Re: All stable flatpak builds moved to flathub

2017-11-15 Thread Alexander Larsson
etely hide them. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a leather-clad coffee-fuelled rock star from the Mississippi delta. She's a chain-smoking communist traffic cop prone to fits of

Re: All stable flatpak builds moved to flathub

2017-11-13 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 12:11 +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com > > wrote: > > The goal of flathub (https://flathub.org/) is to be a single > > location > > where you can find builds of the

All stable flatpak builds moved to flathub

2017-11-13 Thread Alexander Larsson
apps and ensure they have access to the new repos. If anyone wants to add new apps to flathub, the instructions for that are here: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/Submission-Guidelines -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson

Building flatpaks of official gnome apps

2017-03-16 Thread Alexander Larsson
. See this initiative for getting them moved to the new version: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/FlatpakManifests -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-30 Thread Alexander Larsson
ooling. This is the problem I have with the current setup. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's an old-fashioned overambitious boxe

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
he release. (I mean, anyone with commit-rights could sneak in some dubious commit during the development phase, but at least you can't do a MITM attack and replace the code post-release when you git pull.) --  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
On fre, 2016-08-26 at 13:39 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 09:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > >  > > Anyway, the best we can do now is i think having a git repo, say > > gnome- > > apps-nightly, that has two files in it, listing for

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
ned commit, put there by the release team. Then we could make sure that the binaries for stable builds are the proper releases. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
On tor, 2016-08-25 at 17:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 25 August 2016 at 16:29, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > However, it would > > make more sense for each individual application developers to > > maintain > > the manife

Re: Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
On tor, 2016-08-25 at 17:12 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > > 2016-08-25 16:29 GMT+01:00 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com>: > > After some work I now have the gnome runtimes and applications > > building again, now on the new gnome build infrastructure. > > &g

Gnome Flatpak build system, descriptions and questions

2016-08-25 Thread Alexander Larsson
th names of the repo+file of everything to build, but we would need someone to work on the build scripts to make this work. Any takers? [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-apps-nightly -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander

Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Larsson
On tor, 2015-02-12 at 12:55 -0800, Philip Chimento wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 11:22 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On ons, 2015-02-11 at 12:17 +, Philip Withnall wrote

Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

2015-02-12 Thread Alexander Larsson
I/O? I don't think this is a great alternative in many cases. The gstdio stuff may work fine from C, but the GObjects etc of gio makes such use much nicer from language bindings. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson

Re: GTK+3/Win32 : looking for help

2014-06-16 Thread Alexander Larsson
On lör, 2014-06-07 at 12:17 +0100, Sam Bull wrote: On ven, 2014-06-06 at 22:24 +, C. Thomas Stover wrote: No, that's why I asked. GIMP and Inkscape are great. I use them both. Though do many people use them on windows? This is a serious question. I've seen several people use GIMP on

Re: HiDPI and fractional scaling

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Larsson
On mån, 2014-02-03 at 09:54 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: Hello, I'm typing this from my Sony Vaio Pro 13. The resolution on this thing is 1920x1080 on a 13 display, putting it at about 160 dpi, so I don't get any automatic scaling love. Without scaling, there is a massive amount of eye

Re: HiDPI and fractional scaling

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Larsson
On mån, 2014-02-03 at 09:27 +, Loïc Minier wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2014, Alexander Larsson wrote: [...] Also, the multi-monitor situation wrt hidpi is essentially unfixable on X11. Would you have details or pointers on this part? (We'll have X around for many years to come, at least

Re: HiDPI and fractional scaling

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Larsson
On mån, 2014-02-03 at 14:19 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2014, Alexander Larsson wrote: Well, the way scaling works on X is that we set a global value for the scale factor, and all apps just render that much larger. It is impossible for an X app to render at two sizes

Re: Portals and Sandboxing

2014-01-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On tor, 2014-01-02 at 15:22 +, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote: Hello, My name is Michael Ikey Doherty, though some of you will know me as Ikey Doherty. A quick introduction: I'm a software engineer at Intel and have worked with the GNOME stack for a few years. I've mostly been known for

Re: High-DPI displays in GNOME: machine available, developer wanted

2013-04-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On fre, 2013-04-05 at 09:35 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: Some months back I inquired about plans for high-DPI displays after obtaining a 'Retina' MacBook Pro... I basically got told donate hardware but only had the one machine which I'm actively using. As it happens, I've more recently acquired

Re: Gnome platform overview

2012-11-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On tis, 2012-11-06 at 14:52 +0100, Pierre-Yves Luyten wrote: Hi, not sure writing to the right list, however: I was quickly looking at gnome platform overview on http://developer.gnome.org/ or dedicated http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/ or

Re: Please check your sources for strings not marked for translation before release

2012-05-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 08:33 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Kenneth Nielsen k.nielse...@gmail.com wrote: So please... If you could make a bit more of an effort of checking your sources for non-internationalized strings before release that would be great. IMHO

Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications

2012-05-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:54 -0400, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote: The way I see it, is that we need to provide some widgets to do the stuff following the guldelines of the new Gnome Design As Allan says here [1], there's a new kind of toolbar, which have some stuff in common, and it will be

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-14 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 10:44 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: What do you suggest then? 1. Let anyone with git.gnome.org upload any tarball they want 2. Let selected people upload any tarball they want; handled by accou...@gnome.org. 3. Only maintainers, release team I think

Re: Gnome Contacts developers wanted

2011-10-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 14:00 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: What is the language used to develop? Its written in vala, and so is libfolks which is the primary dependency. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Gnome Contacts developers wanted

2011-10-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 19:39 +0530, Kartik Singhal wrote: Hi On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: So, I'd like to reach out to other developers interested in working on Gnome Contacts. This would be a great time to start hacking

Re: GNOME Online Accounts extensibility

2011-10-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:36 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 10/10/11 10:39, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On jue, 2011-10-06 at 14:30 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote: Sorry, not trying to sound harsh here but I couldn't find a better way to say this. Basically you are saying that GOA isn't really an

Re: Confused about the release

2011-09-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:15 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 01/09/11 14:41, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: urn:my-resource nco:author mailto:foo@bar The Contacts application doesn't store or read anything in Tracker as far as I know, but goes through libfolks. It would be really nice to have

Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

2011-04-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote: In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still need a dedicated contacts app. I am open to being convinced that an integrated IM/contacts app would work,

Re: 3.2: gjs/seed

2011-04-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:00 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 28.04.2011, 18:38 -0400 schrieb Colin Walters: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: == Dynamic Languages in GNOME == One thing that's worth addressing though

Re: 3.2: gjs/seed

2011-04-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 02:28 +1200, John Stowers wrote: String handling and containers are sort of limited lowlevel things though. I don't think anyone has a problem with using the language native versions of these. Especially since the gnome platform story on these are quite weak.

Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

2011-04-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
(Sent again, didn't seem to reach the list last time) On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:23 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: Another thing is that using Overview views for information types that are nearly unbounded like people is really difficult. Browsing isn't really a good interface for things

Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
use it to link to other personas. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a scrappy Jewish shaman on the edge

Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
(dnd onto composer windows, etc). Also, we should have something that corresponds to clicking on the to button in the evo compositor to select a single email (or im if used for elsewhere) address to add. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander

Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
to efficiently handle ldap contacts, which are really important for enterprise deployments of email. This also needs a live search approach, because we can't rely on a local copy of all ldap data. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson

Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:53 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:01 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:52 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 20:29 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote: While using GNOME 3.0 on my desktop now

Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
that there is some level of support for synchronizing contacts with e.g. phones. So, I guess we need to think about where it fits in. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al

Re: empathy integration with the desktop

2011-04-04 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:32 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: From: Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com Does this also affect other message tray stuff? If so, can someone describe this more? We don't pop up non-urgent notifications when the user is Busy, but rather just add them

