Re: Calling all Gradle users!

2019-01-26 Thread Peter Steele
I am a big gradle user, I currently use the gradle plugin setup with a root project and many sub projects. I am interested in helping. I'm currently on netbeans 10 with jdk 11 (there is a minimum version of gradle required for Jdk 11) On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, 13:07 Geertjan Wielenga Hi all, > > If

Re: java-agent to inject system properties on NetBeans startup

2018-09-27 Thread Peter Steele
+1 On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:37 Laszlo Kishalmi, wrote: > Hi all, > > What do you think on the idea to create a simple Java agent which can > insert system properties into the JVM before NetBeans starts? > > My motivation are the following: > > 1. Sometimes you need to change some properties to

Re: SECURITY: plugins.netbeans.org domain not secure

2018-09-25 Thread Peter Steele
Kenneth apache.netbeans.org supports https, so once everything redirects here we should be good by default. There is a Jira to find a solution to the plugin hosting question once we go fully move over but I think that's the still TBD. Maybe find that Jira and add some comments to mention the new

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Which NetBeans domains to keep?

2018-09-24 Thread Peter Steele
, wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Peter Steele > wrote: > > > The 17 aren't listed in the JIRA > > > > Yes, they are. Copied and pasted from the JIRA: > > netbeans.org > netbeans.net > netbeans.info > netbeans.com > netbeans.tv &g

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Which NetBeans domains to keep?

2018-09-24 Thread Peter Steele
The 17 aren't listed in the JIRA but I would argue only netbeans.org is required. You can host videos/aggregate a blog, have a staging area all on one site On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:25 Geertjan Wielenga, wrote: > Hi all, > > Oracle donated 17 domains connected to NetBeans to Apache: > >

Re: Problems creating Javahelp project

2018-09-17 Thread Peter Steele
I believe in some other emails it was mentioned java help couldn't be included due to license issues. On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:41 Peter Nabbefeld, wrote: > After some changes (mainly in folder structure) which seemed to be > necessary, help seems even not to be recognized. > > - P. > > > Am

Re: Blurry font with NetBeans 9.0

2018-09-07 Thread Peter Steele
Here it is -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=false -J-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2 With these you don't need to set the -fontSize, icons and fonts work well. These work well for a theme that is not native (for me that is GTK) On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 7:21 PM Peter Steele wrote: > The theme you use will m

Re: Blurry font with NetBeans 9.0

2018-09-07 Thread Peter Steele
The theme you use will make a difference too, if it's a native laf theme then it will use the os scaling properties. If not it won't and you will need to set the ui scaling property and also set hdip property. There is a manifest solution too but you don't need this. If you need these -J-D command

Issue with latest jdk 11 on Linux and work around solution

2018-08-23 Thread Peter Steele
Hi I recently upgraded my java on ubuntu and on startup I get this error java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.newAWTError(Toolkit.java:472) at

Re: Cleanup of old pending PRs

2018-08-17 Thread Peter Steele
Looks like CONTRIBUTOR.md is "standard place" to put information on how to contribute. Should be easy to add this to the root folder in GitHub. On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:00 Peter Steele, wrote: > What is the process / criteria for approving a PR and what is the process > / crit

Re: Cleanup of old pending PRs

2018-08-17 Thread Peter Steele
2018 07:35 Jaroslav Tulach, wrote: > Dne Pá 17. srpna 2018 06:30:28, Peter Steele napsal(a): > > So my thoughts on this would be to decide on a more formal PR approach > and > > apply it to this situation > > Great, that is what I am calling for! > > Let's automatic

Re: Cleanup of old pending PRs

2018-08-16 Thread Peter Steele
The fact that there are so many open PR's is an issue in itself, we either have lots of amazing code that isn't being integrated, or lots on unsuitable requests that should be formally closed down or something in the middle of these two (most likely). Closing them just hides the fact we don't

Re: Apache NetBeans Release Cycle

2018-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
Badly worded by me, module update issue is where the update center will be located On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:54 Oliver Rettig, wrote: > > Phycologically people feel they have a more modern system if it updates > > more frequently. There should be no reason why minor items can't be > > released

Re: Using 8.2 plugins in 9.0

2018-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
Useful tip for those editing confluence, you can select dates for the table by typing // to bring up the date selector. The dates in the table are then sortable. On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:35 PM Oliver Rettig wrote: > +1 and thanks > > Hi all, > > > > On the Slack channel and elsewhere there's

