Re: yum-presto and comps

2010-01-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 04:44 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote: In F12 we shipped yum-presto in @gnome-desktop - a kind of a compromise I guess. Presto/deltarpm is very useful for machines with low net connectivity to mirrors but enough resources to rebuild rpms. But yum-presto is not a desktop

Re: Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage

2010-01-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 20:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I wrote up this using the Feature template, but I don't guess it's really that much of a feature: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RawhideRepoSubpackage (except in that it needs coordination across the distro and docs updates,

packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
I intend to give up the following packages: fedorainfinity-backgrounds libbeagle libcroco libexif libspectre preferences-menus Any takers ? Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:54 +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 15:37, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: fedorainfinity-backgrounds I've been using it since Fedora 8 (never liked any other Fedora wallpaper as much

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:46 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: libspectre I can help out here. Already sold to Marek, but I'm sure he'll welcome you as a comaintainer -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:59 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: 2010/1/5 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: I intend to give up the following packages: libexif I will take this one. Thanks, its yours if you take it: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/libexif -- fedora

Reviewers needed

2010-01-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
I need some kind soul to review at-spi2-atk and pyatspi for me, both of which are part of the new at-spi2 accessibility stack. The bugs are here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544629 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544630 Thanks, Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing

Re: Packaging problem with %find_lang

2010-01-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 01:22 +, Paul wrote: The build is producing the following mkdir -p /home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/monodevelop-boo-2.2-1.fc13.i386/usr/lib/monodevelop/AddIns/BooBinding/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ cp '../build/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/monodevelop-boo.mo'

Re: Mass rebuild for F13?

2009-12-21 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 07:38 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:03:13AM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: It would be nice if you folks add these little explanations as comments next to the patches of the gcc SPEC file.

Planning the accessibility stack rebase

2009-12-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
As some of you may know, the accessibility framework is getting ported from CORBA/ORBit to DBus [1]. The (ambitious) upstream plan is to have this transition completed in time for GNOME 2.30, ie within the F-13 timeframe. This is a big effort, and the accessibility guys need all the help they

Re: example content

2009-11-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:39 -0600, Mel Chua wrote: Because it's brainstorm time and I'm procrastinating on FUDCon accounting... ;) * FWN podcast, http://www.braincache.de/wp/2009/11/15/fwn-fedora-weekly-news-201. * the http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list might have

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
Trying to respond to several points that were raised in this thread... 1. If live cds are as indispensable as you claim they are, it will be relatively straightforward to produce them for F13 simply by omitting the big items that will push us over the cd size limit, ie OpenOffice, example

Re: crazy Xrandr/XOrg automatic display configuration.

2009-11-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:33 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: I assumed, via the release notes, that the new Xorg operates in extend-desktop mode by default. However, I'm not sure. When I hook up a running Fedora laptop to a projector, my desktop is extended. Very nice. When I hook up the same

Re: crazy Xrandr/XOrg automatic display configuration.

2009-11-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:00 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: This is intentional. Plymouth is rendering the same boot animation on all heads; not sure we can do much better. Oh, I don't mind that at all. That's awesome. I understand

Re: crazy Xrandr/XOrg automatic display configuration.

2009-11-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:13 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: Oh, I misunderstood. Yeah, it should remember the previous configuration you had with this combination of outputs. This information is stored in ~/.config/monitors.xml. Right. I guess what I'm saying is...it doesn't seem to. The very

Re: PolicyKit and syslog

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: One of the important features of sudo is its ability to log elevated-access actions to syslog. Userhelper similarly logs actions, like so: userhelper[26491]: running '/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users ' with root

Re: PolicyKit and syslog

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:48 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: when the policies are updated it is policy kit that has to be involved. polkitd is running, at least. That might be ok to log, indeed. polkitd need not be running, though. It is activated as needed. It would make sense for polkitd to

Re: PolicyKit and syslog

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:29 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: 1. In fact, a PAM-backed authority for PolicyKit might be interesting and useful -- but there's a tangent. What do you think PolicyKit is using for authentication ? See

Re: tangent: PolicyKit and PAM

2009-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: Like I said, this is a tangent, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to work on this. But it'd be cool if they did. Just as everybody else is struggling to get away from pam's awful apis...I don't think this would be a step forward;

Re: abrt and bugzilla

2009-11-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:58 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jiri Moskovcak wrote: Thx, btw, I thought there was a plan to unite the dbus interfaces for kwallet and g-keyring. AFAIK, that hasn't been implemented yet. :-( Kevin Kofler I believe the gnome-keyring implementation lives

Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

2009-11-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: It's not QA's role to define exactly what the security policy should look like or what it should cover, but from the point of view of testing, what we really need are concrete requirements. The policy does not have to be immediately

Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

2009-11-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:31 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Otherwise we open ourselves up to a less-secure-by-default posture in an average install. We've been in that position in the past and it is not a favorable place to be. We should just avoid to sink tons of QA resources in verifying

Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

2009-11-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:36 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:31 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: Otherwise we open ourselves up to a less-secure-by-default posture in an average install. We've been in that position in the past

Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

2009-11-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:54 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: We should not be forcing the choices for the desktop spin on everyone who installs a pkg in the distribution. Sure, I agree. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: intent to retire: kudzu

2009-11-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:03 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 01:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/10/2009 01:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13. Why? - There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current

Re: Status of HAL

2009-11-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/10/2009 08:43 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On Mon, November 9, 2009 1:28 pm, Bill Nottingham wrote: - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been frozen and deprecated Okay, I really can't keep

Re: missing help files for Evolution and Nautilus in F12 Beta?

2009-11-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 11:48 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: In F12, the GNOME Help Program (I think it's called Yelp, now?) shows an error when trying to access Help in either Nautilus or Evolution. Do these programs not have help available? Or has it simply not been packaged for the F12 beta? The

Re: updating F11 GNOME release

2009-11-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:44 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: This is unfortunately not actually a helpful topic, but I am deathly curious. Will GNOME be stuck at 2.26 for the rest of the F11 cycle? Or are updates in the works, just not ready yet? We've updated GNOME in F11 to 2.26.3. We don't do

Re: Gnome panel crashes when changing color

2009-10-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:31 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: It seems, whether you use the bottom panel, or change the top panel to be the bottom (speaking after an initial rawhide install), and go to properties and change the color of it, it crashes. It logs you out of gnome and into gdm, then

Re: Status of multiseat feature

2009-10-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 18:20 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: Is anyone actively working on multiseat? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Multiseat The necessary infrastructure for multiseat is (slowly) being developed in ConsoleKit and gdm branches upstream. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-10-02

2009-10-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:11 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: On Friday 02 October 2009 01:56:21 pm Jon Stanley wrote: Meeting summary --- * incomplete features (jds2001, 17:04:12) * AGREED: Lower Process Capabilities is retained, dbus changes are being committed to

Re: F-12 Beta Blocker Meeting 2009-10-02 @ 15:00 UTC (11 AM EDT) - Recap

2009-10-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:17 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:47 -0400, James Laska wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526535 (jlaska, 16:17:50) * AGREED: after good discussion around related changes, the group agreed to accept a fix for bug#526535

Re: F-12 Beta Blocker Meeting 2009-10-02 @ 15:00 UTC (11 AM EDT) - Recap

2009-10-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 10:47 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:17 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:47 -0400, James Laska wrote: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526535 (jlaska, 16:17:50) * AGREED: after good discussion around related

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:00 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: #2 is about the way someone would use the system. If I'm a place where I know the bandwidth is questionable then I figure immediately after install I can run: yum install yum-presto and be ready to go. Or, we install yum-presto by

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:22 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: I don't consider the single command a significant barrier, either way. Maybe not for people who maintain yum... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-21 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 15:55 +, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: As far as I can tell, gnome-desktop doesn't include explicit (default or otherwise)

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-21 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:44 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Colin Walters (walt...@verbum.org) said: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: As far as I can tell, gnome-desktop doesn't include explicit (default or otherwise) fonts either. I haven't

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-21 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 05:55 +, Matej Cepl wrote: Colin Walters, Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:46:50 +: These are wrong and should be in the comps group. Looks like Matthias added them. I'll move them to comps now. Which seems like to typical Fedora event ... after all FESCO approved

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-21 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:08 +0200, nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Because they're not the default, the defaults are defined in the @fonts group, this is an experiment by the desktop team, without any concertation, or understanding on how we managed fonts so far. Given that fact that

Re: Bug buddy and gnomebreakpad

2009-09-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:02 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: Now that abrt has obsoleted bug-buddy, starting any GTK+ application results in the innocuous, but rather annoying warning: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file:

Re: Bug buddy and gnomebreakpad

2009-09-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:40 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/10/2009 06:36 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: should get rid of it. The harder question is where to put that command... %post for abrt-gui ? :) That doesn't help, since the gconf key is in your users gconf db. The command has

