Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
ok, ok everyone, relax... I already said in a previous email that I had a plan to organize all this and that it would be (partially) based on the system we use at my job.. with the difference that it would take into consideration that it is no professional product and we do this in our free

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
damn, you're all answering too fast for me to keep up, I'm not even able to answer each of your propositions... let me write my answer slowly.. please.. KKRT On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:52:28 -0500, GrdScarabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I woul

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> I would appreciate your help in documentation. Once I have more time >> to get things organized, I would like to start assigning documentation >> tasks, but until then, we need to clean up what we currently have on >> the wiki and other places. I

[Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Lee Olson
On 12/12/05, GrdScarabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>Personnally I'd like to work on libmsn with Youness if everybody agree ... > > * aMSN Team (amsn1 ?).(everyone) > * aMSN2 Team (amsn2) > - libmsn team ...

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>Personnally I'd like to work on libmsn with Youness if everybody agree ... * aMSN Team (amsn1 ?).(everyone) * aMSN2 Team (amsn2) - libmsn team (Youness, GrdScarabe) - D-bus for Tcl team .(Ka

[Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Lee Olson
On 12/12/05, Karol Krizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 12 December 2005 18:11, GrdScarabe wrote: > > As the (dolorous) problem of languages is fixed with a "huis-clos" (who > > are the 8 ? :) ) ... what about discussing about the groups and the > > global organization ... > > > > I think

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Karol Krizka
On Monday 12 December 2005 18:11, GrdScarabe wrote: > As the (dolorous) problem of languages is fixed with a "huis-clos" (who > are the 8 ? :) ) ... what about discussing about the groups and the > global organization ... > > I think those points are more important because : > - the organization w

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Same thing hereThe Get More plugins should be on another lineLe 05-12-12 à 21:18, Youness Alaoui a écrit :11 - plugins window doesn't seem to work correctly for Karol because of his default debian fonts...

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hello hello... new updated list.. we still need to test the 'make rpm'!!! I asked Taj Morton for more info, but he's not the only one with that problem, who else is able to test that ? here are new items that popped up : 10 - make the notes window smaller (yeah :S) in order to fit in 800x600

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the (dolorous) problem of languages is fixed with a "huis-clos" (who are the 8 ? :) ) ... what about discussing about the groups and the global organization ... I think those points are more important because : - the organization will be the key o

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
perfecto chica, I'll apply the fix, thanx :) I think I'll use 3 secs, it's probably more than enough and if the connection is slower than that, then anyways transfering webcam will be hell... also, IN CASE it freezes amsn in some other way, the damage won't be noticable... Thanks Vivia, K

Re: [Amsn-devel] Changing link in webcam wizard

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
thank you, works perfect... one little suggestion though... pwc driver should be the number one item, and it shouldn't say 'it won't segfault anymore...you can't use high resolution'.. make it more official... 'those of you who are using this driver should know that this driver is incomplete

Re: [Amsn-devel] Changing link in webcam wizard

2005-12-12 Thread Karol Krizka
On Monday 12 December 2005 10:57, Youness Alaoui wrote: > 100% agree... who can do it ? simple fix ? I will tonight if not done > Sander already did it and I uploaded the webcamfaw.php file on the sf.net servers. > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:58:15 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
> did you try being offline ? you need to be sure that it will timeout and > it will USE all those 5 seconds... if you were online, you would get it > to unfreeze in less than a second, once it's able to connect to the > reflector... maybe not offline also... maybe offline will make it return

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-lang] Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
by the way, last time, I added myself in the release todo list, the entry that says we should give at least a one week notice for language maintainers before releasing a new version... KKRT On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:29:12 -0500, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, sorry guys for troubling you, I know language managers are busy and I can't do much about those new keys I added.. I tried using already existing keys, but none was clear enough.. I do not request any work from you on this matter for now, I mean, don't try to free the language queue in

[Amsn-devel] Re: Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Lee Olson
>On 12/12/05, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Youness Alaoui wrote: > > [...] > > sorry, I lost track of this mail, forgot to complete it and send it... in > > short, don't worry about it, I don't want to put even more pressure on > you, > > keep it as it is, if

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-lang] Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Youness Alaoui wrote: [...] > sorry, I lost track of this mail, forgot to complete it and send it... in > short, don't worry about it, I don't want to put even more pressure on you, > keep it as it is, if you can translate, then great, but don't feel it's part > of the things

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-lang] Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hello, totally my fault, I just fixed the plugins selector which needed a "get more plugins" button, and the autosart for windows is also something we've been trying to get for a while, it just had to be added... I talked about this with other devels on IRC, and we said that we had no choice

