Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-04-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 16:39 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : >>    I didn't miss that. :) If you read carefully he said "just to be >> safe" and hence it's not so important. Still, I tried to setup the > > I said "on the safe

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:28 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:25 +, Martyn Russell wrote: I tried to sent this several times, but it looks like GMANE is not working for me today ... And Evolution has its "reply to all" feature all wrong too, apparently. [CUT] > > What

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 12:59 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: > > Hi, > > > 2 things come to mind: > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255 This isn't as easy a

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:25 +, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 19/03/10 13:56, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +, Martyn Russell wrote: > >> On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: > >>> > >>> 2 things come to min

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:56 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: [CUT] Short note on... > Actually this issue is partly solved. I made sure that tracker guys > have the right ontology ..metadata keys Let's just call these things ontologies. That's just what everybody in RDF calls it. And thos

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Martyn Russell
On 19/03/10 13:56, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +, Martyn Russell wrote: Well, D-Bus provides a single entry point for any requests to the data. If we then provide some direct access using a library, that complicates things further. At this point we are not threaded, how

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Martyn Russell
On 19/03/10 13:56, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +, Martyn Russell wrote: On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: 2 things come to mind: - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: https:

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 17:17 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > I didn't see your request for help on irc, and I'm sure many people > > didn't. > > Thats ok, people have better things to do. :) Just to be clear, I > didn't mean

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 16:39 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : >>    I didn't miss that. :) If you read carefully he said "just to be >> safe" and hence it's not so important. Still, I tried to setup the > > I said "on the safe side"

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Bastien, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > 2 things come to mind: > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255 I couldn't agree more. So here is my plan: I will go with all plugin[1]

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 19 mars 2010, à 16:39 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : >I didn't miss that. :) If you read carefully he said "just to be > safe" and hence it's not so important. Still, I tried to setup the I said "on the safe side" because I've no good example of when those strings would app

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> > Heh, the logic should be reversed :-) It can't be approved (or likely to >> > be approved) until the app is translatable. >> >>   Since me and Bastien (based on Lennart's arguments on this thread) >>

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Ruben Vermeersch
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: > > > > 2 things come to mind: > > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: > > > > 2 things come to mind: > > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Martyn Russell
On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: 2 things come to mind: - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255 Well, D-Bus provides a single entry point for any requ

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: > Hi, > > - Original message - > > > > The only comments I would make are: > > - The preferences UI is pretty horrible > > I agree but I really suck at UIs so if you could list specific issues, > I promise to fix them soon. As you

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Frederic Peters
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > > Heh, the logic should be reversed :-) It can't be approved (or likely to > > be approved) until the app is translatable. > > Since me and Bastien (based on Lennart's arguments on this thread) > agreed to kill the preferences UI in favor of some simple options to

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-03-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: >> > We have pride in our incredible translation teams; it would be really >> > nice if Rygel had the infrastructure in place to be translated. >> > >> > Is this planned? >> >>   It most certainly is and if it starts to become very likely t

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-24 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >  * Rygel is already readily available in two major distributions: > Debian and Fedora. Now it's also available in Ubuntu (lucid). Its also available in an unofficial Gentoo repo: http://gpo.zugaina.org/net-misc/rygel --

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-23 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
> Samba is software for big installations, and primarily used on > non-desktop servers. Well, it _serves_ files, so it is natural to expect it to be on servers. But I do not know what exactly positions it as "for big installations". Samba is found in set-top-boxes, on mobile devices (I just seen it

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 17:21 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > > I do not really care about admin intervention, honestly. I just prefer > > to have a single server process on my system, regardless of the number > > of users. > > That sounds like a pretty weak argument, of the "Unix nosta

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, 2010/2/22 Javier Jardón : > 2010/2/22 Lennart Poettering : >> >> Well, we already run apache as part of the user session from >> gnome-user-share. >> >> GNOME is certainly focussed on the desktop, or similar user >> interfaces. As such it should provide services for building user >> interfaces

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.02.10 19:05, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) (zee...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Should we really keep the UI at all? The options offered therein appear > > very esoteric to me, and a trivial addition to > > gnome-file-share-properties that would just introduce one simple > > checkbox "Share my Music"

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Javier Jardón
2010/2/22 Lennart Poettering : > > Well, we already run apache as part of the user session from > gnome-user-share. > > GNOME is certainly focussed on the desktop, or similar user > interfaces. As such it should provide services for building user > interfaces, not server machines. A bit OT but I'd

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sun, 21.02.10 14:50, Bastien Nocera (had...@hadess.net) wrote: > >> - The preferences UI is pretty horrible > > Should we really keep the UI at all? The options offered therein appear > very esoteric to me, and a trivial addition

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 21.02.10 14:50, Bastien Nocera (had...@hadess.net) wrote: > - The preferences UI is pretty horrible Should we really keep the UI at all? The options offered therein appear very esoteric to me, and a trivial addition to gnome-file-share-properties that would just introduce one simple check

