Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running App Indicators

2012-09-18 Thread Craig
Ill have to think on that more, but on first thought I think it's a good idea to indicate them on the launcher as the presence of a running app changes the behavior of that particular launcher. (Launching a new window versus focusing on an existing one). Spatial concerns can be addressed by using

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] OEM Installation mode

2012-09-18 Thread Craig
How do we test clean installs? I've noticed virtualbox can't seem to read eOS isos. On Sep 17, 2012 4:43 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Hey Alex, > > All patches are properly propagated now. Please test OEM installation and > report results. > > 2012/8/27 Serg

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] OEM Installation mode

2012-09-18 Thread Craig
osttos > -- > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Craig wrote: > >> How do we test clean installs? I've noticed virtualbox can't seem to read >> eOS isos. >> On Sep 17, 2012 4:43 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < >> ser...@elemen

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running App Indicators

2012-09-19 Thread Craig
Isn't that kind of like pulling all street signs/traffic lights in excited anticipation for the day when cars have traffic data projected onto the windshield via HUD? On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Sam Tate wrote: > In the long run (L+1 or even L+2), I want there to be no difference > between

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Geary Naming

2012-09-20 Thread Craig
Generic names may lack pizzazz, but they are good at providing quick descriptions of their functionality to new users. Also, generic names are usually very simple/clean (read: minimalist). Basically they're highly functional. On Sep 19, 2012 11:25 PM, "Brendan" wrote: > I think too many distros u

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] [Elementary-translators] Add the 8 most popular language packs to the ISO image

2012-09-23 Thread Craig
I think American English is pretty standard in computing, even internationally. Not that it will be a serious impediment d either way. On Sep 23, 2012 1:28 PM, "David Gomes" wrote: > First of all, English and Portuguese will be a problem. How can we decide > which "version" of English and Portugu

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Window Maximize Concept

2012-09-23 Thread Craig
I agree with David wholeheartedly. OSX maximize blows. It behaves unexpectedly and is horribly dysfunctional. OSX even implemented fullscreen mode as a sort of concession. On Sep 23, 2012 2:30 PM, "David Gomes" wrote: > I completely disagree. First of all, this is one of the most hated design > d

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Window Maximize Concept

2012-09-23 Thread Craig
In my mind, it seems to mark more sense to have a maximized window consume the whole screen, and use smaller windows only when you want to view other information. Since a non-maximized window already allows you to view other information, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to duplicate this beha

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] [Elementary-translators] Add the 8 most popular language packs to the ISO image

2012-09-24 Thread Craig
t;>>> 140 MB are going to be used after this operation by apt-get : sudo >>>>> apt-get --no-install-recommends --download-only install >>>>> language-pack-gnome-pl language-pack-gnome-es language-pack-gnome-it >>>>> language-pack-gnome-ru

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] [Elementary-translators] Add the 8 most popular language packs to the ISO image

2012-09-24 Thread Craig
t;>>>> Daniel Foré >>>>> >>>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:25 p.m., Eduard Gotwig < >>>>> eduardgot...@gmail.com> escribió: >>>>> >>>>> I included here Russian as well, couse its used quite often: >>>

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Granite Release

2012-09-24 Thread Craig
+1 I don't have an awesome ui reason, but it sure goes against my intuition when my tabs shift. If these decisions are made, I would like to see them based in research rather than anecdotes, personally. On Sep 24, 2012 9:16 PM, "ttosttos Sa" wrote: > Oopss... watch out for that argument. It does

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] INK and model based design

2012-09-26 Thread Craig
t;Cassidy James" wrote: > Hey Craig, > > Thanks for bringing this up on the mailing list. I know Cody has been > looking into model-based design and UML a bit lately, but I don't know much > about it. It might help me and the developers who aren't as familiar with &

[Elementary-dev-community] Fwd: INK and model based design

2012-09-26 Thread Craig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Craig Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [Elementary-dev-community] INK and model based design To: Daniel Foré Again, apologies for lack of information. It's a design process, I suppose. It pertains primarily to developers.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Fwd: INK and model based design

2012-09-27 Thread Craig
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > > Model centric programs boasts high reusability, efficiency, portability, >> and simplicity (which translates into reduced maintenance, testability, >> changeability and easier understandability) all f

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Time for a change in AppMenu icon?

