Re: Solution suggestion [Was: gtk-engines photographed eating children]

2005-01-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andrew Johnson Smooth has been maintained and for now will continue to be maintained on SF, it is in gtk-engines only too get it out of gnome-themes and gnome-themes-extras not because I want to maintain it there. I will continue to keep it in sync with the latest stable release +

Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel

2005-02-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bryan Clark Simply put I'd like to remove the 'Run Application' menu item from the Applications menu top level since it shouldn't be something that most of our users are expected to interact with very often or at all. This doesn't mean removing it's functionality, just removing it

Re: Warts, Features and Icebergs [Was: Request for breakage in gnome-panel]

2005-02-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bryan Clark So what if we are flamed for removing this? If it's the right thing to do, isn't that worth getting flamed for? ;-) Even if the 'Run Applications' has been around since the beginning of GNOME, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. If we keep with that mentality we'll

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Callum McKenzie On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 00:29 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote: If there was anything close to consensus in the last round of debate about a new default theme (Glider? Indubstrial?), it might be nice to get it in right at the beginning of 2.11 and start to deal with any

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ryan McDougall Its early in the consensus building, but I'm all for a hardcore push for a wonderful new theme, including heavily publicizing on art.gnome.org, gnome-look.org, even slashdot! Promises of wealth and fortune for the winner could be interesting. Donations welcome.

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh Particularly with GTK+ 2.8 on the horizon, we should be looking at leapfrogging the current best effort [2], no matching it. :-) [2] That has got to be OS X. Also, a theme so good that it would unify vendor appearance of GNOME. So good that vendors would

Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Elijah Newren I belive you may be referring to my email. I regretted sending it not too long after it was gone. You are right that it was really lame. I wish I could sugar coat it somehow, but the best I can do is chalk it up to a bad day and apologize to both you and Murray.

Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh I very rarely use the Run Application... dialogue. I don't particularly like having it around. I hope we have a model in the future that makes it wholly irrelevant. But I can't rationalise removing it, because I can't see any direct benefit to users by doing so

Re: Innovation [was: Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel]

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ryan McDougall On Mon, 2005-14-02 at 02:58 -0500, Bryan Clark wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:23 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: [snipped much good thinking] Perhaps this would be a helpful place to flesh out the awesome ideas you guys are putting forth: http://live.gnome.org

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Link Dupont Not sure why we feel the need to have such a theme as a default though; the only reason I can see is to compete with OS X (lets face it, we've got Windows XP Luna beat, even with themes like Crux o_O). Do we want to advertise GNOME as a flashy eye-candy based Desktop? I

Re: moving windows above the top panel

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Cox Qt now I believe adds scrollbars which is a bit of hack but didnt at the time. Probably a result of Qtopia. If anyone wants to play with GNOME apps in a bondage-and-discipline window manager, it's worth playing with Matchbox, which was designed for embedded use. I use it on

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Davyd Madeley On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 01:45 -0200, Everaldo Canuto wrote: A new default theme for GTK solve some problem but another problem is a default theme icon for GNOME... I ask some normal end users about the screenshots and all users (100% of 11 users) say me that the

Re: Brainstorm for new default theme was: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Aidan Delaney What do you want in a new default theme? I'm looking for everything from big-picture to details. I don't want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_existing_theme I want information like the $insert_widget should look like

Re: Revitalizing the Urban Center of GNOME

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Seth Nickell To give a very graphic illustration of this based on a search of the archives, Havoc's last post to desktop-devel was over a year ago. Two days ago. :-) - Jeff -- gnome.conf.au 2005: April 19th http://live.gnome.au/Canberra2005 It is said that

Re: ANNOUNCE: libxklavier 2.0

2005-02-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Sergey Udaltsov Celebrating the oncoming GNOME 2.10 release, I am proud to present new stable release of the X keyboard utility library. So you intend for GNOME 2.10 to use xklavier 2.0? :-) - Jeff -- UbuntuDownUnder: April 25th-30th http://www.ubuntu.com/

Re: ABSOLUTE THEMES INSANITY ON THE *CURRENT* DEFAULT THEME!

