Dear Fossil Gurus,
I'm a new user - have been using Fossil for just over a month now - and I'm
loving it. One point that I found somewhat disappointing, is that Fossil
creates a .fossil database in my home directory.
I know that many applications in Linux/Unix store their preferences and
Dear Fossil Gurus,
The HTML used in the web interface of Fossil is... well... let's just say, not
optimal. Although the web interface is sufficiently functional, it could do
with an upgrade - ie, use proper html5 elements, make use of a responsive
layout, etc.
I have played with editing the
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.comwrote:
Dear Fossil Gurus,
Well, okay, if you insist ;)
...I believe that it should not be too difficult to add a check in the
Fossil code, so that the name and location of the .fossil would vary,
depending on the
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.comwrote:
The HTML used in the web interface of Fossil is... well... let's just say,
not optimal. Although the web interface is sufficiently functional, it
could do with an upgrade - ie, use proper html5 elements, make use
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.com wrote:
loving it. One point that I found somewhat disappointing, is that Fossil
creates a .fossil database in my home directory.
I know that many applications in Linux/Unix store their preferences and
settings in
Thank you for the quick response!:
On 22 May 2014, at 1:46 am, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is there a reason why this should not be added as a feature request?
Maintainability.[...]
Understandable: resources have to be used and focused where they are most
needed...
PS:
Thank you for the explanation:
On 22 May 2014, at 1:54 am, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com
wrote:
The HTML used in the web interface of Fossil is... well... let's just say,
not optimal. Although the web
Wow, I must confess I had never even heard of 'Haiku', so I had to go and look
it up! :
On 22 May 2014, at 2:11 am, Joe Prostko joe.pros...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] If it were decided to add in the preferred settings directories for
additional platforms, I would gladly provide a patch for
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.comwrote:
Preference files can be named anything, but should NOT be 'dot-files' (as
these are normally kept invisible by the system).
In fact, that's the reason it starts with a dot - users should NOT be
touching that file
Oooh, all of this sounds *really* interesting and exciting:
On 22 May 2014, at 2:25 am, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
[...] That, of course, is possible, and some people here have done up some
impressive skins, [...]
Where can I find some of these? - I had a quick look through
Ah, I see your points:
On 22 May 2014, at 2:49 am, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com
wrote:
Preference files can be named anything, but should NOT be 'dot-files' (as
these are normally kept invisible by the
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.comwrote:
Where can I find some of these? - I had a quick look through the
repositories at 'Chisel', but found only 3 skins there.
i think you'll either need to search the list archives or wait until
someone who's created
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
And if the dir structure doesn't exist, fossil has to go creating it, etc.
We know the home dir exists, which makes it easy. Ideal? No, but easy.
Indeed. That is why I'm likely going to simply not bother making any
just to throw in my 2c regarding this (in my view: non-)problem:
-- as a mac and linux/unix user I could not care less about dot-files
materializing in my (mac-)home dir. it could be done differently but not
better in any meaningful sense.
-- while it is true that true mac applications are
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:43 PM, j. van den hoff
veedeeh...@googlemail.comwrote:
-- overall I mostly believe it would be sort of wrong to move `.fossil' to
some Mac-specific place. if it would happen so be it. but really I believe
this is a non-issue.
Amen and +1 to that. :) If emacs put my
On May 21, 2014 9:34 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com
wrote:
Dear Fossil Gurus,
I'm a new user - have been using Fossil for just over a month now - and
I'm loving it. One point that I found somewhat disappointing, is that
Fossil creates a .fossil database in my home directory.
I
BAH! How dare someone make my wordy points while I'm also making them! :)
SDR
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.comwrote:
different systems in one: the native Mac system with lots of guidelines om
how things are to be done, and a fairly standard POSIX platform underneath
that can run a huge number of programs without modification. In
Thus said Stephan Beal on Wed, 21 May 2014 18:49:21 +0200:
i'll admit to having uninstalled apps which have violated my sense of
propriety, but an extra file in my home dir is not (because of
the Unix history behind it) one of those proprieties. Historical
momentum wins here,
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.comwrote:
i will most certainly attempt to remember that point the next time this
comes up. It reduces the argument form Mac vs Windows vs *nix to POSIX
vs non-POSIX, which is not only simpler to grasp and argue around, but is
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:39:41AM +1000, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
snip
OS X is actually quite simple:
Preference files can be named anything, but should NOT be 'dot-files' (as
these
are normally kept invisible by the system). To avoid name-collision, Apple
suggest developers use
Hi Folks,
I apologize if this appears to be a repost. I'm not a frequent mailing list
user.
I've uploaded a Jenkins Plugin for Fossil to my GitHub repository for those
who might have an interest. It is Java source-only at this point and it's
been a while since I've synced with the latest
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.com wrote:
That structure is *absolutely guaranteed* to exist, as it is necessary
for the way the System works. The way Apple structures their
On 2014-05-21 12:49, Stephan Beal wrote:
We all have our quirks. One of mine is that i refuse to come into
physical contact with an Apple product of any sort, do not provide any
tech support of any kind for Apple products, nor do i allow Apple
products in my flat. (Why i do that is not relevant
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