Re: More proposed release schedule changes

2020-02-19 Thread Iain Lane
nk I'd like to hear from maintainers what their perspective on this issue is before being fully convinced that shifting the cycle to accommodate Fedora's beta will automatically result in the quality improvements being sought: any thoughts on why we might ha

Re: For projects switching to Meson *only*

2017-04-27 Thread Iain Lane
orks fine. But if a goal of this is to smooth the transition path and avoid a requirement for tooling to be updated, maybe it would be useful. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer

Re: On Ctrl+tab

2009-11-22 Thread Iain Nicol
o about it? > > Doesn't Ctrl + PageUp/PageDown accomplish the same thing? That's what I > use to switch from tab to tab. Unfortunately, this isn't universal. Gedit, for example, uses Ctrl + Alt + PageUp/PageDown. (And FWIW,

Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

2009-11-11 Thread Iain
ions we present are the ones that we encourage people to change is pretty much spot on iain [1] Which even members of KDE are now realising is an abomination. [2] William Jon's? I never know how to properly address people who use two names, sorry. __

Re: Appearance properties

2009-11-10 Thread Iain
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Frederic Crozat wrote: > There was no prior discussion on usability list and when people raised > concerns on it after the change was made (and even now) or how it was made, > they are being treated like children. The developer is in charge of the project, stop t

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-09 Thread Iain
ith libtracker-client you don't even have to think DBus > anymore. I saw the DBus API, I just didn't seriously think you were proposing it as application facing API. Porting the QTtracker library (or writing a high-level GObject equivalent) should be a pri

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-11-08 Thread Iain
to make our APIs as simple and easy to use as possible to enable developers to make the applications without distracting them with irrelevant implementation details. If this already exists, I apologise and blame the lack of documentation. iain ___ desktop

Re: gtk-doc and gobject introspection

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Nicol
ear to the end. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-doc-list/2009-October/msg00003.html Regards, -- Iain Nicol ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-22 Thread Iain
would be able in the future to remove gconf, orbit etc and know that nothing will break. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Iain
could never be set, so it would always be the first run for the user, pinned notes would never be pinned and synchronization would always require you to start over. These things should have been stored with a GKeyFile in the ~/.config/Tomboy directory, IMO iain __

Re: Mutter with proprietary OpenGL/ES library ??

2009-07-12 Thread Iain
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andy Tai wrote: > You should purchase a separate license from the Mutter authors... That would be completely impossible. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
do whatever you want. And thats completely NOT what I want and has missed the point. But I see that no-one else cares So I shall stop caring as well. And this is my last mail on the subject Enjoy iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-de

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
n a previous email. > Thinking about accessible sounds reminded me of this one - the sound we > play when GDM starts is an accessibility feature. I know. And is an application specific sound so would be provided by the application. iain ___

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
duck or frog (like the mac has) for all I care[1]. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Iain * wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Patryk Zawadzki >> wrote: >>> Actually all the sounds have (almost) complete context including full >>> text alternat

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
gossip (check > your /etc/sound/events/ and prove me wrong). And this is proof that the sound theme works, or that people don't use the sounds? iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
currently, I don't think its a good idea to be adding more names to the list) It also makes it even more sounds to learn. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
eir sounds?! How do you get a tango icon theme if its up to applications to ship their own icons? Most applications now ship tango icons, and they look somewhat out of place if my icon theme isn't tango How do you get a star trek theme that has a "printer has finished printing" sound effect

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Karl Lattimer wrote: > Apple have done a good job making sounds fit with what's happening. You mean by providing a single "System sound"[1] like I'm advocating and leaving the rest up to application authors? iain [1]http://c.sk

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:27 +, Iain * wrote: >>> These are all under the class of "something has happened which you did >>> not specifically ask to happen and may require your attention" >>>

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
and everything else is read out to them. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
;t be too > obnoxious... I did mention that in the initial email. subtle sounds. I have ideas on how a subtle sound should be created but I thought I'd wait until I'd made a few examples first. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
sound. Its a weird and interesting edge case. > So killing >ALL< sounds is a bit silly No-one was talking about killing ALL sounds. I was talking about replacing the myriad of sound effects that we have with one sound. A sound that is easy to learn its meaning, unlike 125 random sounds

Re: Sound effects

2008-12-12 Thread Iain *
it means. Was that swish new email or CD burning finished? The user closes the laptop lid and hears "lid-close" sound, thinks "what was that sound?" and opens the laptop to check. iain [1] This is what the positive sound concept is trying to solve

Sound effects

2008-12-11 Thread Iain
seconds of installing a new computer. The trick is when to use the one sound correctly, but as we now have a definition for that sound "Something has happened that you did not specifically ask to happen and may require your attention" I think we can work it out. iain [1] http://0pointer.de

Re: GNOME 2.23.5 Released!

