Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2012/6/1 Kevin Kofler : > Cosimo Cecchi wrote: >> How do you think somebody ignorant of the politics behind Free Software >> would trust the FSF (or Fedora) more than the hardware vendor (or >> Microsoft)? > > If they don't trust us, why would they try our software in the first place? Because Fedo

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il 29 febbraio 2012 23:51, Simo Sorce ha scritto: > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:09 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Feb 29, 2012, at 5:15 AM, drago01 wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> >> I think he's got a point >> >> >> >> http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torval

Re: Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

2012-02-29 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il 29 febbraio 2012 13:02, Neal Becker ha scritto: > I think he's got a point > > http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torvalds_requiring_root_password_for_mundane_things_is_quot_moronic_quot_ FWIW, date/time and network require no authentication (including system-wide things like NTP). Managing pri

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-08 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno gio, 08/12/2011 alle 19.41 +0100, Martin Bacovsky ha scritto: > On 12/07/2011 09:50 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 02:23:05PM +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: >>[...] > > > > Except.. the URL is for a user visible string (just like a

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-07 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 03/12/2011 alle 22.58 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 04:13:37PM +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > Il giorno ven, 02/12/2011 alle 16.37 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:39:31PM +0100, Giova

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-03 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 02/12/2011 alle 16.37 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:39:31PM +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > > packagedb seems an interesting project, for storing ratings and reviews, > > and it could be a candidate to replace the Ubu

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-02 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 02/12/2011 alle 22.33 +0100, Kevin Kofler ha scritto: > Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > Seeing enough positive feedback on this (and seeing that after all, it > > works pretty well on my machine), I started an official Fedora 17 > > feature. You can

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-02 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno mar, 29/11/2011 alle 08.07 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On 25 November 2011 23:31, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > These? app-install (and friends) still pending review it seems, > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_b

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-12-01 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Seeing enough positive feedback on this (and seeing that after all, it works pretty well on my machine), I started an official Fedora 17 feature. You can find it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SoftwareCenter Comments of course welcome, before I move this on to be ready for wrangler. G

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 27/11/2011 alle 18.47 +0100, Björn Persson ha scritto: > Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > We also need translations (that are in .desktop files > > but not in .spec files), > > Looky here, a spec file with translations: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 27/11/2011 alle 16.18 +0100, Heiko Adams ha scritto: > Am 27.11.2011 16:01, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > > > > Am 27.11.2011 14:31, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > >> On 11/27/2011 07:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >>> well, if people who not going to read any textes are the > >>> p

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 25/11/2011 alle 17.31 -0600, Rex Dieter ha scritto: > Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > Long long ago (march 2009), a package was proposed for inclusion, which > > contained application data, in a format understood by software-center, > > for fedora at tha

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 26/11/2011 alle 10.05 +0530, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto: > On 11/26/2011 04:33 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > I hope that some people from the relevant group will point me to the > > right place (perhaps starting from what happened to > > fedora-app-ins

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 27/11/2011 alle 03.08 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov ha scritto: > [...] > > > IIRC and think about the same package - this was a package containing data > that is part of repos metadata, > without any idea how it would be for kept uptodate with latest packages. From > time to time

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-27 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 27/11/2011 alle 02.06 +0100, Björn Persson ha scritto: > Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Can someone help me understand whats being asked for here? I can only > > guess that I'm not the only person confused by this thread. > > Icons. The only thing I can see that Giovanni has mentioned t

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-26 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 26/11/2011 alle 01.27 +0100, Florian Müllner ha scritto: > While I agree that our app-install story sucks, I'm far less convinced that > we need yet-another-downstream solution. This is not really a downstream solution. Since OpenSuse GSoC 2011, software-center can interact with Pac

Re: A software center for Fedora

2011-11-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 26/11/2011 alle 00.24 +0100, Heiko Adams ha scritto: > Am 26.11.2011 00:18, schrieb drago01: > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Brendan Jones > > wrote: > >> On 11/26/2011 12:03 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > >>> As promised in my previ

A software center for Fedora

2011-11-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
As promised in my previous mail, here is what I find that's lacking in Fedora, compared to the direct competition (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse), and recently even some proprietary systems: we don't have an application installer. While we do have two nice UIs (gpk-application and apper) for package man

Self introduction

2011-11-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Hello Fedora developers, I'm Giovanni Campagna and I'm a first year student of informatics engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Some of you may already know me because I'm also an upstream contributor and part-time developer for GNOME (in particular in the Shell area), but this ti