Re: Feature proposal: Information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures

2011-10-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
is not dasher back in the modulesets; it is dasher’s functionality integrated right into the shell. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: Splitting up a library without breaking ABI?

2011-08-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
instead. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
application design, instead of making your own interfaces and insulting people when they start complaining as they discover the disaster. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
in the installer. A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished. Having to run things after it has booted would be a jump 5 years backwards. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
. It’s a hindrance, and it needlessly splits the installation process in two. It feels to me like you want to replace firstboot by a graphical thingy and put a GNOME label on a Red Hat-specific program. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
care while designing the interfaces, and checking how they would be ported to other OSes, even without actually doing the job. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 16:18 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : On Wed, 18.05.11 15:49, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: I don’t have anything against requiring systemd, since it is definitely the best init system out there currently, but the Linux dependency is an absolute

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
? Isn’t it already the purpose of PackageKit? SCNR, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
a service for systemd. So we’re stuck, at best, with using only the lowest common denominator between init systems. In the end, this behavior is not just making the life of porters impossible; it is making harder to actually embrace your software. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
to get the Debian changes to a minimum, so it is certainly feasible. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
for these extra settings. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: 3.2: gjs/seed

2011-04-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
at runtime when there are API mismatchs. This is a ball and chain we’ve been pulling since the pygtk 1.x vs. pygtk 2.x times, and it is still here with GI. There should be a way to specify the API version required when you import the module, and it should even be mandatory. -- .''`. Josselin

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
at all with the gnome-tweak-tool idea. Either the setting can be changed for regular use, and it should be in the control center, either it should not. The cr*ptool is only useful for a minority of users who will have the idea to launch it. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you

Re: gnome 3

2011-04-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
that you should develop hardware, not software. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
along with the tarballs. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libpanel-applet-3 and gtk 2

2011-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 février 2011 à 23:11 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : The same question is for Bonobo applets. Will they still be supported? Not excessively hard to do so, but not being actively worked on right now. I'm not sure it's worth investing time in there, since the number of applets

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

2011-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
- not having the final design or much code for this.) Is it really necessary? wouldn’t it be simpler to let the user choose in GDM, provided the packages necessary for fallback mode are installed? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed

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

2011-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 14:00 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit : On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Is it really necessary? wouldn’t it be simpler to let the user choose in GDM, provided the packages necessary for fallback mode are installed? There are multiple ways

Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell

2011-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
. Last time I tried, Mutter was just insanely slow on that hardware. I should probably try again with a more recent Clutter version, but this is my main desktop. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
want it to be about choice. It’s always the same people who want it to be about choice. And generally, it’s not those having to do user support and/or fix bugs. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
or a stripped down session, but as a full-fledged alternative to the GNOME 3 shell, that you can choose from GDM once installed. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
afraid I don’t run gnome-shell every day, since I have the - probably selfish - feeling that I have more valuable things to do than wondering how it would look if the animations were smooth. Sorry for polluting this thread. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 16:53 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos a écrit : Is the GNOME 3 panel compatible with the GNOME 2 applets? There's no gnome 3 panel, gnome-panel hasn't been ported to gtk3 yet, there's a branch but it's outdated and it still doesn't work. That’s good then. But does

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 00:54 -0800, Sandy Armstrong a écrit : You may lose features in 3.0 *with* gnome-shell, and you may lose even more features in 3.0 *without* gnome-shell. These features will take time to return in 3.2, 3.4, etc. Folks who don't want to lose features like this

Re: Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 13:02 +, Rui Tiago Cação Matos a écrit : What you want is not Gnome 3 then. You want to continue using Gnome 2 and there's no one preventing you from doing that. Is the GNOME 3 panel compatible with the GNOME 2 applets? If so, that’s fine. We distributors can

Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell

2010-12-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
virtualization solution does it correctly. Now what? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell

2010-12-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
hacks to cope with the absence of accelerated offscreen rendering support on Linux. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description

Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell

2010-12-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
* more pain. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2010-10-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2010-10-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 octobre 2010 à 01:17 -0400, Ray Strode a écrit : Using GNOME session / g-s-d /etc is one of GDMs main features. The point is for there to be consistent experience on the login screen and in the session. That, I fully agree with. This is a major feature of GDM, that makes

Re: gnome2 and gnome3: strategy of coexisting

2010-10-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
already had it with gnome-session 2.30. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

2010-10-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
in an incompatible way) in the extended platform, you need to ensure that all applications work consistently with it. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

2010-10-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 09:25 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : The API/ABI Stable Platfom works in the exact same way as the GNOME 2.x moduleset, but it can also include dbus services that guarantee stability of their dbus interfaces. I’m thrilled to finally see guaranteed ABI

Re: splitting up gnome-games

2010-10-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 16:39 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@ubuntu.com wrote: Can't you just create several binary packages out of one source package? Of course. But it's a maintenance pain to do so and helps perpetuate

Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
pretty sure it could also teach people a thing or two about auto-tools. For the packager’s needs, the NEWS file is enough. For everything else, there’s the repository. I’m more worried about legal issues. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you

Re: Request for GNOME 2.32: Metacity 2.30.2 breaks majority of themes (patch)

2010-09-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-08-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 juin 2010 à 11:28 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On 06/15/2010 11:03 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: However please correct me if I'm wrong. You are not wrong, but off point. What I'm saying is that (unlike what Josselin said) symbol versioning doesn't fix any problem in gtk+.

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-08-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 03 août 2010 à 19:17 +0200, Xan Lopez a écrit : On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: We talked about it today on #debian-devel, and it turns out there is a very serious problem that is fixed by symbol versioning in GTK+. $ objdump -p /usr/lib

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: How to control desktop files

2010-07-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
be needed for gnome-session to disable some of the startup files. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Libtool versioning made easy (was Re: Converting libraries andpluginsto use gtk3

2010-07-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 à 11:35 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : However, do the libraries that break ABI all the time, really bump their major so-version with every break? They don’t, and this breaks some systems. Any initiative that reduces the amount of such breakage is welcome. This is

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
on whether it is built against GTK+ 2.x or 3.x. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you eat pasta without sauce, it is nothing `- short of communism.” -- Marie ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 juin 2010 à 07:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 23:17 +0200, Andy Wingo a écrit : People can do what they like of course, and I recall back when GStreamer used to compile against

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
examples that are parallel installable and use symbol versioning in the way that was proposed on this list? For example there’s libpng, and libjpeg is underway. But of course this won’t solve cases of passing a libpng structure from a higher-level library to another one. -- .''`. Josselin

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
added earlier. For example I would be worried to have pygtk expose the same interface for 3.0 and 2.0, like it used to do at the time of the 1.2 → 2.0 transition. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you eat pasta without sauce, it is nothing `- short of communism.” -- Marie

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
in the official modulesets. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
. The fact that we can (and will) make decisions will not magically bring the same amount of resources into supporting them without upstream backing us. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: Versioned symbols for 3.0?

2010-05-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
it is very likely to happen anyway - for stuff using Gdk and Gdk_pixbuf, or for some plugins. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
:) And before you ask: yes, I will file bugs about the menu’s usability. But first I need a driver that gets it to work. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
for a very long time, unless we want to provide two radically different user experiences. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `-[…] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description

Re: Reminder : do NOT hardcode deprecation flags in tarball / new tarballs NEEDED

2010-03-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
pass a specific option. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a signed contact.” -- Jörg Schilling ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org

Re: Platform for Developer Documentation

2010-03-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
, but currently it is the way to go. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Platform for Developer Documentation

2010-03-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
encourage you to have a look behind and wonder whether new technologies were actually successful. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une

Re: New propossed GnomeGoal: Modernize your autotools configuration

2010-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
disappointed to see that. Packages without AM_MAINTAINER_MODE will break erratically when we introduce patches downstream, so the only thing it achieves is making things harder for us. Instead I’d like to see *all* modules use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable]). -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
kind. And ironically, this is the kind of nostalgia that makes life harder for people who administer large environments. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling

Re: libxklavier: version bump to 5.0

2010-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “You did never write something helpful `- besides your trolling” -- Jörg Schilling ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
. And 5-6 years before being able to get completely rid of it. This plan is clearly less work right now, but it means more maintenance work in the long term. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
) or on developers (by letting them convert data themselves). Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Answering why gnome-shell might not work for me (was Re: What does gnome-shell give us?)

