Re: Font scaling

2016-02-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 22 février 2016 à 14:28 +1100, S. Brett Sutton a écrit : > Some questions to think about while solving this problem once and for > all: > > 1. What is the correct dpi to report on a projector? > > 2. How do we detect the default scale factor? Using a 10pt font at > 96dpi on a football st

Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

2011-04-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:30 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > My main fears in a setup like this is: > > > > * Conceptually a "chat" app needs to be running all the time when you're > > online (as you might get a message), but gener

Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

2011-01-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:07 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > What I don't understand is why the decision was made that it is being > implemented as a Mutter (strange name for a WM if you speak german, btw) > plugin, rather than as a "normal" application which would allow to be used > wit

Re: [Fwd: Proposing new external dependency for Empathy: libfolks]

2010-05-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:08 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote: > Or did you mean if I merge a TpContact (say, a Jabber contact > f...@jabber.org) and an EContact together into an Individual, the > EContact should be added a vCard attribute "x-jabber=...@jabber.org" and > that info sync in other PCs?

Re: [Fwd: Proposing new external dependency for Empathy: libfolks]

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:19 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:37 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:23 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote: > > > Just to clarify a little, it would look like this: > > > > > &

Re: [Fwd: Proposing new external dependency for Empathy: libfolks]

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:23 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote: > Just to clarify a little, it would look like this: > > telepathye-d-s > | | > V V > telepathy-vala libebook-vala > | | >

Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

2009-10-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:53 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 22 octobre 2009 à 14:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : > > > > So, I say, leave old apps using gconf alone, and leave the gconf storage > > > alone too. It wor

Re: Module proposal: dconf

2009-10-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 07:35 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 14:00 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >> if dconf listens to changes in gconf, 3rd party apps would just need to > >> link to glib/GSettings instead of libgconf, a

Re: New module proposal: tracker

2009-08-18 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:40 +0300, Xan Lopez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Maciej Piechotka > wrote: > >> It can be used directly by applications that feed it data through an > >> API. Zeitgeist is an example, another could be bookmarks/history > >> storage in Epiphany. > >> > >> Xan >

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-17 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:22 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > people must vote with their wallets. they must buy hardware with Linux > support; and make other Linux users buy hardware with Linux support; > and let vendors know that they bought or did not buy hardware because > of the Linux support.

Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

2009-08-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on > Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality > that Clutter requires[2]. Except for some Intel cards, that's not true by a long shot. Only very old ATI cards

Re: New Module Proposal. libseed

2009-05-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:20 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Xan Lopez wrote: > > We don't maintain the runtimes, we maintain the integration between > > those runtimes and the platform. AFAIK we do this for a lot of other > > languages, like Python, Perl

Re: dconf

2009-04-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 02 avril 2009 à 19:39 +0100, Rob Taylor a écrit : > My question would be is why do these "People" have a desktop in which > there isn't a DBus session bus? Its been there for a very long time now > in most distros, afact. For gnome 3.0, running without a session bus is > going to be like r

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:46 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > There is nothing good about compiz other than as a spectacle and > general proof of concept. Eh, for now compiz is working and is the reference WM for linux (and more). gnome-shell would be the proof of concept :) > It has myriad applic

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:53 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 18:33 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:28 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > > > On 03/24/2009 08:47 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > > Using Compiz to create a GNOME de

Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

2009-03-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:28 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On 03/24/2009 08:47 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Using Compiz to create a GNOME desktop using GNOME applications, the > > GNOME control-center, and so forth will of course remain possible. We > > have no current plans to create hard dependen

Re: totem movie player enhancement

2009-02-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:51 +0100, chuchi wrote: > Hi all, > > I think Totem in a player. A player is only for play videos (or > music) not to modify videos. If my mother open totem, she only needs 3 > buttons, play/pause, next and previous and the playlist (my mother can > kill all my videos!

Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

2009-01-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:32 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > What really PA needs is some kind of "great switch" for > advanced/troubled users. I admit I wasn't found about PA in the past, > but now it works. Sure it has quirks but it is really nice feature to > "Free Desktop". There are still ca

Re: GNOME 2.25.2 released !

2008-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Sorry, that mail meant to be private ... On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:06 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:53 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > By now, development > > is well under way, and we've already made good progress on some o

Re: GNOME 2.25.2 released !

2008-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Matthias, On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:53 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > By now, development > is well under way, and we've already made good progress on some of the > goals that we've set ourselves for 2.26 (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals). I'm no native english speaker, but I don't think "und

Re: libproxy as external dependency

2008-10-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:35 +, Benjamin Otte wrote: > pros: > - current proxy handling in GNOME is a huge mess, we're all lucky we can live > without proxies > - the API looks extremely sane > - there is nothing else that does proxying > - Dan (who is going to be the main - or only? - user of i

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 17:37 +0100, Mark Doffman wrote: > > I believe that there is very little detrimental effect for the majority > of users to turning accessibility on by default. This is greatly > outweighed by the benefits to new users who require the accessibility > support. How about jus

Re: Session Management in 2.24

2008-04-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:53 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mar, 01-04-2008 a las 14:52 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: > > I like opensuse's logout dialog: > > http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1199/1166181703_d5580ac3a1_o.png > > > > Descriptions could also help to some newbies (specially for the > > d

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.24

2008-03-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
On mar, 2008-03-25 at 17:15 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote: > Le mardi 25 mars 2008 à 09:26 -0400, Hubert Figuiere a écrit : > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:50 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote: > > > libmissioncontrol >= 4.53 > > > > libmissioncontrol is LGPLv2 only. This is a problem as it prevent Gn

Re: Tomboy replacement

2008-02-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:36 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote: > Hi, > > Just rewrite sticky note using Vala, you will make some users happy > rather than poisoning d-d-l with flames. :) +1 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org ht

Re: Tomboy replacement

2008-02-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Mark, On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:07 -0500, Mark Fink wrote: > [...] sticky notes needs to replace Tomboy as the official GNOME notes > program because it is stupid to allow MONO into GNOME. MONO programs > CANNOT be allowed to be in GNOME! This only helps M$ destroy Linux! > Don't you see!? You a

Re: GNOME/Win32

2007-12-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:30 +0100, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote: > Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I don't want it working outside the GNOME > environment, but working in the GNOME environment on Win32/OS X > platform. Modular GNOME is the wat to do it. Why reinvent the wheel > over and over again? If a pla

Re: About SSL "Trick or Treat" Dialogs

2007-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 04 décembre 2007 à 14:29 +, Stef Walter a écrit : > Dan Winship got me thinking about the "unable to verify identify of this > certificate" dialogs we see in browsers when using self-signed or > otherwise unverifiable certificates. > > I'm sure others have come to this conclusion: Th

Re: Extreme memory usage for gnome-panel related apps

2007-12-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dimanche 02 décembre 2007 à 20:52 +, Alan Cox a écrit : > Taking out the commonly used python apps and replacing them with compiled > code would be an even bigger performance and size leap. How about adding to that "forking after having initialized all libraries" ? Xav __

Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

2007-11-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 13:48 +0530, Sankar P wrote: > For an IMAP user any plugin related to GroupWise, Exchange or other > providers makes no sense and he will be annoyed on seeing such a lengthy > plugins list. So except for account setup, all plugins that are specific > to backends were consolida

Re: Agnubus?

2007-11-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 02 novembre 2007 à 11:04 -0400, Hubert Figuiere a écrit : > > > OOo is Gtk based for several years. > > > > This is not true. OOo only uses Gtk themes, not Gtk widgets. Big > > difference. Like the difference between firefox and epiphany. > > What difference does it make to the us

Re: Pulseaudio

2007-10-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:46 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote: > Anyway, even if PA isn't *THE* answer, ALSA isn't, either, for the > reasons already expressed in this thread. So, what do you purpose? IMHO Helge Bahmann got it right: he designed an AUDIO extension for X Window: http://www.chaoticmind

Re: Module proposal: Empathy for GNOME 2.22

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > >>> Right, libempathy and libemapthy-gtk are GPL because it contains > >>> code from Gossip. libempathy mostly contains trivial code from > >>> gossip, > >>> > >>> the rest is rewritten by me or some collabora workers who > >>> are 100% OK

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : > Hi list > > What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? Use normal X window management protocol to handle applets (à la system tray), that would be the modern way of launching several remote xload to watch a bunch of machi

Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

2007-08-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:07 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > We are talking about providing an easy way > for apps to call actions on other apps, right? For complex interfaces, > you need a proper DBus interface, but what if my app just has a > DoWhatever action? Should I create a new DBus interface ju

Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

2007-08-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:32 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > It's like having: > > set_size > > get_size > > set_text > > get_text > > set_whatever > > get_whatever > > ... > > > > VS > > > > set_prop > > get_prop > > > > You can do your life easier with the _prop combo, like: > > set_prop(prop_va

Re: DnD over remote sessions

2007-08-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:13 +0200, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote: > Hello! > > I'm quite unsure if this is the right list to write to, but I'll try > nonetheless. > > Today while doing some stuff in Nautilus over SSH I stumbled once again > upon a problem that I can't just drag'n'drop anything from

Re: GNOME 2.19.4 Released!

2007-07-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Elijah, Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007 à 15:53 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit : > platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS > desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS > admin- http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.19/2.19.4/NEWS > bindings - http://download.

Re: Gnome panel hacking

2007-06-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:03 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:51 +0200, Peter Henriksson wrote: > > A 100px button would be pretty small on the 2560x1600px TFT I wish I > > had. :) > > Please let it be configurable trough gconf or some such. > > Or even better, work out from th

Re: High CPU load from image slideshow screensaver

2007-05-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:26 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > maybe I'm dumb but I never managed to make that screensaver work. All I > > get is a black screen, and there's nowhere to set where too look

Re: High CPU load from image slideshow screensaver

2007-05-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:27 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > The image slideshow screensaver in gnome-screensaver puts such a load on > my laptop's CPU that the fan runs constantly and tasks such as music > playing with totem become very choppy. Hi, maybe I'm dumb but I never managed to make tha

Re: normalizing filenames and strings

2007-03-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:52 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > > If you have applications that "don't work" when you have Unicode > > filenames, it's a telltale sign that they are not using > > g_filename_to_utf8() and g_filename_

Re: normalizing filenames and strings

2007-03-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
; On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:50 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:55 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > > > Most applications that operate on files will accept file name > > > > > arguments when invoked. What are we suppo

Re: normalizing filenames and strings

2007-03-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 28 mars 2007 à 11:50 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : > Most applications that operate on files will accept file name > arguments when invoked. What are we supposed to do with these? I don't know, I always use bash completion, which should avoid the need to use canonical-encoding - exce

Re: normalizing filenames and strings

2007-03-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:46 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > > Filenames could also be NFC normalized when created, although that's > > > not absolutely necessary. > > > > It would be nice if gnome mandated a standard approach

Re: Beagle CPU usage (was Proposed module: tracker)

2007-03-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 17:13 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson a écrit : > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:28 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On mar, 2007-03-27 at 14:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > > > [/me wonders if thumbnailers are measurably faster by using mmap()

Re: Beagle CPU usage (was Proposed module: tracker)

2007-03-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On mar, 2007-03-27 at 14:52 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > [/me wonders if thumbnailers are measurably faster by using mmap() > instead of read()...] It depends on their access pattern. If they need sequential access, read() is better because it can do prefetching (readahead). > [Can you

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:09 +, Iain * wrote: > 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. I think making each partic

Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

2007-03-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 01:23 +, Alex Jones wrote: > As much as I applaud any effort to depart from uninspired default > styling, if we want visual wow, we should try to make it happen in a > consistent fashion, and then maybe we can make it look even better! I hope you don't mean "everyone shou

Re: Synchronising an app with the system clock

2007-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:30 +, Alex Jones wrote: > Back on the thought of a "system clock" D-Bus service, how does this > sound? (Sorry to reiterate some info.) [...] > Any further ideas/comments? Waking 2 processes and doing RPC *each second* just to be sure to be on time looks like really he

Re: Removing the Multimedia Systems Selector from the menus

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 18:33 +, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:29 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:13 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > > > Now that GStreamer is tip-top at autodetection, I think we should remove > > > the "gstr

Re: gnome-session patch nag: change client removal order when logging out

2007-01-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 23:35 -0500, Ray Strode wrote: > Hi, > > > My point is: On logout, close all other apps first (by whatever > > appropriate means), > > then close all nautilus windows (the last remaining windows), which will > > eventually > > clear the desktop, and finally close metacity and

Re: Proposal: NetworkManager for GNOME 2.18.

2006-12-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:07 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: > Andrew, > > I have been working [with David Cantell's help] to get NetworkManager to > work under GARNOME. When I started this exercise, I was running > YDL-4.1, an FC4 clone. I found that the installed version of dhcp was > "high

Re: Proposing GtkUnique 1.0 as a blessed external dependency

2006-11-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:39 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:06 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > That is the case of Firefox nowadays. It complains there is another > > > instance running. So, you can't follow links in the another one. > > > > Yelp doesn't have to just

Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

2006-10-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:41 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: [...] > Unless the sounds are played out of process. I saw an interesting proposition somewhere which was to make the notification process handle the sound caching (and replacing esd in that respect). That would solve this problem too.

Re: Metacity Compositor

2006-10-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:44 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > The problem is that 17" TFT screens with 1280x1024 in dualhead setups > are also becoming quite common. Given the limitation of ATI R200 and > R300 cards, which have a maximum 3D framebuffer of 2048x0248, it's > impossible to use dualhead in

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:59 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. > > Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but > > Mark did not want to add such a heavy dep

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. > Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but > Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file monitoring. > And besides, gnome-vfs and gamin use identical ino

Re: [Usability] Drive applet by default

2006-09-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:55, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:05:49PM +0200, Isak Savo wrote: > > I think he's talking about the fact that when you "unmount" a USB > > device in windows, the devices are often turning off their leds to > > indicate that they are now turned off. When

Re: gnome desktop integration library

2006-09-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:43, Rodrigo Moya wrote: [...] > So, one thing that has been on my mind for long is to get those small > libraries and merge them together [...] > When the library grows, we could separate it into different .so's Don't do that (the separation). If you merge the different li

Re: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16

2006-09-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:38, Rob Bradford wrote: > Can't we just have a UI like the GIMP acquire dialog? How about this for > a suggestions: > > * Print Screen key just acts as before > * Same re Alt-PrntScr (wow I didn't know that existed...) > * Shift-PrntScr brings up dialog I can never rememb

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006 à 17:40 -0400, Dan Winship a écrit : [...] > And if your argument is really "languages that come with their own > frameworks are bad", and not just "I hate mono", then why didn't you > argue against allowing python-based apps in the platform when that came > up a year and a

Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

2006-07-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:00, Ben Maurer wrote: [...] > In the long term, Mono can potentially reduce our performance problems. In the short term, there are performance problems and Mono will worsen them. [...] > IMHO, we should define a process that does not start "Python is bloated, > C# is blo

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51, David Prieto wrote: [...] > It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch > the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click > applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea > (middle-click), epiphany. Under Amiga

Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

2006-04-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 01:28, Corey Burger wrote: > On 4/9/06, Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elijah Newren wrote: > > > On 4/9/06, Scott J. Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Am I the only one who mouses over the applet to see how much more time > > >> until the battery is

Re: Desktop as Nautilus

2006-03-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:52, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > If it's in the bottom right corner of the screen (as it is in Ubuntu's > default setup, for example), it's several thousand pixels wide and > several thousand pixels high, making it the easiest thing to drag to in > the whole of Gnome. >

Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed

2006-02-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:50, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Virtually all apps really should be single-instance (though they often > allow multiple document windows). Single-instanceness should be defined carefully (e.g. session-wide or machine-wide) for different application classes. Do you allow 2 in

Re: System Monitor Graph Style Suggestions

2006-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 06:52, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: > > I thought the most common use of it was for closing unresponsive > > programs. Maybe I'm just unlucky. :-) > > > > Doesn't metacity take care of that for you? :) Nowadays I'm using gnome-system-monitor twice a day to kill swfde

Need for lead (Re: NLD10 and GNOME)

2006-02-08 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 19:53, Elijah Newren wrote: > So, we have two merged window manager + compositing manager codebases > now. My question is whether and how we can merge these. I think that's precisely the heart of the problem: decisions in the GNOME project are made not to hurt community dev

Re: New modules in 2.14

2006-01-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:04, Richard Hughes wrote: > gnome-screensaver is just that, a screensaver with a defined dbus > interface. gnome-power-manager does all the policy decisions, which > include what to notify on suspend, resume etc. > > > Similarly, why does gnome-screensaver need to ask gnom

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

2005-12-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:31, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > And though the Finder in OS X is generally a steaming pile, in its > spatial mode there is one great detail: > 4. Individual folders remember whether you want them as browsers or > not. If you have a deep hierarchy of subfolders insid

Re: Proposing libnotify and notification-daemon for GNOME 2.14

2005-12-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 17:19 +0100, Luca Cavalli a écrit : > [1] - http://ptlo.blogspot.com/2005/11/missing-piece.html This one really bridges the gap between Windows and GNOME. Did you ask for its inclusion in the next GNOME release ? Xav ___

Re: libgtop has been branched

2005-12-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:11, Benoît Dejean wrote: > The stable branch is gnome-2-12 and the development branch is HEAD. > > HEAD / 2.14 won't be ABI compatible with previous versions. Some plans apart from breaking the ABI compatibility ? ___ desktop

Re: EOG features

2005-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:33, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > This kind of light photo retouching would really have a market, my > > wife for example finds Gimp very intimidating, and it's overkill for > > the ordinary user. > > > > Thoughts? > > That means "one more click" before I

Re: Proposing gobby? (Inkboard Collaborative Editing)

2005-11-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:09, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > I am just now updating inkscape and looking at it, it has a completely > different implementation of Inkboard Collaborative Editing: Using > Loudmouth library it uses Jabber IM protocol to provide this feature. And IMHO it is the way to go: t

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 27 octobre 2005 à 11:45 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:40 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 23:39 -0200, Matthew Thomas a écrit : > > > Use case: A child leaves > > > the screen locked and goes to bed.

