Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Replying from off-list, pardon the break. At the encouragement of various important parties on #gnome-hackers, I am posting a copy of this from my blog in an effort to help focus the Pro/Con-Mono argument. I am not taking any side. This is only a summary. So, I spent two hours reading every email

Re: Mono/GTK#/Tomboy

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:12 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: This is really just a packaging issue, on opensuse/SLED they are all individual packages (glib-sharp, gtk-sharp, etc). Not taking a side but I would like to point out that they are also separately packaged on Ubuntu and Debian-based distros.

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:48 +, Hubert Figuiere wrote: For those who don't believe me, have a look at your friends of KDE. They produce a huge amount of application written in C++ with Qt and sometime it looks like Gnome is really lagging behind. Too bad for us, we have a very good C++

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:33 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 23:33 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Anti-Mono folks generally [...] think that high level languages should only be used for prototyping (the benefits of RAD don't outweigh the cons). Some people have said

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 08:23 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: [snip] So, I spent two hours reading every email sent in April, May and July about including Mono as an official part of the GNOME platform That hasn't been proposed, as far as I know. It's been proposed for the Platform Bindings.

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
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: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:32 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: I don't have concerns about this that need addressing. Gtk# has simply not been proposed for the Developer Platform during GNOME 2.15/2.16. So, I am seeking clarification, not trying to start something ... Are you saying that Tomboy

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:33 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: I am not saying we shouldn't take good ideas etc., from Apple, but lets try to remember that Apple is basically a failure in the desktop market. What were you smoking when you wrote this? I

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

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 00:03 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: * Should applications built with anything in the Bindings suite be accepted into the Desktop suite? - short to medium term - do we want the central components of our software to potentially be written in five to ten different

Re: bug-buddy support

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 12:35 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: I noticed that bug-buddy refuses to file bugs against a number of core desktop applications (I just found yelp and evince). I think we should make an effort to ensure that all core desktop apps have the necessary information in their

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

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:39 -0400, Ben Maurer wrote: I don't think this is an item worth dividing on. For languages like Mono (and Java with GCJ), the compile or JIT (for Mono) or interp (for GCJ) is purely a case-by-case performance decision. ... The statement that performance is generally

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

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:20 -0400, Ben Maurer wrote: AOT is *not* always faster. There are lots of variables. For example, at JIT time, the compiler can make some assumptions that AOT can not (for example, if you have a static readonly field [static final in java], JITs can inline the

Re: Bug buddy maintainer? (Was Re: bug-buddy support)

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 21:06 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote: Anyway, I did my best to get new bug-buddy interface and internal ready for 2.16, after the great work from Olav in bugzilla.gnome.org and lot of help from Brent. I am sorry about breaking the command line interface that yelp and other

Re: Bug buddy maintainer? (Was Re: bug-buddy support)

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: You need to add something to the .desktop file to convince bug-buddy to consider your app. Check out a desktop file of an app that bug-buddy does recognize for the details. I do appreciate your help but I was hoping for something a

[Fwd: Re: Bug buddy maintainer? (Was Re: bug-buddy support)]

2006-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Here is the information everyone needs. Apparently mistakenly sent only to me. ---BeginMessage--- Hi, On 7/21/06, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do appreciate your help but I was hoping for something a little more definitive. What is it? Metainformation about the application

Re: dbus building pains

2006-07-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:07 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: The system bus (=0.90) needs to be running and accessible by the build. We need to remove this dependency in the future. The quick fix is to build outside of jhbuild and copy the dbus-bus-introspect.xml into the tools directory

Re: Deskbar Applet, NewStuffManager, 2.16, Installing New Plug-Ins, AutoUpdate, etc.

2006-07-30 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 01:06 +1000, Nigel Tao wrote: thingy people have implemented, aiming for the 2.16 release timeframe. So are you asking for official inclusion of this for 2.16? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Deskbar Applet, NewStuffManager, 2.16, Installing New Plug-Ins, AutoUpdate, etc.

