Re: Atom a new text-editor built by the Github people...

2014-03-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:41 -0500, Alex GS wrote: > Sorry, disegard this message, it's a closed source and useless app, > nevermind :-( well they haven't released anything yet, so we can't jump to conclusions - it might be (although unlikely) paid for + open source.. -

[Fwd: Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted]

2013-10-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
in your opinion), then use them. If not, then what does that say when three forks of a desktop can't get it right? How did we get on to this anyway? [0] http://mate-desktop.org/ [1] http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ [3] SolusOS Consort (no project or source code page) -- Marco Scannadinari

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 04:44 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Gnome is emulating the Android interface citation needed? -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listi

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Marco Scannadinari
ow this, and if your app is part of the Gnome project, then Gnome are free to "do what they want with it", in this case, to create a *read-only* mirror on GitHub in the intrest of convenience. -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-lis

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
And with regards to how I thought that the Tango project created the throbber, I was blindly convinced by these links: commacommacrash.com/2007/08/animated-gif-for-tango-throbber.html commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spinning_wheel_throbber.gif‎ -- Marco Scannadinari

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-02 Thread Marco Scannadinari
orked, but it seems quite likely because of the similarities between DMZ-Black and the Adwaita cursor theme. The only (noticable) difference is the throbber. -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
l scenario (for me) is to revert to the Tango throbbers and subsequently their DMZ-* cursors as well. Not to be rude, but does anyone know why the cursors were forked from DMZ? (Apart from it needing to be black, but there is a DMZ-AA / DMZ-Black anyway..

Re: GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-05-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Cosimo or Benjamin can tell you more about the specifics. Thanks. By Cosmio and Benjamin, do you mean Cosimo Cecchi and Benjamin Otte? -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https

GNOME throbber inconsistencies?

2013-04-30 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Again, is this a design desicion? Thanks, - - Marco Scannadinari P.S. Sorry for the HTML email - it was written on a tablet at the time ;) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-

Re: loomio

2013-04-24 Thread Marco Scannadinari
n't a good idea. I'm (and probably not a lot of other people) are not in a position to argue or disprove such a study, so, as much as I would like to see it be implemented, I guess that's that... [0] http://nat.org/blog/2006/02/dan-winship-on-des

Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

2013-04-23 Thread Marco Scannadinari
see recent loomio post in desktop-devel), to be later implemented if the response is positive. I think your suggestion of a "feature" branch can be a worthy compromise, though. -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: > If someone posts a proposal on gnome-devel, for example, it would not be > efficient or easy for each user to give their approval: "Yeah I love Here you clearly assume that

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
ertain decisions, such as the location of the close button on fullscreen apps, could be improved a lot and polls could be used as evidence for user testing or feedback, rather than saying "We thought it was the right thing to do." (for example) BTW Aren't decisions made based

Re: loomio

2013-04-16 Thread Marco Scannadinari
So you want to have random people suddenly join, be of the decision and have equal say? I find that a little bit weird. As opposed to the method that we have now which is..? -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: loomio

2013-04-16 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:49:48PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:21:15PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: > > > [0] (Restricted in that user

Re: loomio

2013-04-15 Thread Marco Scannadinari
s, or that they are allowed to participate. And if they do, they may not be notified of a decision meeting when it occurs.) -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/des

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-05 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:10 -0600, meg ford wrote: > Hi Marco, > > If you need detailed explanations you can ask on the gnome-love > mailing list [1] or #gnome-love on irc.gnome.org. Thanks, I didn't know about that list -- M

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-04 Thread Marco Scannadinari
'org.gnome.Shell', > None); > proxy.Eval('(s)', 'global.reexec_self();') I'm really sorry - could you explain those arguments to me? - So I can be able to reproduce them not necessarily for this program. -- Marco Scannadinari _

Re: Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-04 Thread Marco Scannadinari
er restart. How can I pass global.reexec_self() to org.gnome.Shell? Sorry, I have little to no (g)dbus experience. -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Why does killing GS with SIGHUP crash on the 2nd time?

