Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
2009/1/6 Josselin Mouette : > Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 17:21 +0900, James Henstridge a écrit : >> I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list >> of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via >> mailing lists or bugzilla

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: >> It's a shame that hackers who contribute to GNOME projects which don't >> use svn.gnome.org were excluded. >> >>(I was told their opinions didn't matter. {shrug} that's fine, >>so long as nobody tries to represent this survey

Re: Why do GNOMEdevelopers almost exclusively use git mirrors and for example not bzr mirrors

2008-04-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 22/04/2008, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:45:34AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > (At least, that's what I understand) > > > > > > Indeed. This might be hard

Re: [gst-devel] Why is gstreamer not an external dependency?

2007-05-22 Thread James Henstridge
On 22/05/07, Thomas Vander Stichele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > If you don't break the API in the next series, why would you make a > > change that requires every application to be updated to take advantage > > of the new release? Doesn't that just make work for everyone? > > The applic

Re: [gst-devel] Why is gstreamer not an external dependency?

2007-05-22 Thread James Henstridge
On 22/05/07, Thomas Vander Stichele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Definitely a good question to mull over. I don't have a good answer. > > > Maybe someone else does. > > > > Well, to me, it makes totally sense to have a multimedia framework in > > GNOME since many applications are dealing

Re: DBus GLib API

2007-02-15 Thread James Henstridge
On 15/02/07, Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:52 +, Rob Taylor wrote: > > Can anyone with a bit more library maintenance experience give me some > > advice on the best way forward? I don't want to just ignore the ABI > > issue, given the rapidly growing nu

Re: DBus GLib API

2007-02-14 Thread James Henstridge
On 14/02/07, Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Taylor wrote: > > (Changing subject appropriately, should have done this earlier..) > > > > Havoc Pennington wrote: > >> Parallel install will be of limited value most likely if any *libraries* > >> in the typical GNOME/GTK stack use dbus-gli

Re: get rid static libraries or fix them

2007-02-08 Thread James Henstridge
On 08/02/07, Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > > Hi, > >Currently I dont see anything wrong with the state of affairs at all. > > I see: Many GNOME *.pc files are broken, because Libs.private required > for static linking are missing. Default configure

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-26 Thread James Henstridge
On 26/10/06, Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > please let me introduce the latest addition to the category of totally > useless software by announcing... > > GNOME Network Proxy Resolver ! > > What it is > == > > GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides proxy

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Henstridge wrote: > > While having standard names for metadata relationship types that > > everyone can use is great, there are going to be cases where apps want > > to experiment with relationships that ha

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would need to completely flatten the metadata as > Contact.HomeJabberID, Contact.WorkJabberID etc so that all metadata is > mapped 1:1 If you do flatten things like this, I would hope you'd still be able to query for people by jabber ID

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an > >> optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe > >> "dc.creator" that would search all metadata registered against that type. > >> > >> You would no

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread James Henstridge
On 24/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross Burton wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:26 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > >> I think that the idea Ross is trying to get across here is that rather > >> than having a flat namespace of

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross Burton wrote: > > Also, if I search for "created by ross" how does the system need to know > > that it should search File.Publisher, Audio.Artist, Audio.Performer, > > Doc.Author and Image.Creator? The naming scheme here is inconsistan

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-08 Thread James Henstridge
On 08/10/06, Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Tromey wrote: > > How does this relate to python eggs[2]? And if it doesn't, why not? > > It seems to me that if there's an upstream project that handles a lot > > of this, then it would be beneficial to simply re-use it. > > > eggs

Re: external dependencies; trolling for more feedback, pushing to make it official ; -)

2006-09-22 Thread James Henstridge
On 22/09/06, David Zeuthen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:09 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > > GARNOME does not roll or maintain source tarballs for developers. > > > > I do not know of any stable Linux distro that currently offers a new > > enough version of udev that

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-08 Thread James Henstridge
On 08/09/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 September 2006 08:57, James Henstridge wrote: > > The real issue with handling development in parallel branches is > > really complexity of merging. This is an area where Subversion > > doesn

