Le lundi 22 février 2016 à 14:28 +1100, S. Brett Sutton a écrit :
> Some questions to think about while solving this problem once and for
> all:
>
> 1. What is the correct dpi to report on a projector?
>
> 2. How do we detect the default scale factor? Using a 10pt font at
> 96dpi on a football
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:30 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
My main fears in a setup like this is:
* Conceptually a chat app needs to be running all the time when you're
online (as you might get a message), but generally you
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:07 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
What I don't understand is why the decision was made that it is being
implemented as a Mutter (strange name for a WM if you speak german, btw)
plugin, rather than as a normal application which would allow to be used
with any
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:08 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
Or did you mean if I merge a TpContact (say, a Jabber contact
f...@jabber.org) and an EContact together into an Individual, the
EContact should be added a vCard attribute x-jabber=...@jabber.org and
that info sync in other PCs? That
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:23 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote:
Just to clarify a little, it would look like this:
telepathye-d-s
| |
V V
telepathy-vala libebook-vala
| |
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On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:19 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:37 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:23 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote:
Just to clarify a little, it would look like this:
telepathye-d-s
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
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
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 07:35 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 14:00 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
if dconf listens to changes in gconf, 3rd party apps would just need to
link to glib/GSettings instead of
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
people must vote with their wallets. they must buy hardware with Linux
support; and make other Linux users buy hardware with Linux support;
and let vendors know that they bought or did not buy hardware because
of the Linux support.
I
Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on
Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality
that Clutter requires[2].
Except for some Intel cards, that's not true by a long shot. Only very
old ATI cards
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:20 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Xan Lopez x...@gnome.org wrote:
We don't maintain the runtimes, we maintain the integration between
those runtimes and the platform. AFAIK we do this for a lot of other
languages, like
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? Its been there for a very long time now
in most distros, afact. For gnome 3.0, running without a session bus is
going to be like
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:28 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
On 03/24/2009 08:47 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
Using Compiz to create a GNOME desktop using GNOME applications, the
GNOME control-center, and so forth will of course remain possible. We
have no current plans to create hard dependencies
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:46 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
There is nothing good about compiz other than as a spectacle and
general proof of concept.
Eh, for now compiz is working and is the reference WM for linux (and
more). gnome-shell would be the proof of concept :)
It has myriad
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:51 +0100, chuchi wrote:
Hi all,
I think Totem in a player. A player is only for play videos (or
music) not to modify videos. If my mother open totem, she only needs 3
buttons, play/pause, next and previous and the playlist (my mother can
kill all my videos!!!).
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:32 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
What really PA needs is some kind of great switch for
advanced/troubled users. I admit I wasn't found about PA in the past,
but now it works. Sure it has quirks but it is really nice feature to
Free Desktop.
There are still cases
Hi Matthias,
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:53 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
By now, development
is well under way, and we've already made good progress on some of the
goals that we've set ourselves for 2.26 (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals).
I'm no native english speaker, but I don't think under
Sorry, that mail meant to be private ...
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:06 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Hi Matthias,
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:53 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
By now, development
is well under way, and we've already made good progress on some of the
goals that we've set
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:35 +, Benjamin Otte wrote:
pros:
- current proxy handling in GNOME is a huge mess, we're all lucky we can live
without proxies
- the API looks extremely sane
- there is nothing else that does proxying
- Dan (who is going to be the main - or only? - user of it)
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 17:37 +0100, Mark Doffman wrote:
I believe that there is very little detrimental effect for the majority
of users to turning accessibility on by default. This is greatly
outweighed by the benefits to new users who require the accessibility
support.
How about just
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:53 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
El mar, 01-04-2008 a las 14:52 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
I like opensuse's logout dialog:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1199/1166181703_d5580ac3a1_o.png
Descriptions could also help to some newbies (specially for the
differences
On mar, 2008-03-25 at 17:15 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
Le mardi 25 mars 2008 à 09:26 -0400, Hubert Figuiere a écrit :
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:50 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
libmissioncontrol = 4.53
libmissioncontrol is LGPLv2 only. This is a problem as it prevent Gnome
to
Hi Mark,
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:07 -0500, Mark Fink wrote:
[...] sticky notes needs to replace Tomboy as the official GNOME notes
program because it is stupid to allow MONO into GNOME. MONO programs
CANNOT be allowed to be in GNOME! This only helps M$ destroy Linux!
Don't you see!? You are
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:36 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote:
Hi,
Just rewrite sticky note using Vala, you will make some users happy
rather than poisoning d-d-l with flames. :)
+1
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Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 20:52 +, Alan Cox a écrit :
Taking out the commonly used python apps and replacing them with compiled
code would be an even bigger performance and size leap.
How about adding to that forking after having initialized all
libraries ?
Xav
Le vendredi 02 novembre 2007 à 11:04 -0400, Hubert Figuiere a écrit :
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.
What difference does it make to the users? It
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:46 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote:
Anyway, even if PA isn't *THE* answer, ALSA isn't, either, for the
reasons already expressed in this thread. So, what do you purpose?
IMHO Helge Bahmann got it right: he designed an AUDIO extension for X
Window:
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit :
Hi list
What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel?
Use normal X window management protocol to handle applets (à la system
tray), that would be the modern way of launching several remote xload to
watch a bunch of
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:32 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
It's like having:
set_size
get_size
set_text
get_text
set_whatever
get_whatever
...
VS
set_prop
get_prop
You can do your life easier with the _prop combo, like:
set_prop(prop_var, prop_val)
In my humble
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:07 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
We are talking about providing an easy way
for apps to call actions on other apps, right? For complex interfaces,
you need a proper DBus interface, but what if my app just has a
DoWhatever action? Should I create a new DBus interface just
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:13 +0200, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote:
Hello!
I'm quite unsure if this is the right list to write to, but I'll try
nonetheless.
Today while doing some stuff in Nautilus over SSH I stumbled once again
upon a problem that I can't just drag'n'drop anything from a
Hi Elijah,
Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007 à 15:53 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit :
platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS
admin- http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS
bindings -
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:03 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:51 +0200, Peter Henriksson wrote:
A 100px button would be pretty small on the 2560x1600px TFT I wish I
had. :)
Please let it be configurable trough gconf or some such.
Or even better, work out from the system
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:27 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
The image slideshow screensaver in gnome-screensaver puts such a load on
my laptop's CPU that the fan runs constantly and tasks such as music
playing with totem become very choppy.
Hi,
maybe I'm dumb but I never managed to make that
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:26 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
maybe I'm dumb but I never managed to make that screensaver work. All I
get is a black screen, and there's nowhere to set where too look for
pictures, and DnD doesn't
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:52 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
If you have applications that don't work when you have Unicode
filenames, it's a telltale sign that they are not using
g_filename_to_utf8() and
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:46 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Filenames could also be NFC normalized when created, although that's
not absolutely necessary.
It would be nice if gnome mandated a standard approach for
Le mercredi 28 mars 2007 à 11:50 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit :
Most applications that operate on files will accept file name
arguments when invoked. What are we supposed to do with these?
I don't know, I always use bash completion, which should avoid the need
to use canonical-encoding -
:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:55 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Most applications that operate on files will accept file name
arguments when invoked. What are we supposed to do with these?
Bear in mind that the argument isn't only used by shell junkies.
It's also used when
On mar, 2007-03-27 at 14:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
[/me wonders if thumbnailers are measurably faster by using mmap()
instead of read()...]
It depends on their access pattern. If they need sequential access,
read() is better because it can do prefetching (readahead).
[Can you
Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 17:13 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson a écrit :
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:28 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On mar, 2007-03-27 at 14:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
[/me wonders if thumbnailers are measurably faster by using mmap()
instead of read
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:09 +, Iain * wrote:
On a more serious note (i know, I'm in shock too) why don't we just
have a web page with everyone's names? that way its easy to update, we
can make it pretty, and put photos and biographies and what have you
on it.
I think making each
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:23 +, Alex Jones wrote:
As much as I applaud any effort to depart from uninspired default
styling, if we want visual wow, we should try to make it happen in a
consistent fashion, and then maybe we can make it look even better!
I hope you don't mean everyone should
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:30 +, Alex Jones wrote:
Back on the thought of a system clock D-Bus service, how does this
sound? (Sorry to reiterate some info.)
[...]
Any further ideas/comments?
Waking 2 processes and doing RPC *each second* just to be sure to be on
time looks like really
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 18:33 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:29 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:13 +, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Heya,
Now that GStreamer is tip-top at autodetection, I think we should remove
the
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:39 +, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:06 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
That is the case of Firefox nowadays. It complains there is another
instance running. So, you can't follow links in the another one.
Yelp doesn't have to just complain:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:41 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
[...]
Unless the sounds are played out of process.
I saw an interesting proposition somewhere which was to make the
notification process handle the sound caching (and replacing esd in that
respect). That would solve this problem too.
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:44 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
The problem is that 17 TFT screens with 1280x1024 in dualhead setups
are also becoming quite common. Given the limitation of ATI R200 and
R300 cards, which have a maximum 3D framebuffer of 2048x0248, it's
impossible to use dualhead in
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
gamin works fine on my nfs home directory.
Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but
Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file monitoring.
And besides, gnome-vfs and gamin use identical
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:59 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
gamin works fine on my nfs home directory.
Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but
Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:55, Michael Banck wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:05:49PM +0200, Isak Savo wrote:
I think he's talking about the fact that when you unmount a USB
device in windows, the devices are often turning off their leds to
indicate that they are now turned off. When
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:43, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
[...]
So, one thing that has been on my mind for long is to get those small
libraries and merge them together
[...]
When the library grows, we could separate it into different .so's
Don't do that (the separation). If you merge the different
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:38, Rob Bradford wrote:
Can't we just have a UI like the GIMP acquire dialog? How about this for
a suggestions:
* Print Screen key just acts as before
* Same re Alt-PrntScr (wow I didn't know that existed...)
* Shift-PrntScr brings up dialog
I can never remember
Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006 à 17:40 -0400, Dan Winship a écrit :
[...]
And if your argument is really languages that come with their own
frameworks are bad, and not just I hate mono, then why didn't you
argue against allowing python-based apps in the platform when that came
up a year and a half
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:00, Ben Maurer wrote:
[...]
In the long term, Mono can potentially reduce our performance problems.
In the short term, there are performance problems and Mono will worsen
them.
[...]
IMHO, we should define a process that does not start Python is bloated,
C# is
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51, David Prieto wrote:
[...]
It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch
the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click
applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea
(middle-click), epiphany.
Under AmigaOS
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:52, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
If it's in the bottom right corner of the screen (as it is in Ubuntu's
default setup, for example), it's several thousand pixels wide and
several thousand pixels high, making it the easiest thing to drag to in
the whole of Gnome.
If
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:50, Havoc Pennington wrote:
Virtually all apps really should be single-instance (though they often
allow multiple document windows).
Single-instanceness should be defined carefully (e.g. session-wide or
machine-wide) for different application classes. Do you allow 2
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 19:53, Elijah Newren wrote:
So, we have two merged window manager + compositing manager codebases
now. My question is whether and how we can merge these.
I think that's precisely the heart of the problem: decisions in the
GNOME project are made not to hurt community
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:04, Richard Hughes wrote:
gnome-screensaver is just that, a screensaver with a defined dbus
interface. gnome-power-manager does all the policy decisions, which
include what to notify on suspend, resume etc.
Similarly, why does gnome-screensaver need to ask
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:31, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
And though the Finder in OS X is generally a steaming pile, in its
spatial mode there is one great detail:
4. Individual folders remember whether you want them as browsers or
not. If you have a deep hierarchy of subfolders inside
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:11, Benoît Dejean wrote:
The stable branch is gnome-2-12 and the development branch is HEAD.
HEAD / 2.14 won't be ABI compatible with previous versions.
Some plans apart from breaking the ABI compatibility ?
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Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 17:19 +0100, Luca Cavalli a écrit :
[1] - http://ptlo.blogspot.com/2005/11/missing-piece.html
This one really bridges the gap between Windows and GNOME. Did you ask
for its inclusion in the next GNOME release ?
Xav
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:09, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
I am just now updating inkscape and looking at it, it has a completely
different implementation of Inkboard Collaborative Editing: Using
Loudmouth library it uses Jabber IM protocol to provide this feature.
And IMHO it is the way to go:
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 23:39 -0200, Matthew Thomas a écrit :
Use case: A child leaves
the screen locked and goes to bed. Child's mother comes along, unlocks
the child's account, saves the child's unsaved documents etc, and shuts
down the computer for the night.
gnome-screensaver
Le jeudi 27 octobre 2005 à 11:45 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:40 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 23:39 -0200, Matthew Thomas a écrit :
Use case: A child leaves
the screen locked and goes to bed. Child's mother comes along, unlocks
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:03, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:54 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:44, Rodney Dawes wrote:
3. Unlocking the screen with the root password should do the same as
choosing switch users, and logging in as root. Not doing so
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:29, Rodney Dawes wrote:
If someone has physical access to the machine, they can just unplug it
and walk out the door too. Doesn't mean that our software should promote
lack of privacy. If that's the case, let's just drop the screensaver
totally. What's the point if
Le mardi 25 octobre 2005 à 12:07 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit :
Hello,
I am pleased to propose gnome-screensaver for inclusion in the GNOME
2.14 Desktop release.
gnome-screensaver is a new screensaver that can replace xscreensaver. It
is designed to integrate well with the desktop
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:50, Rodney Dawes wrote:
Is there any way to make these icons in the menus be consistent with the
buttons actually used in the title bar? If so, I would prefer a method
to make that possible, rather than having icons from the the icon theme
that don't match the buttons
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:31, Alan Cox wrote:
On Llu, 2005-10-17 at 13:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
Hi
One of the best improvements we've seen while working on speeding up the
GNOME startup time has been the removal of the xsettings thing, via xrdb
-merge execution.
Make xrdb use
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 01:07 -0400, Eric Larson a écrit :
I saw a microsoft program/tool that did this sort of thing in one of the
early longhorn builds. I have no idea what the link is though :/
Google Images is your friend:
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/lh-winhec-01.png
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 01:07 -0400, Eric Larson a écrit :
Another potential use case which might make sense is if a person wants
to turn down the system sounds or start up sounds while still having
banshee playing music.
BTW, this already existed long ago with ESD. There was a GTK1 app
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:24, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
that is probably a problem, to show always the same message in systems
that have nothing interesting in that file. The problem is how to deal
with this?
Have some [] Never show me this message again button which remembers
the last MOTD
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 01:13 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz a crit :
I refuse to let the bizzare interface of some ancient editor affect the
design of a modern desktop (and I'm a emacs user). C-g is find next
match in most modern UIs, end of story.
Eww, c'mon. I won't continue on that, however I
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 14:59 +0530, JP Rosevear a crit :
This mail is to announce a change in Evolution maintainership.
Thanks for all the love you put in Evo, JP !
Xav
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Le lundi 14 fvrier 2005 23:29 -0500, William Lovaton a crit :
I straced some programs in both versions of Gnome and counted the number
of calls to the open() syscall. I got interesting results:
- gedit-2.8: 2700
- gedit-2.9: 780
Just as a data point, under FC3, gedit 2.8.1 does 3213 open()
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2005 16:26 +0100, Ikke a crit :
Hi,
Hey
...
In se the idea isn't too bad, but I see one problem: I got Gaim and a
terminal running Irssi in my session. So if I'd use this system, boot my
PC, and only return an hour later or so, I'll be online with both
systems,
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