Re: Future of KSysguard - removing remote monitoring

2011-03-10 Thread John Tapsell
On 9 March 2011 16:05, Gary Greene gree...@tolharadys.net wrote: On 9 Mar 2011, at 7:54 AM, John Tapsell wrote: Thanks for the feedback - this is why I put out such emails before I make any changes.  It's good to know that people actually use this app - sometimes it's hard to know if anyone

Re: Future of KSysguard - removing remote monitoring

2011-03-09 Thread John Tapsell
Thanks for the feedback - this is why I put out such emails before I make any changes. It's good to know that people actually use this app - sometimes it's hard to know if anyone actually uses it. I'll hold off on any rash changes for now. Thanks! John

[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Usage of pull rebasing and merges

2011-02-09 Thread John Tapsell
mergeOn 9 February 2011 07:50, Johannes Sixt j.s...@viscovery.net wrote: The second drawback has to do with efficient testing, and it is much more serious, IMO. When you make a series of changes, you are expected to ensure that each individual change is self-contained and passes tests. I.e.,

[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Usage of pull rebasing and merges

2011-02-08 Thread John Tapsell
On 8 February 2011 18:27, Ian Monroe i...@monroe.nu wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:55, Alexander Neundorf neund...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: - just throw away the merge with git reset --hard

Re: git won't let me delete a branch?

2011-02-05 Thread John Tapsell
On 5 February 2011 20:03, Ben Cooksley bcooks...@kde.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i've accidentally pushed a 4.6 (NOT KDE/4.6) branch to remote (sorry), where it does oc. not belong... However git push origin :4.6 fails by:

Re: moving scratch repositories?

2011-02-05 Thread John Tapsell
Btw, since it wasn't obvious to me at the start, git branches can be from completely different repositories, even completely unrelated ones. You can do git add remote to add new repositories. Then you can use cherry-pick to move patches from one repository to the other. As long as the paths

Re: Merge or Cherry-Pick?

2011-02-02 Thread John Tapsell
On 2 February 2011 14:23, Parker Coates parker.coa...@kdemail.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 09:05, John Layt wrote: On Wednesday 02 February 2011 13:43:04 Parker Coates wrote: My preferred workflow is to put all local commits intended for master in a single, local, long-lived workmaster

Re: splitting up kdebase in git

2011-01-18 Thread John Tapsell
On 18 January 2011 21:34, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: konsole, however, is a significant application in its own right that doesn't actually share code with the rest of the apps in there (besides Qt, kdelibs and runtime, of course ;). so it is getting its own repo. if there are any

Re: splitting up kdebase in git

2011-01-18 Thread John Tapsell
On 18 January 2011 23:55, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: Oh, what happened to the idea of making  kde-workspace-libs  a standalone repo?  Wouldn't that make sense? it could be done, but there was no use case for that. keeping the repos together lets us not worry so much about binary

[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Trial run of the kdelibs git

2010-12-05 Thread John Tapsell
On 5 December 2010 14:12, Ian Monroe i...@monroe.nu wrote: I'm of exactly the same opinion. The whole of kdelibs is 250mb Is that the size of just the .git directory, or includes the checked out kdelibs? How big is it just for the checked out files? John

Re: Review Request: The KSystemActivityDialog uses MB as default unit.

2010-11-30 Thread John Tapsell
On 30 November 2010 16:08, Matthias Fuchs ma...@gmx.net wrote: how it is displayed to the user: 1) 56 K 2) 3.7 M 3) 5 G It takes a lot more effort to see that the last item is using more memory. Especially if you're not that comfortable with the K, B, G meanings. The 56 K takes up more

Re: Review Request: The KSystemActivityDialog uses MB as default unit.

2010-11-28 Thread John Tapsell
: --- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6007/ --- (Updated 2010-11-28 23:31:11) Review request for Plasma, Aaron Seigo and John Tapsell. Summary

Re: Review Request: The KSystemActivityDialog uses MB as default unit.

