Hi Murray,
As I hinted at back in April[1], I don't think Tomboy is a blanket
replacement for sticky notes. As I said, into the abyss, a first-run
wizard for importing existing sticky notes makes more sense.
I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the GNOME acceptance process. Was I
expected to do this
On 7/15/06, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Diva
> >
> > Same as monodevelop.
>
> Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pitivi.
I believe he was making a reference to the comment he made for monodevelop.
> > Do we really need an audio/video editor in gnome???
> >
> > > Jokosher
> >
> > Or
On 7/16/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO, the program on that list that most likely should become a part
> of regular gnome is beagle. I haven't seen tracker yet, gonna take a look
> at it later.
Tracker is listed as being on version 0.0.4, and I couldn't find much
i
On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mono:
> > F-spot
>
> Image viewer, really non-essential.
Come on, Eye of Gnome is an image viewer. F-Spot is a photo management
application (like iPhoto). Try asking Mac users if iPhoto is
non-essential.
Jeroen
Iain * wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Beagle
>> Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement.
>
> I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or
> female intuition or something...
>
Well I suggest you try it rather than dismiss it o
Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote:
> On 7/16/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> IMHO, the program on that list that most likely should become a part
>> of regular gnome is beagle. I haven't seen tracker yet, gonna take a look
>> at it later.
>
> Tracker is listed as being on
Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Iain * wrote:
>> On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
Beagle
>>> Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement.
>> I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or
>> female intuition or something...
>>
>
> Well I suggest you
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > Diva
>> >
>> > Same as monodevelop.
>>
>> Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pitivi.
>
> I believe he was making a reference to the comment he made for monodevelop.
Indeed.
>> > Do we
Hi, Ghee,
On jeu, 2006-07-13 at 16:08 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:16 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >
> >
> >>And the big question: We currently allow desktop modules to depend on
> >>the pygtk bindings, but no others. Should we extend th
Hi,
I'm glad to see the flamewar already started ;-)
On mar, 2006-07-11 at 14:16 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> So, to start of the discussion, the proposed modules AFAIR are:
> * orca (as a replacement to gnopernicus)
Yes
> * alacarte
It's better than the current menu editor. I guess we'll h
On ven, 2006-07-14 at 12:10 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> The main point about performance is whether users think it is a good
> deal.
>
> So Firefox eats 400 MB. Do I think it's a good deal? Absolutely! It's
> the best browser out there.
>
> So Tomboy eats 15 MB. Do I think it's a g
Hi Alex,
On sam, 2006-07-15 at 18:10 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi Murray,
>
> As I hinted at back in April[1], I don't think Tomboy is a blanket
> replacement for sticky notes. As I said, into the abyss, a first-run
> wizard for importing existing sticky notes makes more sense.
>
> I'm so
> > Ubuntu, Gentoo, and the other distros should come with a music editor,
> > a video editor, and everything else. The discussion here I believe is what
> > should be made part of the basic gnome distribution, and I think that
> > music/video editors might not qualify.
>
> That's exactly what I me
On 16 Jul 2006, at 01:46, Alex Graveley wrote:
>
> What about showing the splash screen after 5 seconds of visual
> inactivity?
Or maybe even just note how long it took to log in last time, and
only bother showing a splash screen if it was more than 10 seconds,
because that's probably how
Hi,
At GUADEC, Rob Bradford proposed to help maintaining pessulus and I'm
happy to give him this burden^Wopportunity. Please welcome him, hug him,
etc. He will try to fix all my bugs and add some cool features. I'll
continue to introduce bugs in the code to keep him active for some time.
Rob, in
Iain * gmail.com> writes:
> Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text
> editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an
> audio editor?
There is a huge difference between essential programs (editor, terminal) and
specific applications (photo manage
On 15 Jul 2006, at 23:43, Iain * wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Or a music editor???
>
> Well, it hasn't harmed apple in any way.
FWIW, GarageBand isn't part of OSX though... granted it currently
ships with all new Macs, but if you go out and buy OSX off the shelf
On 16 Jul 2006, at 09:36, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Mono:
>>> F-spot
>>
>> Image viewer, really non-essential.
>
> Come on, Eye of Gnome is an image viewer. F-Spot is a photo management
> application (like iPhoto). Try asking Mac users if iPhot
> That's exactly what I meant. Windows starting to be shipped (well,
> starting...) with everything but the kitchen sink, and I hate that too.
> I don't even *have* a camera, why would I need a video editor???
>
> The question that I'm asking, and which we should be asking ourselves
> is, does gn
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Iain * gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text
> > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an
> > audio editor?
>
> There is a huge difference between essential
On 16 Jul 2006, at 17:57, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
>
> It's not so important which applications do gnome include, since
> distros
> can take this decision, depending on the specific target of the
> distro.
Up to a point... although a distro's choice of application is also
somewhat influenced b
Iain * wrote:
>
> Really?
> depends on your context...
> For some people a terminal and text editor are completely worthless,
> but take away photo management
>
> Once again, who are we targetting with the desktop. Apple know who
> they're targetting, which is probably why text editor and ter
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW what about providing the Office suite first? Because Gnome
> penetration is first into large "business" [1] deployment, and and
> Office suite is more likely to hit that target. We still don't, but
> distribution vendors do.
I have no p
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 18:10 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi Murray,
>
> As I hinted at back in April[1], I don't think Tomboy is a blanket
> replacement for sticky notes. As I said, into the abyss, a first-run
> wizard for importing existing sticky notes makes more sense.
In my opinion, havin
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:32 +, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Iain * gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text
> > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an
> > audio editor?
>
> There is a huge difference between essen
Try disabling the http URI handler for GNOME.
When you click a link to a PNG image, EOG starts up. Click a link to an
M3U file, and Totem starts up. What happens, is that GNOME-VFS
determines the MIME-type of the target file with a HTTP HEAD request,
and, exactly the same as with local files, aut
søn, 16 07 2006 kl. 23:40 +0200, skrev Rodrigo Moya:
> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:32 +, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > Iain * gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text
> > > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an
Alex Jones wrote:
> Try disabling the http URI handler for GNOME.
>
>
> [...] preferred application with that URI.
I didn't know that this behaviour existed right now. Thank you for the
hint ;-)
> 2. A simple web page viewer, sans-location entry. Something that
> embeds Mozilla and
On 16/07/06, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you tell me how? The little feed icon's gone, and I couldn't find an
> rss action.
Still seems available as here:
http://live.gnome.org/RecentChanges?action=rss_rc
There is a comment at the top of that page explaining the various
options
Replying from off-list, pardon the break. At the encouragement of
various important parties on #gnome-hackers, I am posting a copy of this
from my blog in an effort to help focus the Pro/Con-Mono argument. I am
not taking any side. This is only a summary.
So, I spent two hours reading every email
søn, 16 07 2006 kl. 23:33 -0500, skrev Jason D. Clinton:
While you provided a fine run down of arguments, I believe you forgot a
vital one, Mono can be optimized, we can cut down ressource consumption,
we can indeed do better - we cannot however make C development as fast
development in C#, nor as
The thing is that the user models are very different. If a sticky notes
user is accustomed to always seeing his notes on his desktop, all at the
same time, if after an upgrade his notes are locked away in a menu with
no easy way to get them all to display again, he might be confused and
probab
[snip]
> So, I spent two hours reading every email sent in April, May and July
> about including Mono as an official part of the GNOME platform
That hasn't been proposed, as far as I know. It's been proposed for the
Platform Bindings.
[snip]
Murray Cumming
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.murrayc.com
www.o
[snip]
> Don't call the desktop release "desktop" either because it's too vague.
> More specific examples might be an "enterprise unix/linux GUI" release,
> or "tech-oriented consumer/hobbyist" release or "tech workstation
> release" or "high-powered MS Office user in an office release" or
> "compu
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 07:55 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> søn, 16 07 2006 kl. 23:33 -0500, skrev Jason D. Clinton:
>
> While you provided a fine run down of arguments, I believe you forgot a
> vital one, Mono can be optimized, we can cut down ressource consumption,
> we can indeed do better - we
> Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and
> not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this
> application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release
> shedule that coincides with the gnome platform release.
And that people will wor
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