http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38338 GNOME 2.25.2 Development Release ================================ Early Xmas present! 2.25.2 is here. This is the second development release towards our 2.26 release that will happen in March 2009. By now, development is well under way, and we've already made good progress on some of the goals that we've set ourselves for 2.26 (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals). Keep up the good work ! To compile GNOME 2.25.2, you can use GARNOME [1] (which supports users and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild [2] modulesets [3] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release): [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/ [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ [3] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.25.2/ The release notes that describe the changes between 2.25.1 and 2.25.2 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release: platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.2/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.2/NEWS admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.25/2.25.2/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.25/2.25.2/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.25/2.25.2/NEWS The GNOME 2.25.2 release is available here: platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.2/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.2/ admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.25/2.25.2/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.25/2.25.2/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.25/2.25.2/ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. For more information about 2.25, the full schedules, the official modules list and the proposed modules list, please see our 2.25 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/ Also take a look at the abbreviated schedule reminder page at: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule We hope you'll love it, The GNOME Release Team -- devel-announce-list mailing list devel-announce-list< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list Matthias Clasen 2008-12-03T15:53:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38331 Here we go again. Tarballs are due on 2008-12-01 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.25.2 unstable release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 2.25.2. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! For more information about 2.25, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.25 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Thanks, Matthias -- devel-announce-list mailing list devel-announce-list< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list Matthias Clasen 2008-11-28T01:32:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38330 Hi folks Does anybody mind changing the minimum version of libxklavier (in deps) - to 3.8? Only g-s-d is affected, new signal is introduced (for the keyboard hotplugging). Thanks, Sergey Sergey Udaltsov 2008-11-28T17:45:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38329 Hello, For the upcoming Empathy 2.25.2 release (yes, I'll skip 2.25.1, sorry) I'm going to bump the required external dep version of telepathy-glib to 0.7.15. That version has the necessary API for the File transfer that is now supported by Empathy! Any objection? Xavier Claessens. Xavier Claessens 2008-11-28T10:20:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38327 Hi, the mysteries of life and destiny took me to give some love to gnome-netstatus yesterday, this is to let you know that I branched it (although late, Claude reminded me...) so new stuff can get into trunk. Feel free to drop by and post a patch or update an old one, code hasn't changed much since you posted patches probably... greetings! PD: Claude, please release my family now that I have branched :P PD2: Let me know if I break another thing, but please refrain from the kidnapping part Diego Escalante Urrelo 2008-11-27T20:59:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38318 ================================================================== GNOME 2.24.2 Stable Release ================================================================== This is the second update to GNOME 2.24. It contains many fixes for important bugs that directly affect our users, documentation updates and also a large number of updated translations. Many thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on delivering those changes in time. We hope it will help people feel better in their daily use of computers! The next stable version of GNOME will be GNOME 2.24.3, which is due on January 14th. Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the unstable branch of GNOME that will become GNOME 2.26 in March 2009. The GNOME 2.24 release notes are available at: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/ The notes that describe the changes between 2.24.1 and 2.24.2 are here: admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS mobile - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.24/2.24.2/NEWS The GNOME 2.24.2 release is available here: admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.24/2.24.2/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.24/2.24.2/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.24/2.24.2/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.24/2.24.2/ mobile sources - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.24/2.24.2/ platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.24/2.24.2/ To compile GNOME 2.24.2, you can use GARNOME [1] (which supports users and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild [2] modulesets [3] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release): [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/ [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ [3] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.24.2/ We hope you'll love it, The GNOME Release Team Vincent Untz 2008-11-26T22:40:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38315 Hi everyone, Hope everyone is having a good time, many of you preparing to be stuffed over the weekend while the rest of us hack hard :P. To the issue: Pango currently uses ISO639 language tags to represent languages. That has served Pango really well and there's no problem there. However, many applications need to get to a user-readable representation of the language code. I know the iso-codes package provides translations for language and country names among other things, but I have failed to find the canonical way to go from a language/country code to language/country name first. Ideally I think iso-codes package should abuse the gettext infrastructure to do, such that, say: dgettext("iso_639", "fr") works as dgettext("iso_639", "French") does. Or maybe add new domains for such lookup. My question right now is, how do applications (intlclock, etc...) do that currently? And how do people think it should be done. For languages I don't really mind adding the mapping to Pango, but I'd rather keep it out and in the same place as country mappings. I have CC'ed the iso-codes maintainers to get their input on this. Be nice to them ;). Cheers, behdad Behdad Esfahbod 2008-11-26T21:27:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38313 The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to intensify momentum and increase collaboration between the projects. It gives a unique opportunity for key figures to collaborate and improve the free and open source desktop for all. Please visit the official web for further information: http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/ This announcement is also available at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-11-25-grancanaria.html -- devel-announce-list mailing list devel-announce-list< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list Behdad Esfahbod 2008-11-25T21:12:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38309 Hi all, I've branched gnome-session for GNOME 2.24. The branch name is the usual gnome-2-24. Note that there was some changes that were not for 2.24 in trunk, so I had to branch from revision 5150. This means that one translation (sv) has been updated in trunk but not in gnome-2-24. Daniel, I apologize for the inconvenience -- I wondered if I should commit the trunk version to gnome-2-24, but I decided it would probably mess up a few things. Thanks, Vincent Vincent Untz 2008-11-25T19:05:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38301 Please don't spread FUD, it's just not true. Please do some research before making ridiculous claims like that. At the moment, PackageKit works with apt, alpm, box, conary, opkg, pisi, poldek, smart, urpmi, yum and zypp. It even has functionality that cannot work with rpm and yum, so this really isn't an RPM focused thing... Err, PackageKit is currently planned to be shipped in Ubuntu. I'm not sure who you talked to, but there are developers working on converting gnome-app-install and the Ubuntu update viewer to using the PackageKit API. That's not integration. Any time you're running a separate GTK application as root it's _fail-o-clock_ time. Have you seen some of the things we're doing now with PackageKit? See http://www.packagekit.org/pk-screenshots.html for stuff you can do right now. Even better, join the PackageKit mailing list, and ask questions there. Richard. Richard Hughes 2008-11-25T17:36:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38289 Hi all, gnome-menus, gnome-panel, libwnck and libgweather have been branched for GNOME 2.24. The branch name is the usual gnome-2-24. Thanks, Vincent Vincent Untz 2008-11-25T13:35:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38276 During the 2.25 release cycle I would like to move GNOME Power Manager away from a HAL dependency and onto a new DeviceKit-power dependency. DeviceKit-power is a new mechanism daemon that moves the battery profiling and statistics interface system-wide, and also does the history recording once per system, rather than once per session. It also moves to an interface that is legacy-free and is more focused on the entire power management system than HAL ever was. You can see some screenshots of the new functionality on my blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/11/09/gnome-power-manager-and-devicekit-power/ Richard Hughes 2008-11-24T18:25:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38266 Hi, Here's a quick reminder: if you want to propose a new module for inclusion in GNOME 2.26, the deadline is on Monday 24th November at 23:59 UTC. We already have a few proposed modules, but some more might be in the pipes, so don't forget to send a mail! All the details about proposing new modules are available at: http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing It's also a good opportunity for people to look at the currently proposed modules and test them. This will help when we'll have the final round of discussion about them. We expect discussion to heat up about the module proposals at the end of December and at the beginning of 2009, and to reach a decision around mid-January. That is (again, like for 2.24), when everybody will be away in vacation and a few release team members will be free to do what please them ;-) For more information about 2.25, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our 2.25 page on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Vincent Vincent Untz 2008-11-21T17:30:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38265 Hi all, While new features and intrusive changes are landing in trunk, quite a few people have made some great bug fixes, or updated translations, or updated documentation, or changed the README (err...) in the gnome-2-24 branches of our modules. And it's now time to release all this to our users. Let's rock and roll lots of tarballs! Rock and roll? Hmm :-) Tarballs are due on Monday November 24th before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.24.2 