Re: Old versions of GNOME [was: Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12]

2005-07-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On 7/22/05, Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems like the Ubuntu folks are coming up with the solutions anyways. > > I (and I expect others) would certainly be displeased if we became > dependent on a proprietary tool to manage our bugs or release process. As > long as it isn't

Re: Old versions of GNOME [was: Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12]

2005-07-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Mark Shuttleworth, during his keynote at GUADEC, gave an awesome demo of > Ubuntu's meta-bug tracker: they maintain pointers for the same bug across > the different bug trackers of different distros, and thus they magically > know when any of them manages to fix the bug. Everyone would save a

Re: vfs, applets, keyring, libgtop broken [was Re: state of the tinder]

2005-07-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/27/05, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:25 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > > Also broken: > > * gnome-vfs, since this commit: > > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/ChangeLog?rev=1.2231&view=markup > > Should be fixed now. Sorry. No problem, thanks for fi

Re: vfs, applets, keyring, libgtop broken [was Re: state of the tinder]

2005-07-27 Thread Tor Lillqvist
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:25 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > Also broken: > * gnome-vfs, since this commit: > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/ChangeLog?rev=1.2231&view=markup Should be fixed now. Sorry. --tml ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list de

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. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_b

Re: Gnome Session Services Framework

2005-07-27 Thread Colin Walters
Mark, thanks for these comments, they're definitely useful. On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 17:16 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > For various reasons I'm not entirely sure it makes sense to use D-BUS > notification: > > - We're not actually interested in using the D-BUS service acquired by >

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

2005-07-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/27/05, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:49 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > Punted to 2.13/2.14 > > * eggcups: this was pushed very late, and partially as a result there > > * productivity/office suite: the discussions about where this would > > I'm guessing gn

vfs, applets, keyring, libgtop broken [was Re: state of the tinder]

2005-07-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 7/27/05, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some things are sort of broken, and because I've been using the > tinderbox box as a liveCD build machine they haven't been caught. > Apologies if this ruins your plans to stay instead and play with HEAD > all day. :) Culprits so far: > > * ORBit

Re: Gnome Session Services Framework

2005-07-27 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hi, The session services stuff uses D-BUS activation in order to start the desktop at login. It works something like: - We request the service be started using StartServiceByName using its D-BUS service name - D-BUS launches the program and at some point the program acquires o

Re: [PATCH] make "Open Location" dialog multihead aware

2005-07-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:18 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > Seems like Metacity ought to have that placement algorithm built in so > nautilus and any other span-multiple-xinerama windows can just work > (after all, Metacity is the one that chooses "center on parent" > already anyway, and appears to a

change an environment variable in a running gnome session

2005-07-27 Thread Fabio Rafael da Rosa
Hi all, I dont know if this is possible, but I wan't to change an environment variable in a gnome session, so the change became visible to gnome without having to restart the gnome session. Is this possible? Thanks all -- Fabio Rafael (f2r) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

state of the tinder

2005-07-27 Thread Luis Villa
Some things are sort of broken, and because I've been using the tinderbox box as a liveCD build machine they haven't been caught. Apologies if this ruins your plans to stay instead and play with HEAD all day. :) Culprits so far: * ORBit2 * gnome-applets xkb stuff The direct committers have been n

Re: Detecting GNOME

2005-07-27 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:02 +0100, ghee teo wrote: >The patch is dead simple [1]. However, its acceptance into gnome-session > may not be that 'simple'. I remember long debates going on here before, > sorry > couldn't find the thread. It was rather inconclusive then. I thought the pr

Re: Detecting GNOME

2005-07-27 Thread ghee teo
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:33 +0100, ghee teo wrote: [1] In JDS, we simply set a atom by the name of "GNOME_SM_DESKTOP" on the root window for legacy apps to ping that the session is GNOME. Though this is not as sophiscated as you suggested, but we do document thi