2005-03-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Eugenia Loli-Queru http://oracle.bridgewayconsulting.com.au/~davyd/misc/gtk-theme-nuts.png This seems completely b0rked to me. I just installed the latest version of gnome-themes and tried the broken Simple. I like what I see there better than the normal version that will be

Re: roadmap status update/update request

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Matt T. Proud Using a wiki would be a great way to give these feature requests added exposure, not to mention to create a central place where users and interested public could look and find what is--or at least could be--in store for the next release. Ideally, the wiki will

Re: roadmap status update/update request

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Cox There is huge pressure to create vendor-brand but the foundation trademark fiasco caused most of what you are complaining about. Sorry, but that's a massive overstatement. The trademark issues are unclear, but there are plenty of GNOME logos in the distros. If this was more

Re: Bugzilla will be DOWN Sat 9 April 17.00-20.00 UTC

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bill Haneman Thanks for another make-work project, spanner in the works, etc. Why was the wider development community not consulted before proposing this? It has been on the agenda at least one whole release before Evolution was added to the GNOME Desktop release, and discussed many

usability list please [Was: Gnome 3.0 - menus]

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Marc O'Morain With regards to having the menubar at the top of the screen, rather than the top of the application: Guys, please take this thread to usability-list. It is not appropriate on d-d-l until it's being implemented. :-) - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st

Re: gnome-desktop vs. libgnomeui

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:56 +0200, Chipzz wrote: It happens when you visit smb:// from a GtkFileChooser, or when you go to a folder that has .desktop files in it. The file chooser should handle .desktop files as if they were symlinks, but it doesn't.

Re: vino branched

2005-05-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa Someone with more perl-fu than me- would it be possible to set up a script to watch cvs-commits list and send this kind of mail out automatically, or just update a webpage somewhere? Making maintainers do this manually (and remember to do it automatically) seems sort of

Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

2005-06-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mark McLoughlin I think these kind of questions are only relevant in the context of deciding on the *gtk* schedule. I don't think they're very relevant in the context of deciding whether GNOME 2.12 should use GTK+ 2.8. If we're all confident the schedules line up, then I don't think

Re: List of maintainers tips for maintainers

2005-06-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bastien Nocera On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:50 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi all, Could all the module maintainers add themselves in the maintainer column on the Desktop modules list [1] and on the Developer Platform modules list [2]. It might also be useful for the platform

Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)

2005-06-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Morten Welinder For non-local servers without Render, Cairo will allow us to eliminate the round-trips... a huge win. Show me the money! Morten, I can understand your frustration, but to abuse some more movie quotes: Your tone was pretty bogus, and we should all be excellent to

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Scott Sloan It think making it obvious and reminding them that their feedback does matter, is a lot better than throwing it in the about Box which maybe gets looked at once or twice. gnome-about is one thing that distros, thus far, have politely declined to molest. Which is good.

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Steven Garrity Let's leave the market stats (both Gnome's and totals) to firms that specialize in it. Rough estimates are the best we'll ever be able to do on this anyhow. Mostly, I agree, but there are a number of sources of information that we could use to help us along the way,

Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

2005-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa I *think* we're asking 'how many users of GNOME are there' Broadly, yes, but what we've discussed is establishing multiple data sources (however reliable, having datapoints with caveats is better than nothing) as well as providing encouragement through momentum. - Jeff --

Re: Application/System Tools vs System/Administration

2005-07-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rob Adams That's close but that talks about Preferences and Administration. I'm talking about System Tools and Administration. In many ways, they're in it together. One way of getting rid of crapplets is by integrating them into more useful locations - you could do the same thing

Re: Application/System Tools vs System/Administration

2005-07-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=James M. Cape Couldn't you just set it to run gnome-terminal --execute sudo -i or something? (Yes, and with -p, you can add a prompt - these are new options though, at least since hoary.) - Jeff -- OSCON 2005: August 1st-5th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/

Searching preferences?! [Was: switching to g-c-c shell?]

