Re: GNOME keyring unlocking

2013-10-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 10 octobre 2013 à 14:26 +0300, p10 a écrit : Thanks for the explanation , so the problem is not trivial . But it still stands - people are setting empty passwords to avoid entering a password every time + the auto-login option becomes practically obsolete when using the keyring. So

Re: En-dash versus em-dash

2012-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 08:49 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy a écrit : On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote: Creating and maintaining an en_US locale which is identical to the C locale apart from its use of UTF-8 would be a huge amount of effort for

Re: Using the Unicode ellipsis (…) instead of three periods

2012-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 03 décembre 2012 à 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…). This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2]. [1]

Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

2012-11-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012 à 20:53 +0100, Raphaël Jacquot a écrit : On 9 nov. 2012, at 16:56, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, last weekend, the release team met and discussed (among other things) the DropOrFixFallbackMode [1] feature. We've come to the

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 17 avril 2012 à 22:47 +0200, Seif Lotfy a écrit : Purpose: Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful DBus API to query and monitor the log. Zeitgeist as such does not have a graphical component, but is intended to

Re: How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 05 février 2012 à 16:56 +0100, Marco a écrit : ∙ The following never works: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true error message: GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other

Re: [gnome-settings-daemon] datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism

2012-01-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 28 janvier 2012 à 12:54 -0500, Colin Walters a écrit : Anyways I don't think we're in violent disagreement here, and what I want to focus on is concrete actions. Vincent, Michael, Milan, as the people who actually contributed code here - are you guys OK with the DBus backend work

Re: File Transfers in Shell Panel

2012-01-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 22 janvier 2012 à 12:56 -0600, Jason Simanek a écrit : If the new transfers design is this: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Transfers that seems to explicitly exclude the use of a file manager. Which is nice and all, but the reality is that file managers

Re: desktop files

2011-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 25 novembre 2011 à 12:54 +, Patrick Welche a écrit : I hope this is the right list... My question is essentially where should desktop files be installed? http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en suggests /usr/share/applications or

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 15:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 09:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished. There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work: - preinstalled or

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

2011-05-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 13:48 +0200, Gendre Sebastien a écrit : System-config-* are not only one: Lirc settings? Boot (Grub+Plymouth) settings, etc. Recently, I read in Phoronix that AMD want to add the support of all these future CPU to the Free (as Freedom) bios/EFI nammed Coreboot. Some

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 13:47 +0200, Michael Terry a écrit : How long to keep backups: Forever or as long as there are storage left. I like the TimeCapsule version with a nice default algorithm that tries to keep as much as possible as long as possible. The collapsing of older backups

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : So, what do you think? The patches for apps should be pretty small, and they really provide much better circulation within your files. And applications that can send out files, could also add a little menu item to send it out

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 00:58 -0400, Erick Pérez a écrit : Finally, I do think this childish behavior is not getting anything useful for no-one of us. If the spirit of the Gnome Team, is: 'Bring some code/mockups, then we will judge' Ok. Mockups would help understanding your idea, but code isn't

Re: Plugins, modules and extensions

2011-05-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 17:13 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : So I'd imagine something simple as a gzipped tarball with a custom extension (gsx == GNOME Shell extension?) which is distributed on addons.gnome.org - then we can have a dedicated app (Desktop Extension Manager?) registered as MIME

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 23:46 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : But this approach only goes so far: there's eventually going to be a point where you'll need a newer polkit or networkmanager version, and whoops, those need to run those as root. That said, I think jhbuild is a convenient way of

Re: Gnome3 session and gnome shell crash on sparc64: FreeBSD 9_Current

2011-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 15:52 -0400, Super Bisquit a écrit : gnome-session: http://slexy.org/view/s20L2lzAD0 gnome-shell: http://slexy.org/view/s21z3rtwzu Compiler runs with default values. Two UltraSPARCIII 750MHz cpus. Thanks for the report, but please use Bugzilla to report crashes.

Re: Online Accounts panel for 3.2

2011-04-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 09:08 -0400, David Zeuthen a écrit : - a daemon, goad, that implements the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts interface on a well-known object /org/gnome/OnlineAccounts and owns the well-known name org.gnome.OnlineAccounts (all this is on the session bus).

Re: Fix gsettings path to use /org/gnome instead /apps

2011-03-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On jeu., 2011-03-24 at 23:41 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote: Flash news from release team to our all brave developers. A member of release team known as *cough*Luca Ferretti*cough* was sure gsettings PATHs and gsettings IDs were the same, so he was also sure all GNOME 3 core apps were using the

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

2011-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 10:29 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : It should be simple to enhance GDM to detect when OpenGL is not available, and avoid showing session-types that require it when it cannot be used. A general interface could eventually be implemented to support this, but it might

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 10:54 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek a écrit : Ever thought, that the attitude of the people above (especially Emanuelles arrogant we allow you to choose another DE, that's the freedom we leave to you) might stop possible contributors from doing so? And: if

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 11:11 +, Sergey Udaltsov a écrit : From X11 POV gnome-shell is just an app. Why should it depend so heavily on features of some particular wm? Maybe because it's using Clutter, and no WM other than Mutter allows displaying windows as Clutter actors? The Shell isn't

Re: Can you help me to merge your avatars?

2010-11-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 15:00 +0100, Mathieu Goeminne a écrit : Hello there, First of all, thanks for your work! I send you a mail because I asked a question on the Brasero IRC chat which said to ask it to you. I'm Mathieu Goeminne, a phd student (at the UMONS, Belgium) and I'm

Re: GSettings best practice

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 07 novembre 2010 à 10:57 -0500, Ryan Lortie a écrit : Hi everyone, We were sitting around at the Boston summit today (me, vuntz, tedg, and pbor via IRC) noticing that we have a mix of people using /apps/gedit/ sort of paths and /org/gnome/evince/ sort of paths in GSettings. We

Re: GNOME 3 external dependency proposal (accounts service)

2010-10-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 19:17 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:07 -0400, Ray Strode wrote: Hi guys, Right now gnome-shell uses a cut-and-paste version of some code from GDM for showing its user switch applet (and also its login dialog). That code isn't very

Re: package dependencies

2010-10-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 22:57 -0400, Kevin McKinney a écrit : Hi Developers, I am attempting to compile the source code of a package that is looking for an old version of a dependency. The package is looking for “hal 0.5.10”; however, I have “hal 0.5.14” installed on my system. Can

Re: package dependencies

2010-10-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 10 octobre 2010 à 16:12 -0400, Kevin McKinney a écrit : Then, you can to grab David Zeuthen (davidz on IRC) to know what he thinks, since he's the guy who wrote this application and did the HAL to udev move. Do you know what channel he is on? I have recently tried to email him

Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

2010-10-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 08:30 -0400, Michael Terry a écrit : On 7 October 2010 07:57, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: What about Launchpad? I think if we want to integrate which other hosting possibilities we definitely need a working i18n-solution with Transiflex and Launchpad

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the original authors of the program itself; in this case, the Debian developer applying distribution

Bumping external dep on system-tools-backends

2010-08-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi! I'd like to raise our external dependency on system-tools-backends from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1, which I'd like to release this week if approved. This is required by the gnome-system-tools to get a more consistent handling of permissions when changing a user's UID or home directory path. The GUI

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

2010-07-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 03 juillet 2010 à 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch a écrit : Hi; I think we should use the opportunity of converting to gsettings to redesign the desktop schemas, not just do a 1:1 translation from gconf. Let me make some remarks about the gsettings desktop schemas as they right

Re: GSettings migration status

2010-07-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 02:24 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Here we go: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~vuntz/gsettings-desktop-schemas/ I'd appreciate if people can take a quick look. If everything is okay, I'll push that to git.gnome.org in a proper repository. Right now, it contains

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

2010-06-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 10:43 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : seems the situation has changed, and GTK3 will be available in Universe, but not on the CD, and all apps are going to be linked against GTK2 But is it very likely that Ubuntu CD will contain applications that still require GTK+2? If

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 19:53 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso a écrit : Moving bindings modules to the Desktop moduleset won't make them less second-class citizens as long as API that is not bindable without resorting to language-specific glue code keeps being added to Platform. Examples of this

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 02 juin 2010 à 22:08 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen a écrit : snip My proposal is to let us inspire by the Apache Incubator idea[1], making app inclusion a two stage process. Mature in the Gnome Incubator and then when the project is mature and well maintained it gets the honour

GSettings schema paths: time to do some cleaning?

