+, Alan Horkan wrote:
[Personally I think a folder ~/Documents/ is needed with other user files
such as music, pictures, spreadsheets, and anything else getting put in
subfolders of ~/Documents/ rather than creating lots of folders like
~/Music directly in the home directory
(mostly English-first speakers). I guess they don't understand
how annoying having random bits of other language on your desktop
is even if there isn't also political baggage associated with that
language (as is often the case).
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unafraid of capital letters? Dont real geeks use directory names
starting with capitals and file names starting with lowercase? (or some
other highly elaborate naming scheme. I'll stop before this turns in to a
Four Yorkshiremen parody)
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localizable string?
* Can places/bookmarks point to a value stored in a gconf key?
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directory naming is a nightmare.
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use the slab in a single panel setup it remains unclear
if those who want to adopt slab also want to change the panel layout to
match what Novell use, it would seem strange to me to do otherwise.
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.
There are probably many more like these hidden around the place,
applications which provide an option to execute another application. I
recall lockdown in Microsoft Windows could be subverted in a similar way
if they made the mistake of leaving Winzip installed.
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.
On the contrary the LSB standardised a core of the rpm package format. I
would thus refer you to ISO 23360.
What the LSB hasn't tackled in full yet is Gtk/Qt/KDE/GNOME and the
accompanying gloop.
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this specific incompatibility based on the stated plans/draft.
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be included in odd numbered
releases without first fully accepting it so as to help when it comes to
testing and evaluation, but I suppose Garnome (and Jhbuild?) largely take
care of that.
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# Lucene diverged too far away from C Lucene? I have long
wondered why C# Lucene was developed in the full knowledge that C Lucene
would be preferable to Gnome and now finally seems like an appropriate
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things his latest film was critical of America than he must be taking even
more drugs than the rumours suggest.)
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Elijah Newren wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:45:06 -0600
From: Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: International Space Station Images
On 9/20/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(This is wildly offtopic so I post
, it feels like a giant step
backwards to have manually mount drives and suffer such a convoluted eject
process.
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things easier for documentation
writers and conversely are there ways documentation writers can be helped
to give developers better feedback? Your the expert, you must have
ideas?
Sincerely
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http://alanhorkan.livejournal.com
[1] GNU Style and Diction
http://www.gnu.org/software/diction
documentation we wouldn't be hurdle or barrier to contribution.
It would be great if the documentation team could be elevated to the
status of documentation editors who would help review improve the rough
descriptions provided rather than having to write from scratch.
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of edit or open with
functionality and do not plan to mention a specific program within the
screen shooter.
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that not be in with the existing tools for doing VNC ?
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Owen Taylor wrote:
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:49:03 -0400
From: Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Pat Suwalski [EMAIL PROTECTED], desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Contribution
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 00:47 +0100, Alan Horkan
to improve the HIG or suggest a different approach that works
better for both platforms.
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to add back an old style full lenght main menu on my panel and Alacarte
seems to happily ignore it.
Also I reiterate my concern about making versions of Gnome 2 which do not
look at all like other version of Gnome 2.
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Chipzz wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:38:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Chipzz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Baobab
You are missing the point. I was *impersonating* a clueless user
You wrote a very short
for
the Baobab disk usage program:
http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:57:33 +0530
From: Ritesh Khadgaray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED], desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: removing non-working things
On Sun, 2006-07-30
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux wrote:
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:07:47 +0200
From: [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: removing non-working things
Alan Horkan wrote:
a) It only affects BonoboToolbars
there would be a careful migration including
some kind of symlink to help out techinical users who have memorised the
old name.)
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[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-September/msg00024.html
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-September/msg00022.html
not want flat toolbars and instead want their toolbar to
look more 3 Dimensional and button-like, which would be a theme issue not
a widget issue. (Winzip used to have an option to change the toolbar
button style.)
Sincerely
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to do a
certain level of maintaince to keep things running smoothly.
It may also be possible to adjust Baobab to educate users and give them a
better understanding of what is actually happening and how their
file system but that would just be a bonus.
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-April/msg00112.html
Found using the following google search:
site:mail.gnome.org desktop-devel baobab.
(easy once I spelt baobab correctly ;)
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Elijah Newren wrote:
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:59:42 -0600
From: Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Gnome Desktop Development List desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Baobab
On 7/26/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
in
entirely different ways (gnome system tools are a reasonable example I
think). By making a choice gnome encourages standardisation but in some
cases distributions will continue to ship their own custom tools.
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on Sticky Notes (but also
some overlap on Gedit in some ways too).
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for those who do use it. Why force users to change? Dont try
to assume you know best.
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[1] I filed requests for both Totem and Rhythmbox to use to use a standard
file menu.
