eing fully convinced that shifting the cycle to
accommodate Fedora's beta will automatically result in the quality
improvements being sought: any thoughts on why we might have quality
issues with .0 releases or is it really mostly about the schedule?
(are there bigger win
ine. But if a goal of this is to smooth the
transition path and avoid a requirement for tooling to be updated, maybe
it would be useful.
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that we encourage people to change is pretty much spot on
iain
[1] Which even members of KDE are now realising is an abomination.
[2] William Jon's? I never know how to properly address people who use
two names, sorry.
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There was no prior discussion on usability list and when people raised
concerns on it after the change was made (and even now) or how it was made,
they are being treated like children.
The developer is in charge of
to think DBus
anymore.
I saw the DBus API, I just didn't seriously think you were proposing
it as application facing API.
Porting the QTtracker library (or writing a high-level GObject
equivalent) should be a priority if
you want to get Tracker accepted by GNOME.
iain
as possible to enable
developers to make the applications without distracting them with
irrelevant implementation details. If this already exists, I apologise
and blame the lack of documentation.
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/annotations/docs/tester-docs.xml near to the end.
[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-doc-list/2009-October/msg3.html
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in the future to remove gconf, orbit
etc and know that nothing will break.
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for the user, pinned
notes would never be pinned and synchronization would always require
you to start over.
These things should have been stored with a GKeyFile in the
~/.config/Tomboy directory, IMO
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andy Taia...@atai.org wrote:
You should purchase a separate license from the Mutter authors...
That would be completely impossible.
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what it means. Was that swish new email or
CD burning finished? The user closes the laptop lid and hears
lid-close sound, thinks what was that sound? and opens the laptop
to check.
iain
[1] This is what the positive sound concept is trying to solve
is a bit silly
No-one was talking about killing ALL sounds.
I was talking about replacing the myriad of sound effects that we have
with one sound.
A sound that is easy to learn its meaning, unlike 125 random sounds.
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but I thought I'd wait until I'd made a few examples first.
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:27 +, Iain * wrote:
These are all under the class of something has happened which you did
not specifically ask to happen and may require your attention
And so would be perfect candidates
to applications to ship
their own icons?
Most applications now ship tango icons, and they look somewhat out of
place if my icon theme isn't tango
How do you get a star trek theme that has a printer has finished
printing sound effect that fits in?
iain
(check
your /etc/sound/events/ and prove me wrong).
And this is proof that the sound theme works, or that people don't use
the sounds?
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Iain * iaingn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org
wrote:
Actually all the sounds have (almost) complete context including full
or frog (like the mac has) for all I care[1].
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Karl Lattimer k...@qdh.org.uk wrote:
Apple have done a good job making sounds fit with what's happening.
You mean by providing a single System sound[1] like I'm advocating
and leaving the rest up to application authors?
iain
[1]http://c.skype.com/i/legacy
that in a previous email.
Thinking about accessible sounds reminded me of this one - the sound we
play when GDM starts is an accessibility feature.
I know. And is an application specific sound so would be provided by
the application.
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completely NOT what I want and has missed the point.
But I see that no-one else cares
So I shall stop caring as well.
And this is my last mail on the subject
Enjoy
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for that sound
Something has happened that you did not specifically ask to happen
and may require your attention
I think we can work it out.
iain
[1] http://0pointer.de/public/sound-naming-spec.html
[2] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/free-sound-themes.html
[3] http://0pointer.de/public/sound
) [...]
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As Havoc said there's no right or wrong answer. Pick one and stick with it.
If so, will this be hard?
I'd imagine so, as it would probably require a fairly hefty rewrite of
a lot of the code for gain that we're not even sure we'll get.
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of a compositor is
translucency, everything else is just extra guff.
(Ironically, its working perfectly except for translucent windows...)
But none of this is relevent to the gnome-session discussion, so we
shall move it to a seperate thread.
iain
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd say for me the only essential feature of a compositor is not
watching the goddamn windows redraw each time you switch apps and
workspaces.
Then you don't need a compositor
Turn it off. problem solved.
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* Copyright (C) 2007 Iain Holmes
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And although you think translucency is the only useful feature, I think
window shadows are an essential addition also, as they provide some
depth
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nah, one thing about a compositor is that it keeps off-screen copies
of all the windows so it does not have to invalidate regions when the
stacking order changes.
To be totally honest, I've never really thought of that
than insisting that a compositor is used to work around the
issue.
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well even if you try to read just a 10k file you can get stuck if
another application is causing excessive IO (and I tend to run such
applications). It's hard to delegate each disk operation to a separate
thread just
.
This is the point we're trying to make.
