Re: Lowering barriers

2007-11-14 Thread Rich Burridge
It would be really sleek if we came up with a utility that could do this for Gnome/GTK apps, and I think it would lower the barrier for people to try to start developing. If we had something that worked like, say: ghack --python --docs --intl projectname A few years ago, when I was

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-11-14 Thread Dylan McCall
I think bumping functionality to plugins is a pointless operation, especially in a desktop environment that tries to follow the idea of having a lot of small programs that each do simple tasks very well. Interfaces like D-Bus let us create top-level applications (for lack of a better term in my

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-11-14 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:26 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: I think bumping functionality to plugins is a pointless operation, especially in a desktop environment that tries to follow the idea of having a lot of small programs that each do simple tasks very well. Interfaces like D-Bus let us

Re: Bumping avahi requirement for GNOME to 0.6.21

2007-11-14 Thread Elijah Newren
On Nov 14, 2007 9:44 AM, Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and didn't we agree at the last r-t meeting to have build break requests moved from d-d-l to release-team@, in order to lower the mail s/build break requests/external dependency changes/ What in the world does build break

Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

2007-11-14 Thread Sankar P
Hi All, Some of the issues that were discussed (here and in #496839) and my personal take on them will be: 1) Plugin list being un-manageable I am thinking of adding a smart-search-box which will query based on plugin-names and pre-defined-tags associated with each plugin. This will make it

Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

2007-11-14 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 23:56 -0700, Sankar P wrote: Hi All, Some of the issues that were discussed (here and in #496839) and my personal take on them will be: 1) Plugin list being un-manageable I am thinking of adding a smart-search-box which will query based on plugin-names and