Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 00:33 +0400, Maxim Udushlivy wrote: > Havoc Pennington wrote: > > I think the best shot at this would be to gather a small group that > > agrees on some audience they want to try and do stuff for, and just > > start doing it; I'm not sure how the overall GNOME boat can be tu

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:17 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > OK... I will am willing to exercise hal-0.5.8 within GARNOME-2.16.x. > Where do I find PolicyKit Suggest to build with --disable-policy-kit. Yes, I know there's a big fat warning but at this point in the game, the only controversi

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
OK... I will am willing to exercise hal-0.5.8 within GARNOME-2.16.x. Where do I find PolicyKit and libvolume_id? -Joseph == On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 21:36 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:49

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/11/06, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was also a very strong sentiment that we should tighten up on > the addition of new dependencies, moving to a must-be-approved-first > rule for adding new dependencies. I think doing such, in combination > with freezing dependencies to s

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi Matthias, On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies, > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild. > > I

Re: external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread Elijah Newren
On 9/11/06, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies, > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild. > > I see that we alread

Re: Showing gnome-keyring passwords in Seahorse [was: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18]

2006-09-11 Thread Nate Nielsen
Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 23:40 +, Nate Nielsen wrote: >> In particular I'd like to modify gnome-keyring-daemon so that there is a >> a 'mode' of accessing items without accessing the secrets themselves, >> and therefore not needing one of those nasty 'this application wa

Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-11 Thread Nate Nielsen
Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 00:55 +, Nate Nielsen wrote: >> The underlying concepts and technologies of gnome-keyring (which really >> should be 'gnome-password') and encryption keys are extremely different. > > There is nothing conceptually that limits gnome-keyring to pa

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. Wa

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Maxim Udushlivy
Havoc Pennington wrote: > I think the best shot at this would be to gather a small group that > agrees on some audience they want to try and do stuff for, and just > start doing it; I'm not sure how the overall GNOME boat can be turned up > front, it's probably not possible. The small group woul

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Étienne Bersac
That would be nice to have a gnome-topaz mailing list for such braindump. Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Totem branched for GNOME 2.16

2006-09-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
Usual "gnome-2-16" branch name. Cheers -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right" - Brian Clough, on dealing with players who disagree with him. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Travis: One thing I'd like to remind people is that typically when a product bumps the major version number, this involves some evolution in the underlying interfaces. I know some of these sorts of issues are being addressed by Project Ridley (e.g. GtkPrint), but it would probably be good to con

Re: Is anyone looking at the accounts list? -- as of now, hopefully

2006-09-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:28:56AM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: > > Étienne Bersac wrote: > > > I submit a request for a SVN Repo and a gnome.org account few weeks ago. > > > Still nothing about both. I would like to avoid using CVS for a >

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Dan Winship wrote: > But as you also said, XSMP is policy-free I meant more to say "policy-free" in ironic quotes ;-) >>> * The "Save current state" checkbox at logout will now >>> say something like "Restart the currently-running >>> applications the next

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Maxim Udushlivy
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Maxim Udushlivy wrote: >> I remember somebody compared Gnome with a car. But the desktop is an >> environment, so it is not a car, it is a parking. The same goes about >> a hammer: desktop environment is a collection of tools. Different >> tasks require different collec

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Winship
Dan Winship wrote: > Havoc Pennington wrote: >> I don't think you're crazy, but can I suggest a good approach might be: >> - start from what the user benefits / scenarios are >> - figure out in a top-down way what API we'd like _apps_ to have >> - then figure out how to implement that or somethi

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Winship
Havoc Pennington wrote: > I don't think you're crazy, but can I suggest a good approach might be: > - start from what the user benefits / scenarios are > - figure out in a top-down way what API we'd like _apps_ to have > - then figure out how to implement that or something like it Well, I would

external dependencies

2006-09-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies, and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild. I see that we already do that for hal, with the hal-0-5-7 id. fontconfig 2.4.0 has

