Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Hans Voss wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:27, Thomas Adam wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
> > I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
> >
> > As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear:
> >
> >
> > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply
> >
> > I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work --
> > but
> > yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or
> > something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is
> > brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant.
> >
> Thomas, can you give a brief description of what your "understudy" needs to
> know (level of in-depth knowlegde of fvwm and other skills), besides being a
> good enough mentor to somebody?
Understudy's the wrong word. Like any student, a mentor would need some
knowledge of the following:
* C
* XLib
C is the more important one. Knowledge of XLib is desirable but likely not
going to happen as it's pretty arcane by most people's standards.
-- Thomas Adam
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Re: PATCH: lost window patch
2011/3/1 Dominik Vogt : > I can vaguely remember that the existing code was meant to > suppress some windows that would pop up and down in an infinite > loop, but I can't recall the details. If I remember correctly the existing code is a result of trying to get something that works both with QT applications and some GTK applications (e.g. GNU cash) as well as some windows that would get into an infinite manual placement loop. (I think other placemnt strategies worked for the window, only during manual placement they were poping up and down forever. /Viktor
Re: Google Summer of Code 2011
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Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:27, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
> I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
>
> As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear:
>
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply
>
> I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work --
> but
> yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or
> something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is
> brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant.
>
> Thomas, can you give a brief description of what your "understudy" needs to
know (level of in-depth knowlegde of fvwm and other skills), besides being a
good enough mentor to somebody?
> Really, the same ideas as last year apply still:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@fvwm.org/msg00715.html
>
> So please read that thread for the proposed ideas.
>
> If anyone's interested -- albeit as a mentor or someone thinking of working
> on this over the summer (assuming if google even say "yes" to us), it'd be
> nice to hear from you.
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
> --
> "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
> not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
>
>
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Re: PATCH: Fix DSO linker (ld) problems with fontconfig.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 06:07:46PM +, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's been some recent DSO linker changes on glibc lately which have made
> it into recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu. Currently, without the following
> patch, FVWM CVS won't compile.
>
> Before I go ahead and commit this, can someone ensure this isn't breaking
> compilation on other older systems, please? The linker should be fine, but
> obviously if ld can't find "-l fontconfig" in this case, it's not going to
> work either, and I don't want to break compilation in that way.
I've already done the leg-work on this.
Fixed in CVS, FWIW.
-- Thomas Adam
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not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
CVS tadam: Fix DSO linker error (ld) with missing "-lfontconfig" for fontconfig
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm Module name:fvwm Changes by: tadam 11/03/05 15:42:15 Modified files: . : ChangeLog acinclude.m4 Log message: Fix DSO linker error (ld) with missing "-lfontconfig" for fontconfig Stricter DSO checks with newer Libc versions requires the linker find the symbols elsewhere. The only one that's missing is "-lfontconfig" as we already supply -lX11 -lXent elsewhere.
