[OT] Does anybody know what the word gir is used for in the libraries

2011-04-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have been trying to update to GNOME shell and came across lot of libraries named girSomething . For e.g. $ sudo aptitude install gir Display all 101 possibilities? (y or n) gir1.0-avahi-0.6 gir1.2-epiphany-2.29 gir1.0-babl-0.0 gir1.2-epiphany-2.31 gir1.0-buzzt

dates and frequency of releases on gnome3.org ?

2011-02-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I do not if this is the right list to ask or not. If not, please direct me to the right people/team who would be able to shed more light on the matter. About couple of days ago I went to gnome3.org and saw the try it link. http://gnome3.org/tryit.html Now I really liked it but was c

dates and frequency of releases on gnome3.org ?

2011-02-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I do not if this is the right list to ask or not. If not, please direct me to the right people/team who would be able to shed more light on the matter. About couple of days ago I went to gnome3.org and saw the try it link. http://gnome3.org/tryit.html Now I really liked it but was c

Re: Errors while trying to get jhbuild

2011-02-07 Thread shirish शिरीष
At bottom :- 2011/2/7 Patrick Michael Niedzielski : > Oops, sorry.  I forgot to hit reply all to reply to this list. > > I'm on Debian Sid, and I have no troubles installing the packages. > Squeeze has stable (read: old :P) packages, and so your best bet would > be to upgrade to unstable (or ma

Re: Errors while trying to get jhbuild

2011-02-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- 2011/2/7 Jason D. Clinton : > 2011/2/6 shirish शिरीष : >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>  libreadline5-dev: Conflicts: libreadline-dev but 6.1-3 is installed. >>  libpixman-1-dev: Depends: libpixman-1-0 (= 0.16.4-1) but 0.21.4-2 is >>

Errors while trying to get jhbuild

2011-02-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, On a hunch I decided to atleast get the shell script gnome-shell-build-setup.sh and opened it up in an editor to see what's it about. Reading through the things became aware it has most of the dependencies already done and also would take jhbuild from git . Hence removed and purged

queries about gnome-shell and documentation

2011-02-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Newbie to the list and newbie to gnome-shell as well. So my queries/questions may be off or seem beginner so be it. I just browsed the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell . The documentation feels incomplete. I could fill in the blanks if need be but would need the expertise of the peop