Re: Bug buddy and gnomebreakpad

2009-09-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:39 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:57:43PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:40 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 09/10/2009 06:36 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: should get rid of it. The harder question is where to put

Fit and Finish test day coming up

2009-09-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
We will look at sharing of files, music and desktops in the next Fit and Finish test day, which is coming up very soon, 2009-09-08, which is the coming Tuesday. Read all about it at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-08_Fit_and_Finish:Sharing Join us on Tuesday in

Re: ABRT for f12 status

2009-09-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 17:04 +, Colin Walters wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Matthias Clasenmcla...@redhat.com wrote: After talking to the abrt guys, I've changed the desktop spin ks to replace bug-buddy and kerneloops by abrt. This change should be made in comps (as per my

PolicyKit 0.9 is going away

2009-08-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
As part of the move to PolicyKit 1.0, the old PolicyKit 0.9 and PolicyKit-gnome 0.9 packages are going to be obsoleted. Our plan is to have the Obsoletes in place before the beta. Most users of PolicyKit have been ported over by now, but there are a few stragglers. If your package is using

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:35 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Matthias Clasenmcla...@redhat.com wrote: [..] Static? Doesn't scale (unless you would want to do it just for specific apps) My initial idea was to make this a 'top 10 apps', ie be selective, instead of

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:36 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomia.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/23/2009 10:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Aren't we pitching Fedora Community interface as the end user facing thing, going forward? It seems some of these

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:56 +0200, drago01 wrote: Yeah looks good but I would rather not show screenshots in this view (or atleast not different sized ones). A short description + icon should be enough. Have a show more link that contains a longer description + screenshots and a Install

Re: fedora-pkgdb: make it discoverable on browser home page?

2009-08-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:31 -0400, Michel Salim wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 13:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: This obviously needs the helping hand of a web designer. For F12, this would probably be not much more than a static web page. Static? Doesn't scale (unless you

Re: Last call for talking points - what makes you excited about F12?

2009-08-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 22:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/18/2009 10:15 PM, Mel Chua wrote: PS: I know this is last-minute notice - sorry about that. We're still learning how to do things on a schedule, and next time around we'll put the call out here much earlier. Is there a

Printing test day coming up...

2009-08-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
Another week, another Fit and Finish test day. This time around, we want to look at printing. See http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing Both Marek Kasik and Tim Waugh have kindly agreed to be around, so we'll have sufficient expertise for all of the

Re: Printing test day coming up...

2009-08-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Another week, another Fit and Finish test day. This time around, we want to look at printing. See http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing Both Marek Kasik and Tim Waugh have kindly agreed

Re: 2009-08-13: Fedora 12 Test Day - NetworkManager

2009-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:40 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: Hi. On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:32:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote Sorry, I had no idea somebody else was referring to them. Next time, kindly tell me if you want to reuse something that I put up with the explicit warning

Re: 2009-08-13: Fedora 12 Test Day - NetworkManager

2009-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:56 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: Hi. On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote Errr. wouldn't that be tomorrow, technically? No, my isos were for the Fit and Finish test day that happened yesterday. Well, they're referenced on the wiki

Re: Epiphany effectively orphaned

2009-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 11:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: In the course of doing a bug report on Epiphany, it's come up that Epiphany is effectively orphaned: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/epiphany it is owned by gecko-maint, but since it's now based on Webkit, that

Re: Epiphany effectively orphaned

2009-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 12:20 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 15:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 11:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: In the course of doing a bug report on Epiphany, it's come up that Epiphany is effectively orphaned: https

Re: help needed for bug #512115 (Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display...)

2009-08-11 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 10:12 +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote: Hi, Could you help with the following bug? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512115 It is a Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed error. This seems to be appeared with

Reminder: fit and finish test day tomorrow

2009-08-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
Just a quick reminder: We are meeting tomorrow in #fedora-fit-and-finish on freenode to test how well F12 works with phones, music players, cameras, usb sticks and other things you care to plug into your computer. See

Re: Reign?