2012-09-30 Thread Craig
I agree, Sam. I think this also highlights the importance of clearly defining the intentional function for various UI components. Perhaps it would be useful to separate out the various pieces of functionality into an "overflow" component and a "settings" component (or separate out the functionality

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Time for a change in AppMenu icon?

2012-09-30 Thread Craig
quot;lines" logo to me seems generic, and lacking in personality. The cog IS >> elementary, and has been since the meager days of elementary-nautilus. It >> seems to me that I would rather miss the little cog in exchange for a >> generic icon. >> On Sep 30, 2012 1:34 PM, &

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Time for a change in AppMenu icon?

2012-09-30 Thread Craig
nly requires on simple sub menu for options. >> A "lines" logo to me seems generic, and lacking in personality. The cog IS >> elementary, and has been since the meager days of elementary-nautilus. It >> seems to me that I would rather miss the little cog in exchan

[Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Craig
Having just switched from Ubuntu 10.10 to Elementary on my desktop machine (which I haven't used in over a year), I've noticed a real irritation when trying to switch workspaces while one hand is on the mouse--the user has to take a hand off the mouse, put both hands on the keyboard (many keyboards

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Craig
something. That's my opinion, at least. On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:04 AM, satch...@gmail.com wrote: > Hot corners is the solution, but it's part of a bigger question of whether > Luna is coming with any hot corners enabled by default. > > On 7 October 2012 21:17, Craig wrote: >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Craig
Can we sub in a mouse activity in place of a key combo? On Oct 7, 2012 5:03 PM, "Sergio Costas" wrote: > I found how to change the keys for moving from one workspace to another: > open dconf-editor, and go to > > org->gnome->desktop->wm->keybindings > > and there, modify "switch-to-workspace-

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Craig
s left; if you then > release Z, but keep Super, it stops (as expected), but if you now press > again Z, it doesn't do left again; you must keep both keys pressed, or > release both and press them again. > > El 08/10/12 00:25, Craig escribió: > > Can we sub in a mouse act

[Elementary-dev-community] Software Development Principles / Shameless self-promotion

2012-10-15 Thread Craig
to increase traffic to my blog--I genuinely believe this article will benefit Elementary devs. http://craigmatthewweber.com/2012/10/14/software-engineering-development-stages/ Feel free to leave feedback via comments or emails. I hope this helps, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/

[Elementary-dev-community] Elementary project editor

2012-10-22 Thread Craig
Hey folks, due to the complexities of Cmake projects, I was wondering if there has been any discussion regarding an elementary project editor? If not, I was thinking such a thing could 1) create/setup a new elementary project 2) provide for project configuration (adding/removing source files, lib

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Elementary project editor

2012-10-22 Thread Craig
agree this should be shipped in Luna, though, people don't > want an IDE to be included in an OS, just a normal text editor, like > Scratch. > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Craig wrote: > >> Hey folks, due to the complexities of Cmake projects, I was wondering if >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] [Elementary-Dev-Community] Vala Version and Luna

2012-10-22 Thread Craig
I'm generally pretty ignorant with respect to the differences between versions and how important it is to maintain consistency between them. Care to give us a primer? On Oct 22, 2012 4:36 PM, "David Gomes" wrote: > Hey there, > > Some time ago we switched to Vala 0.16, it was a very important cha

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Another suggestion for Luna+1: integrate workspaces and expose

2012-10-25 Thread Craig
+1 On Oct 25, 2012 3:36 PM, "Sergio Costas" wrote: > Hi all: > > I want to propose a change for Luna+1 (of course; Luna is frozen and > only accepts bugfixes): to integrate workspaces and "expose all > windows", like Gnome Shell. I think it's more natural, because you have > only one action for m

