Re: How user could loose his CLA done status?

2009-06-29 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 06/28/2009 04:32 PM, Till Maas wrote: Will I also loose my cla_done membership, once you notice that I removed my phone number from FAS after I quit the contract for the telephone connection? Or is it only required to provide a valid phone number at the time cla_done membership is

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Garrett wrote: But when we talk about Fedora features, we're not talking about packaging updates. But all this focus on Fedora features is what I'm objecting to in the first place. Users care about what features are there, not about who wrote them. Yet I don't see us filling in feature

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: Now I guess it would be my turn to feel insulted, and stamp my foot, because I do the majority of the stable Gnome updates. And yes, they do exist. At the rate of one update per month to every GNOME package? Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: nm-applet doesn't work the KDE Wallet for example. This is exactly what I mean by lack of integration. That's why we're switching to the plasmoid. :-) And how is this relevant to the user? The user cares about what features they're getting, not who has written the code

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: The constructiveness if for KDE SIG and individuals to accept that his claim of perfect integration is silly when there are many gaps to address. Those gaps are not integration issues. They're just features which GNOME happens to have. I have no problems with that

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Springer
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: This x86_64 issue is also a nasty side effect of your design policy: why are we defaulting to reduced performance for the vast majority of new hardware (basically only netbooks and a handful pretty specialized devices

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Frank Murphy, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:45 +0100: Is there any contingency plans in place, for a worst case scenario if C#, is lost? FesCo? Sure, there is, but no need to panic ... sky is not falling yet (and there are many reasons to believe it never will). Note for example, that default

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 Eric Springer erik...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: This x86_64 issue is also a nasty side effect of your design policy: why are we defaulting to reduced performance for the vast majority of new hardware (basically only

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: Frank Murphy, Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:38:45 +0100: Is there any contingency plans in place, for a worst case scenario if C#, is lost? FesCo? Sure, there is, but no need to panic ... sky is not falling yet (and there are many

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 12:54 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: The user does not care, so why present things to the user as if they should? I said nothing about users. You should as a Fedora developer care about integration with leading edge features that makes Fedora stand out. You're calling things

What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Mary Ellen Foster
Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515 This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why pl.i586 is in the multilib repository in the first place. How do packages become multilib? Thanks for

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On 29/06/09 09:42, King InuYasha wrote: I don't think you need to really worry about Mono itself. If you really are worried about Microsoft suing your brains out, just remove mono-web and mono-winforms. You don't even need those two for most packaged Mono apps on Linux. Only if you want to run

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-29 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:10:07AM +, Matej Cepl wrote: Jindrich Novy, Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:21:34 +0200: This is caused by the fact that the /usr/share/texmf exists on your system. The new texlive needs to replace it with symlink and RPM doesn't allow to do that if the directory already

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 02:30 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: I would be worried about users\devs who use fedora apps which depend on C#. Is C# used just for web-apps (fedora context)? # repoquery --whatrequires --all --recursive mono-core It is mostly desktop apps and not web apps. Nothing Fedora specific

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-29 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:36:37AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jindrich Novy wrote: This is caused by the fact that the /usr/share/texmf exists on your system. The new texlive needs to replace it with symlink and RPM doesn't allow to do that if the directory already exists. Please remove

Re: What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Marcela Maslanova
On 06/29/2009 10:58 AM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515 This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why pl.i586 is in the multilib repository in the first

Re: What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Mary Ellen Foster píše v Po 29. 06. 2009 v 09:58 +0100: Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515 This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why pl.i586 is in the multilib repository in

Re: What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Mary Ellen Foster
2009/6/29 Ondřej Vašík ova...@redhat.com: Mary Ellen Foster píše v Po 29. 06. 2009 v 09:58 +0100: Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64:      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515 This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why

Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread David
Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is - it shows the range of what is available -

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Niels Haase
2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Niels Haase
2009/6/29 Michal Hlavinka mhlav...@redhat.com: On Friday 26 June 2009 20:50:58 Jon Stanley wrote: ... 18:42:08 Kevin_Kofler Sweeping them under the carpet is bad. 18:42:16 Kevin_Kofler I also hate how x86_64 is being hidden. 18:42:21 nirik presenting them all on the top page is also fail.

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Naheem Zaffar
The I don't care looks like get me out of here!. Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those that know about the different desktop environments should be offered an easy and accessible way to get to them (I am not suggesting that the current page does that - but presenting a

RELEASE: Mach 0.9.5 'MMM...'

2009-06-29 Thread thomas
mach - make a chroot - RELEASE NOTES Announcing the release of mach 0.9.5 - MMM... WHAT IS IT -- mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported. This clean build root can be used to run

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 June 2009 13:22:05 Naheem Zaffar wrote: The I don't care looks like get me out of here!. I don't care really scares me. If you don't care then system installation or using with live CD is not a job for you! Jaroslav Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:22:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Now I guess it would be my turn to feel insulted, and stamp my foot, because I do the majority of the stable Gnome updates. And yes, they do exist. At the rate of one update per month to every GNOME package?

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Monday 29 June 2009 12:48:11 David wrote: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a

Re: Streaming terminal output to a file

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Huffman
Paul wrote: Hi, I'm trying to stream a stack traceback to a file so that I can add it to a bug for firefox. However, the likes of firefox firefox.txt, firefox 2 firefox.txt and firefox firefox.txt either dumps nothing or dumps something, but in all cases, not the stack traceback. What do I

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-29 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:17:47AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: 2009/6/29 Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:10:07AM +, Matej Cepl wrote: I think dvipdfm is maintained by you as well, isn't it? Nope, dvipdfm is maintained by Jonathan G. Underwood (jgu).

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Springer
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: That said, it's possible to improve over their design, in particular by adding links to info pages about the desktops and 32 vs. 64 bit right next to the respective choice. But removing choice is not an improvement. What if the user was

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: It is not obvious to me without seeing comparison data as to why it's such a good thing to have numerous stable updates. It's a good thing because those updates fix bugs, update translations and in some cases add features. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Josh Boyer wrote: It is not obvious to me without seeing comparison data as to why it's such a good thing to have numerous stable updates. It's a good thing because those updates fix bugs, update translations and in

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Niels Haase
2009/6/29 Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org: 2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: I find it amusing that you won't even agree that shipping nm-applet in KDE results is a gap in integration. This was a result of the KDE 3 - KDE 4 migration. It was actually a result of the NM 0.6 - 0.7 migration. The KDE 3 - KDE 4 migration just made it worse by

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Davidbouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: Re the discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties: - it presents a neutral default - it presents a simple choice for newbie who

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bastien Nocera wrote: I'm sure that a KDE hacker with access to a supported fingerprint reader could implement the enrollment facility within an afternoon. There's already an implementation: http://blog.djaara.net/wordpress/2009/ That's a student from Brno, ltinkl and jreznik know him

Re: What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mary Ellen Foster wrote: Rats. Looks like I'll have to do a bit of fiddling, as upstream puts everything (incliding binaries) into subdirectories of %{_libdir} and then makes symbolic links into %{_bindir}. Oh well, can't be avoided I guess ... You can try doing what the qt package does and

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: I don't care really scares me. If you don't care then system installation or using with live CD is not a job for you! +1, and that's why the current design which is optimized for people who don't care is broken. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Saturday, June 27 2009, Kevin Kofler said: * fixing comps so task-oriented groups like SoundVideo aren't biased towards GNOME apps (this most likely requires extending the comps format or having separate comps-kde and comps-gnome - I think extending the format to handle conditionals based

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/29/2009 07:22 AM, Naheem Zaffar wrote: The I don't care looks like get me out of here!. Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those that know about the different desktop environments should be offered an easy and accessible way to get to them (I am not suggesting that the

