Re: Zeitgeist status update

2009-11-04 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2009/11/4 Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org: Semi-related question: Zeitgeist is currently hosted on Launchpad.  Are there plans to use GNOME's infrastructure? Everyone: Please don't let this turn into a VCS flamefest Note that this is my own view of things and not the official opinion of the

Re: Zeitgeist status update

2009-11-04 Thread Olafur Arason
Are you looking into some situation integration, like integrating information from Hamster. A course example of that would be that you use different application, documents in work that at home. A more fine grate example would be if you are working on art, surfing, finance you would get programs

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Christian Neumair cneum...@gnome.org wrote: Reading some of the responses, major concerns wrt accessibility, theming and some other topics regarding quality control have been raised. I'd like to add another one: All the current desktop components (including the

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Christian Neumair cneum...@gnome.org wrote: I have not been following the GNOME shell discussions, but I wonder why we JavaScript is needed at all. Now that some of the core modules exhibit Python, suddently JavaScript is discussed. I have always considered

Re: Zeitgeist status update

2009-11-04 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2009/11/4 Olafur Arason ola...@gmail.com: Are you looking into some situation integration, like integrating information from Hamster. A course example of that would be that you use different application, documents in work that at home. To my knowledge we have not tried to integrate directly

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:23 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: 2009/11/2 Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com: GJS and SpiderMonkey: Currently gnome-shell is build using the GJS bindings to Javascript which work with the Mozilla SpiderMonkey Javascript engine. The comparison to

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
JS, whilst a good glue language, is nevertheless problematic in this it appears impotent (no native dbus support nor subclassing). I would only recommend it for scripting that does not need dbus. Currently a lot of code needs to be written in C to make up for these shortfalls in Gnome-Shell so I

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Jamie McCracken jamie.mccr...@googlemail.com wrote: JS, whilst a good glue language, is nevertheless problematic in this it appears impotent (no native dbus support nor subclassing). I would only recommend it for scripting that does not need dbus. Currently a

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
I also forgot to mention the issue with applets, which was raised in a private e-mail to me. As I understand it, the existing applets will all need to be rewritten for GNOME Shell. If this is the case, then we have some issues where some accessibility applets (e.g., the MouseTweaks dwell click

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:24 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote: 2009/11/2 Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com: This should be read as a semi-proposal: at this point I don't think gnome-shell is going to be ready to be shipped as a final component on the 2.30 schedule. But getting it into people's

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Ivan Frade
Hi, On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: My initial understanding of the Zeitgeist engine was that it was a data collection engine to collect a rich view of how the user used their computer over time, which would then be used to build an OLPC

[Fwd: Re: [g-a-devel] Need your help: new modules being proposed for GNOME 2.30]

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
FYI...regarding Memphis a11y... Will ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:20 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: External dependencies: gmime, vala, Memphis (for libchamplain), libdb (already approved). Memphis is quite unaccessible. It generates an opaque image from OpenStreetMap data.

a11y questions for new module proposers...

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Here's some really simple questions that all new module proposers should be able to answer for accessibility (note that this applies to things that expose a GUI). It's not an exhaustive analysis by any means, but it will capture some of the most blatant failures. It's so simple,

Re: Not proposing gnome-packagekit for 2.28

2009-11-04 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Richard Hughes wrote: Anyway, if anyone has any great argument about why I shouldn't propose gnome-packagekit for 2-29 (or why I should do it for 2-27) please shout now. I'm also not sure whether to propose it for the desktop set or something else. Ideas welcome. I was going to ask about the

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-04 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 15:12 -0400 schrieb Jamie McCracken: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: 5) Allow for possibility of uniform services for things like contacts instead of them being redefined for all clients (evolution, pidgin, web services) - this