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Fwd: INK and model based design

2012-11-01 Thread Craig
Yeah, I can work with them. Can you send me their contact info or link me to their models? On Nov 1, 2012 4:21 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Hey Craig, > > I've talked to Victor, the guy behind Noise, and according

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Fwd: Elementary's experiences with Vala

2012-12-10 Thread Craig
Why in the world does this require explanation? Anything that is remotely fast with a sane syntax is de facto superior to C/C++. I'd use Ada before C/C++. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Foré wrote: > Hey team, > > Got this email today from Robert Ancell (the guy behind lightdm, simple >

[Elementary-dev-community] Go-like build tools for Vala

2013-02-05 Thread Craig
g time and resources working on this, but I'd like to get some discussion going about the merits of this idea, particularly from people with Go and Vala experience. Sound off! -Craig Weber -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementar

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Go-like build tools for Vala

2013-02-05 Thread Craig
ementary for lack of time; however, when I had the time to contribute, the project management (or lackthereof) was a huge buzzkill. Thanks for your response, Craig :) On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:16 PM, David Gomes wrote: > If by "Elementary", you mean elementary OS, I'd like to sa

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Go-like build tools for Vala

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
ple, so you could probably get a good feel for it in an hour or two if you'd like to better understand my proposal. http://golang.org/doc/ http://golang.org/doc/install Also, the golang.org website has some pretty great documentation. Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ele

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Go-like build tools for Vala

2013-02-07 Thread Craig
look cool and easy to use, but >>> they are go-only. I think you should learn CMake or Autotools because you >>> can use them with every language/library/framework that needs building >>> (even Go!). Anyways, "go build" is probably not too hard to write for Vala >>

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] CSD upstream in GTK+

2013-03-11 Thread Craig
Pardon my ignorance, but what's CSD? On Mar 11, 2013 4:56 PM, "Daniel Fore" wrote: > Hey guys, > > It looks like there is progress happening right now on CSD upstream in > GTK+. Rumor has it, this might be land-able as early as GTK 3.10 > > Here's the branch: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/l

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Noise doesn't comply to HIG

2013-03-13 Thread Craig
As a data point, I never use the sound indicator for anything besides adjusting volume. I can't put my finger on why, and I've certainly tried; however, I always find myself going back to the application to control the application. Again, this is just my data point. :) On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-03-30 Thread Craig
Good work David. Have you (elementary) considered using a prettifier to standardize a code style upon pushing to your trunk? On Mar 28, 2013 7:17 PM, "Cody Garver" wrote: > Cool, it's pretty thorough. > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM, David Gomes wrote: > >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19899464/

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Autovala: new program for developers

2013-03-30 Thread Craig
If this works intuitively, you may have won me back to elementary development. On Mar 29, 2013 7:32 PM, "Sergio Costas" wrote: > Hi all: > > Several days ago, another user commented that using CMake with Vala was > quite hard and difficult. > > After thinking about it, I reached the conclusion th

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-03-31 Thread Craig
red' using a prettifier too, but I just use Emacs to fix >> some stuff on my code - a prettifier script would be too much work and I >> don't know of any libraries that would help me with the task. >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Craig wrote: >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
yled inconsistently it only gives the impression >> that you were coding in a hurry, and we don't want to accept that kind of >> code, even though we have a ton of it already. >> >> Thanks for your attention, >> Victor. >> >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:48

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
od code. And when they > fail to do so we have other developers who review their code. > > We don't need a fancy tool like gofmt that just changes our code. > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Craig wrote: > >> The more I read threads like this the more it seems el

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
013 1:11 PM, "Victor" wrote: > You're right Craig, although there's something I still don't understand: > Why would somebody want elementary to adapt his/her coding style. > > It's fine if developers focus on the logic first, using their own coding > style

