Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

2009-04-26 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
orted; 2. Not build the deprecatd bindings by default unless a --enable-deprecated-bindings option is used. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

gnome-common git migration problem?

2009-04-18 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
; not found configure.in:14: required file `doc-build/Makefile.in' not found -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

2009-02-24 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
users furious if there is no viable alternative to do the same thing with GIO [1]. And I mean GIO + GIO Python bindings. It could happen that an application is using a GnomeVFS API for something that GIO does not provide or for which there are no Python bindings, since coverage is probably not 1

Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

2009-02-24 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
g in the GNOME Desktop platform? Does GnomeVFS no longer belong in the GNOME Developer platform? In case of Yes, would it be OK to keep the Python bindings where they are and just mark them as deprecated? Else they'd have to move into gnome-python-extras, I guess... -

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
GUI for certain things. I don't use any IDE for source code editing, and I would certainly hate to have to use Nautilus for commits. Not to say that GUIs aren't useful for some things. I have seen nice GUIs for bazaar, git, and mercurial. But they are most useful for visualizing the re

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
evelopers of a project for which > usability is a prime goal choose the less usable VCS tool at their > disposal. Nicely put. Bonus points for saying it politely :-) -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:23 +0100, Edward Hervey wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 20:32 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > In December I ran a distributed version control system survey for GNOME. > > &

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
e what emacs produces) from git commit logs? I know that some projects like Cairo auto-generate ChangeLog already, but the default git changelog format is too detailed/ugly IMHO. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert

Re: new module proposal: brasero

2008-11-04 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ons would be of course appreciated. We are > willing to do whatever needs to be done to improve brasero for it to > be integrated. > > NOTE: after the 0.8.3 release that should take place soon, we intend > to branch it and use SVN trunk for the next development version. ATM > trun

Re: Prompting for passwords on the desktop?

2008-09-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:09 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone who has gained a user privilege could possibly show a fake > > password input dialog that looks exactly like

Re: Prompting for passwords on the desktop?

2008-09-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
seful in the short term, but > something to be aware of. A long-term goal should be to address these > issues so that root password entry is handled in a more secure fashion > in the future. > > Brian > _______________ > desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: GNOME 2.24 Showstopper Review

2008-09-01 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ython... > > * http://live.gnome.org/GioPort : > PATCHES: alacarte, gnome-applets, gnome-utils, gnome-build, gdl, > TODO: gnome-python-desktop, gnome-utils, sabayon, anjuta Again, why gnome-python-desktop should be ported to gio? It sounds like a simpe grep-find generated list, but I doub

Re: build system alternatives (Was: Using vala in GNOME)

2008-07-01 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
that use Visual Studio and can't live without it. But among GNOME developers I have serious doubts anyone uses one of those IDEs. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert _

Re: build system alternatives (Was: Using vala in GNOME)

2008-06-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:45 +0300, natan yellin wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/30 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 2008-06-3

Re: build system alternatives (Was: Using vala in GNOME)

2008-06-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:01 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote: > Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:07 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > [..] > > >> Plus, CMake is getting more mature and stable and it already supports > >> VisualStudio and XCode

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-06-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:07 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > > 2008/6/30 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > An excellent reason to switch to a more modular build system, > one that > does not require patchi

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-06-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
t; attribute those kind of qualifiers to my messages in the future. > > Update the bug: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472048#c11 > > The automake maintainers received a patch ages ago: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-09/msg7.html >

Re: Getting a list of open files, the smart way?

2008-05-15 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
/bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=109417 > ___ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL P

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-21 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:59 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. It does not use Cairo; > > The implementation that I'm proposing will blit Cairo-rendered > surface

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-20 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
other hand, Cairo has failed to live up to the promise of hardware acceleration. After years of development with no significant results on the hardware acceleration front (when compared to pure OpenGL) perhaps it deserves this fate... Not taking sides he

Re: Removing libgnomeprint* from the desktop set

2008-03-29 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
and not too hard) to move subdirectories from one SVN module to another one without losing history, like it used to be done for CVS "surgery"? -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-27 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:39 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:39 -0700, Ethan Osten wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:32 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2008, 19:13 +0100 schrieb Xa

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-27 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
: IM is one of the areas that pretty much requires user input to be > usable, so if I rely upon it in my application when most of my users end > up using Pidgin or whatever, I'll end up with a feature that's useless > to my audience. You might as well just h

Re: Nautilus unmount volume, also power-off?

