Re: help needed with non-US time zones for clock applet

2008-04-08 Thread Alan Horkan
task could be made easier if this had been set earlier. Taken this offlist, since I want to avoid bikeshedding getting in the way of your more immediate concerns but perhaps this is something that could be discussed further? Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

Re: GNOME online desktop - (some of the possible) next steps

2007-08-10 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Bryan Clark wrote: > An excellent advantage that the online desktop server project has in > being open source is that it doesn't have to re-implement any other > existing service. MySpace and other proprietary sites will continually > purchase or build new extensions (like

Gnome Online [Re: Online Desktop integration ideas]

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Horkan
nyms may seem amusing at first the novelty value tends to wear off. I would ask that people reconsider, the words "Gnome Online" are not too hard to type, and quite a succint phrase that if searched for one might stand a decent chance of being a

Re: ubuntu's shutdown screen

2007-04-01 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Martin Meyer wrote: > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:43:01 -0400 > From: Martin Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: ubuntu's shutdown screen > > To clarify, I am *not* running Ubuntu on at least one

Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

2007-03-03 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:27:50 +0100 > From: Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications > > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:23 +000

Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I was also surprised why them people on this thread were so concerned > > by Music and whatever folders they want to store the media in when you > > can just index the whole thing, and tha

Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Horkan
I disagree strongly but that isn't important right now. Although we could drag the discussion on further, you trimmed the most (only?) important part of the message, I hope we can both agree we do need standard folders for things like Music and Pictures. Sincerely Alan Horkan

Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Horkan
oya wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:07 +, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > > > [Personally I think a folder ~/Documents/ is needed with other user files > > > such as music, pictures, spreadsheets, and anything else getting put in > > > subfolders of ~/Doc

Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ross Burton wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:22:37 + > From: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: GNOME Desktop Devel List > Subject: Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:56 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: > > As for a shared database t

Re: slab menu

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Horkan
appy with slab is not reason enough to make the change and an easy way to revert to the menu based approach is a necessity (preferably in a way that remains possible even on a locked down machine). Given that Novell use the slab in a single panel setup i

Re: Not my Favorite [was Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu]

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Horkan
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:22 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > > In technical terms it is dissapointing that GTK does not have a stock menu > > item for Bookmarks because if it did we could at least make a change and > > use Favorites consistently instead of Bookmarks (and maybe t

Not my Favorite [was Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu]

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Iain * wrote: > > On 1/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And, as Alan pointed in another mail, "favourite" is not a good > > > word: I really don't lik

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Iain * wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:55:47 + > From: Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu > > On 1/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-panel menu lockdown proposal

2007-01-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Ghee Teo wrote: > Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:31:07 + > From: Ghee Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: gnome-panel menu lockdown proposal > > There is another type of gocha type of against lock down. w

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > Subject: Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:34 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Information about gnome-main-menu: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-October/msg00221.html > > -1 from me, on no techni

Re: GNOME git repositories?

2006-12-28 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:01:36 -0800 > From: Sriram Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[iso-8859-1] Germ�n Po� Caama�o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org, Kjartan Maraas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GNOME git reposit

Re: script folders

2006-12-18 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Toby Smithe wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:20:59 + > From: Toby Smithe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list > Subject: Re: script folders > > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:39 +, Calum Benson wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-15

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > [ cross-post reduced d-d-l ] > > > > Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> Some people might not like that but I think its a practical compromise. > >> With tracker being the only one written in pure C it is therefore the > >> only o

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:48:46 -0700 > From: Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[ISO-8859-1] Germ�n Po� Caama�o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-20 Thread Alan Horkan
em in a way that more/most distributions would be satisfied with and we might get more than a couple of release out it before the discussion comes up again. Sincerely Alan Horkan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: International Space Station Images

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:45:06 -0600 > From: Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: International Space Station Images > > On 9/20/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: International Space Station Images

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Maxim Udushlivy wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:52:05 +0400 > From: Maxim Udushlivy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: International Space Station Images > > Murray Cumming wrote: > > [snip] > > >

