t person, and
is not usually qualified or sometimes even competent to be offered the
ability to shut down the system they are backing up.
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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
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 wi
return?
It is probably just that the request for participation are more noticable
than the announcements of results?
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age beginners to think about organising their files a little bit
more (and not use Desktop/Documents as a dumping ground, like i tend to do
leaving me with a big mess of files I'm forced to sort out later).
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that applications all still 'just work'
OTOH a virtual name works all the time but breaks everything but gnome
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changed, renamed,
> reorganised and adjusted to user preferences.
Let us wait and see.
This idea has been brought up many times but fizzled out before much
happened because there were so many details which couldn't possible be
gotten right all at once. I'm really glad to see Mandrake too
later
we could also have folders like:
/Web Pages/
/Spreadsheets/
/Slideshows/
etc.)
I believe keeping these folders in the Documents folder will help those
who wish to keep their HOMEDIR relatively tidy and uncluttered.
Sincerely
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Em Qui, 2006-01-12 às 00:06 +, 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 ot
d effort has been invested in the details of Gedit. There may
be good excuse to sneak other text editors into Gnome (like maybe tomboy,
or the sticky notes applet, 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 e
it deserves but I'd really
like to see better accessibility and documentation before including it.
Sorry, I'd really like to be more enthusiastic about Atomix. I really
like it honest and it is great fun to plame but in my humble opinion it
needs more polish.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscap
4: have a nice dialog showing we 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...
Alan
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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 i
below the user level - 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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w manager has 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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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 non
On Iau, 2005-12-22 at 10:36 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> capable of seeing the reasoning behind it... and can certainly believe
> it if somebody tells me that it in fact has been shown to reduce
> confusion among novice users.)
Extensions are very much a windows property rather than a non-windows
d spacial nautilus for some time I
like many others want real nautilus back ...
It isn't as simple as claiming everyone will eventually agree with you.
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a handy-dandy pane at the bottom for moving
> through your images.
I think the point was although you can do this you shouldn't even need to.
Not only the collection view, but also the single image view should try
and preload the next image. (I
d just right click -> rotate cc to rotate them all. That
seems the best place 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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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:46:17 +0200
> From: Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: EOG features
>
> 2005/12/1, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
our originals.) Ideally we'd do a bit of user testing and
come up with a solid answer but I'm a big fan of "competative analysis"
because it is a lot easier and faster to compare and contrast what others
are already doing and stand
ing to use it. Also there is no easy way to compare two images
side by side which I occasionally want to do, it is very much about only
one image at a time.)
Sincerely
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* pedantry: lossless as in no extra reencoding, cr
ested XSession if you
want to keep a clear seperation of these remote applications from your
local applications?
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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
mote X clients running on your X server are marked with an
> @hostname in the title.
That information can also be shown by configuring your command line
prompt.
Might be easier to allow the terminal to use whatever you have set as your
prompt as the window title, as it mig
the desktop 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
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 usuall
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 th
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 mor
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 h
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 tryin
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, Nov
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
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 con
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, Mar
Hi all!
This is my first post to the ml so please go easy on me :) (I hope its
the right place, I sent to the gnome-list but it seems to be unused i
think)
I was just thinking about gnome and making it more widespread and I
realised that the windows vista release is an ideal opertunity for
gnome
nd the open dialog.
Ok, that makes sense now :) To me though, having the keys already
underlined indicates that the keyboard shortcut is active now, not after
an alt-press.
Thanks.
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y, it
doesn't work. Not sure if it doesn't work ever, or just in most apps.
For me saving 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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On Maw, 2005-10-04 at 18:32 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> some admins put sensible info on /etc/moptd, so we might not want to
> show it to anyone getting to the login screen. For that, /etc/issue
> might be better suited, although that is of no use for most users.
/etc/motd and /etc/iissue are gen
; > reports from syslogd.
> > >
> > gnome-power-manager deals with that now, displaying a dialog to the user
> > when battery power is critical
>
> What about when the system shuts down? Can I be informed abo
L)
exit();
in apps.
