Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:40:37PM +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: > I'm posting this here to encourage you to read my presentation at > http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/ and to find out what you > are expecting from such an application. Isn't updating applications something

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Sebastian Pölsterl
Martin Waitz wrote: > > Isn't updating applications something which should be solved by the > distribution? What do you do in multi-user installations? > Indeed, applications should be updated by the distribution. But NewStuffManager is intended to update plugins only not hole applications. --

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Sebastian Pölsterl
Shaun McCance wrote: > > You absolutely can translate the name of a plugin, just as we > translate the names of applications. You certainly want stable > IDs, but names are human-readable content. The first example > we encounter on the web page is "Leo.org dictionary". The word > "dictionary"

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Chipzz
And those still should be updated by the distribution (in case they came with the distribution in the first place). kr, Jan On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: Martin Waitz wrote: Isn't updating applications something which should be solved by the distribution? What do you do in

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Chipzz
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Shahms King wrote: Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:10 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote: >> Lastly. RPM or deb files aren't internationalized either. > > I didn't know RPM and deb weren't internationalized. If that's > the case, I think that's a very poor deci

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Sebastian Pölsterl
Chipzz wrote: >> Indeed, applications should be updated by the distribution. But >> NewStuffManager is intended to update plugins only not hole >> applications. > > And those still should be updated by the distribution (in case they came > with the distribution in the first place). > In the case o

Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

2006-10-07 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I'm posting this here to encourage you to read my Sebastian> presentation at Sebastian> http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/ and to find Sebastian> out what you are expecting from such an application. I've g

Boston 2006 Summit Testing Notes

2006-10-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: At today's Boston 2006 Summit, we held a couple sessions on testing. The morning session was more of an organizational session where we defined the problem we were trying to solve and some ideas for how to get there. I'm the sucker who raised his hand to suggest this one, so I got to be the l