Re: 'Browsing Removeable Device' heading in Nautilus. WAS: Re: Drive applet by default

2006-09-15 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Who wrote: > - Ubuntu have a notification bubbles that tell the user when they get > it wrong (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoUnmountNotifications) - but I > think it's better to tell them before they loose their data :) lose > Who What? _

Re: [Usability] Drive applet by default

2006-09-14 Thread Alan Horkan
Please discuss on one list at a time to avoid confusing crosstalk which can make things very difficult to follow. Please do not crosspost. On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, David Prieto wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:44:42 +0200 > From: David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: usability@gnome.org, desktop

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-10 Thread Alan Horkan
provements they would like to see. The right tools and perhaps better knowledge of the Gnome Documentation style guide could help empower users to make things happen. > I find myself shooting down this idea every single > release cycle. How do you think developers can make things easier for d

Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-10 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Nate Nielsen wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 22:04:09 + (GMT) > From: Nate Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "desktop-devel-list@gnome.org" > Subject: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18 > > Seahorse is a encryption key manager for

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, [ISO-8859-1] BJörn Lindqvist wrote: [...] > * Five months were developers play and pretty much destroy all the docs we > make. > * Four weeks were we can undo the damage caused and make GNOME understandable. > > Maybe this problem can be solved by elevating the documentation

Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Bryan Clark wrote: > > The first, obvious transition is to a save dialog window with the same > > behaviour of the GtkFileChooserDialog, to use the tab completion + full > > path editing of the destination file; the currently used layout (preview > > + save stuff + (save, canc

Re: Contribution

2006-09-01 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Owen Taylor wrote: > Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:49:03 -0400 > From: Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Pat Suwalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Contribution >

Re: Contribution

2006-08-31 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pat Suwalski wrote: ... > On the project I work on, Celestia, my goal is to have a UI that is > consistent with the Windows UI, so that it's literally a port. To that > end, some things follow the HIG (I have dialog buttons at the bottom of > the window as opposed to the sid

Re: Contribution

2006-08-29 Thread Alan Horkan
s in a clearer less ambiguous fashion. This discussion is getting very hypothetical but if you do have an specific examples in the HIG you disagree with and would like to reexamine please do bring the subject to the usability mailing list (but please do not cross post). Sincerely Alan Horkan Inksca

Re: New panel layout for GNOME 2.18?

2006-08-22 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Alex Graveley wrote: > Slab is a better system and GNOME should use it by default, IMHO :) Does Novell actually want to propose it anytime soon? Has anyone tried slab with the Alacarte menu editor? I'm wondering if a variety of menus will work okay. Just today I thought t

Re: Baobab

2006-08-13 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Alex Jones wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:22:46 +0100 > From: Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: GNOME Desktop Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: Baobab > > You know I only recently noticed that the guys behind Ethereal

Re: Baobab

2006-08-12 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Chipzz wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:38:19 +0200 (CEST) > From: Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Baobab > > You are missing the point. I was *impersonat

Re: Baobab

2006-08-11 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Chipzz wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:04:19 +0200 (CEST) > From: Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Fabio Marzocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Baobab > > Baobab? WTF is Baobab? Two words: disk usage. It is also a type of tree. T

Re: removing non-working things

2006-08-07 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:07:47 +0200 > From: "[ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: removing non-working things > > Alan Horkan

Re: removing non-working things

2006-08-07 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:57:33 +0530 > From: Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: remov

Re: name change for gnome-volume-manager?

2006-08-06 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:03:51 -0400 > From: Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: name change for gnome-volume-manager? > > I'd like to change the name of gnome-volume-manager to > gnome-device-manager.

