Re: GitLab mirror considered harmful

2019-02-04 Thread William Jon McCann via desktop-devel-list
On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 9:55 PM Jan Tojnar via desktop-devel-list wrote: > 3. GitLab does not support any references from gitrevisions(7) other > than commit hash, compare > https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/commit/af34b7c25e39e727f7dbd6e3dae0e7c5fe60f141%5E > and >

Re: Portals and Sandboxing

2014-01-03 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Ikey Doherty michael.i.dohe...@intel.com wrote: Thank you for the clarification. I do believe the GNOME wiki and various sites could do with updating and being more informative. I lose count of how many times I'm sent to broken/dead/deleted links.

Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

2012-10-24 Thread William Jon McCann
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 10:11 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: ... You still haven't answered why it's important to keep ConsoleKit. Because I'm opposing your methods here on *general principle*. I don't care about

Re: Introducing Photos

2012-05-10 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: ... That's not a reason at all, Yorba seems open to work on making Shotwell more GNOME 3 friendly... so those widgets can be shared anyway Therefore, for these reasons, if you look at the gnome-photos tree, it is

Re: Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-30 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 00:37 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : Hi everyone,    As most of you know, we proposed Boxes for 3.4 and from what I can tell, there were no big objections in the end. There was

Re: Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-30 Thread William Jon McCann
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 10:31 +0100, William Jon McCann a écrit : Hi, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 00:37 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread William Jon McCann
Really ought to stay out of this thread but there is one point that is important to address below. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: But again, as I said, if there's no survey on Earth you could trust, just ignore the results. Results by

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-01 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Allan Day wrote: Dave Neary wrote: Presumably you others are still not interested in drawing a few developers and designers into a gnome-design mailing list, separate from the usability list I think it's

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-01 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! On 1 June 2011 12:57, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: Basically, mailing lists don't work for many kinds of productive discussion. Agreed. In my recent discussions with the dudes in

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-01 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi Jon! Are they listening or participating? Transparency and reporting is pretty simple to solve. Publish logs, document (wiki), and blog and you're pretty much there.  Participation and engagement is much harder.

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-18 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 14:09 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : systemd itself has very minimal external dependencies. You need Linux, udev, D-Bus, and that's it. (there are a couple of additional optional deps

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-14 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@gmail.com wrote: - LightDM is a cross-platform solution.  Ubuntu is planning to switch to it this cycle, and other distributions have expressed interest in the project.  By sharing this piece of infrastructure GNOME can spend

Re: New module proposal: LightDM

2011-05-13 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm proposing LightDM [1] as a replacement for GDM.  I started the proposal for this in GNOME 3.0 [2] but due to the young age of the project I thought it better to wait until 3.2 before making a full proposal.  

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

2011-05-12 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2011 23:42, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: Il giorno gio, 12/05/2011 alle 20.45 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov ha scritto: GNOME is not an OS. GNOME is not a distribution. GNOME is a core desktop

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

2011-05-12 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, This thread has clearly jumped the shark but there is one point worth responding to here. (which is a shame because deja dup is really pretty cool. It is too bad the thread was turned on a tangent) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: ... And note,

Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

2011-04-29 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, Some very brief thoughts. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote: In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still

Re: [gnome-session] rename gnome-session-save to gnome-session-quit

2011-02-28 Thread William Jon McCann
is the default behavior, but it's not mentioned and it's unclear what happens by default; --no-prompt doesn't do anything with --power-off). Vincent Le jeudi 24 février 2011, à 22:56 +, William Jon McCann a écrit : commit 8663860ff44b9a5e441e4909a49eee4cfa08378d Author: William Jon McCann jmcc

Re: IRC channels in gnome development

2011-02-07 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:58 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier c...@colliertech.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 01:04 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 19:19 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: Is there a place where

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-04 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:37:33PM +0100, Gendre Sebastien wrote: Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 10:54 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek a écrit : [..] GNOME3 + Compiz = Fail ... or: GNOME3 + Sawfish = Fail [..] I agree

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-29 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Vincent, On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mardi 28 décembre 2010, à 15:20 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit : However, the fallback is meant as a fallback, not as providing gnome-panel and its applets. So I don't see anything wrong with not providing the

Re: gnome-panel gnome-applets?

