Re: Removing OnlyShowIn / NotShowIn from desktop actions

2013-07-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
well in practice. tl;dr - only in makes no sense unless the action is actually shell specific and not application specific. i'd go so far as to suggest that shell specific actions are unmaintanable in practice and would drop that 'feature' -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description

Re: Removing OnlyShowIn / NotShowIn from desktop actions

2013-07-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
dropping the feature makes sense imho. -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg

Re: Removing OnlyShowIn / NotShowIn from desktop actions

2013-07-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
-by-application basis. -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg

Re: Removing OnlyShowIn / NotShowIn from desktop actions

2013-07-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 19:27:16 Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le 03/07/2013 17:29, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : in the specific example given, i really don't understand why a start Qt project would have anything whatsoever to do with the shell. Because when you use an environment

Re: Rework of the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API?

2012-11-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
API, preventing churn in the already implemented DBus services underneath. -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: _DBUS_APPLICATION_ID, _DBUS_UNIQUE_NAME, and _DBUS_OBJECT_PATH

2011-12-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
(in terms of DBus interfaces) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: XDG specs migrated to git

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
the first actual release of the spec with at least one production implementation. thoughts? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description

Re: XDG specs migrated to git

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Jeff Mitchell wrote: On 1/10/2011 6:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: hi... super-massively-belated-response(tm) ... On Thursday, October 14, 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: It's all at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/ + free media player

Re: XDG specs migrated to git

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: so while i agree with your suggested workflow in general, i suggest we define agreed upon as meaning at least the first actual release of the spec with at least one production implementation

Re: metadata in xdg-specs

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2011 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: anything else that should be included? any thoughts on format? For reference here are some proposals from a while ago: http://gitorious.org/~cornelius/xdg-specs/xdg-specs-spec0

Re: XDG specs migrated to git

2011-01-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
to bring up the topic of metadata in the repository ... but i'll start a new thread for that i think... -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc

metadata in xdg-specs

2011-01-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
be easy enough: a file with a standard name (status? adoption? metadata?) in the top-level directory of each spec. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc

Re: New handling for URI scheme handlers

2010-10-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
and this addition does not achieve consensus approval, we do have .protocol files in KDE already and it would be nice (and sensible) to use something that already exists instead of reinventing new wheels of incompatibility. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA

Re: New handling for URI scheme handlers

2010-10-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
of the .protocol files. it would be far too slow otherwise. i think the general implementation is not that different, only in the detail of is the mimetype system a good place to put additional sort-of-like-but-not-quite application associations? question. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se

Re: Draft StatusNotifierIcon broken by design

2010-05-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
specifications for good reason. I agree that we need to continue to work on, and in some cases re-work, the specificaton on fd.o. I hope you'll join, productively and constructively, in helping us achieve that. Thanks ... -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47

Re: Draft StatusNotifierIcon broken by design

2010-05-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, is that what you point out won't affect only notifier items, but all communication done over DBus. It's a more general problem that will only be addressed by making it easy (as in transparent) to route DBus over the same network that the X session is on. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG

Re: Draft StatusNotifierIcon broken by design

2010-05-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
once we start using the technology in question extensively, which brings people to work on it because they now have a good reason to. If we all just wait around, nothing happens, nothing gets done, and our platform stagnates. Not good. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint

Re: Draft StatusNotifierIcon broken by design

2010-05-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
something using DBus. work trumps talk/hope/expectation/desire. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Draft StatusNotifierIcon broken by design

2010-05-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
with well defined constraints and allowances. This may well be a difference in philosophy with some other viewpoints. It is, however, the one some of us are taking and we really have no desire to go backwards on it. It's paying off too many dividends for us to do so. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru

Re: DPMS and automatic sleep inhibit API

2010-02-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
(qdbus and dbus-snend can't do that), such that the back-end discards the inhibit requests almost immediately. do you have use cases (e.g. code) that we can test with? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer

Re: DPMS and automatic sleep inhibit API

2010-02-18 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
is: resurrect the dbus spec for org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, move it into the git repository and ratify it. same for org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver, btw. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt

Re: evening the entry bar: git account management

2010-02-17 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On February 17, 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:50PM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: but it is linked to from the next sentence in the paragraph on the main page. the linked sentence itself is: See AccountRequests for information on how to obtain CVS access to a project