2010-11-28 Thread John Tapsell
/ --- (Updated 2010-11-28 23:31:11) Review request for Plasma, Aaron Seigo and John Tapsell. Summary --- The KSystemActivityDialog uses MB as default unit. BUG:222022 This addresses bug 222022. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222022

Re: atop

2010-07-09 Thread John Tapsell
On 1 July 2010 05:10, Tim Gardner tim.gard...@canonical.com wrote: I still find 'better task accounting' to be insufficient justification. What specifically makes for better task accounting? Why is atop better then other methods? As far as I can tell the current patches still suffer from the

Re: blocking gui process

2010-06-07 Thread John Tapsell
On 7 June 2010 18:53, Alexandre Mazari sca...@gmail.com wrote: what     |  web   |  guis --- style     |  css   |  program calls gui toolkit* structure |  html  |  program calls gui toolkit** behaviour |  js    |  program shows

Re: blocking gui process

2010-06-04 Thread John Tapsell
On 5 June 2010 00:41, Johannes Buchner buchner.johan...@gmx.at wrote: Hi! I was wondering if it would be possible to architect GUIs so that their process can be blocked while the user doesn't interact with them. That would make it possible to swap the process out completely (e.g. while it is

Re: Please help with Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread John Tapsell
On 16 March 2010 13:48, Roland Scheidegger rscheidegger_li...@hispeed.ch wrote: On 16.03.2010 02:50, John Tapsell wrote: On 15 March 2010 20:03, Simone Azzalin azzalin.sim...@gmail.com wrote:    Just to eliminate the stupid questions first.. Is your screen TFT, and if so, what is its native

Re: Please help with Xorg

2010-03-15 Thread John Tapsell
On 15 March 2010 02:25, simo_it azzalin.sim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I ask help here because I don't know anything more to do.. In the last times with a lot of distros I'm having a problem with the resolutions... If I change to 1024x768 I have black edges on both sides of my

Re: Please help with Xorg

2010-03-15 Thread John Tapsell
On 15 March 2010 20:03, Simone Azzalin azzalin.sim...@gmail.com wrote: Just to eliminate the stupid questions first.. Is your screen TFT, and if so, what is its native resolution? :) Resolutions always worked fine with many distros, but in the last times it happens with recents

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-20 Thread John Tapsell
From the MoveToGit Gitorious Needs a feature to disable merge request emails for certain repos isn't this done now? In http://gitorious.org/favorites it shows every repo that I'm signed up to and a drop down as to whether to email commit messages or not. John

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-20 Thread John Tapsell
On 20 February 2010 17:26, Thomas Zander zan...@kde.org wrote: On Saturday 20. February 2010 17.25.05 Eike Hein wrote: On 02/20/2010 05:19 PM, John Tapsell wrote: isn't this done now?  In http://gitorious.org/favorites   it shows every repo that I'm signed up to and a drop down as to whether

Re: Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread John Tapsell
On 19 February 2010 14:53, David Sveningsson e...@sidvind.com wrote: Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been started? sudo apt-get install xresprobe sudo ddcprobe | grep ^mode: John

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-18 Thread John Tapsell
Hi Guys, In meat space, I've now had 2 people telling me that they've voted in a certain way because they are really concerned about the missing money. This is a very high figure, given that I'm a nobody and I don't even know any current X developers in person! Reading this thread, I'm not

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-17 Thread John Tapsell
2010/2/17 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 10:41:54 you wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 15:53:55 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 201002171345.29844@michael-jansen.biz, Michael Jansen wrote: You want to move the core of kde. Make a real

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-17 Thread John Tapsell
2010/2/17 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 10:41:54 you wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 15:53:55 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 201002171345.29844@michael-jansen.biz, Michael Jansen wrote: You want to move the core of kde. Make a real

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-17 Thread John Tapsell
On 17 February 2010 23:23, Oswald Buddenhagen o...@kde.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:50:52PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Enhancing git to support narrow clones and keeping everything in one repository lets individual contributors decide which part(s) of the tree are important

[Kde-scm-interest] Fw: Have we arrived to a dead end?

2010-02-12 Thread John Tapsell
- Original message - From Riccardo Iaconelli ricca...@kde.org Sent:  Fri, 12 Feb 2010, 13:35:47 EET To kde-scm-interest@kde.org Subject [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end? Hi, so, to recap from last two immense threads (not counting KOffice one now), seems like we're

Re: framebuffer emulator

2010-02-11 Thread John Tapsell
On 10 February 2010 15:16, Luca Santini luca.sant...@spesonline.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to test and debug an app built to use /dev/fb0 into a window running on an accelerated X server instance? i have a running X session on my nvidia proprietary driven laptop, and i want to

Re: showstoppers

2010-02-09 Thread John Tapsell
On 9 February 2010 09:26, Sebastian Kügler se...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:05:14 John Tapsell wrote: On 9 February 2010 08:39, David Faure fa...@kde.org wrote: - The dbus registration leak (with nepomuk as prime suspect), possibly due to r1084698, cf the thread from

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/29 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: Le Ven 29 janvier 2010 14:40, Russell Shaw a écrit : The right way is to make each font a smart font that is simply a C library plugin. In other words, you can't handle real-world fonts. Since those cost millions and can take months

[Kde-scm-interest] JhBuild

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
Hey all, I just joined the mailing, just to advocate using JhBuild when moving to git. This is a tool a bit like kdesvn-build that handles the dependencies between the git modules. Reason 1) Gnome and Xorg use it. Using it would mean that the three big projects would all be using the same

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] JhBuild

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Ian Monroe ian.mon...@gmail.com: I've moved away from the idea of blessing a build tool. Instead we could have a officialish KDE-specific simple clone tool that did nothing but checkout extragear/multimedia etc. Handy for people who don't want to use a build tool and it would

Re: [Kde-scm-interest] JhBuild

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Michael Pyne mp...@kde.org: On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:51:45 John Tapsell wrote: Hey all, 3) It's just feels transparent and doesn't get in the way.  It doesn't hide compiler messages or anything, and it becomes normal to just use jhbuild to build even normally. 5) Did I

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be: Hi all, I want to make an application in C/C++ that draws fullscreen stuff on an X11 server. Can anyone tell me how to do this? What are you trying to do exactly? What does your program do? John ___

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker dirk.debec...@dzine.be: I just want to draw some stuff on screen, probably using cairo, but I want this not in a window, but on the full screen. That gives me zero new information. ___ xorg mailing list

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/29 Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org: Please, please, stop telling people to write their own toolkits; it's quite possibly the worst advice I've ever heard on this list, to be honest. Not to mention that people are starting to demand cross-platform apps. John

Re: coordinating kdelibs

2010-01-17 Thread John Tapsell
2010/1/18 Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:16:35PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote: So I would like to step up and help coordinate kdelibs, I stumbled across the release team page and saw that kdelibs need help. I understand this a pretty complicated task, but I

Re: Review Request: Show shortcut for System Activity in krunner

2009-12-01 Thread John Tapsell
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2308/ --- (Updated 2009-12-01 12:12:29.713593) Review request for Plasma. Summary

Review Request: Show shortcut for System Activity in krunner

2009-11-30 Thread John Tapsell
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2308/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- This shows the global shortcut in

Adding a string

2009-11-30 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, I have a review request for to show shortcut for System Activity in krunner, but it adds a new string %1 (%2). Can I get an exception, or shall I make it non-translated, or delay the commit? John ___ Plasma-devel mailing list

Re: keyboard suddenly dead

2009-11-16 Thread John Tapsell
2009/11/12 Adam Lantos h...@playma.org: I had the same problem, I suspect it's a KDE bug - my colleague suggested to switch krunner to task oriented interface and back to command oriented. It helped, keyboard was working again after this. I didn't ask him how he found this solution, but he

Re: Cross compiling xorg-7.3 - /bin/sh: ../src/util/makekeys: cannot execute binary file

2009-11-16 Thread John Tapsell
2009/11/17 john blair mailtome200420032...@yahoo.com: I am trying to cross compile xorg-7.3 and am getting the following error: ../src/util/makekeys /usr/arm-linux-gnu/include/X11/keysymdef.h ks_tables_h /bin/sh: ../src/util/makekeys: cannot execute binary file Hmm, I thought I fixed these

Re: keyboard suddenly dead

2009-11-11 Thread John Tapsell
2009/11/11 Hanno Böck ha...@hboeck.de: Hi, I had a quite strange problem, it's not reproducible, but it happened twice, so I thought I'll report it, no idea how to investigate it further. Wow, I wrote almost exactly the same thing in IRC. I have exactly the same symptoms. I'm running

Re: How X works / lightest Window Manager

2009-09-29 Thread John Tapsell
2009/9/29 Lucas Mocellin lucasmocel...@gmail.com: Hi, thanks for the answers, I'm sorry to not being clear, let's try again. the LiveCD customization must be 2 main things, secure and light: defining light: it is supposed to run in most available (old and new) hardware - at least 256MB.

