Re: example content

2009-11-30 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:15 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, one change we are planning to make to the desktop spin in F13 is to go from targeting a cd to targeting a 1g usb stick. Why 1GB? It seemed to me, when discussing this earlier on this list, that everyone agreed that 2GB made much

Re: RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

2009-11-18 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 23:34 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Given the above, do you think you'd be okay with having: Filesystem snapshot that will be active on next boot: drop-down Shouldn't it say next time volume is mounted instead of next boot? We can always special case rootfs to say next

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread David Zeuthen
. Do you know who it was? I don't see why FESCo should be involved and I have no idea who made this decision. I would have preferred the change to be announced and documented in detail regardless of that. I assume David Zeuthen? (CC'ed) Jeez, Rahul. This has nothing to do with polkit per se

Re: RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

2009-11-18 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:47 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Also, what is the mechanism to configure this? Just a simple command from btrfs-progs (best)? Or does it require surgery to /etc/fstab and/or the initramfs (bad)? Josef's been thinking about exactly that -- the current

Re: PolicyKit 0.9 is going away

2009-08-28 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 12:45 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: I'd be willing to maintain PolicyKit 0.9 packages (as compatibility packages (though renaming should not be needed as they already have distinct names), to be used by KDE) for F12. It is my understanding that those will not

Re: PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-18 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, This is an accurate description of how things work, thanks to Matthias for clearing things up on this list. There's more background information about this particular thing here http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/ http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/PolicyKit-1.8.html

Re: PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-18 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:11 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:02:53PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:09 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Can the malware inject code into the process which gained the authentication (eg. using ptrace)?

Re: Disable CONFIG_ACPI_SYSFS_POWER?

2008-02-18 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:23 +0100, drago01 wrote: Yeah, you need a new enough hal aparently, which I guess f8 didn't have. F9 should be safe to be using just the sysfs stuff. I have not tested rawhide on a laptop yet, but it seems that rawhide still uses hal-0.5.10 (which is also the

Re: kernels won't boot

2008-01-03 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:08 -0500, Eric Paris wrote: Can you show me more of the log? The log is more sgrubb. I think selinux-policy is busted at the moment. depmod and mkinitrd are having trouble in enforcing... rpm -e kernel-2.6.24-133-blah-blah setenforce 0 yum update kernel

Re: kernels won't boot

2008-01-03 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:09 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:08 -0500, Eric Paris wrote: Can you show me more of the log? The log is more sgrubb. Eh.. From.. the log is from sgrubb. That's what I meant. David

Re: Getting rid of sysprof-kmod

2007-12-01 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 19:09 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:02:23AM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: Hi, I just finished removing the sysprof-kmod package from CVS as mandated by the new guidelines for F9 and above. I am now seeking some help to understand what

uevent order fix

2007-06-15 Thread David Zeuthen
Dave, Please take a look at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c7afd125cc482dbdf6b0a169c42337e7e76cda5 Can we include this simple patch in Fedora 7 and Rawhide please? Without this, events arrive in the wrong order meaning that udev and hal may get

Re: uevent order fix

2007-06-15 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:59 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:24:09AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c7afd125cc482dbdf6b0a169c42337e7e76cda5 Can we include this simple patch in Fedora 7

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Test3 LiveCD QA issues

2007-04-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:46 -0400, Max Spevack wrote: == Booting the LiveCD, grub gives you two options: Fedora-7-Test3-Live-i386 Fedora-7-Test3-Live-i386 from RAM This is confusing -- should I choose default or no? What's the difference between the two? I think

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Test3 LiveCD QA issues

2007-04-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:54 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 12:47 -0400, David Zeuthen a écrit : You missed my favorite pet peeve about the default desktop install. We show two trash cans, one in lower panel and one on the desktop. Do we _really_ want people

Re: Comments

2007-02-22 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:46 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: The entire process of rounds is not needed anymore as we've had to concede the default release theme work to the Desktop group inside Red Hat. Well, the thing is that someone made promises (default theme) to the participants on this list

