Linux Standard Base Takes on the Desktop

2005-10-18 Thread Alan McGinlay
Hi Guys and Gals Just spotted this news item: The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project, with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA,

Re: Linux Standard Base Takes on the Desktop

2005-10-18 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2005/10/18, Alan McGinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone from gnome been contacted about this? It would seem to me that if they don't work with us then what they are trying to do is utterly pointless. I think there has been multiple mails on different mailing lists discussing this, but even

Re: Linux Standard Base Takes on the Desktop

2005-10-18 Thread Alan McGinlay
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:34:46 +0300 Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/10/18, Alan McGinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone from gnome been contacted about this? It would seem to me that if they don't work with us then what they are trying to do is utterly pointless. I think there

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 11:54 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 17:32 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: Using a smaller CPP and delaying xrdb's execution until everything else is started is the right solution here. You need to run xrdb before gnome-session (re)starts any

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:16 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: I've just sent a patch (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) for using -nocpp where possible. Cool, that will help. I was also trying to run the other xrdb command (which reads ~/.Xresources and all

Re: Linux Standard Base Takes on the Desktop

2005-10-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan McGinlay http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872166,00.asp Has anyone from gnome been contacted about this? It would seem to me that if they don't work with us then what they are trying to do is utterly pointless. I caught up with them at the open LSB plenary during LWE

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread James Henstridge
Rodrigo Moya wrote: I've just sent a patch (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) for using -nocpp where possible. Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a cpp, is this actually worth it? From previous messages, I was under the

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: I've just sent a patch (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) for using -nocpp where possible. Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a cpp, is this actually worth it?

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread James Henstridge
Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: I've just sent a patch (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html) for using -nocpp where possible. Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a cpp,

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-18 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
P� Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:47:45PM -0700, Alan skrev: On a related note, I've seen some issues with the accel key for dialogs ie: in a save dialog with 's' underlined in the word save should mean you can hit 's' and the dialog would act as if you'd hit the save button with mouse or

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:31, Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-10-17 at 13:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi One of the best improvements we've seen while working on speeding up the GNOME startup time has been the removal of the xsettings thing, via xrdb -merge execution. Make xrdb use

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-18 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:25 +0200, Luca Cavalli wrote: I'm imitating gnome-volume-properties and vino-preferences, but a common set of gui directives to achieve a common look and feel among capplets would be really useful. Yep, something else I'd like to take a look at when I (hopefully) get

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Thomas
On 18 Oct, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: ... P.S. I heard some other OS'es only show the shortcut keys for menus after hitting Alt, but since I don't have that other OS, I can't test to make sure. ... In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are

Re: Workspace Switcher Loop?

2005-10-18 Thread Benjamin Kahn
Actually, there is a metacity list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 00:13 +, Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote: There is no metacity list. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Moving Applets (was: Fish in GNOME Panel)

2005-10-18 Thread Chipzz
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:08 +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Davyd Madeley clock panel applets remove e-d-s dep in panel This would stop us from linking the clock in with the panel, No, it wouldn't have any