Gnome Shell appears to break key grabbing rules

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Dekter
Apologies for the repost, but I'm thinking this question may have got lost in the flood. Original Message Subject:Gnome Shell appears to break key grabbing rules Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:21:43 +1100 From: Chris Dekter cdek...@gmail.com To:

Overriding private functions from extensions

2011-12-11 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Hi, Is overriding functions starting with underscore is forbidden? It used to work with gnome 3.0 but does not seem to work with 3.2. -- Duy ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: Overriding private functions from extensions

2011-12-11 Thread Giovanni Campagna
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is overriding functions starting with underscore is forbidden? It used to work with gnome 3.0 but does not seem to work with 3.2. Not forbidden (they're just functions, we do nothing to protect them), just

Re: Overriding private functions from extensions

2011-12-11 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Not forbidden (they're just functions, we do nothing to protect them), just discouraged. It could be that the function was removed/renamed in 3.2 dev cycle, and so you need to port your extension to the new

Re: Gnome 3 desktop issues

2011-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:56:40AM +, Another Sillyname wrote: Sorry I disagree. You didn't respond to anything I stated. I said it isn't not for everyone and furthermore even if you might like it, it might take time before you see so. You long email totally ignores my comment it isn't for

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Dennis Benzinger wrote: I would be nice if you could detach a modal dialog from its parent. There is a gconf/dconf option for that I think. Something like attach modal dialogs. The bug should be about dialogs longer than the screen though, not about

Re: Gnome Shell appears to break key grabbing rules

2011-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 07:29:25PM +1100, Chris Dekter wrote: Apologies for the repost, but I'm thinking this question may have got lost in the flood. Wait a few working days. Devs aren't always around. -- Regards, Olav ___ gnome-shell-list mailing

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Ross Burton
On 11 Dec 2011, at 13:22, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Dennis Benzinger wrote: I would be nice if you could detach a modal dialog from its parent. There is a gconf/dconf option for that I think. Something like attach modal dialogs. The bug

GNOME Development setup

2011-12-11 Thread David Collins
Hey all! I am just getting into GNOME development and am curious about the tools/setup others use for developing code in GNOME (extensions,applications,etc.). Thanks ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 02:15:39PM +, Ross Burton wrote: On 11 Dec 2011, at 13:22, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Dennis Benzinger wrote: I would be nice if you could detach a modal dialog from its parent. There is a gconf/dconf option

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2011 à 14:15 +, Ross Burton a écrit : That isn't going to help when the size possible is larger than the screen, ie evolution preferences doesn't fit in 600px. Moving the window by hand is hardly a good workaround for users. The dialog should fit on the screen. I

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
On 11/12/11 15:15, Ross Burton wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Dennis Benzinger wrote: I would be nice if you could detach a modal dialog from its parent. There is a gconf/dconf option for that I think. Something like attach modal dialogs. The bug should be about dialogs

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
On 11/12/11 15:50, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le dimanche 11 décembre 2011 à 14:15 +, Ross Burton a écrit : That isn't going to help when the size possible is larger than the screen, ie evolution preferences doesn't fit in 600px. Moving the window by hand is hardly a good workaround for

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Ross Burton
On 11 Dec 2011, at 15:56, Bjoern Schiessle bjo...@schiessle.org wrote: Therefore I think the problem has to be addressed on the desktop/window manager level. Like an application window a dialog should be never larger than the screen. If I think about it, maybe it even has to be addressed on

Re: GNOME Development setup

2011-12-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Best place to start is in the gnome-love mailing list. You'll need to setup 'jhbuild' (search for jhbuild and gnome, you'll get the link) and it will tell you how to get started. There isn't a lot of documentation on extension development, you'll have to ask developers on #gnom-shell, look at

Re: small screens and large config dialogs

2011-12-11 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 11 December 2011 15:56, Bjoern Schiessle bjo...@schiessle.org wrote: Therefore I think the problem has to be addressed on the desktop/window manager level. Like an application window a dialog should be never larger than the screen. If I think about it, maybe it even has to be