Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:17:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: True. As far as GNOME goes, though, whenever you suggest 'bulletproof session management', they say 'that's what suspend is for'... I'd like to see proper session management. However, the existing X protocol is terrible (a KDE'er

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:25:11AM -0700, les wrote: Also one of the things we (linux folk) decry about most proprietary packages is in fact the arbitrary encoding of information in proprietary formats. Add in the fact that storage is relatively cheap today, and it would seem that having all

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54:22AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Lack of communication lol those RH storage developers could have. A) subscribed to the Anaconda developers list to monitor changes relevant to their setup as anyone else affected by any upstream changes ( this got

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:12:27AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: For example, the same thing happened with Gnome 3 upstream where a lot of developers left the project due to a lack of a real vision or direction. Please don't rely in rant-like blog posts for your source of information. In my

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: I would also add that if the switch to gnome 3 made enough people leave the project, they would have gone to mate, and afaik, no one coding on mate has a @gnome.org email. In fact, mate do take a lot of commits from gnome : Some

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default. Also, we do not intend to support concurrent

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:27:42PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Mon 28 Jan 2013 02:17:29 PM EST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Going away isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official feature of Gnome 3.8.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:13:34AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: Let's see how lightweight, bug free and usable it is. Why don't you just merge the 3 projects instead of wasting your time? We could all work together. MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. There could be different

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:36:22AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Olav Vitters wrote: MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. I know that. GNOME classic is not the same as a fallback mode. I am skeptical. That is not what I meant. Fallback

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

2013-01-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:47:33PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: When I install a freeipa server I do not want firstboot because I am not going to create local users anyway. I am going to install freeipa and then create users in LDAP. So far I just skipped firstboot by using tricks, like telling

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that either beyond lip service. 6 versions to return shutdown speaks for itself. I saw this negativity was also on Phoronix, where someone else commented in a similar way: Are

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.01.2013 09:55, schrieb Olav Vitters: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that either beyond lip service. 6 versions to return shutdown

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:05:21PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: As all such schemes it works as long as you ignore the fact that apps process data and communicate with other apps. That's not being overlooked. Probably the presentation already addresses this concern. -- Regards, Olav --

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:19:48PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I disagree with the premise that to get anywhere, we would need to bend over backwards to the proprietary market and adopt their inferior software distribution strategies. If that were true, we could give up right here, we'd have

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:56:47PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: bad outcome as low as possible. Let's just try it and see what happens! is not a mature approach to risk management. Ehr, instead of promoting something as supported, just start off slow. Call if alpha, write down all the

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:59:00AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: In short: Make the defaults as sane as possible, but still allow the user to change them if they disagree with you on what is sane. The more options, the better. The definition given by Frank Murphy is totally different and

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: Might not want to put answers in people's mouths. Did you read up on the various bundling techniques that were explored and the API/ABI guarantees we want to offer? I'll stop short of paraphrasing you.

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: So let me step into my handy Tardis and bring back a vignette from the Real World after Fedora and other distributions bless upstream app distribution as a preferred channel: Could you give some practical programs which are

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:25:29AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: But many of those concerns are inherent to the concept of sandboxed applications or the methods of delivery they'd enable and cannot possibly be addressed, ever. The whole concept is fatally flawed. I'd suggest trying a different

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:35:59AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I think users will not understand why all the vendor repositories with non- free crap are there and the stuff they are actually looking for is not. Whether or not proprietary is crap or not is offtopic. -- Regards, Olav -- devel

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:26:48PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: places - _the_ distribution, _the_ app store, _the_ amazon.com. And the difficulty of getting a set of bits to amazon.com / an app store / a RPM is very similar. If one will immediately solve it for multiple distributions, then

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: Has this sanboxed-bundled-from-upstream proposal been discussed with other distributions? If the final result is that the Universal Linux Package only works in Fedora we are not gaining anything. A lot of this is being based on

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: AFAIK (not sure), it should come somewhat easy once you the distribution is based upon systemd. That means it will exclude the most popular distribution out there. I fail to see the point of discussing non