2005-07-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bryan Clark I'm pushing to see, switching to g-c-c shell with search! in the spirit of Calum's response earlier, that way we're shuffling deck chairs in order to build another ship. Don't you see searching for preferences as an astounding failure on Apple's part (and others, who

Some thoughts about-me (not *me* me) [Was: the about-me capplet]

2005-07-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Matthias Clasen - is a bit heavy on work-related fields. I mean, who really wants to know about my assistant (if I had one) ? - the Personal Info tab looks intimidating with all those long entries - it was not immediately clear to me what kind of data I am expected to

Re: Default theme

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Daniel Borgmann One alternative would be that you just call it Clearlooks and we change the Clearlooks default to be what you have in mind (at least for the metatheme, which is GNOME specific anyway). Another one would be to call it Default or maybe GNOME Default. In any case I

Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

2005-07-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa Yeah, figured it would have to be per-distro*. With a little help from vmware or something along those lines that should be too hard to automate. That'll be slow. Use a chroot. :-) - Jeff -- OSCON 2005: August 1st-5th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/

Re: Old versions of GNOME [was: Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12]

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero Mark Shuttleworth, during his keynote at GUADEC, gave an awesome demo of Ubuntu's meta-bug tracker: they maintain pointers for the same bug across the different bug trackers of different distros, and thus they magically know when any of them manages to fix

Re: Old versions of GNOME [was: Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12]

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa On 7/22/05, Sri Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like the Ubuntu folks are coming up with the solutions anyways. I (and I expect others) would certainly be displeased if we became dependent on a proprietary tool to manage our bugs or release process. As long

Re: cleaning up themes

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=uws If the default is just the built-in theme in GTK+ (no way to check now, no X over here), I think a rename to Built-in is the best. That won't mean anything to users, and is a pretty skanky name for a theme anyway. :-) The metatheme should just be nuked; having something called

Re: gnome-about-me

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rob Adams If you'd care to explain how this feature will enable us to estimate the number of gnome users worldwide I would be very happy to hear it. There are many different sources of information we can use. We started by discussing passive information, such as popcon stats, ntp and

Re: gnome-about-me

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=John Williams You are right to be a stat-cynic, if by that you mean that much published research and estimates of percentages are unreliable. If, however, you mean that the science of statistics is useless (as opposed to mis-used), I beg to differ. No, I mean that the numbers

Trademarked icon in gnome-icon-theme

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
I've filed a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312839, but this seemed important enough to raise here for exposure before we release (I didn't want to mark it as a blocker). gnome-icon-theme ships the mozilla.org trademarked firefox logo. Not only do we not have the right to ship this

Re: Trademarked icon in gnome-icon-theme

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Pat Suwalski Jeff Waugh wrote: gnome-icon-theme ships the mozilla.org trademarked firefox logo. Not only do we not have the right to ship this under their licensing requirements, but it would impact on our distributors too. While the obvious solution is to remove it, is there any

Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

2005-08-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Vincent Untz Le dimanche 21 août 2005 à 14:00 +0200, Claessens Xavier a écrit : 2) If GTK+-3.0 is released, will it lead automatically to gnome-3.0 ? So is it the right moment (not now, but when GTK3 will be released) to do API/ABI breakage in all gnome apps/libs ? There's no

Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

2005-08-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=BJörn Lindqvist I don't really see much reason ever to break ABI for the forseeable future. There's essentially nothing stopping us from simply leaving deprecated functions in there indefinitely, other than a fairly minor memory footprint increase which will never be paged in

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alex Graveley My gut reaction is that you should disable it now, and reenable/cache xrdb if user response is negative. Turns out we've already disabled it and re-enabled it again because the user response was negative. So... :-) - Jeff -- UbuntuBelowZero

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa Probably back when adobe was still Xlib... Luis (trying hard to think of any significant applications anymore that aren't in some modern toolkit) How about most people's Emacs? Not that modern toolkits should be completely ignoring this stuff anyway. *cough* - Jeff --

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh How about most people's Emacs? And everything Tk, which covers a pretty surprising amount of software that corporates like. - Jeff -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 There is a very fine line between 'hobby

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa I'm still distinctly unconvinced the rest of us (that is, the vast majority) should be paying a 10% startup penalty for this. The suggestions of 'add it back to your session' were fine - the reason I'm responding is to put some reality back into the but that's crack

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mike Hearn GNU Emacs in CVS uses GTK2 though. Hopefully they'll get around to doing a new release before the day the X server is obsoleted by mind implants. Lisp was more powerful than mind implants twenty years ago. Ask Paul Graham. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution and Evolution-Data-Server branched

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa This rocks! I'd love to see every module maintainer write down their plans for the next release (if they have them) in the wiki[1] and include a link in the branch email in the future. [1] live.gnome.org [2] [2] always happy to provide footnote services - Jeff -- GNOME

Re: Evolution Data Server - LGPL

2005-09-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Yavor Doganov On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:46:12 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote: Evolution Data Server is now licensed under the terms of LGPL. That's really sad news. It's *great* news. The GNOME Developer Platform is LGPL (and similar) for a reason, and we have been keen to see

The Big Split?

