Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-07 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc*/ wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:56:31 -0500: Hedayat Vatankhah (hedayat@gmail.com) said: /*Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc*/ wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: ... - Even searching for -devel packages implies a target == host build sensibility

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Hedayat Vatankhah (hedayat@gmail.com) said: /*Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc*/ wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: ... - Even searching for -devel packages implies a target == host build sensibility that is relevant mostly to those developing Fedora, and not to most of

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6 January 2015 at 10:48, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com wrote: *Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc nott...@splat.cc* wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: ... - Even searching for -devel packages implies a target == host build sensibility that is relevant mostly to those

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org*/ wrote on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:51:24 -0600: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: So you mean that Fedora target developers are either using dynamic languages, or they develop native software for

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: So you mean that Fedora target developers are either using dynamic languages, or they develop native software for RHEL/CentOS?! So you believe that target == rhel/centos? No, you misread his comment, he's actually

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Alec Leamas
On 06/01/15 17:39, Bill Nottingham wrote: - I shouldn't be searching for gcc, gcc-c++, make, etc. as separate promoted to GNOME Software applications; those should be treated as part of a development kit that's installed and updated as a unit, any more than I should be searching for

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Andrew Lutomirski (l...@mit.edu) said: On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Miloslav Trmač m...@redhat.com wrote: While I think you are right in some cases like cashier, isn't this discussion really about the Fedora Workstation?! Since for this the target user is a developer, can we just agree

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-06 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc*/ wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:39:27 -0500: ... - Even searching for -devel packages implies a target == host build sensibility that is relevant mostly to those developing Fedora, and not to most of those developers that I run into on a day-to-day basis

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/01/15 10:04, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: - Original Message - That said, what about describing the developer usecase as a project, focusing on a user using both GUI and CLI tools? - Get the sources (if they exist). - Install a toolchain, GUI-based or not. - Install dependencies:

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2015 um 06:18 schrieb Chris Murphy: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: There's already an application that does this, it's GNOME Packages or use yum/dnf. If this was the answer, there

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Richard Hughes
On 5 January 2015 at 05:25, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: That is potentially one way to address it. I think it is somewhat confusing to have two different interfaces for dealing with software I think if we do want to re-include a package UI into the ISO by default, we do need to do

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Bohuslav Kabrda
- Original Message - On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote: Because as of now, gnome-software just doesn't fit the workstation bill I think you're misunderstanding what most developers do. We probably spend about 10 minutes installing development packages (on the command

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/01/15 06:25, Rahul Sundaram wrote: That is potentially one way to address it. I think it is somewhat confusing to have two different interfaces for dealing with software and it also means that the additional metadata included in GNOME Software won't be available for command line

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/01/15 10:18, Richard Hughes wrote: On 5 January 2015 at 05:25, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: That is potentially one way to address it. I think it is somewhat confusing to have two different interfaces for dealing with software I think if we do want to re-include a package

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 January 2015 at 09:09, Miloslav Trmač m...@redhat.com wrote: Hello, Am 02.01.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: Here, GUIs _as a category_ (not necessarily the GUIs we are currently providing) should always be better than CLIs _as a category_ simply because the GUI can in the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 02/01/15 21:05, Miloslav Trmač wrote: - Original Message - well, and that is why there are tasks you *can * do 1000 times more better in a terminal or in a 3-liner shell script with one or two params and others where you are much faster using the GUI this world is grey hence

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/01/15 17:35, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Here in the fourth world USA, we aren't actually seeing a decrease in slow lines but an increase as the oligarchy in control of networks is figuring out ways to advertise faster speeds but actually only deliver much slower ones. You can get 200 MB

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: but you can't and won't use the GUI the same way on remote machines over slow lines Those slow lines are disappearing, and will be pretty rare by the time we get any UI design finished and polished sorry, but that is nonsense my home

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2015 um 17:48 schrieb Alec Leamas: I don't envy how the political climate on your continent has affected this for you. However, connecting to the top of this sub-thread, for the Fedora Workstation usecase this is not necessarily that bad - a developer works normally with local tools,

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 05/01/15 19:10, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.01.2015 um 17:48 schrieb Alec Leamas: I don't envy how the political climate on your continent has affected this for you. However, connecting to the top of this sub-thread, for the Fedora Workstation usecase this is not necessarily that bad - a

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
While I think you are right in some cases like cashier, isn't this discussion really about the Fedora Workstation?! Since for this the target user is a developer, can we just agree that in this case the user needs both CLI and GUI apps (although some developers certainly sticks to one of

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread DJ Delorie
and developers deserve a better environment. No, developers deserve the environment they ask for, not what someone else thinks is better. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2015 um 19:36 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: While I think you are right in some cases like cashier, isn't this discussion really about the Fedora Workstation?! Since for this the target user is a developer, can we just agree that in this case the user needs both CLI and GUI apps (although

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
(on CLI) and developers deserve a better environment. No, developers deserve the environment they ask for, not what someone else thinks is better. There are aspects of the shell that are a matter of pure preference, like syntax coloring. There are aspects where personal preference or

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Miloslav Trmač m...@redhat.com wrote: While I think you are right in some cases like cashier, isn't this discussion really about the Fedora Workstation?! Since for this the target user is a developer, can we just agree that in this case the user needs both CLI

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Richard Hughes
On 5 January 2015 at 15:23, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Which designers? I'd prefer either aday or jimmac in #gnome-design as they did most of the original designs, but Mo and Ryan also know the UX well. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: Also, if any UI changes need to happen, the time to talk to the designers is NOW. Which designers? Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Tomas Radej
On 05/01/15 10:04, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: - Original Message - On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote: Because as of now, gnome-software just doesn't fit the workstation bill I think you're misunderstanding what most developers do. We probably spend about 10 minutes installing

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, Am 02.01.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: Here, GUIs _as a category_ (not necessarily the GUIs we are currently providing) should always be better than CLIs _as a category_ simply because the GUI can in the worst case just copy the CLI layout and behavior so it will not be

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: I'd prefer either aday or jimmac in #gnome-design as they did most of the original designs, but Mo and Ryan also know the UX well. Pinged jimmac and ryan on that channel. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 January 2015 at 02:45, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Another alternative would be for GNOME Software to show packages perhaps optionally and deprioritize packages in the listing We're not filtering out packages that don't qualify as applications. GNOME Software only searches the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: We're not filtering out packages that don't qualify as applications. GNOME Software only searches the AppStream metadata Yes. My suggestion was to change that Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2015 10:19:30 PM Subject: Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora,but stemming from gnome-software and

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gary Scarborough wrote: Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? And is the goal the same for Gnome? If Gnome is aiming to cater to new users, then is it the right primary DE for fedora? There seems to be a misalignment here. I've been pointing out that misalignment from day

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Aleksandar Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com*/ wrote on Sun, 4 Jan 2015 02:55:17 -0500 (EST): - Original Message - From: Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:15:58 PM

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: There's already an application that does this, it's GNOME Packages or use yum/dnf. If this was the answer, there wouldn't be so many repeated discussions about

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: So what exactly is the problem the target audience has? They want GNOME Packages to be included again by default so they have both an application GUI installer, and a packages GUI installer? That is potentially one way to address it.

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Rich Mattes
On 01/04/2015 06:46 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Gary Scarborough wrote: Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? And is the goal the same for Gnome? If Gnome is aiming to cater to new users, then is it the right primary DE for fedora? There seems to be a misalignment here. I've

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: There's already an application that does this, it's GNOME Packages or use yum/dnf. If this was the answer, there wouldn't be so many repeated discussions about it. Users don't differentiate between say htop and geany as much as the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: We're not filtering out packages that don't qualify as applications. GNOME Software only searches the AppStream metadata Yes. My suggestion was to change that

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Alec Leamas
On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote: Because as of now, gnome-software just doesn't fit the workstation bill I think you're misunderstanding what most developers do. We probably spend about 10 minutes installing development packages (on the command line) when setting up a new OS instance.

