Re: Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks

2012-12-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Christophe: If CrossDesktop DevRoom is THE place for cross-desktop entente, then why have I seen no discussion about this event on any FreeDesktop mail forum? I only notice GNOME mailing lists in the current cc:list, or am I missing something? What FreeDesktop forum is even supposed to be

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
, but it is a start. On 10/22/12 01:15 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 13:33 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: The GNOME community provides little guidance about what systemd interfaces are actually needed for various GNOME features to work properly. Maybe nobody really knows yet, but non-Linux distros

Re: 3.8 feature: Drop or Fix Fallback Mode

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
The Solaris Sun Ray product does not yet support OpenGL (or the Xserver Composite extension). The main desktop products that Solaris supports are all run on Sun Ray. So, if GNOME evolves so that it has no support for machines that do not support OpenGL, then this will further complicate the

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
David: On 10/22/12 11:50 AM, David Zeuthen wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: You are talking about shipping a *complete* and *free* (libre *and* gratis) graphical desktop environment and you're complaining that you have to spend a couple

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
David: On 10/22/12 01:01 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: But please don't expect others to port GNOME to run on your OS. I was never suggesting that any others do any sort of port for anyone. I was only highlighting that the lack of documentation makes things slow. I am sure that we can improve

Re: 3.8 feature: Drop or Fix Fallback Mode

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Piñeiro: On 10/22/12 01:30 PM, Piñeiro wrote: On 10/22/2012 05:36 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: Probably you didn't get any concrete answer as most of the technical/community decisions are not made by the GNOME Foundation Board. As I mentioned on last Boston Summit, now and then a thread about what

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
David: On 10/22/12 01:17 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Brian Cameronbrian.came...@oracle.com wrote: Right. So, you probably are not surprised that things are moving along slowly either. :) Actually I'm quite excited about the development pace for GNOME

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Some perspective about this issue from a Solaris perspective. On non-Linux systems like Solaris there is little value in using upstream GNOME code for some features. Power management is a good example. On Solaris, power management uses Solaris-specific interfaces and supports Solaris specific

Re: FSF's role in GNOME (was Re: Fwd: Questions for the board election candidates)

2012-05-22 Thread Brian Cameron
On 05/22/12 01:45 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: As most on this list know, I've been the GNOME Advisory Board as FSF's representative for the last decade. Since, as a non-profit, FSF receives Advisory Board membership with no fees, I've always felt it was right to give back in volunteer time

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Tomeu: On 04/26/12 02:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:10, Alberto Ruizar...@gnome.org wrote: I'm afraid that interfering in the maintainer's responsibilities is a very big can of worms, more likely to do harm than good. There's something powerful in how a maintainer

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Allan: I think it is pretty clear that the GNOME UX team is pretty amazing. As you say, though, I think we recognize that we need to improve in areas like engagement. With GUADEC around the corner, I think now is an important time to make progress on getting better engagement between the

Re: GNOME3 - Opinion

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Uros: Thank you for your feedback. We love to hear what people think of GNOME. Following issue is not directly related to GNOME3, but just my idea I would like to see implemented and believe software developers and professional users would find it very useful. While I'm not 'reinventing the

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Paul: Sorry for top-posting, but I'm going to recommend if anyone wants to talk about GNOME OS or platform changes to start a new thread. While related, this is a different issue than the systemd proposal as an external dependency. Agreed. Since we are planning to discuss this anyway at

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Sorry for the double post. When I wrote my last post, it was not clear to me that systemd is not and won't be portable. If this is true, then that's probably okay for Oracle too, as long as GNOME can be made smart enough to just disable those aspects of the desktop that require it when systemd

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Lennart: The closest integration I expect in gdm. Ideally I'd like to rip out the current CK support completely and replace it entirely by the more low-level systemd specific code. However, that I can only do if the outcome of this discussion is clear. Is it possible to do this, but maintain

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Vincent: On 05/18/11 02:02 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: I'm obviously no security expert, but doesn't the fact that the greeter runs as the gdm user and not root mean that the audit on the daemon side is enough (since the daemon should clearly validate everything that comes via dbus from the

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Ray: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Brian Cameronbrian.came...@oracle.com wrote: Yes, you are right. GDM does not currently use OpenGL. My comment was meant to be understood as an example of how GDM may be moving in a direction that requires certain hardware or only works on certain

