Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread natan yellin
On 3/19/08, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:12:59AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /snip Yes. Ubuntu is acting as a translator between user and developer. Which is what I am

install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Stefan Kost
hej, one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org. Does anyone knows how to handle 'foo-X.Y.news' and 'foo-X.Y.changes'? Some modules have those files in the ftp directories and it improves the generated newsfeed on http://download.gnome.org/LATEST.xml. Some apps

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 14:41 +0100, Stefan Kost a écrit : hej, one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org. Does anyone knows how to handle 'foo-X.Y.news' and 'foo-X.Y.changes'? Some modules have those files in the ftp directories and it improves the

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 20:16 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: 6. Speed Up Ubuntu-Gnome boot time - don't we all want that? People have been working on this on and off. It is never a priority for distro makers,

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:57:45PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE This seems to be in the process of being included, thanks to GVFS. Indeed, but it would have been nice to know this was important to users before. The fact that GVFS allows

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:57:45PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE This seems to be in the process of being included, thanks to GVFS. Indeed, but it would have

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2008/3/20, Felipe Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GVFS is a great thing, but it wasn't developed with this feature in mind. The whole point of a virtual file system is exactly that kind of feature. Mounting tarballs, isos, or remote file systems. On the other hand, developers have limited time

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: [Infrastructure to keep track of regressions in login time] Yeap, apparently such infrastructure is needed. Yeah. We can probably start by adding some checkpoints to interesting parts in the startup code of the desktop programs ---

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread natan yellin
On 3/20/08, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: [Infrastructure to keep track of regressions in login time] Yeap, apparently such infrastructure is needed. Yeah. We can probably start by adding some checkpoints to

Mindmapping tool for GNOME desktop

2008-03-20 Thread Sandip Dev
I am a student of computer science at Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of technology(www.svnit.ac.in). I saw the GNOME ideas list for GSOC. I think I can develop a mindmapping tool. The mentor for this is Sven Herzberg. I would like to get in touch with him and discuss what kind of features are

Re: Mindmapping tool for GNOME desktop

2008-03-20 Thread Sven Herzberg
Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 01:31 +0530 schrieb Sandip Dev: I am a student of computer science at Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of technology(www.svnit.ac.in). I saw the GNOME ideas list for GSOC. I think I can develop a mindmapping tool. The mentor for this is Sven Herzberg. I would

Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

2008-03-20 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE This seems to be in the process of being included, thanks to GVFS. Indeed, but it would have been nice to know this was important to users before. The fact that GVFS allows this is

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Stefan Kost
Hi, Vincent Untz schrieb: Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 14:41 +0100, Stefan Kost a écrit : hej, one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org. Does anyone knows how to handle 'foo-X.Y.news' and 'foo-X.Y.changes'? Some modules have those files in the ftp directories and

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:54:41PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: Vincent Untz schrieb: Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 14:41 +0100, Stefan Kost a écrit : hej, one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org. Does anyone knows how to handle 'foo-X.Y.news' and

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Stefan Kost
Hi, Olav Vitters schrieb: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:54:41PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: Vincent Untz schrieb: Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 14:41 +0100, Stefan Kost a écrit : hej, one question for 'install-module foo-X.Y.tar.gz' on master.gnome.org. Does anyone knows how to handle

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13:05PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: Install-module is not the only place where x.y.z is expected. I'm planning to rewrite install-module in Python and hopefully I can add something that handles the .0 case; together with .exe files. Note that it will be much

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:26 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: - checking of sane versions (no 'rc1' 'beta1' etc) Why not? If a project wants to do that, that's their business. AfC Toronto signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:26 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: - checking of sane versions (no 'rc1' 'beta1' etc) Why not? If a project wants to do that, that's their business. Because it confuses the ordering. There is no reliable

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread daniel g. siegel
On Do, 2008-03-20 at 22:39 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:26 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: - checking of sane versions (no 'rc1' 'beta1' etc) Why not? If a project wants to do that, that's their

Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:39 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: There is no reliable way to determine the latest versions. You said you'd be working in Python; the Gentoo linux people have some excellent ordering algorithms embodied in Portage. I can ask around to find out the particular code to look