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/48948 <pre>1. Is there a way for a GObject constructor to fail and report an error? 2. Is it possible to attach additional information to GError (file where the error came from, line and column)? If not, what is the standard way to report these? 3. How to localize errors? </pre> Nikita Churaev 2013-05-21T01:11:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48944 <pre>Hello all, GNOME 3.8.2 is available right now on, full of fixes, documentation and translation updates, get its sources from our servers, or binaries from your distribution servers, and enjoy this second update to GNOME 3.8. We are now moving back deep into development territory, there will be no further coordinated 3.8 releases (individual module maintainers may still publish new stable tarballs); our next release will be 3.9.2, to be published at the end of the month. Our complete schedule is at https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine#Schedule ============================== Release Details and References ============================== The lists of updated modules and changes are available here: core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.8/3.8.2/NEWS apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.8/3.8.2/NEWS The source packages are available here: core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.8/3.8.2/sources/ apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.8/3.8.2/sources/ And if you want to compile GNOM</pre> Frederic Peters 2013-05-16T08:15:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48942 <pre>Do I have to mark properties that allow NULL strings or objects with (allow-none)? </pre> Nikita Churaev 2013-05-15T19:51:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48927 <pre>Hi all, Me, Jon and Jakub have reviewed the combined system status designs in the attempt to address the feedback that we've got. A fresh round of wireframes are now on the wiki [1]. I think that they resolve the most serious issues that have been raised. Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus#Update_Proposal -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ </pre> Allan Day 2013-05-13T11:02:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48926 <pre> This feature could be added for 3.10 and would be appreciated by end-users like myself As a beta tester for Fedora 19, I did a Fedora 19  with Gnome 3.8 and subsequently added the default  KDE Desktop as well. For testing, one user has KDE as his desktop, the other (me) Gnome. Justification So, how many icons did I find in the Gnome ALL area? If you do select all that a "yum groupinstall"  will do for gnome and kde, the number I achieved was 183. On my computer I show 30 icons per screen, so to peruse the ALL list I had to browse screens.  The ALL display shows only the program names in alphabetical sequence, with games, wordprocessors, and other applications shown intermingled.  Searching by scrolling takes time. Frequent or Recent Eventually Frequent or Recent fills with 30 entries. If we can't find the program in the thirty, we have to select ALL, and scroll the 183 icons.   We still use desktops and mouses, or synaptic pads on laptops.  That scrolling is necessary as there is no grou</pre> Leslie S Satenstein 2013-05-12T19:48:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48921 <pre>Hello! This message contains some proposals to address what I see as some problems in GNOME 3 and the GNOME release process. I send it originally to the mailing-list gnome-devel-list, which was wrong because it's topic are the libraries of GNOME. The dash, the overview, the efficient keyboard usage and the clean notification-area with the seperation from the message-tray are just a great approach. GTK3 looks awesome within GNOME3! It was brave to give up the old concept of an "Desktop" and replace it. And it was the right decision! Please don't take the following explanation as attack on you or your work. What I want is helping you and GNOME! The problem of GNOME3 is not the GNOME Shell, it is the constant removal of features. To make this even more worse, the developers don't communicate their plans and didn't react on well meant critic. Instead the developers believe that the bloggers, the press or the users just hate new things like the GNOME Shell[1]. GNOME 3.0 introduced a complete new user-inter</pre> bugs 2013-05-12T15:35:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48920 <pre>I will keep this short! Not. I tried but failed! So please pick what you are interested in. And don't take it personal. I can only apologize for my own unfair and unpolite behaviour. // nautilus - create empty file Every file-browser does manage files, this includes the creation of "empty files", not only "empty directories". This function was removed with "3.6". Nautilus doens't fullfill the basic requirement of a file-browser. This is wrong! Instead users are forced to use the XDG-Directory "Templates" to create a template for an empty file. But that is not possible, because for this you need to create an empty file. This is weird! Bug reports: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324253 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676838 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683735 Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/CkkOlSL.png Example: Create an empty file "main.cpp", which can be double-clicked and edited within Gedit with propper syntax-hightlighting. Proposal: "Create empty file" should just be</pre> bugs 2013-05-12T15:41:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48919 <pre>Hello all, It's time for a second update to the 3.8 version, many modules got new fixes, translations, and documentation, let's give those to our users. Tarballs are due on 2013-05-13 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.8.2 stable 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 3.8.2. 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 3.9, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 3.9 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Cheers, Fre</pre> Frederic Peters 2013-05-12T09:10:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48911 <pre>Hi everyone! I am Puja Singh,a third year undergraduate from Netaji Subhash Engineering College,Kolkata,India. I have been wondering for quite a few time to start contributing to GNOME, specificaly on projects like GCompris and Banshee. I already have gtk and the necessary libraries installed in my machine,and I have started to get familiar with the environment. I also joined the Gnome translation team(Hindi),a few weeks back,though I would really love to contribute technically. Here are few of my works,(not great) I have been working upon lately: 1. http://avenirnsec.com/ (the website of my college's annual tech fest) 2. my github profile ( https://github.com/Puja0708 ) 3. working on cloud computing for last 1.5 years,and have a paper published in a Springer journal ( LNISCT , conference by IDES and ACEEE ). Kindly consider me to be guided properly to be able to be a regular contributor to Gnome. Thankyou Regards Puja _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list des</pre> Puja Singh 2013-04-19T10:16:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48909 <pre>hi i just