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Matthew: I'd expect that a prerequisite for adoption would be functional equivalence. If the greeter is to be maintained by some third party rather than yourself, how is the maintenance overhead reduced over using gdm? When GDM was rewritten, functional equivalence and configuration

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Jon: On 05/14/11 03:37 PM, William Jon McCann wrote: It is certainly a serious overreaction to my statement that a proposal that is based on an internal architecture change, that uses lines of code as a metric, and didn't include a single thing that would improve the user experience seems to

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Shaun: So the question here is not Does LightDM better serve the needs of some GNOME-based operating systems? The question is simply Should LightDM replace GDM as the display manager for GNOME? Perhaps I am confused, but I thought that the recent moduleset reorganization was designed to get

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Shaun: Perhaps display manager programs are special in some way that only allows for one to be approved at a time. But I do not remember anyone discussing any special considerations like this in this thread. I think that's the idea behind the Apps moduleset, but not Core. Core is the

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Colin: Your report missed the following bug, which is a better example of some of the more serious issues Canonical had working with upstream GDM: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587750 As you can see in the bug report, Robert was not provided with much real support or guidance

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Bastien: On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 13:43 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: GDM has evolved into a display manager that is most focused on tight integration with GNOME. This is perfect for GNOME users and distros that focus on GNOME users. However, GDM is not always a good choice for other desktop

Re: Interested in GNOME on touchscreens?

2011-03-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Michael: On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:12 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: Feel free to add problems that you might find, or start discussing potential fixes for the various problems on this list. For the on-screen keyboard (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ScreenKeyboard), one

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Cameron
It should be simple to enhance GDM to detect when OpenGL is not available, and avoid showing session-types that require it when it cannot be used. A general interface could eventually be implemented to support this, but it might be reasonable to just hardcode this behavior for known sessions

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Also, this thread has long since passed the point where I'm reading all of the arguments - and I suspect that the same goes for all of the developers working on GNOME 3. I propose that we just stop now, since continuing discussions like this at this point is just wasting the time of everyone

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Emmanuele: On 12/28/10 10:50 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 13:42 +, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: As pointed out before the fallback-mode is not a continuation of GNOME 2. It was just the easiest way to create a fallback because we don't have the resources to create a

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Johannes: GNOME 2.x will not get any more official support after the 2.32.1 relase which already happened. Single module maintainers may decide (or have already decided/done) to do more 2.32.x release to fix various bugs but no more official releases are planned. This is not different from

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Behdad: I'd say no. If it's already in a library that does not break its API every other week, let it be there. That's the correct design anyway. Something like libgweather does not belong in a generic desktop library. libgweather is GPL, so it is probably not something that could be

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Ray/Robert: On 10/22/10 12:17 AM, Ray Strode wrote: (speaking as one of the 3 maintainers of GDM) Speaking as another... On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Robert Ancellrobert.anc...@gmail.com wrote: - The GDM greeter is slow due to it loading the GNOME session, the example GTK+ LightDM

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Ray: On 10/22/10 09:50 AM, Ray Strode wrote: However, not everyone really needs or wants the degree of integration that GDM provides with GNOME. I feel like GNOME should be catering to GNOME's users, and we're doing a disservice to them if we don't provide integration. Agreed, and I agree

Planning for the Boston Summit

2010-10-12 Thread Brian Cameron
The Boston Summit is less than a month away. Here are the details about this GNOME event if you hadn't heard: http://live.gnome.org/Boston2010 The BOF Schedule is pretty empty, so if people have plans to work on things, it would be good to let us know and update the Wiki page:

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Paul: This is the last (we promise!) release of the GNOME 2.x series - let's document the release as best we can. Add your news here: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ReleaseNotes Since many distributions ship GNOME 2.x in Long Term Supported releases, it might make sense to continue

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Last 2.x release, but not last 2.32.y release? I'd assume accumulated bugfixes would just warrant another few micro releases, as they always have done. However we want to handle it, I think we should be clear in the release notes that we have a plan in place for managing releasing ongoing

Re: Bump gnutls requirement

2010-08-19 Thread Brian Cameron
If you are going to update it, why not to the latest 2.8.6? Brian On 08/19/10 03:55 AM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Hi, The external dep on gnutls is currently 2.4.2. I'd like to bump it to 2.8.5 so Empathy will be able to check TLS certificates [1]. If that's ok I'll update the wiki and