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-08 Thread James Henstridge
On 08/09/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your master plan implies branching early and heavily committing to > both branches for a long time. Reality check: we are still using this > archaic software called C.V.S.! Branching with that software is > incredibly complex. >

Re: Clarius

2006-08-30 Thread James Henstridge
On 30/08/06, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scenario 2) I go to use another machine that's mounting > > the same NFS home directory, or is otherwise getting the > > same GConf values. This machine is running Gnome 2.14, > > which doesn't include Clarius. > > The same thing would happen

Re: Deskbar Applet, NewStuffManager, 2.16, Installing New Plug-Ins, AutoUpdate, etc.

2006-08-01 Thread James Henstridge
On 01/08/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cant python be sandboxed? > > not sure if it helps in this case or not as I bet you want the python > code to have full access to the system. Not in the sense that javascript can be sandboxed. Some of the developers are looking at restrict

Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

2006-07-26 Thread James Henstridge
On 26/07/06, Fernando Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/06, James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. gnome-settings-daemon is modified to set the gtk-modules XSETTING, > > based on the existing gconf key. If accessibility is enabled, it sets >

Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

2006-07-26 Thread James Henstridge
On 26/07/06, Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 19:20, James Henstridge wrote: > > > > > Havoc's summary at the bottom of his email says why the current > > gnome_program_init() code is a hack: > > > > > > In summary

Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

2006-07-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 26/07/06, Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 17:57, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > ... > > > It's just that people were too lazy to fix > > it generically, and instead went on a cut-and-paste spree. That the > > cut-and-paste spree included libgnome and thus got some s

Re: Wiki changes [Was: Personas]

2006-07-16 Thread James Henstridge
On 16/07/06, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you tell me how? The little feed icon's gone, and I couldn't find an > rss action. Still seems available as here: http://live.gnome.org/RecentChanges?action=rss_rc There is a comment at the top of that page explaining the various options

Re: Flags or not? (Was: Re: Noticed in passing)

2006-07-12 Thread James Henstridge
On 10/07/06, Sergey Udaltsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Annoying. What we do? We set a fixed width. > Of course. Even if we adopt two-letter code, we won't adopt fixed > font. So the actual width of the string cannot be guaranteed eather > way. I think the point here is that you know what name

Re: FreeType upgrade => apps linked against libttf.so need to be rebuilt

2006-07-10 Thread James Henstridge
On 10/07/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeType has been upgraded from 2.1.x => 2.2.x. Freetype-2.2.x does > *not* contain libttf.so. Applications that were linked against > libttf.so need to be rebuilt. Unless I'm mistaken, isn't libttf.so the Freetype 1.x library? It

Re: Fixing bug #330868 in a smart way

2006-06-20 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/06/06, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-06-19 am 18:39 +0800, ysgrifennodd James Henstridge: > > If you intend to present localised license text, please provide a way > > to turn it off (and probably turn it off by default ...). > > >

Re: Fixing bug #330868 in a smart way

2006-06-19 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/06/06, Paolo Maggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was giving a look to bug #330868 (Adding "License" button and dialog > to About dialog). It seems to me we are duplicating the same long > strings (mostly the GPL license) in most applications marking them for > translation in or

Re: Gnome 2.14 default logoff dialog and diskmounter-applet

2006-06-18 Thread James Henstridge
On 19/06/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you elaborate about which aspects of the drive mounter you find > > to be problematic? The current design should be a lot more effective > > Dont know what the original commenter disliked about the applet but I > found it annoying that

Re: Gnome 2.14 default logoff dialog and diskmounter-applet

2006-06-17 Thread James Henstridge
On 13/06/06, Rousseau de Pantalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, about the Disk Mounter Applet: Please revert to pre-2.10 or rip it > out. > This applet contradicts almost all Gnome HIG-guides: to begin with most > important guideline: being useful. > It hurts Gnome's increasing usability at

Re: gstreamer-0.10.x tarballs on f.g.o: checksums differ from those on freedesktop.org

2006-05-18 Thread James Henstridge
On 5/18/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The checksums for the gstreamer-0.10.x tarballs on ftp.gnome.org differ from those on http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ How can that be? The "install-module" script used to add things to ftp.gnome.org takes a .tar.gz a

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-25 Thread James Henstridge
Nate Nielsen wrote: > No need for compatibility on Seahorse side. The gnome-keyring feature is > only in CVS. > > Let's keep it simple and do this: > > openpgp-keyid: 16 char hex (upper-case) key id > > The 64 bit key ids seem to be more widely available from APIs (like > GPGME) and other sources

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-20 Thread James Henstridge
Nate Nielsen wrote: > James Henstridge wrote: > >> I haven't looked at the seahorse code much, but if gnome-gpg and >> seahorse are storing PGP passphrases in the keyring it would make sense >> to use the same key names so that the user doesn't need to reente

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-20 Thread James Henstridge
Jon Nettleton wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 08:59 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > >> Nate Nielsen wrote: >> >>> Jeff Waugh wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>&g

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-20 Thread James Henstridge
Nate Nielsen wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> >> >> Any grand and glorious plans for 2.16? >>> Not really. Jon Nettleton is working on pam-keyring[1], so some work >>> required for that is going in. >>> >>> 1) http://www.hekanetworks.com/pam_keyring/ >>> >> That's

Re: error compiling gnome-mag: warning: implicit declaration of function `round'

2006-04-18 Thread James Henstridge
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm making some modifications in the gnome-mag code and I haved to use > the round () function, but when I try to compile I get the following > warning: > > warning: implicit declaration of function `round' > > I don't know why the function round i

Re: (temporary) RETURN OF TINDERBOX MAN

2006-04-17 Thread James Henstridge
Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 10:52 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > >> http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/builds/2006-04-16-0002/logs/gnome-icon-theme/#install >> >> A bit of googling turned up the culprit here, but it would be nice if >> the non-installation of icon-naming-utils caused a more int

Re: Solution for OEMs/Gnome

2006-04-13 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Carrera wrote: > Chipzz wrote: >>> For .gconf you should prefer root's gconf database (but I still see a >>> problem, that such customization is overwritten by a subsequent >>> packages >>> update, at least with the default gconf path). >> >> It should be pointed out that for debian (and I t

Re: Supporting po/LINGUAS in 2.16

2006-04-10 Thread James Henstridge
Iain * wrote: > 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

Re: Supporting po/LINGUAS in 2.16

2006-04-10 Thread James Henstridge
Martin Wehner wrote: >> I've noticed on the wiki, that several maintainers have >> already committed the hackily annoying patches. >> > > That includes me. Are there any potential build problems with the way > described on the Wiki? Or is it just "unclean"? > It is yet another hack that wou

Re: desktop-devel-list Digest, Vol 23, Issue 9

2006-03-09 Thread James Henstridge
Ronald S. Bultje wrote: >On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:50:17 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > > >>However, not everyone in the GNOME community necessarily agrees with >>this. I got *a lot* of requests to add an mp3 recording profile to >>gnome-media. Historically, I've always refuted these requ

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread James Henstridge
Edward Hervey wrote: > revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7: > > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where >patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to >offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are >available." > > Does t

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-11 Thread James Henstridge
Andy Wingo wrote: >Hi, > >On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 14:29 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: >> >> >>>It is possible to run for instance 'gst-inspect-0.10' in the postinst >>>script to for

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-10 Thread James Henstridge
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: >It is possible to run for instance 'gst-inspect-0.10' in the postinst >script to force the registry rebuild. > > Will that remove the overhead for all users, or just the user who runs gst-inspect-0.10? James. ___

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-10 Thread James Henstridge
Andy Wingo wrote: >There is no way to manually rebuild the registry in 0.10, so no more >post-installation hooks are needed in distro packages. > > I realise there is no need to manually rebuild the registry. I was just wondering if there was a way for an administrator to rebuild the registry (

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-10 Thread James Henstridge
Ronald S. Bultje wrote: >- for every cvs up of gstreamer, my totem (or any app) still takes >10s >to startup with no visual feedback > > This is plugin registration, right? Is it possible for distributors to trigger plugin registration as part of their package post-install scripts, or is every