Re: Bugs in signalplotter.cpp

2009-09-22 Thread John Tapsell
2009/9/21 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On September 21, 2009, John Tapsell wrote: 2009/9/20 Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org: Hi, not sure who's the responsible on that, blame says 73% of lines are from leonhard but CIA says he left KDE time ago, copyright mentions John so i'm mailing

Re: Bugs in signalplotter.cpp

2009-09-21 Thread John Tapsell
2009/9/20 Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org: Hi, not sure who's the responsible on that, blame says 73% of lines are from leonhard but CIA says he left KDE time ago, copyright mentions John so i'm mailing for John and plasma-devel (as replacement of leonhard). In

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 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 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: Linus' sha1 is much faster!

2009-08-15 Thread John Tapsell
2009/8/15 Bryan Donlan bdon...@gmail.com: coreutils is licensed under GPLv3, and git under GPLv2 (only), so you'd need permission from all contributors to the implementation in order to relicense under GPLv3. A quick grep of the history suggests these contributors to be: X11 also requires a

SHA1

2009-08-06 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, There is a long conversation going on on the git mailing list over SHA1 implementations, and in particular measuring them in 'real world' situations. Since xorg also relies on a fast SHA1 implementation for comparing pixmaps, I think you'll find the results interesting. I have

Re: same linux installation, different font rendering

2009-08-06 Thread John Tapsell
2009/8/6 Giacomo giacomo.strangol...@elettra.trieste.it: Hi to all. I am Giacomo S. from Elettra synchrotron radiation facility, Trieste, Italy. We use to develop Qt GUIs on a kubuntu system. The development process is as follows: 1. develop the application on machine A; 2. install the

Re: Possible 4.3.0 blocker in the Konsole KPart?

2009-08-05 Thread John Tapsell
2009/8/4 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: - especially with multiple branches synchronization - which leads to bugfixes sometimes not hitting latest 'soon-to-be-stable' branch (4.3 now) or not hitting on time, as developers seem to be devoted to trunk (sometimes even when 4.3 in this case is not

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: www/sites/www

2009-07-09 Thread John Tapsell
2009/7/9 Sebastian Kügler se...@kde.org: +emKDE Community Ships Second Release Candidate of New Desktop, Applications and Platform./em This is really awkward to read, grammar wise. ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org

Re: [Kde-games-devel] Regression testing

2009-07-02 Thread John Tapsell
2009/7/2 Stefan Majewsky majew...@gmx.net: Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 14:41:07 schrieb Ian Wadham: I think there is a strong case for holding over Qt4.5 until KDE 4.4 and no case for dropping Kolf 1.9, which is an innocent bystander. The problem is that we break more apps by going back to Qt

Re: XI2 pull warning

2009-05-30 Thread John Tapsell
2009/5/29 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:54:22PM -0400, Thomas Jaeger wrote: Thanks for the work you've put into this.  I haven't spent a lot of time  testing the new code, but here are my first impressions.  You're probably aware of most of the issues

Re: Performance of rdesktop in Xorg-7.4

2009-03-31 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/31 Sid Kapoor sidkapoor2...@gmail.com: Hi all, Recently I compiled Xorg-7.4 (xorg-server-1.5.1). It compiled successfully, but the performance of rdesktop with this xorg is not satisfactory. Are you comparing against Xorg 7.3 or what? Are you saying that 7.4 is slower than some other

Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] Performance of rdesktop in Xorg-7.4

2009-03-31 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/31 Sid Kapoor sidkapoor2...@gmail.com: Hi all, Recently I compiled Xorg-7.4 (xorg-server-1.5.1). It compiled successfully, but the performance of rdesktop with this xorg is not satisfactory. Are you comparing against Xorg 7.3 or what? Are you saying that 7.4 is slower than some other

Re: Qt MathML Widget

2009-03-20 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/20 Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Allen Winter win...@kde.org wrote: Howdy, I assume we are all following the Qt MathML Widget discussion on k-c-d. Ideas on that issue? My first thought was sourceforge with some folks to maintain it there. kdesupport

Re: Qt MathML Widget

2009-03-20 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/20 Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/20 Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Allen Winter win...@kde.org wrote: Howdy, I assume we are all following the Qt MathML Widget

Re: How to restrict X server to localhost ?