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/29/2009 09:35 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: David wrote: The I don't care just links to whichever desktop is currently the default. People who don't care should (and will, anyway) just keep using Winblow$ or whatever crap they're currently using. If you're going through the effort of

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 07:20 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: The biggest issue is lack of communication from the only right Desktop - we can't catch changes if these changes are communicated to community too late. Lot of new free desktop techs come from Fedora and we know it and we're working really

Re: Porting amarok-1.4 to F11

2009-06-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Ingvar Hagelund wrote: * Rex Dieter amarok2 supports qtscript (which is why it currently has a dependency on qtscriptbindings) So, it should be possible to access a mounted iPod db in amarok-2.x using qtscript? I'm unfamiliar with programatic access to ipod db's,

Re: TeX Live 2008 available for testing

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jindrich Novy (jn...@redhat.com) said: Installing : texlive-2008-0.1.fc11.x86_642/92 Error unpacking rpm package texlive-2008-0.1.fc11.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/texmf: cpio: rename This is caused by the fact that

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Stanley (jonstan...@gmail.com) said: However, I don't think there's anything to worry about here. The only reason that we ship mono *at all* is that we're covered by some OIN patents on it. I'm not sure which OIN patents those are, but essentially if Microsoft wants to pick that fight,

Re: What decides that a package is multilib?

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Rex Dieter (rdie...@math.unl.edu) said: Mary Ellen Foster wrote: Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515 This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why pl.i586 is in the

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread drago01
Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. ($LANGUAGE has been Java, Javascript and now C#). As for mono it is simply treated the same as other packages if there are legal issues it can be removed, if not there is no reason to do anything. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. So what? His concerns are real. ($LANGUAGE has been Java, Javascript and now C#). Java used to be non-Free, so of course it was bad to depend on it. Especially for those programs which didn't work with the

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:15 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: I'm sure that a KDE hacker with access to a supported fingerprint reader could implement the enrollment facility within an afternoon. There's already an implementation: http://blog.djaara.net/wordpress/2009/

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Niels Haase (a...@fedoraproject.org) said: Magical can be: Shows up a list at the installer where you can chose from Gnome or KDE (both on the same line with no default activation) and on the next line an alternative environment, here you have thinks like E17, XFCE, LXDE ... But you only the

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Roberto Ragusa wrote: (Funny that the order of the desktops has come out alphabetically sorted too) We may want to list XFCE before LXDE as its the more mature option. But I don't have popularity stats for those, so I don't know which one is more popular. The more popular one should be listed

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 June 2009 17:12:42 Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:15 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: I'm sure that a KDE hacker with access to a supported fingerprint reader could implement the enrollment facility within an afternoon. There's already an

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: Saying mono is evil while having DotGNU seems odd to me (http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/) He also recommends against using DotGNU to develop your new Free Software in (because of the same patent risk as for Mono). I'm not familiar with the JavaScript story, but if he really

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 08:49 PM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. So what? His concerns are real. Depends on how you read them and whether you agree with him or not. And for most cases I

Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Sandeen
There have been a few requests to split out the various libraries in e2fsprogs into subpackages: libcom_err(-devel) libss(-devel) libuuid(-devel) Note that libblkid(-devel) has already been split out as it is now part of util-linux-ng (thanks to kzak!) - an email was sent previously about that.

Re: FAO: Programmers Quick Q?

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 09:04 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Development#Communication with this in mind. Have a ticket open for a new m-l. devel-apps@ or programming-sig@ Any preference? May I request that you gather a community and get some more progress *before*

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com said: There have been a few requests to split out the various libraries in e2fsprogs into subpackages: libcom_err(-devel) libss(-devel) libuuid(-devel) Note that libblkid(-devel) has already been split out as it is now part of

Re: FAO: Programmers Quick Q?

