Deskbar experience (was: Mono/GTK#/Tomboy)

2006-07-14 Thread Raphael Slinckx
Hi ! In all honesty, I see Python as being popular for short lived applications (a menu editor, etc). While deskbar is contrary to this, that applet seems to be more of a prototype (especially given it's memory usage). I like to consider deskbar as a prototype too. Keep in mind however

Re: preserving user configuration

2006-07-07 Thread Raphael Slinckx
Hi ! On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: So, the stock ticker applet has been replaced by a new all-shiny python incarnation. Has any thought been given to preserving the user configuration ? Yes, the implementation is lagging a bit. The interesting thing about it, is

Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme

2006-02-05 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 13:30 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le samedi 04 février 2006 à 23:14 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On 2/4/06, Christian Persch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arguably the icon names provided by gnome desktop's gnome-icon-theme are part of some sort of ABI; should they

Re: Trying to reach consensus on g-p-e

2006-01-12 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:52 +0100, Paolo Maggi wrote: Hi guys, since Gustavo (g-p-e maintainer) is willing to split g-p-e in two parts: 1. modules wrapping gnome desktop libraries (let me call it gnome-python-desktop), 2. modules wrapping other libraries, That would be really great

Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

2006-01-11 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:45 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: - don't allow desktop modules to depend on gnome-python-extras, unless they do so optionally (the state of things if we can't reach a consensus or no one bothers to drive issue to try to get one) This is not an option for python-based

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-29 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 00:29 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: what the difference between your search engine and beagle's ? Just to make things clear: We do not *want* to index anything, we are just a front-end, an UI for the broad range of services offered in a nearly-stock gnome desktop, allowing

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-29 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:03 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: Le mardi 25 octobre 2005 à 00:35 +0200, Benoît Dejean a écrit : Le dimanche 23 octobre 2005 à 19:19 +0200, Raphael Slinckx a écrit : Raphael, do you how much memory takes the in-memory cache ? How can i know that ? More generally

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-29 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 13:32 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: It's possible, and I know how. Say you have 10 python applets. Now, it should be feasible to leverage the bonobo component system to make them all share the same process, like this: 1. Create a special exe

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-29 Thread Raphael Slinckx
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 23:28 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Maybe replacing the run dialog with deskbar (at least by default) is going a bit too far. But, please, shipping one more optional applet is not going to hurt anyone. This would certainly be a nice touch. Maybe with some time, it

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-25 Thread Raphael Slinckx
Hi ! I'll try to reply to some things that have been discussed on this thread recently So assuming there has been no action on this front I guess there are three ways to fix this: * Fix the Python interpreter to use a real compacting GC That could be worse! Compacting GC's require

Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-24 Thread Raphael Slinckx
Vincent Untz wrote: I would love to see this not only go in, but also replace mini-commander (ie. have everyone's mini-commander get automagically upgraded to deskbar, unless they choose to specifically build mini-commander). I'd like it to replace the current run dialog as well.