2009-10-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 octobre 2009 à 00:43 +0100, Dean Sas a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote: The real killer for me is the dynamic application menu (or list of applications, or whatever it is called). I’ve always hated gnome-main-menu, and I don’t think I will like this more. Having

Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

2009-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
(rhythmbox, banshee) I also like to have only one browser window, but I guess this is where taste starts to matter. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description

Re: Answering why gnome-shell might not work for me (was Re: What does gnome-shell give us?)

2009-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
clicks and 3 mouse movements, and they are always the same. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement

Packages with no changelogs

2009-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
this is in violation of the licensing terms. It would be nice if maintainers could add changelog generation in all such modules – preferably one that doesn’t generate megabyte-large changelogs. Thanks, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you

Re: Packages with no changelogs

2009-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
]. And generally I read the NEWS, but often I need more than that, and an appropriate ChangeLog is required. Furthermore, NEWS doesn’t comply with the GPL, which requires at least the modification dates. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English

GNOME Shell and Seed

2009-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, has there been any progress on porting gnome-shell to using seed instead of gjs? It sounds kind of silly to use two JavaScript engines, and to reintroduce a dependency on Gecko after having finally managed to get rid of it. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend

Re: yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
in Debian for long. Of course, we are ready OTOH to include patches improving a11y in webkit and related packages. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
in the desktop. If only 3 of all possible Tracker uses were implemented in existing desktop applications, we would be able to clearly tell whether it is worth including. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future

Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

2009-07-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
. Using only ALSA (or a sound system with similar capabilities such as OSSv4) is a dead-end. To do things like that with Linux, you’ve always needed JACK until now. And if we want to cover all uses cases JACK covers, PA will end up just reimplementing JACK. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

2009-07-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
. And that’s not specific to Solaris. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: GNOME Showstopper Review

2009-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
when it is restarted. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Location of autostart files

2009-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
to split out translations from these files. There are technical challenges, but it also looks like a good thing to do. This leaves them in /etc, but it is much less problematic. Thoughts anyone? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English

Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

2009-05-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
it in its binary package. But, code-wise, spidermonkey is just a smallish standalone library, is the point. Actually, it also depends on libnspr. Currently evolution-data-server already uses it, but it looks like the dependency is optional. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I

Re: Proposing libgdata as a new desktop module

2009-05-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
on other servers. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Proposing libgdata as a new desktop module

2009-05-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
services using the API? How is this different from swfdec? Flash is a technology used on hundreds of thousands web sites, with several free software implementations available on the server side. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you

Re: new dependencies in gvfs

2009-05-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
dependencies and upgrades. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: dconf

2009-04-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 15:15 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Just a stupid question... Why should we switch to GSettings? Ie, what does it bring us that we can't do with gconf? So far, I heard a performance argument. Anything else? Getting rid of the ORBit dependency? (if GSettings goes

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

2009-04-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 04 avril 2009 à 15:33 +0200, Dodji Seketeli a écrit : Then why not just run the current metacity + gnome applet combinations of today on that hardware ? Assuming metacity + current gnome applets are not going to vanish all of a sudden. Of course, that would result in more work

Re: dconf

2009-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 12:15 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : Behdad Esfahbod wrote: But that still doesn't solve the problem of using the same key from two totally different applications, which is not quite uncommon these days. Say, font size, colors, default applications, etc. How does

Re: GNOME 3.0 Schedule draft; Streamlining of the Platform.

2009-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 09:48 -0400, Havoc Pennington a écrit : We learned, with the GIO transition, that porting lots of applications isn't fun, and is something which takes much time to be completed project-wide. As GConf is probably even more widely used than gnome-vfs was, porting

Re: dconf

2009-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 09:40 +0100, Rob Taylor a écrit : - gnome-termial will launch, try to connect to the session bus. - as the bus isn't available libdbus will launch dbus-launch, which will start a new session bus daemon for the 'root' user. This is the part that doesn’t happen.

Re: dconf

2009-04-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 15:25 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : The concept of mandatory keys is actually being cribbed from the way that KDE does it more or less. ie: you have an ordering of databases. The user one being on one extreme end and the distro default or whatever being on the

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

2009-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 31 mars 2009 à 14:10 -0400, Owen Taylor a écrit : I just don't think it makes sense to code GNOME Shell to the limitations of other pieces of the software stack. The effort to fix the other pieces of the stack - to create free software ways of doing thin clients with a composited

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

2009-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 15:20 -0500, Ted Gould a écrit : Swappable Window Managers isn't important. Being able to have graceful degradation down to non-composited environments is. I totally agree with this. There is way too much hardware for which acceleration is not supported under Linux,

Re: bug-buddy integration

2009-03-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 11 mars 2009 à 19:42 -0400, Luis Villa a écrit : - capture more complete distro and component revision information. This is pretty complete in modern versions of bug-buddy, I believe. Clearly not. Compared to reportbug, which brings information about kernel revision, APT

Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

2009-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 23:10 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : Which is why putting this in gnome-python-extras is a good solution: this will still be available if it's needed, but it won't be part of GNOME (since nothing in GNOME depends on it anymore). From the downstream POV, this only

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 15:21 +, Alexander Larsson a écrit : However, I do agree that it is a bit bad that you can be a target of an attack like this without really being able to realize it. So, my current plan is two-fold: 1) Only detect desktop files with .desktop extension. I.e.

Re: BugBuddy uselessness

2009-02-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 12 février 2009 à 00:18 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit : I agree with dropping crash.g.o but I'd rather see app like apport replacing bug-buddy. If there are no debug symbols, let the downstream handle it (in case of PLD that would mean report a bug on Launchpad, some other distro

Re: The future of the gstreamer volume-control applet.

2009-01-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 27 janvier 2009 à 15:53 +1300, Callum McKenzie a écrit : Three weeks ago I removed the gstreamer-based volume-control applet from the gnome-applets package at the request of the gnome-media crew. I then sat on the sidelines to see how the drama would play out. Now that the dust seems

Re: New module decisions for 2.26

2009-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 janvier 2009 à 19:20 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : pulseaudio (external dependency) Could you please make it clear whether it is acceptable to have a dependency on libpulse (which is fine), or whether modules can require a running instance of pulseaudio (which is not) ? There

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 19:30 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : Feel free to maintain a separate module with the old code... This is not an option. As downstream maintainers we will *have* to maintain the old code. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your

Re: Dependency bump for GGZ

2009-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 18 janvier 2009 à 14:52 -0600, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: Gnome Games has bumped the GGZ dependency from 0.0.14 to 0.99.5 due to this library breaking API. It appears that no distro. (at least Debian

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 11:21 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the applet, let's use

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should) Again, this cannot be a distribution choice! We can ship PA by default and make everything possible to get the best of it, but

Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

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

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 janvier 2009 à 12:55 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : If the two applets don’t share the basic UI (one panel applet and one notification icon), that’s a bigger problem. I guess we could always ship the GStreamer one and start the PA one only if PA is running, but that’s not very

Re: Brasero improvements over the 2.26 release cycle

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

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 20:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Oh right, so we have to choose between supporting only PA and screw other users, or not benefit from PA at all. What a choice. Uh? You can ship both if you wish and pass the decision what to use to the user. I mean, that

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 15:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : Can you explain me how removing IEC958 support (to only talk of the example on the top of my head) is a progression? Ah, maybe I finally get to learn what that mysterious checkbox labeled IEC958 was supposed to do.

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