Re: DVCS

2008-10-28 Thread Zeeshan Ali Khattak
et time to do it. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali Khattak FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: DVCS

2008-10-28 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
e go for the whole foundation, people like me who talk more and do little will also get counted and maybe we want to avoid that? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali Khattak FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: DVCS

2008-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi! On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:24:25PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali Khattak wrote: >> I remember that at GUADEC, we were seriously thinking about >> migrating to git but the decision was postponed on Mark Shut

Re: DVCS

2008-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ocus: Most of us have been wanting to move to a DVCS and it's been a long time we've been justing wishing and sighing. Could we please just execute the proposal I made? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali Khattak FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-

Re: DVCS

2008-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
done your magic. > Regarding not responding: I was a bit busy with other stuff (movie, DoS, > SVN repos format stuff, etc), so it didn't make sense responding if I > can't give an estimate. After that I forgot. NP! I wasn't blaming you for that, was just explaining why i did w

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
sily doable using git but unfortunately the dates in the git repos created through git-svn aren't correct (or it seems to be the case). I am no expert in svn but reading the output of `svn help log` i don't see it be done easily using svn. :( -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> So you already on it or you are waiting for someone to get you th >> list of svn accounts? If latter is the case, It's pretty easily doable >> using

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
for such a big task. I hope I am wrong about this and we do have enough resources to do the move but in case I am right, I think we should seriously consider John's idea. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ing that we'll be able to gather at least 10 volunteers and together we can do it, even using our spare time. In any case, after looking at the results of the survey we should only look at hybrid/dual proposal like John's when we don't find any way of moving to git in a reason

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
aid operations such as status, diff and commit. In contrast a Git working directory requires only one small index file that stores about 100 bytes of data per tracked file. On projects with a large number of files this can be a substantial difference in the disk space required per w

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
s in NEWS file to do that in ChangeLog? A policy/rule? We could have the same policy/rule for NEWS file. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
atch submitter provide the base minimum: >  - A patch that applies to trunk >  - A rich ChangeLog entry that describes what happens in the change > > Then why would I waste my time flipping through individual commit > logs ? Dude, we have moved to git and yo

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ing it. Reminds me of my friend who insists that evolution is nothing more than hoax and when I try to educate him, he doesn't want to discuss it. :) There are simply two facts to be kept in mind here: 1. All information in the ChangeLog is redundant. 2. Maintaining a ChangeLog only and only

Re: R: git migration - svn:externals

2009-04-23 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
or even data) that is needed by more than one of your modules/packages, you either put that common stuff in another module/package and make other packages depend on this or you just bite the bullet and don't mind the redundancy. In some cases you just have to wisely use th

fast-forward only policy

2009-05-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ure ok, will do ==IRC LOG END== I am sending this mail here cause I thought it might be better to have a discussion on this and so that other developers can speak-up if they (dis)agree. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-d

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
nclusion after reading John's and your arguments. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
can point out any positive points of "trailing whitespace", it only causes annoyance. Corrections to my strong opinions always welcomed of course. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
than your opinions? > I care about understanding a branch name. > Deleting branches sounds really bad (aside from purely symbolical > 'stable'). > >> You can do stuff like: > > I don't understand Git. If you haven't noticed, we are talking of *GIT* branches and tags here. The discussion was actually about a rule on *GIT* pushes. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 05/05/2009 05:59 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbod >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> >>&

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-06 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:13:07AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:33:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >>

Re: Platform

2009-05-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
. > > Citation needed here. > >>  I would prefer to build on >> upnp. > > UPNP is overly complicated for service discovery. Actually that is pretty stright forward but it does something (not so) stupid for that: HTTP over UDP. That issu

Re: Platform

2009-05-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ces on a network but do no define any means for description[1], control, event notification and presentation. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] We all know how useful D-Bus introspection with d-feet is, the usefulness of UPnP d

Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

2009-10-12 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ood to know and takes away my main reason to distribute generated files in rygel release tarballs but what about the bindings (ones bundled with vala)? They are still far from perfect AFAIK. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ deskto

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-28 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
my vote counts, -1 from my side. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-28 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Ivan Frade wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > wrote: >> >> Hi, >>  FWIW, as the maintainer of a project (Rygel) which started as a UPnP >> wrapper around Tracker an year and half ago, I d

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 28/10/09 23:23, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > I think assuming that a project has to be shipped by distros before it can > be in GNOME or visa versa doesn't make sense. > > Distros ALWAYS ship what they want and

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Having played with 0.7 APIs, I do not need any arguments to be convinced that its 'better' than 0.6. :) The question remains if it's better enough. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing lis

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-13 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-23 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 13/11/09 17:21, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> >> Hi all, >>   So now that tracker is a blessed external dep of GN(u)OME, can >> issues like these be fixed soon(ish): >> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.

Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Vala and C. License: LGPL v2 -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> 3.0 readiness: I think so! The only specific & relevant thing i find > on ThreePointTwenty wiki is " GObject introspection". Oops, I meant ThreePointZero plan wikipage. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > What is it? > > I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: > http://live.gnome.org/Rygel pbor pointed out on IRC that I didn't really have a nice description on the homepage so I

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
system-service, how does rygel then communicate to processes running on session-bus (e.g tracker, rhythmbox, totem)? Lastly, rygel can be run as both system-wide service and per-session at the same time on the same machine. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] Currently it&#

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Frederic! On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> Adoption & GNOME-ness, community: > > We have pride in our incredible translation teams; it would be really > nice if Rygel had the infrastructure in place to b

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
client as well and it all depends on the client whether it shows them to user or not. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Rygel (in case of > adoption), as more "desktop-oriented" mode of operation - or should > gnome be neutral in that aspect? > > - What's the general approach for system-wide services in gnome? Does > GNOME need that kind of policy?Some system-wide services

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
o the gvfs backend. No need to configure > anything there. Agreed! So I guess we both agree on getting rid of this UI mostly and move the remaining parts to gnome-user-share UI. Now lets see if Bastien agrees. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 __

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
er-share is part of GNOME so I would like to depend on that. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-24 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >  * Rygel is already readily available in two major distributions: > Debian and Fedora. Now it's also available in Ubuntu (lucid). Its also available in an unofficial Gentoo repo: http://gpo.zugaina.org/

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
me and Bastien (based on Lennart's arguments on this thread) agreed to kill the preferences UI in favor of some simple options to be added to gnome-user-share dialog, do I still need to do this for my proposal to be considered? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 __

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> > Heh, the logic should be reversed :-) It can't be approved (or likely to >> > be approved) until the app is translatable. >> >>   Since me and Bastien (ba

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
es instead (which > could be powered by Tracker). Actually this issue is partly solved. I made sure that tracker guys have the right ontology ..metadata keys for this. However, there is currently no UI for user to be able to mark media to be exported. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF m

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 16:39 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : >>    I didn't miss that. :) If you read carefully he said "just to be >> safe" and hence it's not so important. Still, I tried to set

Re: GSoC Proposal: Scripting Framework for Applications

2010-04-08 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
jct-introspection support for free. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-11 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
sign of the code. Now if Tracker implemented the MediaServer spec I mentioned, I would have just informed Tracker guys which API is slow and it would have been upto them to optimize it. i-e I wouldn't have needed to even know about optionals and property functions, let alone to change/redesig

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-04-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 16:39 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : >>    I didn't miss that. :) If you read carefully he said "just to be >> safe" and hence it's not so important. Still, I tried t

Re: new module proposal: gobject-introspection

2010-04-23 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
bs to share a namespace? If so, that could be bigger issue than not supporting nested namespaces AFAICT. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: new module proposal: gobject-introspection

2010-04-25 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > wrote: >>  Talking of namespaces, is it correct that gir does not allow >> multiple libs to share a namespace? If so, that could be bigger issue >> th

Re: Documentation for Proposed Modules

2010-05-06 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
to be mostly invisible to an end-user, I doubt rygel needs any such docs. Please feel free to contradict me. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/m

Re: Documentation for Proposed Modules

2010-05-06 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
er machine (PS3, Xbox, DLNA TV etc). -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Documentation for Proposed Modules

2010-05-06 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
aving to expose the existence of these plugins to user. Unless Tracker guys (promise to) provide DLNA related options in their preferences UI? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.o

New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP & Libgee

2010-06-07 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ady depend on the first two of the libraries above indirectly (empathy) or optionally (gnome-user-share). -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] http://www.gupnp.org [2] http://live.gnome.org/Libgee ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list d

Re: New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP & Libgee

2010-06-07 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ecision taking some time, sure but rygel depended on these libs when it was proposed for inclusion so I was hoping that people have already tested it along with its dependencies. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP & Libgee

2010-06-08 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> > Did you read http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ExternalDependencies? >> >>   I did but then again I've been reading a lot lately so things have >> been s

Vala version bump?

