GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! You may remember me as the bloke that proposed the Déjà Dup backup tool as a GNOME module a little back, right as modules were being reorganized. I've been encouraged to try again as a Feature. I don't fully understand the process, but I gather an email to this list starts it off.

Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Hi, all, Per André's request to post features for Gnome 3.2 - here goes. A while ago I blogged about the problem of lack of circulation in our files, and posted a patch for Evince: http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-08.html#19 In summary, while one can go *down* in the file system

Re: Documentation build plans for 3.2

2011-05-10 Thread Jorge González
Shaun, What has happened to gnome-help package? I don't see it anymore in damned lies?! Regards. Sent from mobile device. Phone number: 00420 724 83 24 48 On May 8, 2011 7:47 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: Documentation build plans for 3.2

2011-05-10 Thread Jorge González
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 18:01, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:14 +0200, Jorge González wrote: Shaun, What has happened to gnome-help package? I don't see it anymore in damned lies?! This? Yeap, that. http://l10n.gnome.org/module/gnome-user-docs/ The POT

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On 10/05/2011 00:29, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Hi, all, Per André's request to post features for Gnome 3.2 - here goes. A while ago I blogged about the problem of lack of circulation in our files, and posted a patch for Evince: http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-08.html#19

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:29 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Hi, all, Per André's request to post features for Gnome 3.2 - here goes. A while ago I blogged about the problem of lack of circulation in our files, and posted a patch for Evince:

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:10 +0100, Maciej Piechotka wrote: Hmm. Maybe a better solution would be to somehow drag'n'drop? Say: - Attach xyz.pdf to e-mail: open xyz.pdf drag the window/contents of window to new mail window - Copy abc.gnumeric to CD - open file in gnumeric,

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Mattias Eriksson
I think this is a great idea to have an well integrated backup program as part of the GNOME software suite. Looking at the screenshots and from testing some previous versions I have some thoughts. I think the schedule part of the settings is for advanced usage. By default I think a good backup

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Terry
On 10 May 2011 20:54, Mattias Eriksson snag...@acc.umu.se wrote: Looking at the screenshots and from testing some previous versions I have some thoughts. I think the schedule part of the settings is for advanced usage. By default I think a good backup program should monitor the file system for

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 15:49 +0200, Michael Terry wrote: Hello! You may remember me as the bloke that proposed the Déjà Dup backup tool as a GNOME module a little back, right as modules were being reorganized. I've been encouraged to try again as a Feature. I don't fully understand the

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : So, what do you think? The patches for apps should be pretty small, and they really provide much better circulation within your files. And applications that can send out files, could also add a little menu item to send it out

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: And applications that can send out files, could also add a little menu item to send it out using nautilus-sendto (the API there being nautilus-sendto filename). Evolution, Totem, Rhythmbox and a number of others allow you to do that.

Re: Open containing folder for all apps

2011-05-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Couldn't there be a common menu in the Shell that would work like the application menu, but for documents? I think it would be a real benefit to know that in every app you use, you're able to perform common actions on the opened

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Frederic Peters
Bastien Nocera wrote: Rawhide and will be in Ubuntu Oneiric once we land the GNOME 3 control center. That won't work for long. Once we've move the Bluetooth panel directly in the control-center, we'll be removing the external API from the control-center. It was only added for

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 01:13 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: Rawhide and will be in Ubuntu Oneiric once we land the GNOME 3 control center. That won't work for long. Once we've move the Bluetooth panel directly in the control-center, we'll be removing the

no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-10 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno mar, 10/05/2011 alle 20.51 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto: http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Screenshots/Future for screenshots. Déjà Dup 19.1, which includes those changes, is already in Fedora Rawhide and will be in Ubuntu Oneiric once we land the GNOME 3 control center. That won't

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 02:15 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: Il giorno mar, 10/05/2011 alle 20.51 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto: http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Screenshots/Future for screenshots. Déjà Dup 19.1, which includes those changes, is already in Fedora Rawhide and will be in Ubuntu

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-10 Thread Danielle Madeley
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 01:27 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: #1 -- was this announced/proposed to desktop-devel-list? No, because it was only made for one particular module (gnome-bluetooth), and by me. The reason we had an external API was so that gnome-bluetooth code happen in time for 3.0.

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 15:49 +0200, Michael Terry wrote: I'm also happy to answer any questions about Déjà Dup, obviously. I had a look at deja-dup, and was quite impressed at its simplicity. But I found it a bit difficult to recreate the kind of backup that I presently do with duplicity. I

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-10 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:15, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: #3 -- I feel this no-API for gnome-cc approach crashes with planned and upcoming changes in GNOME Desktop modules definition There is no GNOME Desktop module; we now have only core, platform and bindings. What are you

Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Terry
So as the Deja Dup maintainer, life will go on when you drop support. Worst case, I can just make the panel a dialog. But dropping the existing API feels like a frustrating bait and switch. It was not clear (at least to me) that this was your intentional all along, so myself and others made

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Terry
On 10 May 2011 21:51, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: That won't work for long. Once we've move the Bluetooth panel directly in the control-center, we'll be removing the external API from the control-center. It was only added for gnome-bluetooth, and will be removed then as well.

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Terry
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