Re: evening the entry bar: git account management

2010-02-17 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On February 17, 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: You can now edit the wiki to your heart's content, but please try to restrict your edits to actual reflections on how things today work, rather than your vision of how you believe

Re: Migrating the specifications to git (xdg-specs repo)

2010-02-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. ditto for thumbnails. dfaure already covered trash; sound names / theme and secret aren't, i don't think anyways?, widely employed yet so aren't critical targets. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer

Re: Migrating the specifications to git (xdg-specs repo)

2010-02-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
to find and track. splitting them up into many repositories raises the bar on that one without much benefit. at least, imo. what are the benefits of separate repositories in your mind? (i didn't really see a rational in your email, but i assume you have some good thoughts on the matter :) -- Aaron J

evening the entry bar: git account management

2010-02-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
i'm starting a new thread for this because it really is a parallel issue and i don't want to hijack Vincent's thread to discuss it On February 16, 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:21:02AM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On February 16, 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: I learnt

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
status, imho. i don't know when we will get to such a thing ourselves (Marco, myself) due to time constraints, but if anyone else would like to contribute such a table that would make it happen a lot quicker. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
git checkout -b notificationitem origin/notificationitem (Marco: could you merge the notificationitem branch into the main xdg-specs repo as a branch there? that might make it easier for others to follow as well; i've added your gitorious account to the xdg-specs repo members list) -- Aaron J

Re: comments on StatusNotifier spec

2010-01-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
to interpret what scrolling results in :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, but if it helps it helps and it should go in. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: comments on StatusNotifier spec

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
itself as taking an icon or an animation) What if you want to provide an animation in multiple sizes? this is indeed an unresolved problem, and why you probably want to define animations by theme name in the first place rather than pixmap data if at all possible. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro

Re: comments on StatusNotifier spec

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 18, 2010, you wrote: On 01/18/2010 03:12 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Also, you need to give *some* indication of what this is for. Eg, currently it could mean anything from Please raise the indicated window if the user clicks on the status item to Please hide the indicated window

Re: comments on StatusNotifier spec

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 18, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On January 18, 2010, you wrote: On 01/18/2010 03:12 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Also, you need to give *some* indication of what this is for. Eg, currently it could mean anything from Please raise the indicated window if the user clicks

Re: comments on StatusNotifier spec

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 18, 2010, you wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 18:17 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On January 18, 2010, Matthias Clasen wrote: The spec is full of awkward naming (StatusNotifierHost, ServiceRegistered, etc), as noted in my replies, i agree that ServiceRegistered should/could

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 13, 2010, you wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On January 12, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: I remember one of the outcomes of the freedesktop.org discussion we had at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was that a spec didn't have to be fully finalized

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. is there someone from GNOME who is willing to put the GNOME name in the supporters column with a commitment to implement? if so, then i don't see what more needs to be discussed, as long as this is recorded in the metadata file alongside the spec proposal. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
enough as is, and without turning it into a full sentence i don't think we'll find something better. the name is the easy thing to discuss, though, relative to the actual spec so it's what people tend to discuss. it's the what colour is the bikeshed part of this spec ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
the 4.3 release. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Moved to git: xdg-user-dirs, default-icon-theme, xdgmime, shared-mime-info

2009-10-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
important than where they are for the moment. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: KNotificationItem specification - first draft

2009-09-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 8, 2009, you wrote: Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Since this spec aims to be desktop independent, whether notification bubbles and notification items should be visually grouped is an implementation detail. It should not be up to the spec to suggest this. it doesn't suggest this, it just

Re: DBus properties naming rules

2009-09-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
or stylistic format. it's a slightly different matter, as the former says which characters are legal and the latter suggest how to use those characters. (to state the obvious) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer

Re: DBus properties naming rules

2009-09-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, be relied upon * deprecate use of characters outside that character set, and put a sunset date on its usage (some years out) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks

Re: KNotificationItem specification - first draft

2009-09-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
of this, as well, as that tends to prove a design well (and highlight weaknesses yet to be uncovered). -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description

Re: KNotificationItem specification - first draft

2009-09-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
-local parts to this system today, it likely will eventually have to deal with such things. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks signature.asc Description

Re: DBus properties naming rules

2009-09-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
existing ones like DeviceKit using '-'s in properties along the way. i also don't see the necessity for more character variety in property names than in signals, methods or other identifiers in a D-Bus service. what's the use case, exactly, beyond preserving existing malformed services? -- Aaron J