Re: Figuring out the mission (Paul W. Frields)

2007-02-22 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi John, Maybe this write-up by Jef is useful for you to read https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-January/msg00176.html since I think you're confused about what open source means (you seem to equate it with democracy). Anyway, I'm going to step out of this thread for a

Re: Echo icon coverage

2007-02-07 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 20:40 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: On 2/7/07, Diana Fong wrote: 2) creating the missing size variations of existing icons (Requires time in resizing and possibly simplifying the existing icons to look its best in smaller sizes). Hello, do you guys have an

Re: Unfavorable Distro-Watch Report

2007-02-05 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:22 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: On 2/5/07, John Baer wrote: I was not aware the decision on the icon set had been made. Is *echo* really ready for prime time? It would be nice to get a little feed back on what's going on. True, I would like to know as well

Re: Unfavorable Distro-Watch Report

2007-02-05 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi Leo! On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:39 +, Leo wrote: How many feedbacks do you get from making Echo the default icon theme? Uhm, so the bugzilla is public, why do you ask for things you can look up yourself? (hint: not a lot of feedback, people normally don't file lot of bugs for things like

Re: Unfavorable Distro-Watch Report

2007-02-05 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 23:30 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: On 2/5/07, David Zeuthen wrote: So I think Qt/KDE, or the Fedora packaging needs to be fixed instead and I don't think it's that hard. Chitlesh, any chance you can look into this? Thanks. Hello, Surely I'll have a look

Re: Unfavorable Distro-Watch Report

2007-02-05 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 08:09 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: thanks for working on it. Where can I have those new icons ? on the wiki or are they already in the development repositories ? I'll roll a new echo-icon-theme RPM for Rawhide sometime soonish at least before Test 2. Also, at some point

Re: Sound effects

2007-01-08 Thread David Zeuthen
: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:00 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Either way, I think it could be interesting for someone to explore this; perhaps write a small brief analysis of where you think it needs improvement; perhaps fedora-art-list isn't the best place (Fedora wise), perhaps fedora-desktop

Re: First Boot Question

2007-01-03 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi John, On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:15 -0500, John Baer wrote: Diana and/or Mo, (btw, Diana is out sick today) I noticed on the First Boot screen there is an icon to the left of the word Welcome. Where does it come from? I saw Nicu already replied but 1. As a rule of thumb most artwork

Re: Anaconda Splash/Progress Header Graphic

2007-01-03 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:38 -0500, John Baer wrote: All, I noted from the Artwork/ReleaseGraphics document the header image for the Anaconda Splash and Progress page are the same. IMO if the each page called it's own header graphic (could be the same if desired) it would allow for

Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

2006-12-22 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed Zod) and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software.

Re: Fedora 7 Art Plan (was Art Team FC7 Progress So Far - Community Feedback)

2006-12-21 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 03:45 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: It appears that this sub-project is suffering from an intractable difference of opinion. In such cases, issues must be escalated to the Fedora Project Board for a decision of how to move forward. The FPB has asked Max to deal with

Re: more natural colors

2006-12-12 Thread David Zeuthen
Mike Chalmers wrote: There is no way you can say the Red Hat's colors are natural if you think about it. You can't just name any color and say it is natural because it looks like red on trees. There is a big difference. I really agree here. The Fedora artwork is nice sure, but it really don't

Re: acpi command line client in core?

2006-03-06 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:01 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: Hello, It seems to me that there is no command line acpi client in fedora core. If I'm not wrong, maybe acpitool (that I packaged in extras) could be moved to core? It has more functionalities than the other client I found, acpi (that

Re: acpi command line client in core?

2006-03-06 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 17:05 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: It can stay in Extras, it is just a proposition. But it may be interesting to have a command line acpi client, even for non-experts, but for those who have a basic use of the command line. Using an abstraction layer with hal seems