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I know quite a few that do, and I spent a lot of time adding the > feature, and fixing it in Totem. I don't think that removing it would be > a good idea, unless there is a way to recycle that feature into an > application-specific state saving. > What would be wrong fr

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Travis Reitter wrote: > So, adjusting 1. to "Unique, focused, user-centric benefits" (instead of > the too-vague "concepts"/"major features that sound cool"), how do you > (and everyone else) think the plan sounds now? I think the best shot at this would be to gather a small group that agrees on

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Maxim Udushlivy wrote: > I remember somebody compared Gnome with a car. But the desktop is an > environment, so it is not a car, it is a parking. The same goes about a > hammer: desktop environment is a collection of tools. Different tasks > require different collections. The items that you ment

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Bryan Clark
Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:35 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 00:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: >> >>> I do think the XSMP state-saving model is absurd and should be ignored, >>> however, even if XSMP is used for logout notification. >>> >>>

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Maxim Udushlivy
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Travis Reitter wrote: > >> 1. Pick a short list of major concepts to put into Topaz. >> >> We don't need perfect consensus at this stage, but it'd be nice to start >> forming some agreement. Concepts ("superfeatures" across the >> platform/desktop) would be alon

Re: [+gnome] Re: Showing gnome-keyring passwords in Seahorse [was: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18]

2006-09-11 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
På Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Alexander Larsson skrev: > Interesting. However, isn't there a small security value in protecting > just the fact that you have a password stored for a particular target? > And anyway, you need to unlock the keyring at least, because all that > information

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Paolo Borelli
Il giorno lun, 11/09/2006 alle 12.30 +0200, Kjartan Maraas ha scritto: > What is the rationale for not just saving the documents and letting > logout proceed? > Saving means to destroy the data which is currently in the file with the one in the open buffer, so doing it without confirmation is no

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Kjartan Maraas
man, 11,.09.2006 kl. 12.17 +0200, skrev Paolo Borelli: > Il giorno lun, 11/09/2006 alle 10.59 +0100, Ghee Teo ha scritto: > > > In fact, how many GNOME apps do the state-saving correctly (whatever > > > that means)? > > > > > Out of the top of my head, gnome-terminal. It remembers the workin

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Paolo Borelli
Il giorno lun, 11/09/2006 alle 10.59 +0100, Ghee Teo ha scritto: > > In fact, how many GNOME apps do the state-saving correctly (whatever > > that means)? > > > Out of the top of my head, gnome-terminal. It remembers the working > directories of various gnome-terminal. > Other example is sa

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Ghee Teo
Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 00:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > >> I do think the XSMP state-saving model is absurd and should be ignored, >> however, even if XSMP is used for logout notification. >> >> > yeah, I would even completely remove the state saving thing :-) >

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:35 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 00:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > I do think the XSMP state-saving model is absurd and should be ignored, > > however, even if XSMP is used for logout notification. > > > yeah, I would even completely remov

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 00:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > I do think the XSMP state-saving model is absurd and should be ignored, > however, even if XSMP is used for logout notification. > yeah, I would even completely remove the state saving thing :-) In fact, how many GNOME apps do the s

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:57 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > * XSMP does a number of useful session-managey things (logout > notification, logout cancellation, specifying apps that > should be restarted right away if they crash, specifying > commands to run at logout, etc)

Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-11 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 00:55 +, Nate Nielsen wrote: > Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > > På Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:04:09PM +, Nate Nielsen skrev: > >> Key Manager > >> * gnome-keyring integration for GnuPG and OpenSSH > > > > As an outsider I'm wondering: would a merge with gnome-keyring itsel

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-11 Thread Travis Reitter
Hi! On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 02:02 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Travis Reitter wrote: > > 1. Pick a short list of major concepts to put into Topaz. > > > > We don't need perfect consensus at this stage, but it'd be nice to start > > forming some agreement. Concepts ("superfeatures" acro