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com*/ wrote on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:57:10 +0100: On 02/01/15 11:42, Richard Hughes wrote: That said, my gut feeling is that the balance between simplicity and functionality is quite different for a novice user and a developer and that this needs to be

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Luya Tshimbalanga*/ wrote on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:29:14 -0800: On 02/01/15 01:15 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Probably true, but it already includes fonts and input sources. So, someone has felt that 'front-end applications only' is too narrow. Now, where you can draw the line? I

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Alec Leamas
On 03/01/15 20:26, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: /*Luya Tshimbalanga*/ wrote on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:29:14 -0800: Add-ons cannot cover development libraries, unless every library is an add-on for all IDEs! Then is IDE packaging issue. When it comes of using a development applications, the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 15:56:55 -0500 Gary Scarborough gscarboro...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry this is a bit late but I had a few thoughts on what I have read in this thread: Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? And is the goal the same for Gnome? If Gnome is aiming to cater to

Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Gary Scarborough
Sorry this is a bit late but I had a few thoughts on what I have read in this thread: Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? And is the goal the same for Gnome? If Gnome is aiming to cater to new users, then is it the right primary DE for fedora? There seems to be a

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Kevin Fenzi*/ wrote on Sat, 3 Jan 2015 14:09:11 -0700: On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 15:56:55 -0500 Gary Scarborough gscarboro...@gmail.com wrote: ... Instead of hiding the CLI from new users, why not simply give them the option of avoiding it? Instead of only showing gui apps, why not show all with

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 January 2015 at 20:56, Gary Scarborough gscarboro...@gmail.com wrote: Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? I don't think people fit clearly in these simplistic groups. I'm an experienced GNOME developer, but I've never used C# before. A package manager that can show ALL

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: If you type package into the dash the fist entry is GNOME Packages which is the install/remove tool from gnome-packagekit. You can install it with three clicks. I don't think it makes sense to install it by default. We

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: We may have been too aggressive in removing it. I think we could include it by default if it had a first-run dialog that briefly explains what a package is, and that package management is an advanced tool for system administrators.

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 December 2014 at 23:31, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: b.) Would it be helpful, friendlier, and better emphasize the special focus, if these group install items mentioned above were exposed in GNOME

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-03 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Hedayat Vatankhah hedayat@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:15:58 PM Subject: Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora,but stemming from gnome-software

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Alec Leamas
On 31/12/14 16:25, Richard Hughes wrote: On 30 December 2014 at 23:31, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: b.) Would it be helpful, friendlier, and better emphasize the special focus, if these group install items mentioned above were exposed in GNOME Software with an appropriate icon?

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 2 January 2015 at 10:02, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a some common ground, indeed. Seems that we agree on that installing CLI stuff is something that should be handled in a developer-oriented workstation If you're using gcc, you're using a terminal. We supply two

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Miloslav Trmač
- Original Message - well, and that is why there are tasks you *can * do 1000 times more better in a terminal or in a 3-liner shell script with one or two params and others where you are much faster using the GUI this world is grey hence everybody start using Linux should *know*

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.01.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: Here, GUIs _as a category_ (not necessarily the GUIs we are currently providing) should always be better than CLIs _as a category_ simply because the GUI can in the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Luya Tshimbalanga*/ wrote on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:25:49 -0800: On 01/01/15 04:21 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Well, I was really surprised that developers are considered a target audience here. GNOME Software *might* be considered good enough for normal users, but its far from usable

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 02/01/15 01:15 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Probably true, but it already includes fonts and input sources. So, someone has felt that 'front-end applications only' is too narrow. Now, where you can draw the line? I exaggerated. Did you try that? The problem with searching for C++ is

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 01/01/15 04:21 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Well, I was really surprised that developers are considered a target audience here. GNOME Software *might* be considered good enough for normal users, but its far from usable for a developer; even a developer who don't want to touch the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.01.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Miloslav Trmač: Here, GUIs _as a category_ (not necessarily the GUIs we are currently providing) should always be better than CLIs _as a category_ simply because the GUI can in the worst case just copy the CLI layout and behavior so it will not be worse than a

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2015-01-01 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
/*Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org*/ wrote on Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:05:00 -0600: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly. But isn't there quite a difference between the novice user and the Fedora Workstation target user i. e., developers? Not