2006-08-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:31 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: Is it really that hard to check a digital signature? I'd have thought there'd be APIs in Python/C/Mono that make this trivial by now. And that's all you have to do to protect against the files are changed by evil people case. gpg has well

Re: Common knowledge in jhbuild for funny modules

2006-08-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 18:55 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: /me starts cheerleading federico on I don't know the answers, but the building-gnome nightmare is long overdue for discussion. ... Magnus Therning spent a similar amount of time recently, with the gory details archives on the

In search opinions on GNOME Games module games

2006-08-28 Thread Jason D. Clinton
The GNOME Games maintainers, Andreas and I, are planning to deprecate one GNOME Games game which is unpopular and difficult to maintain during the 2.18 release cycle and replace it with a more popular game with better, more maintainable code. To this end, we are seeking input from our users to

Re: Getting a list of 2.18 new features

2006-11-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
. How is the work on that coming along? -- Jason D. Clinton Something clever goes on this line. pgpHNEvZVcPBs.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
-1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. If the last two Gnome releases are any indication, we are strapped for resources - taking on new modules that add absolutely nothing features-wise but DO add

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Empathy is a UI around an IM platform which totally

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : -1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. If the last two Gnome

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op zondag 23-09-2007 om 16:00 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jason D. Clinton: Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done better). This is a reimplementation of the wheel. Are you serious? Although

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:56:34PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: It's Pidgin and it's non-inclusion in Gnome is irrelevant. Every single distro ships it as the pre-installed IM client for a desktop install. For better or worse, it's

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. I don't believe this is what is meant with joining the GNOME project. It is not that we do a 'oh, lets

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure there is lots more developers working on the Telepathy stack than on pidgin, maybe it's the other way the fragmentation happens, pidgin developers should stop working on a dead project and contribute to Empathy/Telepathy?

Re: Mercurial - Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Sean Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think GIT is not a very user friendly SCM for those coming from other version control systems. It is far too rough around the edges. Will it get better? I am sure over time it will. But I certainly wouldn't impose it on the multitude of

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
I read your message three time but I still can't figure out if you're for or against Empathy in Gnome. On 9/23/07, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 17:07 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: See my other reply regarding Pidgin's de facto status as the Gnome desktop IM

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
, so it's not like they're all trying to do literally the same things. Thus any perceived duplication of effort isn't as bad as it may seem. -Travis On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:00 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: -1 Needless duplication of work covered by Pidgin and Ekiga (and, so far, done

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Xavier On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 23:19 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: Currently GNOME has no IM program at all, Ekiga does only voice andvideo AFAIK. Surely you haven't forgotten Gossip already. :P FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/23/07, Travis Reitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the thread - I just responded in general. But let me get a little more specific: From my own perspective, I would describe the three competing applications as: Empathy is a general communications program based around Telepathy, and

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It appears to want to replace Ekiga. There appears to be no buy-in from Ekiga developers. * It appears to want to replace the default IM client installed in distros (Pidgin). If the consensus is that empathy is better I don't see

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So? Distros are free to package and ship GNOME components however they see fit so long as they comply with any applicable copyright/trademark licensing. Unfortunately, as a good analogy, most tend to ship Firefox or Seamonkey as the default

Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on gvfs and gio for a while, and its starting to reach some minimal level of maturity. As long as there is consensus on a path from gnome-vfs to gio+gvfs, I would like to see this in 2.22. Which module are you proposing?

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. Why not include this in the existing gnome-panel module and avoid having two competing clock

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read my mail carefully (merge), that is exactly what is being proposed here. Two clock applets makes no sense at all, which is why we did not ship the intlclock in F8. Sorry, I thought you were asking for module proposal acceptance

Re: Proposed module: empathy

2007-12-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:12 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: So in summary, WTF is Telepathy and Topaz and why should I care? (Or for the tin-foil-hat brigade: why does Nokia/Collabora care about this so much?) From http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/: Telepathy

gnome-games 2.22 branced

2008-03-10 Thread Jason D. Clinton
The gnome-games SVN has been branched for the 2.22 stable series. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Session Management in 2.24

2008-03-29 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Thank you for doing this hard work. Dan, too. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Lucas Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, now the code reached a functional state and I've just merged the new-gnome-session branch in trunk. Vincent Untz and I will be working on making the new code shine for

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Epiphany

2008-04-01 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Christian Persch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This single back-end will be * WebKit *. Hoping this is not an April Fool's joke, also. +1 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Call for hackfest ideas

2008-04-15 Thread Jason D. Clinton
A bling hackfest would be a good one--given our competition from the KDE folks as of late. I can think of at least a dozen little projects all over Gnome that fall in this category. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you can think of a topic that would

Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-20 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Hi, For Gnome Games 2.24, I would like to have an optional hardware-accelerated Gnometris theme. This would be enabled by default on installations where glxinfo reports Direct Rendering: Yes. All of the old themes will continue to be present and used as fall-backs when the hardware is not there.