Re: empathy integration with the desktop

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Larsson
nautilus to carry out file operations. Well, you do, if by you you mean the user. Of course, any app may do file operations, but i'm not talking code design here, but user experience design. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson

Re: empathy integration with the desktop

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Guillaume Desmottes gdesm...@gnome.org wrote: Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 10:09 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : Our integration of empathy is pretty nice these days, you set up accounts in the global

empathy integration with the desktop

2011-03-29 Thread Alexander Larsson
empathy if needed when you switch to available or busy. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a fiendish vegetarian

Re: SoC idea: desktop file cache

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Larsson
code. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's an unconventional albino shaman on the wrong side of the law. She's

Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
on-web filestore integrated with everything * Syncing of preferences and bookmarks to my.gnome.org -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com

dconf path name standard

2011-02-08 Thread Alexander Larsson
). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a lonely guerilla dwarf on the wrong side of the law. She's a violent

The desktop in Gnome 3

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Larsson
Gnome has for a very long time been using the traditional model of using the desktop as a location to store transient files and launchers. Using the desktop in this way has several known problems. A good description of some of them are this blog entry:

Re: splash screen removal

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Larsson
. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a time-tossed Catholic farmboy who must take medication to keep him sane. She's a time-travelling antique

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's an ungodly Catholic cowboy moving from town to town, helping folk in trouble. She's a chain-smoking

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:01 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:25 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: This is a common error. Filenames need to be stored as ay

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:04 -0400, A. Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:25 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:37 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: This is a common

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:15 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 20:58 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:01 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:25 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
that, the schema should live in glib, I think. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623723 Very much ack. And then we can drop the gvfs part and the extension point. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson

Re: desktop schemas review [was: Re: GSettings migration status]

2010-07-05 Thread Alexander Larsson
. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a fiendish albino gentleman spy trapped in a world he never made. She's a blind blonde Hell's Angel

Converting libraries and plugins to use gtk3

2010-06-11 Thread Alexander Larsson
place. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a hate-fuelled umbrella-wielding ex-con She's a beautiful

Re: Versioned symbols for 3.0?

2010-05-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a scrappy Catholic Green Beret from a doomed world. She's a disco-crazy

Re: Versioned symbols for 3.0?

2010-05-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
an issue with a function. That doesn't make the function new so it won't get a new version (typically), so again the symbol versioning isn't enough. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat

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

2010-04-15 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 18:04 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 14/04/10 16:10, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 18:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: User defined tags A completely flat view of all documents doesn't handle all users or use cases. Frequent filers will want

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

2010-04-14 Thread Alexander Larsson
metadata storage: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2009/06/24/data-about-data/ -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-24 Thread Alexander Larsson
. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a gun-slinging amnesiac barbarian who hangs with the wrong crowd. She's a time-travelling out-of-work widow prone to fits

Nautilus 2.29.1 released - change in focus

2009-12-17 Thread Alexander Larsson
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander LarssonRed Hat, Inc al...@redhat.comalexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a globe-trotting soccer-playing ex-con She's a sarcastic wisecracking mermaid

Re: Nautilus 2.29.1 released - change in focus

2009-12-17 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:58 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: First of all we have switched to browser mode by default (spatial is still available from the prefs), secondly we have reorganized the browser UI and added a split view functionality. Here is a quick screenshot of the current UI

Re: Nautilus 2.29.1 released - change in focus

2009-12-17 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:58 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: First of all we have switched to browser mode by default (spatial is still available from the prefs), secondly we have reorganized the browser UI and added a split view

Re: Proposal: What's new

2009-11-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:34 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 10:12 +0100 schrieb Patryk Zawadzki: The idea is to add another option called What's new to the Help menu in all GNOME applications. As the name suggest it would contain a Grandma-Readable™

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 16:03 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 06.11.09 20:22, Alexander Larsson (al...@redhat.com) wrote: There is one problem with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED. If you do it on a file the kernel will drop it from its caches. This is generally what you want if you just

