Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey Sergey,

I'm not sure yet but if I can get a hotel room and am able to take off from
work I might actually come there.

Greetings,
Fabian
On 16 Dec 2013 14:33, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" 
wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm going to attend FOSDEM 2014 and give a lightning talk on the
> performance optimization work we've been doing in elementary OS.
>
> Is anybody else is going to attend? It'd be sweet to meet you guys in
> person!
> It's also a great keysigning opportunity for such a geographically
> distributed team. Keys have to be submitted in advance though, so make sure
> to read https://fosdem.org/2014/keysigning/
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Basing elementary on latest and greatest pieces of software

[Fabian Thoma]

So I'm gonna enter that conversation here, if we want to have automated
builds for debian based systems not on Launchpad we really need the
following:

   1. Hardware (we already got a virtual server capable of building the
   daily isos, so it should be able to handle this, if needed we can also go
   dedicated)
   2. a build daemon, which is buildd that debian uses for it's build
   machines (we can use that 1 to 1 like launchpad)
   3. a system managing builds and versions (which I'd prefer to build or
   use something highly flexible and adapt)
   4. a repo server that hosts the packages and can support high traffic
   (that's a matter of renting it really)

I don't see any issue in these things, especially the hardware and build
based stuff. Building something to manage the builds and versions should
not be a big deal either, but the real question has to be if we want to go
and diy a Launchpad replacement or use something finished and integrate the
build part into it.


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
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> what do we need in order to get our own repo and automated build
>> infrastructure? Is it a hardware issue?
>>
>
> A lot of things I'm afraid. Off the top of my head, the list is as follows:
>
>1. hardware
>2. pbuilder configuration (mostly done)
>3. some piece of software to accept dput uploads (should exist, but
>not found yet)
>4. some piece of software to create and maintain the repository
>(should exist, but not found yet)
>5. lots of integration scripts to write and secondary systems to set
>up (mailer to report failed builds, etc)
>6. some UI to be able to make sense of all that and manage the setup
>(probably doesn't exist)
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Granite Licenseing

[Fabian Thoma]

Well I'd start with answering
this<https://answers.launchpad.net/granite/+question/218277>question
and then going through the files and making sure the headers are
all LGPL(and check with the autors of the ones which are not, to be really
sure), as well as changing the COPYING File which right now is still GPL.
So it mainly is a task that needs a bit of time

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote:

> Last time I checked there was no objection to moving to LGPL. What are the
> exact steps we should take to complete the transition?
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[Elementary-dev-community] Granite Licenseing

[Fabian Thoma]

Hi Guys,

it was brought to my attention that the Licensing in Granite is
inconsistent and varies between GPL and LGPL, which means commercial
projects will not be able to use Granite, so can we please finally move it
to full LGPL as we discussed about the Licenses of Libraries ages ago?

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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] We are drowning in bugs. Web Team, halp!!1

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey Cody,

I'm not really sure what you want to see on such a page, but I don't think
searching for bugs will be easy to do quickly, however we can create a page
linking to the different Launchpad pages and do a little guide on how to
properly bug report maybe? This would certainly take some of the problems.
Also doesn't Launchpad itself search for similar bug reports anymore?

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Cody Garver  wrote:

> One of the new issues we have experienced since the start of the beta is,
> in addition to a large number of legitimate bug reports, we are getting a
> large number of duplicate bug reports.
>
> A possible solution to alleviate the flood is to slap up a Testers section
> on the website. I think it makes sense since we already target a specific
> audience, Developers, so why not target the larger mass as well?
>
> We need to make it easy and obvious for users to search for their issues
> before they report them, and then direct users to start in the
> Testers/Testing section before filing bugs.
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Facebook Fogger app out of the box

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey,

so there are a few things that speak against doing such a thing:

A Fogger App is no native App, but just a website, that makes it non
native, not following the system theming and every design tweaks(like in
that post) are destined to fail at some point.

Also some people(including me) might not like the fact that Facebook is
installed and might get paranoid and rage about it.

If elementary would ever do such a thing as including a social network app
it would be native, fast and following out HIG.