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:01:09AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Well yes, each time you try to force a change through which actually makes things worse, there WILL be resistance. In fact, this is already what is happening in this thread, the app proposal coming from (parts of) the Workstation

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:50:59AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: Might not want to put answers in people's mouths. Did you read up on the various bundling techniques that were explored

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:33:57AM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: 2013/11/7 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: AFAIK (not sure), it should come somewhat easy once you the distribution is based upon systemd

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:28:09PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I fail to see the point of discussing non-GNOME-specific problems on a GNOME development list. A bit more logical to include people who actually work on non-GNOME software and don't want to discuss non-GNOME app distribution on a

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:45:29AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:17:28 +0100 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: AFAIK (not sure), it should come somewhat easy once you

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: On 11/06/2013 11:30 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: Has this sanboxed-bundled-from-upstream proposal been discussed with other distributions? If the final result

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:57:06AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Which basically says that the working group is going to work on that. There's actually 0 technical details on how the implemetation will work out, or even if it will.

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: I don't see many people forcing things through, I believe that the vast majority of contributors either like the change or aren't bothered by it. Ah, the silent majority hypothesis, always a fun argument to

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:45:13PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Maybe that's because Coprs were never announced with huge rants about market-share and how Fedora packaging sucked and was irrelevant? I'm pretty sure you're misunderstanding what people are saying if you think above. What I wrote

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:51:22PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: GNOME has a few 'preferred apps' settings left but I don't think they're exposed in the UI anywhere. There are the following dconf keys: Settings → Details → Default applications No terminal option though. -- Regards, Olav --

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:50:11PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Oh, hey, look. That place is rapidly becoming the 'crap, we don't know where to put this' dumping ground for GNOME 3, isn't it? It has been there since 3.0 AFAIK, so rapidly becoming is incorrect. Anyway, calling design decisions

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:33:09PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 05:33 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:50:11PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Oh, hey, look. That place is rapidly becoming the 'crap, we don't know where to put this' dumping ground

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: (anything they could do in shell scripts, but not they can't). This will feel good, right? You will be such an important guy! I think most lurkers have understood you seem to have some personal issues with Lennart. Please still

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors to install it on factory shipped netbooks. Latter is not true. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd: Is it wrong? - wrong order

2011-07-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:50:58PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.07.11 13:20, Steve Dickson (ste...@redhat.com) wrote: they are handling the systemd conversation... What other distro are planing to use it? I lost track of this a bit, but MeeGo already switched, and

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:44:38AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Its not his ignorance - he's on vacation for the next two weeks... Brian replied to Lennart 7 minutes after Lennart's e-mail and mine was an hour after that as a pretty good indication Lennart was

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:59PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: + 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was declined by GTK+ upstream,

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:47:11PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: Also, 30 GiB in .cache/tracker is a bit extreme when rest of my ~ is 4 GiB. Tracker should only index a few standard directories ($HOME without subdirectories, ~/Documents, etc). What does it index on your machine? Is that the

Re: Bad package selection practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:09:07PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I suppose I have to go to the gnome lists and raise Cain about this kind of fundamental mis-engineering? If you want bugs to be fixed, then please file bugreports. Tracker should NOT have a noticeable impact on performance (in the

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:17:16AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: ~ without recurse, and standard XDG directories in ~ with recurse. In ~/Documents I have 4GiB of mostly .c source files in various revisions, for a total of 189833 files. In other directories I have 5 photos in .jpg, and couple of

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:11:06AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Yes, I'm arguing that the feature is undesirable by design and should not have been approved, not for Fedora 17, not for Fedora 18, not even for Fedora 31337. It has been approved, other distributions are following. It is very

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:07:11AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: On 02/10/2012 05:28 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:11:06AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Yes, I'm arguing that the feature is undesirable by design and should not have been approved, not for Fedora 17, not for Fedora

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:49:32PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 26 March 2012 11:58, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with rawhide as well get

