xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread regatta
Hi

I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question
please don´t hate me :)

is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on
it (the ugly lock login didn´t change since I think gnome 2 or even
before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the
screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the
screen because you can´t change the language back to English to enter
your password !!)


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Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
  
  Why can't the necessary file be generated by Windows users?
 
   because configure doesn't run for people using standard Windows tools.

Daniel,

can you be a bit more specific ? What exactly does not allow people to
run configure under Windows ? Lots of projects build fine under windows
using the standard autotools set.


   people building from cvs like me just ignore that conflict, build and it 
 just works.

I would be surprised if that were true.  You have to *remove* the file.
If you leave it in a conflict it doesn't compile.  To be honest, it has
always bothered me before that this conflict is there, I just never took
the time to look into it like Federico did.  As James said, a conflict
in a cvs update should only happen because the user has local
modifications.

  jhbuild decides that the fact there is a conflict means a build
 must not be attempted, it's jhbuild decision to operate under that mode, and
 that's why it breaks in that case. It's not an human behaviour, it's jhbuild
 behaviour.

jhbuild cannot do anything else.  The conflict leaves markers in the
file that will cause it to not compile.  JHbuild can't make the
difference between a user change and a conflict because of this setup.
At this point the only thing that can solve it is manual intervention.

Thomas

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Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:24:38PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
   
   Why can't the necessary file be generated by Windows users?
  
because configure doesn't run for people using standard Windows tools.
 
 Daniel,
 
 can you be a bit more specific ? What exactly does not allow people to
 run configure under Windows ? Lots of projects build fine under windows
 using the standard autotools set.

  The serious libxml2 contributors on Windows don't run cygwin or migwin. 
Most of the recent contributed features to libxml2 have been done by
those people.
They don't care about cygwin compiled code, as they don't run it. And
experience shows that on windows mixing code from different compilers
just don't work (heck even switching to a different flag for one module
usually lead to errors or crashes at runtime).

people building from cvs like me just ignore that conflict, build and it 
  just works.
 
 I would be surprised if that were true.  You have to *remove* the file.
 If you leave it in a conflict it doesn't compile.  To be honest, it has

  Then you never tried ! xmlwin32config.h and xsltwin32config.h are
not included by build driven by configure, they will just get overwritten
and the conflict with it (as conflict detection is made by searching for
the conflict delimiters in CVS). I don't see how you could get to such a
state.

  I said I would fix this. I don't see why you're jumping on this a few days
later, maybe my post didn't make it to d-d-l (I'm not subscribed, I can't
stand the flames anymore). So please put back you gun in your holster, I'm
not a target, what I did was motivated, should not have broken people's
build and I will fix the jhbuild side effect anyway.

Daniel

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Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-06 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote:

can you be a bit more specific ? What exactly does not allow people to
run configure under Windows ? Lots of projects build fine under windows
using the standard autotools set.


  The serious libxml2 contributors on Windows don't run cygwin or migwin. 
Most of the recent contributed features to libxml2 have been done by
those people.
They don't care about cygwin compiled code, as they don't run it. And
experience shows that on windows mixing code from different compilers
just don't work (heck even switching to a different flag for one module
usually lead to errors or crashes at runtime).
  

I am sure that the file could be generated with a WSH script on
Windows.  That should be available on all your Windows hackers systems,
and doesn't depend on cygwin or mingw32.

I would be surprised if that were true.  You have to *remove* the file.
If you leave it in a conflict it doesn't compile.  To be honest, it has



  Then you never tried ! xmlwin32config.h and xsltwin32config.h are
not included by build driven by configure, they will just get overwritten
and the conflict with it (as conflict detection is made by searching for
the conflict delimiters in CVS). I don't see how you could get to such a
state.
  

I think it is possible to run into problems with these files if you do
cvs update, get a conflict and run make without rerunning autogen.sh.