And finally Luna is in feature freeze since ages ago, so nothing,
especially something that goes against our guidelines, should go into Luna
anymore.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Nishant Agrwal  wrote:

> What do you guys think of providing a Fogger app for Facebook out of the
> box in Luna? For those who don't know what I'm talking about, refer to this
> article:
>
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/fogger-can-turn-facebook-into-an-integrated-desktop-app-on-ubuntu
>
> I've used it, and it works rather well, actually. The killer feature for
> me would be the desktop notifications and the badges (which work fine with
> Plank). But that's not the reason I'm suggesting this.
>
> IMHO including Facebook as a first-class app (in that Plank and Slingshot
> handle it as one) would be a very good idea because let's face it,
> regardless of your personal opinion about Facebook, the target audience of
> elementary will use Facebook, and it will be pretty important to the user.
> When booting Luna for the first time, seeing the Facebook logo on the dock
> will give the user a feeling of familiarity and an impression of immediate
> usefulness. The main point here is that we should use the recognizable logo
> to our advantage to make the user feel that this platform will suit their
> needs.
>
> And of course a handy one-click access to Facebook with desktop
> notifications is good in it's own right :)
>
> Thoughts?
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Hangout #2

[Fabian Thoma]

I'll create that event right now, as I know what went wrong last time.
Also you Sam and all council members will get a email in private with the
details to our youtube account that can stream now(should at least)

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Sam Tate  wrote:

> OK, so shall I create the Google+ event for same time? No-one disagrees?
>
> Regards,
> Sam Tate
>
>
> On 4 October 2012 20:30, Chris Triantafillis wrote:
>
>> i think i'll make it...if you want me there :P
>>
>>
>> 2012/10/4 Sam Tate 
>>
>>> 4PM GMT
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 October 2012 20:03, Chris Triantafillis 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What time was it?
>>>>
>>>> 2012/10/4 Sam Tate 
>>>>
>>>>>  Following the great success of the first Hangout, it's inevitable
>>>>> that we should do another one.
>>>>>
>>>>> It should be much smoother (without the 30 minutes of faffing around
>>>>> with Hangouts before it works :P) this time. Anyone seriously opposed to
>>>>> Saturday at the same time? It seemed to work well for everyone with the
>>>>> exception of Cassidy and I (although I should be able to come this week)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Sam Tate
>>>>>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] YouTube for NonProfits

[Fabian Thoma]

Nice, however we still got no nonprofit status, and I guess that won't
change anytime soon

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Sam Tate  wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits
> If we become more active on YouTube we can apply for this, which will put
> a Donate button under all of our videos and gives us some other nice
> features.
>
> Worth a look anyway.
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Keep the elementaryos.org updated

[Fabian Thoma]

Yes, we realize that the site is pretty inactive and asked for designs to
feature on the frontpage numerous times now.
Yes we all would love to have more Bloggers, but we(as in the web team)
don't really have anything to do with that, that's cassidys press team you
are talking about there.
Am 14.09.2012 11:11 schrieb "Mensur Zahirovic" :

> Hi fabian,
>
> I know that you guys are working on the new webpage, but i was talking
> about the current one available. Something needs to be happening more often
> on it.
> When it comes to news section.. I know Cassidy is busy but why not involve
> someone more??
> Why not involve this guy who has this blog  *elementary*luna.*blogspot*
> .com/ ? He writes very often about things which is happening in luna.
> Maybe he could contribute or someone else :))
>
> Cheerz! ;)
>
> 2012/9/14 Fabian Thoma 
>
>> Hey Mensur,
>> as a member of the web team I can tell you that we indeed are working on
>> a big refresh of the website, which unfortunately takes most of our time
>> away from fixing things on the current site. I personally haven't touched
>> it in months, but you are right and I'll put the standard banner back when
>> I get home ;)
>>
>> And Cassidy who is the guy doing most of our journal articles just got to
>> university and has a lot less time than he used to have, so help in that
>> area is always appreciated, just send a email to press@elementaryos.orgif 
>> you wanna help out.
>> Am 14.09.2012 09:26 schrieb "ttosttos Sa" :
>>
>> Couldn't agree more.  There have been gaps of up to a month between
>>> journal postings, plus the answers section seems a bit slow at times
>>> (despite the large number of registered users).  Some things that could be
>>> explored (in no particular order):
>>> 1. Push new web page.  I know it's been under development for a long
>>> time. I expect it to improve on social/collaboration options beyond today's
>>> page.  Ultimately, user participation would be key to distribute content
>>> generation.
>>> 2. Encourage more regular journal postings (~1/week?).  Easiest would be
>>> to build a pipeline of postings and dish them out with a more frequent
>>> cadence.
>>> 3. Widen the scope of journal postings.  For instance, including how-to,
>>> tips etc. If one looks at omgubuntu, there is a good number of different
>>> types of postings.
>>> 4. For Luna+1, elementary should consider releases with a narrower
>>> scope, so they can happen more frequently.  For a project that is still
>>> nascent in many aspects, having an 18+ gap between releases doesn't help
>>> drive the image of a project that is dynamic and healthy.
>>>
>>> ttosttos
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>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Mensur Zahirovic <
>>> linuxsaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I think the elementaryos.org should be updated more frequently.
>>>> Niel has passed away almost 3 weeks ago and the banner is still up? Why
>>>> is not happening on journal side?
>>>>
>>>> I mean there are 20 000 people registered and I'm sure alot of the go
>>>> on the daily basis to check for the news but for a quite some time now
>>>> it has been looking like the webpage is dead.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheerz Nookie^
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Keep the elementaryos.org updated

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Hey Mensur,
as a member of the web team I can tell you that we indeed are working on a
big refresh of the website, which unfortunately takes most of our time away
from fixing things on the current site. I personally haven't touched it in
months, but you are right and I'll put the standard banner back when I get
home ;)

And Cassidy who is the guy doing most of our journal articles just got to
university and has a lot less time than he used to have, so help in that
area is always appreciated, just send a email to pr...@elementaryos.org if
you wanna help out.
Am 14.09.2012 09:26 schrieb "ttosttos Sa" :

> Couldn't agree more.  There have been gaps of up to a month between
> journal postings, plus the answers section seems a bit slow at times
> (despite the large number of registered users).  Some things that could be
> explored (in no particular order):
> 1. Push new web page.  I know it's been under development for a long time.
> I expect it to improve on social/collaboration options beyond today's page.
>  Ultimately, user participation would be key to distribute content
> generation.
> 2. Encourage more regular journal postings (~1/week?).  Easiest would be
> to build a pipeline of postings and dish them out with a more frequent
> cadence.
> 3. Widen the scope of journal postings.  For instance, including how-to,
> tips etc. If one looks at omgubuntu, there is a good number of different
> types of postings.
> 4. For Luna+1, elementary should consider releases with a narrower scope,
> so they can happen more frequently.  For a project that is still nascent in
> many aspects, having an 18+ gap between releases doesn't help drive the
> image of a project that is dynamic and healthy.
>
> ttosttos
> --
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Mensur Zahirovic 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I think the elementaryos.org should be updated more frequently.
>> Niel has passed away almost 3 weeks ago and the banner is still up? Why
>> is not happening on journal side?
>>
>> I mean there are 20 000 people registered and I'm sure alot of the go on
>> the daily basis to check for the news but for a quite some time now
>> it has been looking like the webpage is dead.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheerz Nookie^
>>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] OEM Installation mode

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey Alex,

I'm not 100% sure but as we use the same installer as Ubuntu does this
might actually already work without us knowing, it would be great if you
could test such an installation out on one of our recent daily builds(which
you can find here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elementaryos/files/unstable/)

Thanks for pointing us in this direction, have a nice day ;)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Alejandro Morales Lepe
wrote:

> Hello Team!
>
> I would like to know if Elementary OS Luna will include an OEM
> installation mode like Ubuntu, to allow install the OS for a future user to
> configure.
>
> I sometimes rebuild computers and sell them with Ubuntu, but I would
> like to switch to Luna once it is released, but for this an OEM install
> mode is crucial.
>
> Is it going to be available? Is it going to be able to install
> applications for the end-user?
>
> will it include codecs?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] "I'm Quitting": we both overreacted

[Fabian Thoma]

Sorry but before spreading some rumors that aren't ture red this guys own
website:

Ok.  I need all of your input on this.
> At the current rate of donation subscription 
> failures<http://lunduke.com/?p=3591> and
> cancellations (though cancellations haven’t been that high… only accounting
> for a tiny, tiny amount of the drop off) the donation total will be *down
> to roughly $900 by Tuesday*.