2008-02-04 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
nd whose replacement hard drive has already started showing some signs of failure, I wonder if unmounting an external USB hard drive but not sending a STOP command is harmful for the safety of the disk by preventing the disk from parking, thereby making it more prone to damage during travel.

Re: Proposed module: empathy

2007-12-27 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Qui, 2007-12-27 at 19:20 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 27.12.2007, 11:52 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens: > > Le lundi 24 décembre 2007 à 12:48 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a > > écrit : > > > I would just like to say that I am concerned

Re: Proposed module: empathy

2007-12-24 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
mentation needed to be written (I don't know the >current status) > + no API stability guarantee yet > + current license of the libraries is GPL >[context: if the libraries are proposed for the platform later, they >will need to be LGPL] > > Xavier can prob

Re: Proposed module: cheese

2007-12-20 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
e used to be a build system issue (and intltool integration > >issues), but it now uses waf or autotools > > exactly, you can find both waf and autotools in the src-tree and > everyone can use his favourite. unfortunately, just autotools is > supported by jhbuild at the moment.

Re: Suggested even/odd convention for the micro version numbers (like cairo)

2007-12-11 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ke 0.8.0.214. Looking at 0.8.0.214 it becomes easy to see that it is a bzr version which comes right after the official 0.8.0 release. But, anyway, your idea is simpler to implement[1], and probably good enough... [1] although in my case the version numbering is derived automatically by a hook

Re: gnome-keyring has SSH, X.509 certificate and key support

2007-12-04 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
hough it still seems to default to 0.0.0 and removing it > > has seems to have no effect on the files created. :/ > > And add -avoid-version. Don't forget -module. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit "The universe is alway

Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

2007-12-03 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
x27;t see the point of supporting runtime tests with cross compilation in the build tool. I mean, the most that the tool can do is give an error message saying the test cannot be run. How will that help? And how does autoconf get away with it? Last I checked, autoconf just gave an error message; b

Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

2007-12-03 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:43 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > > 2007/12/2, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Dec 2, 2007 3:46 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In case anyone is interested, feel free to

Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

2007-12-03 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 07:48 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 11:46 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In case anyone is interested, feel free to try out a 100% WAF-ied > > version of gnome-python: > > > > http://www.gnome.org

WAF (Was: build tools)

2007-12-02 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
new system. Later, if no serious problems or objections are found, I would like to switch to it. Cheers, PS: try the '-p' waf option for greater eye candy effect. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always on

Re: strawman (Was Re: build systems)

2007-11-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
hilst in a > build function, bld.env is a function returning something which behaves > like a dict (so need to use bld.env()['foo']). Rather confusing. Agreed. But I think also fixable, since WAF API is not exactly frozen ;-) Cheers, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Tele

Re: build systems

2007-11-11 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
programs/libraries/whatever ("make installcheck"), and, > if all that succeeded, declares your distribution Ready. I coded distcheck into WAF a couple of months ago. It wasn't even a difficult task... Cheers, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carn

Re: Agnubus?

2007-11-02 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
GTK-based > > for this as well. > > OOo is Gtk based for several years. This is not true. OOo only uses Gtk themes, not Gtk widgets. Big difference. Like the difference between firefox and epiphany. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedi

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
PA plugin for gst), but for the > applet and the standalone mixer i'd like to see a replacement. Right > now both use the gst mixer abstraction API, which only exposes a > very limited set of what our PA mixer can do and which quite frankly > is a big mess. We'd have

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-11 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ds compatibility. > > > > I already do not use esd. > > You must have the Gnome desktop sounds turned off then. I do. Yet another "feature" I don't need and which was getting in the way of perfect sound, so I just disabled it. > > > > And last, and actua

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-11 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
* Graceful handling and policy for on-the-fly device removal and insertion Those are nice features, but all summed together they don't come near to "skipless sound" that raw ALSA provides. > * Decent OSS emulation that doesn't cut software-mixing out of the loop OSS

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-10 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2007-10-09 at 09:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On 10/9/07, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am not saying Pulse Audio has these problems. I simply don't know > > That can easily be helped. Just try gnome 2.20 with pu

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-09 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
s by ALSA clients. Routing all sound through a userspace daemon has its risks, and I would rather have "simple" sound working flawlessly, even if at the cost of volume control and PNP. [1] Yes, in that sense this email can be classified as FUD, but I don't mind :) -- Gustavo J.