2013-03-03 Thread Marco Scannadinari
--replace from the commandline? -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-21 Thread Marco Scannadinari
Thanks everyone for your input. I've decided to go with GTK+ for now because it seems the most supported and integrate-able with GNOME. It's python binding is also quit easy to use. My next choice would be wxwidgets. Thanks, -- Marco Sc

Re: Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-14 Thread Marco Scannadinari
ike a good toolkit for these purposes. Qt also looks quite native on the new GNOME 3.6, albeit appearing like the old GTK+ theme. I am actually quite biased towards GTK, but the idea of being able to develop for multiple platforms seems quite attractive (in regard to Qt). -- Marco Scannad

Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Scannadinari
environment. Keep in mind my language of choice is python (3) and am quite new to graphical app development. Thanks, -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
isplay-idle-sleep time? From a users point of view I would say that a screensaver and power management are two different things. Marco ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Nick Glynn wrote: > > Thanks for the tip, but I don't use the gnome shell. > > > > Marco > > > > So you don't use the Gnome desktop but you're moaning to the development > list thereof? I use the gnome desktop. However,

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Justin Joseph wrote: > There is a presentation mode extension in the gnome.extensions > which will help you for the time being. Thanks for the tip, but I don't use the gnome shell. Marco ___ desktop-devel-list m

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
e issue does not bother me that much. It wouldn't bother me if the screen would never turn off (I can do it myself), but a blank screen after a few minutes is unacceptable, especially in public talks like you already mentioned. Marco ___ desktop-d

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
tes these commands when the desktop is displayed and switches back to display sleep when another desktop is displayed. That way I don't need an applet or to click on any button, I simply move my application (vlc, terminal window,…) to that desktop. That's

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
nt. But the automatism don't always work. What if I'm working on the shell and watch the output of a program. I have to press a button from time to time to keep my screen alive. It would be so easy to simply turn off the scrren blanking for the

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
blem. Still, my setting should work regardless of the application I use. > I think there are also settings in gnome-tweak-tool / "Advanced > Settings" for this. I can't find those. The only settings I find are the “Laptop lid close…” ones. Marco ___

Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
work, either. Other settings like idle-dim-battery work perfectly. I don't use a screensaver. How to keep the display turned on permanently? Gnome 3.2.1 Marco ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.o

Re: How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-05 Thread Marco
On 2012-02-04 Marco wrote: > I want to alter the setting idle-dim-battery and can't figure out > > how to do that. I tried: > > gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true > > But I get an error: > > Failed to set value I fou

Re: How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-05 Thread Marco
ot > be started via D-Bus activation. dconf-service is running according to ps x: /usr/lib/dconf/dconf-service > But you'd better file a bug against dconf or your distribution. I think it's too early for that. Marco ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-05 Thread Marco
On 2012-02-04 Marco wrote: > I want to alter the setting idle-dim-battery and can't figure out > how to do that. I tried: > > gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true > > But I get an error: > > Failed to set value > >

Re: How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-04 Thread Marco
nome.session-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery > > work and report a value ? No such schema 'org.gnome.session-daemon.plugins.power' Marco ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

How to set a value using gsettings

2012-02-04 Thread Marco
I want to alter the setting idle-dim-battery and can't figure out how to do that. I tried: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true But I get an error: Failed to set value How to set this value? GNOME 3.2.1

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-27 Thread Marco Bonomo
had the time to read everything so please excuse me if I'm going OT . I've been pointed to this ML by Hylke Bons after showing him my work, without any knowledge of this discussion i made this mockup last week and i think some ideas are the same discussed here, only with a different layo

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Marco Barisione
(or other gossip developers) to do this work. We are only asking to give us permission to relicense your code. If the main gossip developers agree on relicensing, I'm going to open a bug in bgo to track this issue. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Marco Barisione
merged, libempathy-gtk will contain also the file transfer dialog stolen^Wcopied from epiphany. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Mercurial - Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-24 Thread Marco Barisione
epo2 && echo foobar >> bar && hg ci -m 'Foobar' $ $ # push the changes to the original repo $ hg push pushing to /home/demian/Desktop/repo1 searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with

Re: Rise of the Plugins

2007-05-17 Thread Marco Barisione
Il giorno gio, 17/05/2007 alle 18.26 +0200, Vincent Untz ha scritto: > My €0.02: I think that people are getting used to the Extension term, > and it sounds less geeky. I agree and Firefox is using extension too. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisio

Re: libpcre: external dependency for gnome-system-monitor?

2007-05-09 Thread Marco Barisione
not GRegexp :) -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: libpcre: external dependency for gnome-system-monitor?

