Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Alexander Boström
ons 2010-01-06 klockan 17:38 +0100 skrev Haïkel Guémar: D-E enables either compiz or gnome-shell since F-12, the first one is a different windows manager, the second is based on Mutter a fork of Metacity (therefore, focus stealing prevention should work). I've considered suggesting that

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Alexander Boström
ons 2009-12-30 klockan 13:37 + skrev Daniel Drake: I guess the approach I will take is to install our audited version as a shared library under a different name (libtommath_olpc?) which the libtommath-audited No sense making it look like it's only for OLPC use. If others want

Re: (huge) Ruby packaging changes

2009-12-26 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-12-24 klockan 01:19 +0100 skrev Jeroen van Meeuwen: The beast that is Java ;-) A very successful example where alternatives is used heavily is of course a system's mail stack. I think it can be done right, but the question is how. On the other hand, if I got your intent right,

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-24 Thread Alexander Boström
ons 2009-12-23 klockan 14:32 -0800 skrev Jesse Keating: I don't expect that I'd have to go hunting down where the commit hash for the previous build came from, then try to discover which branch that commit hash currently lives on, so that I can commit on top of it and keep going. Automate it

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-19 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-12-17 klockan 22:08 +0100 skrev nodata: I wish mailing list discussions were point-for-point for-and-against. It would be so much easier. You can easily accomplish this by quoting only the necessary text of the parent post and commenting between the lines. My Evolution preview

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-19 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-12-17 klockan 20:21 + skrev Ewan Mac Mahon: Simply killing the process is actually less disruptive. Yes. Please do not send close events to my Firefox windows. Do keep in mind that Firefox is pretty much broken and might not even be able to show a Do you want to restart? dialog

Re: RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

2009-11-17 Thread Alexander Boström
tis 2009-11-17 klockan 02:48 -0500 skrev Jeff Garzik: A bloody awful solution, especially when you consider that btrfs' maintainer Chris Mason is adding support for real userland transactions (via some additional ioctls). Yes. But the draft proposal is presented as tools for experienced

Conservative preupgrade

2009-11-12 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-11-12 klockan 20:02 + skrev Richard Hughes: Tomorrow I'll push a F11 update disabling the preupgrade functionality. This will give us enough time to fix things, and then we can flip the switch with another PK update in a few weeks that re-enables the upgrade functionality. There

Re: RFC: proposed macro deffinitions for F-13

2009-10-28 Thread Alexander Boström
tis 2009-10-27 klockan 13:24 -0500 skrev Dennis Gilmore: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:16:46 pm Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:40 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: Id like to get some feedback on the patches that i'm proposing for F-13. quite a few packages that need to deal with

Re: Fedora with Universal Binaries?

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2009-10-22 klockan 12:28 -0500 skrev King InuYasha: I just saw this article about an effort to create Universal binary style ELF binaries for Linux, and I thought that this would be something to watch, so that Fedora could integrate both x86-32 and x86-64 into single DVD sets. There's

Re: Default heuristics for variable-format displays

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Boström
Here's my suggestion... def mode_megapixels(mode): return mode.width * mode.height # Sort by best refresh rate. modes.sort(key=lambda mode: -mode['refresh']) # Prefer to balance refresh rate vs. pixels. if dpi_known:

Re: pulseaudio 0.9.15 for F10?

2009-08-09 Thread Alexander Boström
lör 2009-08-08 klockan 19:32 +0200 skrev Roberto Ragusa: Roberto Ragusa wrote: After applying this patch, mplayer does not get stuck, it is just the usual latency/skips/underruns... Wrongly pasted the patch. Corrected one follows: You should find an existing bug report in

Re: Fit and Finish, round three: peripherals

2009-08-09 Thread Alexander Boström
lör 2009-08-08 klockan 13:11 +0100 skrev Peter Robinson: I saw something a while ago about the DisplayLink (as opposed to DisplayPort) USB Video standard released code/drivers as GPL for linux but I've never seen anything further about it even in my random following of the X mailing lists.

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-17 Thread Alexander Boström
Den 2009-06-17 18:42, Ville Skyttä skrev: On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Steven M. Parrish wrote: The OLPC folks have made a commitment use Fedora as the base for future Does use Fedora as the base mean they'll be using binary packages as is from Fedora, without rebuilding them? Yes. /abo --

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Alexander Boström
Moving to i686+SSE2 while still keeping full support for i586 would imply: * A secondary arch * Bits in preupgrade/anaconda to pick the secondary arch on upgrade * Extra confusion on the download page Of course, those aren't all hard requirements, but still, I doubt it's worth the trouble...

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-16 Thread Alexander Boström
Den 2009-06-17 03:07, Josh Boyer skrev: Someone else ask what the real benefit to moving to i686+SSE2 is. I haven't seen overwhelming evidence that a huge benefit exists. I think somone is working on gathering more data, but unless it shows massive gains To be relevant, such data gathering