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
n invaluable programmer, especially when it > comes to mundane details like this. > > (please don't look at my personal projects as an example of good code... > nobody is perfect :P) > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Victor wrote: > >> You're right

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
le (and is sufficiently simple to use), it makes no sense to avoid using it. On Apr 1, 2013 4:14 PM, "David Gomes" wrote: > And that's why I use an editor that formats certain things about code for > me. > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Craig wrote: > >> I

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Craig
aybe one of these days somebody makes a prettifier, > it's just that it's not an easy task. > > Also, let's please end the discussion on this thread please, we're really > off-topic. > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Craig wrote: > >> That&

[Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
idual comments and comments on behalf of elementary as a whole are both welcome. Sound off! Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
gt; > I don't think we have any unit testing in place yet. Midori probably has > but that's it. > > > 2013/4/4 Craig > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm curious what you devs do for testing? I'm not particularly familiar >> with Vala, but I'm

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
*If anyone is interested in starting a Vala Unit Test project under the umbrella of the elementary community, I'm sure we could get quite a bit of traction from the Vala community at large and I would love to help out. - Dane Henson* * * Not only that, but I imagine it would garner quite a lot of p

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
t handling. Applying tests where they're useful prevents us from testing stable code. And then moving forward, we can write tests for all new functionality. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Craig wrote: > *If anyone is interested in starting a Vala Unit Test project under the > umb

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
If we can get a number of experienced test practitioners and Vala developers to commit to it, I wouldn't mind contributing to a test framework development. Would anyone else be interested? On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Craig wrote: > *Would it be feasible to create a Unit Test

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
+1 Sergey, that page is massive. Could you send us the interesting parts? On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Goncalo Margalho wrote: > Sergey, how do you write code in Vala and write tests in C? it becomes too > difficult for a developer, don't you think? > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ser

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Craig
that provides even that, I think we can go a long way. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Goncalo Margalho wrote: > I would be interested but I'm not the best vala developer for sure. > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Craig wrote: > >> If we can get a number of experien

[Elementary-dev-community] Testing Round 2

2013-04-06 Thread Craig
Alright guys, I think it would be a good start to select an application and try to start writing tests with it. It seems like GLib's testing environment should be satisfactory (see this: http://blog.remysaissy.com/2012/11/setting-up-unit-tests-in-vala-project.html); however, Vala's development env

[Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
Happy Monday everyone, I wrote a brief comparison of Vala and Go (golang) that might be of interest to some of you. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments. http://craigmatthewweber.com/2013/04/06/vala-or-go/ Enjoy, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
AM, Ryan Macnish wrote: > Go is brilliant, it has the best parts of c and the best parts of modern > languages built in. > On Apr 8, 2013 9:22 PM, "Craig" wrote: > >> Happy Monday everyone, >> >> I wrote a brief comparison of Vala and Go (golang)

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
mpliant > app in all popular languages, Java, Python, C++, Go, Objective C and Ruby > at least. > > Craig skrev: > > >@Chris, Syntactically, I think Vala is a great language. I'm dying to use > >it, in fact! However, until I can get over the nasty project-management >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
C > instead of a high level OOP language. > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Craig wrote: > > That brings me to a question I've had for a while--I'm not sure what goes > into creating a C binding for any language, but is it possible to create a > C binding to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
anguage in our apps before Luna. > > Lucas > > On 08/04/2013 18:02, Craig wrote: > > Many languages support binding to C (probably more common than GObject > introspection), so if it works with C, other high level OOP languages can > bind to it without needing support f

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Craig
it's too early to judge it, I think. > — > Sent from Mailbox <https://bit.ly/SZvoJe> for iPhone > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Craig wrote: > >> At this point the discussion is about Granite and the elementary HIG, >> which seems like an appropriate

[Elementary-dev-community] Why does Cairo.set_source_rgb paint the whole canvas?

2013-04-14 Thread Craig
O question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16007420/why-does-cairo-set-source-rgb-paint-the-whole-canvas Please advise, because I'm stumped! Thanks List! - Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net

[Elementary-dev-community] Cairo Load an image?

