Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse

2022-10-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero via desktop-devel-list
On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 16:48 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > I've gone through every mailing list that we host, and broadly split > them into two categories - lists that can be closed and ones that > should be migrated to discourse. I think you can close rust-l...@gnome.org. It only gets spam these

Re: GNOME 3.29.3 unstable tarballs due (responsible: mcatanzaro)

2018-06-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 00:00 +, Release Team wrote: > For more information about 3.29, the full schedule, the official > module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful > 3.29 > page: This: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/3.29.2/versions has librsvg 2.40.20,

Re: About lib version and git

2018-01-16 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 18:01 +0100, Daniel García Moreno wrote: > Currently we've the stable 0.5.3 in master and the API break changes > in > a new branch called next. I want to move all development to master > and > keep tags for stable versions, but I don't know if that movement will > break

Re: Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

2018-01-09 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 11:03 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > That's an option, but instead I've been pushing to get the rustc > ports for > official Debian architectures fixed for some time already, > Thanks for working on this! I hope it's something that just takes some time to get

Librsvg 2.42 is the new stable series

2018-01-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear everyone, Librsvg 2.42.0 is out today, and the 2.42.x series is the new stable one. When I have unstable stuff to commit I'll put it in a 2.43 series. Please use 2.42.x for GNOME 3.28 if possible. Thanks! Federico ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

2017-12-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2017-12-16 at 14:48 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: [dropping distributor-list from the thread] > We'd love to switch in Debian, but > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc=unstable > > is effectively preventing us from doing that. > Looks like Firefox 57 is not coming to

Librsvg 2.40.20 is released and is the last release in the 2.40.x series

2017-12-15 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hello, I have just released librsvg-2.40.20. This is the last release that I will make in the 2.40.x series - the C-only version. This release is to avoid having unreleased commits in the 2.40 branch. It also has a security fix. People are *STRONGLY* encouraged to switch to 2.41.x as soon as

Re: Signature for a released source code package

2017-12-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 22:08 +0200, Uwe Scholz wrote: > Now after I thought about it I was wondering how a user can be sure > that he gets the same source code which I uploaded to the Gnome > servers. The thing is, when I do a release with "make distcheck" as > described in the gnome wiki(*), a

Re: Suggestions for librsvg's COMPILING.md

2017-12-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 13:51 -0500, David Michael wrote: > > In librsvg's COMPILING.md, there are two inconsistencies around > cross-compiling. > > * The option --target=TRIPLE is passed to cargo, not --host. > * RUST_TARGET_PATH should be set for make, not configure. Ah, thanks for

Librsvg 2.40.19 is released

2017-10-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, everyone, I have just released librsvg 2.40.19. This is the version without Rust code. This has some new bugfixes, and some backported fixes from the development branch. You can get librsvg 2.40.19 here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/librsvg/2.40/ SHA256 checksums:

Librsvg 2.41.1 is released

2017-09-01 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
I have just relased librsvg 2.41.1. This is a big release! It is still in the experimental 2.41.x series, in which librsvg is being rewritten in Rust bit by bit, while keeping the C API/ABI intact. Librsvg 2.41.1 is available here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/librsvg/2.41/ SHA256

Librsvg 2.40.18 is released

2017-07-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
I've just released librsvg 2.40.18. This is the stable series without Rust code; it's only shaky C code for your perusal. You can download librsvg-2.40.18 here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/librsvg/2.40/ Checksums: b9a02bebc721b0198ac68fdc251898b5b62bd0d5b18611a1da77b1e076253eef

Librsvg 2.40.17 is released (thumbnailer fix)

2017-04-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
I've just released librsvg 2.40.17. This is *NOT* the Rust series; this is the traditional C-only library. This version has a fix for gnome-desktop-thumbnailer for GNOME 3.24, courtesy of Jeremy Bicha. Librsvg 2.40.17 is available here:   https://download.gnome.org/sources/librsvg/2.40/

Re: Thoughs about communication

2017-01-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 08:37 +, Alberto Fanjul Alonso wrote: > > Do anybody though about trying new services for communication?  > > - signal https://whispersystems.org/ > - telegram https://telegram.org/ > - matrix.org http://matrix.org/ > - gitter https://gitter.im/ Just to add to the

