Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-28 Thread Caleb Herbert
Removing files created by proprietary software is good. It further removes references to proprietary software from the system. I once saw a .MAC_OSX file in a tarball I downloaded. They're not .DS_store anymore. They're full-on ads for Apple.

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-28 Thread Caleb Herbert
On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 21:21 -0500, bill-auger wrote: > regarding my suggestion to change the labels in the GUI to not mention > the brand names of the programs that created them - i should have > qualified that with: "if the FSDG requires any changes to this program" > - but i am not convinced that

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-26 Thread Luke Shumaker
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:21:56 -0500, bill-auger wrote: > regarding my suggestion to change the labels in the GUI to not mention > the brand names of the programs that created them - i should have > qualified that with: "if the FSDG requires any changes to this program" > - but i am not convinced tha

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-26 Thread bill-auger
regarding my suggestion to change the labels in the GUI to not mention the brand names of the programs that created them - i should have qualified that with: "if the FSDG requires any changes to this program" - but i am not convinced that any changes are required the only reason i suggest that may

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-26 Thread bill-auger
On 12/26/2017 08:52 PM, Luke Shumaker wrote: > > .DS_Store is a macOS thing, not a Windows thing, isn't it? > yea probably - i was thinking of the thumbnail cache files windows adds into in each folder that is browsed with the file manager - they are named thumbs.db or something like that si

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-26 Thread Luke Shumaker
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:09:01 -0500, On 12/25/2017 07:59 PM, Pablo Correa Gómez wrote: > Basically, Bleachbit is a program able to remove temporary > files from different other programs. Unfortunately, it mentions and > supports some non-free programs that are not supported by Trisquel, but >

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [Trisquel-devel] FSDG question: extension of bleachbit patch for Trisquel

2017-12-26 Thread bill-auger
i will also add that parabola make no modifications to the upstream bleachbit other than forcing python2 - presumably that is true for the other FSDG distros as well - so if this is indeed something to be addressed by patches then it is not only pertinent to trisquel and this conversation should be