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-07 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 08:47 +, Martyn Russell wrote: On 06/11/09 19:22, Alexander Larsson wrote: There is one problem with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED. If you do it on a file the kernel will drop it from its caches. This is generally what you want if you just indexed a 100 meg text file

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:21 +, Martyn Russell wrote: On 29/10/09 15:23, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: I agree it needs fixing, but there are a number of things to consider here: - FANotify is being worked on by Red Hat and will be in the kernel for us to use at some point - and

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:56 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:58 +, Martyn Russell wrote: I desperately need an indexer for help documents in Yelp. Yelp currently has two search backends: one based on Beagle and one that basically greps everything every time you search.

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 14:22 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: How can you be sure of that? Any other plan involves first writing and debugging a new set of software to support the gconf api on something else, then maintaining

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-23 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:53 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 22 octobre 2009 à 14:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : So, I say, leave old apps using gconf alone, and leave the gconf storage alone too. It works (to some degree) and will continue to work (to the same degree

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:38 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:23 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: We want to both be able to read all keys as per the current user, and determine whether a gconf key really has been set or if it has inherited the default value (so we

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:27 +0100, Iain wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: For applications that need to do weird conversions where we can't extend the tool to do this in a generic fashion we could just ship a special tool

gnome-vfs branched

2009-10-01 Thread Alexander Larsson
While gnome-vfs is a generally dead project we sometimes get minor patches for it, from distro people, etc. To handle this and the fact that some such patches may contain new strings I created a stable gnome-2-28 branch for gnome-vfs, and will commit new patches on master. Note that master is

gvfs branched for gnome-2-26

2009-04-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
I've branched gvfs for gnome 2.26, further developement on master is for gnome 2.28. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Nautilus branched for gnome-2-26

2009-04-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
Nautilus has been branched, stable development is on gnome-2-26 branch, master is for 2.28 development. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
--split-only Its uses less space and is imho just as useful for causual offline use. And if you want more there is git anyway. Example: - snip - commit 6fa515051dc7f082896151545a41a29853f4a3bc Author: Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/20/2009 09:02 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 21:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hey, I first wrote Makefile.am magic for Pango to generate

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:00 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I like the more verbose format clearly showing which changes are big and which are small. Well, I don't really disagree that its nice to know

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:37 -0400, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: But that's just a gut feeling and maybe it's wrong. The point is, ChangeLogs were invented back when RCS-files-on-an-NFS-server was the pinnacle of version control technology, and maybe what was most useful then isn't what's

Re: dconf

2009-04-03 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:58 -0400, Martin Meyer wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: Le jeudi 02 avril 2009 à 19:39 +0100, Rob Taylor a écrit : My question would be is why do these People have a desktop in which there isn't a DBus session bus?

Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-25 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:04 +, Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:16 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:52 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: So, my suggestion: The application launcher %s has not been marked as trusted. If you do not know

Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-24 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:52 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: 2009-02-23 klockan 10:43 skrev Christian Rose: On 2/23/09, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:24 +, Karl Lattimer wrote: Untrusted application launcher The file %s is an application

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-23 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 14:04 +, Alan Cox wrote: Its true that all of these *could* and *should* mark the file as executable, however since we never demanded that before this would be a regression for many users. Both for old created desktop files and for new ones created by non-updated

freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-23 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:24 +, Karl Lattimer wrote: Untrusted application launcher The file %s is an application launcher, but it is not marked trusted. If you recieved this file from an unknown source or did not expect it to be an application launcher it may be unsafe to launch.

