support mode at all? go to hell, just do not upgrade is unbeatable argument, I must

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: by the way, this whole thread is pretty angry and confrontational - or, at least, it feels a lot that way. It has. I think though as a project we're not quite managing this as well as we could. Not enough context for

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Xan Lopez x...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: Sergey, who sometimes prefers to look backwards rather than forward no problem with that. you can maintain the old user experience for yourself and

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 15:19 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: It will be important to get people writing extensions before the release happens i think. (sorry went into marketing mode...!) I take the liberty

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sorry if I sound accusing of something. I wanted to point out what I found to be biggest limitation of writing extensions to gnome-shell. I gave up very quickly due to time limitations - I had done none work at

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2011/1/3 Mario Blättermann mari...@gnome.org Am Montag, den 03.01.2011, 13:37 -0500 schrieb Owen Taylor: There will also be some people that want to use gnome-panel because they aren't ready to change. While we want to encourage people who have capable hardware to update and use the

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:14 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I count three ways of doing that: • Ctrl + Shift + U + hexadecimal. • Compose key. They are obscure. • Character Map Launching an app to enter a

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek zang...@freenet.de wrote: So to summarize: As long as users accept what you want them to, it's ok, else they might go jump in the lake... Not that other Desktops fullfil users wishes by 100% but much more than GNOME3 will do. I

Re: Gnome 3 system sounds

2011-01-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Could we ask some of these open source artist websites like magnatune to see if someone is willing to donate time or maybe we need to get the foundation involved with providing some kind of monetary incentive? [sorry for top posting, I'm too lazy to deal with gmail today] sri -- Sriram

Re: Volunteer needed: Snapshot live image project

2011-01-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Frederic Crozat f...@crozat.net wrote: 2011/1/13 Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se: On 01/12/2011 07:49 PM, Frederic Crozat wrote: 2010/12/9 Paul Cutlerpcut...@gnome.org: No one is currently maintaining the rPath images - I've talked to the

Re: Volunteer needed: Snapshot live image project

2011-01-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
From whom ? GNOME Enthusiasts I would label them. Facebook (or whatever social network) is just a way to transmit informations, so feel free to propagate it by any way you feel is right But I'd prefer to keep the feedback part in one location and no try to monitor 10 differents

Re: empathy integration with the desktop

2011-03-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Pierre Benz benz.pie...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Pierre Benz benz.pie...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Another alternative is to add a offline entry under available/busy

Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

2011-04-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:48 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:39 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: This would require somebody writing the Web Accounts panel, which would integrate Telepathy

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, should those modules be provided as tarballs? Last time I asked this for gnome-shell-extensions, I was answered no, because distributions should not provided packages of those. Nevertheless, all

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Luca, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: We started moving things into gnome-control-center so we could stop the various panels looking like they were a hodge-podge of thrown together bits. Opening the door to 3rd-party panels would 1) get us the

Re: Firewall configuration [was Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center]

2011-05-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: Feel free to follow the discussions about firewalls on the fedora-desktop list. (...) Shouldn't we try to have an appropriate @gnome.org list to discuss such things (os level), if we consider

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Lennart Poettering mzta...@0pointer.dewrote: could keep it somewhat up-to-date. I will not share your suffering if you do. Haha! Lovely. ;) I just can imagine your face when you're typing that, ya bum! :) sri ___

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Something that has worked well in Sugar has been to start discussion on the mailing list and then schedule a meeting on IRC. Afterwards minutes are sent back to the ml where discussion can continue and the feature

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Joanmarie Diggs joan...@gnome.org wrote: Hey Allan. But past interactions have (in my personal experience) been negative. Can you elaborate? Yes, but I was (and am) somewhat hesitant to because I honestly don't wish to stir pots. I'd rather just move

Re: SweetTooth and Live Extension Enabling/Disabling

2011-08-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: Hey guys, it's Jasper. Again, the last time I talked about SweetTooth, it was a month ago. I'm here to say that enabling/disabling of extensions has landed! Extension authors, you have to update to the new APIs

Re: GNOME 3 panel applets

2011-09-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Narek Babadjanyan baba...@gmail.comwrote: I have read that the fallback mode is not actively developed, and besides that who needs fallback if graphics card's drivers are fully supported (at least in my case it's so), so you are right, I'm talking about the

