Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On 25/11/11 23:24, Heiko Adams wrote: Would you jump from a building too if ubuntu guys are doing? In other words: copying every idea - no matter how stupid - just because ubuntu is doing it, doesn't bring any benifit to fedora IMHO. Or do we already have unity as primary desktop too, like

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 26/11/2011 alle 01.27 +0100, Florian Müllner ha scritto: While I agree that our app-install story sucks, I'm far less convinced that we need yet-another-downstream solution. This is not really a downstream solution. Since OpenSuse GSoC 2011, software-center can interact with

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Julian Aloofi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 26.11.2011 00:03, schrieb Giovanni Campagna: I hope that some people from the relevant group will point me to the right place (perhaps starting from what happened to fedora-app-install...), and I hope you like the idea in general. Giovanni

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.11.2011 00:28, schrieb Giovanni Campagna: Or you have any reason to say that this is idea is stupid? the biggest benefit of a linux-distribution is a consistent package-managment with straight dependencies and centralized repos, if you mean a additionak GUI for this - fine if we speak

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2011 05:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.11.2011 00:28, schrieb Giovanni Campagna: Or you have any reason to say that this is idea is stupid? the biggest benefit of a linux-distribution is a consistent package-managment with straight dependencies and centralized repos, if you

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: the biggest benefit of a linux-distribution is a consistent package-managment with straight dependencies and centralized repos, if you mean a additionak GUI for this - fine if we speak about crap installing applications outside the rpm-database it would be the worst

updating goffice to 0.9.0

2011-11-26 Thread Julian Sikorski
Dear Fedorians, goffice-0.9.0 was released recently, along with new gnumeric [1,2]. What is your opinion on pushing the update to rawhide ASAP? To the best of my knowledge stable goffice 0.10 and gnumeric 1.12 should be out by the time Fedora 17 ships, so putting this into rawhide now would allow

Re: Just Patched Kmess 2.0.6.1 :)

2011-11-26 Thread Manuel Escudero
2011/11/23 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:52:11 -0600, ME (Manuel) wrote: (Cross Posting both to the Developers and Users List, sent a copy to Rex Dieter, who I believe is the maintainer for Kmess in the Fedora Community) http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/kmess

Fwd: Ask Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Laurin lin...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I totally agree with you, a software center would be a really nice idea, also for more experienced user because they can browse easily through the available software and may find something interesting. I am really confused

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Björn Persson
Giovanni Campagna wrote: While we do have two nice UIs (gpk-application and apper) for package management, having to deal with packages, with no icons and no translations is not appropriate for end users. We do have translations of the fields that it's meaningful to translate – summary and

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Björn Persson
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Can someone help me understand whats being asked for here? I can only guess that I'm not the only person confused by this thread. Icons. The only thing I can see that Giovanni has mentioned that Packagekit doesn't provide is icons. Presumably he wants each application's

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:40:58 +0100, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Here is what my F14 laptop has: http://people.xiph.org/~greg/packagekit.png It can be configured to only show end-user graphical applications That's not enough. I use my grandfather unaffected by prior MS-Windows experience as a

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.11.2011 02:26, schrieb Jan Kratochvil: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:40:58 +0100, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Here is what my F14 laptop has: http://people.xiph.org/~greg/packagekit.png It can be configured to only show end-user graphical applications That's not enough. I use my grandfather

slim

2011-11-26 Thread solarflow99
It looks as if SLIM has been abandoned, with no package in F-16 it makes me wonder what the chance it could be included again -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: slim

2011-11-26 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, solarflow99 solarflo...@gmail.com wrote: It looks as if SLIM has been abandoned, with no package in F-16 it makes me wonder what the chance it could be included again slim has only been orphaned, and is still present in F16: $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora

Broken dependencies in EPEL - 2011-11-27

2011-11-26 Thread Fedora EPEL repoclosure
Your following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies: == The results in this summary consider Test Updates! == package: