Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Elijah Newren new...@gmail.com 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

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
2009/1/6 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: 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 could use a DVCS

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: quote who=Elijah Newren 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

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 with

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 applications

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 number of

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-glib, because

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 options

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 lookup with

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 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

2006-10-25 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 haven't yet been standardised

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 inconsistant and

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 metadata types, you want to have relationships between

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 not be able to

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 are

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 provides

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: 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't really buy you much over CVS -- you still

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 if you

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 restricted

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: - if every libgtk app should do something, get that code

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 it to libgail:libatk-bridge. So if we

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 subset of

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 you

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 names are

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 ...). Translations can introduce ambiguities or change

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 the

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 a

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

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. Note

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-20 Thread James Henstridge
Nate Nielsen wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Alexander Larsson 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 very

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: quote who=Alexander Larsson Any grand and glorious plans for 2.16? Not really. Jon Nettleton is working on pam

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 reenter their passphrase for each app (they'd

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 is

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

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 think also

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 would need to

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 version of

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 that make

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 force the registry rebuild. Will that remove the overhead for all users

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 user

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 (or

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: quote who=Dan Winship But it seems to me now that everyone other than me (and possibly Jono) is actually talking about Xgl, and

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 that the latest

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 when everything

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 have at this time. Thanks! Making g-p-m very closely tied to other

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 screen

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 last month than in

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 search

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 as removing libtool from the build process

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 solution,

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-Reply-To

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 identical to the

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 very

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 interfaces since

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

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 the

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. Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a cpp

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 other

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 *needed*? (I like abstractions is not an argument.) Alternatively

Re: Moving to *Avahi* over howl

2005-09-16 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: 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 bugzilla

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 too busy or something, and I don't know what has happened

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: 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

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 if gtk-engines

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

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

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 cflags in their pkg-config files. I've

Re: eggcups (and libgnomecups) for 2.12

2005-07-14 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 perform. 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 may be

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 pressing alt+tab

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 of the

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 module ChangeLog is updated way more frequently than libxslt one, why

Minimum required Python version in JHBuild

2005-06-21 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).

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 party

Re: G2.12 with jhbuild

2005-06-13 Thread James Henstridge
Cdric Marcone wrote: Le lundi 13 juin 2005 19:48 +0200, Cdric Marcone a crit : 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 = 2.3.6 libart-2.0 =

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

2005-06-09 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 reference

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 the

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

Re: Attempt to clean up gconf usage in gnomecc some...

2005-04-21 Thread James Henstridge
Kjartan Maraas wrote: @@ -1107,15 +1113,20 @@ peditor_numeric_range_widget_changed (GC GtkAdjustment *adjustment) { GConfValue *value, *value_wid, *default_value; + GConfClient *client; if (!peditor-p-inited) return; /* We

Re: Creating a TortoiseSVN clone in perl-GTK2.

2005-04-14 Thread James Henstridge
Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, I would like to read some documentation on adding items to the right-click menu on the gnome desktop. I have been to the devel doc site, but there is so much to read, that I have taken the shortcut and asked here. Sorry. ;-) I about to start work with perl-GTK2, to

Re: Panel HEAD vs Rhythmbox CVS - failed to open Places

2005-02-11 Thread James Henstridge
Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 22:57 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: Jan de Groot wrote: Why would you want to disable it? The make install rule would run update-desktop-database $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/applications, which would update the mimeinfo.cache file

Re: Solution suggestion [Was: gtk-engines photographed eating children]

2005-01-25 Thread James Henstridge
Andrew Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:13 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andrew Johnson Smooth has been maintained and for now will continue to be maintained on SF, it is in gtk-engines only too get it out of gnome-themes and gnome-themes-extras not because I want to maintain