Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Tromey
Ryan == Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca writes: Ryan I personally think migration is less critical than a lot of people Ryan think. Ryan Here's why (for me at least): Ryan - I often reinstall my distro when the new release comes out [...] Ryan - it never takes me more than a few minutes of

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-14 Thread Tom Tromey
Alberto == Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org writes: Alberto Is there a need to convert user settings? I mean, we're talking Alberto about GNOME 3.0 here, most sensible data is stored via Alberto evolution-data-server, tracker, or other custom storage so the Alberto only difference would be

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-05-15 Thread Tom Tromey
Shaun == Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shaun But plenty of people have been putting UTF-8 string Shaun literals in C code for some time, seemingly without Shaun problems. Yes, it works fine with gcc. You have to make sure you set the execution character set properly, but the default

Re: gnome-open behavior reguarding .desktop files

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Tromey
Kevin == Kevin Kubasik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin Personally, I think that we should offer an API to execute .desktop file Kevin commands somewhere in the libgnome api, but maybe gnome-open isn't the Kevin place to do it? Please, all thoughts and commends welcome. There is an API for this

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Tom Tromey
Sebastian == Sebastian Pölsterl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sebastian I'm posting this here to encourage you to read my Sebastian presentation at Sebastian http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/ and to find Sebastian out what you are expecting from such an application. I've got a few

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Tom Tromey
Havoc == Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Havoc Same for gedit - I think I'd like gedit to just remember window Havoc state for all documents, per-document. I can't imagine ever Havoc setting up gedit and then saving my desktop globally though, Havoc as XSMP supports. Waaay back when

Re: libgnome-applet, GnomeApplet, etc. etc.

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Tromey
Davyd == Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Davyd We also wanted to handle the programatic addition and removal of applets Davyd to allow for hardware hotplugging and possible implement some sort of Davyd interface that allowed for applets to be dragged to and from the desktop Davyd and the

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-29 Thread Tom Tromey
Grzegorz == Grzegorz D±browski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grzegorz I think that writing simple lightweight library (or Grzegorz implement function in glib - Ridlay ;) which does C-like Grzegorz preprocessing will be better solution. The library could be Grzegorz used in some other places