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: Normally I try not to do this, but: what he said. Vincent Untz asked for a show of hands of people who used GNOME 2, GNOME 3, switched, etc. Recommend seeing the FOSDEM video. Loads of people indicated that they use GNOME 3, though less

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:28:16PM -0800, Eric Bergen wrote: Success! I've switched over to Cinnamon. The start style menu is back and I am happy. I'm sure I could get used to gnome-shell but my first experience wasn't a good one. To add: - Cinnamon was forked from gnome-shell, so any slowness

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: what makes me rellay angry (as one who never used and will use GNOME and i knew GNOME 1.0 and KDE 1.0 as well where most users of today not heard about linux at all) is that the GNOME developers did NOT learn ANYTHING by the KDE4.0

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:04:44AM +0100, Rave it wrote: Your look in a crystal ball is far away from reality like the topic himself. Pls, give more to laugh. and stay close to facts instead of posting your personal perspective. This doesn't help us really. Pot calling the kettle

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:13:48AM -0500, Pavel Simerda wrote: I wouldn't ask specific people to actually work on it. But it would be nice if the core developers provided more support, feature stability and API stability. To ask them to actively encourage alternative GUIs and allow them to be

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original statement, namely that there is a completely different target audience for GNOME 2 vs GNOME 3. I am that datapoint. As are various others during FOSDEM (Vincent

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:35:56PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Ven 8 février 2013 13:22, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original statement, namely that there is a completely

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:21:49PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I stand by my statement that this was a very awkward moment, with Vincent and the GNOME team radiating unhappiness and pretty much everyone else being perplexed and wondering whether they should take offence at being accused of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: Gnome-shell is not mean to be used nor appropriate for a mobile phone. And despite being rather usable on a touch screen ( I tested ), it is still not sufficient there for 1 million of details ( Vincent

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:38:46PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: The only thing I can think of is that people turning their back on you, not looking at you when you are asked to raise your hand on something they worked on, this might be intimidating to some people. I was not one of these,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:22:41AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: There is no easy way to install applications (regular user don't want to mess up with packages). Huh? Fire up gnome-packagekit or Apper, choose your app, make 2 or 3 clicks (install, apply, confirm dependencies

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com writes: Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask everywhere about this.. I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Having a separate tweak tool is a lame workaround for lack of settings in the official tools. The only reason such tweak tools exist on proprietary operating systems is because the proprietary companies don't want to officially

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Having a separate tweak tool is a lame workaround for lack of settings in the official tools. The only reason such tweak tools exist on proprietary operating systems

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +, Ian Malone wrote: In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end users. The GNOME release notes over various cycles have listed loads of changes which have been made based on

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:02PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: Il giorno dom, 10/02/2013 alle 14.47 +0100, Olav Vitters ha scritto: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com writes: Somewhat funny that many users even

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:29PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: This argument doesn't really work, either. Care to provide any argumentation? At the moment if that were true, I'd could just refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black But actually I explained myself.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:07:23AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/08/2013 01:39 PM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: Gnome3 and Gnome2's GUI working principles are entirely different and therefore are catering the demands of

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: I don't get why you reply to me. It seems anything people do is just bad. No tweak tool: bad A tweak tool: bad Strawman… What I actually mean is: Completely hidden or absent settings (no tweak tool

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:20:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI It was written by one individual employee and released as an unsupported tool. It'd have been a third-party tool if the author didn't happen to be an M$ employee

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.02.2013 11:31, schrieb Olav Vitters: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +, Ian Malone wrote: In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:50:56PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.02.2013 15:47, schrieb Olav Vitters: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.02.2013 11:31, schrieb Olav Vitters: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +, Ian Malone wrote: In the end

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 06:20:52PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: My understanding is that the session list is dependent on the user selected. At least the default session is, so it made sense to wait until a user is chosen before showing the list. Using this you can show the correct default

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: What about users *without* password? It's insecure (in most cases), but possible. That is a known tradeoff/bug. IMO this is a case of 'it hurts when I do this'. Tradeoff is how often you have a nicer experience (showing the right

