Re: GNOME 3 status update

2009-06-21 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Matthew Barnes writes: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 10:30 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > What is not covered is creation of thumbnails, for which we probably > > have to wait for the outcome of the 'thumbnailing service' ideas that > > are being floated... > > Is GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory recom

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or "get yourself a PlayStation 3")

2008-10-23 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Stefan Kost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one thing I would love to see, is picture sets. Put a camera somewhere > and taking 24 images from midnight to midnight. Then have some process > crossfading them over the day in sync with the time. For people with > exactly 4 workspaces one could have 4 o

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or "get yourself a PlayStation 3")

2008-10-22 Thread Soeren Sandmann
"Patryk Zawadzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Soeren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly > > what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) fo

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or "get yourself a PlayStation 3")

2008-10-22 Thread Soeren Sandmann
As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) for something like it. Basically, I want to change the XML format to contain a more generalized description of backgrounds, including various types of animations. Solid colors a

Re: Eel compilations issue

2008-06-03 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Og Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if someone could lend me a hand with Eel. Seems that SVN > (trunk) won't compile but the latest snapshot does ok... Is there > anything "manual" about the snapshot? The SVN trunk needs gnome-desktop from SVN trunk as well.

Re: Replacement for GNet

2007-12-24 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piotr Gaczkowski wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am interested if somebody is currently working on a GNet-like > > library based on GObject? > > The gvfs ftp backend is going to need sockets/tcp/dns/etc support, but > gio doesn't currently provide anything the

Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-30 Thread Soeren Sandmann
"Owen Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first reaction to this is "cool!" But then, I think how much of > the time is the desktop actually visible? It seems a bit of a wasteful > thing to spend CPU cycles animating something that's entirely obscured > by my full-screen web-browser/evolu

Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-27 Thread Soeren Sandmann
"Alberto Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea is that the background gradually fades between a number of > > images over the course of a day. One example would be a set of images > > taken at the same location at different times of the day. > > > > Although I think the feature is really

Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-27 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea is that the background gradually fades between a number of images > > over the course of a day. One example would be a set of images taken at > > the same location at different times of the day. > > It would be rad if that fade could be used for

Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-26 Thread Soeren Sandmann
"Sanford Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This sounds really cool! Is there any support for for changing the > background at a specific time of day? That way you could show morning > images in the morning, evening images in the evening, etc. Yes, this is exactly the intention. > I do

Timelapsed backgrounds

2007-09-25 Thread Soeren Sandmann
A long time ago I wrote code to do timelapsed backgrounds. I missed the freeze for 2.20, so now I am submitting it for 2.22. The idea is that the background gradually fades between a number of images over the course of a day. One example would be a set of images taken at the same location at diffe

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

2007-09-11 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 11:41 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: > > > > GNOME is not in need of a DSCM or any other kind of new SCM. For > > source control, SVN works fine, just like CVS worked fine. > > You probably have not used git-bisect before. After y

Re: Background gradient not being applied until I run preferences dialog

2007-04-11 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Jonathan Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also updated several GNOME packages from the Fedora Devel repository > last night (e.g., gnome-python2-gconf, libgnome, gnome-applets, > gtk2-devel, gnome-python2, gnome-python2-canvas, gnome-python2-bonobo), > so I suppose the update could have caus

Notes on the Metacity compositor

2006-10-23 Thread Soeren Sandmann
The metacity GL compositor was intended to: - move towards the "3D desktop" - be a technology demo with a focus on cool effects But given those two gaols, compiz is clearly better than the metacity compositor. So I think that if anybody wanted to pick up the metacity compositor, the focus shoul

Killing the splashscreen for 2.16

2006-07-14 Thread Soeren Sandmann
I would like to turn off the login splashscreen by default, for the following reasons: - login is somewhat faster - the 'progress' icons in the splashscreen don't reflect the time it actually takes to login. On my system, the login process is like this: - Press return

Metacity branched for 2.14

2006-02-16 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Hi, Metacity has branched; the stable branch is called gnome-2-14. Development will proceed in HEAD. Soren ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Composite use in GNOME causes a strange behavior

2005-12-17 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why this happen? See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-October/010679.html Søren ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/m

Re: shared memory usage tool - exmap

2005-10-04 Thread Soeren Sandmann
John Berthels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess I'm saying it may be worth a second look :-) Well, it locks up my system hard (2.6.12-1.1446_FC5, ie. Fedora rawhide from a while back which might explain it), but if it does what you say it does it would certainly be a very useful tool to have.

Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

2005-08-29 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Lorenzo Colitti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, as Owen says, most of the time is spent just reading the cc1 binary > into memory. I have no idea why it's reading around all over the place > instead of performing one big sequential read of the whole file > though. Well, that's to avoid reading

Re: The hall of bloat

2005-05-16 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Llu, 2005-05-16 at 06:45, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:57 -0500, William Lovaton wrote: > > > > > Reading your little chat with the kernel guys it seems that there is > > > little benefit (or none) in reducing VM Size, why is that?

Re: GUADEC Hacking

2005-04-12 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm a little skeptical because IIRC the mail I posted with the > > gconf-on-startup profiling numbers only showed 2-3 seconds for GConf. > > Which is worth fixing, but by no means explains the entire login time. > > A good place to start for full dat