Source: http://lunduke.com/?p=3594

I'm not sure why you believe this is something that would sustain itself,
but I'm not going to comment on it further

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote:

> 2012/7/4 xapantu :
> > Please don't hope you'll get 10,000$ a month with eOS. If we get enough
> to
> > pay 10 travel to our community by year, it'll be very good. Well, we can
> > hope we'll be able to drink something too if we meet. NOBODY will be paid
> > before several years, forget that.
>
> $10,000 a month? Easy peasy cider squeezy. This thing got $4k/month,
> while most people were skeptical about it:
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/help-linux-tycoon-more-go-open-source
>
> And we're freaking elementary! This is partly why I'm so pissed off
> about the backstage decision with no input from community - they're
> about to kill the goose that lays golden eggs.
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] "I'm Quitting": we both overreacted

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t;>>> 3. From this, we can clearly see that developers absolutely should be a
>>>> key part of the process of deciding how elementary will handle funding,
>>>> donations, etc. Yet, you somehow think that "this is a web design issue and
>>>> not something that needs to be run through you first for approval"? Now
>>>> that... that is absurd.
>>>>
>>>> Unless you plan to only pay yourself, this is absolutely something that
>>>> needs to be run through everybody. In fact, if there was one decision that
>>>> the whole elementary team should be involved in, it is this one.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Daniel Foré wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes I am. I really think direct-democracy is just a bad idea.
>>>>> Historically, we've made good decisions by having the people most involved
>>>>> in the topic make the call.
>>>>>
>>>>> When we're talking about a decision around our developer story, It's
>>>>> best to consult with our developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> When we're talking about a decisions around our design story, it's
>>>>> best to consult with our designers.
>>>>>
>>>>> With our Web story, our web team.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our translations, our (admittedly new) translation team.
>>>>>
>>>>> Requiring that everyone have a say in everything is not only going to
>>>>> lead to un-informed decisions, but it's going to slow our process way 
>>>>> down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Scott Ringwelski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan, are you asking why elementary should follow a democratic,
>>>>>> whole-team decision making process rather than a more centralized 
>>>>>> decision
>>>>>> making process?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Daniel Foré 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As it turns out, we have families and lives and jobs and
>>>>>>> responsibilities outside of elementary. That means that we're not always
>>>>>>> able to meet every week and discuss every issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my personal opinion, this is a web design issue and not something
>>>>>>> that needs to be run through you first for approval. But I'd be 
>>>>>>> interested
>>>>>>> to find out from other people why they think we need to directly
>>>>>>> democratize our web design or any design for that matter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you're upset because you can't get your demands met on a certain
>>>>>>> time schedule I'm afraid there's nothing I can do for you. You may not 
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> aware, but this week celebrates our independence in the US. So there's a
>>>>>>> lot of family flooding in and I'm super busy juggling my very extended
>>>>>>> family. I can guarantee I won't be able to make the meeting again this
>>>>>>> Saturday because it's also my mother's birthday.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wish you luck in your next endeavor and hope you don't harbor any
>>>>>>> ill will towards elementary. You're always welcome back at any time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Сергей Давыдов 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Okay, it's been a week. In addition, a Council meeting should have
>>>>>>>> taken place three days ago. This seems to be quite enough time to
>>>>>>>> settle on something and write a reply.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> To speed up the discussion, I stop pretending that everything is all
>>>>>>>> right and cease any work on elementary till I receive an answer to
>>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>>> question.
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniel Foré
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> elementaryos.org
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel Foré
>>>>>
>>>>> elementaryos.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> elementaryos.org
>>>
>>>
>>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] GPL Comment

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Hey David,

I personally like option 2 more as it more clearly indicates the comment in
each line and as a bonus, follows the same style as valadoc annotations.
I've been also doing comments like that for quite some time now if they are
multiline. I'm however not opposed to using the top style.
Am 13.06.2012 23:57 schrieb "David Gomes" :

