Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Sven Herzberg
Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally replaces the

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jaap Haitsma
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good analogy,

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : Hi list What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? Use normal X window management protocol to handle applets (à la system tray), that would be the modern way of launching several remote xload to watch a bunch of

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 24/09/2007 am 00:48, ysgrifennodd Jason D. Clinton: On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 23/09/2007 am 19:54, ysgrifennodd Travis Reitter: My main concerns right now are libempathy(-gtk)'s API stability and documentation. The API in svn trunk has changed since the last release (0.12), and (as Björn points out) the documentation is basically non-existent. Xavier, could you

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:03 +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote: A question about external dependencies: which Telepathy components would be blessed external dependencies? I'm tempted to say none, just make the packages required at build time external dependencies. Everyone would build gabble and so

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 21:54 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On 9/23/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Xavier On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: Currently GNOME has no IM program at all, Ekiga does only voice and

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 24/09/2007 am 00:12, ysgrifennodd Alex Jones: We have legacy transports that provide a basic level of support, but it will always be a balancing act, much like the reverse-engineering work in Telepathy/Farsight. Pissing away free development hours chasing a moving target wild geese just so

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Robert McQueen
Dodji Seketeli wrote: As I understand it, libempathy is a set of reusable widgets and leverages on the telepathy framework. That implies that nothing should prevent Ekiga from using libempathy/telepathy at some point in the future when it is stable and and has the necessary features.

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Alex Jones wrote: ... What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for now? I think that unifying the concept of applets and more heavyweight widgets might be beneficial, unless

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in that analogy is that the thousands and thousands of man-hours spent on Gecko are reused in the Gnome-ification called Epiphany. As Empathy is proposed, all the work in protocol implementation that has come before

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly disagree, Empathy do NOT reimplement the wheel! Empathy is not just an IM client like all others, it's an IM framework and is the only project that makes possible for

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Damien Sandras
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 10:54 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in that analogy is that the thousands and thousands of man-hours spent on Gecko are reused in the Gnome-ification called Epiphany. As Empathy is

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Mikael Hallendal
24 sep 2007 kl. 10.54 skrev Ali Sabil: Hi, So I planned to reply to this thread later today but this kind of mud slinging forced me to do so earlier (will try to reply on the subject at hand later though). On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The critical difference in

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Felipe Contreras
On 9/24/07, Claudio Saavedra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:10 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: * It appears to be a fork of Gossip and intended to replace Gossip. The Gossip author has stated that Gossip is not dead. Gossip has telepathy support... * It appears to want

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
I guess you do not know what ICE is ? Do you ? Last time I checked ICE it was about finding a a quite good routing path (not always the best) between two endpoints for UDP packets. Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here.

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Damien Sandras
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here. Correct me if I am wrong, but STUN is generally about finding your external IP address, and determining the type of NAT

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Robert McQueen
Jason D. Clinton wrote: I've been diving deeper in to the code involved here and the more I see the more I dislike. Xavier, it seems that you implemented gossip-telepathy and then forked Gossip to create Empathy? Can you provide some history for us please? What is going on here? Various

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ali Sabil
On 9/24/07, Damien Sandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit : Then can you explain us how ICE can help when STUN does not ? I would like to see your argumentation here. Correct me if I am wrong, but STUN is generally about finding

Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

2007-09-24 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, I vote for. I'm also wondering how much extra code this will require for software to use this. Regards, Étienne. -- E Ultreïa ! ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Alex: Thanks for sending out this call for input. :-) Being able to reliably interact with the gnome-panel and its applets via the keyboard alone would be a major boost to its usability. Thanks again! Will On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: Hi list What do we want

Tomboy 0.10 Planning Meeting Tomorrow @ 13:00 PST

2007-09-24 Thread Boyd Timothy
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Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:17 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:46 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: what about IRC? Would we need to have xchat around if using empathy? As you say, having all those apps not share anything but the network cable is a pain for users, so I'm all for having a single backend to manage messaging, included IRC.

Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on gvfs and gio for a while, and its starting to reach some minimal level of maturity. As long as there is consensus on a path from gnome-vfs to gio+gvfs, I would like to see this in 2.22. Which module are you proposing?

Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

2007-09-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 10:37 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On 9/24/07, Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on gvfs and gio for a while, and its starting to reach some minimal level of maturity. As long as there is consensus on a path from gnome-vfs to gio+gvfs, I

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:46 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:17 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:48 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between panel applets. Some applets do something on a single click, others don't, and there's no

New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. David and I have done some further work on it to support timezone setting and weather information, the current status of which you can see here:

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, That's my first mail to this flamewar, i vote for inclusion of empathy. That really shouldn't be a blocker. Empathy does not aim to replace xchat-gnome (yet). This discussion is only about empathy inclusion at all. Yet it is possible to connect to IRC using telepathy, but empathy is far

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Jones
Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a clock? Anyone have any more use cases? On Mon,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Lapo Calamandrei
Nice stuff, it may need some graphic love tho, any particular reason why the clock graphics are 50x50 and 36x36? It would be better to have them 48x48 and 32x32 as our icons. 2007/9/24, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/9/24, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a clock?