James.
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Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:53 +0300, regatta wrote:
 Hi
 
 I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question
 please don´t hate me :)
 
 is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on
 it (the ugly lock login didn´t change since I think gnome 2 or even
 before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the
 screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the
 screen because you can´t change the language back to English to enter
 your password !!)

Someone needs to write a secure replacement.  Locking should be handled
by GDM IMO.

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Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:44 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:53 +0300, regatta wrote:
  Hi
  
  I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question
  please don´t hate me :)
  
  is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on
  it (the ugly lock login didn´t change since I think gnome 2 or even
  before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the
  screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the
  screen because you can´t change the language back to English to enter
  your password !!)
 
 Someone needs to write a secure replacement.  Locking should be handled
 by GDM IMO.

There's already a replacement, and it's called gnome-screensaver, and is
in GNOME CVS right now.

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Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:46 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
  On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:44 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
   On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:53 +0300, regatta wrote:
Hi

I know many people will not like me :) , but this just a question
please don´t hate me :)

is there any plan to drop xscreensaver or at less do a heavy change on
it (the ugly lock login didn´t change since I think gnome 2 or even
before and always you have to reboot your machine if you lock the
screen and your keyboard layout is not English when you lock the
screen because you can´t change the language back to English to enter
your password !!)
   
   Someone needs to write a secure replacement.  Locking should be handled
   by GDM IMO.
  
  There's already a replacement, and it's called gnome-screensaver, and is
  in GNOME CVS right now.
 
 Some people had some problems with it becoming a replacement.  Not sure
 what they were and I haven't investigated it myself.  Has it been vetted
 yet for security issues?  The biggest problem with xscreensaver type
 locking is that if xscreensaver crashes your session is unlocked.  This
 is why the author didn't want to link against external libraries if it
 could be avoided (and why we get ugly dialog).  Replacing it with
 something else doesn't really solve any problems other than making it
 look better.  I think we need to get GDM to start doing the locking.
 That way if it crashes the session exits.  If we do that then we can use
 anything for a screensaver app.

Please read the original thread, all of this has already been discussed:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/24408

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Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
snip
 Please read the original thread, all of this has already been discussed:
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/24408

And:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/21149
and:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/21283

Enjoy

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Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Eric Larson
 I've been advocating a simple enter-your-email-we-won't-spam-you form 

I can't imagine any casual system will provide very reliable data so why
worry about an email address. If it is the first time a person starts
gnome, maybe ask them to let us know they are running gnome. Also, what
about the many folks who discover Linux and go window manager hopping
every week. It would be good to know who really uses gnome and is not
just giving it a try. Another option would be something like a I am a
GNOME campaign or something where users can really take the time to
support gnome and let us know how many people are running it. At this
point, it does sound like it will be better on the marketing list! Just
my two cents.

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Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:37 +1200, John Williams wrote:

 Essentially we propose modifying the GNOME About box to include a toggle
 that indicate the user's permission to activate a program that would
 periodically contact a central GNOME server.   Information that would be
 transmitted and recorded has not been decided yet, but the prime
 requirement is to record the number of current GNOME users (not
 installations) on a (say) monthly basis.

I can see the slashdot article now..

Robert Love


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Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-07-05 at 16:21, Robert Love wrote:
 On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:37 +1200, John Williams wrote:
 
  Essentially we propose modifying the GNOME About box to include a toggle
  that indicate the user's permission to activate a program that would
  periodically contact a central GNOME server.   Information that would be
  transmitted and recorded has not been decided yet, but the prime
  requirement is to record the number of current GNOME users (not
  installations) on a (say) monthly basis.
 
 I can see the slashdot article now..

Its problematic to do any kind of automation like that - permission
belongs with the company not the user in many cases. It may also trigger
charges on GPRS networks and the like.

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Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-06 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
Hi William,

It does indeed seem that you have address many of our concerns with
respect to the screen saver.  Bastien filled me in.  We are going to
discuss including it in Fedora today and will most likely get some test
packages and play around with it and give you feedback.