Re: [Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Sander Hoentjen
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 14:25 -0600, Lee Olson wrote: > For all of those considering java, an interesting read is found here: > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > > Maybe some of you don't follow liscense issues closely, but it's > definately something to consider if you want to keep

[Amsn-devel] Re: Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Lee Olson
For all of those considering java, an interesting read is found here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Maybe some of you don't follow liscense issues closely, but it's definately something to consider if you want to keep aMSN accessible in the future. ~Lee On 12/12/05, Le Philouso

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Hey, I had an idea !! 1) Make the separation of the GUI and the Core 2) We create a libmsn for telepathy based on our current code 3) We can create a protocol plugin for aMsn to make it communicate with Telepathy !! Like that all is done progressively... Phil Le Monday 12 December 2005 16:53, Grd

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Le Monday 12 December 2005 20:18, Boris Faure (billiob) a écrit : > 2005/12/12, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll become > > suicidal :D > > Yes, i do ! > > My point of view : this looks very good and a bit "the project of year".

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Boris Faure (billiob)
2005/12/12, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll become > suicidal :D Yes, i do ! My point of view : this looks very good and a bit "the project of year". Like Jerome, i just learnt TCL by reading aMSN's code. I know a bit C, and can

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
You're right.. we're discussing this in the IRC channel.. I think C++ is out of the way... it leaves Tcl and Java... I still am a little doubtful about java.. but Tcl is not OO at all.. it's a huge problem, but it has other advantages (we already provide tcl/tk interpreter, we already have c

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
no, that's because Tcl is procedurable and you looked at aMSN code which is a total mess... but look at other simple, modular code, you'll find it eaiser to read.. maybe try remote.tcl or chatwindow.tcl.. you'll see clear code if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll beco

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And personally, for what I saw since I am present on this list I think you do a pretty good job... So, I don't know if my vote is important but I support you ... Now, for the drawbacks (sorry but critics are positive :S ), ... from what I saw, I thin

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Hi, very good !! I think we need an organisation because IMO it's too messy !! You only have to look at this thread !! Everybody speaks and everybody deviates from the initial topic !! Some people who will never code wants to impose their point of view ! Enough I say one thing ! Discuss on

Re: [Amsn-devel] Changing link in webcam wizard

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
100% agree... who can do it ? simple fix ? I will tonight if not done On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:58:15 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The FAQ Webcam button in the webcam wizard open a link to the wiki..May be we should make a link to amsn.sourceforge.net/webcam.php or som

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Nuno Agapito
I already tried! It seems easy! When we work with a bunch o languages, theres not a language hard to learn! But there is languages that are more readabel than others Write a API in java or C++ with no comments and say in what language it's more easy to understand what the API does, C++ or Java

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
hehe, I get your point, differene is : if you could use whatever client you want, would you go with jabber or amsn ? especially if you're someone with a mac/linux AND windows OS... and I'm saying if you have the choice! now, we're doing this from scratch, so let's choose the best thing we can

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, I've been getting more and more professional experience and I know how importnat it is for a project to be documented and correctly managed... I will be willing to manage it, in the same way I'm begining to slwoly do it for amsn1.. up until now, it was a 'free-for-all', or 'shoot-them-all'

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Bruno Costa
On 12/12/05, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, ok stop that...first, java has great javadoc support where the doc is in your source,excelent, C#, noone wants M$ crap!!! and it's NOT multiplatform... mono isan implementation where they 'try to make it work'... I prefer to use the real th

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Ok, ok stop that... first, java has great javadoc support where the doc is in your source, excelent, C#, noone wants M$ crap!!! and it's NOT multiplatform... mono is an implementation where they 'try to make it work'... I prefer to use the real thing, the same goes for java, that's why I don

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Vennik wrote: > Op maandag 12 december 2005 18:10, schreef GrdScarabe: > >>Humm... it is not that simple ... >> >>Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as >>good management and control of the development process as fo

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
Op maandag 12 december 2005 18:10, schreef GrdScarabe: > Humm... it is not that simple ... > > Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as > good management and control of the development process as for > "profesional developments" (I mean mostly proprietary) if the tasks a

[Amsn-devel] Re: [Amsn-lang] Translations + release

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
Only bugfixes should be done to 0.95 now. Bugfixes won't generate new keys. But not everyone seems to stick to that. I just check now and see new keys BAD! Harry Op maandag 12 december 2005 12:22, schreef Vivia Nikolaidou: > Hello, > > I see new keys to be translated being constantly add