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:31 +0100
Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In LANG=C you call gtk_label_new with UTF-8 strings. What happens at that
point depends
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Anders Feder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Sebastian's architecture, Conduit would invoke Soprano, which would
then access Evolutions database through a backend. This way, Evolution
(and other applications) doesn't have to implement a SPARQL query
parser.
Why
valid for a certain domain, do not seem valid to
me at all in the context of what we're discussing and seem to be
somewhat luddite and unhelpful.
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Have you considered the politicial sphere yourself by any chance?
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:42:24 +0100
Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thats because you have your fingers in your ears and don't want to
listen. Consider
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about printing to files ? An nm also rather suggests that gnome
apps do use printf and fprintf somewhat and many of the other functions
mentioned. syslog() is another that is used.
I don't know what your use cases are,
;-)
That would be awesome.
Here's the bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415816
http://folks,o-hand.com/iain/clutter-flow.png
here's something I knocked up last night
While its clearly not finished yet (I was tired and my caffeine ran out)
Its interesting that the part I was finding
to lead this effort.
A multimedia hackfest would be very useful to work out a solid plan of
action for the future.
iain
(and as author of gnome-cd I'd expect to be guest of honour at it)
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at the predesignated safe meeting
point...
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it to see the Bluetooth settings but thats not what
the menu item says.
In short words: I don't agree.
Thats fine, but you're wrong.
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action associated with it.
Its really just the name of a program.
I'm not saying your reasoning is wrong. It does make sense,
when applied consistently. But it leads to ellipses on far
too many menu items.
It doesn't really, we seem to have done pretty well so far...
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: File - Open Parent needs ...,
the rest do not)
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shutdown the machine.
Warning users that another user is logged on is of course a good idea.
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Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part.
Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar.
Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when
the cursor is over the emboldened date to say why that date is
special?
iain
On 9/25/07, Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part.
Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar.
Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when
the cursor is over the emboldened date to say why that date is
special
that we just replace it with a dialog that says
GNOME Version $(VERSION)
Written by Me
that'll solve all the problems and you can show off to your hearts content.
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the list of contributors if we mark them
with GNOME Foundation member metadata and it could update the list
in real time...
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, I'm in shock too) why don't we just
have a web page with everyone's names? that way its easy to update, we
can make it pretty, and put photos and biographies and what have you
on it.
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into
tracker-search-tool? With a patch to g-s-t you wouldnt need to be in a
place where this unknown program was replacing a well used, and
well-tested one.
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be
others) Ubuntu have added another entry to the combo box to deal with
that.
* Knowing the best way to initially populate the favourite
applications panel (or whatever it should be called).
There are other small things but they are stylistic and hardly showstoppers.
iain
tabular menu hybrid or require context menus on
menus (which is eeevil).
Weird.
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libebook1.2-5 is pretty long
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On 1/10/07, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Iain * wrote:
On 1/10/07, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bet that the Epiphany developers does not think it is worth their
time if Tracker doesn't get included in GNOME...
Then how will we know if Tracker is what we need
how you wanted to use it?
etc?
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has this.
a places menu that follows nautilus'
bookmarks or deskbar functionality in its search bar.
It would be ten times as useful if it would just implement those.
Agree about the places menu.
I don't use deskbar so I can't comment.
iain
locations with one click and, at worst,
one submenu.
As has been mentioned before having a Places menu might help here.
The rest of your complaints are really stylistic issues.
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opps
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From: Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jan 8, 2007 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu
To: Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/8/07, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:34 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote
[3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
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On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote:
[3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it
You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
Thanks. Unfortunately, this still seems pretty weird to me
.
And if it's replacing menus, I think it should replace both menus. We
dont want menus to be the new clocks.
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On 9/7/06, Pat Suwalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing's impossible, but a longer cycle every so often would encourage
larger and better thought-out changes.
Or lots more not-so-well-thought-out changes...
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in Evolution... but it's part of the
desktop, no?]
This was part of the discussion of making tomboy use EDS for sharing
notes with evolution. I forget how that discussion ended up
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left it at that.
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doodah and maybe renaming it to just
Notes in the menu so people don't get confused because they don't know
what tomboy is.
Maybe on first run the Start Here note could pop up on screen and
explain what it is. I dunno, but thats a discussion for the tomboy
developers.
There, that is my opinion.
iain
On 7/28/06, Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Taking notes is hardly a power user thing. Most people like having a
place that they can just scribble some notes down. My opinion is that
if it is in anything it should be the desktop release.
Oh, and tomboy gives us enough new ability with being
Oh, ok, my apologies. Its been a long time since my first run :)
iain
On 7/28/06, Alex Graveley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tomboy already does this, though the description it gives is pretty
minimal today. What do you think it should say?