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that
the American English version is the authorative document for legal
purposes and include that too where the license text would be printed.
Only by doing that do you tell people what Free Software means and
what rights you have given them.
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to automatically
start every session, or more easily save your session on logout so it
comes back up the same when you login. I've done similar things this way
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:36:50 +1000
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Don't mess with our brand [Was: 'GNOME', 'Gnome']
quote who=Alan Horkan
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/grammar.html
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:42 +1000
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]
quote who=Alan Horkan
[1] I'm going to beat up on you until you start writing 'GNOME'
correctly
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Murray Cumming wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:59:13 +0200
From: Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Travis Watkins wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:20:13 -0500
From: Travis Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16
On 4/22/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alacarte has a user interface halfway
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dan Winship wrote:
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:41:14 -0400
From: Dan Winship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrew Sobala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED],
desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Andrew Sobala wrote:
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:09:32 +0100
From: Andrew Sobala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16]
Alan Horkan wrote
or not
yet but I have been looking at Ubuntu Dappper I was thinking about it.
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when Gnome is mature a popular enough to do the same.
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? Somebody had to ask
eventually.
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can purge the deprecated crap, make big changes to the OOTB experience, and
make a fuckload of noise.
[OOTB does that stand for: out of the box??? hate acronyms, I'm not
stupid but had to look it up before i could even guess what you were
talking
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Elijah Newren wrote:
On 4/20/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] Holy shit, just stop talking about version numbers at all. It
totally doesn't mean anything useful.
I understand you and most developers do not think it is important but
would it kill you
.)
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Post
Top
Don't
Please
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:04:39 +0100
From: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond
, I hope this discussion is at least a little
prodcutive and that the release team will think about 3.0 too.
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that we can gradually work towards it.
Perhaps the Project Ridley developers have clearer intentions of when they
might want to declare GTK 3.0 and it would provide a clearer break off
point for Gnome 3.0 but again I would really like to know what the plan
is if there actually is one.
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and
begin to make plans or clarify when it might be appropriate to bump the
major version number in recognition of how far Gnome has come and how much
as been achieved.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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Abiword http://www.abisource.com
Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
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On Maw, 2006-04-11 at 17:08 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
I've spent all afternoon trying to figure out how I, as an OEM, can
configure Gnome before giving it to a user. I just want to change some
icons on the panel and maybe a menu entry.
Its an absolute undocumented mess and has been for
together a decent patch can be time consuming enough so while I
appreciate the push to document what I had done I would not like to go too
far and have reasonable changes be blocked and left to bit rot just
because everything wasn't perfect. Balance is important.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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-hand.com/matchbox/
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots.html
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots/ss-pango.png
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/screenshots/mediabox/base.png
Hope that helps
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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Abiword http://www.abisource.com
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 14:50 +, Edward Hervey wrote:
Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
available.
Does that make more
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 16:37 +, Alan Cox wrote:
plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself
contain these non-free components.
Actually better yet
contain or endorse
Alan
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an Ubuntu mailing list to get help specific to
Ubuntu.
Best of luck
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I'm going to answer this out of order which may make it difficult to
follow, apologies in advance.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:36:22 -0600
From: Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Calum Benson wrote:
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:34:53 +
From: Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: File chooser button [was Re: Gnome-utils branched to
gnome-2-14
It isn't about Design by community but Design IN the community. The
former assumes everyone has something useful to say, the latter merely
recognizes the value of code review, security checking, third party
input that -may- be valuable, and possibly getting help.
If you design stuff in secret
On Mer, 2006-02-08 at 12:07 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
This course of action will create a time when GNOME goes the way of
propriortary UNIX: Tru64, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX... imagine a
world with Novell Desktop, Topaz, Java Desktop, the Hatrack Environment:
all competing products...
file chooser button.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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much of
the criticism came from.
Sound Juicer can be used as a music player if you really want but it is
not as well suited for that task.
The criticism was hardly an attack by raving hordes.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Ross Burton wrote:
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:10:42 +
From: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: UI Review
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:36 +, Alan Horkan wrote
anything
Nautilus can do.
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Shaun McCance wrote:
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:27:33 -0600
From: Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: control-center 2.13.90 released
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:49 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
From: Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 09:05 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
currently has no mechanism for making a distinction between background
users and the user that currently 'controls' the machine.
I don't think hal's the right layer to make that distinction. I'm
working on implementing it at the
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:09 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
Strong disagreement, see http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=63 for some ramblings
why this is exactly what one wants to do. Yes, you need to answer how
the system daemon is configured when no user is logged in (don't tell me
some UNIX-y scheme with
that the request for participation are more noticable
than the announcements of results?
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:21:50 +1100
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome]
quote who=Alan Horkan
Microsoft have finally [1] said they will drop the patronising my
in the Documents folder will help those
who wish to keep their HOMEDIR relatively tidy and uncluttered.
