Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 19:30 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : Feel free to maintain a separate module with the old code... This is not an option. As downstream maintainers we will *have* to maintain the old code. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org wrote: yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an icon), so

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 19 janvier 2009, à 11:30 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit : Wouldn't it be easier to convert the old applet to also use a tray icon? This way no useless applet needs to stay in the memory (due to the fact applets have no programmatical way to add or remove themselves at run time). Or

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org wrote: yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an icon), so since we already have the applet, I guess it would make sense to add code

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:35 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 16.01.09 17:12, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should)

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2009/1/19 Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr: 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

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
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

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 11:21 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the applet, let's use

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 19.01.09 14:33, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 11:21 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, so we really need

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Frederic Peters
Lennart Poettering wrote: Yes, there’s a quicker way: restore the full GStreamer-based panel applet. Contrarily to gnome-volume-control, there’s not much gain in using PA in the applet. Oh, is that so? This is some old Topaz mockup:

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Lennart Poettering mzta...@0pointer.de wrote: Oh, is that so? This is some old Topaz mockup: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/20/70003494_668cfdc0dd.jpg Your attitude is making it really hard to take sides with PA. Yes, it's *the* only way forward at the

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:33 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 11:21 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, so we really need it. If

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:10 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Lennart Poettering mzta...@0pointer.de wrote: Oh, is that so? This is some old Topaz mockup: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/20/70003494_668cfdc0dd.jpg Your attitude is making it really hard

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-17 Thread Jens Granseuer
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:56 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Maybe the time spent on discussing this issue and on fixing a way to support both systems with and without PA is better spent in fixing the sound drivers. BTW. TO bring some facts in the discussion, here's a small Wiki page I set

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 13:22 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 15 janvier 2009 à 12:55 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : If the two applets don’t share the basic UI (one panel applet and one notification icon), that’s a bigger problem. I guess we could always ship the GStreamer one and

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodr...@gnome-db.org wrote: yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an icon), so since we already have the applet, I guess it would make sense to add code to the applet to hide itself and start the notification icon

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should) Again, this cannot be a distribution choice! We can ship PA by default and make everything possible to get the best of it, but

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
2009/1/16 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should) Again, this cannot be a distribution choice! We can ship PA by default and make

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:12 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should) Again, this cannot be a distribution choice! We can ship PA by

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 16.01.09 17:12, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should) Again, this cannot be a distribution choice! We can ship PA

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 11:31 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit : On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:12 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using pulseaudio (and it should)

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 16.01.09 17:49, Frederic Crozat (fcro...@mandriva.com) wrote: No, it is not THAT simple. We (Mandriva) are shipping PA and it works for most users, but there are users with problems (either ALSA related or PA related, Colin Guthrie is always making sure those issues are reported

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-15 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:47 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 20:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Oh right, so we have to choose between supporting only PA and screw other users, or not benefit from PA at all. What a choice. Uh? You can ship both if you

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 janvier 2009 à 12:55 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : If the two applets don’t share the basic UI (one panel applet and one notification icon), that’s a bigger problem. I guess we could always ship the GStreamer one and start the PA one only if PA is running, but that’s not very

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 20:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Oh right, so we have to choose between supporting only PA and screw other users, or not benefit from PA at all. What a choice. Uh? You can ship both if you wish and pass the decision what to use to the user. I mean, that

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-13 Thread Enver ALTIN
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:33, Lennart Poettering mzta...@0pointer.dewrote: On Mon, 12.01.09 16:55, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 15:43 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : I don't think the advent of sound cards that do this kind of switching in

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Enver ALTIN
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 17:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: I’m more worried about the applet. While I perfectly understand the benefits gnome-volume-control can have by using PA directly, there is nothing in the applet’s UI that will be improved this way. Why not keep the current GStreamer

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 04:39 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 00:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Ahoj, a reminder that module inclusion discussion must heat up now. At January 19th, Module Freeze takes place: New modules and functionality for GNOME 2.26 will

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 15:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : Can you explain me how removing IEC958 support (to only talk of the example on the top of my head) is a progression? Ah, maybe I finally get to learn what that mysterious checkbox labeled IEC958 was supposed to do.

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, à 10:54 +0100, Frederic Crozat a écrit : Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 04:39 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 00:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Ahoj, a reminder that module inclusion discussion must heat up now. At January 19th,

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:57 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, à 10:54 +0100, Frederic Crozat a écrit : Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 04:39 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 00:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Ahoj, a reminder that module

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:09 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: On 1/11/09, Paolo Borelli pbore...@katamail.com wrote: Apart from the usual philosophical discussions about what should or should not go in the notification area, using a notification icon in this case is especially

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 11.01.09 15:08, Brian Cameron (brian.came...@sun.com) wrote: Heya, Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by virtue of

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 12.01.09 10:01, Enver ALTIN (eal...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 17:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: I’m more worried about the applet. While I perfectly understand the benefits gnome-volume-control can have by using PA directly, there is nothing in the applet’s UI that

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 15:43 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : I don't think the advent of sound cards that do this kind of switching in software should hold as back and require us to export every single crazy volume control to the user. Still, this is not a reason to break things on

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Lennart: However, the benefits of using PulseAudio when using OSS don't seem to be as compelling as when you are using ALSA since OSS has mixing functionalities lacking in ALSA already built in. These are misconceptions. Misconceptions about what ALSA does, and about what PA does. ALSA does

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 17:33 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Isn't the fact that we plan to include both volume controls in GNOME transition phase enough? Those distros who like PA adopt the new one, the ones who don't continue to use the old one. Distros who are unable to decide have