Re: removing non-working things

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Horkan
th only an icon and no text label. Applications which had used a row of buttons without text instead of a proper toolbar ended up with blank useless buttons. It seems some developers do not want flat toolbars and instead want their toolbar to look more 3 Dimensional and button-like, which woul

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Horkan
don't get confused because they don't know > what tomboy is. The standard naming convention already requires APPNAME + GENERIC NAME inside the .desktop file and it depends on your settings what gets shown, the Gnome default being to show the Generic name (Notes, Text Editor, Spreadsheet, etc.) Sincerely Alan Horkan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Baobab

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Callum McKenzie wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:33:30 +1200 > From: Callum McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Baobab > > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:35 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > As Jeff

Re: Baobab

2006-07-26 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Alex Jones wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:29:11 +0100 > From: Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Baobab > > Hi Davyd > > Interesting to see that approach to portraying disk usage. Personally, > however, I feel that anyone real

Re: Baobab

2006-07-26 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:59:42 -0600 > From: Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gnome Desktop Development List > Subject: Re: Baobab > > On 7/26/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL

Re: Baobab

2006-07-26 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:21:50 +0800 > From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gnome Desktop Development List > Subject: Baobab > > Perhaps this has been discussed, and I missed it, but... Inclusion of baobab in gnome-utils http://mail.gnome.or

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-25 Thread Alan Horkan
he next time something is suggested for removal. Sincerely Alan Horkan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-24 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, David Nielsen wrote: > man, 24 07 2006 kl. 19:49 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken: > > > I dont doubt that but FWIW when it comes to adding Tracker to gnome > > 2.18, I would like notes to be added as a first class object and stored > > in Tracker's DB. Tracker already makes it e

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-24 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, David Nielsen wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:10:22 +0200 > From: David Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Tomboy in Desktop > > man, 24 07 2006 kl. 12:51 +0100, skrev Calum Benson: > > On 22 Jul 2006, at 12:50, David Nielsen wrot

Menu consistency [was Re: consistency (or lack thereof)]

2006-07-22 Thread Alan Horkan
(This should maybe be moved to the usability list but rather than CC'ing and making the discussion too hard to follow I'll respond here.) On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Ryan Paul wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:13:08 -0700 > From: Ryan Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Cc: M

Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]

2006-07-20 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:27:26 +0200 > From: Philip Van Hoof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Ideas for Integrating The Document-Oriented Web into GNOME

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:11:43 +0100 > From: Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Ideas for Integrating The Document-Oriented Web into GNOME > >

If it aint broke dont fix it

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Horkan
[was Subject: Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion] On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Vincent Untz wrote: > > * Tomboy > > I honestly don't know :-) > I'm wondering about what we'll do with the sticky notes applet since it > might be redundant. Although there is some overlap in the task trying to

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-12 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: > As per the release schedule (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen), > it's time to heat up the module inclusion discussion. So, time to > flame, argue, etc., etc. this week and see if we can reach consensus. > The release team will try to meet next we

Re: Suggestions from a User

2006-06-25 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:57:44 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Suggestions from a User > > Dear GNOME Developers, > > I am an end-user wishing to supply some feedback/suggestions on > improving our Deskt

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-11 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, David Prieto wrote: > Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:51:47 +0200 > From: David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: opening a program with the middle button > > Hi, I have a suggestion I already posted in Ubuntu Launchpad. Here it > goes: > > Fir

Re: Don't mess with our brand [Was: 'GNOME', 'Gnome']

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:36:50 +1000 > From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Don't mess with our brand [Was: 'GNOME', 'Gnome'] > > > > > http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/grammar.html "Write the

Re: Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16

2006-04-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Travis Watkins wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:20:13 -0500 > From: Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16 > > On 4/22/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]

2006-04-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Murray Cumming wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:59:13 +0200 > From: Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2] >

Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]

2006-04-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:42 +1000 > From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2] > > > > > > [1] I'm going to beat up on you until you start writing 'GNOME' > > > correctly! > > > >

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-22 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > On 4/20/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] I'm going to beat up on you until you start writing 'GNOME' correctly! We know you like Gnome but there is no need to shout. Okay if it is an acronym then the only correct way to write it is

Re: Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16

2006-04-22 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Travis Watkins wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:51:44 -0500 > From: Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16 > > Alacarte[1] is a menu editor that makes it easy to completely > customiz

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-22 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Andrew Sobala wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:09:32 +0100 > From: Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list > Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16] > &

