Re: [+gnome] Re: Project Hamster now in GNOME SVN

2008-08-15 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/8/15 Sandy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you're going to change it, save everybody a lot of typing and call the SVN module hamster. :-) Personally I think it's no big deal to keep it the way it is. I'll second that. Please! ___

Re: New svn module: gnome-sound-theme

2008-08-09 Thread Alexander Jones
Why did you convert them to a lossy format? Convert losslessly FLAC if you need to, but what was wrong with the uncompressed WAV files? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Hamster string in the UI [was: New module decisions for 2.24]

2008-08-06 Thread Alexander Jones
Time Tracker ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-30 Thread Alexander Jones
Isn't this a distro decision? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Name vs GenericName (again)

2008-07-27 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/27 Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The rationale, in my mind, is to only put useful text in the name, and try to avoid pollution. I feel like Movie Player is better than Totem Movie Player (at least, in my case). Ubuntu call Impress OpenOffice.org Presentation. Yet, when you launch the

Re: Name vs GenericName (again)

2008-07-25 Thread Alexander Jones
I had to double-check that I hadn't written this post myself. Vuntz, you are a glimmer of sanity in this messy world. Our HIG says that we should be using descriptive names for our MENUS, then Vuntz and the FDO mob came along and standardised application definitions (Desktop Entry), and we ended

Re: Absolute paths to applications in .desktop files

2008-07-23 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/23 Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, the panel does not copy them and directly use the file. That's fine, until the user starts modifying it, in which case we have no choice and we have to fork the file. Nautilus doesn't do that, though. I didn't realise that. I can see

Re: Absolute paths to applications in .desktop files

2008-07-22 Thread Alexander Jones
Hi 2008/7/23 Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is more complex than that. If I copy a launcher from the applications menu to my panel or desktop and then run my session in jhbuild, I might want to use the jhbuilt application instead of the system application. If the user changes $PATH,

Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/6 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please remember that GIMP is not a GNOME application. Also I don't know any GNOME application that would have context-sensitive help similar to what GIMP provides. We considered to allow GNOME users to use yelp as the help browser for GIMP, but last

Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/7 Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We could use context-sensitive help in other applications too... If Yelp is so hopelessly incapable then we should all be moving on together, regardless of whether GIMP is a GNOME application by breed or not. I've spoken to some of the GIMP help

Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/7 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: Well people apparently do want to work on a replacement... quoth Sven: We started to use webkit for the GIMP help-browser in trunk. To be honest, it sounds like NIH to me. So what? GIMP

Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

2008-07-05 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/5 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We started to use webkit for the GIMP help-browser in trunk, so I would very much welcome if webkit became a blessed external dependency for the GNOME platform. Why not port Yelp to WebKit? *confused* ___

Re: GNOME 2.24 module inclusion discussion heats up

2008-07-05 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/7/5 Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's a webkit port for yelp. Available either as a patch or in a branch, I don't remember. I'm just confused as to why GIMP has its own help system. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

error: format not a string literal and no format arguments

2008-07-05 Thread Alexander Jones
I'm trying to build Rhythmbox... With gcc 4.3 (from Ubuntu 8.10), I'm getting this error in a helluvalot of places: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments The problem lies in code like this: char* error = NULL; ... g_warning(error) You have to use, e.g.: g_warning (%s,

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Jones
Apropos, since we are talking about session management here: have you guys ever thought of reuseíng upstart for managing session processes? My thoughts exactly. We should at least talk to the upstart guys about what code we can share. ___

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Jones
I'm sorry if I missed something (I just woke up and my eyes and brain aren't at 100% yet)... Doing the startup in phases like that sounds to me to be suboptimal. If we're halting the startup of a whole Desktop (or even Panel) process just because we don't have a WM ready, it's going to add a lot

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Jones
Agreed, we need to move towards expecting Composited as default and Direct as a niche case, but this was just an example. :) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-06-14 Thread Alexander Jones
2008/6/14 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know if the use of KOI8R/RU and shift-jis is still legitimate. I guess you would have to ask the users. I also don't know what the situation is for usage patterns on non-Linux systems. Sun have always been on the ball with unicode but some other

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-06-13 Thread Alexander Jones
Hi list To reignite this discussion now that I've finished my exams... I posted this on Simos' blog a while back, but the discussion there had died off it seems, so I'll repost here. UTF-8 is designed so that subsequences are unambiguous. You won't get a byte less than 0x80 in any part of a

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-06-13 Thread Alexander Jones
Alan, you seem to be missing the point. The only places where I am suggesting replacing with are in existing gettext calls, which *are* UTF-8 whether they need to be or not, and are always used with UTF-8 string functions. The issue is whether the compiler will bork when it sees bytes with MSB

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-06-13 Thread Alexander Jones
So how do we go about coming up with an official position for this? If I start cooking patches here and there I don't want to have to make the same argument with every maintainer... :) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org