2013-04-15 Thread Craig
ase help point me to some relevant materials? Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Kits

2013-04-25 Thread Craig
I think the issue is that the elementary developers don't have the capacity right now to take on something of that magnitude. On Apr 25, 2013 6:54 AM, "ecir hana" wrote: > Hello, > > I found about elementary few days ago and I like it a lot. Please, I would > like to ask about your opinion or eve

[Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-26 Thread Craig
yourselves to maintain and the amount of time you spend writing new software is going to drop off exponentially as the complexity (as complexity produces bugs) increases. Please let me know if/how I can help you. Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-26 Thread Craig
That's exactly what I'd like to know: how can I help. I can try and post some tutorials, but I'd like to know who is interested and what the development community already knows. On Apr 26, 2013 6:39 AM, "Pál Dorogi" wrote: > Hi Craig, > > I agree 100% /w you,

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-26 Thread Craig
eworks? > > Jaap > Op 26 apr. 2013 22:21 schreef "Cassidy James" > het volgende: > >> I don't think we need any convincing; everything I've heard from the devs >> is that we need to do this. It's just a matter of figuring out a common way >>

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-29 Thread Craig
ries(${LIB_PATHS}) >>>> >>>> # Does not work set (ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH} ${EXTERNAL_BINARY_DIR}/src) >>>> vala_precompile (VALA_C >>>> ${VALA_SOURCES} >>>> PACKAGES >>>> ${PKG_DEPS} >>>> posix >>>>

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-05-08 Thread Craig
-ZT_dtlrR0 Enjoy, Craig On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Pál Dorogi wrote: > I have uploaded my stuffs to launchpad, so you can have a look at it > at https://launchpad.net/dafproject > The dafcore, dafui and dafvalidation projects have unit tests under > test directory. > >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] New GtkSwitch image

2013-05-24 Thread Craig
Checkboxes always worked for me. I don't think the touchscreen revolution is responsible for the transition to switches (a checkbox is no less user friendly than a switch afaik). On May 24, 2013 1:31 PM, "Jakob Eriksson" wrote: > > Which I find incredibly confusing, at least on iOS. > More than o

[Elementary-dev-community] GTK-Ready Application Project Template

2013-06-05 Thread Craig
e dependency lists (basically anywhere you see a reference to gtk+-3.0) 4) To build, navigate to the project's root directory and type: mkdir build cd build cmake .. make 5) Your executable will be in build/src/ (I have no idea why) If you have any problems, questions, concerns, suggestions,

[Elementary-dev-community] Vala Game Development

2013-06-14 Thread Craig
eel free to reply. Again, apologies if anyone finds this inappropriate for this list. Thanks for your time, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala Game Development

2013-06-14 Thread Craig
something I though would be pretty cool. > > El sáb, 15 de jun 2013 a las 12:30 ,Craig escribió: > > I was wondering if anyone would be interested in experimenting around with > making a simple 2D game with Vala, basically as a proof-of-concept. > > As it stands, C++ is the lan

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala Game Development

2013-06-14 Thread Craig
Thanks David, As I mentioned, I selected this list for the community. Is there a preferred way to contact Elementary developers for matters not pertaining directly to the Elementary project? I would really like to see your projects. Please do post them! Thanks again, Craig On Fri, Jun 14

[Elementary-dev-community] Built noise from source, can't find libgranite.so

2013-06-22 Thread Craig
lled--can someone tell me what could be going wrong here? Please and thank you, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Built noise from source, can't find libgranite.so

2013-06-23 Thread Craig
t;Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Sounds like you have an outdated development package; run "apt-cache > policy libgranite-dev" to list all available versions. The easiest way to > install an alternative version is via Synaptic. > > > 2013/

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] The book "How Google Tests Software"

2013-06-25 Thread Craig
h > it adds an overhead of writing tests. > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Craig Weber wrote: > >> Also, on this note, I think it would be a very productive thing for some >> of us to collectively read software development books and discuss ideas >>

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-06-25 Thread Craig
ibraries(${UNIT_TESTS} ${LIBS}) >>> target_link_libraries(${UNIT_TESTS} >>> >>> ${BINARY_DIR}/${EXTERN_SOURCE_DIR}/${CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES}${EXTERN_PROJ}${CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES}) >>> target_link_libraries(${UNIT_TESTS} >>> >>> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Multi-Display Support

2013-06-28 Thread Craig
I don't think it's a bad idea (at least not if it were implemented well), but I do think it would take a substantial development effort... too much effort for such a tertiary feature. On Jun 28, 2013 1:31 PM, "Allen Lowe" wrote: > I think independent workspaces on each monitor is actually terribl

[Elementary-dev-community] TDD Example

2013-07-01 Thread Craig
en be able to try it; however, I'm working to figure out how we can set up a TDD environment for ourselves. In the meanwhile, I hope you'll read the episode and start to understand TDD principles and practices so you have less learning to do once we have tests set up.* Thanks for y

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Moving Away From Ubuntu

2013-07-09 Thread Craig
+1 On Jul 9, 2013 12:03 AM, "Conscious User" wrote: > > Erm... I'm not sure how to answer this. None of > your replies seem to be relevant or even directly > related to what I said. > > > Em Seg, 2013-07-08 às 23:27 -0500, Cody Garver escreveu: > > If anyone is an opponent of GNOME tech right now

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Basing elementary on latest and greatest pieces of software

2013-07-15 Thread Craig
+1 On Jul 13, 2013 2:55 PM, "Dane Henson" wrote: > One does not simply fork launchpad. > On Jul 13, 2013 2:52 PM, "Cassidy James" wrote: > >> Chris, >> >> Launchpad is technically open source, but it's designed to be used only >> on Canonical's infrastructure and they aren't interested in making

[Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-18 Thread Craig
; especially with respect to how we can keep quality high using processes > rather than sheer developer effort (so as to free you developers to work on > interesting problems rather than bug hunting). > > Thanks for reading, > Craig > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-18 Thread Craig
out of the question. And if you aren't automating then you can't continuously integrate (running all tests every time a change is made to the repository in order to find bugs as soon as they are made). Honestly, if you aren't automating then testing becomes too impractical. On Au

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-18 Thread Craig
e code." — Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> for iPhone On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Craig wrote: > Hi Alex, > > tl;dr: Unit tests are pretty much necessary to have an architecture on > which you can run automatic system-level tests, and if you aren&#

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-18 Thread Craig
David, I understand and appreciate the difficulty; however, I've had exactly zero questions about TDD. Like I said in the original post, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Please take me up on that offer any time. Thanks, Craig On Aug 18, 2013 6:57 PM, "David Gomes&q

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-19 Thread Craig
This is cool and important, but I don't think it should stop the discussion on test driven development. Perhaps this could be a separate thread? It doesn't sound as though anyone is opposed to TDD, so can we confirm that? And if no one is opposed, how can we proceed? Can we start some kind of a "te

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-19 Thread Craig
arted TDD with new code (and existing defects), you would be doing yourself a huge favor. I'm not suggesting that everyone stop what they're doing and go back and test every line of code (although it would be a good thing to chip away at over time), but practicing TDD on _new_ code can&

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-21 Thread Craig
me. Then, in time, you'll have part of your > code tested, which is exactly what we're aiming for. Beginning is hard, > continue something is easier. > > I have never heard a project die because they decided to move to TDD. And > I heard about lots of hits on the matter.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-21 Thread Craig
fore you write the actual code ... > > It's going to be a mess. > > What might work are regular unit tests, implemented by people who kind of > know what they're doing (we need some documentation for that, maybe add it > to the dev guide). This will give us some of the

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Other languages? (Was Re: Congratulations Luna developers!)

