Re: GnomeGoal proposal: change AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to create xz compressed pax tarballs

2011-05-22 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Olav wrote: > If nooone objects to this I'd like to get this GnomeGoal up and > running asap (ideally before 3.1.2 unstable release on Jun 13). I'd prefer tar-ustar over tar-pax. When I tried to use tar-pax once (admittedly a long time ago) I got a bug report, and so switched to tar-ustar. Al

Re: GSettings and profiles implementation

2011-01-28 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Just to avoid duplicate work going on, I wanted to make it known here that I'm working on implementing gsettingslist right now :) Regards, Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailm

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2010-10-21 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; LightDM is not currently listed on http://www.canonical.com/contributors ; can you confirm that it does not require, nor will ever in future require, copyright assignment? Regards, Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-

Re: GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

2010-07-29 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Vincent Untz wrote: > (Porting to GTK+ 3.0 does not mean that you won't be able to use GTK+ > 2.0 anymore -- see what we are suggesting with the > --enable-gtk=2.0/3.0 configure flag) [...] >- add a --enable-gtk=2.0/3.0 configure flag: for some modules, it's > really easy to do and it

Re: Using AS_ALL_LINGUAS instead of po/LINGUAS

2010-07-16 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; -1 from me; I don't see any advantage here. With the current scheme, we have po/LINGUAS which is disted automagically. With your scheme, we need po/LINGUAS.ignore (which you have to dist manually). Also, if you add a new po/xx.po file, configure isn't re-run automatically so the new entry i

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-14 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > Le mardi 06 juillet 2010 à 09:00 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : > > Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has accepted > > enough contributions that it has become an unreasonable proposition > > to relicense has made a significant mistake. > > Anyone who licenses his work unde

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-08 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > > The problem is not only with third-party apps that use the platform. > > There are also some significant GPLv2 only libraries that GNOME apps > > may want to use. As examples, Poppler and ClamAV come to my mind. > > Incidentally, this is one of the major reasons that GNU PDF was made a >

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:29:13 +0100 schrieb Philip Withnall : > On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 19:48 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > > Am Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:08:36 +0200 > > schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat : > > > If only one string was provided, it would be a pain to find what &g

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:08:36 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat : > Le samedi 03 juillet 2010 à 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch a écrit : > > Coincidentally, taking a look at all the and > > strings, it seems to me that once these value enumerations are taken > > out, not

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:22:16 -0400 schrieb Ryan Lortie : > On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > > > > Finally, I'd like to suggest that gsettings-desktop-schemas install > > a header file containing #define's for each schema ID, schema,

GSettings schema writing guidance [was: dconf/GSettings namespace]

2010-07-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; I think we should provide a more in-depth guide on how to write schemas for gsettings, convering e.g.: - schema names: tld.foo.FooApp vs. tld.foo.foo-app vs ... - paths: /tld/foo/foo-app/ vs /apps/foo-app/ vs ... - what key names to use - how the and should differ and what they should

desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; I think we should use the opportunity of converting to gsettings to redesign the desktop schemas, not just do a 1:1 translation from gconf. Let me make some remarks about the gsettings desktop schemas as they right now are in gsettings-desktop-schemas module.

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:18:10 -0600 schrieb Cody Russell : > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:16 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: > > Also, why is this LGPL 2&3-only instead of the usual LGPL > > 2.1-or-later? > > Because seriously, everything should be this way. None of us

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > I would like to propose libappindicator as an external dependency. > libappindicator is a simple library that provides a way for an > application to put a menu inside an application specific area, most > typically on a panel. It also provides a fallback to generic KDE > Status Notifier Item

Re: A not about GtkBuilder conversion

2009-07-17 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > This is not how things are supposed to be done ! gtk-builder-convert > is not something you should or can rely on as a build tool. It is > purely a one-time conversion help, with the assumption that the > generated .ui files are manually checked and used as the primary > source afterwards.