How to control desktop files

2010-07-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Many OpenSolaris users use GNOME in a terminal server environment, and we notice some serious usability problems with running GNOME in this way. I was wondering if someone might be able to suggest some recommended ways to address these problems. Many of the problems relate to Desktop files.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas

2010-03-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Ruben: At the GNOME Usability Hackfest, it was discussed that there is a real need to develop some free software to help the GNOME Usability team better collaborate. Máirín Duffy discusses this in some detail in her blog:

Re: Platform for Developer Documentation

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Alberto/Shaun: I agree that there is no reason why the developer docs should not include good documentation for modules such as PackageKit, PulseAudio, PolicyKit, and udev (DeviceKit friends or whatever they are called this month). That said, OpenSolaris does not distribute any of these. How

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Mahendra: I can suggest Thursday 4pm, how much time would you need for the Wookie event? It would be good if people planning on attending the Usability hackfest could give some indication about whether some of these Dev8D events are of interest. It would obviously be easier to coordinate if

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Steve: How many people in the Dev8D community work in the HE field? [I've added Mahendra to this discussion as lead of Dev8D) I'd guess most, but I am not involved with organising Dev8D Have they worked with free software projects like GNOME before? Are there particular people who might

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Steve: As already discussed with Brian Cameron and David Flanders, there is a great opportunity to hook up this event with the JISC Dev8D developer event that is happening in London at the same time. http://www.dev8d.org Yes, it does seem like there is a real opportunity for some good

Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Cameron
I would like to announce the GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest planned for February 22-26, 2010 in London, England. This is an exciting opportunity for GNOME Usability to take a step forward and this hackfest will provide the GNOME Usability team an opportunity to focus, set goals, and accomplish work

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Owen: It sounds like GNOME Shell will likely not integrate with GNOME 2.30. How are users expected to turn on/enable GNOME Shell? At the Boston Summit, I remember people suggesting that there should be a checkbox in the Preferences-Appearance capplet that the user can check it to start using

Re: Project Proposal: GNOME Innovation

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Wolter: I think your graphic flowchart is a good start. However, a lot of GNOME modules do not really have active maintainers. To date, I think the community has dealt with that problem in an ad hoc manner. However, if we are going to formalize how such a process works, then I think i would

What version of clutter should be used in 2.27/2.28?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Cameron
The 2.27 external dependencies page still lists clutter 0.8.x as the supported version of clutter to be used with GNOME. http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/ExternalDependencies However, clutter 1.0 and clutter-foo 0.10 have recently been released. Will the dependencies page be updated

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-30 Thread Brian Cameron
David: On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:10 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: I have pinged the Sun team working on DeviceKit and suggested they be better about communication with upstream by sending some status to the devkit-devel mailing list. Thanks. I heard from Lin Guo at Sun that he has followed

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Cameron
David: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 04:58 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Sun is already working to add DeviceKit support to Solaris It would be good to the devkit-devel mailing list know about this. Because if this is so, we need to change some of our plans; in particular move the make porting easier

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Colin: Though, probably the main reason why there has not much of a drive to add PolicyKit to Solaris is because there has not been much need. To date, Sun has not had much of a problem integrating the GNOME stack without having PolicyKit available. I am sure there are some features that

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Jason: Obviously the alleged pointlessness of something that we are arguing about is relevant. Whether or not there are--you know--actual people using said OS is what this is really about. And apparently even Sun doesn't think so since they no longer invest the same level of resources in it

Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:29, Felix Riemannfriem...@gnome.org wrote: Regarding the non-default / deprecated widgets I'll take it like Thomas Andersen in comment 9 in above bug: it makes no sense fixing them. * gst-mixer doesn't need any fixing and works with

Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Patryk: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Brian Cameronbrian.came...@sun.com wrote: Solaris continues to use gst-mixer since Solaris does not yet provide PulseAudio. PulseAudio doesn't provide as much value on Solaris since OSSv4 provides mixing functionalities directly in the OSS layer.

Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

2009-05-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Frederic: As a side note, another reason developers are currently abusing notification area is that is it the only cross-desktop (GNOME/KDE/LXDE/XFCE/IceWM/insert_your_favorite_de_here) way to get applets-like icons on a Xorg system, which also have the nice pro to not pull something as ugly

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Kjartan: Might it be better to wait until clutter-gtk 0.9 is released before jumping to the new version in jhbuild? Won't clutter-0.9.x work with clutter-gtk-0.8.x? What do you mean by work? You need clutter 0.8 to build clutter-gtk 0.8. They are parallel installable, so if you want

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Emmanuele: I'll make a clutter-gtk 0.9.0 release tarball tomorrow, then. Will it include gobject-introspection support? http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490 Would be nice to support gnome-shell with this, I think. Brian ___

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Shaun: Shouldn't GStreamer be included for media support? If not in the Platform, then at least Recommended? Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? Brian On 05/05/09 14:05, Shaun McCance wrote: Hey folks, I'm taking a hard look at the Platform Overview and how we can improve

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Kjartan: gnome-games stopped building in jhbuild for me since we still have clutter-0.8.8 there and the games want to use 0.9.x from what I can see in the logs. Time to move forward for everyone? Anyone else using clutter and thus need to port to the new version first? clutter-gtk 0.9 is

Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

2009-04-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Emmanuele: we've been changing the platform gradually over the years, mostly by deprecating stuff and including new functionality. nevertheless, I haven't heard a single justification for the continued existence of applets. I wonder how this fits in with the gdesklets project, if at all. I

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Potential GUADEC/Akademy a11y BOF? (was Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0)

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Willie: I would be interested to attend such a BoF. I think that all three topics you mention are important. Perhaps another agenda item to discuss how GNOME 3.0 will impact a11y would also be appropriate. I think the Bonobo/CORBA deprecation falls into this category, but I think there are

Re: dconf

2009-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
I think dconf is a great project, but I do have one question. Will the new dconf address the sorts of D-Bus problems raised in these GConf bugs? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17970 Thanks, Brian On 04/02/09 10:37, Ryan

Re: dconf

2009-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Ryan: I was not familiar with these bugs. I'm glad to bring them to your attention, then, since I think it relates to the work in dconf. One thing is definitely true: for reading from the configuration settings, these bugs will not be an issue because you don't need to use the bus or

Re: dconf

2009-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Rob: My question would be is why do these People have a desktop in which there isn't a DBus session bus? Its been there for a very long time now in most distros, afact. For gnome 3.0, running without a session bus is going to be like running gnome 2.0 without orbit2. i.e. it ain't gonna work

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-31 Thread Brian Cameron
Owen: I just don't think it makes sense to code GNOME Shell to the limitations of other pieces of the software stack. The effort to fix the other pieces of the stack - to create free software ways of doing thin clients with a composited snazzy desktop - is going to be comparable or less then

Re: Separate UI and core processes

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Tristan: Note that the ATK provides interfaces for controlling and getting state information for all common GUI interfaces. These interfaces are widget-set neutral and currently both Java and GTK+ work with them. KDE is on the way, I understand. Currently libgail (the GTK+ ATK implemention)

Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

2009-01-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Philippe: As Luis said I'm not against relicencing the library (and even the whole of brasero). It's just I wasn't aware of the issue at stake since I don't care much about licencing (which turns out to be a mistake). Regarding libbrasero-media, it shouldn't take long as I wrote all of the

Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

2009-01-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Josselin: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 19:18 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : - Split Brasero into a library (available on trunk) named libbrasero-media that is being documented (devhelp) and re-arranged so we can deliver a stable API. The library isn't usable in Rhythmbox or sound-juicer, as

Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

2009-01-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Josselin: Le jeudi 15 janvier 2009 à 11:12 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : No distribution can ship any popular non-free GStreamer codecs if the GStreamer based programs link in any GPL code without the exception. Well first of all, I find this interpretation of the GPL rather extreme

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Lennart: However, the benefits of using PulseAudio when using OSS don't seem to be as compelling as when you are using ALSA since OSS has mixing functionalities lacking in ALSA already built in. These are misconceptions. Misconceptions about what ALSA does, and about what PA does. ALSA does

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Frederic: Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by virtue of libcanberra. If it is necessary to integrate PulseAudio for gnome-mixer

Re: [gdm-list] GDM trunk will be used for GNOME 2.24.

2008-09-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Peter: Agreed. The solution you suggest is in the works. By solving the problem in gnome-settings-daemon, the solution should work the same way in both the GNOME session and in GDM, so it will be a huge improvement over what existed before (a GDM-only solution which was typically turned off

Re: [gdm-list] GDM trunk will be used for GNOME 2.24.

