Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 17:40 -0400, Jim Krehl wrote: > I would like to propose that the gnome-main-menu project -- found in > gnome-cvs under the module "slab" -- to be included in GNOME 2.18. Under Places with the traditional menus I have some bookmarks: my local webroot and my photos. I use th

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread James \"Doc\" Livingston
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > A contact can only have one metadata value per type (this is a primary > key constraint) > > With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:39 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > denormalise it

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:23 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote: > > > You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be > > > added. > > > > Thanks. Unfortunately, this still s

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: > >> Im planning to add extensible metadata support to tracker-search-tool >> but I need it to be easy for users to add new metadata. Having a simple >> window which allows you to define the name, type (indexable string, >> string, numeric or date) and class (a dropdown co

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mardi 24 octobre 2006, à 21:33, Jamie McCracken a écrit : >> It would be nice as tracker is a freedesktop thingie to avoid evolution > > I've read several times that tracker is a freedesktop > thingie/project/. Do you mean it's desktop > agnostic or do you mean it's a fre

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Haneman
> > I like the use of colour to differentiate areas, I think we should do > > more of this in GNOME. > > > > > Yes, same here. Colour seems to help highlight. OK - but please remember, however you choose to implement highlighting, it is _vital_ that the coloring be based on theme colors, o

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: > On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You would need to completely flatten the metadata as >> Contact.HomeJabberID, Contact.WorkJabberID etc so that all metadata is >> mapped 1:1 > > If you do flatten things like this, I would hope you'd still be able

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> A contact can only have one metadata value per type (this is a primary >> key constraint) >> >> With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:39 +0100,

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them > > > > Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for "contacts > > with an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should be possible > > independent of the numbe

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them >>> Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for "contacts >>> with an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should be possible >>> independ

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > looking at evolution's contacts screen it does not look like its support > more than one work email (it has home, work and other) Incorrect, the type is a combo. If you want to add four work email addresses to a contact, you can. Ross

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > Not being able to handle multiplicative metadata would make some things > > very awkward. For example what should happen with music that has > > multiple artists? I think that supporting multiple values for a piece of > > metadata, and b

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> looking at evolution's contacts screen it does not look like its support >> more than one work email (it has home, work and other) > > Incorrect, the type is a combo. If you want to add four work email > addresses

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >>> Not being able to handle multiplicative metadata would make some things >>> very awkward. For example what should happen with music that has >>> multiple artists? I think that supporting multiple values for a piece o

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song >> (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre="Post Rock,Ambient" and >> I search for "rock", will the substring search incorrectly match the >> song? > > Yes it will unfortunately - hopefully

gnome-system-monitor has been branched

2006-10-25 Thread Benoît Dejean
The stable branch is gnome-2-16 and the development branch is HEAD. -- Benoît Dejean JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME http://www.gnomefr.org/ LibGTop http://directory.fsf.org/libgtop.html signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée _

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread James Henstridge
On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Henstridge wrote: > > While having standard names for metadata relationship types that > > everyone can use is great, there are going to be cases where apps want > > to experiment with relationships that haven't yet been standardised.

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Murtagh
Jamie McCracken wrote: > Contact.HomeEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Contact.WorkEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > note using semicolon as delimiter so contents would need to be escaped > for the semicolon. I guess standardising on semicolon delimiters might > be a good i

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Nick Murtagh wrote: > Jamie McCracken wrote: >> Contact.HomeEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Contact.WorkEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> note using semicolon as delimiter so contents would need to be escaped >> for the semicolon. I guess standardising on semicolon delim

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:14 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 17:40 -0400, Jim Krehl wrote: > > I would like to propose that the gnome-main-menu project -- found in > > gnome-cvs under the module "slab" -- to be included in GNOME 2.18. > > Under Places with the traditional menus

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
James Henstridge wrote: > On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> James Henstridge wrote: >> > While having standard names for metadata relationship types that >> > everyone can use is great, there are going to be cases where apps want >> > to experiment with relationships that h

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:41 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song > > (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre="Post Rock,Ambient" and > > I search for "rock", will the substring search incorrectly match the > > song? > > Ye

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:41 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >>> I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song >>> (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre="Post Rock,Ambient" and >>> I search for "rock", will the substring search incorrectly match

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jos van den Oever
2006/10/25, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:41 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > > I'm thinking of decent genre support, so multiple genre tags per song > > > (as supported in Ogg). If a song has Song.Genre="Post Rock,Ambient" and > > > I search for "rock", will the sub

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:06 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store > > (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from > > librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker for > > harvest