2010-06-09 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
the minimum version to 0.9.0 and recommended version to 0.9.1? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ExternalDependencies ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: Vala version bump?

2010-06-10 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi everyone, >  While Rygel currently depends on (and is tested with) Vala 0.8.0, > the minimum version of Vala on external deps wikipage[1] is 0.7.8 and > recommended is 0.8.1. Moreover, Jürg tells me that its the 0.

Re: New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP & Libgee

2010-06-17 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
so I'm not sure about the status of the proposal. Same goes for the Vala bump proposal I made separately. If these things usually take such a long time, I don't think I'll have any choice but to start doing most of the development on gitorious clone and only sync to gnome git

Re: New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP & Libgee

2010-06-18 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >>   When I said that, I thought it takes a few days but seems that is >> not the case. Its been like 10 days that I made this proposal, nobody >> objected on the deps but no

Bump min vala version to 0.9.3

2010-07-14 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, The new vala release contains some improvements to glib API that breaks rygel's build so I would like to use vala 0.9.3 in the next release. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-

Re: Bump min vala version to 0.9.3

2010-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, I realized later that this is a micro version bump and I can change it myself so went and did that (jhbuild and wiki). On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > On 15/07/10 01:18, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Hi, >>    The new vala release contains some

New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP DLNA

2010-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
: http://lists.o-hand.com/gupnp/0915.html http://lists.o-hand.com/gupnp/0975.html -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp-dlna/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Bumping gupnp-dlna requirement

2010-08-12 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
guarantee that. That said, API/ABI of gupnp* (including gupnp-dlna) is guaranteed to be frozen in 2 weeks. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/m

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-08-26 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Paul, On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Paul Cutler wrote: > Hi, > > We're still pretty light on content for the upcoming 2.32 release. I just added some bullets off the top of my head about basic features Rygel's inclusion will add to GNOME. I'm not very good at this so please feel free to

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-09-30 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ther than helping me out by putting the features I put-up on the wiki that rygel adds to GNOME, in nice words for users. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.g

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-09-30 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 15:00 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Paul Cutler wrote: >> > Can you feel it in the air?  It's that time when we start writing &

Re: It's Release Notes time!

2010-09-30 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 15:00 +0300 schrieb Zeeshan Ali > (Khattak): >>   I tried my best to help you out in this regard while fixing all the >> critical issues in rygel and the deps in time for GNOME 2.32. What do

Bump min vala version to 0.11.1

2010-10-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ells me that Tracker will soon need to require it as well. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Bump gupnp-av and gupnp-vala dep

2010-11-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi everyone, I hope nobody minds if I bump minimum gupnp-av and gupnp-vala dep to 0.7.0 (for rygel)? This is an unreleased version but I'll not commit the sin of depending on unreleased external library so don't worry about that. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF m

Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

2010-11-24 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ssue, and you depend there on external providers. That does't mean we can't have the same service (application) handling both. > Not that is not possible, but requires a second thought. Sure, what doesn't? :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposal: Moving d-d-l to moderated until after GNOME 3 release

2011-01-09 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> that invite only, or something like that. > And you keep this list open, to discuss things publicly as we have had it > for years. +1 -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Bump vala requirement

2011-02-16 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Jens Georg wrote: > Hi, > > rygel needs valac 0.11.6 since it fixes a codegen bug which leads to a > crash in one of our plugins. IIRC, micro version could be bumped without notification/request(?). -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF

GUPnP inclusion

2011-05-09 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Sharing [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648704 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625933 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648112 [3] gssdp, gupnp, gupnp-av, gupn

Re: GUPnP inclusion

2011-05-15 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi again, On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi all, >   Rygel is planned to included back into GNOME in 3.1 as part of the > 'Sharing' feature[1]. GUPnP dependencies of Rygel has so far been used > as blessed external dependencies. Since GUPnP

Re: GUPnP inclusion

2011-05-15 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
rget) but then this move of GUPnP process started and I decided to wait on that so I don't end-up putting links into out website that will break soon. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-d

Re: Media Sharing Feature extension proposal: "Play To"

2011-05-25 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
igns for "Sharing" feature and it seems that none of them have any time to do any designs for this any time soon. I'm just afraid that if we wait on our designers, these features may not make it into 3.2 either. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-06-03 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ding. The rest should simply 'adapt'. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME user survey 2011

