Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 00:58 -0400, Erick Pérez a écrit : Finally, I do think this childish behavior is not getting anything useful for no-one of us. If the spirit of the Gnome Team, is: 'Bring some code/mockups, then we will judge' Ok. Mockups would help understanding your idea, but code isn't

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-09 Thread jose.ali...@gmail.com
Hi, Please see comments inline. 2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com: On 08/05/2011, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: 2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com Why not at the time of the menu? Cause it will be to slow, way to slow. Making choices based on the data you

Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Giovanni Campagna
This is the last day for feature proposals, but unfortunately I've been very busy lately and didn't have time to write it down formally. And actually, mine is more a question than a proposal: what are planning to do with additional functionality that is provided as plugins? I believe there are

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula
I am sorry for the late proposal, but I feel its important to put forward my views on extension management. This is regarding the extension system. A 'main' method to be called when the extension is loaded is a simple way to inject code to the existing shell. What about un-doing certain changes

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula vamsikrishna.brahmajosy...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry for the late proposal, but I feel its important to put forward my views on extension management. This is regarding the extension system. A 'main' method to be called when the

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, should those modules be provided as tarballs? Last time I asked this for gnome-shell-extensions, I was answered no, because distributions should not provided packages of those. Nevertheless, all

GUPnP inclusion

2011-05-09 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi all, Rygel is planned to included back into GNOME in 3.1 as part of the 'Sharing' feature[1]. GUPnP dependencies of Rygel has so far been used as blessed external dependencies. Since GUPnP is moving [2] to GNOME infrastructure and Rygel development is very closely tied with GUPnP, I propose

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:52 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: A different issue is then UI. Some time ago it was proposed to introduce addons.gnome.org, skip the (rpm/deb) packaging completely and just instruct users to go, download the plugin and install it. This has the problem that the plugin

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno lun, 09/05/2011 alle 19.44 +0530, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula ha scritto: I am sorry for the late proposal, but I feel its important to put forward my views on extension management. This is regarding the extension system. A 'main' method to be called when the extension is

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno lun, 09/05/2011 alle 19.44 +0530, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula ha scritto: I am sorry for the late proposal, but I feel its important to put forward my views on extension management. This is

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno lun, 09/05/2011 alle 17.13 +0200, Florian Müllner ha scritto: On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:52 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: A different issue is then UI. Some time ago it was proposed to introduce addons.gnome.org, skip the (rpm/deb) packaging completely and just instruct users to

Re: Documentation build plans for 3.2

2011-05-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:14 +0200, Jorge González wrote: Shaun, What has happened to gnome-help package? I don't see it anymore in damned lies?! This? http://l10n.gnome.org/module/gnome-user-docs/ The POT file on DL is messed up, because DL doesn't know how to deal with all the new stuff I

First release of geocode-glib available

2011-05-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
Heya, This is the first release of geocode-glib, a small library on top of the Yahoo! Place Finder API. This first release allows you to do geocoding (going from a place name, to a longitude/latitude pair) and reverse geocoding (finding a place name from coordinates). It also implements caching

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 17:13 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : So I'd imagine something simple as a gzipped tarball with a custom extension (gsx == GNOME Shell extension?) which is distributed on addons.gnome.org - then we can have a dedicated app (Desktop Extension Manager?) registered as MIME

Re: First release of geocode-glib available

2011-05-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:14 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On 9 May 2011 16:52, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: This is the first release of geocode-glib, a small library on top of the Yahoo! Place Finder API. What are the terms of service on this API? If they are in any way

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:50 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: So .gsx (application/vnd.gnome.shell-extension) for the Shell, .gdp (application/vnd.gnome.gedit-plugin) for Gedit, .epe (application/vnd.gnome.epiphany-extension) for Ephiphany, etc.? How would it integrate with, for example,

Re: First release of geocode-glib available

2011-05-09 Thread Ross Burton
On 9 May 2011 17:21, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: What are the terms of service on this API?  If they are in any way restrictive, can you document them in the API docs? 50k requests per day, and the fact that the data gathered doesn't belong to you. See rate limits and terms of

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On 05/09/2011 03:52 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: I'm looking forwards to see your opinions on these issues and I'm ready to help with whatever work (at the UI/platform/releng level) is needed to get a better plugin experience in GNOME 3.2 For your information, there is currently a Summer of