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:44 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: Alexander Larsson wrote: So, there has been a lot of attention on the internets recently about the the desktop file virus issue. I think its all pretty overblown, and any solution we have that doesn't completely neuter the feature

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 13:08 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 15:21 +, Alexander Larsson a écrit : However, I do agree that it is a bit bad that you can be a target of an attack like this without really being able to realize it. So, my current plan is two-fold

Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
So, there has been a lot of attention on the internets recently about the the desktop file virus issue. I think its all pretty overblown, and any solution we have that doesn't completely neuter the feature will just involve users learning to work around the issue in cases where this is correct,

Re: Help with strings for solution for desktop file virus problem

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 16:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le vendredi 20 février 2009, à 15:21 +, Alexander Larsson a écrit : So, there has been a lot of attention on the internets recently about the the desktop file virus issue. /me hadn't noticed. But there were a few threads on xdg

Re: New Module Proposal: libseed

2009-01-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:32 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 05 janvier 2009, à 22:12 -0500, Robert Carr a écrit : I was not planning to do this until .28, however a nice Clutter game written in Seed was merged in to gnome-games today, and there is some interest in being able to include

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:01 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a git-serve plugin for the bzr repo server. I

Re: Eel merged into Nautilus 2.25.3

2008-12-19 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:58 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008, à 13:30 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : The one thing I found in Fedora that really uses eel in a substantial way is a program called gnome-translate. I guess they're in for a bunch of porting work. Nod.

Eel merged into Nautilus 2.25.3

2008-12-15 Thread Alexander Larsson
I just released Nautilus 2.25.3 which contains an internalized copy of eel, and I don't plan to do any more eel releases. This lets the compiler do better optimizations and means one less library to link against. Eel was always unsupported and shouldn't be used outside nautilus. However, some

Re: Thumbnailer specification: Move, Delete, Copy hints (Was: Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails)

2008-10-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:42 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:30 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: I guess when Philip's thumbnailer daemon is starting to get widely used, It could do the job of cleaning the cache. This would mean that you would no longer have thumbnails lying

eel and nautilus branched

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander Larsson
I've branched eel and nautilus for Gnome 2.24. gnome-2-24 is for translations and bugfixes only. New features goes on trunk. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

libunique external dependency for 2.25?

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander Larsson
I just commited some nautilus code to trunk (for 2.25) that makes use of libunique for unique application functionallity (replacing the previous code using bonobo-activation). However, libunique isn't currently a blessed external dependency. So, I'd like to propose it. (Another alternative is to

Re: libunique external dependency for 2.25?

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 17:51 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:51 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: I just commited some nautilus code to trunk (for 2.25) that makes use oflibunique for unique application functionallity (replacing the previous code using bonobo-activation

Nautilus and eel branched for 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Alexander Larsson
Stable branch is now gnome-2-22, trunk is for Gnome 2.23.x ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

gvfs branched for gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Alexander Larsson
GVfs has been branched for gnome 2.22. Stable branch is gnome-2-22, trunk contains 0.99.x which will be 1.0.0 for Gnome 2.24. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE This seems to be in the process of being included, thanks to GVFS. Indeed, but it would have been nice to know this was important to users before. The fact that GVFS allows this is

Re: Tomboy replacement

2008-02-22 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 10:19 -0500, Mark Fink wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Mark Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already gotten it so you can type stuff in a text field, so it already almost has

Re: Just change release date (Was Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21)

2008-02-13 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 02:36 +, Rob Taylor wrote: Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Op dinsdag 12-02-2008 om 13:30 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Shaun McCance: I've used it for grabbing tarballs from ftp.gnome.org. Unfortunately, it's not as useful as it could be, since the gnome-vfs

Re: Just change release date (Was Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21)

2008-02-13 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 01:30 +0100, Mattias Bengtsson wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 01:26 +0100, Matteo Settenvini wrote: Moreover, a regression is a regression, and should be prioritized. Btw, how much useful is having WebDAV and ObexFTP in before normal FTP support? No idea what is used

Re: Just change release date (Was Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21)

2008-02-13 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:28 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Op woensdag 13-02-2008 om 11:06 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Alexander Larsson: Well, gvfs already does this for the uris it supports. Its one of the main features of it. Any app can open and save to files on gvfs shares

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