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: 1. Show sessions before selecting/entering the user: Means basically including something like 'default session' or 'previous session' That's how the rest of the world does it… 2. Show sessions

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:18:04PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Some of the things we want to achieve: * Make rawhide to be reliably installable and usable by developers by coherently introducing changes. Mageia packages libraries by the .so major version. So you can upgrade a library and then

Re: Fedora 18 and new version of Gnome (3.7.x)

2013-03-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: There is some way to test new version of gnome on Fedora 18? Thanks The GNOME live image is currently based on Fedora (without the branding). So you could copy this to some USB stick and test that:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:56:57AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: You know: *you* might not need fast boot. *Your* systems you might not reboot only every other week. *Your* server

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 03/12/2013 02:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: but the better option for us all would be if people with this attitude switch to these operating systems instead damage slowly what we know as UNIX-LIKE system I *completely* *detest*

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:14:05AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 03/13/2013 09:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: Then you have good students. Are teens and pre-teens fedora's main target audience now? I'm really not sure what it is anymore. Is there any good reason to exclude them? I started

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: I haven't seen systems that boot in less than 6 seconds (and by boot I mean power-on to login prompt). Maybe they exist, but that is not my experience with common hardware. At FOSDEM they demonstrated 2 seconds for kernel +

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:20:21AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's unfortunately demoware. While the LinuxBIOS project has optimized BIOS on a few systrems, server grade hardware can take up to five minutes simply to get past all the Power-On-Self-Test operations. And just because the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:12:54PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: +1 -1 Or in other words: This is not Google+, please don't quote entire emails. I do remember the AOL time. An argument can stand on itself without a popularity vote. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list

Re: libvirt-cim - RPM build error

2013-04-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:15:45AM +0200, poma wrote: As stated in the attach. For bugs please use Bugzilla (attach the patch there). Also, in mailing list please send a new email instead of replying to an existing email. Many people on mailing lists use software that'll still show your email

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:51:22AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 05/04/2013 12:30 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:24:01PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Matthew, with all due respect the tone of the bug doesn't make me think that there is a lot of interest in discussion

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Anaconda has a pretty special place in this project. It is the uber-administrator of every new Fedora install. We would do better as a community to hash out major changes before they're made, and try to reach some agreement before

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:03:02PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: Let's be realistic here. The precedence they have recently set is they make decisions and if you don't like it too bad. Even if that is true, what is your point? -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: What's inappropriate is giving instructions to others what they can, or can not say. Even better would be to take this sort of stuff off list asap. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: I would love to see the day systemd is as polished, ubiquitous, and robust as smtp. But until that happens, nobody is helped by removing MTA from the default install. We're not there yet, and theres no systemd and SMTP are not

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:57:15AM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: But, personally, I agree with billycr...@gmail.com... On the servers I run, and the server applications I've written, the use of email is mandatory and the use of an MTA is the best, most-efficient way to deal with the email. I

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:32:22PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Fedora the project which means two entirely separated infrastructures. yeah sure these two might be communicating heavily between themselves unless ofcourse you want to risk issues from either the company or the project

Re: Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla - trivial patch policy?

2014-06-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:27:21PM -0500, Mukundan Ragavan wrote: Isn't it best for the project as a whole to have the bar for proven packager high? :) I think it is detrimental. If someone has loads of time to do bugfixes across packages, let them. I do loads and loads of trivial bugfixes (not

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 10:15, schrieb Richard Hughes: On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new generation of

Re: FESCo Elections results

2015-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 02:52:51PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: What does this tell you? :-) [..] Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora

Re: F22 System Wide Change: GNOME 3.16

2015-01-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:46:48AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: Actually, I've ran into a few cases now where upstream has removed essential workflow features and I think we should make it clear to upstream that we are deviating from them unless they re-focus on user freedom. For example: [..]

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:21:17PM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it *naturally* Mageia has something, but only meant to transition from one library version to the