Sincerely
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[1] Microsoft has decided to drop the my prefixes for Longhorn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/01/2043242
possible be
gotten right all at once. I'm really glad to see Mandrake took a risk and
tried something, even if they cannot please everyone it will be a good
first step and could gradually evolve into something most people are
satisified with.
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still 'just work'
OTOH a virtual name works all the time but breaks everything but gnome
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, Alan Horkan escreveu:
I have some criticisms of it none of which are show stoppers for playing
and enjoying Atomix but it would be better if Atomix met the same high
standards for accessibility, usability and documentation as other Gnome
applications. Will it get more attention
, or (*) ...) but justifying the removal of
Gedit is a whole other ball of wax.
The gedit developers can tell you I'm not even very enthusiastic about
gedit but vague comments about unproven alternatives are counter
productive.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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- not forgetting
from the fact you can really upset some devices by loading bogus
firmware and possibly load hacked firmware as an end user with other
models of operation.
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On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 15:20 +, Richard Hughes wrote:
Ahh, I was talking more about firmware like wireless card firmware, that
all you have to do is bung it in /lib/firmware and the card magically
works. Maybe I've missed the point with ADSL modems -- sorry.
Ok so what you are proposing is
are connected (network-admin, an
applet??)
Also probably bytes sent/received. At least in the UK some of our
providers now offer cheap but volume limited connections...
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On Iau, 2005-12-29 at 16:24 +, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
What we want is to have a dialog that shows several types os modems, the
users chooses the one he has and we write the apropriate scripts, if it
needs a firmware we would ask the user to enter the location of it.
I can't speak for
the final say
and everything the application provides is merely a request or hint.
Windows that set themselves no redirect (eg xteddy, oneko) will of
course fall outside window manager handling but proper applications will
be fine.
Alan
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for this functionality in nautilus IMHO, why have
to go into a photo management app when you a) can see the thumbnails and
b) just need to rotate left or right.
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Backups are for people who
.)
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* pedantry: lossless as in no extra reencoding, crop is obviously lossey
in the literal sense of cutting away the edges
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:47:45 +0800
From: Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Denoting Remote Machines (Re: Custom Icons for GNOME
Terminal Profiles)
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 19:41 +, Alan Horkan
local applications?
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development that need some love?
When the kernel started printing scary messages and crashing rather than
crossing its fingers and continuing the results were very positive in
terms of debugging.
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We are aware of memory- and startup issues, but you surely know that
premature optimisation is a top-three killer in free software projects.
The question is Can you optimise it and fix the problem. If you use a
python vm and the answer is no, how do you propose to fix the problem
when it isnt
On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 13:32 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
The result: a single process (per user, per display), and a single
main loop, for all applets. Of course this means if one applet
deadlocks or dies, they all die. But at least dying in python is not so
easy. You usually
On Mer, 2005-10-26 at 17:15 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Root can gain access to your DISPLAY (~/.Xauthority), your tty, your env
vars, strace or gdb a process, etc. It can even simply kill the
Depends how your security model is set up. GNOME runs on several
platforms (Linux included) with more
On Mer, 2005-10-26 at 10:31 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
scheme whereby the login dialog first authenticates itself to the user
before the user typing in the password to avoid that, or a button you
press before the login screen presents itself which is intercepted at
the kernel level to cause the
I find that typing the access key is far faster than using the mouse
but that depends on the task I'm doing at the time.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:49:40 +0100
Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew said:
In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines
are hidden
Hi Guys and Gals
Just spotted this news item:
The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday
announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project,
with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM,
Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA,
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:34:46 +0300
Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2005/10/18, Alan McGinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Has anyone from gnome been contacted about this? It would seem
to me that if they don't work with us then what they are trying to
do is utterly pointless.
I think
On Llu, 2005-10-17 at 13:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
Hi
One of the best improvements we've seen while working on speeding up the
GNOME startup time has been the removal of the xsettings thing, via xrdb
-merge execution.
Make xrdb use decus cpp and it takes basically zero time. Trivial fix
lo all, apologies if this has already been mentioned. Just found this
news article about desktop usability studies performed by Novel:
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-5893239.html
Its quite an interesting article and links to this Novel/opensuse
subproject:
http://www.betterdesktop.org
It
Its old and dated.
I can make a new fish if anyone wants (how about a
tart up wanda competition?)
If no-ones interested in that then I say: who's for sushi? (I.E. kill
it)
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:40:40 -0400
Ronald S. Bultje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:12 -0400, Mark
an unsaved doc in gedit shows this. Could be an issue
with my keyboard or setup though... if so, anyone have any idea what it
could be?
alan
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