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-22 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dan Winship wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:41:14 -0400 > From: Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > desktop-devel-list > Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinit

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

2006-04-20 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 4/20/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [1] Holy shit, just stop talking about version numbers at all. It > > > totally doesn't mean anything useful. > > > > I understand you and most

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

2006-04-20 Thread 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 when it might happen to so

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-19 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Qua, 2006-04-19 at 16:35 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On 4/19/06, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/19/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not care about 3.0. If there are great ideas, why

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-19 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Kalle Vahlman wrote: [...] >> old API compatibility. If we change the GNOME version to 3.0 but don't >> break the API it is going to be very confusing for developers. My point was that it would be less confusing if the deprecated (but still supported for back compatibility

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-19 Thread Alan Horkan
Post Top Don't Please On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:04:39 +0100 > From: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list > Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infini

Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-19 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Brent Smith wrote: > Chris Lahey wrote: > > At conferences and LUGs, the marketing message is always about the 6 > > month release and the idea of just putting off features until the next > > version, but what if we combined the two ideas? Have a release every > > 6 months

Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]

2006-04-18 Thread Alan Horkan
s an opportunity and begin to make plans or clarify when it might be appropriate to bump the major version number in recognition of how far Gnome has come and how much as been achieved. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://Ope

Re: Fwd: [gnome-love] Participate to the GNOME Goals and feel the love!

2006-04-12 Thread Alan Horkan
best to implement the element which might allow parts of a drawing to be omitted at different sizes. Combined with careful use of predefined styles in the SVG it might become slightly less arduous to achieve what you propose but I do think it would still b

Re: Keeping user docs up-to-date with applications

2006-03-31 Thread Alan Horkan
tton layout in gnome-cd were followed by an update to the documentation (unfortunately I failed to change the screenshot). Putting together a decent patch can be time consuming enough so while I appreciate the push to document what I had done

Re: Desktop as Nautilus

2006-03-15 Thread Alan Horkan
try it out and I kind of liked it). Matchbox takes the main menu and displays it on the desk. http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/ http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots.html http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots/ss-pango.png http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots/m

Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review

2006-02-10 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:22:10 +1300 > From: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review > > On 11 Feb, 2006, at 5:

Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review

2006-02-10 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:34:32 +1300 > From: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review > > On 10 Feb, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > >

Re: File chooser button [was Re: Gnome-utils branched to gnome-2-14]

2006-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Calum Benson wrote: > Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:34:53 + > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: File chooser button [was Re: Gnome-util

File chooser button [was Re: Gnome-utils branched to gnome-2-14]

2006-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
I'm going to answer this out of order which may make it difficult to follow, apologies in advance. On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:36:22 -0600 > From: Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PR

Re: My gnome does not work properly

2006-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Kpetermeni Siakor wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:41:29 -0800 (PST) > From: Kpetermeni Siakor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: My gnome does not work properly > > Dear Developer, > I installed Ubuntu linux version 5.1 but when ever I log i

Re: UI Review

2006-02-08 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Ross Burton wrote: > Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:10:42 + > From: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "desktop-devel-list@gnome.org" > Subject: Re: UI Review > > On Wed, 2006-02-08 a

Re: UI Review

2006-02-08 Thread Alan Horkan
ch can also preview/playback the tracks. You claims about using Sound Juicer as a music player is where much of the criticism came from. Sound Juicer can be used as a music player if you really want but it is not as well suited for that task. The critic

Re: Gnome-utils branched to gnome-2-14

2006-02-08 Thread Alan Horkan
> > better, or are we using widgets for the sake of using them? I'd prefer if you didn't use the file chooser button but ideally I'd like to see a better file chooser button. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http:

Re: Nautilus Unable to Preview GIMP Files with Hidden Background

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Steven Garrity wrote: > Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:53:22 -0400 > From: Steven Garrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pat Suwalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org, > Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Nautilus Unable to Preview GIMP Files wit

Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Shaun McCance wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:27:33 -0600 > From: Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: control-center 2.13.90 released > > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:49 +, Alan Horkan wrote: > >

Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Horkan
> From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Desktop Development List , > Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: control-center 2.13.90 released > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:58:22AM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:49

Re: Survey on GNOME developers

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Niklas Vainio wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:08:58 +0200 > From: Niklas Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Survey on GNOME developers > > Dear GNOME contributors, > > The Hypermedia lab at the University of Tampere, Finland is doing a

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

2006-01-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:21:50 +1100 > From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome] > > > > > Microsoft have finally [1] said they will drop the patronising "my" > > pref

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

2006-01-13 Thread Alan Horkan
changed, renamed, > reorganised and adjusted to user preferences. Let us wait and see. This idea has been brought up many times but fizzled out before much happened because there were so many details which couldn't possible be gotten right all at once. I'm really glad to see Mandrake too

My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome]

2006-01-13 Thread Alan Horkan
later we could also have folders like: /Web Pages/ /Spreadsheets/ /Slideshows/ etc.) I believe keeping these folders in the Documents folder will help those who wish to keep their HOMEDIR relatively tidy and uncluttered. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/Al

Re: Atomix [Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules]

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Horkan
Em Qui, 2006-01-12 às 00:06 +, Alan Horkan escreveu: > > I have some criticisms of it none of which are show stoppers for playing > > and enjoying Atomix but it would be better if Atomix met the same high > > standards for accessibility, usability and documentation as ot

Text Editors [Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules]

2006-01-11 Thread Alan Horkan
d effort has been invested in the details of Gedit. There may be good excuse to sneak other text editors into Gnome (like maybe tomboy, or the sticky notes applet, or (*) ...) but justifying the removal of Gedit is a whole other ball of wax. The gedit developers can tell you I'm not even very e

Atomix [Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules]

2006-01-11 Thread Alan Horkan
it deserves but I'd really like to see better accessibility and documentation before including it. Sorry, I'd really like to be more enthusiastic about Atomix. I really like it honest and it is great fun to plame but in my humble opinion it needs more polish. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscap

Re: EOG features

2005-12-05 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:40:08 +0800 > From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: EOG features > > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:44 -0500, William Lovaton wrote: > > > The other interesting feature would be to s

Re: EOG features

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:46:17 +0200 > From: Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: EOG features > > 2005/12/1, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: EOG features

2005-11-30 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:38:22 +0100 > From: Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: EOG features > > Hi Manu, > > Op Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:59:06 +0100, schreef Manu Cornet: > > > 1) Either not hav

Re: EOG features

2005-11-30 Thread Alan Horkan
ing to use it. Also there is no easy way to compare two images side by side which I occasionally want to do, it is very much about only one image at a time.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ * pedantry: lossless as in no extra reencoding, cr

Re: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME Terminal Profiles)

2005-11-20 Thread Alan Horkan
> You can. I want to do this for all applications. Not just GNOME > terminal. So if an application is running on a machine that isn't your > local Xserver (or the machine metacity is running on perhaps) it will > tell you the hostname of the Xclient. > > eg, if I ran the command. > > ssh charlie17

Re: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME Terminal Profiles)

2005-11-20 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:47:45 +0800 > From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME > Terminal Profiles) > > On Sat, 2005

Re: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME Terminal Profiles)

2005-11-19 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:16:02 +0800 > From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME Terminal > Profiles) > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005

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

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Horkan
> Alan Horkan wrote: > > >Supporting Autopackage wouldn't adversely affect or favour any > >particularly distribution and it would in fact produce packages widely > >usable by a whole variety of distributions. There is no Autopackage based > >distribu

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

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Horkan
f Autopackages could be very interesting. (but this is all theoretical and it would require developers to create the necessary autopackage specifications which mostly do not exist yet so I'll say no more) Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ ___

Re: Default theme

2005-07-16 Thread Alan Horkan
he application. With projects like library.gnome.org it becomes a way for users to find out more about Gnome without necessarily having the application (or simply not having the most up to date version). Sincerley Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _

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