2010-12-23 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Carlos, On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos carlo...@gnome.org wrote: Excerpts from Frederic Peters's message of jue dic 23 10:22:40 +0100 2010: Hi, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: I am confused, what's the story with gnome-panel and gnome-applets in 3.0? Are they in, are they

Re: GNOME 2.91.1 status

2010-10-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Stef Walter stef-l...@memberwebs.com wrote: On 2010-10-20 11:39, Lucas Rocha wrote: seahorse doesn't build with libnotify 0.7 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632712 What's the replacement in libnotify for attaching a notification to a widget?

Re: splitting up gnome-games

2010-10-05 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: Hi, I'd like to float the idea of splitting up gnome-games upstream into separate git modules.  The main rationale is that downstream, we want separate binary packages; this is most convenient to do if upstream is

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Ryan, On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application

Re: Modulesets Reorganization

2010-06-02 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Lucas, Overall this sounds good to me. Definitely a step in the right direction. ... In summary, this means that the GNOME releases would be composed by the following modulesets:  - Desktop  - Platform  - Extended Platform  - Mobile A few questions about this list. Is Platform a

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-04-01 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org wrote: El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 13:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera escribió: The idea would be to have the appearance cut down to only personalisation (background and screensaver), and leave the icon and control themes

Re: Window titles

2009-11-17 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Calum, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@sun.com wrote: On 14 Nov 2009, at 09:58, Andrew Cowie wrote: So anyone care to put a stake in the ground about what is correct? Well, the HIG advice hasn't really changed over the years:

Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

2009-11-11 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Luca, I'm not sure your evidence supports your conclusion. I agree that changing the font size (basically the scale of the screen) is an important thing. I've written up some thoughts on this here: http://live.gnome.org/Design/DesktopFontPreferences Also, in some cases using a text-only

Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

2009-11-11 Thread William Jon McCann
One small clarification... On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luca, I'm not sure your evidence supports your conclusion. I agree that changing the font size (basically the scale of the screen) is an important thing.  I've written up

Re: Signalling when the desktop is loaded

2009-08-12 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Emmanuele Bassieba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:54 +0100, Neil J Patel wrote: I would love to have Nautilus running in UNR as it handles auto-mounting much better than the launcher can, however it does not have a 'daemon-mode' so it

Re: Application names

2009-08-10 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Vincent Untzvu...@gnome.org wrote: Le samedi 08 août 2009, à 17:51 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit : On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Frederic Petersfpet...@gnome.org wrote: However for compatibility reasons, I have been interested by Colin Walters

Application names

2009-08-08 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey, So, in preparation for GNOME Shell and 3.0 a number of us have been trying to address various inconsistencies in how we name applications. I've just posted a blog about this: http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/08/08/whatchamacallit/ My proposal for 2.28 is: 1. We need to patch the

Re: Application names

2009-08-08 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Frederic Petersfpet...@gnome.org wrote: William Jon McCann wrote: My proposal for 2.28 is: UI Freeze for 2.28 is set to Monday; sure we could grant an exception and rush things, but I'd prefer to wait for the beginning of 2.29, especially as we may want

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-24 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Jason, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jason D. Clintonm...@jasonclinton.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@sun.com wrote: So if it turns out that the GNOME community like the general direction we've suggested for the control center, then sure, I'd

Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

2009-05-19 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Luca, On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: 2009/5/15 William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote: Please, don't try to abuse the system tray for things that should be applets

Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

2009-05-15 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Luis, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote: Toms a écrit : 1) System tray - applets that could end up in system tray, most probably contextually - like, when they are needed or make sense. Or, sometimes per user request in preferences (something like