2009-03-18 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/18 hd h.dupon...@laposte.net: I'd like my X server is listening only on localhost Is there a command line option (or config file option) to limit the scope of the listening socket of X server ? there is '-nolisten' but this option seems disable the TCP stack What's wrong with that?

Re: Graphic drivers and applications

2009-03-05 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/5 Lukas Hejtmanek xhejt...@ics.muni.cz: Hello, is the graphic driver performing acceleration (for example composite operation) able to know for which application is this operation done? I would like to track down number of pixmaps allocated for particular applications and see whether

Re: Graphic drivers and applications

2009-03-05 Thread John Tapsell
2009/3/5 Lukas Hejtmanek xhejt...@ics.muni.cz: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:13:24PM +, John Tapsell wrote: How new is your xrestop?  I fixed a counting bug in xrestop about 6 months ago. ubuntu says that it is version 0.4-3. Did your fix bump version number beyond that? Wow my memory

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: Desktop is not using full screen space

2009-02-21 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/20 Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:10 PM, S D sund...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote: Adjust the horizontal and vertical size on your monitor until it fills your screen. Couldn't this just be a case that

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/19 Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com: 2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a very serious problem as it consumes all system memory adn causes other

Re: very slow performance of glxgears (68 fps)

2009-02-18 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/18 Matthias Hopf mh...@suse.de: On Feb 06, 09 01:56:19 +, John Tapsell wrote: glxgears is not a benchmark. At openSUSE we print out a warning now (well, this change went into *after* 11.1, unfortunately), that this is not a benchmark. We got really tired of these statements

Re: very slow performance of glxgears (68 fps)

2009-02-01 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/1 Ian Romanick i...@freedesktop.org: On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 02:30 +, John Tapsell wrote: 2009/1/31 Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:29:49PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: $ glxgears Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic

Re: very slow performance of glxgears (68 fps)

2009-01-30 Thread John Tapsell
2009/1/30 Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:28 +, Panagiotis Archondis wrote: Hi there, I have the following system # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller glxgears is not a benchmark. We sync to vblank because running glxgears

Re: very slow performance of glxgears (68 fps)

2009-01-30 Thread John Tapsell
2009/1/31 Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:29:49PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: $ glxgears Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.621 FPS 300 frames in 5.0

Re: Switching from X-Window to VT

2009-01-13 Thread John Tapsell
2009/1/13 sdrb s...@onet.eu: John Tapsell wrote: 2009/1/13 sdrb s...@onet.eu: Hi, I have a question regarding switching from X-Window to virtual terminal. Usually I use both of them and I very often switch between of them. The switching process usually takes 3-8 seconds (X11 - VT). I

Re: How to write an X driver..?

2009-01-12 Thread John Tapsell
2009/1/12 Florian Echtler f...@butterbrot.org: Hello everyone, as posted previously, I'm on the way to writing a driver for DisplayLink devices. Unfortunately, I'm a bit at a loss on where to start. I've noticed that it seems pretty easy to write a framebuffer driver and run an X server with

Re: Switching from X-Window to VT

2009-01-12 Thread John Tapsell
2009/1/13 sdrb s...@onet.eu: Hi, I have a question regarding switching from X-Window to virtual terminal. Usually I use both of them and I very often switch between of them. The switching process usually takes 3-8 seconds (X11 - VT). I have Intel E8400 processor and GF7600GT and I wonder

Re: 2D antialiasing?

2008-12-12 Thread John Tapsell
And that is no problem at all, until you want to throw away the glyph that was there before and write a new glyph in its place. How? How do you 'remove' a glyph that was there before? There's no 'remove this pixmap' operation. ___ xorg mailing list

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-09 Thread John Tapsell
2008/12/9 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why should it be a KDE bug if the X server is leaking memory? I used to The KDE app told X to cache all those pixmaps. X is just doing what it was asked to. The alternative would be that it decided to kill off that client for being dumb. There seems to

mi: UpdateSprite only if the device is attached.