Re: GNOME 3.3 Schedule Draft

2011-10-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 14:42 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: A draft for the GNOME 3.3 schedule is available at https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree#Schedule Comments are

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, + Jumplists https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Jumplists → didn't heard much opinion of it from designers Jumplists is predicated on choosing an engine like zeitgeist. So there is a bigger

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, + Jumplists https://live.gnome.org

Re: Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
However, I don't want too see Boxes as a solution, it's just a tool that will allow you to use VMs and remote machines. It could be a plus when we'll release a full GNOME OS, but when this will occur IT professionists and tech enthusiast people will show more interest in supported protocols

Re: extensions.gnome.org - Public Alpha Now Available

2011-12-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: There is no single sign on at the moment. Vinnicus Depizzol's study mentioned that users would like a single sign on, and I'm all for integrating with it once it appears. This seems to be something we could add to

Re: Anyone interested in keeping pessulus alive?

2012-03-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mar 12, 2012 6:00 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Pessulus was a configuration lockdown editor for GNOME 2. It never got ported to GNOME 3, as it more or less involves a complete rewrite (move to introspection-based bindings and move to GSettings) and nobody found the

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
+1 for me. I think there is some great potential for interesting features in GNOME. I've always been a big fan of the mapping of documents on a calendar so I know what I was working on a particular day. As a marketing guy, I'd like us to beat our competition with unique features that can't be

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Colin The issue is not so much time as unreliability. I've tried to address some of those with jhbuild, but there are two major ones remaining: 1) Building from unclean source tree - stale Makefiles, leftover binaries, etc. 2) Our lack of multi-module

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not saying that the feature proposal process is perfectly clear though. ;) It's a little rough, because we are only talking about features; we don't really get to address new technologies or libraries that we might

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Luis Medinas lmedi...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, thanks Shaun for your reply, unfortunatly looks like who decides everything for GNOME Project are the Design team or the RedHat employees and not the community. Please, can we not finger specific companies when

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Luis Medinas lmedi...@gnome.org wrote: 2012/4/21 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Luis Medinas lmedi...@gnome.orgwrote: Hi, thanks Shaun for your reply, unfortunatly looks like who decides everything for GNOME

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:48:59AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: For instance, let's say Xan who has indicated some interest to use Zeitgist in Web wanted to use it but not add any new features but instead uses Zg

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Florian Max florian.muell...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.comwrote: Then the design team ought to be more open about what exactly 'their' vision for gnome is, as well as open to other ideas/concepts. Insisting

Re: Openness (Was: Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist)

2012-04-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 18:21 +0200, Florian Max wrote: Which brings us to the matter of openness: the results of everything the design team does ends up

Re: 3.6 Feature: Exchange support in Online Accounts (or GOA)

2012-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: org.gnome.OnlineAccounts service. What remains to be done is to make Evolution listen for new Exchange accounts configured through GOA just as it does currently for Google accounts. I assume that you are able to use

Re: Feature Proposal: Accessibility on by default

2012-04-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com wrote: The change is trivial. It is only required to change the default value of 'toolkit-accessibility' on org.gnome.desktop.interface.gschema.xml.in.in. A one-liner patch. Owner = Alejandro Piñeiro and

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org wrote: then, why not do the proposals for new designs here in d-d-l? That way you might get initial feedback before starting on the design, and people that feel ignored get info on what's going on. Then, you can just keep

Re: Design in the open

2012-05-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Apr 25, 2012 8:43 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:55 AM, John Stowers john.stowers.li...@gmail.com wrote: So there are lots of ways that we can do design better as a community, and contributors on this list can all play a part in helping to make

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
be seen on other platforms. sri -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: *Purpose: *Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful

Re: live image

2012-05-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ray Strode halfl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I put together a live image with a jhbuild built in it here: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/misc/testing/GNOME-3.5.1-LiveUSB.iso Woot! Well played sir, well played. Thank you for this gift. :) Now if we can

