Re: [Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [6435] Added a first log viewer module.

2012-11-12 Thread Steven Tucker
On 12/11/12 19:16, AL13N wrote: Op maandag 12 november 2012 11:07:42 schreef Angelo Naselli: [...] Again I'm not a perl developer and neither i'm pretending to be, what i'm trying to, is porting some old programs to new layout, but if that hurts someone's feeling i can stop working on it and do

[Mageia-dev] Admin Panel

2012-11-07 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi all, well it is very pleasing to see there is discussion about Admin Panel on the very day it is uploaded, I hope such enthusiasm continues. I think I have just learned another lesson, and that is that I should have made some sort of announcement prior to dumping the code in svn, so here

[Mageia-dev] Control Center Progress

2012-10-19 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi all, just wanted to give everyone an update on how the new control center is going. Everything still says mcc2 but I think naming it "Admin Panel" is a good idea so will get to that shortly. The basic functionality is now there, the categories and modules are dynamically loaded from the c

[Mageia-dev] linux.conf.au

2012-10-10 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi all, I have just paid for my ticket and accommodation to http://linux.conf.auapparently the only conference Linus always attends because of the Kernel dev meeting. Any Mageia people going? If so let me know, we can catch up. Perhaps even spread the Mageia word. Cheers Tuxta

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-10-01 Thread Steven Tucker
On 01/10/12 19:48, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: May be I misunderstand this sentence, but the new mcc will not carry any "yastish" ingredients or behavior? (From SuSE 4.4.1 on until today YaST has always been one outstanding reason for me to not use SuSE) libyui is a library used to write programs t

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-10-01 Thread Steven Tucker
On 01/10/12 04:49, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 20:13 +0200, Angelo Naselli wrote: Well to be honest that has been already discussed via irc, and it seems to be as you said a good thing, the real question is how to call it :) The usual choices are 1. an acronym few people will re

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-10-01 Thread Steven Tucker
On 01/10/12 17:40, Angelo Naselli wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to recall next point: 1/ What should we call it ?? I have been using mcc2 as a working name, however I'm not convinced this is the right approach. I will soon be uploading the code (been using

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-09-30 Thread Steven Tucker
The problem with the GPLv3 is that it is incompatible with code that is GPLv2-only. So the code should preferably be GPLv2-and-above or even LGPLv2-and-above or under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License . Otherwise, one is introducing many future potential incompatibilities (and you can t

Re: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-09-30 Thread Steven Tucker
On 30/09/12 17:03, nicolas.lecure...@free.fr wrote: Hi everyone, I have been doing a little work on the proposed control center - mcc2 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc and would like to put a couple of questions forward to find some direction. i don't see the point of this

[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

2012-09-29 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi everyone, I have been doing a little work on the proposed control center - mcc2 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc and would like to put a couple of questions forward to find some direction. 1/ What should we call it ?? I have been using mcc2 as a working name, h

Re: [Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

2012-07-05 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi, Hi, Documentation team is planning to write the currently missing help for MCC and all the tools in it. We don't have a clue whether the above feature proposals, if implemented, will make a difference to what we have to do, and if so: what difference. About link[1] the idea is not mine I'd

Re: [Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

2012-07-01 Thread Steven Tucker
been giving some thought to the code and am starting to form a general overview of how I think it could be coded. I'll report back once the perl binding arrive and I have some code and plans ready. Cheers Steven On 28/06/12 09:38, Steven Tucker wrote: Hi Angelo, great to see you put

Re: [Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

2012-06-27 Thread Steven Tucker
Il 13/06/2012 14:35, Steven Tucker ha scritto: This proposal may be a bit different to the several others you have seen in that a lot of the heavy lifting has already been done. The Ui layer is provided by libYui and friends, and the logic is already there in mcc. With the perl bindings to libYu

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc

2012-06-13 Thread Steven Tucker
On 13/06/12 22:53, Angelo Naselli wrote: mercoledì 13 giugno 2012 alle 13:59, Steven Tucker ha scritto: MCC is great, and I would love to be able to admin using it regardless of whether I am using text interface or gtk/qt. The interface is completely different in curses than gtk interfaces

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc

2012-06-13 Thread Steven Tucker
On 13/06/12 22:06, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 13/06/2012 13:59, Steven Tucker a écrit : Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that we port Yast to Mageia, I am suggesting we use its Ui abstraction only. I use Mageia over openSuse for many reasons, but I do admire how well Yast works, and would

[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc

2012-06-13 Thread Steven Tucker
*Problem* MCC is great, and I would love to be able to admin using it regardless of whether I am using text interface or gtk/qt. The interface is completely different in curses than gtk interfaces. Curses version is a second rate citizen, and Gui is all GTK. A lot of the tools are not availab

Re: [Mageia-dev] Beta Install failure with Intel Atom 330 Nvidia Ion

2012-04-28 Thread Steven Tucker
On 28/04/12 20:35, Philippe DIDIER wrote: Mika Laitio a écrit : Just tried to boot (and also install) the Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe2-i586-CD.iso on Zotac Atom 330 NVIDIA Ion system and it didn't really work out. Install starts up just fine and it shows up the Mageia splash screen with

[Mageia-dev] skype4linux

2012-04-23 Thread Steven Tucker
Addressing bug 1489 I have packaged skype4linux. I haven't been able to get in contact with my mentor however, so could someone please check and commit the src.rpm (only my second packaging attempt) http://mirror.grifflug.com/pub/skype4pidgin-0.0-svn628.mga2.src.rpm Rindolf looked at it for

Re: [Mageia-dev] In need of a mentor

2012-02-15 Thread Steven Tucker
Hi all, I would like to make comment on the Mentoring system, and hopefully I will convey it, and be interpreted in the best possible spirit. I am glad Kyle has now had an offer to be mentored and by no means wish to stop this or interfere in anyway, however I felt quite deflated when I read t