Re: Displaying wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds/ in settings

2014-03-14 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:14:21PM +, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote: Hi, As far as I know this isn't possible via dconf. There are a number of sources available, via the Grilo backend. Main ones: ~/Pictures: pictures_path = g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES); Hi, by

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-09-13 Thread Matteo Settenvini
like to put in the work to create the appropriate hooks in the repository, please contact us. karen Great news! Thanks for being open about this, and taking care of discussing the issue. Cheers, - -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org - -BEGIN

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-17 Thread Matteo Settenvini
it in a peer-to-peer fashion. Thank you for your kind and thorough answer. It was very helpful to me to understand the issue better. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d--(-) s

Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
(as they didn't ask for the module maintainers' approval). If there's interest, we could draft a paragraph or two, so that a bit of uniformity in communicating our ideals takes the form of a wider protest. Regards, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE

Re: Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
is definitively what free software is really about. Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d--(-) s+: a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L$ E+ W+++ N+ o? w--- O M- V- PS++ PE- Y+++ PGP+++ t++ 5 X- R+ !tv b+++ DI++ D

Re: Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
? (that was a rhetorical question, of course). Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d--(-) s+: a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L$ E+ W+++ N+ o? w--- O M- V- PS++ PE- Y+++ PGP+++ t++ 5 X- R+ !tv b+++ DI++ D++ G++ e++ h

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
still don't control what's happening in the middle. Do you think it is ethically acceptable for a free-software program to use a proprietary web service API? Thanks, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d

Re: Pre-computing scrollbar size to accomodate all the items in music collection

2013-06-26 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:23:25PM +0530, Shivani Poddar wrote: Hi! I am working on the bug -https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699832 I want to pre-compute the size of the scrollbar to indicate the total items in the collection (which are more than the ones we load in the application

Two 3.10 feature ideas

2013-04-11 Thread Matteo Settenvini
. Anyway, thanks for your strenuous work! Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d--(-) s+: a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L$ E+ W+++ N+ o? w--- O M- V- PS++ PE- Y+++ PGP+++ t++ 5 X- R+ !tv b+++ DI++ D++ G++ e

[Fwd: Re: Two 3.10 feature ideas]

2013-04-11 Thread Matteo Settenvini
be useful: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-gmail-notifier/ I've been using it in both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 ant id works properly with notifications, so it would be a good starter point. Cheers! 2013/4/11 Matteo Settenvini matteo...@member.fsf.org Dear all

Re: Tools for Sharing Tasks

2013-04-02 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Jasper already summed it up nicely, bringing some concrete examples. What I would do, is to use simply a webapp, such as RedMine, deployed somewhere all project members can access. Since it provides a REST API, you can then send and get JSON requests through normal HTTP operations. You can keep a

Re: Possible to fix glaring Gjs API issues before GNOME 4?

2013-03-01 Thread Matteo Settenvini
= ... // get the right text length for UTF-8 return f (text, l); } } That way, you also solve a lot of programming errors in locales other than C, providing an easier interface. You just need a couple of overrides to do so. Similar functions would be trivial to manage. Cheers, -- Matteo

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-05-07 Thread Matteo Settenvini
, I expected at first to find it in Gtk+. Thanks! -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : mat...@member.fsf.org -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/E d--(-) s+: a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L$ E+ W+++ N+ o? w--- O M- V- PS++ PE- Y+++ PGP+++ t++ 5 X- R+ !tv b+++ DI++ D++ G

Re: multiple vala versions in 3.4

2012-01-20 Thread Matteo Settenvini
/share/aclocal, containing a pertaining macro? Something like AC_PROG_VALA([== 0.15]), so that everyone can use the same macro, avoiding this kind of duplication and differences among modulesets. This can set variables for both valac and vapigen in one go. Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF

Re: ANNOUNCE: Nanny 2.29.1 released

2009-12-24 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Nice! That's surely something needed. Will this somehow make its way into GNOME as a Pessulus replacement, in due time? What are the plans for making the two applications talk one each other, if ever? Matteo Il giorno gio, 24/12/2009 alle 16.18 +0100, Contacto ha scritto: what is it?

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-22 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Really, please don't turn this thread to an aggressive flamewar. Sun's entitled to what they want with their time and money; if they think OpenSolaris is the way to go, they're free to pursue it, and personally I wish them good luck. Even if I'm not an OpenSolaris user, I think that biodiversity

Re: Mutter with proprietary OpenGL/ES library ??

2009-07-15 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Dave Nearydne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Matteo Settenvini wrote: Unless you are a lawyer, shouldn't you qualify that with IANAL? By who is the exception thought just to mean? Sorry, didn't want to sound too harsh or imperative. The exception was initially

Re: Mutter with proprietary OpenGL/ES library ??