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.02.10 15:27, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey.udalt...@gmail.com) wrote: > >  That is because you seem to be keen on admin intervention while I am > > keen on each user to be as free (from admin) as possible. :) > I do not really care about admin intervention, honestly. I just prefer > to have a

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.02.10 14:29, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey.udalt...@gmail.com) wrote: > >   Just because others do it in a particular way, doesn't make it > > right. Although Rygel can be run as a system-wide service, the main > > target use-case is that of providing services per-user[1] so for > > example e

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Sorry for being unclear. Sure I know the difference between UPnP and CIFS. I am just saying that approach (I incorrectly called it "use case") "single system-level daemon + multiple user-controlled user-specific resources" looks architecturally better than "multiple user-level daemons". Sergey PS

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.02.10 12:08, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey.udalt...@gmail.com) wrote: > >  From reading description, it seems to me that Rygel would be better > > suited as system service. Just like for example mt-daapd (which seem > > to have the same purpose as Rygel but for DAAP). How does it fit GNOME? >

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.02.10 09:13, Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) wrote: > > > I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: > > > http://live.gnome.org/Rygel > > > > pbor pointed out on IRC that I didn't really have a nice description > > on the homepage so I corrected that.

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 14:29 +, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > > Just because others do it in a particular way, doesn't make it > > right. Although Rygel can be run as a system-wide service, the main > > target use-case is that of providing services per-user[1] so for > > example each user can choos

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
>  Not really. Can the user share his directories if the system-wide > deamon is not running? Sure, if the user has admin privileges she is > asked for the authentication and is able to start samba daemon but we > can't assume each user has the admin rights. Well, there always external system-level

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >>   Just because others do it in a particular way, doesn't make it >> right. Although Rygel can be run as a system-wide service, the main >> target use-case is that of providing services per-user[1] so for >> example each user can choos

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
>   Just because others do it in a particular way, doesn't make it > right. Although Rygel can be run as a system-wide service, the main > target use-case is that of providing services per-user[1] so for > example each user can choose to share his media on the network rather > than every user's med

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 22 février 2010, à 16:23 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Where will the strings appear? If it's just error strings in a log file, > > then they don't have to be translated, for example. > >Yeah something like that. How

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: >> >>   It most certainly is and if it starts to become very likely that my >> proposal will be approved, I'll put this in my high-priority todo >> list. > > Heh, the logic should be reversed :-) It can't be approved (or likely to > be appr

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 22 février 2010, à 15:02 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : > Hi Frederic! > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > > > >> Adoption & GNOME-ness, community: > > > > We have pride in our incredible translation teams; it would be re

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 18:12 +0200 schrieb Zeeshan Ali: > I agree but I really suck at UIs You could ask for a review on the usability mailing list. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper _

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Frederic! On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> Adoption & GNOME-ness, community: > > We have pride in our incredible translation teams; it would be really > nice if Rygel had the infrastructure in place to be translated. > > Is this planne

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >>  From reading description, it seems to me that Rygel would be better >> suited as system service. Just like for example mt-daapd (which seem >> to have the same purpose as Rygel but for DAAP). How does it fit GNOME? > Absolutely corre

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
>  From reading description, it seems to me that Rygel would be better > suited as system service. Just like for example mt-daapd (which seem > to have the same purpose as Rygel but for DAAP). How does it fit GNOME? Absolutely correct point! Folks, when did you decided that GNOME is for PCs only ("

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:51:50AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > wrote: > > What is it? > > > > I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: > > http://live.gnome.org/Rygel > > pbor pointed out on IRC tha

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-22 Thread Frederic Peters
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Adoption & GNOME-ness, community: We have pride in our incredible translation teams; it would be really nice if Rygel had the infrastructure in place to be translated. Is this planned? Cheers, Frederic ___ desk

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > What is it? > > I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: > http://live.gnome.org/Rygel pbor pointed out on IRC that I didn't really have a nice description on the homepage so I corrected that. Please c

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-21 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hi, - Original message - > > The only comments I would make are: > - The preferences UI is pretty horrible I agree but I really suck at UIs so if you could list specific issues, I promise to fix them soon. As you recall you filed some bugs regarding this and I fixed them all soon aft

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 21.02.10 14:50, Bastien Nocera (had...@hadess.net) wrote: > - The plugin API should instead be a convenience library around using > the D-Bus API, which would make implementing other front-ends to those > plugins easier. With D-Bus API you mean http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServerSpec

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 23:57 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > What is it? > > I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: > http://live.gnome.org/Rygel > > Target: desktop > > Dependencies: > > * internal: > * glib > * gio > * libuuid > * libsoup >

Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> 3.0 readiness: I think so! The only specific & relevant thing i find > on ThreePointTwenty wiki is " GObject introspection". Oops, I meant ThreePointZero plan wikipage. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list

Module Proposal: Rygel

2010-02-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
What is it? I hate unneeded redundancy so I'll just ask you to read the home page: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel Target: desktop Dependencies: * internal: * glib * gio * libuuid * libsoup * dbus-glib * external: * vala * gupnp-vala * gupnp * gupnp-av * gstr