2008-12-05 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, This commit introduces a bug for me. I use Xorg with no mouse attached, but use synergy to control the mouse. The commit means that I no longer have a visible mouse cursor. The mouse cursor is still 'there' in terms that I can click buttons etc with it, but it's just not visible.

Re: Questions !

2008-11-28 Thread John Tapsell
2008/11/28 My Own Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks ! One more question : How does Xlib handle the drawing of points, lines, rectangle ? Does it use any library like GD Graphics Library or it does it on its own ? The video driver for your video card is given an opportunity to draw it. It the

Re: Questions !

2008-11-28 Thread John Tapsell
2008/11/28 John Tapsell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/28 My Own Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks ! One more question : How does Xlib handle the drawing of points, lines, rectangle ? Does it use any library like GD Graphics Library or it does it on its own ? The video driver for your video

Re: X server 1.6_beta1 pending pixman

2008-11-26 Thread John Tapsell
2008/11/25 Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, we'll see if we can't get a bit of pixman review and perhaps a pixman release done tomorrow so that the X server beta can head out. Here are some comments on the matrix code. I didn't review all the

Re: X doesn't start on omap3

2008-11-20 Thread John Tapsell
Are you using udev? Is /dev mounted? Try running fbset -i 2008/11/20 Amit Pundir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, When I start my Xorg, built for omap3 arch, I get the following error. (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument (EE)

Re: update the feature plan!

2008-11-19 Thread John Tapsell
2008/11/18 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Lubos Lunak wrote: On Tuesday 18 of November 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote: To prepare the release notes, and to give users and the press exact information about the changes, it's important to have an up to date

Re: USB keyboard with Xfbdev (again)

2008-11-14 Thread John Tapsell
Hi Stuart, I have no idea about your problem, but for what it's worth have you considered just using Xorg instead of kdrive? John 2008/11/14 Stuart Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Cliff, I saw your posting here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038581.html and

Re: Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR

2008-11-08 Thread John Tapsell
Hi, Could you run sudo pmap -d pidofxorg and paste the result please? Thanks! John 2008/11/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using X.org on a s3 Prosavage video adapter, using video driver savage. I have been having significant problems with the vast amounts of memory that

Re: Embedded X

2008-10-15 Thread John Tapsell
Are there any performance differences between Xorg and kdrive? Is EXA better than KAA? My tests with the very lastest OMAP boards: I found a 20% speed improvement on the OMAP between kdrive fbdev KAA and xorg fbdev EXA. However I didn't not use the most recent version of kdrive for the

Re: Virtual core keyboard

2008-10-02 Thread John Tapsell
2008/10/2 Peter Hutterer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:44:26PM +0100, John Tapsell wrote: I have a device without a keyboard, but I still send keyboard events to X. Specifically I use synergy. what version of X are you running? I used the version from HEAD in git. I had

Virtual core keyboard

2008-09-30 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, I have a device without a keyboard, but I still send keyboard events to X. Specifically I use synergy. But just running Xorg, the keyboard events don't seem to be passed through by synergy to X. If I try adding a keyboard like: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0

Re: What to do and not do in third digit releases

2008-09-30 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/30 Dirk Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Montag 29 September 2008 17:26:48 schrieb John Tapsell: Do we have any script to check for ABI/API breakages? This should be a fairly simple nm-type script no? The so version bump was actually done on purpose, and I noticed it while checking

Re: What to do and not do in third digit releases

2008-09-29 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/29 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 26 September 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote: 1) Branch is feature frozen, the changes should be reverted, but are welcome for kde 4.2 series. the problem is now resolved; the changes were reverted. the libkipi team has learned a few new things

Re: What to do and not do in third digit releases

2008-09-26 Thread John Tapsell
many eyes do make bugs shallow... =)) And many bugs make eyes shallow. The eye-eating type bugs anyway. ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team

Re: Various patches

2008-09-23 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/23 Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 10:57 +0100, John Tapsell wrote: Hi all, The first patch applies to xorg/xserver and replaces the requirement of openssl with an internal SHA1 implementation. The SHA1 code is the code that openbsd uses and is public domain

Re: OpenGL is free free free software

2008-09-19 Thread John Tapsell
Can anyone comment on the relationship between this and mesa? ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

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