Stable Release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 2.24.2. If you are not able to make a tarball before Monday or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! We encourage everyone to help with the smoketesting effort, either using GARNOME or the 2.24.2 jhbuild modulesets that will be published on Tuesday at http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.24.2/. If you find a bug that you believe might be a blocker, please send a mail to the release team. For more information about 2.24 and 2.25, the full schedule, the official module lists, please see our 2.25 page on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Thanks, Vincent Vincent Untz 2008-11-21T17:25:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38261 Dear fellows, Greetings! I'm fairly new to this gnome-desktop development environment though I have been using it for quiet a long time now. I have been assigned a task to port gnome-desktop on omap3evm i.e. to bring up omap3-evm LCD with a running Gnome Desktop like GUI, similar to what I got on my X86-Desktop. My rootfs contains full Xorg(7.4 Release) build, Gnome libraries include gnome-vfs, libgnome-2.0, libgnomeui, gnome-desktop, and gnome-panel. Now my concern is how to start the GUI. What and where to configure to kickstart gnome on bootup? Can anyone please tell me or give me some pointers on how to bring my X11-Gnome environment up, i.e which service to start or configure, once I port my rootfs to my target through NFS. Also is my rootfs complete or am I still missing some important libraries/functions? Any help or pointers on this will be great. Thanks for your concern. Regards Amit Pundir Amit Pundir 2008-11-21T08:59:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38247 Hi guys, I would like to propose, evolution-mapi a new born connector for Evolution to connect to MS Exchange 2007. But being a connector around the MAPI protocol, it practically can connect to any version of Microsoft Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007). It has been under development for more than a year under a branch EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH in evolution and evolution-data-server project. http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-data-server/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH Its now licensed as LGPLv2 or LGPLv3. We just created a new svn project for the connector and Johnny sent out a mail on evolution-hackers and users list about the new project. It is now hosted under GNOME Svn under as evolution-mapi. http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-mapi We have requested to create a new bugzilla component for Evolution-mapi in GNOME Bugzilla. We have now basic support to create account, folder, send/receive mails, calendar/meeting and contacts. Its has bugs, and doesn't have feature parity with the evolution-exchange (WebDAV based connector). But we gonna spend make it the default connector in the longer term, and would have more features than the WebDAV based connector. It is being developed on top of Openchange's libmapi [1], which in-turn has a strong dependency on Samba 4. Libmapi is about to go for 0.8, which is waiting for Samba 4 alpha6 to be released. So libmapi and samba4 (Evolution doesn't link to samba4 directly) has to be defined as external dependencies for GNOME. Libmapi is already built for Debian [2], OpenSUSE, Ubuntu [3]. Current source of evolution mapi is targeted to build against Libmapi rev 810 and we would be moving to depend on libmapi 0.8, once its out. evolution-mapi would be versioned as 0.25.x (to 0.26.0) for GNOME 2.26 to match the minor version with rest of Evolution components and to be in sync with GNOME versions as well. Feel free to ask any questions, and I should be able to answer them. Thanks Srini. [1] - http://www.openchange.org [2] - http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openchange.html [3] - http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libmapi0 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-11-19T16:49:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38244 Hi, Quite some people already are implementing this goal. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/MsgctxtMigration What about making it an official goal for GNOME 2.26? Christian Christian Rose 2008-11-18T16:27:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38238 I fixed a bug in Evolution's infamous ETable widget that makes header labels left-aligned instead of center-aligned for better consistency with GtkTreeView. It was well received and I was told to ask whether this kind of change would be allowed in the next stable release. Bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560882 Before and after screen shots: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=122709&action=view http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=122742&action=view Personally I think this is just an esthetic change and wouldn't render the user docs inaccurate, but I'll wait for release team approval before proceeding. Thanks, Matthew Barnes Matthew Barnes 2008-11-17T20:01:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38229 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list Vivien Malerba 2008-11-17T10:56:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38222 Hi, Quite some people already are implementing this goal http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/RemoveGnomeOpenGnomeHelp What about making it an official goal for GNOME 2.26? Jaap Jaap A. Haitsma 2008-11-15T14:59:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/38220 Both ExternalDeps pages on live.gnome.org for 2.24 and 2.26 suggest version 2.5.6. But this version is form unstable branch (see [1]) and 2.6.0 (stable) is available. Is it OK to update at least 2.25/26 to 2.6.0? [1] http://system-tools-backends.freedesktop.org/download.html Luca Ferretti 2008-11-14T21:33:25 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.desktop