On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:58, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:41:24 -0500, Karol Krizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:14, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:54:42 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
> >>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > You know Youness...I found a kind of solution
> >> >
> >> > I found a little utility on Mac OS X, it makes the system
> >> > automatically write something to you by just typing a special keyboard
> >> >
> >> > By example, I coded it for
> >> >
> >> > amsn forum (without the space between the both words)
> >> >
> >> > So immediatly, if I type
> >> >
> >> > amsn forum
> >> >
> >> > BANG!
> >> >
> >> > You can get this answer on the aMSN Mac Forum
> >> >
> >> > http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewforum.php?f=14
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > 3 lines appear! BOUM! Fast and sweet! Genius! Works in my mail
> >> > application, in Safari (web), but not on aMSN (doh!) but anyway it's
> >> > great!
> >>
> >> That's cool! I don't know if I'll ever use it though.. but stil..what's
> >> that app's name ?
> >
> > There is something like that in KDE. Just go to Control Center->Reginal
> > and
> > Accesibility->Input Actions. There is an example in the default KDE
> > install,
> > just select the Examples and look for "Type 'Hello'". And it does work in
> > amsn too :D.
>
> cool, didn't know that, only problem is that I use enlightenment on my
> linux box, and my windows box (which is my main PC now) is .. well,
> windows :P
>
> >> > By the way I installed on a friend computer aMSN...he is on Fedora
> >> > Core (installed by school)
> >> > I tought it would be  hard (installing tcl/tk and all that stuff,
> >> > because he doesn't have tcl/tk installed by default)
> >> >
> >> > But finally I just typed in the terminal
> >> >
> >> > yum install amsn
> >> >
> >> > 2 min later it was installed in Internet-Kde Menu, he was impressed!
> >> >
> >> > Yeah I know it's old, it's very 0.94-old-fashion but hey..it's easy.
> >> > That's why the release should come soon, we have too much newbies
> >> > hanging around  us to try the new features with CVS (HEY TKCXImAGE IS
> >> > NOT WORKING!! OH WHAT WE HAVE TO COMPILE IT? OH GOD! HOW DO I DO
> >> > THAT?). If it could be easy like a one-line install with 0.95
> >> > installation, then all the newbies will disapeear (most of them).
> >> > That's why we have to release.
> >>
> >> hehe cool :) but yeah, it's that easy, for 0.94 as well as 0.95, as long
> >> as it's a "package" you get that nice behavior :) compiling would only
> >> be
> >> for CVS users and people who download "amsn source package"..
> >> and by the way.. no the newbies won't dissapear, they will just find a
> >> stupider question to ask :P
> >
> > A good idea would be to create a "aMSN CVS repo" forr some distributions
> > like
> > Fedora and Debian. Then we could have an script generating debs and rpms
> > every few day and giving the users the possiblity to try the CVS version
> > without having to much about with the technicalities of cvs command line
> > and
> > compiling. This would allow us to skip the release candidate all
> > together.
>
> I though about that... well, not the repo, but the script building the
> rpms as well as the .tar.gz file... a repo would be nice, but do you know
> how to set up one ? I know it's quite easy with debian, I don't know about
> other packages (emerge/yum...) but it's still something worth looking
> into...
I think that it's around the same proccess for setting up yum and emerge, just 
create a directory on the webserver and put some files into it, maybe 
generate an index. I'll tak a look at the emerge side as I am a Gentoo user.

> btw, I'm still trying to figure out who's the wiki manager, there are a
> lot of things that should go into the wiki (I'd like confirmations when
> the wiki is modified like that).. first, the winks and the rdesktop
> threads I sent, and now this... the idea of a repo and autobuilt packages
> to be added and also setting up the trak server...
>
Trak server?

> >> > I'm not very active currently but...I'm kind of a rush guy. If you
> >> > say, hey release is NOW then my package will be ready and I will fix
> >> > some last-minute bug(there's a bug in the smiley substitution of
> >> > custom smiley when we send the custom smileys, what we see is good
> >> > but what people receive is bad) and find time to do that stuff. To
> >> > find time you have to be motivated by something and currently I just
> >> > have no reason to work on aMSN and tons of reasons to study so that's
> >> > just normal.
> >>
> >> Yeah that's normal, we're all in the same boat (more or less)
> >
> > I'll try to fight my lasyness and do some work as I most likely have
> > more time
> > than you. There are some advantages to being in a high school :)
>
> yeah.. lucky you.. in my case, I'm with a full time job (internship) and
> I'll soon be full time at school + part time job + part time external
> training in finances .
>
> >> > See ya
> >> >
> >> > Le 05-11-16 à 15:30, Youness Alaoui a écrit :
> >> >> and I totally understand Jerome for answering the guy like that..

-- 
Karol Krizka

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