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:28 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
 Hello John,
 
 John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
  Some people had some problems with it becoming a replacement.  Not sure
  what they were and I haven't investigated it myself.
 
 I encourage you and others to actually look at how I've been trying to 
 design gnome-screensaver.  I am eager to receive specific feedback.
 
   Has it been vetted
  yet for security issues?  The biggest problem with xscreensaver type
  locking is that if xscreensaver crashes your session is unlocked.  This
  is why the author didn't want to link against external libraries if it
  could be avoided (and why we get ugly dialog).  Replacing it with
  something else doesn't really solve any problems other than making it
  look better.  I think we need to get GDM to start doing the locking.
  That way if it crashes the session exits.  If we do that then we can use
  anything for a screensaver app.
 
 I'll agree with you in principle that failing closed is better than 
 failing open.  However, failing closed with data-loss and disruption not 
 an ideal solution (except for security experts and TSA employees).  Talk 
 to angry users who have been logged out and lost work.  Of course, this 
 argument applies equally to xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver.
 
 It is not true that using a toolkit for the lock dialog requires linking 
 to toolkit libraries.  I think I've solved this problem adequately by 
 running the authentication checking and lock dialog code in a separate 
 process that is embedded in the window using XEMBED.  I decided to use 
 GtkSocket for this, on the daemon side.  It should be possible to do 
 exactly the same thing using only Xlib.  I have chosen not to duplicate 
 code and also acknowledge that most likely I could not do it better than 
 GTK+ does.  Obviously, a trade-off.
 
 Using a separate process for the input processing, authentication, and 
 non-trivial widgetry is a big win in terms of security.
 
 Replacing the input dialog is only one of the many goals of 
 gnome-screensaver and not one of the most important ones.  It is more 
 important that gnome-screensaver allows a system administrator to set 
 mandatory policy for screensaver themes and locking.  It is difficult to 
 talk about system security when any any user can disable the screensaver 
 altogether or use a theme that displays porn and the system 
 administrator can't do anything about it.  On the other hand, some 
 systems require that the screen never be locked.  Setting this kind of 
 policy is impossible to do with xscreensaver.
 
 Currently, gnome-screensaver uses GConf for settings and policy.  At the 
 moment this requires it to link to the GConf libraries.  The use of 
 GConf is an implementation detail to gnome-screensaver.  It is hidden 
 within the GSPrefs object.  I think it should be possible to use some 
 kind of proxy object via DBus to get these settings and changes.  I am 
 not familiar enough with DBus to know how one can up a trust 
 relationship between two objects.  Since it is important that the 
 settings come unaltered from GConf I have decided (for now) to link 
 directly to the GConf libraries.
 
 gnome-screensaver is about a lot more than making it look better. 
 Let's try to move the conversation past that point.
 
 I've tried to put some information in the Wiki:
 http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver
 
 I'll be happy to try to answer any specific questions and criticism.
 
 Thanks,
 Jon
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switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-06 Thread Carlos Garnacho
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:11 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
 Merging items could be useful. However, I don't think just shoving the
 same existing UI into multiple tabs in a single dialog will help really.
 It will just mean less things in the menu, and more confusion to users
 who are looking for things that are no longer there.
 
 See gnome-control-center. This is in gnome upstream now. However, it is
 totally hidden. :-/

Seems a bit annoying for me too, in fact, I've been working during 2.11
to get gnome-control-center in shape, by adding better/faster layout
functions, RTL support and accessibility support (all of this is now in
CVS [1]), now I'd like to propose it as the default way to access
preferences.