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 11:37 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > > Even the g_once magic is not enough because they would have separate > data sections for the static cached type id. So the get_type() for > the > failed registration would have G_TYPE_INVALID. > Oh oh oh, we were talking about

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-12 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 18:18 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > > Not sure, its a runtime error you would see when a downstream would > try > to register an already registered GType. How does one get this to happen?   Is it only a problem if two threads race to pass the same type_name to

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 13:11 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > > Does a static link of gtk-rs in librsvg prevent others from using > gtk-rs > in consuming applications because any GType (glue code!) has been > registered which will conflict with an applications use of gtk-rs. How would you write

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 05:25 +0200, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote: > them, and unpack them in the proper location. Then "cargo build" > doesn't need > to fetch things itself. For more on this, there's interesting > comments here: > >   https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1330 > This is very

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-05 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 20:21 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > It has been mentioned on #debian-devel that rustc is really only > supported on i386 and amd64 (as a so-called tier1 architecture). > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc=sid looks > pretty sad. > > Just curious if you

Re: Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-05 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 11:37 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Hm, I'm excited for Rust, but I think we probably do not want GNOME > to > depend on an alternative package manager like cargo, right? At least > that would require some serious discussion here first. Librsvg still uses autotools;

Librsvg 2.41.0 is released

2017-01-03 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Librsvg 2.41.0 is just released! This is the first version to have Rust code in it. The public API remains unchanged. Apologies in advance to distros who will have to adjust their build systems for Rust - it's like taking a one-time vaccine; you'll be better off in the end for it. Librsvg

Re: Design help requested: Certificate Chooser UI.

2016-06-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 13:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Tyagi is working on a GSoC project this year, implementing a > certificate chooser which will probably live in the GCR library. I would love to have exactly this thing available for use, for example, from gtk-vnc and vinagre. Right now

Librsvg 2.40.15 is released

2016-04-01 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
I've just released librsvg version 2.40.15. "Wait, did I miss a 2.40.14 with all the hot stuff?", you may say. Not so, I'll reassure you. I just made a mistake and tagged the git repository for 2.40.14 before updating the NEWS file (duh!). Of course I discovered this after pushing the tag to

Librsvg 2.40.13 is released

2016-01-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of arrowheads pointing in the right direction, I've just released librsvg version 2.40.13. Librsvg is a library to render SVG files into raster images. In this release we got a lot of help from Menner, a Wikimedian who has been tracking down SVG images from Wikimedia Commons that

Librsvg 2.40.12 is released

2015-12-01 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of warm puppies, I've just released librsvg version 2.40.12. Librsvg is a library to render SVG files into raster images. Just like puppies eat dog food and turn it into poop, librsvg eats SVGs (even compressed ones!) and turns them into pixels via an intricate yet exquisite system

Librsvg 2.40.11 is released

2015-10-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of Windows, (Yes, really!) I've just released librsvg version 2.40.11. Librsvg is a library to render SVG pictures into millions of colorful pixels, i.e. an SVG rendering library. You know how an unicorn eats grass and excretes colored rainbows? Librsvg is like that unicorn, if

Librsvg 2.40.10 is released

2015-08-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of non-leaky libraries, Here is a release 2.40.10 of librsvg, the world's only artisanal and locally-sourced RSVG rendering library. This is a bugfix release, wherein my Gaussian-blurring code, which had some important memory leaks, is now fixed courtesy of the ever-amazing Carlos

Librsvg 2.40.9 is released

2015-03-26 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of blurry vectors, This is a new release of librsvg, 2.40.9, everyone's favorite SVG rendering library made entirely of FREE/LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE BITS. This is a bugfix release, but what bugfixes! - Fixed bgo#738367 - V/v/H/h commands in path elements were not working. Patch by

Librsvg 2.40.8 is released

2015-02-27 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of fast vectors, Here is a new release of librsvg, everyone's favorite SVG rendering library. There is a fuzz-testing bugfix in this release, and a few minor optimizations. I removed a libart-ism which I then had to revert, because it caused incorrect rendering (see bug #745177).

Re: Librsvg 2.40.7 is released

2015-02-16 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 09:03 -0800, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Are you going to be doing active development on librsvg, or just do security fixes? Are you going to fix the broken SVG rendering and make it fast? First I want to take care of the bugs exposed via fuzz testing. Most of those are

Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

2015-02-09 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 12:53 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I do agree with Philip's proposal of warning if the sync API is called inside the default main context, even if there's the obvious issue of console-only code that still uses a main loop, but does not have interactivity issues.

Announcing the new safety-list

2014-10-02 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear everyone, I'm happy to announce that we now have a safety-l...@gnome.org mailing list. This is for discussions around safety, privacy, and security. This is some introductory material which you may have already read: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html

Gnome.org's crypto infrastructure

2014-07-03 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, all, This mail is intended for brainstorming some ideas before GUADEC. It's not to decide anything and set it in stone. I've been preparing my GUADEC talk about crypto infrastructure for newbies, and I've started to realize that it may be useful for gnome.org to have an official,

Re: RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: great that you are looking into this ! See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704387 for previous thoughts on this. Excellent, thanks! There's a lot of good info there. I've posted some questions - should we continue the

RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of exotic hardware, There are now laptops with two GPUs, and RANDR 1.4 supports configuring them in multiple ways. I'll quote from the RANDR specification: Version 1.4 adds a new object called a provider object. A provider object represents a GPU or virtual device providing

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:09 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Hosting services in general are not SaaSS. Maybe some specific thing about GitHub is SaaSS; if so, can you explain the details? Please take discussions of GitHub off-list. The Foundation Board will discuss the GNOME mirror during its

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. This is great news! It should make it easier for people to keep independent/experimental branches of Gnome modules and have a

Re: Application menus

2013-07-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 23:26 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Where a bug is doesn't matter: all GNOME Shell hackers work on mutter and vice versa. Mutter exists just so we can reuse metacity's solid WM core, rather than reinventing it. If there's bugs that you feel are getting attention, I'll

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:10 +0200, bugs wrote: What is about multi-monitor-setups? If an application with an Application-Menu is moved to a non-primary-screen, the Application-Menu is only accessible on the primary-screen. This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695377 by the way.

Re: Application menus

2013-07-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 22:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Focus-follows-mouse makes it worse (especially when it's a trackpad, and a large screen, and a small application like empathy which happens to be on the *other* side of the screen for where its bizarrely detached menu now lives. I

Re: GNOME coding guidelines doc gone?

2013-06-20 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 12:24 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:33:53AM +0200, Stefan Sauer wrote: once upon a time we had http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/programming-guidelines/book1.html;. We link to that from the gstreamer manual as a recommended reading. Can

Re: Services is now MeetBot capable

2013-05-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 12:01 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: from today the Services bot will be able to manage / log meetings by using the MeetBot plugin. This is pretty awesome. Thanks for setting up nice services like these! Federico ___

Re: A doube about gvariant

2013-04-26 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:21 +0800, jiangpengfei wrote: I have a doubt about the use of gvariant. In the source file: glib-2.34.3/gio/tests/gdbus-test-codegen.c:860, foo_igen_bar_call_test_primitive_types_sync uses a address of ret_val_bytestring, which is a local variable

Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

2013-04-22 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 14:36 +0100, Allan Day wrote: The main element of the design is to combine the sound, network, bluetooth, power and user menus into a single menu. The update proposal [1] lists the following items as problems, but it doesn't say *why* they are problems. I'll comment: *

Re: GtkColorButton Deprecation

2013-04-12 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 00:33 +0200, Lanoxx wrote: {\ 0x2e2e, 0x3434, 0x3636,\ 0x, 0x, 0x,\ 0x4e4e, 0x9a9a, 0x0606,\ Would this be acceptable? #define C(x) ((x) / 65535.0) { C(0x2e2e), C(0x3434), C(0x3636), C(0x), C(0x), C(0x),

Re: What can you tell new about Content Selection?

2013-04-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 10:19 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: Is somebody working on Content Selection at this point, and do you think it would make sense for a student to contribute to that as a GSoC project? (Willing mentors, etc?). Who should I talk to? Any help is greatly appreciated. As far as

Re: Apologize and to take PyGTK (was: How long should it take to fix a obvious memory leak?)‏

2013-04-05 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 01:23 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: If you can trust me, I had fun with writing a Python 3.2 extension recently (using plain C/API), this is not open sourced yet. I know some basic Git, honestly need to learn branching stuff though. My vision: Currently I'm only

Re: Privacy/Security Friends of GNOME campaign?

2012-12-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 23:19 -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: The marketing team agreed that this time a privacy/security campaign would be great for a friends of GNOME drive. After Jacob Applebaum's talk at GUADEC, we heard a lot of people discussing how important these issues are and how we'd

Re: En-dash versus em-dash

2012-12-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 17:28 +, Philip Withnall wrote: Are there any reasons against putting UTF-8 characters in the source code (which weren’t covered in my blog post)? You can put UTF-8 in the source code, and GCC understands it just fine.

Gnome-main-menu maintainership goes to MATE

2012-11-27 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, everyone, This is not terribly relevant to Gnome 3, but anyway. Nelson Marques and Stefano Karapetsas, both from the MATE desktop project, asked to maintain gnome-main-menu. Since we don't use gnome-main-menu in official Gnome, I've decided to pass on maintainership to them. Both Nelson

Re: GtkScrolledWindow and scroll bar policy set to GTK_POLICY_NEVER

2012-11-16 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:27 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I need one thing to clarify - In Gtk+ 2.x, when GtkScrolledWindow had policy for one of scroll bars set to GTK_POLICY_NEVER, window just dropped that scroll bar, but didn't do anything else. I have application to port which does it,

Re: Gnome platform overview

2012-11-08 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 14:52 +0100, Pierre-Yves Luyten wrote: I was quickly looking at gnome platform overview on http://developer.gnome.org/ or dedicated http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/ or http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/unstable/ No

Re: Preserved Window Placement

2012-10-28 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 08:53 +, Richard Hughes wrote: I was wondering if we could do something using GtkApplication. It seems a shame to reimplement this in every app when most apps have just one window... Even easier and general-purpose: gtk_window_set_state_saving_key (window, char

Re: Preserved Window Placement

2012-10-25 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 16:38 -0500, Jason Simanek wrote: What if the window manager's API (pardon my lack of proper terminology) gave applications tools for identifying a primary window? For that matter, giving them a way to identify all of their windows. This mechanism exists; it is the

Re: Preserved Window Placement

2012-10-24 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 08:28 -0500, Jason Simanek wrote: I would think simply preserving the specific absolute position of the windows of the various applications a user regularly employs would be much easier than calculating a dynamic position on the fly every time a new application is

Re: jhbuild update required

2012-09-05 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 14:56 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: The upside though is that jhbuild sysdeps --install now does a LOT more. For future jhbuild updates we'll try to either add a moduleset version field that makes this error more obvious, or even better - teach jhbuild how to

Re: Videos from GUADEC/clarification about GNOME on tablets

2012-08-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 22:57 -0700, Maciej Piechotka wrote: 1. Are there/will there be a videos from GUADEC? Yes, hopefully. The GUADEC team is working on this; I definitely saw video cameras running in all the sessions. 2. While I understand that mobile is new 'shiny' so far I am sceptical

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

2012-07-02 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 16:20 -0007, Adam Dingle wrote: The features in core GNOME apps are the result of years of hard work and consensus building by our community. All I ask is to be informed before these features vanish and to be given the chance to say why I like them so much. The

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

2012-07-02 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 16:03 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: ... The anti-pattern for both removals is like, there's some peeling paint in this house - let's bulldoze the neighborhood. ... How do you know that was the reason for the decision

Re: Introducing Photos

2012-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 02:47 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: So from Shotwell's point of view, would it make sense to replace its existing SQLite store and UI? Would it not be as good as writing from scratch? Shotwell's database is presumably optimized for what Shotwell needs to do. Tracker, as a

Re: 3.6 Feature: Totem - Videos

2012-05-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:28 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: Totem already does that - in preferences, it's the first option on first tab - Start playing files from last position. You, sir, are a life-saver. Thank you! Federico ___

Re: 3.6 Feature: Totem - Videos

2012-05-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 21:09 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: * Tivo-like pausing. The phone rings and you stop paying attention to the TV or screen; by the time you hit Pause you've missed some of the movie's conversation, so

Re: 3.6 Feature: Totem - Videos

2012-05-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 22:58 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: The default for tracker these days is: $HOME (non-recursively, just files in that directory) XDG locations (Videos, Music, Downloads, etc) all recursively. Sounds perfect; this would work well for me. Thanks :) Federico