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-20 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. It does not use Cairo; The implementation that I'm proposing will blit Cairo-rendered surfaces to textures using cluttermm. I couldn't make pretty, scalable 2D graphics without Cairo. So, they complement

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Adam Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:59 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-07 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think it is a problem for PolicyKit to be an external dependency for GNOME. However, there will probably be people at Sun working to #ifdef out PolicyKit code in the modules that tend to get shipped with

Announce: Gnome Games 2.22.2

2008-05-26 Thread Jason D. Clinton
gnome-games 2.22.2 == This service release contains fixes for build problems related to Python and a few crashers. A handful of fixes to Aisleriot are specific to the Maemo platform. Aisleriot: - Don't crash on double click (Vincent Povirk, Christian Persch, Bug #443307)

Gnome Games 2.22.2.1 Brown Paper Bag

2008-05-29 Thread Jason D. Clinton
gnome-games 2.22.2.1 This is a brown-paper-bag release to fix a crash-on-start in GLChess. GLChess - Fix our sys.path usage (Jason Clinton, Josselin Mouette, Bug #524665, Bug #528953) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: minimum cairo dependency

2008-06-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was pointed out to me that http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree/ExternalDependencies still lists cairo 1.2.6 as minimum version. I recently bumped the cairo dependency in GTK+ 2.13 to 1.6 (it already was at 1.5.2

Gnome Games 2.23.3

2008-06-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
gnome-games 2.23.3 == This development release incorporates a few critical bugfixes. No new features over the previous 2.23.1 have been added. Overall: - Set AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Josselin Mouette, Andreas Røsdal, bug #53255) - Stop distributing generated defaults.py (Robert

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-06-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton
2008/6/12 Xavier Claessens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I hope this will help the adoption of Empathy for GNOME 2.24. -1 (I haven't said anything during the 2.24 release cycle. I just reviewed the application as it stands at version 0.23.1 and I believe that it simply is not ready to be included.

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-06-15 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Emmanuele Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:27 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 23.04.2008, 10:23 +0100 schrieb Emmanuele Bassi: Le lundi 21 avril 2008, à 17:10 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : Clutter is already

Gnome Games 2.23.4

2008-06-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
gnome-games 2.23.4 == Gnibbles: - Improved AI search algorithm. Solves AI problems with level 15 (ais523) - Fix problem where worms crash on the starting square of dead worms (ais523) Gnometris: - code clean up (Jason Clinton) - fix compiler warnings (Jason Clinton) Sudoku:

Need Leadership

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
I know that a lot of discussion around this topic will be taking place (in smoke filled rooms) at GUADEC but for those of us who can't afford to make the trip, some of this conversation needs to be had here on this mailing list (and pointedly not on foundation-list on which many developers are not

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Hubert Figuiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:57 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: 2. The Giant Rift in the Gnome community over Mono has to end. I hate Mono as much as the next guy but it's quite apparent now that some really cool stuff

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/21 Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And there's a discussion about it already, there's even a BoF at GUADEC around the topic. PGO is the wrong place for that discussion and as I said in the first sentence of my

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Cody Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:47 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: I don't see what Gnome Main Menu is doing in your anti-Mono rant. Or maybe you are and editing contributor of BoycottNovell.com

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/21 Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In my opinion, whatever The Next-Gen Gnome is, it isn't going to happen until we really, really have a deep maintenance cycle going on here. That means fixing a Handful

Gnome Games ChangeLog is now dynamic

2008-06-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
I have copied Epiphany's method of generating ChangeLog on make distcheck for distribution purposes from the VCS commit log. Gnome Games 2.24 will release this way (trunk). SVN commit messages are now canonical and should be verbose to the point that the change is succinctly described with the bug

Gnome Games 2.22.3

2008-06-30 Thread Jason D. Clinton
This is the final service release for 2.22 series. We have all worked to back- port fixes from trunk; especially those that cause crashers. General: - Fix allocator/deallocator mismatch. (Yanko Kaneti, Christian Persch, Bug #535214) GLChess: - Don't disable load button on load dialog as

Re: Using vala in GNOME

2008-06-30 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus, CMake is getting more mature and stable and it already supports VisualStudio and XCode project files conversion, lack of proper extensibility being its only downside at the moment. Lack of

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Going off topic a bit: It would be really nice if PolicyKit had a proper web page and mailing list. It's too important for information on it to be so fragmented.