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-06 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; John Stowers wrote: > Unfortunately, the original TangoGPS author, [...], ignores any > emails from me, other osm-gps-map developers, or users, that request > permission to change the license of osm-gps-map to LGPL. > > I guess the lesson here is to never create a library, derived from a > GP

Preserve glade files when switching from libglade to gtkbuilder format

2008-10-14 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; recently more projects have been switching from libglade to gtkbuilder, converting existing .glade files to .ui with gtk-builder-convert, and then svn removing the .glade files from svn. However, glade-3 is still not working on all features in the gtkbuilder format (e.g. nautilus' and gnome-t

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Epiphany

2008-04-01 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:12 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Christian Persch wrote: > > > This single back-end will be * WebKit *. > > > > Hoping this is not an April Fool's joke, also. +1 >

Re: New GNOME Dependency Proposal: libgcrypt

2007-05-06 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > Reached this point i think GNOME should make a decision on what crypto > library is it going to use/bless: > evolution is using libnss > gnome-keyring will using libgcrypt/libgnutls > gnome-vfs can use openssl or libgcrypt/libgnutls Epiphany/Gecko uses NSS too. What's GVFS

Re: Epiphany and Epiphany Extensions branched for GNOME 2.18

2007-03-15 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 11:00 +0200, Lucas Rocha a écrit : > Hi Christian, > > What are the Epiphany plans for GNOME 2.20? We haven't really had time to plan which features we want to add for 2.20. The only thing that I have firm plans for---but of which I'm not sure I'll have the time to d

Belarussian Latin translation

2007-03-11 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Recently, the "Belarusian Latin" translation team has started adding its translations to many GNOME modules. However, they chose to use the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name for their PO files, instead of following the precedent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can

Re: Limiting svn-commits-list to your project

2007-02-18 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; > The svn-commits-list mailinglist now has a topic per SVN module. You can > configure svn-commits-list to only send the commit mails you are > interested in. I'd like to use this to limit the numbers of message I receive from svn-commits-list. But I also want to receive the mail for any comm

Re: Remove gtk_window_set_wmclass call in gnome-hello

2007-02-04 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le dimanche 04 février 2007 à 13:57 +0300, Nickolay V. Shmyrev a écrit : > В Сбт, 03/02/2007 в 19:52 +0100, Christian Persch пишет: > Hm, there are both help and doc subdirs in gnome-hello. While first is > converted to gnome-doc-utils, second one leaved as is :( Actually I have >

Re: Remove gtk_window_set_wmclass call in gnome-hello

2007-02-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, I've committed your patch; thanks for writing it! I don't see the OMF problems anymore; those files have been removed from svn. Regards, Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailm

Re: Extra REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION setting in gnome-hello's autogen.sh

2007-01-21 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, > Anyway, there's an extra setting of REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION in > gnome-hello's autogen.sh (it's overriden later in the file). The > attached patch removes it. Thanks; I've committed the patch to svn. Regards, Christian ___ desktop-dev

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-11-22 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le mercredi 22 novembre 2006 à 21:03 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : > So, hmm, just pinging: Christian, are you willing to propose this for > 2.18, or do you think it's too early? GNPR itself is ready, but since it's useless without gnome-vfs making use of it [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bu

Multi-headed gecko apps [was: Re: Proposing GtkUnique 1.0 as a blessed external dependency]

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, I'd just like to point out that gecko is _not_ multi-head safe. So any single-instance application that uses gecko will need one instance _per screen_. And if it uses a (gecko) profile, it'll be basically impossible to use it on more than one screen at a time since you cannot share the profile

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le jeudi 26 octobre 2006 à 18:38 +0800, James Henstridge a écrit : > Have you considered adding support for web proxy autodetection to this > (the "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" option in firefox). > There is a copy of the internet draft available here: > > > http://www.w

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 23:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > That feature was missing for ages in the control-center (and GNOME > applications). This fixes a bunch of very old GNOME bugs like: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123900 Note that it doesn't actually fix that b

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, > On 9/11/06, Elijah Newren wrote: > > On 9/11/06, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus > > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies, > > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in j

Epiphany branched for 2.16

2006-09-03 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Epiphany is now branched for Gnome 2.16; the branch name is "gnome-2-16". Regards, Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Epiphany & Epiphany Extensions branched