2007-05-08 Thread Marco Barisione
system-monitor should be ported to use GRegex. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-October/msg00478.html [2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ExternalDependencies -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop-deve

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-18 Thread Marco Barisione
to read LANGUAGE, but I don't know how this variable is set on different distros. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-08 Thread Marco Barisione
I wrote a post on my blog that analyzes the existing libraries for spell checking in GNOME: http://www.barisione.org/blog.html?p=29 In the next days I'm going to analyze the code of the libraries and see what can be improved. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barision

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-07 Thread Marco Barisione
ould be good to have an algorithm to recognize the language of a single paragraph, Microsoft Word does it, but I don't know how it works. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-06 Thread Marco Barisione
en you want to write using more lanuages, a very common case. This has disadvantages, adding more languages increases the probability to have some word recognized as correct when they are wrong. -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisione.org/ ___ desktop

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-05 Thread Marco Barisione
Il giorno mar, 05/12/2006 alle 20.33 +0100, Paolo Maggi ha scritto: > Marco Barisione (of GRegex fame) and Emanuele Aina under my supervision > wrote a little library we never published to split out from gedit the > gedit independent part of the spell checker plugin [4]. > >

Re: gnome-system-monitor (temporarily) reverted to gnome-2-16 for GNOME 2.17.x

2006-10-28 Thread Marco Barisione
ecause pcrecpp > is just fine. GRegexmm anyone ? I'm sure that it will be wrapped when GRegex will be integrated with GLib. If you don't want to use GRegex you can embed a copy of PCRE in your module (the Makefile.am can be copied from GtkSourceView). -- Marco Barisio

Re: gnome-system-monitor (temporarily) reverted to gnome-2-16 for GNOME 2.17.x

2006-10-27 Thread Marco Barisione
so if you need to use GRegex now you can just include the EggRegex code from http://techn.ocracy.org/eggregex You can directly copy the code, the makefiles and so on from the soc-2006 branch of GtkSourceView: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtksourceview/gtksourceview/libegg/?only_with_tag=soc-2006 --

Re: Metacity Compositor

2006-10-03 Thread Marco Cabizza
erything will be just a matter of time! Oh, thanks everyone for the replies on metacity, I wasn't really sure of what was going on :) Ciao ~marco signature.asc Description: Questa parte del messaggio è firmata ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Metacity Compositor

2006-10-02 Thread Marco Cabizza
agers - Compiz? Beryl? Emerald? Whatever? - things are becoming really confusing. So, can the metacity compositor link against something else - i.e. a compiz backend? - or is it just stalled ? Ciao ~marco signature.asc Description: Questa parte del messaggio è firmata _

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-24 Thread Marco Barisione
k. I know but GUniqueApp requires communication between the "server" and the "client", using named mutex you can't communicate. > I think we can use a platform-based approach: > > * D-Bus, Xlibs and bacon on *nix on a soft dependency basis; >

Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

2006-09-23 Thread Marco Barisione
pipes. However only the client part of named pipes is supported on Windows 9x/Me. If we want to support Windows 9x/Me we could use mailslots[1] or plain sockets. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/about_mailslots.asp -- Marco Barisione http://www.barisio

Re: RFC GnomeGoal #3

2006-08-12 Thread Marco Barisione
t state per screen size, etc. > > There's no way apps will get this right without something on that level... I agree, on Windows apps trying to save their window state always do it wrong. Related to this argument read http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/14/395271.as

Re: critical warnings; turn them off now?

2006-03-07 Thread Marco Barisione
[1]) { int major; major = atoi (versions [1]); if ((major % 2) != 0 && is_later_than_date_of_doom ()) -- Marco Barisione ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Barisione
Jonathan Blandford wrote: The primary goal of Project Ridley is to cut down on the number of problem libraries that are part of the GNOME platform. We propose to do this by moving functionality into GTK+, wherever it makes sense. What about EggRegex? -- Marco Barisione

Re: ggv/gpdf and evince

2005-06-10 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
r-cairo early in jhbuild is probably the best way to get testing and bug reports about it. Splash is already quite mature and included in stable distributions (FC4 for example), we can put it back later if cairo is too immature. It's not a clear cut decision but I'd say to g

Re: .desktop file handling

2005-02-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
the value we need an api that returns an absolute path or a pixbuf. And that requires GtkIconTheme. The API is admittely confusing. I didnt deprecate it because we dont have an alternative yet. Marco ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list

Re: .desktop file handling

2005-02-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
-notification). In both cases the problem is that gnome-vfs cannot depend on gtk. There are vague plans of a libgnomevfsui library for other things... that could be a good place to put launch with notification/icon apis too. Out of curiosity can you explain the use case of the icon api? Marco __