2008-09-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Gil: Just thinking about it ... Wouldn't it be reasonable to enable everything the first time the user logs in and the if no accessible technology has been used ask if they have to be turned off by default (and with a little explain about how to re-enable them)? From a usability standpoint,

Re: [gdm-list] GDM trunk will be used for GNOME 2.24.

2008-09-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Will: While I disagree with Brian's assessment (I think he tends to lean more to the 'it's OK as long as an able-bodied sysadmin can configure the system for the disabled user' side than the 'let the user be independent' side), I'll support the decision nonetheless. I agree with you that

Re: Prompting for passwords on the desktop?

2008-09-22 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that the Windows solution to use Ctrl+Alt+Del as a Secure Attention Key is just one way to implement Trusted Path. There is no reason that the GNOME or UNIX community couldn't come up with a different and novel way to meet the same requirements. The Secure Attention Key should be viewed

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Willie: I'm not sure this is a really important regression. You can configure the new GDM to always launch various AT programs as needed. The main lost feature is that users cannot launch AT programs on demand. I'm curious who the you is you can configure. The important thing here is

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Kjartan/Willie: fr., 19.09.2008 kl. 00.34 +0200, skrev Vincent Untz: Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008, à 17:23 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Well...hmm...if I read the answers correctly, I think what I'm hearing is that there are a lot of great ideas, but they aren't done yet. If this is

Re: Prompting for passwords on the desktop?

2008-09-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Stef: Is there a standard way or goal for the UI and behavior of password prompts on the desktop? Besides having as few as possible, that is. There is Trusted Path to consider. To meet Trusted Path requirements, any entry of the root password needs to be done via a trusted user. This means

Re: [gdm-list] GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-16 Thread Brian Cameron
probably be moved out of the /etc/gdm directory and put somewhere else. So to answer the question to the best of my ability (and Jon or Brian would be better to answer), 1) there is some inprogress code that Brian Cameron wrote 2) that code targeted GDM when it was written, isn't slated for GDM

Re: Suggestions for a software engineering class project?

2008-09-15 Thread Brian Cameron
Marshall: I would recommend looking into GNOME accessibility. I would think it might be especially rewarding to work on a project that is geared towards a humanitarian effort, such as helping people with disabilities use technology. There are some suggestions of tasks that need attention on

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-10 Thread Brian Cameron
Vincent: I don't see us ignoring a good bunch of the comments (there are good points on each side), so there are two ways to go forward: + use GDM 2.24, and mention that it is not ready for all uses (listing the use cases where it needs work would help), and that GDM 2.20 is still

Re: gnome-volume-manager disables automount

2008-08-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Jerry: Note that gnome-volume-manager on Solaris is a bit old. I know the team at Sun responsible for integrating HAL plans to update to the latest gnome-volume-manager code when they update to the latest HAL code. You might want to work with them to find out if the below issue is caused by

Re: New svn module: gnome-sound-theme

2008-08-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Luca: We should update our spec so that FLAC is the recommended uncompressed format. It is superior from a technology standpoint, saves disk space, and comes from the free software community (WAV was written by IBM and Microsoft and is based on the older IFF format from Commodore-Amiga). We

Re: libcanberra as an external dependency

2008-08-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Joe: I think libcanberra must have an esd output plug-in at the very least (i.e. if not also OSS and Sun Audio) in order to be a viable external dependency. This would go a long way to helping non-Linux platforms achieve working sound theme support using all blessed GNOME dependencies.

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Brian Cameron
Mathias: Ok, I agree, that it is ridiculous that currently accessibility has to be activated manually. Agreed. What makes me wonder: Can't we improve our to enable those features on demand? As far as I understand the accessibility tool chain it consists of those components: In GDM 2.20

Problem with intltool 0.40.0?

2008-07-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Yesterday I discovered that make dist/distcheck in gdm 2.20 branch failed because make couldn't find intltool-merge.in, intltool-extract.in, and intltool-update.in. These files get generated by the intltool module. I was able to fix this problem by rebuilding my intltool module with the older

Re: Problem with intltool 0.40.0?