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:03 AM, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe you just haven't tried hard enough. Fuck you. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/22 Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Rob, Just as a quick note, Jason's problem is completly a debian unstable packaging issue, as far as I can tell. Care to eloborate, why and what the actual problem actually

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's your policy, then you need to patch /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf to NOT use PolicyKit in a package that doesn't have support for it. This is--AFAICT--an upstream bug in hal that this stanza is not removed

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-07-22 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the PK bits that David was discussion in his previous message that are in the Debian hal which appears to be a security problem, if nothing else: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h

Re: indentation of c code

2008-08-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Dodji Seketeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BJörn Lindqvist a écrit : [...] There is no GNOME standard for indenting C code -- every project use their own indentation style (unfortunately). But to reformat a file to an indentation style many projects use, you

Re: Laptop power disconnect alarm

2008-10-13 Thread Jason D. Clinton
This should probably be done as a patch to gnome-power-manager. Thinkpad laptops in particular already do something like this (it's implemented in the BIOS) that does a chime to notify the user that the laptop is still on when the lid is closed and the power cord is detached to prevent people

Dependency bump request for Clutter

2008-10-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
0.6 was cleared for use for 2.24 but no module actually ended up using it. I would like to request that the dependency be bumped to 0.8.2. Aisleriot now supports Clutter thanks to the work of Neil Roberts. The gnome-games team is committed to releasing 2.26 with some Clutter support. For 2.26,

Re: new module proposal: brasero

2008-11-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
2008/11/1 Philippe Rouquier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, We'd be interested in having brasero integrated into the GNOME desktop. +1, a wonderful application. n-c-b should be completely removed. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: GNOME 2.25.1 Released!

2008-11-07 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Why was Gnome Games omitted from the release notes? This was the worst possible release that could have been left out. There are more changes in dependencies and packaging in this release than any other point in my recent memory. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update of jhbuild module dependencies

2008-11-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Luca Ferretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * a little mess with clutter stuff: we have clutter in gnome-external-deps-2.26 (0.8.2 targz) and in gnome-2.26 (svn trunk) and clutter-0.8 (svn branch) as well as a lot of clutter-XXX-0.8:

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: That isn't a contest. It is a survey. Please don't read more in to my email than I intended. There's no need to get defensive. http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/survey/first-picks-permutations.png It seems to me that a lot of

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Karl Lattimer k...@qdh.org.uk wrote: Elijah Newren did an initial analysis of the data. His analysis also includes the survey questions and answers. Find it at: http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/ This is pretty decent

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, John Carr john.c...@unrouted.co.uk wrote: I'm not a complete idiot - if it was going to be a degraded, bastardized form of Git I wouldn't waste my time on it. I suppose I might be an evil genius stalling for Bazaar DS9 to be written (sorry for the very bad joke

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zee...@gmail.com wrote: How about we set-up a task-force of volunteers who would want to help in the move, each volunteer promising at least 3 hours a week? 3 hours is a very small amount of time but I am hoping that we'll be able to

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: I can commit that much time as long as there's clear delegation of work by--preferably--the sysadmin team. I don't want to sit on a committee that does a lot of deciding and no actual doing. What do you mean with

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: bzr allows lightweight checkouts [1]. What about git? Yes, it does. This is not an issue. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: New Module Proposal: libseed

2009-01-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Robert Carr ca...@rpi.edu wrote: I was not planning to do this until .28, however a nice Clutter game written in Seed was merged in to gnome-games today, and there is some interest in being able to include this in .26. I would like to propose Seed

Re: JavaScript engines

2009-01-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Johan Dahlin jo...@gnome.org wrote: The language is pretty different, SpiderMonkey supports quite a few /language/ extensions which JSCore doesn't.[1][2][3] s/doesn't./doesn't yet./g ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: JavaScript engines