Re: Design in the open

2012-05-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:03 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: A common language of patterns is an awesome idea. I'd encourage Federico to expand on the subject. Calum, Allan, and generally the people around the London UX Hackfest have already done a ton of work in this area:

Re: Design in the open

2012-05-03 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:27 +0100, Allan Day wrote: But there are challenges and things we can do better. Among those obstacles, I see: * lack of design resources - we are always trailing behind where we want to be, and there are important tasks which we are unable to complete (a new HIG

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-25 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Why did I write that mail? First of all, I'm very sorry for doing precisely what I was trying to prevent - alienating people. I wrote that mail in anger, always a bad idea. I owe everyone, and especially the design team, an explanation. In Gnome we are going through a period where there is a

Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

2012-04-25 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 15:31 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: no way to find the audience that would be unbiased? Are you just implying that the current userbase of GNOME is so geekish that fair survey among existing users would only represent the POV of geeks? It would be very instructive to see

Re: 3.6 Feature Proposal: Extension Hook Support and Updates

2012-04-24 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 03:54 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: As for the Extension Hook Support, I want to get consensus of a policy that we won't reject a patch that allows an otherwise tricky/dirty/impossible hook into the Shell or Mutter for extensions use, after passing the standard code

Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-23 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
The design team IS welcome to: * Produce designs and propose them to Gnome at large and the relevant maintainers. * Produce designs and implement them in experimental branches, which then are subject to maintainers' approval for merging into the mainline. * Advise Gnome developers at

How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. I wonder how people who hack on core Gnome do it on a day to day basis. Here are the

Re: Anyone interested in keeping pessulus alive?

2012-03-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 14:00 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: 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 motivation to do

Re: Dealing with GTK 3.3.18 scrolling handling changes for GNOME 3.4

2012-03-15 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 12:52 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: But do you have a global sense of whether we should at this point: 0) Patch affected applications 1) Pursue hacks (or non-hacks?) in GTK+ to improve compatibility 2) Make it opt-in Are there some rough docs on the new scrolling stuff?

Feature proposal: jumplists for gnome-shell

2011-10-24 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
-- Create a text document Create a spreadsheet Create a presentation Owner = Federico Mena Quintero Involved parties Gnome-shell team Zeitgeist team Current status == There has been discussion about how to implement jumplists [0

Re: Confused about the release

2011-08-31 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 15:24 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I noticed that we have Contacts, Documents, and Sushi in the apps moduleset. gnome-documents worries me because of its dependency on Tracker. As far as I can tell, g-d is linked from

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v2)

2011-08-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 18:35 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: What do you think? Keep in mind that Gnome 3 just hasn't been around for very long. Right now Gnome 3 is most likely only being used by technical people, Linux enthusiasts, etc. - it has not trickled down to end users yet. We may have

Re: goobox 2.90.1

2011-06-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Why? Goobox certainly isn't the type of application we would want using a dark theme. It's not presenting video, or images, so it shouldn't be using the dark theme variant. Do we have a rationale for using dark themes for multimedia

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-23 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the first time. Would this be the right place for the give me a legible font thingy?

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 14:09 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: [setting the hostname and other little interfaces] In the long run I expect the following additional interfaces used by GNOME or one of its components: - I am working on two more mechanisms generalizing control of the system

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 21:50 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Which is why I've asked Lennart to add a flag to systemd's configure to install only the little servicey bits, for Linux distros, and the docs would serve as basis for implementation of other OSes. That's fine. I still think other

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: As an aside, the terminology that most OS X apps have settled on for this feature is either Reveal in Finder or Show in Finder, rather than Open in Finder (Finder being the Mac's file manager). I guess those verbs make it sound more like

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-11 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:36 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: I really miss this feature (and the related feature I'd like to see of storing recently used folders as well as recently used files). Excellent use cases, Dave. I've just updated http://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome with details on

Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, all, Per André's request to post features for Gnome 3.2 - here goes. A while ago I blogged about the problem of lack of circulation in our files, and posted a patch for Evince: http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-08.html#19 In summary, while one can go *down* in the file system

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:10 +0100, Maciej Piechotka wrote: Hmm. Maybe a better solution would be to somehow drag'n'drop? Say: - Attach xyz.pdf to e-mail: open xyz.pdf drag the window/contents of window to new mail window - Copy abc.gnumeric to CD - open file in gnumeric,

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: And applications that can send out files, could also add a little menu item to send it out using nautilus-sendto (the API there being nautilus-sendto filename). Evolution, Totem, Rhythmbox and a number of others allow you to do that.

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Couldn't there be a common menu in the Shell that would work like the application menu, but for documents? I think it would be a real benefit to know that in every app you use, you're able to perform common actions on the opened

Re: I need your help with the Platform Overview

2011-04-12 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:11 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I was up late last night trying to get all the pieces together for the Platform Overview. Sweet; thanks for updating this. I'm just starting to read projectmallard.org. Do you have something that one can drop into Emacs's psgml-mode so

Re: I need your help with the Platform Overview

2011-04-12 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:31 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: I don't use psgml-mode, so I don't know what kinds of formats it can take. I use nxml-mode, which works with RNG compact syntax files. For that, there's this: http://projectmallard.org/1.0/mallard-1.0.rnc Excellent, thanks. I'll try

Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

2011-04-01 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: - 'Finding and reminding' in the shell. There are fairly detailed writeups about this, and the Zeitgeist team and Federico have been working on something that at least looks similar.

Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

2011-04-01 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:39 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: This would require somebody writing the Web Accounts panel, which would integrate Telepathy accounts, libsocialweb accounts, and possibly Evolution ones too. My attempts at coercing people on working on that have so far failed for 3.0.

Re: Python distutils and gconf schemas

2011-01-28 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 14:19 +0100, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals wrote: Why do you ask, is OpenSUSE using some weird location for schemas? The path is hardcoded in setup.cfg and DistUtilExtra's i18n module is taking care of generating and installing the file. Uh, no, we don't use anything

Re: RFC : gnome and non-linux oses

2011-01-28 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 21:34 +, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: I am asking the people's opinion about the general strategy in treating non-linux systems. Or, perhaps, officially admitting that we do not have a policy here - just decide on case-by-case basis. It pretty much has to be done on a

Python distutils and gconf schemas

2011-01-27 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, everyone, Does anyone know how to make python's distutils install GConf schemas correctly? Or a module that already does that, so I can copy the incantations? [This is for gnome-activity-journal, which uses distutils instead of autotools, and still uses gconf.] Thanks, Federico

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 18:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: I've attempted below to extract out some of the technical bits from http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/FindingAndReminding This is great stuff. I feel kind of bad commenting from the sidelines, given that I have done

Re: Signalling when the desktop is loaded

2009-08-17 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:59 +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: The way that this is currently done in Ubuntu is by patching gnome-panel and nautilus to signal to xsplash over dbus when they are finished loading and ready to use. Xsplash will only disappear when both of these components are ready, or

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-20 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:58 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: So, actually, what exactly IS the use case of ChangeLog if there is git history on one end and NEWS on the other? Who are the people who need more information than NEWS gives, but who would not want to actually check out the source tree,

Re: bug-buddy integration

2009-03-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 10:21 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote: [Breakpad / Socorro / Crash catcher] Which is used in latest version of bug-buddy and known to be broken on build.gnome.org because nobody has time to maintain it :( At one point bug-buddy generated a stack trace and sent it to b.g.o

gnome-desktop, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center branched

2008-09-25 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, I just branched these three modules: gnome-desktop gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center For all three, development goes on in trunk, and maintenance goes on in the gnome-2-24 branch. Federico ___

Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails

2008-09-22 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:34 +0200, Stephane Delcroix wrote: Since 2.23.1, gnome-settings-daemon contains a housekeeping plugin that clean the .thumbnails. Even if it looks fair, it really makes the F-spot usage awful to the point it's basically unusable. A semi-related point: JPEG loading

Debugging startup programs

2008-08-26 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
It used to be that one could do this to debug an auto-restart program: 1. run gnome-session-remove nautilus, 2. unset SESSION_MANAGER 3. run nautilus under gdb What's the new way to do that? Nautilus doesn't even appear in the new gnome-session-properties. Federico

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-05-15 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:20 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: If I have to use the en translation, then I have to put this string in the source code: The file %s could not be found. Then I have to run 'intltool-update en', open en.po, and add the translation. That's more steps, none of

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