Hi;

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 08:01 -0400, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
> 
> The gconf schema.xml needs to be installed in some cases, try this:
> 
> ~/sofa$ gconftool --install-schema-file=schema.xml
> 
> It's a known problem, I'll submit a bug to get this fixed: "Should not
> crash when no schema is loaded.".

Ah that fixed it :) 

The startup looks very nice, but now I have another problem in that no
plugins are getting loaded nor are listed in the config (cool too btw). 

I do have;

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sofa-0.2.0]$
ls /usr/local/lib/sofa/modules/
dummy.a     dummy.so.0.0.0     intvideoplayer.so.0      rhythmbox.so
dummy.la    intvideoplayer.a   intvideoplayer.so.0.0.0  rhythmbox.so.0
dummy.so    intvideoplayer.la  rhythmbox.a
rhythmbox.so.0.0.0
dummy.so.0  intvideoplayer.so  rhythmbox.la

However.

> As far as for API, (as discussed recently) I implemented my own
> mechanism to get independent from screen size.  Basically, i have
> x(int percent) and y(int percent) which return a real coordinate from
> the percentage I pass it.  This was necessary to be resolution and
> aspect ratio independent.

Yes have done similar type things which kind of sucks. Layouts will help
a bit. The eventual plan is to have 'ClutterUnits' for position sizing
and that you can do stuff like

clutter_unit_from_percentage() / clutter_unit_from_mm() etc

> 
> I'd like more "out of the box" behaviors (I know I can write my own,
> but didn't find the time or doc to do it): rotate, colors..

Trunk has some new ones - including rotate and also bspline and ellipse
paths (which rock). Also new ClutterEffect which wrap the behaviour
machinery and make them a little easier for 'one shot' kind of usage.

> 
> One thing is sure, clutter was the best choice I could do: saved me a
> lot of dev time!
> 

Woo - mission accomplished :)

Many thanks;

  -- Matthew


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