2011-07-31 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
that would be to ask a few simple questions like: * How often do you use terminal/console? * How do you rate your computer skills from 1-10. * etc Also, most people are still on facebook so better advertise this on facebook gnome3 page too. Other than that, the questionare you came-up l

Re: GNOME user survey 2011

2011-07-31 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:40 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Felipe Contreras >> wrote: >> > It would be great if some sort of notification would popup directly on >>

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-17 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
;t going to be useful to us if you don't include such users in it as GNOME 3 is very much targeted for this type of users. Before you ask, no I don't know how you can do that. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-18 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
proposal seriously. Ignoring input from others just because they don't have a solution for the problem(s) they point out isn't going to lead anywhere. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list deskt

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-18 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ng that? Would those results still be better than nothing in your opinion? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-18 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Felipe Contreras >> wrote: >>> >>> Nothing is ever perfect, but having at least some results is b

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
e, must be shit" and will stay away from it. Even if you don't do that, there is many others who will use this "data" in that way. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 03:34, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > wrote: > > [snip] > >>  Maybe they all lied? > > Don't you think it is a bit early to speculate on results? (...) > > > Overall I can see alrea

gudev from my grandpa

2011-08-25 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi everyone, David Zeuthen pointed out that gudev in jhbuild (3.2 modulesets) is several years old (from 08-Dec-2004) and we really should use some recent enough release of it. Is there a particular reason we are doing this or shall I fix this? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member

Re: gudev from my grandpa

2011-08-25 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:23 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Hi everyone, >>   David Zeuthen pointed out that gudev in jhbuild (3.2 modulesets) is >> several years old (from 08-Dec-2004) > > For the reco

Re: gudev from my grandpa

2011-08-25 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:34:36PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >>   Ah, sorry! My dyslexia kicks-in sometimes. However, thats still >> pretty old so my question remains. > > We upgrade if needed. Keeping the requ

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
cation. Where as in overview mode, she/he just types a few letters of either the name of the command or the generic name. For example, typing 'mus' in the overview-mode brings-up rhythmbox as the only option. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

Re: From here to apps

2011-09-26 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ost (if not all) of this 'conflict' is limited to UI only. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Boxes [2] Since many components of UI are common with Documents, I intend to re-use/steal code from there. ___

Re: Features !

2011-10-08 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
y with more important features in 3.1 so they didn't get any time for this one. Lapo has started to investigate this it seems and last I asked Bastien, he was also interested(?) in getting this done in 3.3 cycle. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 __

Re: Boxes (was Re: 3.4 Features, final round)

2011-11-07 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
it doing any harm to their computers. Users will definitely appreciate an easy and completely secure way to try out OSs. I think these features are very essential and therefore should be available in every GNOME installation out of the box. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124

Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-29 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Boxes going to be a 'preview' feature in 3.4 like Documents was in 3.2? Release team? everyone? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailma

Re: Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-30 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
on, we won't have this working out of the box and bore the users by showing them files on the media. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Boxes and 3.4

2011-11-30 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Cowie > wrote: >> We're getting *ransacked* out there in discussions in LUGs around the >> world (e.g. [1]) because power users are trying GNOME 3 have found it >>

Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

2012-01-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
these days and it gets more and more stable all the time. The issue is the bindings usually. There are way too many of the libraries to take care of and on top of that they change all the time. Ideally each library should be providing vala bindings and take care of keeping it up2date. So its really n

Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

2012-01-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
ed to allow nested namespaces. While it is true that ideal scenerio would be for Vala to simply use gir/typelib but gir is missing features supported by vala and its bindings for many years now. Nested namespace is one of them. Another example is default values for parameters. -- Regards, Zeeshan

Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

2012-01-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > 2012/1/21 Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) : >> >> Being a maintainer of 2 vala projects in GNOME, I can tell you that >> valac itself is pretty stable these days and it gets more and more >> stable all the time. The is

Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

2012-01-23 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi Zeeshan; Hi Emmanuele, > On 23 January 2012 02:14, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: >>> 2012/1/21 Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) : > >>>> There ar

Re: Introducing Photos

2012-05-10 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
a, git, mailing-list etc). -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Introducing Boxes non-free

2012-07-14 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
not tag it by GNOME releases. Release tarball available at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes-nonfree/0.0/ -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671251 ___ desktop-devel-list ma

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