> */***
>   Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Your Name 
>   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3, as
> published
>   by the Free Software Foundation.
>
>   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranties of
>   MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>  PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
>   with this program.  If not, see 
> ***/*
> *
> *
> *VS*
> *
> *
>
> /* Copyright 2011-2012 elementary
>  *
>  * This file is part of the elementary GTK theme.
>  *
>  * The elementary GTK theme is free software: you can redistribute it
>  * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>  * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
>  * License, or (at your option) any later version.
>  *
>  * The elementary GTK theme is distributed in the hope that it will be
>  * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
>  * Public License for more details.
>  *
>  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
>  * with the elementary GTK theme. If not, see http:*www.gnu.org/licenses/.
>  */
>
>
> Anybody prefers the first one over the second one? Please reply with personal 
> opinion.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Non-PAE Kernel on the new Luna OS

[Fabian Thoma]

To be honest, I'm not sure, I'm forwarding you email to the developers
mailing List ;-)
Am 02.05.2012 12:07 schrieb "Benjamin Beelitz" :

> Hello !
>
> i´am a big fan of Elementary! Great work! I´am using currently the Jupiter
> release. It´s great.
> Last week, Ubuntu 12.04 was announced. I tried an Live CD, but the system
> wasn´t loading
> because my CPU is an NON-PAE CPU so i can´t start or use ubuntu 12.04
> without "hacks".
>
> So my question is: Could you provide an non PAE ISO build with your Luna
> release?
>
> Thank u!
>
> Keep up working!!!
>
> Benjamin
>
> PS: I will not ask for the release date!!! :-)
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Nachricht über Ihr Google-Profil: German Translation team discussion

[Fabian Thoma]

Well I'd say it's better to use the informal version which is "Du" however
this is always a bit of a tricky situation

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Allen Lowe  wrote:

> Kristian,
> can you give any insight into which (formal or informal) would fit our
> brand and interfaces best in German?
>
> Thanks,
> Allen Lowe
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Cassidy James  wrote:
> > Thanks for the update. I'm forwarding this to both the Council and the
> > Developers mailing list. Hopefully we can get some useful feedback. :)
> >
> > On Apr 26, 2012 2:26 PM, "Дмитрий Конрад" 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The German transtaltion is shaping now. We need some information input
> >> from council to start working on translations. Wich apps are included in
> >> luna for release? (needed for focusing translation power) Wich sentences
> >> should we prefer for elementary apps formal or informal? (how are the
> >> guidelines here?) Notice: German formal language use longer amd informal
> >> shorter sentences. Please transfer these questions to the people who can
> >> decide about. (maybe council) Best regards
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> Diese Nachricht wurde Ihnen über Ihr Google-Profil gesendet. Der
> Absender
> >> verfügt nicht über Ihre E-Mail-Adresse.
> >>
> >> Wenn Sie keine Nachrichten von Ihrem Google-Profil mehr erhalten
> möchten,
> >> können Sie Ihre Einstellungen bearbeiten.
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] elementary Website - Syntax Highlighting

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey Andrew,
Sorry we have not responded yet, Kirian is taking a break from elementary
development to focus on his Schools finals(I believe its called that) and I
am busy with stuff from all sides. So the best thing would be to either
pack the required CSS and JS up and send it to me or to meet me in IRC, I'm
mostly there on evenings starting at around 8 pm GMT.
Also thanks for making such an awesome tool for us.

Greetings,
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[Elementary-dev-community] Automatic Branch Merging

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Hey guys,

Yesterday I finally got tarmac to work, so our loved RabbitBot will
now merge all of the approved branches in Launchpad that have a commit
message set. So no more manual merging & pushing, all done every 15
minutes automatically.

I got all Pantheon branches set up and will add the main branches of
other projects in the next few hours, if you want stuff merged,
RabbitBot(~rabbitbot-a) needs to have access to the bzr branches and
Launchpad Project management, it currently is part of ~elementary-core
so the most app branches should be accessible by it, if not, add him
to your team.

If you need automatic merging for special branches send a email to me ;)

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[Elementary-dev-community] Fwd: Adding Pantheon to the Desktop Enviroments

[Fabian Thoma]

Hey guys,

I sent a message to the xdg mailing list asking them to add Pantheon
to the OnlyShowIn and Desktop lists, so if we've done that we have got
that step done we can go and file bug reports for the components we
need on the GNOME Bugzilla.

I also identified a few problems due to the OnlyShowIn parameters,
fixes are to be expected on Policykit(Software Center & co.) Bluetooth
indicator/Applet, some pulseaudio stuff, GNOME Keyring, Network File
Sharing, GNOME Screensaver and finally Gnome Settings Daemon.
To apply these fixes we need to copy the 18 files I attached into
/etc/xdg/autostart/


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From: Fabian Thoma 
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Subject: Adding Pantheon to the Desktop Enviroments
To: x...@lists.freedesktop.org


Hello everyone,

I'm Fabian from the elementary Team, and we are currently building our
own Desktop Environment based on GNOME Technology, we'd like to be
added to the list of "Registered OnlyShowIn Environments"[1] and the
Desktops List [2], so we can efficently launch or session and don't
have to do a lot of Workarounds.
If there are any other Lists or Pages we should be Listed on I'd
really appreciate to hear from them.

Thanks everyone and have a good day ;)

1 - http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html
2 - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] App Year

[Fabian Thoma]

This probably also applies for the GPL headers

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:15 PM, David Gomes  wrote:
> jaapz juts noticed how most of apps have 2011 in the About Dialog. I suggest
> we put "2011-2012" or update to 2012? This is a rather easy fix, but we
> first need to decide if we put "2012" or "2011-2012".
>
> I vote for the "2011-2012".
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] SOPA

[Fabian Thoma]

So are we going to shut the doors compleatly for a day or just put a page
up that you can skip through?

I'm totally for doing option 1
Am 11.01.2012 21:44 schrieb "Christian Dywan" :

> Am 11.01.2012 21:13, schrieb Daniel Fore:
> > I don't think we meant to black out the site for 7 days ;) Only that
> > Reddit's blackout comes in 7 days (for us to do it at the same time)
> Heh, major case of misreading there. Thanks for claryfing.
>
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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Applying settings (GSettings, Vala)

[Fabian Thoma]

You can listen to Settings Changes according to a example on Gnomes
Vala documentation: https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GSettingsSample


// Change notification for any key in the schema
settings.changed.connect ((key) => {
print ("Key '%s' changed\n", key);
print ("New greeting: %s\n", settings.get_string (key));
});

// Change notification for a single key
settings.changed["greeting"].connect (() => {
print ("New greeting: %s\n", settings.get_string ("greeting"));
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, David Gomes  wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been having an issue with Pantheon Terminal. I have an option in the 
> preferences dialog that shows/hides the toolbar. The switch is linked to a 
> GSetting. So, when I change the switch to true or false, the setting in 
> dconf-editor is changed.
>
> However, the settings will only be applied when the terminal is reopened (I 
> have to reload settings). How can I go about this and do it on the fly? I 
> mean, how can I apply settings instantaneously.
>
> Thanks
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[Elementary-dev-community] [Blueprint developer-guide] elementary developer guide

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[Elementary-dev-community] [Blueprint developer-guide] elementary developer guide

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Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Language Guidelines

[Fabian Thoma]

Well in your case of

"You don't have any music" as compared to "BeatBox can't find your music"


you£d still have the problem because in some languages even the your is
possible in formal and informal forms, in German it'd be "ihre" und
"deine", but yes I agree that it's a Language specific thing, thanks for
all this input ;)

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Foré  wrote:

> Hmm, I'd say typically we should avoid referencing the user directly and
> state things in the third person. One example is "You don't have any music"
> as compared to "BeatBox can't find your music". In this case, we circumvent
> formal and informal cases of "You" by putting the focus (and the "blame")
> on the software.
>
> But yes, in general we've been talking about more extensive guidelines for
> language in our apps and our docs.
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
>
> www.elementaryos.org
>
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Christian Dywan 
> wrote:
>
> > Am 01.12.2011 18:17, schrieb David Gomes:
> >> I said "use formal German, it's more professional", but perhaps we
> >> need more specific language guidelines.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > The topic is very language specific. To me it doesn't make sense to
> define at the level of the platform. Language teams should handle it.
> >
> > Consider that German has syntactically analogous words for "you" and
> "though" as French. But for example in email context you don't use the
> formal pronouns in the same context. Now think of Japanese or Korean which
> have even more fine-grained semantics.
> >
> > Another point is that if you actually wanted to define use of formality,
> you'd have to review and replace localizations in all packages shipped.
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