2010-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi! I was wondering what kind of schema paths should adopt during the migration to GSettings. Old GConf paths feel really lame, since we basically put everything into /apps, with a few general settings going to /desktop. Only /system really makes sense. This reminds people of the horrid Windows

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2010-05-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 03 mai 2010 à 00:37 +0200, Seif Lotfy a écrit : snip So in case Zeitgeist can not be a GNOME module because of its development infrastructure, we hereby withdraw our proposal of Zeitgeist being a GNOME module and propose it as an external dependency for GNOME Activity Journal, so it

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 10 avril 2010 à 09:10 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit : Hi! There are two basic approaches here - one is to avoid storing things on the Desktop. Instead of seeing the Desktop as a separate location in the file selector, you'd have a checkbox: [ ] Pin to Desktop

Re: Label in tray = P in the A

2010-03-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 14:17 +, Sergey Udaltsov a écrit : Translated. Typically, 3 letters (well, at least that's my recommendation as maintainer of xkeyboard-config). Can't you fit these letters in a square, as small as it may be? I don't see any other solution to your problem.

Re: Label in tray = P in the A

2010-03-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 14:22 +, Sergey Udaltsov a écrit : I can fit indeed. The only thing is that the resulting font would be different from the font used in the menu. I do not see any other solution either, to be true... Yeah, that's really a hack. Hope we can get something nicer

Raising external dependency on System Tools Backends

2010-01-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hello, fans of desktops and system tools! The upcoming GNOME System Tools and liboobs 2.29.2 depend on the System Tools Backends 2.9.0 now, which are being developed almost as a part of GNOME since we are the only client application. OK to raise the dependency on the wiki? I'd also need

Re: So.... Who's redoing their UI for 2.30/3.0?

2009-09-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Since there are undoubtedly countless lists I'm not on Anyone else making major UI changes? :-) In the gnome-system-tools, we're planning to redesign users-admin GUI for 2.30. I'd be happy to fix the problems you may find. You can see the new UI on our

Re: [Freeze break request] gnome-system-tools broken user creation

2009-09-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 19 septembre 2009 à 14:51 +0200, Andre Klapper a écrit : Hi Milan, Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 14:02 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: The fix I've committed to master is a one-liner with a very low risk since it only changes the uid variable to user_uid, since it's what

[Freeze break request] gnome-system-tools broken user creation

2009-09-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
17 00:00:00 2001 From: Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.fr Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:45:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix checking whether an UID is free A mistake in variables could prevent user creation from working at all. We were comparing UIDs with an uninitialized int, leading to strange

Re: Bumping/Dropping the PolicyKit external dep

2009-08-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Frederic Peters wrote: - gnome-system-tools still depends on the old version, and I don't see it listed in the Fedora feature page As of 2.27.3, released today, the gnome-system-tools use PolicyKit1 (well, actually, polkit-gtk-1). They require the system-tools-backends 2.8 or above for that.

Re: Applets? [was Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0]

2009-04-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 16:10 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : I do have a guess what could be done. Firstly, abolish applets as things which must be run differently from other applications; the user should not Ever see the word applet again. Enhance running applications and how they connect

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Alberto Ruiz wrote: What is Pulse? What is Mallard? How can they help? I've been thinking how hard would it be to have a very basic webkit based editor that would convert the html it generates into docbook? Really, good documentation writers are most likely people with

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Alberto Ruiz wrote: What is Pulse? What is Mallard? How can they help? I've been thinking how hard would it be to have a very basic webkit based editor that would convert the html it generates into docbook? Really, good documentation writers are most likely people with

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Alberto Ruiz wrote: What is Pulse? What is Mallard? How can they help? I've been thinking how hard would it be to have a very basic webkit based editor that would convert the html it generates into docbook? Really, good documentation writers are most likely people with

Re: Re: Password-less login with gnome-system-tools

2008-06-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: It would help if you file a bug, so that the relevant people will be notified and your patch does not go unnoticed. Good idea. I've just updated bug 414852 [1], adding comments and my patch. But I suspect it will soon be forgotten if nobody reviews the

Password-less login with gnome-system-tools

2008-06-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
A month ago, I wrote [1] to the gnome-system-tools list proposing to implement a nice feature: password-less connections via GDM and gnome-screensaver (see the original message for details and explanations). I got a quick answer from Carlos Garnacho, the g-s-t maintainer, giving me a hint to