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-09 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2007-10-09 at 01:17 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote: > Il giorno lun, 08/10/2007 alle 23.19 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro ha > scritto: > > Last time I tried PulseAudio (over a year ago) it hogged the sound > > device and did not let any other ALSA client produce s

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
+>+++ W+++ N++ o? > w--- O- M++ PS++ PE- Y+>++ > PGP+++ t+ 5 X- R tv-- b+++ DI+ > D++ G++ e h+ r-- y? > --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- > _______________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Why have a ChangeLog file if you already have commit messages?

2007-09-17 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
merging branches. The ChangeLog therefore throws away one of the biggest advantages of DSCM, which is not only offering decentralized source control, or very fast commits, but also much more intelligent branching and merging when compared to CVS or Subversion. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro I

Re: Why have a ChangeLog file if you already have commit messages?

2007-09-16 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ed functions. Anyway, I can easily live without a list of changed functions. And since each changelog entry has a revision number, interested parties can fire up "bzr viz" and look at the diff themselves. [1] https://launchpad.net/pybindgen/ [2] http://telecom.inescporto.pt/~gjc/gnulog.

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

2007-09-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:40 +0100, John Carr wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:47 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:28 +0100, John Carr wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 10:13 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > > 2007/9/11,

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

2007-09-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
er/ ? Nah.. www.gnome.org is not appropriate for that, or so they tell us; b) You need to allow multiple commiters to the same user-neutral branch; c) you need to run a bzr smart server on the server side or else network performance is going to be rather bad. Bott

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

2007-09-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ted from log messages; 4- Oh, in one of my projects[1] I even got my package to automatically derive its own version number from the last tag registered in the branch, so that I only have to tag the source tree and make a release tarball, not update some version string in some file; how cool

Re: quick question regarding bonobo-activation-server-ior file

2007-09-02 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Dom, 2007-09-02 at 13:09 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Sáb, 2007-08-25 at 10:39 -0700, Gabriel M. Elder wrote: > > My apologies if this is the wrong list. > > > > Would someone be so kind as to tell me what executable > > and/or library is respons

Re: quick question regarding bonobo-activation-server-ior file

2007-09-02 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
bo is probably gnome-session; if not, gnome-panel or nautilus are other likely candidates. > > TIA, > - gabriel > ___ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: MAINTAINERS in svn -- have it or no commit for you

2007-09-01 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
been enabled. Means you cannot commit to modules without a > proper MAINTAINERS file. The rejection message points to an URL > explaining this. It is not nice to do this like this; you should make the pre-commit script give only a warning, for a few months, but still allow commit. Only after the warni

Re: gtk+ API change; who should fix it? (A.k.a. Why isn't GNOME 2.19.4 released yet?)

2007-06-22 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
tooltips API! Just because pygtk _can_ adapt doesn't mean that it _should_. In fact there are at least a couple of other changes in gtk+ 2.11.x that break the API; we should really be more careful about these things... -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Mu

Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome

2007-03-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
e form or another? We also need said sound server to not suck. On Linux systems it must 1) use ALSA, and 2) work well with dmix and allow other applications (e.g. flash plugin) to use ALSA directly. Pulse Audio at least doesn't qualify for the second point. Esound doesn't qualify fo

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ve to define PYTHONPATH correctly. Or let "jhbuild shell/run" do it.. Personally I prefer to have a custom built python, for better debugging. But I would understand if people want to use the system python instead. In fact, using the system python by default would allow GNOME to

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:38 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Ter, 2007-03-13 at 16:57 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > > Unlike GNOME and Linux, P

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
cause it's the new stable version of python and python 2.4 is not maintained any more. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2007-03-13 at 09:42 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > I'd like to suggest updating jhbuild to install Python 2.5 instead of > > 2.4 for GNOME 2.20, because: > > * I don't think Python 2.4

GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
GNOME 2.18); * We could really use the testing of GNOME on Python 2.5, especially on 64-bit systems. Comments? -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: pulseaudio vs gnome

2007-02-02 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
or two of them need to do audio or multimedia stuff. If you want to avoid delay when playing a beep, then all apps will have to initialize GStreamer and precache an audio sample. Startup time and memory costs pile up. It's much better to have a simple sound server (which can use GStreamer)

Re: Cairo-1.2.6 required

2007-01-23 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
t;trust" we could do this immediately, without thinking twice. At least it would solve the cairo 1.2.4 vs 1.2.6 issue that brought this thread of discussion. Best regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Th

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
k/unlock; this is doable, I'm sure. PS: I'm not part of the release team; this is only my personal opinion. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. ___ desk

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
this gets much much better optimised in the future, or we have to wait for more powerful hardware. In any case, I'm -1 for including tracker in GNOME 2.18; let's wait and see how this evolves at GNOME 2.20 time. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Proposed module: seahorse

2007-01-09 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
re now loaded on the passwords tab of the > seahorse application. This is cool; it almost replaces gnome-keyring-manager... could it replace it completely one day, I wonder?... Thanks, great work. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
3- "sreen resolution", "screensaver", "desktop background" => "Display" 4- "PamOS devices", and "removable drives and media" => "external devices" (or something) 5- *Everything non-GNOME*, move into a sepa

Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
away from a multitude of capplets, there's an alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences "categories", as we do for the applications menu. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. ___

Re: "Document font" preference

2006-11-01 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Qua, 2006-11-01 at 18:26 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > In my font preferences I see a "Document font" option. It affects the > gconf key /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name, which is > documented as "Name of the default font used for readi

"Document font" preference

2006-11-01 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
application. Two question: 1- why does this preference exist if not used? 2- Can I use it in my application, or is it deprecated? Thanks, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic ___

Re: jhbuild failing due to cvs conflicts

2006-10-29 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Seg, 2006-10-30 at 00:22 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:43 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > > However, there's one more major problem standing in our way to smooth > > jhbuilding. It seems that many modules are still producing cvs &g

jhbuild failing due to cvs conflicts

2006-10-29 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
c dictates that I should not therefore be penalized by cvs conflicts. What's happening here? Can it be fixed? -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic ___ desk

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ough to solve memory problems, it doesn't bode well for its future. To be fair, at least we know about beagle problems since it is well tested; we might still find similar problems in tracker further down the road... -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &l

Re: integrating python applications in the gnome desktop

2006-10-15 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
edesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec Regards, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

gnome-python-desktop branched

2006-10-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
gnome-python-desktop branched (tag gnome-2-16) for GNOME 2.16; the HEAD branch will follow GNOME API changes and will possibly accept new APIs. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-24 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
a key takes effect. > It also gives us the ability to pre-load applications without showing > any interface. I am totally willing to spare a chunk of my RAM if it > means I don't have to keep warm-starting Epiphany every time I open a > web page. It would make my entire desktop use a

Re: Proposal for LAT inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Qui, 2006-09-14 at 04:11 +0100, Sander Vesik wrote: > --- "Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ter, 2006-09-12 às 14:26 -0400, Hubert Figuiere escreveu: > > > > I would like to propose LAT 1.2.x for inclusion in GNOME,

Re: dbus-launch and gnome-session

2006-09-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
I'd share this if anyone else happened to run into it. Been there myself. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-March/msg00102.html -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. __

Re: Proposal for LAT inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
here is no C equivalent to LAT, we don't have much choice. No, GQ is not the same. From what I saw of GQ 1.0 and LAT 1.0, LAT is much better because 1) GQ is GTK2 based but very far from HIG compliant, 2) LAT is more than a simple LDAP client, it has views and dialogs for managing users, not jus

Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-09-10 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
no option to export your own keys to a file; it's like a black hole, once you import a key, you won't get it back, ever. Anyway. Keep up the good work! -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic _

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-09 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ions; 3. Documention doesn't destabilize the program, it can go on for a much longer time after code/feature freeze. If you want to delay the official GNOME .0 release for documentation, that's another matter. But delaying or forbidding contributions because of lack documentation is unthinkable

Re: Nine Months in Six Months

2006-09-08 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
Here is my much-anticipated MASTER PLAN: Your master plan implies branching early and heavily committing to both branches for a long time. Reality check: we are still using this archaic software called C.V.S.! Branching with that software is incredibly complex. Your master plan is bloc

Re: gnome desktop integration library

2006-09-07 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
oper screen saving notification abstractions is not trivial, and I agree we could use a common library for that. [1] http://telecom.inescporto.pt/~gjc/gnome-osd/hg/gnome-osd/?cmd=file;file=gnomeosd/xscreensaver.py;filenode=35463d1d41b70b7be4d795cc3abf6e1094609b6e -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: hal and jhbuild