2006-03-12 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Epiphany and Epiphany Extensions have branched for GNOME 2.14. The branch name is "gnome-2-14". Regards, Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme

2006-02-05 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 15:04 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: > > Le samedi 04 fÃvrier 2006 Ã 23:14 -0500, Matthias Clasen a Ãcrit : > > > On 2/4/06, Christian Persch wrote: > > > > The latest gnome-icon-theme release has removed the &quo

Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme

2006-02-05 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le samedi 04 février 2006 à 23:14 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > On 2/4/06, Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The latest gnome-icon-theme release has removed the "gnome-spinner" and > > "gnome-spinner-rest" themed icons, causing brea

breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme

2006-02-04 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, The latest gnome-icon-theme release has removed the "gnome-spinner" and "gnome-spinner-rest" themed icons, causing breakage in (at least) epiphany, nautilus, gedit and beagle. Other people have told me that other removed icons also cause problems in nautilus and deskbar-applet. This removal ne

Re: [Fwd: "Document font" pref [was: Re: asking for approval for bug 160454]]

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 14:57 -0600, Shaun McCance a écrit : > Epiphany and Yelp both already say 'Fixed width', so let's > get some consistency here. Christian? Done. Christian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gn

Re: [Fwd: "Document font" pref [was: Re: asking for approval for bug 160454]]

2006-01-26 Thread Christian Persch
t; > > > Forwarded Message > > > From: Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: "Document font" pref [was: Re: asking for appro

libgnome goption argument parsing and ABI stability

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, libgnome's gnome_program_init now supports GOption argument parsing. The gnome modules supply their GOptionGroup*'s via a hook func in the GnomeModuleInfo struct. The question in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326846 is now whether we can ABI-compatibly use a function pointer of typ

String review

2005-09-21 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, For quite some time, the general inconsistency of strings in the various GNOME modules has irritated me. For example, let's just look at some strings in GNOME: bug-buddy: "There already exists a file name '%s'.\n\nDo you wish to overwrite this file?" eog 1: "Overwrite file %s?" eog 2: "A

libgnome*/libbonobo* and GOption

2005-07-07 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, glib since version 2.6 has an option parser, GOption. But currently it's not possible to use gnome_program_init() with GOption. Pawel Sliwowski has provided patches for libgnome* and libbonobo* in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307312 . Since API freeze is in a few days and I think

Re: new gnome-common release?

2005-06-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 16:32 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:52 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > > the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some > > important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick > &g

new gnome-common release?

2005-06-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not, who is authorised to make a

Re: New external dependency: iso-codes ?

2005-03-08 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le lundi 07 mars 2005 Ã 20:47 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero a Ãcrit : > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:26 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: > > - If you have locale codes "ab_CD" and want to translate that into a > > human-readable description, you have to parse XML files f

Re: New external dependency: iso-codes ?

2005-03-07 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le lundi 07 mars 2005 Ã 20:44 +, Bastien Nocera a Ãcrit : > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:15 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to add a new external dependency to GNOME Desktop: the > > "iso-codes" package. It's available

New external dependency: iso-codes ?

2005-03-07 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, I'd like to add a new external dependency to GNOME Desktop: the "iso-codes" package. It's available from cvs [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-isocodes/] and tarball [http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/iso-codes-0.45.tar.gz]. Using this package will remove the duplicated translations of

Epiphany and Epiphany Extensions branched

2005-03-07 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Epiphany Epiphany Extensions have branched for GNOME 2.10. The branch is called "gnome-2-10". @gnome-i18n: Since modules not in desktop can only have one branch listed on the translationstatus page, please stay with HEAD for Epiphany Extensions. However, translators should also update the gno

Re: Intltool and disting of .gmo files

2005-03-01 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le mardi 01 mars 2005 Ã 11:02 +0800, James Henstridge a Ãcrit : >Rodney Dawes wrote: > >>Currently, intltool is distributing the generated .gmo files, within >>tarballs. Christian Persch recently filed a bug against intltool, as >>this still causes some issues with