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
eOn Mon, 12.01.09 20:23, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 17:33 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Isn't the fact that we plan to include both volume controls in GNOME transition phase enough? Those distros who like PA adopt the new one, the ones who

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Op zondag 11-01-2009 om 12:09 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Diego Escalante Urrelo: Apart from the usual philosophical discussions about what should or should not go in the notification area, using a notification icon in this case is especially annoying (at least for me) since it means I

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Gratton
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:21 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: The answer to your question is that a microphone icon will show up in the notification area when an application uses it, and only for that microphone. So you don't need 2 applets to change the volume for your webcam's microphone and the

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno dom, 11/01/2009 alle 00.10 +0100, Andre Klapper ha scritto: Ahoj, Proposed External Deps: * libproxy * unique * Mono.Addins * libgda * libnotify * notification-daemon * libmapi * samba4 Please also note that on current trunk

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:21 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : Please also note that on current trunk the Audio capplet from gnome-control-center and the Volume Control applet from gnome-applets was replaced in favour of new gnome-volume-control and gnome-volume-control-applet[1] in

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread William Jon McCann
2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:21 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : Please also note that on current trunk the Audio capplet from gnome-control-center and the Volume Control applet from gnome-applets was replaced in favour of new gnome-volume-control

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 10:37 -0500, William Jon McCann a écrit : 2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: So, there is no more GStreamer mixer? It is not possible to use any other backend than PulseAudio? It looks like an important regression to me. It is interesting to me how,

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno dom, 11/01/2009 alle 16.24 +0100, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 12:21 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : Please also note that on current trunk the Audio capplet from gnome-control-center and the Volume Control applet from gnome-applets was replaced in

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Paolo Borelli
Il giorno dom, 11/01/2009 alle 16.51 +0100, Luca Ferretti ha scritto: * gnome-volume-control-applet from gnome-media (new, a notification icon, not a real panel applet like the previous one) Maybe I missed an existing discussion about this, but I

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Frederic Peters
Luca Ferretti wrote: In GNOME 2.24 we have * gnome-volume-control (AKA gst-mixer) from gnome-media * gnome-sound-properties from gnome-control-center * mixer_applet2 from gnome-applets In current development release we have (at least it seems to me): A.

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread David L
2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 10:37 -0500, William Jon McCann a écrit : 2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: So, there is no more GStreamer mixer? It is not possible to use any other backend than PulseAudio? It looks like an important

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Frederic Peters
Paolo Borelli wrote: Il giorno dom, 11/01/2009 alle 16.51 +0100, Luca Ferretti ha scritto: * gnome-volume-control-applet from gnome-media (new, a notification icon, not a real panel applet like the previous one) Maybe I missed an existing

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 16:51 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit : A. With pulseaudio * gnome-volume-control (NEW, not the previous one) from gnome-media * gnome-volume-control-applet from gnome-media (new, a notification icon,

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/11/09, Paolo Borelli pbore...@katamail.com wrote: Apart from the usual philosophical discussions about what should or should not go in the notification area, using a notification icon in this case is especially annoying (at least for me) since it means I cannot place the volume

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 16:21 +, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : Sorry for being late. We'd like to add telepathy-farsight[0] as an external dependency for that for Empathy's voip support. Which itself depends on farsight2[1] and indirectly on libnice[2] Currently it uses

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2009-01-11 klockan 19:52 skrev Guillaume Desmottes: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 16:21 +, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : [...] add telepathy-farsight[0] as an external dependency for that for Empathy's voip support. [...] Just to complete this, the advantages of this switch include: -

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
2009/1/11 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Can you explain me how removing IEC958 support (to only talk of the example on the top of my head) is a progression? Ah, maybe I finally get to learn what that mysterious checkbox labeled IEC958 was supposed to do.

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Brian Cameron
Frederic: Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by virtue of libcanberra. If it is necessary to integrate PulseAudio for gnome-mixer

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Frederic Peters
Brian Cameron wrote: Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by virtue of libcanberra. Oh sorry about that, I didn't know libcanberra

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:10:29AM +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Ahoj, a reminder that module inclusion discussion must heat up now. At January 19th, Module Freeze takes place: New modules and functionality for GNOME 2.26 will be chosen[1]. Next weekend, the GNOME Release Team will meet and

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: Note that Solaris does not yet use PulseAudio. On Solaris we are currently using the GStreamer backend for libcanberra, so it is incorrect to say that it is an official approved dependency just by

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-11 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 20:08 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee a écrit : 2009-01-11 klockan 19:52 skrev Guillaume Desmottes: Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 16:21 +, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : [...] add telepathy-farsight[0] as an external dependency for that for Empathy's voip support.

GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-10 Thread Andre Klapper
Ahoj, a reminder that module inclusion discussion must heat up now. At January 19th, Module Freeze takes place: New modules and functionality for GNOME 2.26 will be chosen[1]. Next weekend, the GNOME Release Team will meet and decide about the proposed modules. Readers: We have already seen

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-10 Thread Andreas Proschofsky
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 00:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Please do not propose *new* modules now, it's too late. You can do this again in October for GNOME 2.28. I guess you meant to say in April, October would be a bit late for 2.28 ;) bye Andreas -- Andreas Proschofsky Gentoo Developer /

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-10 Thread Suman Manjunath
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:40, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Proposed External Deps: * libproxy * unique * Mono.Addins * libgda * libnotify * notification-daemon * libmapi * samba4 If you already have proposed a module on this mailing list

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 00:10 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Ahoj, a reminder that module inclusion discussion must heat up now. At January 19th, Module Freeze takes place: New modules and functionality for GNOME 2.26 will be chosen[1]. Next weekend, the GNOME Release Team will meet and decide