2009-06-29 Thread Frank Murphy
Any preference? May I request that you gather a community and get some more progress *before* creating yet another mailing list? We have enough dead or almost dead mailing lists. Adding more isn't useful. Rahul Hopefully after seeing this, some may come on board. If not, then Build it

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 09:08 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: There have been a few requests to split out the various libraries in e2fsprogs into subpackages: libcom_err(-devel) libss(-devel) libuuid(-devel) The following packages have BuildRequires: on e2fsprogs-devel, so depending on what libs they

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: It's not a default if you're providing a choice. I see no reason why we can't provide a choice of 2 desktops. Because giving people a choice when they can't possibly make a good informed decision is horrible UI. If you've got someone new to

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: The word representative contains represent. You're supposed to represent the opinions of the people who elected you, not just your own. ... Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: I'm not going to vote against my electoral promises nor

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Niels Haase (a...@fedoraproject.org) said: Is there any info message telling user something like: You are installing 32bit system on 64bit hardware. Consider using 64bit system for better performance? AFAIK not in Fedora, if I remember me correctly, the SuSE installer shows up such a

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote: That's a really crappy place for that message, though. What's the user supposed to do there... reboot and then go download another 700MB - 4GB? umm -- trying to boot and install the x86_86 image on a i686 unit returns basically the same under

Re: FAO: Programmers Quick Q?

2009-06-29 Thread Mat Booth
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Development#Communication with this in mind. Have a ticket open for a new m-l. devel-apps@ or programming-sig@ Any preference? Frank As a software engineer, I am also interested

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Sandeen
Bill Nottingham wrote: Eric Sandeen (sand...@redhat.com) said: libcom_err(-devel) libss(-devel) libuuid(-devel) Note that libblkid(-devel) has already been split out as it is now part of util-linux-ng (thanks to kzak!) - an email was sent previously about that. The following packages

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Kevin Kofler said: It's not a default if you're providing a choice. I see no reason why we can't provide a choice of 2 desktops. Because giving people a choice when they can't possibly

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote: That's a really crappy place for that message, though. What's the user supposed to do there... reboot and then go download another 700MB - 4GB? umm --

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: Fedora Live Image  --- A link that downloads the Gnome or KDE image, picked at random by a script. SNIP Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be. user I need help fedora-member What desktop are

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Adam Miller on 06/29/2009 11:31 AM wrote: Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be. user I need help fedora-member What desktop are you running? user I dunno ... I just downloaded the default fedora-member . Enjoy DE Russian Roulette :) What if the

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: Roberto Ragusa wrote: (Funny that the order of the desktops has come out alphabetically sorted too) We may want to list XFCE before LXDE as its the more mature option. But I don't have popularity stats for those, so I don't know which one is

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com: On Monday 29 June 2009 17:02:36 Michael Cronenworth wrote: Dariusz J. Garbowski on 06/29/2009 09:56 AM wrote: Maybe call it Default then? No, because that's offensive to some people apparently. No, default is not offensive! Gnome Desktop Live

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Miller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Cronenworthm...@cchtml.com wrote: What if the Fedora version had a suffix? Fedora 11G - Gnome       11K - KDE       11X - XFCE       11S - no desktop (server?) Seems silly, too, yes, but just an idea. Somewhat silly, but the naming convention

License changed for hightlight

2009-06-29 Thread Jochen Schmitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hallo, beginning with the release 2.10 of highlight, the license of this package is changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3. Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora -

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Roberto Ragusam...@robertoragusa.it wrote: I propose: FEDORA LIVE CD Fedora includes many desktops. You can choose:  [ * ]  Fedora Live with GNOME (default)  [   ]  Fedora Live with KDE  

Re: FAO: Programmers Quick Q?

