Hi,
I've just been readong the thread started by Jordi on GFDL and GPL, and issues
that Debian currently has with GFDL. Excuse me for starting a new thread on the
issue.
Leaving aside whether GFDL sucks or not, there are serious problems with using
the GPL for docs, primarily because what "sourc
Quoting Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This happens with a lot of applications, is this a bug or a feature?
If I understand correctly, that would be a feature
Yes. This bug is a feature.
For example if you want to open application and then use DnD, or if you
want to open web link us
fre, 20,.01.2006 kl. 09.39 +0800, skrev Davyd Madeley:
> Quoting Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On 1/18/06, Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm with Ryan on this. I think we should give vendors a choice for
> >> the time being.
> >
> > It looks like the vendors have alr
Quoting Kjartan Maraas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
As for "creating another ESD" I don't know what all the fuss is about. I
think the problems caused by us using ESD are greatly exaggerated, both
in techical terms and wrt maintainability. The package has needed close
to zero work the last few years and
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:58:07AM -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> This is exactly the problem. In order for g-p-m to do its stuff we have
> to add to HAL the ability for any user to say "suspend the system
> now" (since g-p-m needs to do this and it's just running as a normal
> user). If any user c
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:39:12AM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> Quoting Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >It looks like the vendors have already jumped on and chosen g-p-m.
>
> Once again, I ask the question, what about our non-Linux vendors?
I think crippling functionality because Hal hasn'
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:11 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> I think crippling functionality because Hal hasn't been ported to some
> OSs yet is unreasonable. The alternative would be to provide a myriad of
> small daemons that need to be individually ported, and that time could
> be better spen
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:48 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > I'm completely at a loss as to how to fix this. It seems PHP and Qmail have
> > previously had problems like this, but I couldn't work out what they did to
> > fix
> > it.
>
> I don't know F77, but if it was C, I will try to "#inclu
On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 09:05 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > currently has no mechanism for making a distinction between background
> > users and the user that currently 'controls' the machine.
>
> I don't think hal's the right layer to make that distinction. I'm
> working on implementing it at
On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 09:05 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
currently has no mechanism for making a distinction between
background
users and the user that currently 'controls' the machine.
I don't think hal's the right layer to make that distincti
Do you think I can update .cvsignore files on same (hopefully most)
modules for Desktop and Developer Platform without asking permission to
maintainers and/or opening relevant bugs on bugzilla?
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On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 08:18 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> console. Only one copy obtains the right to manage the
> system power, this happens through the PolicyManager as
> described here http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=63 ... e.g. the call
> ClaimPolicyService() will return FALSE for everyone but
> the fi
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:26 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Do you think I can update .cvsignore files on same (hopefully most)
> modules for Desktop and Developer Platform without asking permission to
> maintainers and/or opening relevant bugs on bugzilla?
Fine by me. I don't see any reasons why t
Well, no library in the desktop can be relied upon to remain API or
ABI stable; that's the reason they are in the desktop. The difference
with this lib, _if_ I remember correctly, is that those other libs in
the desktop were meant to be used by whoever wanted to use them,
whereas libmetacity-priv
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:28 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> Its a common server case where physical access does not meet
> authorisation to do much. Tape drives tend to be near the physical
> system and people want to provide facilities to the tape folk (browser
> forms to indicate they actually visited t
> Without any of this, people will just switch back to totem-xine or
> other, non-GNOME apps like always, or just continue self-confirming that
> Linux sucks. Very disappointing after my hard work to make GStreamer not
> totally suck from an end user's point of view. Basically a total year
> wast
On 1/20/06, Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, no library in the desktop can be relied upon to remain API or
> > ABI stable; that's the reason they are in the desktop. The difference
> > with this lib, _if_ I remember correctly, is that those other libs in
> > the desktop were meant
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:26 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Do you think I can update .cvsignore files on same (hopefully most)
> modules for Desktop and Developer Platform without asking permission to
> maintainers and/or opening relevant bugs on bugzilla?
For me, adding stuff is no problem. I wou
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 08:18 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
>
> Yes.. someone needs to code up the support I rambled about
> plus add it to g-p-m (and make sure the g-p-m maintainer
> agrees so to :-). Right now it's just ideas to support various
> not-so-interesting-but-still-important scenarios. For
Sex, 2006-01-20 às 09:10 -0700, Elijah Newren escreveu:
> On 1/20/06, Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Well, no library in the desktop can be relied upon to remain API or
> > > ABI stable; that's the reason they are in the desktop. The difference
> > > with this lib, _if_ I remember c
On 1/20/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sex, 2006-01-20 às 09:10 -0700, Elijah Newren escreveu:
> > I make a best effort (which is sometimes lacking, in particular I just
> > realized I've always forgotten to notify the bindings people -- which
> > is perhaps why you see
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:35 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sex, 2006-01-20 às 09:10 -0700, Elijah Newren escreveu:
>
> > > I make a best effort (which is sometimes lacking, in particular I just
> > > realized I've always forgotten
Le vendredi 20 janvier 2006 à 22:52 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a
écrit :
> I propose the following: if there's an API/ABI break after the GNOME
> API freeze deadline (which only applies for gnome devel platform
> modules, of course), then desktop library maintainers are strongly
> advised t
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