Re: Apache NetBeans Release Cycle

2018-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
Phycologically people feel they have a more modern system if it updates more frequently. There should be no reason why minor items can't be released quickly in a more agile way. I suspect though we need to move out of incubator status for that because there are a lot of rounds of approval before

Re: [DISCUSS] Integration of 2nd donation

2018-08-01 Thread Peter Steele
> needs to > >>> > be done re Rat and then someone can do that. > >>> > > >>> > >>> I think it might be good to merge master into the 2ndDonation branch > >>> (and > >>> push to 2ndDonation). Then it might(?) be possible to create

Re: [DISCUSS] Integration of 2nd donation

2018-07-31 Thread Peter Steele
nce, but should someone do this in their own clone > or should it be done directly in > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans? > > Gj > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Peter Steele > wrote: > > > https://help.github.com/articles/merging-an-upstream- > > re

Re: [DISCUSS] Integration of 2nd donation

2018-07-31 Thread Peter Steele
https://help.github.com/articles/merging-an-upstream-repository-into-your-fork/ On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:41 Geertjan Wielenga, wrote: > Is there a way to merge the branch into master on GitHub? > > Or is there someone who can recommend best practices for doing this? > > Thanks, > > Gj > > > On

Re: Snap - Linux packaging

2018-07-31 Thread Peter Steele
/jira/browse/INFRA-16728 > > Till it happens: > wget > > https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/lkishalmi-us-west-2-public/snaps/netbeans_9.0_amd64.snap > sudo snap install netbeans_9.0_amd64.snap --dangerous --classic > > On 07/30/2018 09:49 AM, Peter Steele wrote: > > Hi

Snap - Linux packaging

2018-07-30 Thread Peter Steele
Hi What's the latest of getting Netbeans 9 packaged up as a snap? I saw some emails a while back but nothing seemed to indicate if anything was going to happen or not. Having a snap would make it very easy to install on Linux. I see some discussions on Mac packaging, would be good to close the

Re: Public vs. Friend API?

2018-07-23 Thread Peter Steele
Could Netbeans implement something similar in his stack overflow? https://stackoverflow.com/q/3297/2999563 Let it be flagged as unstable or experimental in the javadoc but let the user decide (how ever stupid it maybe) On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:12 Neil C Smith, wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018,

Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book

2018-07-18 Thread Peter Steele
I had a look at Apress and there are quite a few books on netbeans (one already that uses Netbeans 9 for its demos!). They all cost money (unsurprisingly), I was wondering how that would fit in to a community written book? I don't have any expertise to add myself (I'm kind of waiting till things

Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book

2018-07-17 Thread Peter Steele
Can someone link the current book to netbeans.apache.org? Would've good to reference it in the documentation page and when /if the new book comes the link can be updated. On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:40 Delfi Ramirez, wrote: > +1 Huang Kai  > > A wonder of myself to the community. Is there exist any

Re: Updater branding

2018-06-25 Thread Peter Steele
There is a nice little animated gif of stack overflow which shows you how to do this. https://stackoverflow.com/a/24159161/2999563 On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:27 Geertjan Wielenga, wrote: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/601 > > That's a PR for 'main'. How do I get it into

Re: Questions about contributing code and developing on top of Platform 9.0

2018-06-15 Thread Peter Steele
i.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Development+Environment > > Gj > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:58 PM, Peter Steele > wrote: > > > Is there a guide any where for building netbeans in the netbeans ide so > you > > can use netbeans to debug things? > &

Re: Questions about contributing code and developing on top of Platform 9.0

2018-06-15 Thread Peter Steele
Is there a guide any where for building netbeans in the netbeans ide so you can use netbeans to debug things? On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, 19:48 Dmitry Avtonomov, wrote: > Thanks Matthias and Gj! > > I've added the extra Debug line to confluence wiki: > >

Re: Microsoft buys GitHub

2018-06-08 Thread Peter Steele
Encouraging read https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/?limit=500 On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, 19:46 Stephen Parry, wrote: > Just my tuppence worth (being British) regarding Micro$oft being evil: > companies do change. I remember when IBM was the byword

