Re: a great idea for gnome three

2006-02-17 Thread Julien Olivier
Le vendredi 17 février 2006 à 01:56 +0100, edoardo a écrit : hi guys : ) i don't write much on this list, but i think a few days ago i had a fantastic idea for gnome three. it's a revolution. (snap) Could you just explain the advantages of your solution over using an always-visible panel

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread John Williams
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: For completeness, I should also note that there are two other big problems involved which I don't know how to solve on a short timescale (e.g. before 2.16): - Havoc's recent points about identifying our target audience is important in

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 01:12 -0800, Alex Graveley wrote: *cough* tomboy *cough* Tomboy is a great example. Its a great piece of software that does new exciting things. If tomboy would be excluded from the desktop for some technicality I would be very sad.

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:38 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 01:41 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: So, what if we just set a list of things a module has to conform with to get accepted and base our decisions on that? For instance, we could have: * uses at least basic

Re: a great idea for gnome three

2006-02-17 Thread abdo Chamali
sorry about the empty e-mail, dont know what happened,this is just a reply to edoardo wrote:hello, think having this function will only confuse people, if i middle click i expect don't expect a menu, using this middle mouse button for a popup is similar to the way Maya (3D programme)is

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Winship
Murray Cumming wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: - David's recent point in this thread about the desktop release set not being so important also rings true to me. It's a binary in-or-out yet there are lots of really rocking Gnome programs that are well

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:11 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: Murray Cumming wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: - David's recent point in this thread about the desktop release set not being so important also rings true to me. It's a binary in-or-out yet there are

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Hi, I think our thinking historically has been that distro's who really care about GNOME don't really 'care' that much about our list of stuff in the desktop release as they have a pretty good idea themselves what they want/don't want. Distro's which don't care much about GNOME on the other hand

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:46:11AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:52 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: If this is what Redhat thinks of the work done I thought it was obvious, but I'd like to point out that I'm not speaking on behalf of Red Hat on this matter. It's

Re: new module decisions

2006-02-17 Thread Danilo Šegan
Hi Dan, Today at 15:11, Dan Winship wrote: Do we have any evidence that any distro actually cares what we consider to be in and out of the desktop release? Is there some distro out there loyally shipping epiphany as its default browser and waiting for us to certify GIMP before they allow it