Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 23:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 10:37 -0400, Shaun McCance a écrit : > > I think Evandro's proposal is fair as well. We could set up a > > wiki page listing D-Bus interfaces we expect to be available. > > And not just for systemd-related things

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said: > > Initial state: a system with no users > a) InitialSetup runs > b) Create first user > c) Configure first user's settings > d) First user has full session > e) First user creates additio

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 10:37 -0400, Shaun McCance a écrit : > I think Evandro's proposal is fair as well. We could set up a > wiki page listing D-Bus interfaces we expect to be available. > And not just for systemd-related things. Don't like PackageKit? > Fine, whatever, but we expect you to mak

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said: > Let me answer them. > > A. The design is to run this only for the initial setup, when no users > exist yet. The large majority of systems nowadays are single-user, > anyway... OK, but that does make me wonder about when this isn't the case. The

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi! > >> B. Not planned, no. This is intended to configure a handful of >> essential things, not an open-ended list of things you might want to >> set up if happen to know about them. If twitter-esque web services >> become supported

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! > B. Not planned, no. This is intended to configure a handful of > essential things, not an open-ended list of things you might want to > set up if happen to know about them. If twitter-esque web services > become supported by 'online accounts', that would make it possible for > gwibber to pic

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > Can we list exactly what we expect to work for the features we > > need? That way, if anybody wants to do the porting work, they > > know exactly what they need to do. > > I'v

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 11:11 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : > The best argument for having this as part of the OS is for the live CD > scenario. You might as well type in your username each time if you > have to pick language etc. too. Hi, The liveCD or the installer don't require any output

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : >> - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few >> essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the >> first time. > > Please don’

Re: 3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Richard Hughes
On 20 May 2011 13:38, Richard Hughes wrote: > When I've pushed some of the initial code into gnome-control-center > and gnome-settings-daemon I'll post some screenshots of what it looks > like. Okay, I've pushed the code to g-s-d and g-c-c just now. Thanks to Bastien and Matthias for the super-qu

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Luca Ferretti wrote: > If you missed the point, I'm asking about planned behavior and features > for this first time assistant: >     A. will it be only for "master" user or for all users? >     B. will it allow some kind of customization by >        vendor/distr

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > Can we list exactly what we expect to work for the features we > need? That way, if anybody wants to do the porting work, they > know exactly what they need to do. I've already pointed this out http://live.gnome.org/PortabilityMatrix which

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:10 -0300, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: > Em Qui, 2011-05-19 às 15:15 +0200, Lennart Poettering escreveu: > > On Thu, 19.05.11 00:50, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey.udalt...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think the best way to save resources is not to run anything. F

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-05-20 Thread Allan Day
Hi José, On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 09:52 -0400, José Aliste wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question (hopefully ddl is the right mail list for > this): how are we supposed to interact with the design team? it seems > that the best way is contacting them through irc in #gnome-design, but > what about

Re: On the Interaction with the design team

2011-05-20 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 09:52 -0400, José Aliste wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question (hopefully ddl is the right mail list for > this): how are we supposed to interact with the design team? it seems > that the best way is contacting them through irc in #gnome-design, but > what about Gnome bug

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 19.05.11 23:51, Luca Ferretti (lferr...@gnome.org) wrote: > > In the future I expect more interfacing with GNOME however, and I'd thus > > like to see the discussion regarding acceptance as blessed > > dependency started early. > > Are you planning to "delegate" single module maintainers t

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Richard Hughes
On 20 May 2011 14:44, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Now serious, I repeat. We still have to define what GNOME OS will be. So > I suggest to use 3.2 timeframe to clean up applications and libraries > instead starting to work on "downstream" stuff. Do you? I thought 3.0 was all about getting our platform

On the Interaction with the design team

2011-05-20 Thread José Aliste
Hi, I have a simple question (hopefully ddl is the right mail list for this): how are we supposed to interact with the design team? it seems that the best way is contacting them through irc in #gnome-design, but what about Gnome bugzilla? Does setting a keyword or something makes the design team i

Re: 3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 14.37 +0100, Richard Hughes ha scritto: > On 20 May 2011 14:31, Luca Ferretti wrote: > > "In GNOME 3.2, colord is an approved external dependancy and many GNOME > > applications should use this to make a 100% color managed desktop." > > > > Ehmm.. "is"? really? > >

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 14.29 +0100, Bastien Nocera ha scritto: > On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:19 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: > > > > I strongly suggest to postpone this, if planned to be performed after > > installation and before first login to setup the "master" user (as it > > seems readin

Re: 3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Richard Hughes
On 20 May 2011 14:31, Luca Ferretti wrote: > "In GNOME 3.2, colord is an approved external dependancy and many GNOME > applications should use this to make a 100% color managed desktop." > > Ehmm.. "is"? really? I sent an email to DDL prior to the release of 3.0 that colord would be a dep for gno

Re: 3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 08.24 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > You can read the details here: > https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/ColorManagement "In GNOME 3.2, colord is an approved external dependancy and many GNOME applications should use this to make a 100% color manage

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:19 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 08.02 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > > > - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few > > essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the > > first time. > >

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 15:12 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 09:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > > A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished. > > > > There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work: > > - preinstalled

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 08.02 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few > essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the > first time. I strongly suggest to postpone this, if planned to be performed after

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 09:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished. > > There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work: > - preinstalled or otherwise provisioned systems > - generally any situation where the pers

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Please don’t do this. It would merely duplicate the functionality > already in the installer. > > A system should be immediately usable once the installation is finished. There's plenty of scenarios where this logic doesn't work: - pre

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few > essential things on a new system before you start to use it for the > first time. Please don’t do this. It would merely duplicate the functionality already in

Re: 3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Richard Hughes
On 20 May 2011 13:24, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Over the past week, Richard and I have spent a lot of time in > #gnome-design, discussing the goals and design for a 'color' > control-center panel. This was hard; color management is a very > technical topic. I just wanted to thank all the people in

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Over the past week, I've been working with Ray on fleshing out the > plans for gdm in 3.2. We are aiming for 2 things for 3.2: > > - A new 'shell-style' greeter. You can see a mockup on the feature page. Will the UI be something that can

3.2 features: color management

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
Over the past week, Richard and I have spent a lot of time in #gnome-design, discussing the goals and design for a 'color' control-center panel. This was hard; color management is a very technical topic. But what we have come up with looks good enough and is limited enough in scope that we are comf

3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Matthias Clasen
Over the past week, I've been working with Ray on fleshing out the plans for gdm in 3.2. We are aiming for 2 things for 3.2: - A new 'shell-style' greeter. You can see a mockup on the feature page. - An 'initial-setup' tool. The goal here is to allow setting up a few essential things on a new sys

Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

2011-05-20 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: > Leaving aside "because that's the way it is" as a reason for a second, > what are the potential issues we'd have using Launchpad? > > * Bug reporters would have to have an easy way to report bugs against > Deja Dup through gnome.org > * GNOME developers would need to reassign