Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Hasanat Kazmi
Hello, I want to make an anti thief software for Gnome. This project will be a part of GSoc I am really excited about the project but I need ideas for the software. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/02/laptop-shouts-stop-thiefhas some good existing solutions for windows and mac.

Re: Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
2009/3/23 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com: Hasanat Kazmi wrote: Geoclue and gnome-screensaver can be used, please pour in some ideas. You would probably want to modify gdm (the login manager), rather than gnome-screensaver, so that the thief doesn't have to log in to be

Re: Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Hasanat Kazmi hasanatka...@gmail.com wrote: I want to make an anti thief software for Gnome. This project will be a part of GSoc That should read. This project will be proposed for GSoC. The student application window opens today and no proposals have been

Re: Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Konstantin Kozlov
Hi, did you look at: http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/ Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: 2009/3/23 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com: Hasanat Kazmi wrote: Geoclue and gnome-screensaver can be used, please pour in some ideas. You would probably want to modify gdm (the login manager),

Re: Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Hasanat Kazmi wrote: Hello, I want to make an anti thief software for Gnome. This project will be a part of GSoc I am really excited about the project but I need ideas for the software. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/02/laptop-shouts-stop-thief has some good existing

Re: Anti Theft Software

2009-03-23 Thread Hasanat Kazmi
integrating it with gdm may make it breakable, I mean hacker may login without gnome, in that case, he can still access whole file system while the software (if it is a part of gdm) will remain ignorant of this act as it is not executed. Running it as deamon seems a good idea, though it can also

Mea Culpa: If you've been rejected from being a Summer of Code mentor on the basis of not being a Foundation member, please reapply

2009-03-23 Thread Sandy Armstrong
Hi all, Sorry for this spam, but apparently I've been a little overzealous in enforcing our requirement that only GNOME Foundation members can be Summer of Code mentors. In fact, if you are not a foundation member but easily could be, you are more than welcome as a mentor! So, if you have

Re: Mea Culpa: If you've been rejected from being a Summer of Code mentor on the basis of not being a Foundation member, please reapply

2009-03-23 Thread Stormy Peters
If you are contributor to GNOME, I strongly encourage you to apply for and become a GNOME Foundation member. It makes it easier for us to confirm you to outside organizations like this, for travel sponsorships for GNOME events *and* it shows the strength of the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME

Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Owen Taylor
Now that the GNOME-2.27 cycle is beginning, I'd like to come up with a definitive plan for how we are going to be developing the Metacity codebase in the context of Mutter and gnome-shell. To review the current situation: - Metacity is developed in GNOME svn by Thomas Thurman and others.

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: 2) Mutter could be renamed as a project to mutter (binary, GConf schemas, etc. Presumably, the internals would stay Meta*) and imported into GNOME version control independently of metacity. The uncomposited and RENDER code

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:02 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: 2) Mutter could be renamed as a project to mutter (binary, GConf schemas, etc. Presumably, the internals would stay Meta*) and imported into GNOME version control

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: But it could also be confusing, and unless you are going to keep on merging Metacity wholesale into mutter, there's not a big advantage in having them in the same repository. 'git cherry-pick' has no special intelligence

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:23 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: But it could also be confusing, and unless you are going to keep on merging Metacity wholesale into mutter, there's not a big advantage in having them in the same

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! 2) Mutter could be renamed as a project to mutter (binary, GConf schemas, etc. Presumably, the internals would stay Meta*) and imported into GNOME version control independently of metacity. The uncomposited and RENDER code paths would gradually be removed leaving just a Clutter based

Gnome Games will make 3D mandatory for 2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Now that 2.26 is out and we've begun to work on 2.28, I want to get this out early so that no one feels like this was a last minute surprise. This has been a year in the making and this development cycle appears to be the right time to put some polish on our new game engines and make them the