-Alex
Iain * wrote:
Maybe on first run the Start
pleasent. It allowed me to use applications that had been ported to
0.10 and applications that had not...all at the same time!
Yey for parallel installs
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it there.
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, it was simply to take up less screenspace.
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basic bookkeeping, stock
checking and making silly signs that say No, we have no bananas and
I assure you we're open when required.
Now I'm getting silly, maybe other people have other ideas if this was
indeed what you wanted people to do.
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Ubuntu, Gentoo, and the other distros should come with a music editor,
a video editor, and everything else. The discussion here I believe is what
should be made part of the basic gnome distribution, and I think that
music/video editors might not qualify.
That's exactly what I meant.
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Iain * iaingnome at gmail.com writes:
Why do we feel we are able to bless a terminal program and a text
editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an
audio editor?
There is a huge difference between essential
. The point of blessing the application is saying that this
application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release
shedule that coincides with the gnome platform release. If this is all
we are really saying, then how can we discriminate on the language the
program is written in.
iain
On 7/15/06, Alvaro Lopez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, that was just an example. Actually, I put an
interrogation mark after Java. However, if we accept the dependency
of extra frameworks, it could end up being like that in a couple of
years, so it wasn't a crazy idea
.
The claim was that Microsoft themselves had to pull back from using
it for core functionality due to performance reasons. I don't imagine
those performance reasons were on multiuser application systems, so I
was responding within the same context.
iain
On 7/14/06, Darren Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mono and Python etc are all very good in their own way, but I really don't see
why they need to be part of the core GNOME desktop - this was why I wanted to
break down the GNOME desktop into various groupings - so ISVs, etc. can make
their own
the gnome-desktop applications on it.
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applications in C.
But hey, if sun has the time and money please feel free to rewrite all
our prototypes in C.
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On 7/13/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Iain *
I have been banging on this drum in the Ubuntu community for a while, but I
guess I haven't been banging it sufficiently loud in GNOME: Whenever we talk
about GNOME, we *must* talk first and foremost about benefits
On 7/14/06, Alvaro Lopez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Azureus and Eclipse come to mind.
Two out of.. how many?
About 5 maybe 6 if you count hello.world?
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python in the desktop for 2 releases now, and look how we're
inundated with applications written in python...one...out of 5 things
proposed.
Is the fact that there were so few things proposed a sign that the C
thing just isn't working?
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performance issues. We're not talking here
about replacing the core libraries with c# based ones, we're talking
about applications, and for me the mono based apps are just as fast as
the C based ones.
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, and this probably turned into a
stream of thoughts rather than anything coherent. Oh well
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Hi,
My name is iain. I make patches. Here is one.
I was playing Tali and noticed that my player is called Human by
default. Attached is a patch that uses g_get_real_name so that I don't
feel quite so generic when I play it.
iain
Index: gtali/gyahtzee.c
script - not that
my anecdotal evidence makes yours any less valid)
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Two words...
Hell yeah.
(4 if you count the intro...15 if you count this bit)
On 4/21/06, Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm seeing that everybody is up for Tomboy as part of the desktop.
Yes?
sri
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:03:38PM -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
Ya, that
guess the analogy with
an application would be popping up the about box everytime the program
starts.
But yeah, apart from that. cool :)
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On 4/10/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are some ways to fix this:
+ HIG HIG HIG
+ make it possible to dynamically add an applet from a program. I'd
like to add the infrastructure for this during 2.16. Don't know if
I'll have time, but maybe someone is interested in
On 4/10/06, Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we really want to do this, let's do it right and not with a hacky
workaround because people are afraid to depend on newer versions of
things for some reason.
gnome goal #3: port everything to a modern version of automake!
On 4/10/06, Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And doing so, shuffles the icons around, making the ones
the user does care about, moving targets in some cases.
See my proposal earlier.
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On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 23:39 +, Iain * wrote:
On 2/1/06, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- how long does nautilus take to pick up the pixmap and repaint its
desktop window. That takes about 1 second for me, due
the values.
See libnautilus-private/nautilus-directory-background.c:328
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into the desktop
so we eventually do away with generic file managers.
Sorry for not adding anything to this discussion, but seriously, it's
just a file manager.
iain the anti-file-manager
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Fucking idiots
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actually understand what they're doing, they just
copy and paste from another configure.{in|ac} (make your mind up
autoconf) written by someone else who doesn't understand whats going
on.
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The hig says little about behaviour, and much about appearance. It
doesn't specify everything that needs a concept.
My point is that this sort of discussion has no place on ddl
Because its pointless waffle, and is well beyond the scope as far as I
can see of the desktop, and by bringing up such
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