2009-07-12 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On ven, 2009-07-10 at 05:45 +0100, Joone Hur wrote: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL I am wondering if it is the same case. The GPL v2 has the following exception. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is

Re: Platform

2009-05-21 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno gio, 21/05/2009 alle 21.30 +0300, Stefan Kost ha scritto: Bastien Nocera schrieb: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:15 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote: snip You might be confusing mDNS and service discovery with the protocols implemented on top of it. We want to use both UPNP and mDNS for

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.05 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: Hey folks, [...] The list is what came to mind as I was writing this email. Please feel free to discuss libraries I forgot. Thanks Shaun, you're wonderful as always. I also think it would be nice to mention

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.41 -0500, Brian Cameron ha scritto: Shaun: Shouldn't GStreamer be included for media support? It's in the list (second item of the Recommended section) :-) Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? gvfs could be introduced along with GIO; as for

R: git migration - svn:externals

2009-04-23 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Hi Owen, I'm not entirely sure (bazaar user here), however I think that git has the notion of submodules: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html Matteo Messaggio originale Da: j...@jsschmid.de Data: 23-apr-2009 8.06 AM A: Owen Taylorotay...@redhat.com Cc:

Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

2009-04-19 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno dom, 19/04/2009 alle 14.31 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto: On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 14:34 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: I think it would be a big mistake to omit applets in the new gnome desktop evolution. why? we've been changing the platform gradually over the years,

Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

2009-04-19 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Just to give some ideas * do applets need to be in the panel No, and that's why Superkaramba - KDE, Google and Microsoft have come up with on-screen widgets, which may be the solution ebassi is searching for? * do applets have to be constantly visible Yes, that's the whole point of it,

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-04-01 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno mer, 01/04/2009 alle 19.34 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: I understand the rationale for going “full 3D” for GNOME Shell, but the overall result is that we will have to maintain the gnome-panel + metacity solution separately, for ever. This will not be a big burden, but the real

Re: How to use gtk / C language to change the desktop background picture?

2009-03-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Hi, the easiest way, I believe, is to set the relative gconf key. You can see what is by launching gconf-editor and navigating to /desktop/background/picture_filename. To modify that from C code, have a look at the GConf manual. http://library.gnome.org/devel/gconf/stable/gconf-GConfClient.html

Re: quo vadis, docs

2009-02-09 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On lun, 2009-02-09 at 11:00 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: We do get volunteers on a semi-regular basis, but we inevitably lose them. It would be useful to identify why we lose them and fix those problems. I'll readily admit that I'm partially at fault for not taking enough time to train

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno ven, 12/12/2008 alle 02.00 +, Iain ha scritto: Some thoughts on sounds. The sound naming spec defines 125 sounds. That is 125 sounds for the user to learn the meaning of. Because the sounds defined are incredibly arbitrary the sounds run the risk of having their meaning

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno ven, 12/12/2008 alle 11.27 +, Iain * ha scritto: Arguably, these sounds are application specific. The application should provide what sounds it needs. iain So, instead of ~120 sounds, we get thousands the user has to learn the meaning of? You want to use the sound spec?

Re: FUD from PackageKit, Was: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

2008-11-25 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Hi, Please, both, cool down. We don't need a flame war, and certainly not on DDL. Both seems to have their good POV; both seem to have a deteriorated vision of the other, probably due to past discussions. For example, saying that PackageKit can serve only second-grade distributions, isn't nice

Re: Add -D*_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES to GNOME_MAINTAINER_MODE_DEFINES

2008-11-22 Thread Matteo Settenvini
ha scritto: On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 14:07 +0100, Matteo Settenvini wrote: Hello, just want to know: does this policy also applies to Gtkmm includes? I mean, if I've got an application written in C++, should I only include gtkmm.h? No, I have no plan to make that necessary with gtkmm

Re: Testing dark themes and marking deprecated widgets

2008-09-30 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On mar, 2008-09-30 at 20:48 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 08:24 -0500 schrieb Shaun McCance: On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:02 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2008/9/30 Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: More likely it will result in a bunch of New Gnome theme is

Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails

2008-09-16 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Afaik, other applications with similar problems do keep an ad-hoc cache in ~/.cache/. For example, banshee does keep a ~/.cache/album-art/ directory. Since f-spot has peculiar needs, maybe it'll make sense to move its thumbnail cache somewhere around there. Cheers, Matteo On mar, 2008-09-16 at

Re: Proposed module: project hamster

2008-07-28 Thread Matteo Settenvini
As far as functionality don't overlap, I don't see much of a problem in including more applications in GNOME. They just help it get promoted further. If I take a glance at my menu under a standard Ubuntu installation and I count the number of entries of a vanilla GNOME installation, they're not

Re: libtool versioning (was Re: Getting a list of open files, the smart way?)

