Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-30 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 10:57 +0200, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click install to install an extension. Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. So, just so I

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-30 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 02:23 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: David: on the subject of your followup...my advice, by the way, is that life is too short to continue to try to explain why GNOME Shell is unusable for folks like you and I. I'd just switch to XFCE and be done with it. My machines are a lot

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-30 Thread seth vidal
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 02:23 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: So, just so I understand, the requirement/assumption is that all machines will be online and pulling bits down directly from GNOME? That won't map at all to enterprise or non-fully connected environments. It needs to be possible to

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the same plans or are already working on this, please let me know. So we can avoid doing double work. Did you do this?

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/29/2011 07:47 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the same plans or are already working on this, please let me know. So we

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 07/29/2011 09:47 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the same plans or are already working on this, please let me know.

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/29/2011 01:57 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: There does exit an [1] rpm and an srpm [2] here by the do we have guidelines on how to package additional extensions I guess official and unofficial ones? The only one we have is at

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 07/29/2011 09:47 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:57:59 +0200 drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: ... Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. [citation needed] --Stijn -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Stijn Hoop st...@sandcat.nl wrote: Hi, On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:57:59 +0200 drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: ... Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. [citation needed]

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/29/2011 08:57 AM, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click install to install an extension. Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. Is it not then better to setup

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread drago01
2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 08:57 AM, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click install to install an extension. Distro packaged extensions are

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/29/2011 09:21 AM, drago01 wrote: 2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 08:57 AM, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to extensions.gnome.org and click install to install an

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread drago01
2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 09:21 AM, drago01 wrote: 2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 08:57 AM, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16) extensions will be like firefox extensions i.e you go to

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:31:35AM +0200, drago01 wrote: 2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 09:21 AM, drago01 wrote: 2011/7/29 Jóhann B. Guðmundssonjohan...@gmail.com: On 07/29/2011 08:57 AM, drago01 wrote: Well in gnome 3.2 (which should be out for F16)

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:36:50 +0200 Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: I would strongly prefer third parties not to reinvent whole packaging and repositories concept. Some companies grasp it (I have yum repos provided for Google Earth and Talk Plugin, Dell BIOSes and firmwares, Adobe

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 11:15 +0200, drago01 wrote: Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. [citation needed] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-June/msg00164.html Seriously, who cares? Upstream are clearly on crack these days anyway. The best way to

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-07-29 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 06:28, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 11:15 +0200, drago01 wrote: Distro packaged extensions are frowned upon upstream. [citation needed] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-June/msg00164.html Seriously, who

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-02 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Ron Yorston wrote: I'd prefer them to be in one package: they are intended to work together. Except the Shut Down menu extension directly conflicts with the alternative-status-menu extension. Sub-packages are the

Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-01 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the same plans or are already working on this, please let me know. So we can avoid doing double work. I plan to use 1 subpackage per extension of the frippery extension

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Yorston
Hans de Goede wrote: I plan to use 1 subpackage per extension of the frippery extension collection, so that people can install only those which they want without automatically getting all of them. I'd prefer them to be in one package: they are intended to work together. I understand that

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-01 Thread Mario Blättermann
Hi Ron, Am 01.06.2011 11:19, schrieb Ron Yorston: Hans de Goede wrote: I plan to use 1 subpackage per extension of the frippery extension collection, so that people can install only those which they want without automatically getting all of them. I'd prefer them to be in one package: they

Re: Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

2011-06-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ron Yorston wrote: I'd prefer them to be in one package: they are intended to work together. Except the Shut Down menu extension directly conflicts with the alternative-status-menu extension. Sub-packages are the safest bet. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org