2008-07-25 Thread Iain Nicol
d, which allows you to change > + vino password. Similar to Unix passwd command. (Jorge Pereira) > + > + Fixes > + > + + Bug #534262 - cyclic clipboard propagation (Jonh Wendell) > + + Minor bug fixes > + > + Translations > + > + + Djihed Afifi (ar) > + + Rostislav "zbrox" Raykov (bg) [...] Regards, -- Iain Nicol <http://iainnicol.com/> ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-28 Thread Iain *
op mode. > > Can that be done (is this the right solution for the Metacity hackers to > follow)? As Havoc said there's no right or wrong answer. Pick one and stick with it. > If so, will this be "hard"? I'd imagine so, as it would proba

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well even if you try to read just a 10k file you can get stuck if > another application is causing excessive IO (and I tend to run such > applications). It's hard to delegate each disk operation to a separate > thread

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
plication that should be fixed, rather than insisting that a compositor is used to work around the issue. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, one thing about a compositor is that it keeps off-screen copies > of all the windows so it does not have to invalidate regions when the > stacking order changes. To be totally honest, I've never really thought of

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
7;d thought of that first... /* * Copyright (C) 2007 Iain Holmes * Based on xcompmgr - (c) 2003 Keith Packard * xfwm4- (c) 2005-2007 Olivier Fourdan */ > > And although you think translucency is the only useful feature, I think > window shadows are an essential addition

Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say for me the only essential feature of a compositor is not > watching the goddamn windows redraw each time you switch apps and > workspaces. Then you don't need a compositor Turn it off. problem solved. __

Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

2008-06-26 Thread Iain *
ncy without any stupid effects at all. Because really, the only essential feature of a compositor is translucency, everything else is just extra guff. (Ironically, its working perfectly except for translucent windows...) But none of this is relevent to the gnome-sess

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-16 Thread Iain *
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:31 +0100 > "Iain *" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > In LANG=C you call gt

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-16 Thread Iain *
tf-8 compatible. This is the point we're trying to make. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Future of GNOME: Semantics

2008-06-15 Thread Iain *
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Anders Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Sebastian's architecture, Conduit would invoke Soprano, which would > then access Evolutions database through a backend. This way, Evolution > (and other applications) doesn't have to implement a SPARQL query > parser.

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-14 Thread Iain *
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:42:24 +0100 > "Iain *" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Thats be

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-14 Thread Iain *
d any rebuttal of them. Have you considered the politicial sphere yourself by any chance? iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-14 Thread Iain *
27;re talking about here. Your concerns, while certainly perfectly valid for a certain domain, do not seem valid to me at all in the context of what we're discussing and seem to be somewhat luddite and unhelpful. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

2008-06-13 Thread Iain *
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about printing to files ? An "nm" also rather suggests that gnome > apps do use printf and fprintf somewhat and many of the other functions > mentioned. syslog() is another that is used. I don't know what your use cases a

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-22 Thread Iain *
> http://folks,o-hand.com/iain/clutter-flow.png damnit http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/clutter-flow.png iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Dependency Proposal: Clutter 0.6.2, ClutterMM 0.6

2008-04-22 Thread Iain *
[2] plugin for Rhythmbox whitin 4 > > weeks ;-) > > That would be awesome. > > Here's the bug: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415816 http://folks,o-hand.com/iain/clutter-flow.png here's something I knocked up last night While its clearly not finished yet (I

Re: Call for hackfest ideas

2008-04-15 Thread Iain *
ed help from > volunteers to lead this effort. A multimedia hackfest would be very useful to work out a solid plan of action for the future. iain (and as author of gnome-cd I'd expect to be guest of honour at it) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing lis

Re: communication/information between forward-looking projects [was Re: Some info (Ref: GSOC 2008 advice)]

2008-03-04 Thread Iain *
ce your software on the gnome-announce mailing list so that people in the main community know about it... Have you contacted anyone in the other desktop2.0 projects to see if they are interested in your universal applet idea? iain (ignoring all the boring gnome3.0 shit)

Re: Tomboy replacement

2008-02-22 Thread Iain
we'll all meet up at the predesignated safe meeting point... iain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: HIG says "Page Setup" not "Page Setup..."

2008-02-06 Thread Iain *
oning is wrong. It does make sense, > when applied consistently. But it leads to ellipses on far > too many menu items. It doesn't really, we seem to have done pretty well so far... iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: HIG says "Page Setup" not "Page Setup..."

