Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Built noise from source, can't find libgranite.so
Sounds like you have an outdated development package; run apt-cache policy libgranite-dev to list all available versions. The easiest way to install an alternative version is via Synaptic. 2013/6/23 Craig webe...@gmail.com I built and installed noise from source, but it can't find libgranite.so (I get the following error when I run 'noise'): noise: error while loading shared libraries: libgranite.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I do have libgranite1 installed--can someone tell me what could be going wrong here? Please and thank you, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff OS architect @ elementary -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] Running Elementary in a VirtualBox VM [tutorial]
I made a brief write up on using VirtualBox to virtualize Luna. My primary purpose is to increase exposure to Luna, particularly to those less-technical users; however, it could also be useful for those looking to create a clean development environment without fear of breaking their production environment. I wrote this up because I experienced a lot of issues with installing/configuring a Luna VM, and I want others to benefit from my experiences. Please feel free to read this/share it with anyone who may find it useful: http://craigmatthewweber.com/2013/06/23/running-elementaryos-in-virtualbox-under-ubuntu-13-04/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running Elementary in a VirtualBox VM [tutorial]
Unfortunately VirtualBox is not a great choice because of its really, really poor GPU passthrough drivers that can cause all sorts of random issues, including crashes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk5Mw Running Luna in virtual machines is not a great idea in general because it's just not designed for such use. For example, using the dock in a VM is a PITA because you have to hover a 1px stripe, which is tricky. Also VirtualBox has very slow 2D acceleration, so the dock is slow to show up too even if you manage to reveal it. And any VM drivers are really slow at OpenGL, so Gala animations are laggy, window management in general is laggy even if you disable animations, and VirtualBox drivers show all kinds of nasty artifacts too. So, if you don't mind unusable window management (e.g. you always use one window), you can try running Luna in a VM, but please use something other than VirtualBox. In fact, Parallels GPU drivers are crap as well (proprietary and even worse than VirtualBox) and QEMU/KVM doesn't have guest GPU drivers, so the only VM in which Luna is usable (in single-window mode, because window management is b0rked either way) is VMware. If you want usable window management, you can try running Luna in fullscreen mode in QEMU/KVM or Xen with GPU passthrough to guest, but that's tricky to set up and I can't see any advantages of this setup over an actual installation. Oh, and there's also the option to hack out Gala and replace it with something that does compositing in software. But in that case you're not really running Luna. 2013/6/23 Craig Weber webe...@gmail.com I made a brief write up on using VirtualBox to virtualize Luna. My primary purpose is to increase exposure to Luna, particularly to those less-technical users; however, it could also be useful for those looking to create a clean development environment without fear of breaking their production environment. I wrote this up because I experienced a lot of issues with installing/configuring a Luna VM, and I want others to benefit from my experiences. Please feel free to read this/share it with anyone who may find it useful: http://craigmatthewweber.com/2013/06/23/running-elementaryos-in-virtualbox-under-ubuntu-13-04/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff OS architect @ elementary -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Built noise from source, can't find libgranite.so
So how do I know which version is needed? Shouldn't this be caught somewhere in the installation process? Here is the result of the apt-cache policy command you sent: libgranite-dev: Installed: 0.2.0~r590-0+pkg51~raring1 Candidate: 0.2.0~r590-0+pkg51~raring1 Version table: *** 0.2.0~r590-0+pkg51~raring1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/daily/ubuntu/raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.1.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Sounds like you have an outdated development package; run apt-cache policy libgranite-dev to list all available versions. The easiest way to install an alternative version is via Synaptic. 2013/6/23 Craig webe...@gmail.com I built and installed noise from source, but it can't find libgranite.so (I get the following error when I run 'noise'): noise: error while loading shared libraries: libgranite.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I do have libgranite1 installed--can someone tell me what could be going wrong here? Please and thank you, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff OS architect @ elementary -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running Elementary in a VirtualBox VM [tutorial]
