Re: Code of Conduct questions

2018-10-21 Thread John Tapsell
Or could we use an alternative? On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, 08:36 Jacob Lifshay, wrote: > Hi, we were thinking of asking if freedesktop would host Kazan ( > https://github.com/kazan-3d/kazan) for us, however some of our community > members have objections with how freedesktop's Code of Conduct is

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-01-07 Thread John Tapsell
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Re: Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread John Tapsell
2009/9/1 Sergey Udaltsov sergey.udalt...@gmail.com: Another issue - stealing focus. In X Window, every app that requests focus, gets it. I think KWin disables focus stealing by default. Either way, you can turn it on focus-stealing-prevention. 2. Primary X Window selection behavior ...

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-08-03 Thread John Tapsell
Not sure what you mean with 'supporting GenericName', but the current GNOME HIG recommendations are the way they are precisely because of the translatability concerns of combining Name and GenericName programatically. Could someone give an example where programmatically combining would fail,

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-08-03 Thread John Tapsell
2009/8/3 Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:41 +0300, John Tapsell wrote: Not sure what you mean with 'supporting GenericName', but the current GNOME HIG recommendations are the way they are precisely because of the translatability concerns of combining Name

Re: [desktop entry spec] new FullName key

2009-08-03 Thread John Tapsell
2009/8/3 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:36 +0300, John Tapsell wrote: In languages that have case declensions, %1 %2 and %1 - %2 could involve the GenericName being written differently.  So you might write Epiphany - Web Browser, but Epiphany Webo Browsero

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-25 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/25 Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Michael Pyne mp...@purinchu.net wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Also using extended filesystem attributes (or some other metadata storage) gives you the additional protection from

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/24 Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 18:07 -0500, Michael Pyne wrote: Hi all, I'm just writing to let you know that I'm working on changing the handling of .desktop files for the next major version of KDE. The work itself is being tracked on kde-core-devel

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
snip 7. On initial login make all desktop file launchers in the desktop dir as executable. For 7, maybe we can share what file to use to see if this has been done so that this doesn't accidentally happen twice. Say for instance $XDG_DATA_HOME/.converted-launchers. I prefered mpyne's

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/24 Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:22 +, John Tapsell wrote: snip 7. On initial login make all desktop file launchers in the desktop dir as executable. For 7, maybe we can share what file to use to see if this has been done so that this doesn't

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
One potential security flaw... Say there is a myfile.desktop file that already exists and is executable. If a file download overwrites this, it also becomes executable, since overwriting a file takes on its permissions. Maybe a user shouldn't be so silly as to agree to overwrite the existing

Re: .desktop file security

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
. 2009/2/25 Michael Pyne mp...@purinchu.net: On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Also using extended filesystem attributes (or some other metadata storage) gives you the additional protection from downloaded a tarball / uncompressed to desktop / the file was compressed as

Re: Identifying applications from windows to .desktop files

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/24 Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.fr: Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 23:38 +0100, Francois Gouget a écrit : On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: [...] We are now tracking applications usage to build stats and present the user with the most used apps. For this, we identify

Re: feature request :libverbose:library for channeling verbose information

2009-02-24 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/25 Lucian Carleti crate...@gmail.com: Hello A lot of programs directs all verbose to command line interface. A library which redirects  (and organize in level , fatal or non fatal ) all verbose information to Graphical user interface can be good . KDE already has all the necessary

Re: Icon names vs. emblems

2008-07-14 Thread John Tapsell
2008/7/11 Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:19 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: The central point of my proposal is to give the implementation some hint that the requested icon may be constructed from an icon plus emblems, in a way that does not involve any new APIs

Re: DBus server for keyboard layouts

2007-10-05 Thread John Tapsell
Hi Sergey, Could you please give an example of an app that would need to change the keyboard layout? I still don't get the usecase here sorry John ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg

Re: [XESAM] Ontology snaphot. Important proposal.

2007-06-26 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, First time caller, long time listener... :-) At the risk of being stupid, from this diagram audio files have frameRate and frameCount info, no? This doesn't seem right. Also I'd like to see a lot more fields for Video (video name, description, year, etc), but I guess that's up to

Re: HALd configuration

2007-01-02 Thread John Tapsell
Remove all entries for it from /etc/fstab, then run pmount /dev/sdc1 (or whatever) then pumount and post the results. On 02/01/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Seagate ST380817 (80 GB SATA) in an external Mediasonic HD2-SU2 (USB hard drive enclosure). It works in Linux but I

Re: simple search api (was Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets)

2006-12-17 Thread John Tapsell
At the risk of stating the obvious, but why not just use SQL? select files.filename from files,tags tag1, tags tag2 where files.id = tag1.fileid and files.id = tag2.fileid and tag1.key=artist and tag1.value=foobar and tag2.key=group and tag2.value=audio It seems that all the API is

Touchscreen

2006-06-14 Thread John Tapsell
Anyone fancy helping me write a touch screen device driver? I need to reverse engineer the init code for a windows 98 touchscreen driver. I used to reverse engineer many years ago, but I've kinda lost touch. ___ xdg mailing list

Re: shared-mime-info 0.17

2006-03-14 Thread John Tapsell
Hi Bastien, Huh. It's a software announcement. Pretty much every Free Unix desktop project uses it, and distros and users should probably all upgrade to that version... Okay. You know that. Most people here know that. Yet if you go to http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards it's under: