Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-21 Thread Jakob Eriksson
But yes, GUI automatic tests are notoriously much harder to automate fully, but you can often test a basic level automatically. On 2013-08-21 22:54, Jaap Broekhuizen wrote: You can do that using behaviour driven testing tools. For example in python webdevelopment I use pytest and pytest-bdd

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Other languages? (Was Re: Congratulations Luna developers!)

2013-08-21 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On 2013-08-21 23:20, Albert Palacios Jimenez wrote: You can find non Vala applications at the software center, you can sell applications written in whatever language as long as they run properly. It is just that you application won't benefit of the Elementary + Granite + Vala ecosystem.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Other languages? (Was Re: Congratulations Luna developers!)

2013-08-21 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Then there is an education / PR problem on the elementary.org page. It should be made clear how to make a HIG compliant app in any (where any=C++, hehe) language. On 2013-08-21 23:32, Albert Palacios Jimenez wrote: I think there are some misunderstandings: - The HIG is a must for core

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-18 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Which is barely, if at all, relevant to what Craig wrote about. On 2013-08-18 19:44, A. Xylon V. wrote: I believe Dan wanted to release Luna+1 AKA Isis at around the same time as Ubuntu 14.04 On Aug 18, 2013 6:41 PM, Craig webe...@gmail.com wrote: [snip legit worries about the maximum

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] New GtkSwitch image

2013-05-24 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Which I find incredibly confusing, at least on iOS. More than once I have misread it for its opposite. (It doesn't help that it seems to be pretty hard to get a hold of on iPhone, but that is another matter. I am not very fond of Xylons idea or skeumorphic stuff in general. To me the whole idea

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] New GtkSwitch image

2013-05-24 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Indeed, checkboxes always worked for me too. On May 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM Craig webe...@gmail.com wrote: Checkboxes always worked for me. I don't think the touchscreen revolution is responsible for the transition to switches (a checkbox is no less user friendly than a switch afaik). -- Mailing

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Vala/Go

2013-04-08 Thread Jakob Eriksson
I think there should be a tutorial for writing an Elementary HID compliant app in all popular languages, Java, Python, C++, Go, Objective C and Ruby at least. Craig webe...@gmail.com skrev: @Chris, Syntactically, I think Vala is a great language. I'm dying to use it, in fact! However, until

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Application names

2013-02-06 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Ha, fail please read first . He should just have let her figure it out. Many UI problems there. piggy classy thisispi...@gmail.com skrev: Guys? Take a look? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULblsnv48WM Seems that the names of the applications are confusing new users. -- Mailing list:

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Elementary OS beta 1 featured on my youtube channel.

2012-12-10 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Funny, I feel exactly the opposite. Firefox, Chrome etc are strong brands. Trying to compete with such a strong brand, with another Midori is just not possible. Internet or Web on the other hand are sort of brands of the world in and of themselves. We should cash in on that instead of fighting

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Power plug is finished!

2012-09-29 Thread Jakob Eriksson
That is logical to you because you KNOW that it it's represented by zer0. On 09/29/2012 08:41:04 PM, elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net wrote: [1]http://ubuntuone.com/1Dv5NolTPVjqRYDyd6Pfqa HarvKitty says to add a Never label to the right end of the scale... It

[Elementary-dev-community] Bikeshedding about parentheses (Was: Re: Coding Style parentheses exception)

2012-09-14 Thread Jakob Eriksson
This discussion is veering off into Bikeshedding. I will now rescue it: - A commit hook which formats source code on commit, is the ONLY way to have a followed formatting policy. Any other approach will result in nothing but bikeshedding, or worse, flame wars. best regards, Jakob On

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Design input on bug 1045511

2012-09-11 Thread Jakob Eriksson
I think we are bikeshedding :-) David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org skrev: The tools are already here. Just open dconf-editor and you can easily change the palette scheme of the terminal. *Right now*, we want to focus on making pantheon-terminal ready so that we can release Luna. The Gnome

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Developer Environment For Elementary OS

2012-09-05 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Agreed! Most of the current developers are, I suspect, seasoned programmers, but we have the opportunity to attract new programmers too and starting kit would be a nice guidance saying with these tools you can't stray too far off. best regards, Jakob On September 4, 2012 at 8:51 PM Voldyman

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Let's make a copypasta collection

2012-08-23 Thread Jakob Eriksson
But it can be spun differently: we are glad to see we are in good company with our design decisions kind of style. We could use some free publicity. On August 23, 2012 at 6:19 AM satch...@gmail.com satch...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Daniel on all counts. It will sound desperate.