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-31 Thread Rave it
Am Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:25:58 + schrieb devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org: Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:58:47 -0800 From: Luya Tshimbalanga l...@fedoraproject.org To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Ramblings and

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-31 Thread Richard Hughes
On 30 December 2014 at 23:31, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: b.) Would it be helpful, friendlier, and better emphasize the special focus, if these group install items mentioned above were exposed in GNOME Software with an appropriate icon? We could do this right now, although I

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/29/2014 04:48 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: Fair enough. But to me, adding GNOME Software (GS) also cannot install compilers, interpreters and other CLI tools creates a more problematic situation. To me, Fedora Workstation w/ Gnome is an incarnation of GnomeOS - An OS aimed at single-user,

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Alec Leamas
On 30/12/14 13:07, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/29/2014 04:48 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: And if walking this path, the Workstation default mode would be the one corresponding to a developer, right? Define Workstation. I don't know which audience the people, who implemented it, were aiming at -

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.12.2014 um 13:07 schrieb Ralf Corsepius: Is GS intended to be a one size fits all solution for both novice users and the workstation target developer user? I don't know if it's aimed at being a one size fits all solution. To me, it's a matter of fact, that in general, there can never

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Ian Malone
On 30 December 2014 at 01:26, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Minor correction, CentOS is unbranded RHEL and Fedora is not RHEL upstream (so far as I am aware anyway). That is incorrect. Fedora is upstream for RHEL and

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Ian Malone [30/12/2014 13:09] : On 30 December 2014 at 01:26, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: That is incorrect. Fedora is upstream for RHEL and therefore upstream for CentOS as well albeit, one step removed. I stand corrected then. Anyone know when this changed? This has

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Ian Malone
On 30 December 2014 at 13:13, Emmanuel Seyman emman...@seyman.fr wrote: * Ian Malone [30/12/2014 13:09] : On 30 December 2014 at 01:26, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: That is incorrect. Fedora is upstream for RHEL and therefore upstream for CentOS as well albeit, one step

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 30/12/14 04:07 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/29/2014 04:48 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: Fair enough. But to me, adding GNOME Software (GS) also cannot install compilers, interpreters and other CLI tools creates a more problematic situation. To me, Fedora Workstation w/ Gnome is an incarnation

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 29/12/14 04:33 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: This certainly works, but is it really a reasonable trade-off in a developer context where things like compilers and interpreters are part of the very core? What role does Gnome Software play here? How fruitful is the idea to hide packages in this

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Alec Leamas
On 30/12/14 20:57, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 29/12/14 04:33 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: This certainly works, but is it really a reasonable trade-off in a developer context where things like compilers and interpreters are part of the very core? What role does Gnome Software play here? How

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 30/12/14 12:34 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 30/12/14 20:57, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 29/12/14 04:33 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: This certainly works, but is it really a reasonable trade-off in a developer context where things like compilers and interpreters are part of the very core? What role

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Alec Leamas
On 30/12/14 22:58, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 30/12/14 12:34 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 30/12/14 20:57, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 29/12/14 04:33 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: Gnome Software is to abstract the package concept to only focus on applications accessible to desktop. Agreed. And I

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Alec Leamas
On 30/12/14 22:58, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 30/12/14 12:34 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 30/12/14 20:57, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Bottom line: isn't there is a mismatch between Gnome Software (GUI applications only) and the idea of a developer using both CLI and GUI tools? And if so, how

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
2014-12-30 23:58 GMT+02:00 Luya Tshimbalanga l...@fedoraproject.org: MATE apps not visible means they needed app-data included on their .desktop files hence the pleas from Richard Hughes. Perhaps I couldn't get my thoughts in order when I started this thread, but among the things I wrote was

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-30 Thread Chris Murphy
The Workstation PRD explicitly, more than once states developers of all sorts are the primary target market. The special focus is for a platform for application development. I wonder two things: a.) Should more developer tools be installed by default? 'dnf group list' shows the following items

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/29/2014 04:28 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 28 December 2014 at 17:32, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de mailto:rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 12/29/2014 12:58 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On 29 December 2014 at 03:28, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: we either are going to have to get out of the way of the steamroller or get rolled over it. ...and the people trying to keep up are getting eggs thrown at them. I know lots of Red Hat developers worn down by the