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread James Henstridge
Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: >Hi, > > > > >> I know some very wise people have decided, apparently without much >>discussion with the community, that GNOME would switch to Subversion. >>But I keep thinking that, although Subversion is much better than CVS, >>maybe we would benefit more from a

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread James Henstridge
Rodrigo Moya wrote: >On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:01 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller >wrote: > > >>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:36 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> But it seems to me now that everyone other than me (and possibly Jono) is actually talking about X

Re: Plan to fix icons [was: Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme]

2006-02-06 Thread James Henstridge
Matthias Clasen wrote: >On 2/6/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Look at the conversation about making g-i-t a 'platform API' - now how major >>do you think this change is? :-) >> >> > >If we are talking about making g-i-t part of the platform, it should >also be pointed out

Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

2006-01-31 Thread James Henstridge
Pat Suwalski wrote: >Elijah Newren wrote: > > >>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327335. I'm with Federico >>though in thinking we should make it fast instead. >> >> > >If memory serves, the background resampling and applying used to be very >snappy and got significantly slower whe

Re: New modules in 2.14

2006-01-22 Thread James Henstridge
David Zeuthen wrote: >On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:19 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>Richard Hughes wrote: >> >> >> >>>>Of course, this wonderful system does not exist. Again, >>>>gnome-power-manager is the best offering we ha

Re: New modules in 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread James Henstridge
Richard Hughes wrote: >>Of course, this wonderful system does not exist. Again, >>gnome-power-manager is the best offering we have at this time. >> >> > >Thanks! Making g-p-m very closely tied to other GNOME stuff allows it >and other programs to play nice, e.g. g-p-m telling g-s to lock the

Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

2006-01-15 Thread James Henstridge
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 11:17 +0100, Chipzz wrote: > > >>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Paolo Borelli wrote: >> >> >> >>>support disabled. That said we think that python support is a really >>>important feature and it's having a huge success (I have seen more >>>plugins in the la

Re: Special folders in gnome

2006-01-13 Thread James Henstridge
Frederic Crozat wrote: >>I have tried ~/Pictures/.directory, but it seems not to be interpreted. >> >> > >It is a KDE only stuff, which is quite bad in term of performance, >because, when reading a directory, it forces file manager to try to open >each directory in that directory and tries to

Re: autotools gives autopain

2006-01-03 Thread James Henstridge
Davyd Madeley wrote: > Quoting James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I get the feeling that scons plus something like bksys might be worth >> considering in the future, but it seems a bit immature right now. I'm >> sure it has benefits right now, such

Re: autotools gives autopain

2006-01-03 Thread James Henstridge
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >>>According to the devs, that is a feature of scons. This page has a >>>workaround: http://www.scons.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ImportingEnvironmentSettings >>>Although I think your real problem is badly written SConstruct-files. >>> >>> >>> >>It may be the fault of the person

Re: autotools gives autopain

2006-01-02 Thread James Henstridge
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >>1) SCons intentionally ignores most standard *FLAGS (documentation says >>so). You have to edit one or more SConstruct files to force flags you >>want for your platform (it's a SuSE packaging convention), not flags >>decided by somebody for it. This is the simplest solutio

Re: FYI re: new bugzilla and gmail

2005-12-19 Thread James Henstridge
Luis Villa wrote: >Enough changed in the headers/etc. since the upgrade that I just >discovered that gmail is now marking all my gnome bugzilla mail as >spam. Something to look out for if you read bugzilla in gmail. > > Taking a quick look at the headers, one change I noticed is that the "In-Rep

Re: autotools gives autopain

2005-12-16 Thread James Henstridge
Andrew Sobala wrote: > Sean D'Epagnier wrote: > >> Isn't it true that scons requires you download and install it as an >> extra program to use it? Many users may not have scons and may not >> want to install it, but do want to install gnome (by compiling from >> source code). > > > This is identi

Re: Color independent themes

2005-12-11 Thread James Henstridge
Jason J. Herne wrote: >Hi, > >I'm not a developer, just thought I would bounce this idea of off people >on the list. If this type of posting is frowned upon please let me know >and I'll avoid it in the future. > >I am very much an eye candy person and as a long time Gnome user, I've >always been

Re: GWeather refactoring

2005-12-06 Thread James Henstridge
Philip Langdale wrote: >Davyd Madeley wrote: > > >>Philip, >> >>Do you have a patch for the merge into HEAD? That would be most useful >>to apply and examine what the final merge will be like. >> >>I want to get this in soon, along with James' work. >> >> > >http://intr.overt.org/diff.cgi/di

Re: API documentation requirements for next releases

2005-12-01 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote: >>whatever documentation system you use, you can still document the >>undocumented things and force documentation for all new API to be >>written, right? >> >> > > I will have to change my tools, but yes. > > Federico's mail read: 1. Document any new public inte

Re: EOG features

2005-11-30 Thread James Henstridge
Pat Suwalski wrote: > Lucas Rocha wrote: > >> with a "Save copy" one, like Evince; 3) auto-rotate images based on >> EXIF data. > > > Very few cameras seem to have the mercury sensor needed to make the > tag required here. Apart from the D-SLRs I've never encountered one. Most of the Canon compa

Re: High Contrast Icons

2005-11-21 Thread James Henstridge
Vincent Untz wrote: >Does it mean that the apps should depend on gnome-themes (or the modules >where the HighContrast theme is) at installation time? > > No more than the checks they do for hicolor-icon-theme at the moment (i.e. no checks). It'd just involve installing a file to the right direc

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread James Henstridge
Ross Burton wrote: >On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>>I've just sent a patch >>>(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) >>>for using -nocpp where possible. >>> >>>

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread James Henstridge
Rodrigo Moya wrote: >I've just sent a patch >(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) >for using -nocpp where possible. > > Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a cpp, is this actually worth it? >From previous messages, I was under

Re: Adding xorg module set to jhbuild

2005-09-29 Thread James Henstridge
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on a jhbuild moduleset for the modular xorg release. > It's not complete yet and it requires some bootstrapping because of > the symlink magic that's required at this point, but once 7.0 is > released this set should be as easy to use as any oth

Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

2005-09-18 Thread James Henstridge
Lennart Poettering wrote: >On Fri, 16.09.05 14:21, James Henstridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Alex Graveley wrote: >> >> >> >>>Does anyone have any sort of convincing argument as to why an API >>>abstraction in this case is *nee

Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

2005-09-15 Thread James Henstridge
Alex Graveley wrote: > > Does anyone have any sort of convincing argument as to why an API > abstraction in this case is *needed*? > > ("I like abstractions" is not an argument.) Alternatively: If an abstraction is required, is Avahi's dbus interface a suitable abstraction? James. _

Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

2005-08-24 Thread James Henstridge
Havoc Pennington wrote: >On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:44 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:37 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: >> >> >>>what about libsoup/network library? Wouldn't it also make sense to move >>>it to a libgnet in glib? >>> >>> >>I'm also for this, right no

Re: Maintainership of gnome-common

2005-07-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/07/05 20:02, Olav Vitters wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:13:54PM -0300, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>On 25/07/05 14:33, Rodney Dawes wrote: >> >> >>>The maintanence of gnome-common has been on the lax as of late. James >>>seems to be

Re: Maintainership of gnome-common

2005-07-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/07/05 14:33, Rodney Dawes wrote: >So, > >The maintanence of gnome-common has been on the lax as of late. James >seems to be too busy or something, and I don't know what has happened to >Malcolm. He seems to just not reply at all to some bug reports. > >However, there are some patches in bugz

Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12

2005-07-21 Thread James Henstridge
On 21/07/05 18:19, Miguel de Icaza wrote: >Did we take a round of votes, or it was just a consensus based on the >"the last man standing" on the thread? > >I do not remember being asked to vote on this. > > When was the last time you (or anyone) voted on d-d-l about anything? James. ___

