Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-27 Thread Christian Kirbach
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:02:24 -0600, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nah, one thing about a compositor is that it keeps off-screen copies of all the windows so it does not have to invalidate regions when the stacki

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 6/27/08, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:21 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > > > Yeah, all those sites are there, but you are thinking in > > this-century-enabled people. It's not a work only thing also, some > > people might be happy to hang it

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:21 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > Yeah, all those sites are there, but you are thinking in > this-century-enabled people. It's not a work only thing also, some > people might be happy to hang it on the wall. > Maybe it's a bit of a corner case, but the two times

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 6/27/08, Andre Klapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hej hej Thomas!, > > Am Freitag, den 27.06.2008, 14:16 +0200 schrieb Thomas H.P. Andersen: > > > Sorry, I wasn't being clear. I should have told you my position and > > motivation for this. I'm about to start the last year of my master and >

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi ho. Thomas H.P. Andersen wrote: > I guess maybe the job interviewing culture varies from place to place > but I don't expect a job application screener / job interviewer to > actually spend the time to go online and look at all these things. Funny... that's the first thing I expect people to

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Thomas H.P. Andersen
> Hej hej Thomas!, Hej Andre :) >> and I would like to be able to document that at a job interview. > > it's all open source, so your contributions are public. you can link to > them in your CV. you have statistic pages in gnome bugzilla, you have > wikipages (with static links and fake beards *g

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread natan yellin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Marko Anastasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> > That's a bit of an exaggeration,

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Marko Anastasov
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> > That's a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something to what Leslie >>> > said. >>> > Personally, I felt that in the case

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Andre Klapper
Hej hej Thomas!, Am Freitag, den 27.06.2008, 14:16 +0200 schrieb Thomas H.P. Andersen: > Sorry, I wasn't being clear. I should have told you my position and > motivation for this. I'm about to start the last year of my master and > will soon start doing job interviews. By "diploma" I meant a nicel

Re: External Deps for GNOME 2.24 - shared-mime-info from 0.22 to 0.40

2008-06-27 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno ven, 27/06/2008 alle 08.45 -0300, Jonh Wendell ha scritto: > Em Sex, 2008-06-27 às 10:52 +0200, Luca Ferretti escreveu: > > shared-mime-info 0.40 finally implements the "icon" and "generic-icon" > > support. > > > > This is needed in glib/gio in order to have a fallback icon for > > mime

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread natan yellin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > That's a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something to what Leslie >> said. >> > Personally, I felt that in the case of GHOP, the

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread natan yellin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/27 natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > One thing I'd like to add on to my last reply: > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Thomas H.P. A

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Who
2008/6/27 natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One thing I'd like to add on to my last reply: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Thomas H.P. Andersen
> That's a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something to what Leslie said. > Personally, I felt that in the case of GHOP, the grand prize was more > important to most people than the money or the t-shirt. Well, maybe. I was not part of it. I do remember her saying that some students who did no

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread natan yellin
One thing I'd like to add on to my last reply: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 PM, natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On Tue

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread natan yellin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:27 +0300, natan yellin wrote: > >> 1. Host an annual developer awards contest. Apple does it, and there's > >>

Re: External Deps for GNOME 2.24 - shared-mime-info from 0.22 to 0.40

2008-06-27 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Sex, 2008-06-27 às 10:52 +0200, Luca Ferretti escreveu: > shared-mime-info 0.40 finally implements the "icon" and "generic-icon" > support. > > This is needed in glib/gio in order to have a fallback icon for > mimetypes (example: you have a 7zip file, your icon theme don't provide > an icon for

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:36 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > That is why we have fsync/fdatasync and thread creation... Yeah, if they were correctly implemented. But firefox fsync'ing its sqlite db makes the whole system unusable for up to 20 seconds. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would g

Re: Need Leadership

2008-06-27 Thread Thomas H.P. Andersen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:27 +0300, natan yellin wrote: >> 1. Host an annual developer awards contest. Apple does it, and there's >> really no reason why we shouldn't as well. The system would have to be >> adapted a bit, but

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
> Get a better kernel then ;-). On a more serious note, didn't the recent > Firefox 3 O_SYNC fiasco on Linux make some file system developers > realize some short comings of current state of the kernel? If so, Synchronous I/O is *very* slow but you need to discuss that mostly with hardware vendors

External Deps for GNOME 2.24 - shared-mime-info from 0.22 to 0.40

2008-06-27 Thread Luca Ferretti
shared-mime-info 0.40 finally implements the "icon" and "generic-icon" support. This is needed in glib/gio in order to have a fallback icon for mimetypes (example: you have a 7zip file, your icon theme don't provide an icon for this MIME, your application will use the "package-x-generic" icon). Th

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 26 juin 2008, à 13:32 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a écrit : > On 6/26/08, David Zeuthen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:16 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > KDE applications are still using XSMP AFAIK, so we'll need to support > > > it in some way > > > > We do?

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-27 Thread Frederic Peters
David Zeuthen wrote: > > > Do you have a concrete example of a modern desktop application where the > > > absence of XSMP in GNOME 2.24 would be a huge inconvenience? > > > > I think you should not limit yourself to GNOME 2.24; people are using > > other applications. > > Uh, I think you misread