Re: Prompting for passwords on the desktop?

2008-10-19 Thread Bryan Clark
In terms of User Experience I've grown to love the mac style sheet dialog [1] for password prompts. It's not often that I'll recommend a dialog, or a modal dialog for user interactions. However sheets seem to have most of the properties you want when a password is required from an application.

Re: Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-12 Thread Bryan Clark
On 9/12/07, Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/11, Bryan Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GNOME is not in need of a DSCM or any other kind of new SCM. For source control, SVN works fine, just like CVS worked fine. I'm not looking to argue the features of one DSCM above another or what

Re: Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-11 Thread Bryan Clark
On 9/10/07, Kevin Kubasik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few key points: * There is a _very_ strong general opinion that Gnome should eventually move to a DSCM system, it is really just a discussion of how and when. * The 3 systems under consideration are bzr,git, and hg. There has not been

Re: Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-11 Thread Bryan Clark
On 11 Sep 2007 22:37:55 +0200, Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 11:41 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: GNOME is not in need of a DSCM or any other kind of new SCM. For source control, SVN works fine, just like CVS

Re: cleaning up keyrings

2007-08-29 Thread Bryan Clark
On 8/28/07, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:33 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: - fix Firefox to use the keyring, or at least let apps query Firefox password manager storage - have some mechanism for smart deductions, like I can guess you have an XMPP

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

2007-08-10 Thread Bryan Clark
Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2007/8/9, Bryan Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi ~ (so late... email problems) In the video I saw of your prototype I believe it makes perfect sense to simply store the URI of a person's background / theme from the new

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

2007-08-10 Thread Bryan Clark
Calum Benson wrote: On 10 Aug 2007, at 17:45, Bryan Clark wrote: I'll try to put together a mockup or two for a new background chooser that incorporates this. Right now my current mockup could be called a mashup between the background chooser and the screensaver dialog as it has pieces

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

2007-08-09 Thread Bryan Clark
Hi ~ (so late... email problems) Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2007/8/8, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 10:57 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Hi, Some thoughts on near-term goals and steps to get things

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

2007-07-27 Thread Bryan Clark
Bryan Clark wrote: Havoc Pennington wrote: Hi, An issue with the mockups is that the outside accounts list is shown as private, but since we're sharing one database with Mugshot, if you add those accounts they will be public over on mugshot.org Basically the public/private rules

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

2007-07-25 Thread Bryan Clark
Havoc Pennington wrote: Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Havoc Pennington - modify mugshot.org/applications (to become online.gnome.org/applications) to support web apps - make online.gnome.org and mugshot.org work as OpenID providers Quick Q about these

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

2007-07-25 Thread Bryan Clark
Havoc Pennington wrote: Hi, An issue with the mockups is that the outside accounts list is shown as private, but since we're sharing one database with Mugshot, if you add those accounts they will be public over on mugshot.org Basically the public/private rules can't differ between

Re: The future of session management in GNOME

2006-09-11 Thread Bryan Clark
Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:35 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 00:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: I do think the XSMP state-saving model is absurd and should be ignored, however, even if XSMP is used for logout notification. yeah, I

Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

2006-09-06 Thread Bryan Clark
Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: På Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:41:03AM -0400, JP Rosevear skrev: On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:17 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hi Jeff; On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:01 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

Re: remove tomboy dependency on gtkspell?

2006-08-25 Thread Bryan Clark
Shaun McCance wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:11 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: Alex, It is my understanding that a blessed GNOME application is to be built using GNOME-sanctioned tool-chains, frameworks, and applications. Other functionality that requires external dependencies

Re: icon naming spec and gnome-vfs

2006-08-02 Thread Bryan Clark
Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:26 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/icons-design.html in Problems to avoid there reads Do not include meaningful text in icons. On the same page is talked about text in icons when it comes to

Re: consistency (or lack thereof)

2006-07-21 Thread Bryan Clark
Matthias Clasen wrote: Most of the control-center capplets are immediate-apply (except for ones which have very good reason not to be), and all of then have a Close button. All ? No, not all. The background capplet considers it better to have a Finish button instead... I have asked to fix

Re: GNOME Power Manager

2006-04-21 Thread Bryan Clark
Richard Hughes wrote: 24th April is the end of new modules proposal period. Are there any unaddressed concerns or questions regarding gnome-power-manager that people want to ask? FWIW I think this project is awesome and should be 'blessed' into GNOME, it's made a large improvement to power

Re: GNOME Power Manager

2006-04-21 Thread Bryan Clark
Rodney Dawes wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:03 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: 24th April is the end of new modules proposal period. Are there any unaddressed concerns or questions regarding gnome-power-manager that people want to ask? FWIW I think

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

2006-02-16 Thread Bryan Clark
What I'm seeing seems like lack of guidance along with the other points you mentioned. For instance this release team reason: + gnome-power-manager: people like it, but some mor work is needed, and more integration should be done. It won't go in for 2.14, but we'd like to see a

Re: gtkspell (was Re: Announcing: Project Ridley)

2005-08-26 Thread Bryan Clark
I don't have a problem me tooing this request, since I think I've been asking for spell checking for all text-entry widgets for the past two years as well as a richer textview widget. IMHO we should have a textview widget that is good enough to pretty much replace GtkHTMLEditor, with undo/redo

Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-07 Thread Bryan Clark
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 18:26 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Categories *do* help people find what they're looking for, ask any secretary :), it's true that's it's more or less far from the ideal where we want to arrive, but I think it's a lot closer than the current preferences status. Right now

Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

2005-07-07 Thread Bryan Clark
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 20:57 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: It's not that categorization should be stripped entirely from the desktop. Categories do provide good ways of sorting items and are valuable keywords in searches. Most search systems I recommend [1] incorporate search and browse

Re: Evince as universal Viewer

2005-04-19 Thread Bryan Clark
I've said no to this stuff several times already. Like Jonathan said I think Evince can do a great job viewing vector based documents, however I think it will be a bad idea to use it as a viewer for these other documents. Creating viewer/editor combo applications means that people have to figure

Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel

2005-02-14 Thread Bryan Clark
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:28 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Bryan Clark (Just to note that this is satire-ish, I don't really want to cause pain and there are many other ways of getting people focused, however none really take the problem of slow to no innovation as head

Request for breakage in gnome-panel

2005-02-12 Thread Bryan Clark
Hey ~ I'm requesting a break in the 2.10 freeze for bug 167090 [*] to go through. I put some detailed reasons in the first comment of that bug. Plus there is also some fascinating commentary by me in comment 13 of bug 161613 [**] regarding the same issue. ;-) Simply put I'd like to remove the