Re: Windows Unix volunteers
Hi there, Pollywog: On Thursday 26 June 2008 16:17:19 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. Is the modification of Windows source code legal? And yes, I know that most of us are not lawyers here. We have the source code and explicit permission of the original author of the software plus willingness to let others make good use of it. Apart from that, not much more that we can offer :( -- Zbigniew Szalbot SGM Lifewords www.sgmlifewords.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
... the changing of wallpaper is VERY window manager centric ... xsetroot(1) would not work for all? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:17:19 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Windows Unix volunteers Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. Can anyone recommend forums where to look for people interested in making such programme available for UNIX desktops? Many thanks! there are a few programs like this already. some people even just use cron jobs with a script to force a background change to a random image every X minutes. graphics/chbg is a nice start. just do a google search or search freebsd.org/ports for background and you will see a lot of responses. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
At 11:17 AM 6/26/2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. Can anyone recommend forums where to look for people interested in making such programme available for UNIX desktops? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot SGM Lifewords www.sgmlifewords.com It isn't as easy as a little porting. Depending on the window manager in X there may already be a wallpaper changer. I would check the main site for the Window Manager you use first before you try to reinvent this wheel. Because the changing of wallpaper is VERY window manager centric, I don't think it would be easy to have one utility that would work with all the WM's. Unlike in MS Windows where there is a single window manager and API. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Resending since my last email got horribly garbled up. there are a few programs like this already. some people even just use cron jobs with a script to force a background change to a random image every X minutes.graphics/chbg is a nice start. just do a google search or search freebsd.org/ports for background and you will see a lot of responses.-Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Yes, I have. I am not really looking for such software but for a forum where people who do UNIX can be found. FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). Anyway, I am not trying to advertise it here, especially that it is for Windows. Just trying to find out where to look for people who could be interested in porting it into UNIX using our Windows source code, if they find it helpful. I hope I am not offending anyone. Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot SGM Lifewords www.sgmlifewords.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:44:38 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows Unix volunteers Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports.I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Yes, I have. I am not really looking for such software but for a forum where people who do UNIX can be found. FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). Anyway, I am not trying to advertise it here, especially that it is for Windows. Just trying to find out where to look for people who could be interested in porting it into UNIX using our Windows source code, if they find it helpful. I hope I am not offending anyone. Warm regards, So you are trying to port YOUR code to BSD. Your original post made it sound like you found a program and just wanted to see same functionality in BSD. There is an opensource program similar to yours but it is designed for use with webshots and flickr but im sure could very easily be modified to connect with your website. http://www.webilder.org/ -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
At 12:44 PM 6/26/2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Yes, I have. I am not really looking for such software but for a forum where people who do UNIX can be found. FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). Anyway, I am not trying to advertise it here, especially that it is for Windows. Just trying to find out where to look for people who could be interested in porting it into UNIX using our Windows source code, if they find it helpful. I hope I am not offending anyone. Warm regards, I was just making the point that from my experience porting code to other *NIX's I think you will end up with a lot of #ifdef's in the code to conditionally compile it for the different window managers. It won't be that simple, and you should also decide which window managers you are going to port the code to. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:44:38PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Yes, I have. I am not really looking for such software but for a forum where people who do UNIX can be found. FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). Anyway, I am not trying to advertise it here, especially that it is for Windows. Just trying to find out where to look for people who could be interested in porting it into UNIX using our Windows source code, if they find it helpful. I hope I am not offending anyone. No one is offended at all. It is just that so many people who are new to FreeBSD start by asking how to write something without looking in ports to see if it has already been done. So, you were getting a little of the standard FreeBSD 'religious' training about checking in the ports. A second part is that many FreeBSD newbies do not realize that almost anything to do with graphics and screens is not directly a part of FreeBSD, but of the separate graphics system - the most common by far being X-Windows plus a choice of X-windows manager software. This is true of all UNIX systems. FreeBSD now favors Xorg as the X-Windows system, but the windows manager is still completely up to you. There are many possible choices. I use Afterstep mostly. But, Xfce, KDE and Gnome are also quite common. Your project looks like possibly an interesting variation on things that are already written, but different enough. This is about as good a place as any to look for UNIX programmers, though you might also want to check for an Xorg list and maybe some other graphics oriented lists. If your stuff is well written - well thought out and structured - then it should not be hard to port it to UNIX/X-Windows/C or C++ code. You might have to create some different versions for different systems. That can easily be accomplished with conditional compilation blocks and some careful structuring of Make files. So, go ahead and do it and then submit it for inclusion in the ports when it is ready. Sorry, I do not have even a fraction of the time needed available to work on something like that. But, you may well find some in one of these lists. jerry Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot SGM Lifewords www.sgmlifewords.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:44:38 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). http://www.lcwords.com/en/save_wallpaper/wisdom,174.html Notice the bottom line. I know there are some issues around distributing modified versions, but I'd always assumed that the word of God had a more open licence. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
On Thursday 26 June 2008 16:17:19 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. Is the modification of Windows source code legal? And yes, I know that most of us are not lawyers here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Unix volunteers
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:43:15AM +, Pollywog wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008 16:17:19 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. Is the modification of Windows source code legal? I don't think he is proposing modifying or distributing any Microsloth code.I understood this to be something he or his company wrote and now wants to port to other systems. jerry And yes, I know that most of us are not lawyers here. Fortunately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