Some may think that it could encourage people to add more capplets, but
that's already happening, in the last 2 releases we've added Multimedia
systems selector, Remote desktop and Removable drives and media, so
we should at least find a way for not punishing users because we don't
follow our own rules :) (HIG says that when there are more than 15
elements in a menu, better think in displaying information in other way)

So here's my vote to get rid of that horrid submenu :)

Regards

[1] might look like this:
http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/control-center/g-c-c.png


 
 -- dobey
 
 On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:14 -0400, Eric Larson wrote:
  On the usability front, I am not sure it is best to merge tools. While
  it does make some sense it could also be more confusing to the user
  because it forces the user to deal with fonts when they only want to
  change the theme. I think the larger issue is not how many system/admin
  tools there are but rather how they are organized. This is a subtle
  difference but I think it makes some sense. BTW, I am using debian
  unstable if anyone would like to know what I am seeing. 
  
  The Desktop menu on the panel has a huge amount of options which are
  organized into one long list. It seems things could be better by having
  an actual control panel that could help to organize different areas
  better. Something in nautilus where the view shows a title and break
  before showing icons specific to that group could be helpful in
  organizing the mass of preferences while keeping each individual
  interface clean and simple. Although, I am a bit bias, Ximian desktop
  does this. It needs work of course because it is pretty out of date, but
  if we consider things like windows users and mac users, a control panel
  type window that shows preferences in an organized fashion may be very
  usable. 
  
  This is Just my two cents of course :) I am not sure of the current
  scope or context of this problme so I apologize in advanced if it is not
  relevant. 
  
  Eric
 
 
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[PROPOSAL] services-admin from g-s-t for 2.12

2005-07-06 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hi everybody!,

I haven't seen any proposal in the whole 2.11 period, so here's one to
break the ice: I'm proposing services-admin from gnome-system-tools for
2.12, the last g-s-t version (1.3.0[.x]) compiles it by default,
featuring a dead easy GUI [1] to activate/deactivate services, both in
real time and at computer startup. It's still missing more descriptions
to handle the most used services, but that's an easy task.

Hope you like it

[1] http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/gst/new-services-2.png

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Re: [PROPOSAL] services-admin from g-s-t for 2.12

2005-07-06 Thread Rob Adams
g-s-t is already part of gnome, right?  So presumably including
additional g-s-t tools is up to the discretion of the g-s-t maintainers?

-Rob

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:46 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
 Hi everybody!,
 
 I haven't seen any proposal in the whole 2.11 period, so here's one to
 break the ice: I'm proposing services-admin from gnome-system-tools for
 2.12, the last g-s-t version (1.3.0[.x]) compiles it by default,
 featuring a dead easy GUI [1] to activate/deactivate services, both in
 real time and at computer startup. It's still missing more descriptions
 to handle the most used services, but that's an easy task.
 
   Hope you like it
 
 [1] http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/gst/new-services-2.png
 
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Re: Application/System Tools vs System/Administration

2005-07-06 Thread Rob Adams
That's close but that talks about Preferences and Administration.
I'm talking about System Tools and Administration.

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 06:43 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
 quote who=Rob Adams
 
  I think that the separation of these two menus is confusing.
 
 http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited
 
 - Jeff
 

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Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:37 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
  Some may think that it could encourage people to add more capplets, but
  that's already happening, in the last 2 releases we've added Multimedia
  systems selector, Remote desktop and Removable drives and media, so
  we should at least find a way for not punishing users because we don't
  follow our own rules :) 
 
 Right or we could just fix the problem - wait that would be INSANE ;-)
 
 If we can't get rid of at least Multimedia systems selector we sure do
 suck.

You could porbably put multimedia systems selector stuff as gconf
keys and enable it there.  The problem is that this stuff becomes
buried and for people who want to change it for whatever purpose
it becomes an egg hunt.

In these cases, it would be good to be able to find a way to get
access without too much trouble like a troubleshooter system that
tells you where to go if the default multimedia stuff doesn't work.
Taking a view of an undirected graph, all pieces of information
should connected.