2009-01-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: The APIs will certainly not automatically be the same. There are lots and lots of little decisions you have to make when you bind gtk. If just one of these differ then they won't be compatible. It's not clear to me why

Dependency bump for GGZ

2009-01-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Gnome Games has bumped the GGZ dependency from 0.0.14 to 0.99.5 due to this library breaking API. It appears that no distro. (at least Debian and Fedora) has decided to do versioned soname for libggz so we are forced bump dependency to continue to be able to build in these distros. See bug

Re: Dependency bump for GGZ

2009-01-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: Gnome Games has bumped the GGZ dependency from 0.0.14 to 0.99.5 due to this library breaking API. It appears that no distro. (at least Debian and Fedora) has decided to do versioned soname for libggz so we

Re: Dependency bump for GGZ

2009-01-19 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le dimanche 18 janvier 2009 à 14:52 -0600, Jason D. Clinton a écrit : On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: Gnome Games has bumped the GGZ dependency from 0.0.14 to 0.99.5 due

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: New module decisions for 2.26

2009-01-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Damien Sandras dsand...@seconix.com wrote: Perhaps pulseaudio developers could try ekiga before we write a pulseaudio plugin for it ? Lennart's last blog post on the matter[1] indicated that we should be using alsa--not writing pulseaudio plugins for our apps.

Dependency bump for Clutter for Gnome 2.28

2009-03-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Okay to bump official depends on Clutter and Clutter-GTK from the 0.8.x API to 0.9/1.0 API? I fully expect it to stabilize and have a 1.0 release before 2.28. Also, Clutter Cairo is now part of Clutter. Also, it's unclear from reading the archives but is libcanberra blessed now? Planning on using

Re: Dependency bump for Clutter for Gnome 2.28

2009-03-17 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:54:58PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: Okay to bump official depends on Clutter and Clutter-GTK from the 0.8.x API to 0.9/1.0 API? I fully expect it to stabilize and have a 1.0 release before 2.28

Re: GNOME accepted as a Google Summer o Code project

2009-03-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: GNOME has been accepted as a GSoC project for 2009.  If you're interested in being a mentor and/or reviewing student applications, make your way to [1] and sign up. As far as I can tell, students have to start submitting

Gnome Games will make 3D mandatory for 2.28

2009-03-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Now that 2.26 is out and we've begun to work on 2.28, I want to get this out early so that no one feels like this was a last minute surprise. This has been a year in the making and this development cycle appears to be the right time to put some polish on our new game engines and make them the

Re: Gnome Games will make 3D mandatory for 2.28

2009-03-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:21:48PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: This is not a proposal or RFC. This is what is happening; I am merely make it abundantly clear well in advance of it being released to the general public

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

2009-03-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: 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

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

2009-04-06 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: You are missing the remote desktop scenario here. This is not only a matter of working on old hardware, being able to run gnome smoothly on a thin client solution through XDM, or VNC, or whatever is also needed. VNC is not

Re: eggsmclient code syncing

2009-04-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: good idea to sync the eggsmclient code in the modules that use it for 2.26.1, which seems to be at least the following: ... gnome-games Done on master and gnome-2-26 ___

Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

2009-04-21 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tristan Van Berkom t...@gnome.org wrote: Sure,   on the other hand projects with ChangeLogs that are hand-tended to are, in my personal experience richer than logs of arbitrary commits, if only by the simple virtue of forcing you to spend time caring for it.

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-03 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Kjartan Maraas kmar...@broadpark.no wrote: gnome-games stopped building in jhbuild for me since we still have clutter-0.8.8 there and the games want to use 0.9.x from what I can see in the logs. The request was made Mar. 17th with no objections. So, it's

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote: clutter-gtk 0.9 is not yet available.  Yet gnome-shell requires clutter-gtk 0.9 to build, so you currently have to build it from git master. Might it be better to wait until clutter-gtk 0.9 is released before jumping

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-) providing snapshots, just like glib and gtk+ :-) but the API might change during the development cycle, so you should be aware of

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: It's not only a formal distinction. Such policies do not exist just because people are bored. It's based on bad experiences in the past. Why are we having this argument? Is release team going to veto Clutter for 2.28?

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