Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:01:26PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > As far as I can tell /etc/menu, /usr/lib/menu, and /usr/share/menu will go > away once we start using the desktop entry spec and /usr/share/applications > directory. Anything natively supporting the desktop spec won't have any > reas

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, FWIW, the solution we're planning for Red Hat is to create a symlink "libpng10.so" to the old libpng, then link imlib and gnome-libs against -lpng10. This way the ABI of imlib/gnome-libs is preserved, but -lpng can be moved to libpng3. I'll attach the imlib and gnome-libs patches. (This step

Re: (COMPATIBILITY) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote: > > The concern has been raised about people using older versions of apt > suddenly unknowingly breaking the law. I propose that the new mirroring > scheme only apply to those distributions (potato? the one after?) which > implement the policy. All th

Re: Gnome-apt debs now available

1999-01-29 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 29 Jan 1999, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > Ah, it's lovely. No more dselect for this boy. > > Feature request: Shouldn't it be possible to put a package > on hold even if the newest version is installed? > This is causing much confusion - Keep is not Hold. Right now there's no Hold feature at al

Re: Gnome-apt debs now available

1999-01-29 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > An earlier version of gnome-apt caused the CD-ROM to eject so forcefully > that the CD flew across the room and I came _this_ close to spending > the rest of my life with a Greatful Dead CD embedded 2 inches into my > skull. Please use Caution. ;) >

Re: check if X is running?

1999-01-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I'd like to remove that check and make it a better one. Is checking > for $DISPLAY sufficient? > Why not just try to open the display, and if that fails bail out to text mode? (Since $DISPLAY might be invalid, or there might be a -display command l

RE: logo in Gnome

1999-01-23 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > > Try looking at http://www.debian.org/logo (or logos) > Thanks! It looks like a) the license is expired and b) it doesn't apply to Gnome anyway because Gnome is not clearly "half Debian related." Though arguably we're talking about .deb packages rath

logo in Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, Gnome ships with icons for different kinds of files, and right now .deb packages have the Debian logo as icon. I've been asked to make sure this is OK from a trademark point of view. I can't find the logo license on the web site (?) - could someone clue me in on the current status, or give sp

Re: libpng & gnome & slink

1999-01-19 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can > > > downgrade, > > > i see the 1.0.1 package

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > > maybe a compromise would be to leave the packages in slink, make sure > the Description: field highlights their alpha status, and automatically > close all non-packaging bugs (and forward them upstream if it makes > sense to do so). > I hope this is

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-15 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Marc Singer wrote: > > I think that keeping it on the CD is spurious because the CD > represents what we know works. Packages that don't work can be > downloaded from the FTP servers by the people who want to fuss with > them. Gnome is high profile because it has fancy scre

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Mmmh. I just checked. The reason why gtk-- is currently w/o gnome support > is, because I never installed libgnome-dev I think. I'm just doing it now > and will recompile gtk-- (or better: I'll try to compile gtk-- 0.9.17) with > gnome support. > > A

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Chris Waters wrote: > > 'Bout what I figured, but wouldn't it be possible to produce two > versions which conflict? Not a perfect solution, but it would make it > possible for people like me who want to work on gnome-related gtk-- > stuff to do so. The conflicts could be cl

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Chris Waters wrote: > anything more with it), but it seems to require gtk-- and gtk1.1, and > the two don't seem to work together at this point. > > I think it would really be nice to get a gnome-supporting version of > gtk-- in before the slink freeze. Is anyone working on

Re: [conrad@srl.caltech.edu: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update]

1998-10-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > I wonder if somebody plans to package this one. > ... > Subject: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update > Also look at our Guppi plot program, http://www.gnome.org/guppi/ - it doesn't do as much as Fulcrum yet because it does not build on

Re: Installation instructions for GNOME

1998-06-21 Thread robert havoc pennington
ist of needed packages (either the dependencies for the .debs, or the required tools for building from scratch), the www.gnome.org people would be happy to include that. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed Constitution

1998-04-28 Thread robert havoc pennington
re mostly happy, since the damage is purely cosmetic. The other poster is correct, however, that from a linguistic standpoint "they" has been in common usage for hundreds of years. If anyone wants to read more a good article is "Language and the Culture of Gender: At the Intersection of