Re: live image

2012-06-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ray Strode halfl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, again, On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ray Strode halfl...@gmail.com wrote: I put together a live image with a jhbuild built in it here: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/misc/testing/GNOME-3.5.1-LiveUSB.iso I

Re: taking features away (compact view removed from Nautilus)

2012-07-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM, John Stowers john.stowers.li...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: It seems like the broken labels beside icons behavior should be treated as a bug in GtkIconView that should just be fixed. Don't

Re: 3.8 feature: Drop or Fix Fallback Mode

2012-10-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: with each GNOME 3. Another was shipping more GNOME 3 beta updates to extension community members so they can update their extensions, hopefully in time, because as was pointed out, our developer story is lacking

Re: Fallback mode is going away - what now ?

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 08:17 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: So, what to do ? Thankfully, we have a pretty awesome extension mechanism in gnome-shell (extensions.gnome.org), and there are a ton of extensions out there which

Re: Fallback mode is going away - what now ?

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: hi Andre; On 21 November 2012 13:27, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Can we make testing beta versions (and porting extensions to the next major version of GNOME) more attractive / easier for extension authors?

Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Raphaël Jacquot sxp...@sxpert.org wrote: On 9 nov. 2012, at 16:56, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, last weekend, the release team met and discussed (among other things) the DropOrFixFallbackMode [1] feature. We've come to the

Re: Bugzilla upgrade work

2012-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Is there some way we could make these extensions and patches we can put in a puppet install? I realize the database portion is going to be the manual stuff, but it seems that it would be easier to be able to automate it. Of course, this is just my observation and I have not looked at the

Re: NotificationSource GnomeGoal

2012-12-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, the interesting part here is static application registration. Lacking any better idea, this is implemented by looking at the desktop file for a boolean key called

Re: How you can help making GNOME 3.8 awesome

2013-01-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Matthias, This is excellent. I will try to help find volunteers in working on these bugs. Thanks. sri On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.comwrote: We are about 3 weeks away from the 3.7.90 beta release (which is February 18) - a good time to look at the

Re: build.gnome.org

2013-02-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm not sure how I missed this thread.. Regarding maintaining jhbuild up to gtk+ - I would actually like to see this up to at gnome-shell. We have a number of people who I have convinced to help volunteer to resolve bugs for GNOME 3.7, but are very frustrated with getting jhbuild to build for

Re: build.gnome.org

2013-02-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
/pub/gnome/teams/releng/3.7.4/ 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: I'm not sure how I missed this thread.. Regarding maintaining jhbuild up to gtk+ - I would actually like to see this up to at gnome-shell. We have a number of people who I have convinced to help volunteer

Re: build.gnome.org

2013-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
for jhbuild with a least of each tarball (have a look at the moduleset on the ftp url I posted). You can configure your jhbuild to use that point release _and_ a single module from git. 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: OK, what you're saying is that you get all the modules you

Re: build.gnome.org

2013-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
for jhbuild with a least of each tarball (have a look at the moduleset on the ftp url I posted). You can configure your jhbuild to use that point release _and_ a single module from git. 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: OK, what you're saying is that you get all the modules you

Re: build.gnome.org

2013-02-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
a while. 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: can you build most of the platform out of this? That would be interesting to me. Since I can just point people at that instead of asking them to build completely from git head. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar

Re: Announcement/RFC: jhbuild continuous integration testing

2013-02-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Christmas has come early this year! This is fantastic news. Perhaps I can try to get some volunteers to help file bugs on the build? What can we do to make this a sustaining success? sri On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hello fellow GNOME

steam games

2013-02-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So, I've started playing games on Steam and started filing bugs on the limited number of games that I own. I would like to encourage others to do the same. It might even be worth purchasing a steam game account so that we can purchase problematic games for testing. It seems to me that having

Re: steam games

2013-02-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. It is an interesting ISV usecase. 2013/2/13 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: So, I've started playing games on Steam and started filing bugs on the limited number of games that I own. I would like to encourage others to do the same. It might even be worth purchasing a steam game account so that we

Re: steam games

2013-02-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Christian Kirbach christian.kirb...@gmail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2013, 15:34 -0800 schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna: So, I've started playing games on Steam and started filing bugs on the limited number of games that I own. Can you point us

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