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 23:39 -0200, Matthew Thomas a écrit : > Use case: A child leaves > the screen locked and goes to bed. Child's mother comes along, unlocks > the child's account, saves the child's unsaved documents etc, and shuts > down the computer for the night. gnome-screensaver

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:29, Rodney Dawes wrote: > If someone has physical access to the machine, they can just unplug it > and walk out the door too. Doesn't mean that our software should promote > lack of privacy. If that's the case, let's just drop the screensaver > totally. What's the point if

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:03, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:54 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:44, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > > > > 3. Unlocking the screen with the root password should do the same as > > > choosing switch u

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:44, Rodney Dawes wrote: > 3. Unlocking the screen with the root password should do the same as > choosing switch users, and logging in as root. Not doing so is a privacy > and security issue, as it may allow root access to remote hosts, that > root normally does not have a

Re: Proposal for inclusion in desktop: gnome-screensaver

2005-10-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 25 octobre 2005 à 12:07 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit : > Hello, > > I am pleased to propose gnome-screensaver for inclusion in the GNOME > 2.14 Desktop release. > > gnome-screensaver is a new screensaver that can replace xscreensaver. It > is designed to integrate well with the de

Re: Unify metacity and libwnck menu icons as named icons

2005-10-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:50, Rodney Dawes wrote: > Is there any way to make these icons in the menus be consistent with the > buttons actually used in the title bar? If so, I would prefer a method > to make that possible, rather than having icons from the the icon theme > that don't match the butt

Re: do we really need xrdb?

2005-10-18 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:31, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2005-10-17 at 13:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > Hi > > > > One of the best improvements we've seen while working on speeding up the > > GNOME startup time has been the removal of the xsettings thing, via xrdb > > -merge execution. > > Make

Re: New way to change volume

2005-10-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 01:07 -0400, Eric Larson a écrit : > Another potential use case which might make sense is if a person wants > to turn down the system sounds or start up sounds while still having > banshee playing music. BTW, this already existed long ago with ESD. There was a GTK1 app

Re: New way to change volume

2005-10-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 01:07 -0400, Eric Larson a écrit : > I saw a microsoft program/tool that did this sort of thing in one of the > early longhorn builds. I have no idea what the link is though :/ Google Images is your friend: http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/lh-winhec-01.png

Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session

2005-10-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:24, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > that is probably a problem, to show always the same message in systems > that have nothing interesting in that file. The problem is how to deal > with this? Have some "[] Never show me this message again" button which remembers the last MOTD date

Re: Evolution Maintainership

2005-05-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 Ã 14:59 +0530, JP Rosevear a Ãcrit : > This mail is to announce a change in Evolution maintainership. Thanks for all the love you put in Evo, JP ! Xav ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http

Re: RFC: On-line Content Filtering of directories

2005-05-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 Ã 01:13 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz a Ãcrit : > > I refuse to let the bizzare interface of some ancient editor affect the > > design of a modern desktop (and I'm a emacs user). C-g is "find next > > match" in most modern UIs, end of story. > > Eww, c'mon. I won't continue on that

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 16 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 14:54 +0100, Miroslav Silovic a Ãcrit : > The combination of the little-known themes I'm using currently: > > Gtk2 - Perseid, from http://jp.bizet.free.fr/themes/gtk2.html (for some > reason, this theme isn't on gnome-look nor at art.gnome.org, as far as I > could t

Re: Gnome optimizations and some numbers

2005-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 14 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 23:29 -0500, William Lovaton a Ãcrit : > I straced some programs in both versions of Gnome and counted the number > of calls to the open() syscall. I got interesting results: > > - gedit-2.8: 2700 > - gedit-2.9: 780 Just as a data point, under FC3, gedit 2.8.1 does 3213

Re: Xlock on login

2005-01-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2005 Ã 16:26 +0100, Ikke a Ãcrit : > > Hi, > Hey > > > ... > In se the idea isn't too bad, but I see one problem: I got Gaim and a > terminal running Irssi in my session. So if I'd use this system, boot my > PC, and only return an hour later or so, I'll be "online" with both