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2014 um 04:28 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: It is your age, and there has been nothing gradual about it.. Look the world has moved a lot in the last 30 years, and we have gone past the point where current developers are humouring us old folk for making jokes about IDE-operators no,

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2014 um 10:50 schrieb Richard Hughes: On 29 December 2014 at 03:28, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: we either are going to have to get out of the way of the steamroller or get rolled over it. ...and the people trying to keep up are getting eggs thrown at them. I know

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alec Leamas
On 29/12/14 10:50, Richard Hughes wrote: On 29 December 2014 at 03:28, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: we either are going to have to get out of the way of the steamroller or get rolled over it. [cut] Linux isn't UNIX. The desktop doesn't revolve about command line tools

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
2014-12-29 14:10 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: that's why i call it harmful try to hide the shell from users Well, to be fair nobody is trying to hide the shell and GNOME terminal has received some love in the latest releases. Package suggestions in the terminal can be useful

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On 28 December 2014 at 15:48, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: wouldn't it raise questions about the Gnome Software application's role in the workstation product? I don't think it does, no. I'm a Red Hat employee, a Fedora user, but also a GNOME developer. I'm not terribly keen pushing

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: I.e. a Linux distro, which is not supporting terminals/editors as part of a developer oriented distro has not done its homework. We should support both terminal-oriented and IDE-oriented workflows. Right now, we have a

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alec Leamas
On 29/12/14 16:18, Richard Hughes wrote: On 28 December 2014 at 15:48, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: wouldn't it raise questions about the Gnome Software application's role in the workstation product? I don't think it does, no. I'm a Red Hat employee, a Fedora user, but also a

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2014 at 17:32, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 12/29/2014 12:58 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hm...

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
2014-12-29 19:25 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: From 1984 to 2001 there was a rather popular platform that didn't have a CLI. It wasn't hidden, it simply didn't exist. I take it you are referring to OS/2. It did have a cmd.exe. -- devel mailing list

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumis...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-29 19:25 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: From 1984 to 2001 there was a rather popular platform that didn't have a CLI. It wasn't hidden, it simply didn't exist. I take it you are

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2014 um 19:39 schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumis...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-29 19:25 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: From 1984 to 2001 there was a rather popular platform that didn't have a CLI. It wasn't

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
2014-12-29 20:39 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: Nope. Vastly more popular than OS/2. OK, yes, my Macintosh Classic didn't have a cli. But the Macs back then were much like feature phones are today. You got basic functionality in the standard package with the very beautiful UI

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Rave it
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:47:33 + schrieb devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:18:04 + From: Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Ramblings and questions

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumis...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-29 20:39 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: Nope. Vastly more popular than OS/2. OK, yes, my Macintosh Classic didn't have a cli. But the Macs back then were much like feature phones

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Chris Murphy: The real developers are those who are actively getting things done, and are not defined by what interface they're using. yes, and that's why the real developers need to get aware of *all* capabilities of their operating system and not got hidden

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 December 2014 at 21:53, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Actually we do have a VLTS (Very Long Term Support) release, CentOS, especially now that they've joined the family, but the connection is not

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
2014-12-29 23:01 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: OK, yes, my Macintosh Classic didn't have a cli. But the Macs back then were much like feature phones are today. This is beside the point. However, even if feature phones had an installable developer tools do you think you'd

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Minor correction, CentOS is unbranded RHEL and Fedora is not RHEL upstream (so far as I am aware anyway). That is incorrect. Fedora is upstream for RHEL and therefore upstream for CentOS as well albeit, one step removed. Rahul --

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Minor correction, CentOS is unbranded RHEL and Fedora is not RHEL upstream (so far as I am aware anyway). That is incorrect. Fedora is upstream for RHEL and

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumis...@gmail.com wrote: What does the CLI-less-ness of Macs and their gazillion dollar industry have to do with the rest of this discussion though? None really. I was just pushing back against the idea platform CLIness has anything

Re: Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

2014-12-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 27 December 2014 at 23:17, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: having choices and options is the reason why people switch to Linux, http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/ Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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