Re: su/sudo wrapper

2007-05-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:01 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > Hello, > > An important feature of system-monitor is the ability to kill/renice > process as superuser directly from the GUI. This feature depends on > gksu. As gksu is not in Desktop, this makes an important feature depends > on an optiona

Re: Icons for IM programs

2007-05-18 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 5/18/07, Xavier Claessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On ven, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > (sorry if double-posted, I had some email forwarding issues) > > > > Hellooo :) > > > > On 5/18/07, Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I would like

RE: Icons for IM programs

2007-05-18 Thread Xavier Claessens
On ven, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > (sorry if double-posted, I had some email forwarding issues) > > Hellooo :) > > On 5/18/07, Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and > > > > tango

RE: Icons for IM programs

2007-05-18 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
(sorry if double-posted, I had some email forwarding issues) Hellooo :) On 5/18/07, Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and tango > > > artists to see if we can create a common icon set. > > > > I agree completely. >

Re: su/sudo wrapper

2007-05-18 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-05-18 klockan 15:01 skrev Benoît Dejean: > An important feature of system-monitor is the ability to kill/renice > process as superuser directly from the GUI. This feature depends on > gksu. As gksu is not in Desktop, this makes an important feature depends > on an optional external dependency.

su/sudo wrapper

2007-05-18 Thread Benoît Dejean
Hello, An important feature of system-monitor is the ability to kill/renice process as superuser directly from the GUI. This feature depends on gksu. As gksu is not in Desktop, this makes an important feature depends on an optional external dependency. gksu has a nice simple API: gksu(command, &e

Re: Should GNOME Get a Global Application Menubar?

2007-05-18 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi Thom, I don't have strong feelings on this subject, but I guess if one wants to use a poll as an argument for why something is important enough to warrant inclusion I think the question should instead have been: 'If GNOME had an option for a global menubar would you use it as your default?' If

Re: Should GNOME Get a Global Application Menubar?

2007-05-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 13:28 +0200, Thom Holwerda wrote: > > Note the emphasis on "option", and "turned off by default". The poll > results show that 80% of the OSNews readers who voted (1154 votes > cast as of writing) would like to see this included in GNOME. > Obviously, the statistic vali

Re: Metaciy RTL issues

2007-05-18 Thread Thomas Thurman
I'll try to get to them tomorrow, and let you know what I find out. Thanks for the patches. peace Thomas On 18/05/07, Yair Hershkovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to draw your attention to the following two metacity right-to-left behavior bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show

Metaciy RTL issues

2007-05-18 Thread Yair Hershkovitz
Hi, I would like to draw your attention to the following two metacity right-to-left behavior bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387893 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92212 Both bugs contains patches. Bug #92212 was opened almost five years ago !!! Thanks for everyone's

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread James "Doc" Livingston
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:57 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > However, while /home/ can be mounted without any execution > permissions, /usr not, and thus applications started by the session > manager are supposedly blessed by the admins (distro maintainers, and > what not) while those instal

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Sex, 2007-05-18 às 12:50 +0100, Andrew Sobala escreveu: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Sex, 2007-05-18 às 12:54 +0200, Martin Soto escreveu: > >> Hi Andrew, > >> > >> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:28 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: > >>> Martin Soto wrote: > >>> > An additional point that nobody

Re: Semantic GNOME

2007-05-18 Thread Christian
Hi, I'm working on a project called S-Flux [1][2]. It uses Semantic Web technologies to describe the desktop environment (mainly applications and documents) trying to hide applications to the user letting him concentrate just on the operations suitable for the selected document(s). I've developed

Semantic GNOME

2007-05-18 Thread Piotr Gaczkowski
Hello! KDE with Mandriva is working on adaptation of semantic technologies[1] on desktop. Are there any similar efforts going on in the GNOME world? [1] http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/ --- Piotr Gaczkowski signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Sobala
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Sex, 2007-05-18 às 12:54 +0200, Martin Soto escreveu: >> Hi Andrew, >> >> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:28 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: >>> Martin Soto wrote: >>> An additional point that nobody has mentioned so far is security. Most (if not all) plugin implemen

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Martin Soto
Hi Ross: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 12:00 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 12:54 +0200, Martin Soto wrote: > > > I'm not saying there aren't security implications of plugins, but being > > > able to run code on login is much easier to do without bothering with > > > them! > > > > Th

Re: Should GNOME Get a Global Application Menubar?

2007-05-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 13:28 +0200, Thom Holwerda wrote: > Note the emphasis on "option", and "turned off by default". from my comment on the poll: there is some fundamental error in the "it's off by default, who cares, put it in" argument that I strongly need to point out. features, even off by

Should GNOME Get a Global Application Menubar?

2007-05-18 Thread Thom Holwerda
Hi boys and girls, Yesterday, I posted a poll on OSNews [1] about the possible inclusion of a patch (i.e. as presented in bug #353076 [2]) that provides GNOME with the option (via a panel applet) of using a global application menubar setup, similar to i.e. Mac OS, Amiga, or KDE. The poll

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 12:54 +0200, Martin Soto wrote: > > I'm not saying there aren't security implications of plugins, but being > > able to run code on login is much easier to do without bothering with them! > > The fact that we already have some security holes to plug doesn't mean > we should

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Sex, 2007-05-18 às 12:54 +0200, Martin Soto escreveu: > Hi Andrew, > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:28 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: > > Martin Soto wrote: > > > > >An additional point that nobody has mentioned so far is security. Most > > >(if not all) plugin implementations already available for Gnom

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Martin Soto
Hi Andrew, On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:28 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: > Martin Soto wrote: > > >An additional point that nobody has mentioned so far is security. Most > >(if not all) plugin implementations already available for Gnome programs > >seem to allow for installing plugins in some user-owne

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Sobala
Martin Soto wrote: >An additional point that nobody has mentioned so far is security. Most >(if not all) plugin implementations already available for Gnome programs >seem to allow for installing plugins in some user-owned directory. This >means that by gaining access to the user's home directory,

Re: Icons for IM programs

2007-05-18 Thread Jaap Haitsma
> > > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and tango > > artists to see if we can create a common icon set. > > I agree completely. > > I can see some applications still wanting to add their own themes for > somethings like smileys and status icons, but a theme that fit

Re: Icons for IM programs

2007-05-18 Thread Martyn Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Claessens wrote: > Hi, Hi, > With all new IM clients currently under development I think we should think > about some GNOME desktop integration. > > Here I suggest to move protocols and status icons to gnome-icon-theme, like > that we can reu

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-18 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: ... > Moving features to plugins/extensions > = ... > Some of the features implemented in plugins/extensions should just > always be there, and it's useless to disable the plugin/extension. The > handling of