Re: Clearlooks and GNOME 2.12

2005-07-21 Thread James Henstridge
On 21/07/05 03:45, Thomas Wood wrote: > > On 20 Jul 2005, at 11:38 pm, James Henstridge wrote: > >> On 20/07/05 19:17, Thomas Wood wrote: >> >>> On 19 Jul 2005, at 10:26 pm, Danilo Šegan wrote: >>> >>>> Today at 22:42, Richard Stellingwerff wrot

Re: Clearlooks and GNOME 2.12

2005-07-20 Thread James Henstridge
On 20/07/05 19:17, Thomas Wood wrote: > On 19 Jul 2005, at 10:26 pm, Danilo Šegan wrote: > >> Today at 22:42, Richard Stellingwerff wrote: >> >>> Personally, I'd really prefer to keep distributing standalone >>> packages, since it allows me to do more frequent releases. >> >> Nobody would object i

Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

2005-07-20 Thread James Henstridge
Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 14:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit : So this is what gives me the printer icon in the notification tray in fedora? Ubuntu has something similar? That's gnome-cups-icon, right? What's the story/comparison there? Right, Ubuntu uses

Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

2005-07-19 Thread James Henstridge
Dan Winship wrote: Could we just package up the results of the jhbuild in a dumb, completely mechanical way, such that installing the packages would be exactly equivalent to running jhbuild? ie, it wouldn't replace or conflict with your existing GNOME packages, it would just install everything i

Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi

2005-07-18 Thread James Henstridge
Danilo Šegan wrote: I managed once to build entire Gnome during 2.7 using jhbuild (with features jamesh just introduced back then to build outside of your checkout directory, basically mimicking what distcheck is doing, without the "make check" part :), and I remember having only to fix a few Ma

Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

2005-07-18 Thread James Henstridge
Alan Horkan wrote: Supporting Autopackage wouldn't adversely affect or favour any particularly distribution and it would in fact produce packages widely usable by a whole variety of distributions. There is no Autopackage based distribution yet (nor is there likely to be). Note that autopacka

Re: build break: gnome-keyring

2005-07-15 Thread James Henstridge
Murray Cumming wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:24 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 20:38 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: >> >> >>>The fact that you are running into this but people not on Ubuntu Breezy >>>might indicate a pro

Re: build break: gnome-keyring

2005-07-15 Thread James Henstridge
Ross Burton wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 20:38 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>The fact that you are running into this but people not on Ubuntu Breezy >>might indicate a problem with one of the Breezy packages defining this >>in their headers or as cflag

Re: build break: gnome-keyring

2005-07-15 Thread James Henstridge
Murray Cumming wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:13 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: >> >> >>>Yes, this is Ubuntu Breezy (unstable). >>> >>>Using readlink() in a tiny C test case works, but it doesn't work in >>>that file even if I put i

Re: the about-me capplet

2005-07-14 Thread James Henstridge
Diego Gonzalez wrote: >>- doesn't allow to change the user's full name >> >> >In debian i can't change the full name of the user (i need to be root to >do so), show me a way to do it and i will have no problem implementing >it. > > >From /etc/login.defs on my Ubuntu box: # # Which fields ma

Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

2005-07-13 Thread James Henstridge
Mystilleef wrote: >>I'm not sure how to answer that since I don't know exactly what you're >>referring to by "gnome-print". There's no such module... >> >> > >I think he is referring to libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui. It seems >your library performs almost all the function those libraries

Re: Switching between Windows.

2005-07-07 Thread James Henstridge
Rajendrakumar Malode wrote: > Hi, > > I am developing a desktop application for Linux using C and XLib > functions. > > My application always runs in full screen mode(no caption bar and > window decoration). > > My requirement is I should be able to switch to other application > windows by pressin

Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-06 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote: >>can you be a bit more specific ? What exactly does not allow people to >>run configure under Windows ? Lots of projects build fine under windows >>using the standard autotools set. >> >> > The serious libxml2 contributors on Windows don't run cygwin or migwin. >Most

Re: libnotify in gnome-applets

2005-07-04 Thread James Henstridge
Rodrigo Moya wrote: >* not sure about the trash applet, since it already changes its icon and >tooltip when something changes in the applet. > > It does seem a bit weird showing notifications for the trash. The only cases where notifications will be produced will be directly caused by user acti

Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-03 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote: >On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:56:11PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>Daniel Veillard wrote: >> >> >> >>> now s/xslt/xml/g there is the exact same mechanism for libxml2, and >>>it never breaks, though libxml2

Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-03 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote: > now s/xslt/xml/g there is the exact same mechanism for libxml2, and >it never breaks, though libxml2 module ChangeLog is updated way more frequently >than libxslt one, why ? I undestand your analysis, but I don't understand >why libxml2 doesn't break too. > > I have se

Re: xsltwin32config.h and jhbuild

2005-07-02 Thread James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard wrote: > libxml2/include/libxml/xmlwin32version.h[.in] contains the same >kind of set of informations as the one on the libxslt side, is generated >in the same way, and doesn't seems to break jhbuild. > Is there any special rule applied within jhbuild on one side and not >another

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread James Henstridge
Nigel Tao wrote: >Excuse my ignorance, but even if it isn't cross-process, is this even >currently possible with gtk? > >I have an applet that is pretty much just a GtkEntry, but I couldn't >figure out how to get my GtkEntry's right-click menu (which includes >Copy, Paste, Input Method wizardry) t

Re: Minimum required Python version in JHBuild

2005-06-21 Thread James Henstridge
JP Rosevear wrote: >On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:16 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > >>At the moment, jhbuild requires Python >= 2.0. >> >>I was wondering if it would inconvenience anyone if I increased the >>minimum version requirement to 2.2 or 2.3 at some po

Minimum required Python version in JHBuild

2005-06-20 Thread James Henstridge
At the moment, jhbuild requires Python >= 2.0. I was wondering if it would inconvenience anyone if I increased the minimum version requirement to 2.2 or 2.3 at some point. For reference, 2.2 was released on 21 December, 2001 (3.5 years ago), and 2.3 was released 29 July 2003 (2 years ago). James

Re: new gnome-common release?

2005-06-19 Thread James Henstridge
Christian Persch wrote: >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 no

Re: ANNOUNCE: Deskbar Applet 0.3 (keybindings)

2005-06-17 Thread James Henstridge
Alex Graveley wrote: > > Well, we can enforce no conflicts without going through a third party, > right? The UI enforces no conflicts, and the library checks that a > keybinding is not already taken at bind time (allowing the app to > prompt the user if it is). > > It isn't as though a third part

Re: G2.12 with jhbuild

2005-06-13 Thread James Henstridge
Cédric Marcone wrote: >Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 19:48 +0200, Cédric Marcone a écrit : > > >>eog from CVS doesn't build with jhbuild : >> >>configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >> >> >>>= 2.4.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.5.91 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.92 libglade-2.0 >>

Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

2005-06-08 Thread James Henstridge
Frederic Crozat wrote: >Hi all, > >I only discovered this morning by looking at James commit for jhbuild >that GNOME 2.11/2.12 is supposed to ship with GTK+ 2.8 (and therefore >Cairo) which might not have been obvious for anybody reading >http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap (since there is only a refere

Re: vino branched

2005-05-19 Thread James Henstridge
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > >>Someone with more perl-fu than me- would it be possible to set up a script >>to watch cvs-commits list and send this kind of mail out automatically, or >>just update a webpage somewhere? Making maintainers do this manually (and >>remember to do it automatically) seems

Re: Disable GDM login Page.

2005-05-02 Thread James Henstridge
Susant Kumar Padhi wrote: > I am looking for how to by pass the GDM Login page by giving the > username and password as parameter. Is it possible do that? Can any > body help me. > Run gdmsetup as root, and set either the "automatic login" or "timed login" preferences. For kiosk-style situations

Re: Default Session in GDM

2005-04-29 Thread James Henstridge
Susant Kumar Padhi wrote: Hi All, I have a Fedora Core2 and gdm-2.6 running. I developed a my own application wich runs as a desktop. But How do I make it as my default session. If session is not selectd at GDM Login then GDM always look for the Gnome-Session other wise satarts a Failsafe sessio

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