2009-08-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:33 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Just went to download a Fedora ISO and I'm struck once again by how peculiar the Fedora homepage has become: http://fedoraproject.org/ (or screenshot: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/fedora.png) What does the word Reign have to do

Fit and Finish, round three: peripherals

2009-08-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
Hi all, time for another 'Fit and Finish' test day. This time, we want to look at issues and use cases surrounding anything you can plug into your computer, be it a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you have at home... Join us in #fedora-fit-and-finish on Freenode, on Aug 11

Re: Fit and Finish, round three: peripherals

2009-08-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:34 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/07/2009 12:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you have at home... Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well? Bluetooth is definitively in scope

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 10:43 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Well with the no frozen rawhide proposal, from the Alpha freeze point on there would be such an updates-testing for the pending release, while rawhide remains the wild west. You could say install F12, then at F13 Alpha jump onto F13

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: Hi FESCo, After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:30 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:06 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: OK, bad example, but you know what I mean. Yes, I do, and I think there is room for a Fedora offering that is released frequently (every 6 months), supported for about a year,

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:49 +0200, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote: Hi all. KDE 4.3 will come to F11 and F10. It's a cool thing. There aren't updates like this for Gnome. Why not? F10 with Gnome 2.26 sounds fine to me. GNOME has stable bugfix updates, and we do bring all of those into released

Re: KDE vs. GNOME on F10

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: An alternative would be to tag updates within a single repo in a way that yum and PackageKit understand and have appropriate configuration options to enable certain types of update, which would really be much the same situation, just

Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

2009-08-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I'll make sure one of the Desktop-y guys updates this (presumably Matthias). I've updated it recently and bumped it to 75%. It would seem disingenuous to bump it to 100% when GNOME 2.28 has not been released yet. It is fine for the

Re: Orphaning glade2

2009-07-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 12:31 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:41:49PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: I'm going to orphan glade2. glade3 is the only actively maintained version of glade, and I don't see a reason to keep glade2 around any longer

Re: Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

2009-07-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:12 +0200, nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01500.html What you are seeing is probably https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513629 --

Orphaning glade2

2009-07-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
I'm going to orphan glade2. glade3 is the only actively maintained version of glade, and I don't see a reason to keep glade2 around any longer. Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Batteries and Suspend Test day summary

2009-07-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
The 'Fit and Finish' test day about batteries and suspend took place yesterday. Thanks to everybody who came by and helped us find, fix and test things ! If you could not make it, our test cases are still available here:

Re: Fit and Finish test day: batteries and suspend

2009-07-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 13:10 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: It would be great if the test day (and others) could link to a iso for rawhide that fits on a CD to make this part of the process simple. hint, hint ;-] Yeah, I'm working on it. However, todays (and yesterdays) spins so far had the

Fit and Finish test day: batteries and suspend

2009-07-17 Thread Matthias Clasen
Just a reminder: The next 'fit and finish' test day will take place on July 21, which is next Tuesday. We want to look at issues with the user experience around batteries, suspend and power management in general.

Re: Fit and Finish test day: batteries and suspend

2009-07-17 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:05 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Matthias Clasen on 07/17/2009 11:50 AM wrote: Just a reminder: The next 'fit and finish' test day will take place on July 21, which is next Tuesday. We want to look at issues with the user experience around batteries

Re: Fedora 12 Features Needing Updates

2009-07-15 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:54 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: regardless of any of those factors, what should I do to make this feature be part of F12 features ? Put your feature in the category FeatureReadyForWrangler when your feature page is sufficiently complete. Its all explained here:

Re: How to contact Tomáš Bžatek?

2009-07-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
Anybody knows how to contact Tomáš Bžatek? Is he still working for Red Hat? I see he has a lot of open bugs (some of them are just getting closed by the bugzappers) without a single comment from him. I set one to NEEDINFO but didn't get a response for months. You can send mail to

Re: Update startup-notification to version 0.10

2009-07-13 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:05 -0400, Michal Nowak wrote: Awesome Window Manager [0] requires startup-notification of version 0.10 [1], I filled bug for it [3], however, no action was taken so far. Can some of you desktop folks bump the version, please? Done -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Next Fit and Finish test day: Batteries and Suspend

2009-07-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
Time to announce the next 'fit and finish' test day. On July 21, we want to look at issues with the user experience around batteries, suspend and power management in general. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-21_Fit_and_Finish:Batteries_and_Suspend Please join us in

Re: inotify and gnome authorization

2009-07-08 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 08:30 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: The bottom line: with policykit being used more heavily in rawhide, if you're getting strange intermittent permissions failures, try the workaround. When you run out of inotify watches, many things will fail, not just PolicyKit.

Display Configuration test day summary

2009-07-08 Thread Matthias Clasen
We've had the first 'Fit and Finish' test day on display configuration yesterday. I'd like to thank everybody who came by on irc and tested something, or filed a bug. If you could not make it, our test cases are still available here:

Display configuration test day tomorrow

2009-07-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
Just a reminder that we are kicking off our 'fit and finish' initiative with a test day on display configuration tomorrow, in #fedora-fit-and-finish. If you go to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-07_Fit_and_Finish:Display_Configuration you'll find more information. We will

Re: Raising the bar

2009-07-02 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:55 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:27 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: If you have ideas for other areas that could benefit from this kind of attention, please let us know. I can think of a number of different cross-component tests

libxklavier api change

2009-07-01 Thread Matthias Clasen
I built libxklavier 4.0 in rawhide yesterday. It changed api; the required change looks like this: -xkl_config_registry_load (config_registry); +xkl_config_registry_load (config_registry, FALSE); Sorry for the late notice... Here is a list of likely affected

Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
-and-finish irc channel on FreeNode. Please come and join us there ! Matthias Clasen for the Desktop team -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Raising the bar

2009-06-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:48 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: If you wish to improve *user* experience, then you should focus entirely on actual Fedora releases rather than on Rawhide. However I see that in testing days you still encourage only users with up-to-date Rawhide installations. That's

Re: [JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups

2009-06-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 08:06 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: The only other packages I intend to touch on this issue are: (duplicate directory with filesystem) avahi avahi is good now, I think, after I made it use %find_lang. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:35 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: The reality is that KDE *is* a second class citizen in Fedora - it doesn't get anywhere near the attention that Gnome does. SARCASMThanks/SARCASM for insulting our (KDE SIG's) work yet again, that's

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

2009-06-27 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 02:04 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: That's not distro integration. It's Fedora developers who happen to be upstream developers calling their upstream GNOME features Fedora features. That doesn't make them any less GNOME-only features. This is at most a failure of our

Re: Thunderbird/Evolution quirks

2009-06-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:02 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: My random thought for today: Thunderbird is listed under the Internet sub-menu. Evolution is listed under the Office sub-menu. Why are they in different places? Ah... mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: Categories=Email;Network;

Re: Thunderbird/Evolution quirks

2009-06-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:06 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 06/24/2009 07:18 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: Thats perfectly fine. It is one main category (Office) plus several additional categories, as described in the desktop entry spec. Plus some old gunk thats not used anymore (X-Red

Re: PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:58 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: As it is, malware need only sit in the background and wait for e.g. a PolicyKit-enabled user manager to acquire the authorization for user creation to be able to easily install a backdoor account. Nils, this is somewhat inaccurate

Re: PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:09 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:02:22AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The retained authorization is only valid for the subject that obtained it, which will typically be a process (identified by process id and start time) or a canonical

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:17 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: Its the next circle, the less frequent administrative chore tasks, that I'm not sure its well defined in terms of which applications need PolKit support added in. Maybe Nautilus is that circle, maybe its not. Maybe its not time to start

Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

2009-06-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:00 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Just a heads-up: We hope to land a new PolicyKit version (which will turn into 1.0, eventually) in F12 soon. PolicyKit 0.92 has now landed in rawhide; the package name has changed to polkit and polkit-gnome, to allow it to coexist

Re: rpms/polkit-gnome/devel polkit-gnome.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2009-06-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:25 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: c) Have rpm silently add ownership of unowned directories to the package that creates them. This could cause weird directory conflicts when some other package actually owns the directory / becomes the owner, and just feels wrong

Re: GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

2009-06-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 18:41 +0200, Dennis J. wrote: If that's the case then it obviously makes sense to stick with grub legacy but given it's status who is going to be upstream for this? What I fear is a similar situation like we had with rpm where nobody really took ownership and vendors

Re: rpms/polkit-gnome/devel polkit-gnome.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2009-06-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 14:58 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: # for /usr/share/gnome/autostart Requires: gnome-session Great! This adds gnome-session: 1.8 MB control-center: 7.1 MB GConf2: 5,5 MB gnome-keyring: 2,3 MB gnome-vfs2: 3.1 MB You added at least ~ 22,8 MB overhead just

Re: rpms/polkit-gnome/devel polkit-gnome.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2009-06-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:06 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: My anger is because people don't honor our packaging guidelines not even if they are asked to do so. The guidelines are very clear in this case: Multiple packages have files in a common directory but none of them requires others.

Re: Dear VTE maintainer (Re: Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-06-09)

2009-06-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:39 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 20:00 + schrieb Michael Schwendt: The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies: == The results in

Re: File Triggers (was Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros)

2009-06-08 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:25 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I personally think it would be a huge mistake to have stuff happen automatically based on filename/location heuristics. Naming collisions happen all the time (for example GNOME recently decided that a third of our fonts were ODF

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