2005-09-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
http://go-evolution.org/Evo2.6 Hi Harish, Was disappointed to not see the big Evolution UI split in your 2.6 plans, though I was under the impression it was coming up very soon. How soon do you guys think you'll get to it? Thanks, - Jeff -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th

Re: Preliminary Gnome 2.14 Schedule

2005-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Elijah Newren - In past releases, we did not specify an exact time when tarballs were due nor when freezes began. This ended up causing some misunderstandings, cut down on testing time, and made it harder for release-oriented projects (e.g. live cd, garnome). So I'd like

Re: Moving to bonjour over howl

2005-09-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=JP Rosevear That happened a while ago. Unfortunately, the daemon is still APSL2, so we should not be recommending that our distributors ship it by supporting it. We already are with howl since it uses the same daemon. Yes, and this is bad. Luckily we've been able to express

Re: GNOME-Applets Branched

2005-10-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa In the future, you have updated: http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap to indicate what wonderful new features applets will have in 2.13. Luis (insert air guitar here) EXCELLENT! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/

Re: GNOME-Applets Branched

2005-10-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa but your mail client probably looked at my Mail-Followup-To header and complied. :-) gmail displays that to the user as reply-to, which is damned irritating. EVIDENCE OF EVIL! - Jeff -- EuroOSCON: October 17th-20thhttp://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/

Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session

2005-10-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mark McLoughlin I the first thing worth discussing is why?. Why is it a good idea to show /etc/motd at login? It's very handy for sysadmins to display information to the user at login. I've used zenity and very bad gnome-session hacks for this in the past. Our audience of

Re: sound init in gnome-settings-daemon

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rodrigo Moya Looking at how to improve gnome-session startup, I found both gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon are starting ESD. I guess we really want one of them to start it, so which one should be removed? My first thought is to remove the one in g-s-d. Is that ok? Or am I

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

2005-10-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
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, which would be a good idea in this day and age (it was eons ago that we stopped doing that for silly but what if it crashes reasons). - Jeff --

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rodrigo Moya So, do we really want to keep around the xrdb thing in gnome-settings-daemon? How about an off-by-default GConf key? Lots of workstation deployments I know about really benefit from the xrdb stuff (heaps of motif and xforms). - Jeff -- Ubuntu USA Europe Tour: Oct-Nov

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=John Rice 3. Front End: my understanding of the current control center applets are that they have a front end and back end architecture communicating via XML. Would be great if we could support Python based front ends as well. That's true for the gnome-system-tools, but not for

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: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance I've long held that XP got the interaction right. There's just one login screen. Unlocking your screen is just logging back in again. Switching users is just logging in. Right now, we have the OS X interaction: We have a login screen and a separate unlock dialog.

Re: Proposal for inclusion in Desktop: pessulus

2005-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance I don't think useful to my mum should be our only criterion for inclusion in the desktop. Right now, our fastest path onto desktop is corporate workstation deployments. Any tool that helps admins roll out two hundred Gnome desktops should be greeted with enthusiasm.

Re: High Contrast Icons

2005-11-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=James Henstridge Vincent Untz wrote: Does it mean that the apps should depend on gnome-themes (or the modules where the HighContrast theme is) at installation time? No more than the checks they do for hicolor-icon-theme at the moment (i.e. no checks). It'd just involve

Re: autotools gives autopain

2005-12-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=BJörn Lindqvist Gnome currently uses the GNU Autotools for building all projects. Autotools is hard to work with and complicated and there are lots of techically superior build systems out there. Therefore, I suggest that GNOME should gradually replace Autotools with scons

Re: Time to update your products!

2005-12-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Elijah Newren I'm sending this email because there are a couple areas where we need everyone's help getting their product updated with the new bugzilla: Dude, this totally needs to be on devel-announce-list. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: Browser Mode by Default [Was: Nautilus]

2005-12-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Anna Marie Dirks In the next version of the Novell Linux Desktop, we will definitely be using browser mode by default -- and we'll default to having the sidepane on, too. Which side pane will you be using by default - tree or places? - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New

Re: Browser Mode by Default [Was: Nautilus]

2005-12-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Emmanuele Bassi I, for one, did not understand why Breezy did ship with that crippled ubuntu-nautilus option set to on by default inside the schema, that closed the parent windows behind, breaking my work flow without letting me know (apart from digging into Ubuntu's bugzilla and

Re: Browser Mode by Default [Was: Nautilus]

2005-12-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Anna Marie Dirks Which side pane will you be using by default - tree or places? Places. Cool. We're doing the same, and that appears to be the upstream default in browser mode. I'd love to see this as the default in 2.14. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand

Session manager status?

2005-12-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hey, What's the status of the new session manager code? Will this land soon for testing in 2.13? Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ NASCAR is not race per se. It's just a contest about who can turn left

Selling/Switching and GNOME [Was: Nautilus]

2005-12-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Reinout van Schouwen It irks me every time people talk about selling GNOME or using GNOME to get people to shift from some other platform. [1] * That is not what GNOME is about * Yes it *absolutely* is. Freedom - not just software freedom, but the big freedoms that it supports and

Re: Selling/Switching and GNOME [Was: Nautilus]

2005-12-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Reinout van Schouwen What I'm trying to say is that I believe that design decisions on GNOME components should never be primarily motivated by considerations like will it be familiar enough to Windows converts? or let's put in this useless gimmick because it will generate more sales

Re: Blocker bugs for GNOME 2.14

2006-01-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ryan Lortie I've compiled a list of these bugs with summary information. devel-announce-list would be the perfect place to post these in future. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ What does an underage

Re: Special folders in gnome

2006-01-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Mattias Eriksson I know that this have been discussed in the past, but no solution was reached then. I hope it will be different this time. I strongly agree that we need a solution for this (something GConf defined would be perfect for desktop/network administrators). Let's do it for

Re: Special folders in gnome

2006-01-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Murray Cumming On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:29 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mattias Eriksson I know that this have been discussed in the past, but no solution was reached then. I hope it will be different this time. I strongly agree that we need a solution

Re: My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome]

2006-01-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Horkan Microsoft have finally [1] said they will drop the patronising my prefix. I hope you were using it only for example. I'd much prefer if we could have ~/Documents/ /Templates/ /Pictures/ /Videos/ They're also dropping the way they have everything rooted

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Frederic Crozat Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup. Thanks for all the people running deployed software

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero We need to mock, ridicule, and ostracise distributions which don't commit their patches for non-HEAD versions of GNOME to CVS. I will get the rubber chicken. A while back, someone mentioned they had a script that polled for patches in various distro packages

Re: FOSDEM: Call for Talks for the Gnome Dev Room

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Christophe Fergeau Want to have fun in Brussels? Here is a reminder, we are still looking for people to give talks in the gnome devroom during FOSDEM. Christophe, I made a page on the GNOME wiki about the FOSDEM devroom earlier today, but didn't want to announce it until I'd

Revert immediately [Was: breakage caused by ... gnome-icon-theme]

2006-02-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Christian Persch The latest gnome-icon-theme release has removed the gnome-spinner and gnome-spinner-rest themed icons, causing breakage in (at least) epiphany, nautilus, gedit and beagle. Other people have told me that other removed icons also cause problems in nautilus and

Re: Plan to fix icons [was: Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme]

2006-02-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:36 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: 6. Create a subpackage of symlinks from the missing icons (the old icon names) to the new icons. If you don't have a new icon that matches, find the closest generic one, or simply put in

Re: Plan to fix icons [was: Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme]

2006-02-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Elijah Newren Dude, why are we supporting this *wholly inappropriate* late breakage? This is not the kind of change that we should meekly accept at this stage of the release process. We don't *have* to do this, and we *shouldn't* do it. This is a choice between release

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=John Williams I take Jeff's point as well, although personally I would not have put it in such emotive terms. I put it in emotive terms because *someone* has to offset all the hugging and back-slapping about Dan's mail. All this positivity about a mail that basically says this

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dan Winship But it seems to me now that everyone other than me (and possibly Jono) is actually talking about Xgl, and I have no comment on that. (OTOH, if you really were saying that Novell's writing a replacement for the panel menu was commons-sapping, community-tearing, morally

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller I was not talking exclusively about Novell, Xgl, or the new panel applet. I was talking about a serious problem in our community, and the destructive ideas, memes and role models that support it. Isn't what we got here exactly what has been

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Thom Holwerda What I am missing in your replies is some sort of thank you to Novell. They seem to have done some serious amount of work -- behind closed doors, but they did it. They released their code for everyone to benefit from. So what is the big problem? So, again, despite

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Thom Holwerda But my point remains. How far are you willing to go? Must developers adhere to some sort of code of conduct-- a sort of extra set of requirements-- before they can contribute to the GNOME project? Because that is kind of how your viewpoint comes across here. I don't

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Cox It isn't about Design by community but Design IN the community. *Exactly* - and it's so easy to fall to laziness in the face of all the challenges Dan so eloquently explained in his email... and that's what has been happening in GNOME for a long time now. Let's break the

Re: Sorry State [Was: NLD10 and GNOME]

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Anna Marie Dirks What a big jerkbird! So lazy! So community-tearing! Definitely the work of an evil, evil noncontributor. Anna, as I mentioned in another email, this frustration is about a broader problem we have in our community than the particular acts of contributing organisations

Re: Sorry State [Was: NLD10 and GNOME]

2006-02-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Havoc Pennington On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:54 +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote: However, if we decide to target a niche audience, on a niche operating system, that's niche squared. I doubt if that's sustainable. Didn't say niche, I said specific. The group can still be large. There are

Talk to the Clearlooks maintainers

2006-02-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance Well, the new Clearlooks entails both the Cairo-enabled Clearlooks engine in gtk-engines and the Clearlooks theme data in gnome-themes. Both the engine and the theme data have changed. The theme data is probably setting a few things that are new to the engine, but

Re: Talk to the Clearlooks maintainers

2006-02-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance The theme we have now is a fundamentally different beast from the Clearlooks we selected as the new default last release cycle. There's no question that it's become more lickably delicious, but it isn't even close to the same theme. Using it is basically tantamount

Re: Sorry State [Was: NLD10 and GNOME]

2006-02-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Lex Hider (A similar set of issues were expressed more eloquently in my GUADEC talk, if you want to watch that video.) do you have a link? http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/Jeff_Waugh_-_Project_Topaz.ogg - Jeff -- FOSDEM 2006: Brussels, Belgium

Re: new module decisions [was Re: gnome-screensaver]

2006-02-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rodrigo Moya My list in the GEP includes all this and more ;) yeah, I think your list + some evaluation team scrutiny could work much better than looking for complete consensus on the mailing list. That evaluation team *is* the release team. But the release team doesn't make

Re: Proposal to add Orca to GNOME 2.16

2006-04-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Brian Cameron One issue I see is that ORCA depends heavily on Python. Python (and probably more importantly gnome-python) isn't officially a part of the GNOME Platform. As discussed in numerous previous release cycles (and finally consummated in 2.14), Python software can and will

Re: Overall State of Documentation [was Re: Gnome is a problem for OEMs]

2006-04-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance 2) Create a build script that can take a list of all our documents from all relevant branches of all relevant modules and produce the HTML. Better to use tarball releases. 3) Set up a system that tracks CVS and rebuilds the live documentation whenever needed. Forget

Big Changes Feature Freeze [Was: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rodney Dawes The Tango theme is not replacing GNOME icon theme, but the icons in gnome-icon-theme are being updated with their style, and being moved to follow the naming spec. I tried to get this done for 2.14 even, and did it at what I thought was a reasonable time in the cycle

Features vs. Time-based [Was: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond]

2006-04-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Horkan Chris Lahey wrote: I think if we are targeting features, ... no not really, I wasn't suggesting targeting features any more than is done within the current 6 month release cycle. I call 'Brooken!' We hardly even have an agenda for our time-based

Re: gnome-keyring branched

2006-04-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alexander Larsson Any grand and glorious plans for 2.16? Not really. Jon Nettleton is working on pam-keyring[1], so some work required for that is going in. 1) http://www.hekanetworks.com/pam_keyring/ That's very exciting! Has anyone been working on kerberos, gpg or ssh love

Re: Features vs. Time-based [Was: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond]

2006-04-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alan Horkan [1] Holy shit, just stop talking about version numbers at all. It totally doesn't mean anything useful. I understand you and most developers do not think it is important but would it kill you to recognise that some people do* and it wouldn't hurt to try and pin down

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