My two cents.

sri
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Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:15 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
 
 In these cases, it would be good to be able to find a way to get
 access without too much trouble like a troubleshooter system that
 tells you where to go if the default multimedia stuff doesn't work.

I don't want to be too sarcastic ;-) but if we can write a wizard to fix
it, why don't we just fix it to begin with without the user clicking
next a few times?

I'm sure there are a million excuses for this control panel but they are
all excuses in my book. We can and should do better (especially the full
distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu who could fix the whole stack).

All three words in this menuitem are technobabble and the dialog itself
is full of technobabble; plus in most cases changing anything in the
dialog is going to break your system.

I do see the value in configuring a custom default video sink though.
Let me go do that now. Not.

Havoc


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eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

2005-07-06 Thread Colin Walters
Hi,

Looking at the schedule I thought I'd missed the time period left for
new modules, but looking again it appears we still have a small amount
of time.  I'd like to propose eggcups for 2.12.

For more information about eggcups, see:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2005-June/msg00033.html
And particularly:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-July/msg00126.html

Getting eggcups in 2.12 would also mean libgnomecups (presumably in the
Desktop platform).  Does that sound reasonable?

eggcups (and the revamped libgnomeprint print dialog) have undergone a
lot of testing in Fedora, and I think they're ready for inclusion in
GNOME.



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Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:48 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
 
  Join Friends of GNOME and celebrate easy to use software for $OS! (email
  form)
  
  What question are we asking? :-)
 
 I *think* we're asking 'how many users of GNOME are there', not 'how
 many discovered gnome-about in their panel and then decided to fill
 out a form for an organization they know nothing about'.

That is so true.  However I believe there is no harm in pursuing both
options right now.  Imperfect numbers (that catch a
less-than-100-percent proportion of GNOME users) have the redeeming
feature of establishing a lower bound on the count, which is better than
nothing.

Whose toes would we be stepping on if we pushed this Friends of GNOME
thing?  I can not see any objection to it other than it is not ideal for
counting GNOME users.  So, if I can help in any way (I have (X)HTML/CSS
skills and (ver) modest shell/perl/C/C++/java skills) please let me
know.



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Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-06 Thread Carlos Garnacho

 --- Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:

 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:37 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
  Some may think that it could encourage people to add more capplets, but
  that's already happening, in the last 2 releases we've added Multimedia
  systems selector, Remote desktop and Removable drives and media, so
  we should at least find a way for not punishing users because we don't
  follow our own rules :) 
 
 Right or we could just fix the problem - wait that would be INSANE ;-)

just feels better quoted in that piece of sarcasm, even if we do an enviable
work and reduce the number of capplets without moving them from the menu, we 
will have still a growing blob of uncategorized settings (at least, I think that
the tendence to grow is quite noticeable, and even more if we mix at some point 
g-c-c and g-s-t)

I really think that, while the PreferencesRevisited page in l.g.o has pretty 
good ideas, we still should try to show a categorized view of all preferences,
instead of letting users try their luck in the menu (what does Session beside 
Sound? Why there's a separate sublevel for accessibility? ... ;)

So, said this, IMHO fixing one problem is not an excuse to leave the other 
unfixed


 
 If we can't get rid of at least Multimedia systems selector we sure do
 suck.

:)

   Regards

 
 Havoc
 
 
 




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Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa

 I *think* we're asking 'how many users of GNOME are there'

Broadly, yes, but what we've discussed is establishing multiple data sources
(however reliable, having datapoints with caveats is better than nothing) as
well as providing encouragement through momentum.

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Re: Application/System Tools vs System/Administration

2005-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rob Adams

 That's close but that talks about Preferences and Administration.  I'm
 talking about System Tools and Administration.

In many ways, they're in it together. One way of getting rid of crapplets is
by integrating them into more useful locations - you could do the same thing
with the floppy formatter. Imagine - Nautilus lovingly formatting CDRWs, USB
keys, floppies, whatever. :-)

- Jeff

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