For databases - that sort of exists, most translation tools have
databases used for "helpful" matching. Kyfieithu (www.kyfieithu.co.uk)
can also tell you where the helpful suggestion came from in case the
suggestion is mis-spelt.
Alan
On Gwe, 2005-09-16 at 23:06 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
> kernel-level scheduler/queue. For example, give the application that has
> currently focus a higher network priority, or make that VoIP application
> work perfectly even if you have a few downloads/bittorrent running, etc.
Except in special
to
work with as opposed to use the open source community for its projects.
I wasn't personally aware of the Avahi plan but that looks even better.
Howl certain does get tested and used in a wide variety of projects
which gives good coverage.
Alan
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On Iau, 2005-09-15 at 09:18 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> Is there any reason not to prefer bonjour over howl now? Apple has
> re-licensed the client portions of the library under BSD like howl and
> almost certainly bonjour will be better tested.
What makes you assume that ?
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On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 00:52 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 00:36 +0100, Alan Swanson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 00:27 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > > What you say about IO taking place later is true, but consider that a
to delaying running xrdb (or any other unimportant
startup processes) simply renice it to say 20?
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On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 18:03 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Seems that part of the code has been licensed under GPL instead of LGPL;
> > IANAL, but doesn't this means that every project including recent-files
> > code should be GPL'ed too? Anyway, isn't the usual license for Gnome
> > code LGPL?
A
ed a
> certificate after all. "GNOME Friendly" may be a better term.
Providing it doesn't in any way imply a connectio then yes I agree. Its
about naming. Novell used to have a "works with netware" thing along
those lines in fact.
Alan
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> Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> >Supporting Autopackage wouldn't adversely affect or favour any
> >particularly distribution and it would in fact produce packages widely
> >usable by a whole variety of distributions. There is no Autopackage based
> >distribu
f Autopackages could be very interesting.
(but this is all theoretical and it would require developers to create the
necessary autopackage specifications which mostly do not exist yet so I'll
say no more)
Sincerely
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application. With projects like library.gnome.org it becomes a way for
users to find out more about Gnome without necessarily having the
application (or simply not having the most up to date version).
Sincerley
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, [utf-8] Danilo ??egan wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:06:56 +0200
> From: "[utf-8] Danilo ??egan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: GNOME Desktop ,
> Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
On Mer, 2005-07-13 at 21:04, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> The first two seem like no-brainers, but what are you thinking of
> 'harming the name of GNOME'? Is a clause requiring acceptable levels of
> privacy sufficient? Do you have other, concrete concerns here?
I guess the extreme example might
On Mer, 2005-07-13 at 16:27, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> - A way for users to know which app is more GNOME-like; hopefully this
> will give them a way to pick the better product.
You also need a list of things that are not acceptable, things that
regardless of how "GNOME" they are would damage
ere
already sending back information to Gnome.org and something which
distributions would not interfere with.
Alternatively you could ask users to provide feedback in places when they
are already filling in a load of forms about their identity (galago?) and
ask them if they would l
hdot article now..
Its problematic to do any kind of automation like that - permission
belongs with the company not the user in many cases. It may also trigger
charges on GPRS networks and the like.
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Ikke wrote:
> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:42:05 +0200
> From: Ikke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users
>
> > When it comes to prov
users to
optionally include various bits of additional meta data or other survey
information. I used the Netscape Talkback tool extensively for several
years and before you chose send it included nice checklist of exactly what
information you were willin
On Iau, 2005-05-26 at 20:52, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> Obl. Joel on Software link:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html
> But still, wasn't gnome 2 more or less a rewrite of gnome 1?
And very very very late, in fact it nearly kille
e
> things perl can.
Different jobs require differnt tools. Mono is suited for some things,
perl for others, c for others, etc etc. Just because desktop apps are
starting to be written in c# and mono doesn't mean that perl isn't the
most logical choice for text processing on a webpage
On Llu, 2005-05-16 at 18:21, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Isn't it always the case that you have to fill in the page table
> hierarchy down to the pages that you are actually using, regardless of
> the size of the mapping? Why would a
out of memory is
reliably detected). Gnome currently runs ok in that mode although
evolution 2.* didn't last time I tried it.
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metacity that contains useful features" strands. Really this belongs on
the metacity list however.
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le does with their "Preview" application.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven Garrity
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seems to sit there, then
eventually load the splash screen, sit some more, load some icons, sit,
then my desktop appears. *That* is the issue that I think needs to be
worked on (or at least, the one that I think is outside of the use
0 bugs to the Linux desktop"
Gnome is not the only Linux desktop.
And what about BSD you insensitive clod!
:P
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P.S. This whole thread was inspired and brightened up my day.
Thanks and good luck to Olav.
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dered getting rid of the menu bar altogether? This may
> sound a bit radical, but I think it's worth mentioning.
Do you mean the menu at the top of the screen with Aplications, Places,
System? If so, you can delete this yourself by just deleting the menu
from the panel (or the panel al
getting it done properly
the first time. check the mailing list archives from earlier this year
for information about the gnome menu editor.
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y holding 'Shift' while doing any of those things and watch the magic
> happen...
What would the disadvantage of having this on all the time? IE: have it
so that you hold the shift key to allow for free placement.
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consistent and easily translatable in just one place?
> * Add your favourite feature here and send me some beer.
Good luck with the next version of Bug-Buddy.
Sincerely
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Dia
On Maw, 2005-03-08 at 18:37, Marc O'Morain wrote:
> Perhaps a "feature request" feature could be implemented into the
> GNOME desktop, similar to bug buddy.
It has one - but I suspect the wrong place. It should be in the help
application. "Did this help" "no
e here who runs Gnome or KDE desktops
for other people may have some of that information. Tiny bits perhaps
but together they make up the picture.
Sysadmins will tell you things like "we had a menu panel along the top
but no bottom panel. We had to add a m
On Maw, 2005-03-08 at 18:13, Rob Adams wrote:
> notably the "Java Desktop Environment" (I mean, honestly, what the hell
> is that?), but Red Hat's desktop is also a major offender. Perhaps if
> we asked nicely.
How about a [insert long string of obscenities] trademark policy that is
sane.
> The
in interviews with certain groups
of user so there is a bias to the EU and to larger businesses in the
people I have talked to so far. That may matter a great deal in terms of
why things like lockdown come up high.
I'd be interested in comparing notes with anyone doing similar work.
[skip to the last two paragraphs for the improtant bit...]
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:26:36 +
> From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Eugenia Loli-Queru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: r
ry
much - if it stays a way to help developers see the priorities then
great. That might give a few people a shock too as to where the users
idea of urgent begins and what it is.
Alan
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bnails of
them on the parent folder. Here's an example I grabbed thanks to google:
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/winxpb2/graphics/screenshots/06_my_pictures.jpg
Certianly there is room for improvement here, I'd be surprised if the
Nautilus developers didn't already have some ideas in mind.
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widgets off display while Xaw shrank stuff and lost
bits of labels first. Qt now I believe adds scrollbars which is a bit of
hack but didnt at the time.
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> it can be resized, not all widgets will be visible (or, in the case of Qt,
> it will show some Really Ugly (TM) scrolling bars or scrolling arrows). This
> is hardly a solution. The real problem here is the fact that the developers
> don't know how to write good-looking and practical apps. A
ave toned down the ribbing, and it's a
> great
> improvement. Apple made a mistake and they fixed it. Let's learn from
> that and just avoid the mistake altogether.
I believe Apple referred to them as *pinstripes*.
I wounldn't normally see fit to mention it but
/potential users the better.
Go victimise some relatives, business associates or other willing (or
unable to escape) people and take notes. Its a parallelisable problem to
do that and then look for common themes in the results.
Alan
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e it'll look like a sheep, or maybe a black and white banana
depending on theme"
Run As is IMHO non threatening. It isn't used much anyway (which means
the design is right). Its pretty essential when you need to deal with
something one off and the dial
s)
rather than working out what the middle rectangle size actually is.
Alan
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