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. Why not include this in the existing gnome-panel module and avoid having two competing clock

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. Why not include this in the existing

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read my mail carefully (merge), that is exactly what is being proposed here. Two clock applets makes no sense at all, which is why we did not ship the intlclock in F8. Sorry, I thought you were asking for module proposal acceptance

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 12:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. David and I have done some further work on it to support timezone

Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 10:46 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : So, does it make sense to add gio (standalone or in an earlier glib release) and gvfs to the Gnome 2.22 desktop module set? If there's no glib release with gio for 2.22, I think it makes a lot of sense to include gio and

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : Hi list What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for now? I think that unifying the concept of applets and more heavyweight

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Willie, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 10:01 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Hi Alex: Thanks for sending out this call for input. :-) Being able to reliably interact with the gnome-panel and its applets via the keyboard alone would be a major boost to its usability. Care to elaborate

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 17:14 +0100, Calum Benson a écrit : On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:48 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between panel applets. Some

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 19:49 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:44 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Btw, I'd love if you could organize all the feedback on a wiki page so it'll be easy to look at the list of requirements in the future. Yeah, I plan to do this

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi, On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:44 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : Hi list What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for now? I

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing this a few weeks ago and he'll work on getting the two merged. My preference is to use the current backend code, and import the intltool UI in the clock. I don't think it will be really hard,

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Vincent: Thanks for asking! We generally try to make sure bugs are filed so there are no surprises. I did a quick bugzilla search and came across the following. Some are gnome-applets related, but I think there might be some opportunity in gnome-panel to help them.

Proposing Gimmie applet for 2.22 (was GNOME Panel++)

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Graveley
Hi, The Gimmie applet has been around for some time. Gimmie is a tab-like replacement for the main Panel menubar, providing logical access to the concepts of the desktop[1]. For more information, see the Gimmie homepage at http://beatniksoftware.com/gimmie. Gimmie is stored in GNOME SVN, and

Re: Proposing Gimmie applet for 2.22 (was GNOME Panel++)

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Kubasik
A quick $0.02: I have been using Gimmie on and off for quite some time now (on and off since its initial checkin) and have found it to be a significant step up in terms of a UI over the current Gnome default. The biggest issues have been with crashers (generally with new/fickle features, all of

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey! On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing this a few weeks ago and he'll work on getting the two merged. My preference is to use the current backend code, and import the intltool

Re: Mercurial - Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-24 Thread Marco Barisione
Il giorno dom, 23/09/2007 alle 20.31 +0300, Kalle Vahlman ha scritto: Sorry, but I did get lost while trying Mercurial just now. I can't understand why I need to merge something that I just committed. I mean, I just modified a file, committed the change and then tried to push the committed

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alan
I'd love to hear some feedback from others. There are some consistency issues most people can probably spot, like the [Edit] buttons should probably be [Edit...] since they open other windows to complete the interaction. Things like that I believe can be done pretty quickly and aren't worth

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 17:29 -0400, Bryan Clark a écrit : On 9/24/07, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Benjamin Gramlich
Gimmie is very interesting and user friendly. I've always felt that the Gnome panel has been a little bare. SLED was a step in the right direction, but it seems that very few people have been willing to use it. (Actually, isn't Novell the only merchant to use SLED?) I think that the gnome-panel

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of UI, I have a little suggestion (based on the mockup on Fedora wiki). I see that below the world map there's a row that has a clock, the zone and the weather, it's really cool but I can imagine it filling a 1024x768

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Jones
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:41 -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote: Alex, what will the address for the wiki be? http://live.gnome.org/FuturePanel Feel free to start putting ideas down if you want. I was gonna wait a few days before aggregating our ideas from this thread.

Re: Module proposal: GtkGLExt for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 19:10 +0200, Andreas Røsdal wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Vincent Untz wrote: Le samedi 22 septembre 2007, à 13:57 +0200, Andreas Røsdal a écrit : Hello! * Proposal: Include GtkGLExt in the GNOME developer platform. Oh, interesting. Note that it's possible that

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, 2007/9/25, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:41 -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote: Alex, what will the address for the wiki be? http://live.gnome.org/FuturePanel Feel free to start putting ideas down if you want. I was gonna wait a few days before aggregating our

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Jones
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 01:36 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote: Why not: http://live.gnome.org/GnomePanel/Future It's a saner place to add those things. Sure, go for that. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org