2008-02-06 Thread Iain *
So, "Setup Bluetooth..." because the action is "Set up the Bluetooth". Yes, you could use it to see the Bluetooth settings but thats not what the menu item says. > In short words: I don't agree. Thats fine, but you're wrong. iain _

Re: HIG says "Page Setup" not "Page Setup..."

2008-02-05 Thread Iain *
use the action (Set up the page) is not completed once the dialog is opened, further action is needed before the page setup is complete. thats always how I understood it all. (And to answer the question above: "File -> Open Parent" needs ..., the rest do not) iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Multiple sessions for the same user?

2007-12-28 Thread Iain Nicol
ll local users to safely shutdown the machine. Warning users that another user is logged on is of course a good idea. Cheers, -- Iain Nicol ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Iain *
On 9/25/07, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part. > > Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. > > Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when > the cursor is over the emboldened d

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Iain *
> Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part. > Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when the cursor is over the emboldened date to say why that date is special?

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
ignificant contribution. On a more serious note (i know, I'm in shock too) why don't we just have a web page with everyone's names? that way its easy to update, we can make it pretty, and put photos and biographies and what have you on it. iain

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
. > We could use Tracker to get the list of contributors if we mark them with "GNOME Foundation member" metadata and it could update the list in real time... iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Iain *
mes in it) I propose that we just replace it with a dialog that says " GNOME Version $(VERSION) Written by Me " that'll solve all the problems and you can show off to your hearts content. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list deskto

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-11 Thread Iain *
> Seriously; look through the Spotlight documentation (there's a great > deal actually). Come back and say this in not well defined. That is what Spotlight does...that is an entirely separate thing to "what we want from a desktop search system" and completely irrelevant. __

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-11 Thread Iain *
upport not added to gnome-search-tool? Why was there a need for it to be forked into tracker-search-tool? With a patch to g-s-t you wouldnt need to be in a place where this unknown program was replacing a well used, and well-tested one. iain ___

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-11 Thread Iain *
acker. Your little story, cute as it was, presumed that the solution was tracker. People got excited by Bonobo 6 years ago, I know I did. We looked for all sorts of places Bonobo could be used and we made them use Bonobo even when Bonobo wasn't in any way th

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
d it so that we didn't miss out on some perceived features war. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
On 1/10/07, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain * wrote: > > On 1/10/07, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I bet that the Epiphany developers does not think it is worth their > >> time if Tracker doesn't get inc

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
nager gnome-launch-box apt-cache rdepends libebook1.2-5 is pretty long iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
you will. We need to find the problems and then find the best solution for those problems whatever it is. Otherwise, we may be finding ourselves in 2012 with Tracker sitting there, unused, unmaintained but buried in the stack as we step and hack around it, like the

Re: eject buttons on the places menu

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
ouldn't be a weird tabular menu hybrid or require context menus on menus (which is eeevil). Weird. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
he lack of a places equivalent - but (at least, there may be others) Ubuntu have added another entry to the combo box to deal with that. * Knowing the best way to initially populate the favourite applications panel (or whatever it should be called). There are other small thi

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-10 Thread Iain *
tracker used in KDE as well? (Plus I note that jeff/ebassi's concerns about what "tracker" is haven't really been answered) iain PS: I would have similar objections to Beagle at this moment in time as well. ___ desktop-

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
On 1/9/07, Bryan Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this discussion is going to get a little off track here if > everyone puts up their slab gripes and then iain or someone else tries > to defend them all until either everyone reading the discussion is > annoyed or one o

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
ility issue. I dont think any of them count as usability issues really. Especially if the usability tests are showing that slab is better. Unless you've got usability tests to show that having a blue border around the window is worse usability, then I don'

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
d And I'm currently the person defending slab the most. In fact, I don't see what having Beagle installed would help me use better :) iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
laces" is very limited (contains only "computer", "network", > "home" and "cd burner"). Places menu allows me to access all my > local bookmarks and remote locations with one click and, at worst, > one submenu. > As has b

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
unusable without > a "recently used apps" menu, Mine has this. > a places menu that follows nautilus' > bookmarks or deskbar functionality in its search bar. > > It would be ten times as useful if it would just implement those. Agree ab

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Iain *
g to use it? Why did it not fit how you wanted to use it? etc? iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-08 Thread Iain *
l. The application browser could be faster to open, but if you set the favourites correctly, then you rarely need to use it. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Fwd: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-08 Thread Iain *
opps -- Forwarded message -- From: Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 8, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu To: Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 1/8/07, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:3

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Iain *
On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote: > > > [3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it > > > > You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added. > > T

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-24 Thread Iain *
> [3] If there is another way, I couldn't find it You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Iain *
objects" is kinda redundant. I, too, would like to know what a first class object database is, and why I need one. I know what Beagle is, it lets me search my data, and I know why I need to do that... iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list deskto

Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

2006-10-23 Thread Iain *
ifferentiate areas, I think we should do more of this in GNOME. And if it's replacing menus, I think it should replace both menus. We dont want menus to be the new clocks. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: getting on a longer release cycled

2006-09-07 Thread Iain *
On 9/7/06, Pat Suwalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing's impossible, but a longer cycle every so often would encourage > larger and better thought-out changes. Or lots more not-so-well-thought-out changes... ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list des

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-28 Thread Iain *
nothing new. I have stated my opinion, and I'd be extremely happy if you left it at that. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-27 Thread Iain *
e, so only just > noticed that such a thing was even in Evolution... but it's part of the > desktop, no?] This was part of the discussion of making tomboy use EDS for sharing notes with evolution. I forget how that discussion ended up iain

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-27 Thread Iain *
Oh, ok, my apologies. Its been a long time since my first run :) iain On 7/28/06, Alex Graveley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tomboy already does this, though the description it gives is pretty > minimal today. What do you think it should say? > > -Alex > > Iain * wr

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-27 Thread Iain *
On 7/28/06, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taking notes is hardly a power user thing. Most people like having a > place that they can just scribble some notes down. My opinion is that > if it is in anything it should be the desktop release. Oh, and tomboy gives us enough n

Re: Tomboy in Desktop

2006-07-27 Thread Iain *
know that they missed the yellow sticky note app in the first place. Having the first time importer doodah and maybe renaming it to just Notes in the menu so people don't get confused because they don't know what tomboy is. Maybe on first run the Start Here note could pop up on screen and ex

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

2006-07-24 Thread Iain *
On 7/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain * wrote: > > >>The other example is gstreamer, I am sure they can share with us > >> whether > >> their decision to go with parallel-installable version of 0.8 and > >> 0.10 was a &g

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

2006-07-24 Thread Iain *
r, it was very pleasent. It allowed me to use applications that had been ported to 0.10 and applications that had not...all at the same time! Yey for parallel installs iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.or

Re: consistency (or lack thereof)

2006-07-21 Thread Iain *
aintained. The incorrect way is this way, change one, and then leave it there. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Iain *
o write newsletters, or send out flyers. - Small business/medium owners who need to do basic bookkeeping, stock checking and making silly signs that say "No, we have no bananas" and "I assure you we're open" when required. Now I'm get

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Iain *
. As we saw with Nautilus, it sucked. And RB's compact mode wasn't to simplify the GUI, it was simply to take up less screenspace. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Iain *
what language it is written in matter to this blessing at all then? iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
discriminate on the language the program is written in. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain * gmail.com> writes: > > > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text > > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an > > audio editor? >

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
> > Ubuntu, Gentoo, and the other distros should come with a music editor, > > a video editor, and everything else. The discussion here I believe is what > > should be made part of the basic gnome distribution, and I think that > > music/video editors might not qualify. > > That's exactly what I me

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-15 Thread Iain *
On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beagle > > Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement. I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or female intuition or something... > > Diva > > Same as monodevelop. Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pit

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-15 Thread Iain *
On 7/15/06, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, that was just an example. Actually, I put an > interrogation mark after Java. However, if we accept the dependency > of extra frameworks, it could end up being like that in a couple of > years, so it wasn't a crazy id

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
re talking about adding one applet. Yes, in the future it may allow other applications written in other languages, but look, we've had python in the desktop for 2 releases now, and look how we're inundated with applications written in python...one..

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
On 7/14/06, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Azureus and Eclipse come to mind. > > Two out of.. how many? About 5 maybe 6 if you count "hello.world"? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.

Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
successful so quickly... > The 'Zen of GNOME', and GNOME itself, is a very big piece of that success. I understand that, and I'm totally not knocking what we've accomplished so far, hey, I'm still here aren't I? I'm just wondering what n

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
s writing applications in C. But hey, if sun has the time and money please feel free to rewrite all our prototypes in C. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
rm libraries. it does not make sense to use the gnome-desktop applications on it. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
On 7/14/06, Darren Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mono and Python etc are all very good in their own way, but I really don't see > why they need to be part of the core GNOME desktop - this was why I wanted to > break down the GNOME desktop into various groupings - so ISVs, etc. can make > thei

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-14 Thread Iain *
; Again, you're probably one user on one machine - we need to "think out side of > the box on your desk". The claim was that "Microsoft themselves had to pull back from using it for core functionality due to performance reasons". I don't imagine those performance reasons were on multiuser application systems, so I was responding within the same context. iain ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

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