Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Stef Walter
On 04/19/2012 02:43 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: There should be a continuous build going on, and when it fails the module owner should be informed that their module has failed and it should be fixed, IMHO. I think a lot of people would thank us. There is, sorta:

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Stef Walter
On 04/19/2012 12:55 AM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: So this mail is about: how do *you* hack on Gnome on an everyday basis? jhbuild. Which often makes me sad. It's gotten better, but I find that I'm constantly fixing build problems, and/or waiting for the stack to compile. It's gotten to the

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:43 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Colin The issue is not so much time as unreliability. I've tried to address some of those with jhbuild, but there are two major ones remaining:

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi Federico! On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:55 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. I

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 02:20 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: So let me try to take Web use cases that could use Zeitgeist: * The user wants to type in the location bar and have suggestions pop out while typing. * The user wants to blacklist some websites or all websites

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. It is still more or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer. We wanted to make use of Zeitgeist in storing

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. It is still more or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer.

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 02:20 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: So let me try to take Web use cases that could use Zeitgeist: * The user wants to type in the location bar and have suggestions pop out while typing.

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Martyn Russell
Hello Federico, On 18/04/12 23:55, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. Disclaimer: I've not

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 00:55, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: I wonder how people who hack on core Gnome do it on a day to day basis. I used jhbuild every day for a few years when I used to hack on Sugar and at some point I stopped using jhbuild commands other than 'shell',

Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
Ben, Peter, and Bruce share links to interesting articles and videos and sometimes they can't check it, like if Bruce is in a meeting or out and about on his phone, but if his computer also kept track of the link in IM, then he could look at it then. So one thing is that Bruce is unavailable to

Re: Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-04-19 Thread Martyn Russell
On 19/04/12 15:40, Seif Lotfy wrote: Ben, Peter, and Bruce share links to interesting articles and videos and sometimes they can't check it, like if Bruce is in a meeting or out and about on his phone, but if his computer also kept track of the link in IM, then he could look at it then.

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:55 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. I wonder how people

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 10:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. It is still more or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer.

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Travis Reitter
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:43 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Colin The issue is not so much time as unreliability. I've tried to address some of those with jhbuild, but there are two major ones remaining:

Re: How do you hack on the bleeding edge of Gnome?

2012-04-19 Thread Paolo Borelli
Hi Federico, On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:55 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: I've been having a terrible time trying to get something tested on top of Gnome 3.4, all because I can't get 3.4 built from jhbuild. I'm too old to build from tarballs, and my distro doesn't carry 3.4 yet. I