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

2009-04-30 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Calum, On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@sun.com wrote: On 21 Apr 2009, at 04:34, Travis Watkins wrote: This one at least has been solved in Windows 7 by merging the QuickLaunch area with running applications. A dock would also solve this problem nicely. You'll

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

2009-04-20 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Owen, The main open question for gnome-shell is not how to implement them. It's the user interface question. And when we look at the user interface question I think the label applet is a bit deceptive. We have all sort of different things that are applets, and their only commonality is

Re: Running GNOME in jhbuild session eat all CPU

2009-01-24 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: Il giorno sab, 24/01/2009 alle 14.22 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee ha scritto: 2009-01-24 klockan 14:06 skrev Luca Ferretti: Now, someone has the same issue? And how can I try to investigate it? The only evidence that

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread William Jon McCann
2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:21 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : Please also note that on current trunk the Audio capplet from gnome-control-center and the Volume Control applet from gnome-applets was replaced in favour of new gnome-volume-control

Re: new module proposal: notification-daemon+libnotify

2008-11-10 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Christian, 2008/11/10 Christian Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very critical notifications can be set to have a non-expiring timeout. This would ensure that they stay visible until the user acknowledges them. Some people have also talked about writing a notification backlog for important

gnome-media branched for 2.24

2008-11-03 Thread William Jon McCann
gnome-media branched for 2.24. New volume control going into trunk. Thanks, Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-31 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Calum, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Oct 2008, at 18:36, Karl Lattimer wrote: Gather up data from humble users, performing a specific set of tasks which are challenging enough and enough like real life to build up decent data sets so we

GDM branched for 2.24

2008-10-13 Thread William Jon McCann
2.24 is stable. Development continues on trunk. Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

gnome-session proposal

2008-06-25 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, Dan Winship and Lucas Rocha have done a nice job revamping the gnome-session codebase. It was a meritorious task. You can read about the design here: http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession The new code is much cleaner. Parts of the new design are very good. In particular,

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-25 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Lennart, On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25.06.08 19:07, William Jon McCann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We can still support applications that only know if they should inhibit just in time by emitting a signal when a logout is requested

gnome-screensaver branched

2008-04-29 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, I have branched gnome-screensaver. The stable branch is gnome-2-22 and development continues on trunk. Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Where's the gnome wallpaper gone in E17 with the latest gnome?

2008-04-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, 2008/4/26 The DarkMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Update: I found that after launching nautilus in E17, the gnome wallpaper is setted in background. Nautilus opens a fake desktop window when you opn it (to avoid this you should launch it with nautilus --no-desktop) and a normal browser

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-22 Thread William Jon McCann
2008/4/21 Luca Ferretti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Emmanuele, IMHO the better and faster way to show everyone the Clutter goodnees is provide a Coverflow[1] like[2] plugin for Rhythmbox whitin 4 weeks ;-) That would be awesome. Here's the bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415816

Re: Status of GDM for GNOME 2.22

2008-02-03 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Joe, 2008/2/3 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The status of gvfs for GNOME 2.22 was recently discussed, and it seems good progress is being made on this to reduce regressions, but I have seen no mention of the regressions introduced in GDM 2.21. The move of GDM to D-BUS has

Re: Don't forget the some folks use network access to Gnome

2007-12-09 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Seb, On Dec 7, 2007 7:13 AM, Seb James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 2) I think this is one for the gdm developers or specifically for the gdm theme developers. The window that shows up when you choose Log Out $user or Shut Down always has slightly the wrong options when you are in an XDMCP

Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-27 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Owen, On 9/27/07, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My first reaction to this is cool! But then, I think how much of the time is the desktop actually visible? It seems a bit of a wasteful thing to spend CPU cycles animating something that's entirely obscured by my full-screen

Re: High CPU load from image slideshow screensaver

2007-05-31 Thread William Jon McCann
On 5/29/07, Adam Rosi-Kessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image slideshow screensaver in gnome-screensaver puts such a load on my laptop's CPU that the fan runs constantly and tasks such as music playing with totem become very choppy. Although it's an older laptop, I would hope it wouldn't be

nautilus-cd-burner and gnome-screensaver branched

2007-04-23 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello, I have branched nautilus-cd-burner and gnome-screensaver. The stable branch is gnome-2-18 and development continues on HEAD. No specific plans at the moment. Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: ubuntu's shutdown screen

2007-04-04 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Brian, On 4/4/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Obviously root needs to actually run these commands and I guess the display-manager daemon has been a convenient place for this logic. It might be better to move this functionality into a separate daemon that works with KDE and

Re: Fast User Switch Applet development

2007-02-13 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Calvin, On 2/13/07, Calvin Gaisford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:15 -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: On 12/02/07, Calvin Gaisford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been any discussion on making the Fusa functionality available in other components? I've been playing

Re: slab menu

2007-02-06 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Rodrigo, On 2/6/07, Rodrigo Moya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:42 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: Regarding configuration, I think the slab is in a better position to provide an interface that doesn't require configuration of quick access to the most used tools

Re: slab menu

2007-02-05 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Calum, On 2/5/07, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:02 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: How is it slow to get to things vs a traditional hierarchal menu? My important apps are two clicks away - open menu - click. Hierarachal menus more clicks than that. Don't

Re: slab menu

2007-02-05 Thread William Jon McCann
On 2/5/07, Wouter Bolsterlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007-02-05 klockan 20:42 skrev William Jon McCann: * when you don't know the appropriate category for an application (Evolution is in Internet, right?) Yeah, why don't we put Evolution in both the Office and Internet categories

Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

2006-10-31 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi,On 10/31/06, Étienne Bersac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I fully agree with you. I must point the GSmartMix project which isbased on gstreamer and allow fine mix between app. If nautilus-cd-burnerwas able to simply play a sound at the end to the burn process, it must do that in a consistent

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-20 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Jim,Where should bugs be filed? I don't see a component in gnome bugzilla. I suppose one should be created.Some initial thoughts from just a first look so they may be ignorant and superficial:* Ellipsis is used for items that require input (eg. Log Out...) and for those with not enough space.

gnome-screensaver branched for 2.16

2006-10-16 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello,I have branched gnome-screensaver. The stable branch isgnome-2-16 and development continues on HEAD.Plans include:* Adding a power management baseline timeout * Doing less polling* Try to standardize theme format (bug #354811)* Interacting with ConsoleKit

nautilus-cd-burner branched for 2.16

2006-10-16 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello,I have branched nautilus-cd-burner. The stable branch isgnome-2-16 and development continues on HEAD.Plans include: * Better error reportingJon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

gnome-screensaver branched for 2.14

2006-04-10 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello, I have branched gnome-screensaver. The stable branch is gnome-2-14 and development continues on HEAD. Plans include: * Add refcounting to Inhibit DBUS API (bug #334907) * Removing themes from the list (bug #316462) * Add XEVIE support (bug #337203) *

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-16 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Vincent, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 11:45 -0600, Shaun McCance a écrit : On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:54 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Quoting David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This was moved to gnome-power-manager by Jon, as monitor DPMS control was considered more of

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

2006-02-10 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Davyd, Davyd Madeley wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:27:34PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: A comment about the notification spam: the user only gets 4 notifications for low battery, very low battery and critical battery and one saying I'm doing the low-power action in 10 seconds -- and

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-07 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello Davyd, Davyd Madeley wrote: I see that both Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Core 5 test 2 are shipping with gnome-screensaver now. Having now used both of them, does it seem slow for anyone else? It seems that something has gone astray once or twice and forced me to have to change vt and kill

Re: New modules in 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello Ryan, You have some interesting comments about power management. I too have been thinking about this recently and I have a few questions and comments. Ryan Lortie wrote: [snip] Certainly, at the current time, it appears to be the best offering. However, after discussing this at length