Re: AW: (Git) Diff Window horizontal space rescue

2018-05-10 Thread Peter Steele
If there are configurable options to change it why do you care? You can just keep the settings how you like it and you will be happy. From what I read in the chain it sounds like this was a suggestion a while back. On Thu, 10 May 2018, 15:17 Matthias Bläsing, wrote: >

Re: NetBeans has rendering problems with GTK look and feel on Java 10

2018-05-08 Thread Peter Steele
The issue I had with GTK on java 10 on Ubuntu was that it had wierd behaviour for hidpi screens. If I used the UI Scaling property to match the os I would get images all scaled correctly but fonts would be twice the size. If I set the UI Scaling property to 1 the font would now look nice but the

Re: AW: (Git) Diff Window horizontal space rescue

2018-05-04 Thread Peter Steele
+1 separate window I'd like to also suggest having the separate window track selection events in the windows that generated it so that you only have one window up. An example of this would be the commit window, clicking of different files would load the diff for that file and changing the

Re: Time to branch for the release candidate?

2018-04-26 Thread Peter Steele
Just for my interest, which types of people can approve Pull Requests? As we are now open source the community is deciding what's important by providing the PR's but we have quite a few stacked up. It has previously been mentioned in someone else request to get one approved that they should just

Re: Time to branch for the release candidate?

2018-04-17 Thread Peter Steele
+1 to Chris / Neil You shouldn't be developing in master, ideally On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, 15:10 Christian Lenz, wrote: > Master shouldn’t be that one, where the wild development is going on. > Master should be that one which is already live. > In General, what gitflow

Re: Modules included in 2nd donation.

2018-04-13 Thread Peter Steele
That averages 2.74 lines of code per file, must be a mistake there somewhere  On Fri, 13 Apr 2018, 13:13 Geertjan Wielenga, < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Number of files in 2nd donation: 38338 -- after running this: find . -print > | wc -l > > Number of lines of code in 2nd

Re: Reporting errors

2018-03-23 Thread Peter Steele
Thanks all, I have done, will add them when I get back from work On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, 08:58 Hermien Pellissier, wrote: > > > > Anyone can create an account. > > > > That is indeed correct. Click on Log In (top right), and on the login > screen click Sign up. Anyone with an

Reporting errors

2018-03-23 Thread Peter Steele
Hi I am not part of NETCAT but I have started using netbeans 9 incubator beta as my primary idea (the gradle plugin is no longer updated for 8.2 and it's much more stable in 9). I have had a few scenarios where ide errors have occured, I have saved the stack traces for these and when they

Re: Usability study was: Think Java, not Electron! was: Apache HTML/Java UI

2018-03-18 Thread Peter Steele
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 20:08 Jaroslav Tulach, wrote: > Hello Dmitry, > thanks a lot for trying it out! > > 2018-03-15 2:50 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Avtonomov : > > > I find it incredible that Jaroslav is saying "... people aren't willing > to > >

Re: AW: AW: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFXfromOracle JDK

2018-03-15 Thread Peter Steele
fference. Where did I propose to use DukeScript Presenters or DukeScript proprietary stuff for any of this? I only mentioned it as an example to show it's possible to use other renderers than JavaFX WebView. I'm beginning to feel Jaroslav's pain. --Toni -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Peter

Re: AW: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFXfromOracle JDK

2018-03-15 Thread Peter Steele
Toni MVVM is an architecture, not a technology. You can use any technology to implement it (there are even some that use swing). If you want the whole ui rendered in HTML 5, you need something to parse html, CSS and JavaScript. Which, despite what you say, needs a browser like rendering engine.

Re: AW: AW: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFXfromOracle JDK

2018-03-14 Thread Peter Steele
n or kotlin to js, I can’t understand that, but ok. So please don’t compare GWT or Vaadin with native JS. Cheers Chris Von: Peter Steele Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2018 17:50 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFXfromOracle

Re: AW: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFX fromOracle JDK

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
t;christian.l...@gmx.net> wrote: > Have a look into electron apps. A lot of apps are written with this > Framework like VS Code and I think this is a big Player and you can see, > that it performs very well and it is performant as hell. Only to say one of > those apps. > > >

Re: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFX from Oracle JDK

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
And there is Apache pivot, being Apache maybe we could get help in any migration if that was the path chosen On 12 Mar 2018 16:39, "Peter Steele" <steeleh...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be clear (which i wasn't) i meant eclipse RCP is pretty popular, it > uses swt as it's foun

Re: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFX from Oracle JDK

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
To be clear (which i wasn't) i meant eclipse RCP is pretty popular, it uses swt as it's foundation. Could netbeans use swt as it's foundations too? On 12 Mar 2018 16:36, "Peter Steele" <steeleh...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about the eclipse RCP framework which uses s

Re: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFX from Oracle JDK

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
What about the eclipse RCP framework which uses swt? This would seem to be a much better solution than having a html front end. On 12 Mar 2018 16:25, "Neil C Smith" wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 at 15:59 Jaroslav Tulach > wrote: > > > Forget

Re: [VOTE] Apache NetBeans Logo (NETBEANS-145)

2018-03-01 Thread Peter Steele
Logo Id 2 : +1 On 1 Mar 2018 12:38, "Neil C Smith" wrote: > Logo ID 1 : +1 > > Thanks, > > Neil > -- > Neil C Smith > Artist & Technologist > www.neilcsmith.net > > Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org >

Re: [ANN] Closing the NetBeans Logo Contest

2018-02-28 Thread Peter Steele
I take it it's only really between 1 and 2 as 3,4,5,6,7,8 is typography. +1 to number 2 the colored SVG icon. On 1 Mar 2018 07:36, "Eduard Karel de Jong" wrote: > Great! > Another step forward for NetBeans. > > How do I cast a vote on [2}? > > It says 'cast ypur vote

Re: Merged to master (was Re: A NetBeans website proposal)

2018-02-26 Thread Peter Steele
Apologies if i may have missed it, but where in the incubator-netbeans-website github repository is the delete/clean code in build.gradle? On 26 Feb 2018 11:52, "Neil C Smith" <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 at 11:38 Peter Steele <steeleh...@gmail.com&

Re: Merged to master (was Re: A NetBeans website proposal)

2018-02-26 Thread Peter Steele
is to actually move the clean code from the scripts to gradle because gradle will then have a complete view on things On 26 Feb 2018 11:07, "Neil C Smith" <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 at 10:57 Peter Steele <steeleh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gradle clean b

Re: Merged to master (was Re: A NetBeans website proposal)

2018-02-26 Thread Peter Steele
Gradle clean basically cleans the build directory used in java compilation. In the task compileContentSass for instance you source from $contentDir and write to $generatedAssetDir and these are not part of the java eco system. What you should do is create a new task which deletes all the

Re: A NetBeans website proposal

2018-02-23 Thread Peter Steele
Looks good, what timelines do you have for the migration? On 23 Feb 2018 12:11, "Josh Juneau" wrote: > Great work! > > Josh Juneau > j > > > On Feb 23, 2018, at 1:19 AM, Antonio wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Wade, Tim, Neil, Jirka, Geertjan and I have

Re: www.netbeans.org not working

2018-02-20 Thread Peter Steele
Is there a reason why netbeans.org is not redirecting to netbeans.apache.org? The new front page looks so much better than the existing one. It's just missing the download to the 8.2 version On 20 Feb 2018 15:11, "cowwoc" wrote: > I am seeing the same thing as Rik but

Re: Wiki Edit Permissions

2018-01-19 Thread Peter Steele
Antonio I beleive Vano wants wiki access not help on subscribing to the emails. On 19 Jan 2018 08:38, "Antonio" wrote: Hi Vano, Instructions on how to subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists (either digests or not) are at https://cwiki.apache.org/confl

Re: Java editor

2017-12-17 Thread Peter Steele
Is there anything anywhere saying why netbeans needs its own java compiler (nb-javac) What features require this? I'm just surprised that netbeans was ever built with a custom javac. On 17 Dec 2017 11:03, "Geertjan Wielenga" wrote: It's great and works for me

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-13 Thread Peter Steele
t 2017 10:18, "Geertjan Wielenga" <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Peter Steele <steeleh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Apache integration should be very prominent on the main page, it should > link to all the relevant Apache

Re: NetBeans 9 release date

2017-10-12 Thread Peter Steele
As one of those "netbeans users" I would agree with both sides of what people have been saying. I joined this and the user mailing list to find out a bit more about what is happening, I would love to contribute at some point but because of the little time I can give currently I wanted to wait for