2013-08-21 Thread Craig
Vala can target Windows and OSX last I checked. Also, Elementary can run apps written in non-Vala languages. Of course, it's not supported because Elementary's development resources are spread so thin and many developers here don't have expansive experience in other languages. On Wed, Aug 21, 201

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Other languages? (Was Re: Congratulations Luna developers!)

2013-08-21 Thread Craig
To get this conversation back on topic, I'm experimenting with developing Gtk apps in Go (http://golang.org). Once I have that "mastered", it shouldn't be too hard to make Granite apps given that Granite compiles to C. And Go is probably only a little slower than Vala but a lot more user friendly (

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-21 Thread Craig
the intentions of the current owner > are, but I would personally like to see a new version of Footnote... > > Craig wrote: >> >> >> I have never heard a project die because they decided to move to TDD. And >>> I heard about lots of hits on the matter. >> >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-22 Thread Craig
ach a different project. For the time being, I'll start looking for promising projects. Thanks, Craig On Aug 22, 2013 12:55 AM, "Alex Lourie" wrote: > Craig > It seems we're running circles. No leader is needed now aside for someone > who starts writing code. How about you

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-22 Thread Craig
d like to implement testing on any projects you're involved in, please hang me a line! Thanks again, Craig On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Dane Henson (elementary) < d...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Craig, > I don't think this is something you can just hand off. You ch

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-22 Thread Craig
Hi Dane, I didn't take it hostilely :) And I didn't mean to say I was busier than anyone else; I'm just a lot busier than I used to be I suppose. Let's talk sometime. Email me off the list and we'll sort it out. With that, I think we can conclude this thread. Have a g

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Luna +1's Name and Some Other Stuff

2013-08-25 Thread Craig
" So I'd probably start off by getting rid of all the technical debt we might have accumulated in the race to release and getting some tools to manage the increased complexity we're facing, e.g. unifying the way CMake works, providing better code documentation, adding some automated testing, etc."

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Luna +1's Name and Some Other Stuff

2013-08-25 Thread Craig
Calm down, I was kidding. But I really support keeping quality high while minimizing developer workload. Carry on. On Aug 25, 2013 9:01 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Oh God, this is turning into yet another TTD thread! > > Please, keep the TTD holywar out of

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] about TDD (Test Driven Development)

2013-09-03 Thread Craig
I don't think this is necessarily a bad idea, but I think the real issue isn't that glib.Test is incomplete, but that it might lack a lot of convenience utilities. I think the community should get some experience with glib.Test before we go and wrote or own testing packages. Then when we do wrote t

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] about TDD (Test Driven Development)

2013-09-03 Thread Craig
What do you mean "real apps"? As long as the code executes, I don't see the value in the distinction. On Sep 3, 2013 2:30 PM, "David Gomes" wrote: > >also we're not talking on mere theory or philosophy; we posted real code, > examples and documentation; also real-life experience. This is a sane >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Ideas for extending elementary os

2013-12-19 Thread Craig
That's too bad. This is one of the more interesting topics to hit the mailing list in a while. :/ On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Foré wrote: > Hey Daniel, > > This list is used for developers to coordinate their efforts. If you're > working on one of these projects and looking for assi

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Craig
Unfortunately, vala isn't a very easy language to get started with, and I haven't found any awesome, comprehensive resources. Personally, I couldn't figure it out until I learned C. I have quite a bit of programming experience and I really like helping people, so fire off an email if you have any s

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Getting Started With Vala

2014-07-27 Thread Craig
commend to Harris is to start off with > something simpler like Python and when you're feeling more confident try > The Vala Tutorial again. > > Have fun and good luck, > David "Munchor" Gomes > On Jul 27, 2014 5:37 PM, "Craig" wrote: > >> Unfor

[Elementary-dev-community] pantheon-terminal cleanup

2015-05-06 Thread Craig
making it into trunk (I don't want to waste my time or yours!). Please advise. Thanks, Craig -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community

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