Re: New modules in 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Ryan, I should point out that I can't speak for Richard, or David and these are merely my interpretations of their work. Ryan Lortie wrote: On Wed, 2006-18-01 at 10:32 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: How is a system daemon more secure than a user session daemon? A system daemon runs

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Christopher James Lahey wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:11 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:06 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: * Don't display the Unlock button when show the switch users options This makes sense. Deleted the original email, sorry. I don't understand

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Christopher James Lahey wrote: What does it have if the person doesn't have a face? Chris A bag? No, in fact, the latest version doesn't use an image if the face image is not available. Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Rodney, Rodney Dawes wrote: On my machine, it seems to use a horrendously scaled up version of the image not found icon, albeit, not the one in my icon theme. This is also an ugly thing to show, and is going to show up the majority of the time, as most people do not set faces. It's also

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Shaun, Good comments. I'll reply inline. Shaun McCance wrote: * On https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreenSaver there's the suggestion: ...an OS-X-like dialog shake would save having to print ugly That password was incorrect text. I notice that you have the shake effect, but that you

Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-25 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello, I am pleased to propose gnome-screensaver for inclusion in the GNOME 2.14 Desktop release. gnome-screensaver is a new screensaver that can replace xscreensaver. It is designed to integrate well with the desktop and provide an control interface that is desktop neutral. It simplifies

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-25 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, Xavier Bestel wrote: Just for the record, does it run xscreensaver hacks ? Especially OpenGL ones ? Sure does. More details are in the FAQ: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver_2fFrequentlyAskedQuestions Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-25 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi JP, JP Rosevear wrote: I'm in favour with a couple of notes: 1. I liked the UI for unlocking circa 0.13 much better than the current I made some changes in response to Matthew Paul Thomas' analysis [1]. I don't agree with all of his conclusions but overall it seemed to be less which as

Re: Moving Applets

2005-10-12 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Davyd, Davyd Madeley wrote: Applet Current ProposedNotes -- -- - clock panel applets remove e-d-s dep in panel This has come up a few times now and I still don't really understand it. I think e-d-s is destined to

Re: gnome-power-manager in 2.14, was: new modules for 2.12

2005-07-27 Thread William Jon McCann
Luis Villa wrote: I'm guessing gnome-power-manager[1] and gnome-screensaver fall into the 2.14 time-frame. And fast-user-switcher. I'd personally *love* to see that whole pile land in 2.14. My hope is that we can get a nice DBus interface to GDM going by then.

Re: xscreensaver, any plan do drop it !!

2005-07-08 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi David, David Zeuthen wrote: 1. How do see this being integrated with power management solutions like e.g. the existing gnome-power project and some of the ideas that were discussed at GUADEC [1]? This is certainly the next step. Up until now I have been concentrating mostly on feature

Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

2005-05-27 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Nat, I am very glad to hear about this. The video sounds really interesting. Perhaps we should start compiling all the usability study data on the web site someplace. Nat Friedman wrote: For example, we asked a lady to send mail to a friend. Against all odds, she started Evolution

gnome-screensaver in CVS

2005-04-22 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi, gnome-screensaver is now being maintained in GNOME CVS. There is a preferences tool included: http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/GNOME/Screenshot-Screensaver%20Preferences.png http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/GNOME/Screenshot-Screensaver%20Preferences-1.png To do: * include a

Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.2

2005-04-06 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Bastien, Bastien Nocera wrote: I was wondering, what's the current state of this tool? I tried it out quickly, and the screenies[1] rock :) What's the TODO list, and will you push it to GNOME CVS? The 0.0.2 version had a few problems. There was a race while transferring the keyboard grab to

nautilus-cd-burner branched for 2.10

2005-03-15 Thread William Jon McCann
Hello, I have branched nautilus-cd-burner for GNOME 2.10. The stable branch is gnome-2-10 and development continues on HEAD. Jon ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list