Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-23 Thread Elijah Newren
On 9/23/06, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Can we use it as-is (or as well-defined cut'n'paste code) in GNOME 2.18 and > > plan towards migrating to a GTK+ 2.12 version in GNOME 2.20? Let's at least > > have a plan for it, otherwise we're just adding yet another

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-23 Thread Steve Frécinaux
Jeff Waugh wrote: > Can we use it as-is (or as well-defined cut'n'paste code) in GNOME 2.18 and > plan towards migrating to a GTK+ 2.12 version in GNOME 2.20? Let's at least > have a plan for it, otherwise we're just adding yet another [as above] with > little active thought for our users, distribu

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:39 +0200, Marco Barisione wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Is this API appropriate for GTK+ and adaptable for use with Windows > > and OS X? > > OS X could use the bacon backend (that uses Unix domain sockets). > > On Windows AF_UNIX is not available, but Windows has named

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-23 Thread Marco Barisione
Jeff Waugh wrote: > Is this API appropriate for GTK+ and adaptable for use with Windows > and OS X? OS X could use the bacon backend (that uses Unix domain sockets). On Windows AF_UNIX is not available, but Windows has named pipes that are more similar to sockets than to Unix named pipes. Howeve

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Jamie McCracken
brian muhumuza wrote: > > How do you guys feel about fleshing out Ideas on Topaz, understanding > what it means and agreeing what it should be. Thanks for these cool mockups Unfortunately its going to be very difficult to get everyone to agree on the way forward at this stage. The best thing

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread brian muhumuza
How do you guys feel about fleshing out Ideas on Topaz, understanding what it means and agreeing what it should be. -- Happy day-Brian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread brian muhumuza
Pretty neat looking.  At first blush, there seems to be a lot ofdependency on the mouse.  I'm curious what your plans are for keyboard-only access?Will I tried as much as i could not to include details, just a general picture. Keyboard access, among others which i have thought about at one point i

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread brian muhumuza
Whatever crazy ideas people come up with, you can never guarantee thatthey are going to be universally better than what we currently have. As such, with something as completely, drastically different, I see nobenefit in calling this GNOME 3.0. Kind of nice you acknowledged it's different but differ

Re: ToPaZ, anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread brian muhumuza
I think this question hits at the very heart of the issue with designinga whole new concept of "desktop." Not only do we have the whole mouse vs. keyboard issue, but as software, we are limited by what hardware ourusers have access to. We can design a system that takes advantage of pencomputing, t