2009-06-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On 29/06/09 17:17, Mat Booth wrote: As a software engineer, I am also interested in making Fedora the best development distro out there (I do this by packaging Eclipse plug-ins) and I think the formation of a SIG to look after development tools That's why the sig should come first. but

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com writes: Bill Nottingham wrote: Any chance that in the interim, e2fsprogs-devel could Require: these new split out packages (if it doesn't already)? For now it only requires libcom_err-devel, from inspection it looks like that's the only set of headers that the

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:31:59PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I love how the other side keeps ignoring that we have a chicken-and-egg situation here. We have two problems: 1. Fedora has trouble attracting KDE developers. 2. Fedora presents Gnome as better. Okay, it's been argued into

Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We want to identify the small (and sometimes large) roadblocks that make everyday computer use harder than

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niels Haase wrote: I wonder if we could find also a way to get the 32bit vs. 64bit choice also so smart integrated? Like a additional radio button at the end for choosing 32bit or 64bit. PS: Hope that this not cause the next long discussion

Re: Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

2009-06-29 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com writes: Bill Nottingham wrote: Any chance that in the interim, e2fsprogs-devel could Require: these new split out packages (if it doesn't already)? For now it only requires libcom_err-devel,

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Robinson
we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you should focus entirely on actual Fedora releases rather than

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Ben Boeckelmaths...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niels Haase wrote: I wonder if we could find also a way to get the 32bit vs. 64bit choice also so smart integrated? Like a additional radio button at the end for choosing

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 06/29/2009 03:48 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. If you

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/6/30 Casey Dahlin cdah...@redhat.com: These aren't typically the sort of issues you can fix in a running release. UI is one of those things we expect to remain stable through the cycle. Even if average user(s) feel uncomfortable? Oh, come on! -- With best regards! --

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Keating
On Jun 29, 2009, at 16:05, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: Focus on rawhide will mean the next release will see the improvements :) That means, that the next release will be untested, as usual. So why create another useless

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 June 2009 21:27:27 Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We want to identify the small (and sometimes

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Robinson
Focus on rawhide will mean the next release will see the improvements :) That means, that the next release will be untested, as usual. So why create another useless initiative? Huh? your on the devel list and you don't use rawhide? Maybe I should introduce you to the fedora-test list.

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/6/30 Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net: As much fun as it is to make up stats on the spot, I would ask you to show some proof that nobody uses rawhide. Please, take a look at smolts statistics, for example. Don't fool yourself with wrong statement that many users (not redhat

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you should focus entirely on actual Fedora releases rather than on Rawhide. However I see that in testing days you still encourage only users with up-to-date Rawhide installations. That's

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/6/30 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: I repeat - this initiative should be based only (exclusively) on current releases. What a load of crap! I use rawhide as do hundreds of other testers. You contradicting to yourself - if you have many (enough to say that their number is huge)

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Keating
On Jun 29, 2009, at 16:25, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/30 Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net: As much fun as it is to make up stats on the spot, I would ask you to show some proof that nobody uses rawhide. Please, take a look at smolts statistics, for example.

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Sandeen
Casey Dahlin wrote: On 06/29/2009 03:48 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2009/6/29 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 21:07:50 +0100, Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: It's a silly suggestion for a silly thread. I've never had the impression that Fedora was targeted toward the newbie user demographic. My MP3 swilling, DVD consuming former Windows using friends have mostly

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Peter, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Peter Lemenkovlemen...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/30 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: I repeat - this initiative should be based only (exclusively) on current releases. What a load of crap! I use rawhide as do hundreds of other testers. You

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Richard June
Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript? If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users' hardware. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Peter, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Focus on rawhide will mean the next release will see the improvements :) That means, that the next release will be untested, as usual. So why create another useless initiative? Huh? your on the devel list

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread nodata
Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 15:27 -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen: Hey all, we'd like to announce the 'Fit and Finish' initiative for Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish with the goal to improve the user experience of the Fedora desktop. We want to identify the small (and

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/6/29 Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, drago01drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Roberto Ragusam...@robertoragusa.it wrote: I propose: FEDORA LIVE CD Fedora

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