2008-07-01 Thread Brian Cameron
? Should this change be coordinated? I assume that once this change happens that we won't support building on systems with older intltool. Kind of a drag. Brian On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:31 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Yesterday I discovered that make dist/distcheck in gdm 2.20 branch failed

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Cameron
William Jon McCann wrote: Hi, Dan Winship and Lucas Rocha have done a nice job revamping the gnome-session codebase. It was a meritorious task. You can read about the design here: http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession The new code is much cleaner. Parts of the new design

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Jason: We need to tap in to the wave of energy generated by the The Thread on Planet Gnome. Already, it's apparent that the fervor that surrounded it has started to dwindle. A ton of interesting ideas were thrown out and lot of belly-aching about no one taking responsibility for making it

Re: off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Ralph: If you have a configuration problem that affects one user and not other users, the problem is likely a configuration option stored in your $HOME/.gconf directory. Note that gnome-terminal configuration settings are in the directory $HOME/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal If you make sure that

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Colin: Yes, I think Jason was being unfair; as far as I know RBAC predates PolicyKit, and obviously Solaris can't just drop it in the near future. However - I do think it makes sense for a technology like this to be integrated into the desktop. Oh, I agree. I very much support

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many modules in gnome svn and HAL. I would like to depend on it for gnome-power-manager, and I hate all the #ifdefs. Does anybody have any problems

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Brian Cameron
Jason: If Sun wants to do something completely different from what the rest of the community is doing, it seems like the responsibility for bearing the consequences of that course of action should lay squarely on the shoulders of Sun's engineering teams. Understood. I was not really

Re: Disabling building of gnome-cd and cddb-slave in gnome-media. Any objections?

2008-03-24 Thread Brian Cameron
On Solaris, we haven't shipped gnome-cd for several years, since we ship sound-juicer and rhythmbox which, as you say, work much better. We currently disable the building of gnome-cd from gnome-media. Brian We would like to disable building of gnome-cd and cddb-slave by default in the

Re: communication/information between forward-looking projects [was Re: Some info (Ref: GSOC 2008 advice)]

2008-03-03 Thread Brian Cameron
Dave/Behdad: Dave Neary wrote: Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:14 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: The first step in releasing GNOME 3.0 is to dissociate the in-built assumption will break everything from the version jump. Sure, we can go from GNOME 2.22 this cycle straight to GNOME

Re: Where to put X-GNOME-Bugzilla-ExtraInfoScript?

2008-01-28 Thread Brian Cameron
Jaap: Make that $(libexecdir) in the Makefile, and Debian will be happy as well as the rest of us ;) I'd like to make you and the rest happy but as somebody who just copies Makefiles and configure scripts of other projects I'm afraid I need a bit more explanation $(libexecdir) is a smarter

Re: New module decisions for 2.22

2008-01-10 Thread Brian Cameron
Vincent/Others: + swfdec-gnome (desktop) = accept if it moves to the GNOME infrastructure = swfdec becomes a new external dependency Section 3a seems of the Adobe SWF and FLV File Format Specification License Agreement seems to be pretty clear that the specification does not allow

Re: Releasing libgweather standalone

2008-01-10 Thread Brian Cameron
Federico : Yeah, it would be nice to move the pick a location widgets into libgweather... as well as a more general / global what's my location, and what locations do I care about? mechanism. Evolution will also want to use this. I would think that pick a location widgetry would be of

Re: Proposing dependencies for gnome-games

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Cameron
Josef: gnome-games has for some time offered online gaming capabilities on top of the GGZ Gaming Zone platform. Three games are already working fine, a fourth one is currently being ported. As an upstream author of GGZ I'm very pleased to see this. However, gnome-games includes

Re: GDM login to a JHBuild session

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Owen: The GDM/KDM standard for using /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop files is documented in the GDM documentation here: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html We can extend the .desktop file further if this makes it possible to do useful things. However, if we are

Re: GDM login to a JHBuild session

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Owen: We can extend the .desktop file further if this makes it possible to do useful things. However, if we are going to ask all distros to change the way they start dbus-launch to support DISABLE_DBUS_LAUNCH, then perhaps we should rethink how we start D-Bus. Perhaps starting this at

Re: GDM login to a JHBuild session

2007-10-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Owen: GDM already has too many surgical workarounds that are only used in odd corner-cases, and these tend to break on occasion. I'm not opposed to adding more if someone wants to provide a patch, but if there is a way to make things work without hacking GDM further, that would be better,

Re: Update external dependency: system-tools-backends

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Luca: Sorry - that was a mispost. I'm not sure how my email browser got so confused. Brian You don't answer #6. A good answer might be whether the XML formats used for saving documents has changed to a new revision in this release. I'd focus on mentioning any data formats that are visbile

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