Forgot to send to d-a-l, forwarding.. Thanks for all your work while i'm away starting my life in stockholm ! Raf
Begin forwarded message: > From: Raphaël Slinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed 2 Aug 2006 19:38:28 GMT+02:00 > To: Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Deskbar] Punt DA to 2.18, NewStuffManager as a > separate module in GNOME 2.18?? > > Quickly, because i just arrived to sweden and i'm not on any kind > of proper connection: > > No don't hold deskbar 2.14 as the new 2.16 > > If necessary just make the NSM buttons in the UI insensitive or > (better) just remove them by notificating the desktop-team and any > other teams necessary. > > There are so much patches that have gone in 2.16 that it's > unacceptable not to release it (with NSM disabled/removed) > > And also if someone can do it, see and review the handlers we ship > in the tarball, and add/remove some. > > Thanks a lot > Raf. > > On 02 Aug 2006, at 10:08, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Nigel Tao wrote: >>> Here's some points that I'm writing down before I forget, and maybe >>> I'll add some more later. >>> >>> * NewStuffManager (henceforth NSM) is pretty cool. People are >>> liking >>> the idea, and e.g. Epiphany folks are interested in using it. >>> >>> * I still have security concerns about the current >>> implementation, and >>> these concerns will not be resolved by the 2.16 time frame. >>> >> You're absolutly right. We have to think the security issue over. >> >>> * Somebody suggested that NSM is quite similar to KDE's Get Hot New >>> Stuff (http://dot.kde.org/1110652641/). Perhaps we should >>> collaborate >>> / merge / get funky under the freedesktop.org umbrella. >>> >> I only had a brief look at it. Seems to me that it's intended to be a >> platform for sharing documents. Not exactly what we have in mind. >> >>> * We are in 2.16 UI Freeze and approaching String Freeze. Messing >>> around with the preferences dialog at this point will break these >>> freezes. >>> >> Ah, I didn't know that. Therefore, work on NSM should be almost >> done :/ >> >>> * One option is to punt all this new goodness for another 6 months >>> (GNOME 2.18) to really make this puppy shine (and to get out of >>> freeze). On the downside, this would mean that there's nothing >>> new in >>> stable deskbar-applet for another 6 months. >>> >> Sounds somewhat reasonable, especially because of the security issue. >> But I can't decide if it's better to leave NSM out of the release or >> ship it in a somewhat incomplete state. >> >> On the one hand, we don't really know if it's stable or has some >> major >> security holes we don't know about. In addition, we could use the new >> dbus bindings in the 2.18 release I guess. This would be the biggest >> point for me as programmer to postpone the release, because the >> current >> python bindings don't support destroying a dbus object. Actually, I >> didn't looked at the new ones, but I think I heard something that >> this >> issue is solved. >> >> On the other hand, we would show the users that we are really making >> process and that makes them happy. >> >> All in all, I must say I tend to postpone the release, because I >> don't >> want to be sorry for what I've done if it's out there and buggy. >> >> - -- >> Greetings, >> Sebastian Pölsterl >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) >> >> iD8DBQFE0F1u1ygZeJ3lLIcRAl/hAJwJ6Rg3DiymDrpD2X3I+h3R0YEKPQCfd0h1 >> ChKyfwXKIlaZyzfDLK7+x1w= >> =6WL3 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> deskbar-applet-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list > _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