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Humm... it is not that simple ... Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as good management and control of the development process as for "profesional developments" (I mean mostly proprietary) if the tasks are splitted in sm

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
It has to work this time, and it can. If anyone just wants to code at some moment, there is amsn1 to work on! Op zondag 11 december 2005 23:18, schreef Youness Alaoui: > You're basically talking about the 'normal' way to do things ? > from my experience, this will never be done amongst amsn deve

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
No option, C# is just M$'s trick to kill Java, we shouldn't approve such by using it. Op maandag 12 december 2005 17:15, schreef Nuno Agapito: > I propose one solution(don't no if it work's): C# --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that does not concern aMSN as whole, but just libmsn ... if I've followed everything :s GrdScarabe Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer wrote: > What the hell is going on here? C# > > I think many people lost the track here, we're not talking about > restar

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Hmm? Did you ever try to learn TCL or you just say that without knowledge? ALL the developers here learnt TCL just by reading current aMSN code. As I did. That's so easy. The easiest language to learn may be. Come on , don't say TCL is hard, you never tried. Le 05-12-12 à 11:15, Nuno Agapi

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
What the hell is going on here? C# I think many people lost the track here, we're not talking about restarting aMSN in a new language. This discussion is coming back every 3months and this is NOT what we are talking about here. Le 05-12-12 à 11:15, Nuno Agapito a écrit : I propose one sol

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried C# when Microsoft compiler was just released and ... one think that I found just excellent was that we were able to comment the source with xml and then extract it to generate a good doc (not a fake one as with doxygen or whatever). For thi

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Alberto Diaz
(WARNING: This is a long, boring mail :P) Well, maybe I am the only one who doesn't feel it like a totally postitive thing... First of all, aMSN is far from being stable on its own. Maybe it's better to polish what we currently have than coming up with a new core and adapting some pieces of our

[Amsn-devel] Dbus viewer plugin, referring to aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread JeeBee
Dear all, First of all, I like to thank Jerome for moving my plugin to amsn-extras CVS modules of aMSN :) And also for fixing a bug in it I couldn't find after quite some debugging (which made my learn some tcl so it was nice to do). I would like to discuss the future of my plugin with you, as I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Nuno Agapito
Youness is right... Java it's not a good solution for this project... It's very slow, compile it kills me and the integration with non-java applications. speaks for it self! C++ has the problem of slow development for inexperienced programmers!!! For experienced, it's easy too go on... but eve

[Amsn-devel] Changing link in webcam wizard

2005-12-12 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
The FAQ Webcam button in the webcam wizard open a link to the wiki..May be we should make a link to amsn.sourceforge.net/webcam.php or something like that and then redirect to the wiki? In case we change the link of the wiki or something like that. -

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just about telepathy, I guess that you all have already seen that link ... but just in case it can be usefull ... or for the archives :p http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html GrdScarabe Youness Alaoui wrote: > The problem with C++ is that it w

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've read both threads again cause I thought I saw a link to the wiki to talk about this but I cannot find it, so 2 solutions : - There is a link and I have to buy new glasses, - There is no link and I have to sleep cause I have hallucinations .

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
did you try being offline ? you need to be sure that it will timeout and it will USE all those 5 seconds... if you were online, you would get it to unfreeze in less than a second, once it's able to connect to the reflector... maybe not offline also... maybe offline will make it return immediatl

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
The problem with C++ is that it was made to be backward compatible with C, which made the design have a lot of compromises... the problem with it is that the code can get real messy, development is slow compared to java, memory leaks,seg faults are such an easy thing to get, if the programme

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Arieh Schneier
> > 4 - change the plugins/Notes window to be a little bit bigger... > > > DONE along with wrapping for the author name + a 'get more plugins' button The notes window was made smaller for people that have their resolution set to 800x600 I now can not access the buttons at the bottom. At least some

Re: [Amsn-devel] 0.95 release

2005-12-12 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
> 1 - change the reflector connection timeout to a more appropriate value, 2secs > or 5secs.. AND make sure it doesn't make amsn freeze.. if it does, a 2sec > freeze is not that bad... needs to be tested.. > lines to change : search for '-timeout' in msncam.tcl I remember that it doesn't freeze,

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Sander Hoentjen
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:31 -0500, Youness Alaoui wrote: > think about one thing... who wants to learn Objective-C ? I personally > don't.. I remember I downloaded once some program in Obj-C, it took mo so > much just to get the compilers and compile it correctly with all its weird > dependen