Re: Applets? [was Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0]

2009-04-20 Thread Travis Watkins
n Windows 7 by merging the QuickLaunch area with running applications. A dock would also solve this problem nicely. You'll notice OS X doesn't have a lot of "applets" on the menu bar. The only one I've seen a lot of people have is smcFanCont

Re: thinking about our existing users

2008-07-08 Thread Travis Watkins
nges to the menu itself will be lost if you change the filename and the contents will be lost if you change the actual name of the menu (not the display name). Actually, worse than that, I think the users will get the new stuff and parts of their changes next to it if you changed the names. --

Re: gnome-session proposal

2008-06-26 Thread Travis Watkins
their older cards had the same limit. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-26 Thread Travis Watkins
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xavier Claessens wrote: > > Le mardi 25 mars 2008 à 07:01 -0500, Travis Watkins a écrit : > >> Did anything ever happen with the license issues for the libraries? > >> They shoul

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-25 Thread Travis Watkins
Did anything ever happen with the license issues for the libraries? They should be LGPL. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel

Re: Requiring DOAP instead of MAINTAINERS file

2008-01-20 Thread Travis Watkins
YbWCx0= > =Nn8+ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > ___ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > Err, that's the same thing minus some angle brackets. It doesn't look like that much of an improvement and every language has an XML parser already so it'd be easier to use the XML version. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Travis Watkins
pts). > > Exact same problem would happen with esound... > But esound only causes 40 or so and raises my CPU temp about 2C. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://ma

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-08 Thread Travis Watkins
ped by default with > Fedora 8. > > Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22? > Does it still beat the hell out of your sound card? With the version I have installed it raises my CPU temp about 8C because it's causing like 300 interrupts a seco

Re: 100% CPU usage while copying 8 Gigabytes

2007-04-29 Thread Travis Watkins
y the I/O (the copying itself) that is making your computer laggy, not the CPU usage. Also, this is not the right mailing list, this list is for development talk. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desk

Re: Battstat-applet and GNOME 2.19.x

2007-03-23 Thread Travis Watkins
tie, so they can choose where it ends up on the panel. Unless the screenshots I've seen were just mockups that's just a limitation of the panel's notification area implementation. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop

Re: direction [Re: slab menu]

2007-02-08 Thread Travis Watkins
nely hard it is to include a landscape page for a diagram in a book > whose pages are in portrait orientation. > Ooh, is that actually possible? I couldn't figure out how to do it. :) -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-de

Re: Module decisions for GNOME 2.18

2007-01-21 Thread Travis Watkins
gt; If the NetworkManager daemon is not running the nm-applet (bad name, btw) icon will not show itself in the notification area. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Travis Watkins
of hot air on my leg. It's dual core so I almost always have the one core available for tracker to max out. updatedb never seems to use more than 17% or so so it's much easier to handle. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desk

Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

2007-01-09 Thread Travis Watkins
It is just pointless and confusing to have two > different menu systems. Instead, let us choose the best one and stick > with that. > If that's the case -1 for me. It might be great for new users but I tried it for a week and had to force myself to keep using it after day 1. -- Travis

Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

2006-12-05 Thread Travis Watkins
hould allow to do the same thing. Doesn't Pango know what language it's currently working with? If so, you could automatically use the right dictionary. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list de

Re: gnome-menus branched for 2.16

2006-11-01 Thread Travis Watkins
hat powers the menu bar and alacarte. It's a GNOME implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: External Dependecies: xdg-utils ?

2006-10-22 Thread Travis Watkins
On 10/22/06, Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xgd-utils is a set of command line tools: the recent 1.0 release > includes: [snip] Don't these tools just call things already in GNOME to do their work? -- Travis Watkins http://ww

Re: Metacity Compositor

2006-10-03 Thread Travis Watkins
op). So does this mean support will be added to compiz to do basic window management without requiring 3D support? Or are you suggesting we support two window managers: compiz for bling and metacity as the "legacy desktop"? -- Travis W

Re: Metacity Compositor

2006-10-03 Thread Travis Watkins
Does compiz work without a 3D card? If not it's worthless as anything but a power user addon. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: menu editing griefs: How collaboration did not work. But it should work!

2006-09-22 Thread Travis Watkins
On 9/22/06, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roughly at the same time, Travis Watkins wanted to have a feature-rich > menu menu editor [5], totally not modelled after Calum's proposal. It > was called smeg (and later renamed to alacarte), but more and more &g

Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

2006-09-12 Thread Travis Watkins
and just start doing them. If someone doesn't like the work you're doing they then have to a) help you fix it, b) make something that works better, or c) live with it. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-lis

Re: Cancel session shutdown

2006-08-06 Thread Travis Watkins
uld look in their code? -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Deskbar Applet, NewStuffManager, 2.16, Installing New Plug-Ins, AutoUpdate, etc.

2006-08-03 Thread Travis Watkins
ture and signs your file with it's own key. Afaik this is how Debian and etc manage package uploads. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Migration Paths for New Modules

2006-07-19 Thread Travis Watkins
tor is exposed in the UI is the "Edit Menus" item in the menu applet context menu. Ubuntu has a patch (attached) that makes this menu item call alacarte if it's installed. What else would need to be done? -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com diff -Nur gnome-panel-2.14.1/gnome-p

Re: Totem branched for GNOME 2.14

2006-04-28 Thread Travis Watkins
On 4/28/06, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Usual "gnome-2-14" branch name. Plans for 2.16? -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.g

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

2006-04-21 Thread Travis Watkins
rovide the > whole package set... That's what the clue-by-four is for :) -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Proposal for Alacarte in 2.16

2006-04-20 Thread Travis Watkins
lity and I believe it's included in Fedora Extras and Gentoo. [1] http://www.realistanew.com/projects/alacarte [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=62693&action=view -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list m

Re: Fwd: [gnome-love] Participate to the GNOME Goals and feel the love!

2006-04-12 Thread Travis Watkins
On 4/12/06, Esben Stien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm saying is outlaw PNG throughout GNOME and use only vector > graphics, like SVG. Then we don't have this problem anymore;). Reread what I said. Also, read the links shaunm posted. -- Travis Watkins http

Re: Fwd: [gnome-love] Participate to the GNOME Goals and feel the love!

2006-04-12 Thread Travis Watkins
You still need to make smaller png versions of the icon. Most of the time the icon you designed at 128x128 will look like mush at 16x16 so you need to manually scale it (in gimp or something) and clean it up. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___

Re: Adaptive mode (Was: Re: Browser Mode by Default)

2005-12-23 Thread Travis Watkins
mode and icon view? -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: [Deskbar] Re: Gnome 2.14 Module Proposal: Deskbar Applet

2005-10-28 Thread Travis Watkins
On 10/28/05, Benoît Dejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what the difference between your search engine and beagle's ? This one does more than beagle, can use beagle if it's available, and can actually be included in a GNOME release? -- Travis Watkins http://