Re: Using BuildStream as a module maintainer

2018-02-16 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 17:15 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > And what about doing general development work? I can't really do much > inside BuildStream's shell. And even running yelp leaves it pretty > crippled, because it doesn't have access to /usr/share or D-Bus. To run yelp with a useful set of

Re: Problems regarding jhbuild

2016-10-10 Thread Jürg Billeter
Hi Michael, On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 14:49 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Anyway, the problem is a bootstrap version of vala needs to be > installed as a sysdep, but we can't make a sysdep for it until the vala > developers stop pointlessly bumping their pkg-config version early > single release.

Re: Power switch to actually turn off my computer

2014-04-10 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 09:51 +, Charles T.Smith wrote: I've spent an hour or so looking around /usr/lib/python/site-packages/gtweak and haven't found what it does yet... it occurs to me that one shouldn't have to reverse engineer a tool in order to learn how to configure something ...

Re: GNOME 3.6 Blocker Report (T-16d)

2012-09-16 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:40 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: On 11/09/12 08:38, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: As for performance issues with libicu that has never been a problem for our use cases. There might be faster alternatives, but the speed is a non-issue for the stuff that I've been

Re: A few missing 3.5.5 releases

2012-08-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:35 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: There are a number of modules which haven't had a 3.5.5 release yet, and should probably get one: gnome-control-center gnome-settings-daemon Rico Tzschichholz asked on IRC to review and apply the CUPS 1.6 build fixes before releasing

Re: build status

2010-12-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:23 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: Here is a quick analysis of the status of builds on build.gnome.org. The one-line summary is that getting webkit and e-d-s to build against current GTK+ will get us quite a bit closer to a fully building tree. But there is also a bunch

Vala and pkg-config

2010-08-10 Thread Jürg Billeter
Vincent brought to my attention that there are some packages out there that use pkg-config to check for the presence and version of the Vala compiler. However, this is wrong and should be removed in all affected packages as soon as possible. The pkg-config file is installed for libvala, which is

Re: New external dependencies for Rygel: GUPnP Libgee

2010-06-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 02:24 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: General questions first: - Are there frequent releases of those? The GUPnP libraries, yes! libgee used to be very frequently released until

Re: Bump intltool version to 0.41.0

2010-02-24 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:02 +0100, Paolo Borelli wrote: I accepted a patch of gnome goal that updated the build system and didn't notice that version bump I do not see any strong reason to force 0.41.0, gtksourceview built just fine with previus intltool versions up to a couple of days ago.

Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

2009-10-12 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:10 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: I'd like to propose Vala as an official external dependency for GNOME 2.30. [...] This is therefore a 'special' external dependency: it would only be required when building from git (or hacking on the code). It makes sense that we

Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

2009-10-12 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 18:43 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jürg Billeter j...@bitron.ch wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:10 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: I'd like to propose Vala as an official external dependency for GNOME 2.30

Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

2009-10-12 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:11 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: I would rephrase this as valac as a build dependency for gnome as valac is like yacc/bison/flex in that there is no runtime dependency and only people developing or

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 13:57 +0100, Luis Medinas wrote: Is there plans to replace HAL by GIO or devicekit ? Hal will be deprecated soon afaik. Richard Hughes has already ported the battery handling of Tracker to DeviceKit-power. It's used if available, otherwise HAL is used. The volume handling

Re: New module decisions for 2.26

2009-01-23 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:01 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: Sorry if it has been already discussed but, where can I find the original New module decisions for 2.26 message. I can only find replies to it but I cannot find the main thread:

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-07-01 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:08 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 10:30 +1200, Callum McKenzie a écrit : As an aside: ultimately it will be necessary to move it from a hacking dependency to a build dependency. Novice developers work from tarballs, not SVN and you will

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-07-01 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 10:49 +0200, Jürg Billeter a écrit : and the build system should rebuild the C code when the .vala files have changed, similar to how other generated files are handled. This does not. Magic rules

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-06-30 Thread Jürg Billeter
as planned. Also, it makes sense to allow the module maintainers to decide this, in my opinion, as long as they distribute the generated C sources. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:28 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: 2008/6/26 Mathias Hasselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 15:28 +0100 schrieb Alexander Jones: Agreed, we need to move towards expecting Composited as default and Direct as a niche case, but this was just an

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Jürg Billeter
Hi, On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:55 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Jürg Billeter wrote: I really want compositing but I can't use a GL-based one on all systems, as for example even with some recent Intel desktop mainboards you can't have DRI with a screen area larger than 2048x2048, which

Re: Should GNOME apps support a --geometry option?

2008-06-18 Thread Jürg Billeter
see how users (and sysadmins for default and mandatory values) can have any interest to set window geometry. I have strong interest in moving and resizing my windows, I don't see how this is not user editable... Can you explain why you think that GConf is not appropriate? Jürg -- Jürg Billeter

Re: Should GNOME apps support a --geometry option?

2008-06-18 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:15 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:02 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: Il giorno mer, 18/06/2008 alle 11.23 -0400, Matthew Barnes ha scritto: I think I'm correct in saying

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

2007-12-11 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:08 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: The problem I see with the proposed scheme is that we can't fit step (e) into it, since 2.12.2 is never in SVN. With our current scheme, you can do this: svn checkout $(url)/tags/MY_PROGRAM_2_12_2 make distcheck and get, in

Re: Input devices capplets

2007-10-31 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:59 +0100, Denis Washington wrote: I created two mockups for possible keyboard and mouse capplets in GNOME 2.20. Their aim is to incorporate accessibility features in both; the existing keyboard a11y features into Keyboard and the already discussed Mousetweaks settings

Re: vinagre (vnc/rdp client)

2007-04-23 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 10:22 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Calum Benson That was just a Java web applet checked in as a jar file, wasn't it? Yep. It just means JDS can show an http address in the vino-preferences dialog that's usable by anyone (firewalls permitting), whereas the

Re: Slab's CC

2006-10-13 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2006-10-13 at 16:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:47 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 19:28 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:48 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Following on this, I'm looking (and almost starting)

Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

2006-07-26 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-07-26 at 18:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:25 -0500, Mike Kestner wrote: On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 18:21 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: gtk-sharp-2.10.0 would keep glib-sharp, pango-sharp, atk-sharp, gdk-sharp, gtk-sharp, glade-sharp, and gtkdotnet.

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: I totally agree but wouldn't it be better to use native languages that offer all this like the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/). No one has ever justified why we need a VM given all its disadvantages (speed - especially

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 07:55 +0200, David Nielsen wrote: søn, 16 07 2006 kl. 23:33 -0500, skrev Jason D. Clinton: While you provided a fine run down of arguments, I believe you forgot a vital one, Mono can be optimized, we can cut down ressource consumption, we can indeed do better - we

Re: 2.15.x: 'loading theme icon for stock' problem persists...

2006-06-07 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2006-06-07 at 14:05 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: I just tried out Frederic's suggestion: * uninstall gtk+-2.9.2 * extract the source from the f.g.o tarball * rm gtk/gtkbuiltincache.h * build * install The bad news is I still see the error. Should be fixed in CVS

Re: API documentation requirements for next releases

2005-12-02 Thread Jürg Billeter
of new API is one week after API freeze. Lack of compliance will be treated the same as freeze breaks. http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/NewApiDocs Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel