Re: Gjs Lang.Class uses __proto__ to change function prototypes?

2013-04-19 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 18 Apr 2013 20:16, Nikita Churaev writes: > newClass.__proto__ = this.constructor.prototype; > > where newClass is a function. Why does Gjs do this? Isn't this > non-standard? ES6 will standardize __proto__. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ de

kind note on quoting

2012-05-14 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, There has been a lot of traffic on d-d-l recently. That's great. It's a bit difficult to follow though, at times. It would be really helpful to a casual reader if, when replying, people would trim the parts of the mails that they are quoting. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: Attention anyone uploading binaries to ftp.gnome.org/pub/binaries - understand the GPL

2011-09-26 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 22 Sep 2011 16:17, Colin Walters writes: > "Ige-mac-bundler copies all of the files you indicated in your bundle > file, and also pulls in the dependencies it can find, and it adjusts the > install paths to reflect the new locations." [...] > You need to list the corresponding source cod

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 04 Sep 2011 08:31, Xavier Cho writes: > On a side note, I really like to see kind of a 'switchable' dock so I > could change set of applications on it according to task currently I'm > on. For example, when I do some music related work, I often use jackd > related applications like ardour,

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras writes: > That's a reasonable alternative. How about "pleased"? Any other people > have an opinion? You present yourself as reasonable by adjusting on the small points, but you ignore the feedback of greater importance. My opinion is that you are not t

Re: IRC channels in gnome development

2011-02-07 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Alan, FWIW I mostly like GNOME 3, so I don't want to pile on the flamefest. But this bothered me: On Sun 06 Feb 2011 15:27, Allan Day writes: > Even if you had records of every discussion, you wouldn't get the > information you're looking for. Design decisions don't get made > committee meet

Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 31 Jan 2011 22:03, Frederic Crozat writes: > 2011/1/31 Andy Wingo : >> Regardless of the ultimate decision -- NB, not being discussed at >> language-bindi...@gnome.org -- the lack of communication from the >> release team is lamentable. > > And this kind of

Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

2011-01-31 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 31 Jan 2011 14:59, Murray Cumming writes: >> > - there is no stronger API/ABI rules, but it's true we'd like to have >> >gtkmm follow the schedule. I am also surprised at the lack of rules here, and additionally, the lack of discussion. Without the rules, it's just languages that pe

Re: New module proposal: libpeas

2010-10-04 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Steve, On Mon 04 Oct 2010 13:10, Steve Frécinaux writes: > I'd like to propose libpeas as part of the desktop release set, or > whatever the release team cooked to replace it in Gnome 3.0. Libpeas sounds really neat :) Did you solve the toggle refs issue that Owen brought up? Andy -- http

Re: Update of libchamplain version in external dependencies

2010-08-19 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 19 Aug 2010 13:09, Jiří Techet writes: > right now libchamplain has the version number as a part of its name, > e.g. libchamplain-0.7.so. If you encode a version into the name, use the stable version. If 0.7 is a stable series, use -0.7 in the name. Otherwise if it is a development series

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Wingo
Greets :) A couple points of clarification: On Wed 14 Jul 2010 21:45, Christian Persch writes: > [In] copyright assignment, you don't have *any* guarantees about the > terms the new 'owner' may choose to distribute your work under. Not true! For example, when you assign to the FSF, the papers

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-08 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello, On Tue 06 Jul 2010 14:54, Holger Berndt writes: > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:00:09 -0400 Ryan Lortie wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: >> > Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use >> > our platform but not GPLv2 apps? >> >> In short

Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

2010-06-14 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 14 Jun 2010 12:57, Sebastien Bacher writes: > Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 11:38 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : >> That's not a decision for the software writers to make when their code >> is in the GNOME release. > > Why would GNOME tell software writers that their code can't have build > ti

Re: New module decisions for 3.0

2010-06-02 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Vincent, On Wed 02 Jun 2010 01:38, Vincent Untz writes: > + gjs (desktop) >=> approved, but with other bindings (not desktop) Does this mean that gjs will follow API/ABI stability guarantees of other parts of the GNOME platform, or of the old Bindings releases? Cheers, Andy -- http:/

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2010-04-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Mikkel, On Thu 22 Apr 2010 21:40, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen writes: > Here's what we do. We set a series of milestones and target bugs and > blueprints to these milestones. We also attach branches (not patches) > to bugs and blueprints. When a linked branch is ready to merge into > another b

Re: GNOME 3 cleanup status update

2010-01-17 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Tomeu, On Thu 14 Jan 2010 16:29, Tomeu Vizoso writes: > Pygi is still far away from being an usable replacement of static > bindings, at the current development rate. Why is that? Is the gobject-inspection metadata not expressive enough, or does pygi not implement all that gobject-introspect

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Plugin vs extension? [...] > My €0.02: I think that people are getting used to the Extension term, > and it sounds less geeky. Extension has the advantage that there's only one way to spell it (as opposed to plugin vs plug-in). A mino

Re: Keyboard quagmire

2006-08-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey Calum, On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:41 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > I'd appreciate it if you read through the parts of the a11y > guide [3] that apply Wow, nice link. I wasn't aware of this document. Thanks! Andy. -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ desktop

Re: Putting the 'Mono debate' back on the rails

2006-07-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:11 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>parallel-instabllable is the worst idea of software development. See http://ometer.com/parallel.html for the reasons why GNOME does it this way. Regards, -- Andy Wingo http://win

Re: Memory consumption and virtual machines

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:57 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Please do not reply to this message on the mailing list. Please don't pontificate. Your holier-than-thou tone is tiring. -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.org/ ___ desktop-de

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Wingo
said this, but I don't think all people uncomfortable with mono would agree. > I would like to remind them that > gnome-games, long included by default on every Linux distribution, > depends on Scheme (the guile bindings). AFAIU it only depends on guile, not the guile bindings to the

Re: Gnome 2.15.4 is broken

2006-07-13 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:36 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: [gtkmm breakage with new gnome-vfs] > Turns out to be caused by the bonobo changes in gnome-vfs-2.15.3 This happened to the python bindings as well, and likely will happen for other bindings... -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.

Re: Re:Mono bindings a blessed dependency? [Was: Tomboy in 2.16]

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Wingo
(http://gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/) Cheers, -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-11 Thread Andy Wingo
he overhead for all users, or just the user who runs > gst-inspect-0.10? Just that user -- so that's probably not a good idea (ie when does root run media apps?). Multi-user systems will have a startup penalty for each user. Regards, -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.org/ ___

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-10 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi me, On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:04 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > Depending on your machine it might take > a couple seconds to get everything registered. Hm, I should clarify before the flames arrive: in the normal case, when the mtimes of the plugins haven't changed, and the set of plu

Re: requesting official list of modules and versions for GNOME 2.14

2006-02-10 Thread Andy Wingo
the registry in 0.10, so no more post-installation hooks are needed in distro packages. Regards, -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Andy Wingo
I don't know what Ronald's plans are. Regards, -- Andy Wingo http://wingolog.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list