I'm not claiming running it in a VM is ideal; however, it's often necessary (a lot of people want to try an OS before installing it on hardware; others don't want to commit to beta software). In short, hardware installation is simply out of the question for a lot of people. If you'd like to write up an alternative virtualization solution, I'd be happy to link to it on my blog. As a side note, running the VM in fullscreen mode means you don't have to hover over said 1px stripe to show the dock. And I don't believe I've had such graphics problems with other OSes in VirtualBox--while I don't doubt VirtualBox's drivers are crappy, it looks like some of the problem is on Luna's implementation (of course, this is perfectly acceptable as Virtualbox isn't a supported target). On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Unfortunately VirtualBox is not a great choice because of its really, really poor GPU passthrough drivers that can cause all sorts of random issues, including crashes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk5Mw Running Luna in virtual machines is not a great idea in general because it's just not designed for such use. For example, using the dock in a VM is a PITA because you have to hover a 1px stripe, which is tricky. Also VirtualBox has very slow 2D acceleration, so the dock is slow to show up too even if you manage to reveal it. And any VM drivers are really slow at OpenGL, so Gala animations are laggy, window management in general is laggy even if you disable animations, and VirtualBox drivers show all kinds of nasty artifacts too. So, if you don't mind unusable window management (e.g. you always use one window), you can try running Luna in a VM, but please use something other than VirtualBox. In fact, Parallels GPU drivers are crap as well (proprietary and even worse than VirtualBox) and QEMU/KVM doesn't have guest GPU drivers, so the only VM in which Luna is usable (in single-window mode, because window management is b0rked either way) is VMware. If you want usable window management, you can try running Luna in fullscreen mode in QEMU/KVM or Xen with GPU passthrough to guest, but that's tricky to set up and I can't see any advantages of this setup over an actual installation. Oh, and there's also the option to hack out Gala and replace it with something that does compositing in software. But in that case you're not really running Luna. 2013/6/23 Craig Weber webe...@gmail.com I made a brief write up on using VirtualBox to virtualize Luna. My primary purpose is to increase exposure to Luna, particularly to those less-technical users; however, it could also be useful for those looking to create a clean development environment without fear of breaking their production environment. I wrote this up because I experienced a lot of issues with installing/configuring a Luna VM, and I want others to benefit from my experiences. Please feel free to read this/share it with anyone who may find it useful: http://craigmatthewweber.com/2013/06/23/running-elementaryos-in-virtualbox-under-ubuntu-13-04/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff OS architect @ elementary -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] Building Gala, missing glib.h file
I'm trying to build Gala, and during the 'make' phase, I encounter this error: DBus.c:21:18: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gala.dir/src/DBus.c.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gala.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Effectively, I am experiencing this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gala/+bug/1072514 .. which I reopened because the solution the OP found hasn't helped me. Can someone please help with this? Thank you, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] The book How Google Tests Software
Has anyone read this book? If so, how applicable is this for elementary development? Would you recommend it for Elementary developers, and what about it could benefit Elementary developers? If few respond, I'll read through it anyway and provide a recommendation of some sort to share with the community, as I believe a formal testing process is important to developing quality software (and apparently le Goog does as well). Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] elementary hide mode implementation for wingpanel
I was thinking about implementing elementary hide mode for wingpanel (just like in plank) and I was hoping I could reuse code in HideManager.vala used by plank. But what I don't get is that how the hide() and show() functions work in that. Can anyone explain it to me please. regards, Sajith Dilshan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] The book How Google Tests Software
Also, on this note, I think it would be a very productive thing for some of us to collectively read software development books and discuss ideas that could help improve the way we do development so we can be better developers and more effectively help our users. Thoughts? On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Craig Weber webe...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone read this book? If so, how applicable is this for elementary development? Would you recommend it for Elementary developers, and what about it could benefit Elementary developers? If few respond, I'll read through it anyway and provide a recommendation of some sort to share with the community, as I believe a formal testing process is important to developing quality software (and apparently le Goog does as well). Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] The book How Google Tests Software
In java there are tools like maven, ant for automated unit testing. But I'm not sure if there are any tools for vala or C. On the other hand test driven development would certainly increase stability of the system, though it adds an overhead of writing tests. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Craig Weber webe...@gmail.com wrote: Also, on this note, I think it would be a very productive thing for some of us to collectively read software development books and discuss ideas that could help improve the way we do development so we can be better developers and more effectively help our users. Thoughts? On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Craig Weber webe...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone read this book? If so, how applicable is this for elementary development? Would you recommend it for Elementary developers, and what about it could benefit Elementary developers? If few respond, I'll read through it anyway and provide a recommendation of some sort to share with the community, as I believe a formal testing process is important to developing quality software (and apparently le Goog does as well). Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