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:06 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >>> I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store >>> (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from >>> librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tr

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 15:12 +0200, Jos van den Oever wrote: > > I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store > > (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from > > librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker for > > harve

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 15:12 +0200, Jos van den Oever a écrit : > Currently there's a flurry of development going on on just that. It's > lead by Sebastian Trues, who's sponsored by Mandrake. Mandriva, please ;) In fact, this is part

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:45 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:14 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 17:40 -0400, Jim Krehl wrote: > > > I would like to propose that the gnome-main-menu project -- found in > > > gnome-cvs under the module "slab" -- to be included

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:52 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:23 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote: > > > > You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 15:26 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 15:12 +0200, Jos van den Oever a écrit : > > > Currently there's a flurry of development going on on just that. It's > > lead by Sebastian Trues, who's sponsored by Mandrake. >

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread James Livingston
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:33 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> A contact can only have one metadata value per type (this is a primary > >> key constraint) > >> > >> With everything mapped 1:1 you can then

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:09 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > What are the chances of a version of Beagle ever using the C Lucene > backend, which as Jos has mentioned is currently faster? Lucene performance across the board is pretty great. I'm not sure that switching to the C version would buy u

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > James "Doc" Livingston wrote: > > What would be really cool is support for field groups, but that would > > probably require a fairly large change. So you could do things like > > correctly storing the release dates when a track is on mult

unsuscribe

2006-10-25 Thread Sebastian Romero
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Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Jamie McCracken wrote: > would suggest: > > Contact.HomeEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Contact.WorkEmailAddress : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > note using semicolon as delimiter so contents would need to be escaped > for the semicolon. I guess standardising on semicolon delimiters

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Aaron Bockover
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Dan Winship wrote: > > > Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications that make use of > > tracker's data store? > > not as yet but they are being planned What besides Epiphany is planned? It sounds like you are keeping thing

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Aaron Bockover wrote: > > How common will the music database be if the only application adopting > it is Rhythmbox? Maybe that thread can be restarted from a clean slate > on g-m-l, but I honestly would have no intention of using Tracker as a > backend to Banshee's library given the state of disc

Configuration applets-- Linux Configuration Console?

2006-10-25 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is probably going to sound lame to anyone who's seen certain other operating systems; but would it be absurd to package a program that can incorporate GNOME configuration applets for user preferences and administrative actions into customized cons

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Ross, On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:49 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store > (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from > librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker for > harvestin

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread David Prieto
I'll file bugs. :) Where can we file bugs BTW? I'd like to make some suggestions but I can't find any launchpad page for gnome-main-menu. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-10-25 klockan 03:11 skrev James Henstridge: > On 25/10/06, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We shouldn't need a flattened table as the two metadatatype tables would > > be properly indexed so joins would be fast (especially with sqlite) > > Really? From the description I give a

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-10-25 klockan 00:00 skrev Ross Burton: > Is there a list type? Some vCard types are list-of-string and this > needs to be handled to be searched correctly. In a triplestore, rdf:List might do. > Oh, can a single metadata type have multiple occurrences in an object? In RDF, it can: just sta

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-10-25 klockan 00:39 skrev Jamie McCracken: > Each metadata item needs to be unique so that you can get/set its value > individually as well as search it. Theres no way round this in any > metadata DB. This is pure nonsense. Any RDF triplestore can contain the same metadata for the same enti

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-10-25 klockan 12:27 skrev Jamie McCracken: > Ross Burton wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them > >>> Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for "contacts > >>> with an e

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Aaron Bockover
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:20 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Aaron Bockover wrote: > > > > > How common will the music database be if the only application adopting > > it is Rhythmbox? Maybe that thread can be restarted from a clean slate > > on g-m-l, but I honestly would have no intention of usi

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie McCracken
Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > 2006-10-25 klockan 12:27 skrev Jamie McCracken: >> Ross Burton wrote: >>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them > Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query f

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-25 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:38 +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Hi there, > > please let me introduce the latest addition to the category of totally > useless software by announcing... > > GNOME Network Proxy Resolver ! > > What it is > == > > GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides pr

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-25 Thread Alexey Rusakov
Bastien Nocera wrote: >> GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides proxy lookup with PAC support via >> DBUS. This allows other programmes to support the "Automatic proxy >> configuration" option from GNOME control centre's Network Preferences >> without embedding a JavaScript interpreter just for this

Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Persch
Hi, Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 23:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > That feature was missing for ages in the control-center (and GNOME > applications). This fixes a bunch of very old GNOME bugs like: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123900 Note that it doesn't actually fix that b