Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 23:46 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : But this approach only goes so far: there's eventually going to be a point where you'll need a newer polkit or networkmanager version, and whoops, those need to run those as root. That said, I think jhbuild is a convenient way of

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 18:53 -0700, bsquared wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I would use that package manager of yours to remove jhbuild from the system (uninstall_package jhbuild), and the re-run the confmakeinstall commands. This is just a guess, and me hopes someone who understands

Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
Hi: I hope the term for proposing stuff to Gnome 3.2 isn't over yet, It took me a while to made my mind about this. So here it goes: What I think Gnome needs now: A centralized, gnome controlled place for applications to share/offers actions: I think this might me more easy to understand

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
So... you're suggesting D-Bus? 2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com Hi: I hope the term for proposing stuff to Gnome 3.2 isn't over yet, It took me a while to made my mind about this. So here it goes: What I think Gnome needs now: A centralized, gnome controlled place for

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Nick Glynn
I think leveraging dbus would be the way to do it but presented in a way similar to Android's intents/receiver system. On May 8, 2011 5:30 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: So... you're suggesting D-Bus? 2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com Hi: I hope the term for

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
No, I'm not, DBUS will provide the gears to made it happens. any application can use DBUS and any client can consume services from other, the problem with Linux desktop in general and in Gnome in particular is the lack of consistency and integration. Have u used Mac OSX some time ? There every

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
Yeap, course, if we/you agree it wold be useful, and good, and shien, and useful. 2011/5/8 Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 12:27 -0400, Erick Pérez wrote: I hope the term for proposing stuff to Gnome 3.2 isn't over yet, It took me a while to made my mind about this. So

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread bsquared
Jasper St. Pierre wrote: You already did. jhbuild will install in whatever you specified as prefix. [1] The jhbuild instructions are for people who already have a proper gnome2 install and want to try out gnome3 easily safely: run a shell script, jhbuild build, jhbuild run gnome-shell

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread bsquared
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 23:46 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : But this approach only goes so far: there's eventually going to be a point where you'll need a newer polkit or networkmanager version, and whoops, those need to run those as root. That said, I think

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread bsquared
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I would use /opt as jhbuild prefix and see how things churn out. Also, the only first-class jhbuild target is GNOME 3, meaning that Xorg support might be broken even, so you might have to follow BLFS Xorg instructions for it. But try the jhbuild way first, and report

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 10:38 -0700, bsquared wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I would use /opt as jhbuild prefix and see how things churn out. Also, the only first-class jhbuild target is GNOME 3, meaning that Xorg support might be broken even, so you might have to follow BLFS Xorg

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
First, the word 'service' here give the wrong impressions that the Dictionary have to be running, and that's not what I meant, not even a dictionary module. On 08/05/2011, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: OK, let's take your first example: Evince + Dictionary Let's imagine your

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com First, the word 'service' here give the wrong impressions that the Dictionary have to be running, and that's not what I meant, not even a dictionary module. What registers the association if not running code? On 08/05/2011, Jasper St. Pierre

Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

2011-05-08 Thread bsquared
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Me too, but why not make an exception with jhbuild software. You already made an exception by breaking the guidelines of your package management system: according to it, each package must have its own package user, but with jhbuild, stuff built all have jhbuild as

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
Why not at the time of the menu? Cause it will be to slow, way to slow. Making choices based on the data you think we should send to the service will be slow, any decision at all will take to long for a responsive UX to act. I'd rather see No definitions inline in the menu than having a new

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Jason D. Clinton
2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com But if you want to go ahead and build whatever your idea appears to be, nobody's going to stop you. And this is just rude and useless. This is how free software works. If you want something, you just do it. And then show everyone how awesome it is. Or

Re: Gnome Feature Request

2011-05-08 Thread Erick Pérez
On 08/05/2011, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: 2011/5/8 Erick Pérez erick@gmail.com Why not at the time of the menu? Cause it will be to slow, way to slow. Making choices based on the data you think we should send to the service will be slow, any decision at all will take