Re: Does GNOME Terminal need a UI update?

2015-05-28 Thread Hashem Nasarat
Welcome Justine! Thanks for your email and the thoughtful suggestions. Although I'm not really involved in gnome-terminal (and thus not the best respondent), I've a couple unordered thoughts: - I agree with everything you said. - Specific usability criticisms are best filed as bugs. - GNOME devs a

Does GNOME Terminal need a UI update?

2015-05-28 Thread Justine O'Neil
Hey all, I want to get my feet wet contributing to GNOME. One thing I have noticed is that the terminal app hasn't gotten the same UI attention as many other GNOME apps. I personally turn off the menu bar so that it looks more like the other GNOME apps. I don't miss it [the menu bar], in fa

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Philip Withnall
See literally the first migration item on https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration tl;dr: You can open-code it with essentially: aclocal --install || exit 1 glib-gettextize --force --copy || exit 1 gtkdocize --copy || exit 1 intltoolize --force --copy -

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
What about the gnome-autogen.sh script? Most of my autogen.sh files just run ". gnome-autogen.sh" On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Daniel Mustieles García wrote: > Ok, thanks for clarifying! :) > > 2015-05-28 14:40 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall : >> >> It’s already sort of tracked as part of the Mode

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Daniel Mustieles García
Ok, thanks for clarifying! :) 2015-05-28 14:40 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall : > It’s already sort of tracked as part of the ModernAutotools goal, > although that one lost momentum a while ago, so its status needs to be > reset: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools > > Ho

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Philip Withnall
It’s already sort of tracked as part of the ModernAutotools goal, although that one lost momentum a while ago, so its status needs to be reset: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools However, since there’s no flag-day-changeover for gnome-common, I’m not sure it’s necessary

Re: Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Daniel Mustieles García
Would this make sense to create a GNOME Goal[1] to ease/track the change? [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Initiatives/GnomeGoals?action=show&redirect=GnomeGoals 2015-05-28 13:47 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall : > Hi all, > > This cycle, Dave and I are planning for the last ever release of > gn

Death of gnome-common

2015-05-28 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi all, This cycle, Dave and I are planning for the last ever release of gnome-common. A lot of its macros for deprecated technologies (scrollkeeper?!) have been removed, and the remainder of its macros have found better replacements in autoconf-archive[1], where they can be used by everyone, not