2008-05-15 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno gio, 15/05/2008 alle 21.35 +0200, Benoît Dejean ha scritto: Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:26 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: On 5/15/08, Benoît Dejean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to comment about your log message instead which says: Updated

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of

2008-05-13 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Well, that brings up the problem of quoting text in different languages. For example, as far as I know: * “English text” * „German text“ * «French text» * ...and so on If this change has to be made, someone should warn the translators to use consistently translated quote-marks all around. But

Re: Why do GNOMEdevelopers almost exclusively use git mirrors and for example not bzr mirrors

2008-04-25 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno ven, 25/04/2008 alle 23.29 +0800, James Henstridge ha scritto: On 22/04/2008, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do bzr looms (recently released extension) satisfy the requirement explained in the earlier email? The Bazaar loom plugin lets you manage a stack of branches

Re: Module proposal: Conduit for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-31 Thread Matteo Settenvini
These are wonderful news! I'd like to thank you for Conduit, I use it often and it's really useful. The only thing I miss is PocketPC integration (which unfortunately I've to use for work) with SyncCE. Thanks for your wonderful job! I'd like to have Conduit in GNOME. Matteo Il giorno lun,

Re: Removing libgnomeprint* from the desktop set

2008-03-31 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno lun, 31/03/2008 alle 10.14 -0500, Mike Kestner ha scritto: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:58 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is the cost to GNOME of leaving a deprecated unmaintained library in the release

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-17 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno lun, 17/03/2008 alle 20.50 +0200, Felipe Contreras ha scritto: Still the input from the user-base is not considered? How much a simple most-wanted-feature poll could hurt? Best regards. Dunno what it counts, but an application for movie editing is high in my wish list, and one

Re: Any proposal for a small HCI-related university project?

2008-03-01 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Hi Luca, It's not strictly in GNOME, but improving song renaming in the PyGtk-based Exaile music player is badly needed and shouldn't be too hard to do (all the code is already there). Something with the potential of Amarok but the ease of use of other players. You should probably research how

PyGIO?

2008-03-01 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Hi everybody, does anyone have any news on some PyGIO bindings? They should complement the PyGtk and PyGObject stack, but googling for it didn't bring up any result. Regards, Matteo signature.asc Description: Questa è una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente

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

2008-02-12 Thread Matteo Settenvini
I use ftp:// on Nautilus daily to connect to six-to-seven different FTP servers on a GNOME 2.20 workstation at work. It's a little bit shaky, but usable. Now on GNOME 2.21.x at home, I use lftp on a terminal, 'cause I don't fear typing :-). However there are quite a lot of people out there

Missing apps for GNOME

2007-12-23 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(-) s+:- a-- C++ UL+++ P?++ L+++$ E 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-- -- Matteo Settenvini FSF

Re: Unifying name for Plugins/Extensions/etc.

2007-12-19 Thread Matteo Settenvini
the solution to a problem, finding a tutorial in English wich refers to plugins, and figuring out that is the same of estensioni in your Italian-translated UI. Whereas extensions is much more similar. Anyway, nothing does stop us. Here the problem is with consistency across the desktop. -- Matteo

Re: build systems

2007-11-09 Thread Matteo Settenvini
'_ cannon) or auto-bootstrapping in C/C++ (yeah, I'm crazy). Software configuration should be something collateral to your work, not the most time-consuming thing in the process. My 2c. -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version

Lowering the barrier (was: Re: build systems)

2007-11-09 Thread Matteo Settenvini
be wonderful news. Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(-) s+:- a-- C++ UL+++ P?++ L+++$ E 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

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-10 Thread Matteo Settenvini
on this list. Don't be shy. We need the opinion of everybody (I'm talking serious, no sarcasm meant). Thanks, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(-) s+:- a-- C++ UL+++ P?++ L+++$ E W+++ N++ o? w--- O- M

Re: linuxMint's gnome-menu

2007-10-10 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Just my 2c, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(-) s+:- a-- C++ UL+++ P?++ L+++$ E 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

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-09 Thread Matteo Settenvini
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:52, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: I don't care only about proprietary applications. You think for example that Second Life Linux client (which is open source) will use Pulse Audio API directly? It will take years before that happens. I remember perfectly well

Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Matteo Settenvini
with more than a logged in user it doesn't share the esd socket, or similar). It also seems to be actively developed, and is shipped by default with Fedora 8. Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22? Thanks for any answer, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Matteo Settenvini
hardware, and doing low-level resampling and mixing. Since esound is almost dead, Pulseaudio is a viable alternative. Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(-) s+:- a-- C++ UL+++ P?++ L+++$ E W+++ N++ o? w

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Matteo Settenvini
it is a buggy proprietary software with quite a lot of problems. People jumped at it, anyway, and now Pulseaudio has an extra library you can install to have Flash working seamlessly. Much better than with ESD, imho. Regards, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Matteo Settenvini
, on a IBM Thinkpad four-years-old 2.4Ghz P4 laptop. I don't know what version you use, or if it is an issue specific of your system, but I never noticed slowdowns due to pulseaudio. Moreover, a lot of videos lagging with esd now play fine. Cheers, -- Matteo Settenvini FSF Associated Member Email