Re: DBus properties naming rules

2009-09-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 7, 2009, you wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 16:53 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: i also don't see the necessity for more character variety in property names than in signals, methods or other identifiers in a D-Bus service. what's the use case, exactly, beyond preserving existing

Re: Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
needs to be able to integrate with one of the supported Qt event loops however. Qt, KDE, Gtk+, Windows and Mac are all supported. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Framework

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-07-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
home in a couple days, which will make that easier) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-07-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
than introducing yet more new stuff? ;) even more importantly, it would be more new stuff that would need to be translated. it would be better to fix the .desktop files which need to be fixed because they are broken rather than add yet more work for the translation teams. -- Aaron J. Seigo

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-07-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Michael Pyne wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009 23:48:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009, David Faure wrote: Why is it so hard to acknowledge that if you want to show a piece of text as one unit in the interface, it needs to be presented as one

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
and document that information. one. step. at. a. time. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
destination. personally, i'm ready for a few years of effort here before we're in a place i'm personally happy with. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
of that? twice that i can remember. in 10 years. let's not make this more complicated with possible-but-not-realistic issues. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 09 July 2009, David Faure wrote: On Thursday 09 July 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: * we provide a process in which ALL projects can register their acceptance, implementation, rejection, etc of specs Yes, actually that's what was suggested during the meeting. The initial idea

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 09 July 2009, Olivier Goffart wrote: Le Thursday 09 July 2009, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : points of contact and decision making are not necessarily the same thing. our release team has enough to do as it is, [...] The role of the 'release manager' would be to read the mailing list

Re: freedesktop.org specification process

2009-07-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. i'd recommend adding at least one person with admin status from each involved project (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, etc.) so we have true shared ownership of this artifact. cheers, and i'll see you all on the flip side ... :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
certain emotional and even political aspects that shouldn't exist in the process. accept, reject, abstain, implement are much more value-neutral words. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. The process would be that a spec is accepted as freedesktop.org spec, if the release teams of both GNOME and KDE accept the spec. this sounds great; but it's very high level, so let's talk implementation. On Wednesday 08 July 2009 23:01:54 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Olivier

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

2009-07-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
critical for 3rd party developers to figure out our mess ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: icon naming spec project on launchpad?

2009-06-28 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
to solve. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: icon naming spec project on launchpad?

2009-06-28 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
fingers or getting polemic. just describe what you wanted to see happen, and what actually happened instead. with concrete examples on the table, we can work through them. together. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 27 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: On 2009/06/26 18:05, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: applications activate notifications by their identifier (+ any specific-to- that-instance-of-the-notification data), and knotifyd handles the routing from there. Ok, so this sounds a lot like

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 26 June 2009, Julien Danjou wrote: At 1245966208 time_t, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: i think such a system would alleviate the bulk of future issues without bogging us down in bureaucracy. While I totally agree with you, I've learn that talking in the FOSS world is (too) often a lost

Re: Summarizing discussion on notification interface name

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, that might be a good place to keep a working list as keeping it all straight on the mailing list is a bit of a chore :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
), it's just not the full puzzle. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
with something less capable thing again with my KDE teammates. galago and knotify have essentially zero overlap in functionality. in fact, knotify provides a notification _system_ that feeds the service defined in the galago spec with data to show. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG

Re: Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
need to ensure that we don't repeat them. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Summarizing discussion on notification interface name

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. if you wish for people such as myself to be productive and moving forward minded, you need to start providing support for productive and forward moving initiatives. that was actually my first approach to this set of issues. fair? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
use galago; i don't think it could be done in a purely backwards compatible way) and, once again, need a new galago to do what galago is doing right now for us (communicating between knotify and the visualization(s)). i hope that clears it up somewhat. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se

Re: icon naming spec project on launchpad?

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
getting deeply involved with the discussion. [3] that may not be everyone, but the goal should be everyone, or as close as we can get to that -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
and common APIs really belong here! I think +1 we all want this. What we're facing here IMHO is a governance problem, agreed. now how many of us are able and willing to be part of the solution? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
) this particular request actually has a very real purpose behind it: it's confusing naming, and some of us would like to see a full notifications specification landed at some point that includes not just visual notifications the request (c) should be justifiably considered due to (a) and (b) -- Aaron J. Seigo

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
. where were you in past years? that's why it's gotten to this point, and while i wish there was another way to do it, it would be just more status quo is status quo, let it ride openly broken. and that is not acceptable. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
be run this way and thereby avoid creating more poor results. this is a vote of no confidence in fd.o as it stands, and the cause of that lack of confidence is galago in how it represents the broken / lack of processes here. start arguing about that and we'll get somewhere. -- Aaron J. Seigo

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
support to. do you? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
this enough times in this thread yet? i hope everyone's getting it by now. if not, let me know and i'll happily repeat it ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc

Re: icon naming spec project on launchpad?

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
and remove barriers to efficiency for you guys. my only question is whether or not this is something that the various participants in working on the icon spec are in favour of? i assume/hope so, but as it hasn't been mentioned, i feel compelled to ask for clarity. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: On 06/25/2009 12:52 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: c) this particular request actually has a very real purpose behind it: it's confusing naming, and some of us would like to see a full notifications specification landed at some point

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: On 06/25/2009 01:27 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday 25 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: Thank you -- that's exactly how I feel like this conversation is going. As a notifications daemon implementer, I *really* don't appreciate

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
various other things that are sticking with the current spec, and while i find some of them dubious i don't think they are worth squabbling over. the name of the service on the bus, however, is. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: There are patches for libnotify, notification-daemon, kdebase and notify-osd. org.freedesktop.Notifications ... *sigh* sorry, but that's not acceptable. Most

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
that too. [1] http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-screensaver/docs/gnome-screensaver.html -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, you wrote: Aaron J. Seigo wrote: the correctness issue: these are not notifications, they are a subset of notifications. what do we call a spec that actually does notifications? FullNotifications? there is no point in collaborating if there is no collaboration

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
here. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list

Re: Starting discussion on a new version of the notification spec

2009-06-17 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
client-side API, as what it should look like will change between devices, between philosophies and between decades. but yes, i agree with a lot of what you observe :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
this one starts to get really ridiculous, and should be discouraged in the spec; the point that it's 'possible' stands). imho, the spec should outline that if image_data is sent, that image_path is to be ignored even if defined. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
are the real world use cases? i really don't want to write, test and maintain image conversion code if i don't have to, and i thus far fail to see the benefit. it sounds a lot more like a theoretical issue rather than a practical one. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint

Re: Notification spec issue: Ability to assign an icon *and* an image to a notification

2009-06-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: On 06/13/2009 05:12 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2009, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: I'd say might as well throw in the image format as well. It's a tiny extra bit of information, and it's not a big burden to require it from

Re: Starting discussion on a new version of the notification spec

2009-06-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
don't think it belongs in this spec :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

git repository for specs: one more attempt

2009-06-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
and we can turn them into action together. the last time we actually managed to discuss this, it resulted in a number of good improvements. this email does represent my last attempt to get this going. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1

Re: git repository for specs: one more attempt

2009-06-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
account, i'd be happy to add you to the xdg-specs team and you could have a go at adding the thumbnailer spec to the repository. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc

Re: git repository for specs: one more attempt

2009-06-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
it is that's sub-par with fd.o's social/political machinery. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
the current system, which in turn was implemented due to inherent limitations with it's a directory structure approach (mostly related to third party additions). -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored

Re: KNotificationAreaItem

2009-04-28 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, for example, merging the context menus seamlessly and without hassle. but yes, this is indeed the sort of thing the new spec has been designed with in mind. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt

Re: KNotificationAreaItem

2009-04-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:03 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: this is probably the typical implementation we'll see in general, because it's consistent with legacy tray behaviors. but it could just as easily be a voice driven system, a text interface

KNotificationAreaItem

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
, comments are desired. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: KNotificationAreaItem

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 20 April 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: * there is a long-running d-bus service that keeps track of the items and the visualizations (in the case of KDE, a kded4 module, though each environment could and should provide its own) something that came up during a private conversation

Re: Notifications spec: Icons

2009-04-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
) using a different icon means they are using an icon from the icon theme, or a custom icon not included in the icon spec? Packages using notify_notification_set_icon_from_pixbuf: 19 and these don't use app_icon at all, i take it? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209

Re: More than a month to give CVS access

2009-04-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
say should work because right now, to be perfectly frank, it doesn't -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Notifications spec: Icons

2009-04-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
above a certain size may be silently dropped and the d-bus communication canceled (to prevent DOS, for instance) ... -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software signature.asc Description

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