2006-08-20 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
7;m not sure what happened in this particular case, but this failure has existed for a long time (weeks?); it should have been fixed a long time ago. Maybe we need a set of written policies for this sort of thing... -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR

Re: Baobab (nautilus integration)

2006-07-30 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
k (file system checker), defragmenter, etc. In our case, when we open the properties dialog for a folder, nautilus shows the total count of this folder. Near this place it could have a button 'Detailed disk space analysis', which would launch baobab to scan the selected folder. Regar

Re: Baobab

2006-07-28 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
representation of the disk usage by means > of a TreeMap graph and (in the next future) a Pie Chart. > > Fabio > ___ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-22 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
So we shouldn't remove sticky notes for at least a couple of gnome cycles, IMHO. Regards, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic ___ desktop-devel-list mail

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-22 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
web based one (I hate writing wikis in these tiny windows). For mind mapping, I'd rather use a real mind mapping software; alas, we don't have a good gtk2 mind mapper, but freemind is pretty good. For simply taking notes, sticky notes is more than enough. Sticky notes applet is awes

Re: consistency (or lack thereof)

2006-07-21 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
using the "Change Desktop Background" desktop popup menu, because it is worded like a task description. It makes no sense when accessing the same preference through "Preferences->Desktop Background". This highlights another inconsistency: "Change Desktop Backgro

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
ented variant of ubuntu). They're basically the same distribution, with different default colors and different default set of apps. _Maybe_ we could go one step further and have apps customize the level of complexity of the UI (like very early nautilus had as preference, like RB has a "comp

Re: Mono/GTK#/Tomboy

2006-07-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
f "power user" tool; 2. deskbar is not loaded by default; the user has to explicitly find it and loaded. So the fact that python apps are acceptable to the GNOME desktop doesn't not imply that the GNOME desktop is more bloated. Regards, -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro &l

Re: Totem branched for GNOME 2.14

2006-04-29 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
; Hey Lui^WTravis ;) > > Not any specific plans I'm afraid. More bug fixing as time permits. The obvious comment (someone has to say it), You shouldn't need to branch just for bug fixing... -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTE

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

2006-04-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Qua, 2006-04-19 at 17:49 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > > Disagreed. Let's not call it 3.0 just because we feel like it. 3.0 > > should mean API breakage point. I still think that 3.0 should be a > >

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

2006-04-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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: > > > Please, don't take the 3.0 version lightly, only as a way to improve >

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

2006-04-19 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-May/msg00142.html > > I drafted the first version of this message before I saw the comments on > planet gnome but it seems I'm not the only one thinking about 3.0: > http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2006/04/18/0 > > ___

Re: About-me-password backend

2006-04-11 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
at http://joh.deworks.net/password-dialog/GnomeAboutMePassword.html > > > > Best regards, > > > > Johannes H. Jensen > > deworks > > > > > > _______ > > desktop-devel-list mailing list > >

Re: Applications launched from dbus missing SESSION_MANAGER env. var.

2006-03-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Seg, 2006-03-13 at 10:55 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 19:44 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > I have a problem with a program that behaves badly when launched from > > dbus[1], as opposed from starting manually from terminal,

Applications launched from dbus missing SESSION_MANAGER env. var.

2006-03-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
more applications using D-BUS for automation. I don't know the solution, but it seems like a cross-product interaction problem and so I write here in hope to raise awareness for the issue, at least... [1] dbus.SessionBus().start_service_by_name(...) -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMA

Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed

2006-02-21 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
feature. I don't see what's wrong with the dbus .server method; many desktop applications are already doing it, and it's the most correct way to handle it. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logi

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Seg, 2006-02-13 at 11:19 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:10 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > I see that both Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Core 5 test 2 are shipping > > with gnome-screensaver now. > > > > Having now used both of them, d

Re: gnome-screensaver

2006-02-13 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
27;t help. I am not sure gnome-screensaver is to be blamed for the above problem, but I strongly suspect it, and have since then uninstalled it. > > --d > -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. __

Re: G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL broke nautilus-python extension

2006-02-10 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 20:02 +, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:22:08 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > So it seems that the desktop wide decision to load all modules with > > G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL, for performance reasons, may break python > > extensio

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 23:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:20:15PM +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > > > perhaps but the real question is why isn't this a branch in CVS? Why is > > > there a need for clandestine development?

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