wanted to know what files i need to download, the order i need to compile to make, maybe, a single .deb and .rpm file of the gnome 3.8.1 desktop enviroment http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/core/3.8/3.8.1/sources/ thank you! _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list</pre> W S 2013-04-24T01:04:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48907 <pre>Hi, lately I've been thinking about what could be the best way to announce Infrastructure-related maintenances, downtimes, outages. As of now I kept sending my mails to multiple mailing lists at once (foundation-list, desktop-devel-list, devel-announce-list) but I feel that wasn't the best way to achieve my goal. As of today, a new mailing list exists for these kind of announces [1], someone could argue that this is yet-another-mailing-list but I'm completely sure that having a specific and targeted mailing list will definitely help everyone out. The improvements: 1. subscribing to the new list will make sure that you don't lose any maintenance, downtime, outage announcement 2. you can track when a specific maintenance will happen or has happened in the past and what was done. 3. the GNOME Sysadmin team has finally a place to send its announcements to making sure they reach the wider audience as possible. Have an awesome day and please take a little minute to subscribe to the new list. [1] https://mail</pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-08T14:34:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48905 <pre>Hi I'm wondering why background opacity feature was removed in gnome-terminal 3.8.1? From the bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695371 , it seems that this feature was removed on purpose. However, I couldn't find any further explanations on why this great feature was removed. Maybe we should bring it back? My personal usage of this feature is status bar in Emacs. Status bar in Emacs was set to be black background with white text. So if there is some opacity in the terminal, I was able to see the status bar and minibuffer more clearly. Are there any other concerns? Thanks Mike </pre> Mike 2013-05-07T00:55:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48904 <pre>GNOME 3.9 development is starting up, with the 3.9.1 snapshot that is marking the beginning of this development cycle. Features are still being proposed and discussed [1]. To compile GNOME 3.9.1, you can use the jhbuild [2] modulesets [3] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release). [1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ [3] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.9.1/ The release notes that describe the changes between 3.8.1 and 3.9.1 are available. Go read them to learn what's new in this release: core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.9/3.9.1/NEWS apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.9/3.9.1/NEWS The GNOME 3.9.1 release is available here: core sources - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.9/3.9.1 apps sources - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.9/3.9.1 WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of early development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended f</pre> Matthias Clasen 2013-05-03T23:48:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48885 <pre>Hi, The GTK+ throbber is a dotted animation, but the one used in clutter apps / UIs use a different icon - instead of dots, it uses longer lines. Is this a design decision? If it is please consider the points made below: - It is inconsistent without an obvious reason as to why this is - The clutter-themed throbber is also used in the Adwaita cursor theme (forked from DMZ-Black(?)), and with the lines which are thicker than the dotted GTK one, it makes the cursor look excessively cluttered (pun not intended), especially in the in progress cursor (I don't know what it is called, but it is the one in between the (O) loader, in Windows it is the Hourglass, and in OSX it is the spinning beach ball, and the normal cursor. It is basically the normal cursor with the circle attatched. It takes up nearly all space in its allocated circle). See the second and third cursors from the following link for case in point: http://codzoyer.deviantart.com/art/Adwaita-Cursors-for-Windows-208885897 In my opinio</pre> Marco Scannadinari 2013-04-30T16:41:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48884 <pre>The development cycle inexorably marches on, and without anybody noticing, the 3.9.1 release is already upon us ! I hadn't noticed this until today, so I'll extend the tarball deadline until tonight, and hope that we can get at least a few releases done. Sorry for the late notice, Matthias </pre> Matthias Clasen 2013-04-30T16:02:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48871 <pre> I hope to do some work on wacom tablet button mapping in gnome control center. First mockup of new individual button mapping panel: http://firszt.eu/wacom-icons/mockup_of_wacom__button_mapping_panel.png Roadmap: 1. Change existing panel to simple button list + add a new panel activated after clicking on a button (mockup) 2. First version would include only existing or already coded features - single keystroke, on screen help, monitor switch, OLED labels matching mapping. The last one is waiting for review on bugzilla. 3. Add option to edit label i.e. to show "Save" instead of "Ctrl-S" on tablet 4. Add option to select an icon instead of label. 5. Implement keystroke sequences. Please let me know what do you think about it. P.S. Sorry for the noise if you got this email twice </pre> Przemo Firszt 2013-04-28T15:33:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48839 <pre>See: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/InstalledTests I'm in the process of transitioning to that page from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DXgGEKTbC4ed1DFW3Mu-48TpHtq-xdfhDtwoUOWWcHg/edit Comments appreciated; I have prototype branches of gnome-ostree, gnome-desktop-testing, and gjs that implement this, but it's all subject to change. </pre> Colin Walters 2013-04-25T14:21:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48811 <pre>Hi: I have a doubt about the use of gvariant. In the source file: glib-2.34.3/gio/tests/gdbus-test-codegen.c:860, foo_igen_bar_call_test_primitive_types_sync uses a address of ret_val_bytestring, which is a local variable which type is gchar *. After function returns, ret_val_bytestring will be pointed to a memory section, and I know this section is got from a inner gvariant variable. But does someone can tell me when and how should I release this memory? Any suggestion is appreciate! fred --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying attachment(s) is intended only for the use of the intended recipient and may be confidential and/or privileged of Neusoft Corporation, its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates. If any reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, unauthorized use, forwarding, printing, storing, disclosur</pre> jiangpengfei 2013-04-23T09:21:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48784 <pre>Hi Alberto, Alberto Ruiz &lt;aruiz&lt; at &gt;gnome.org&gt; wrote: It is a bit, so I'm moving this to a new thread. Touch compatibility is only one of a host of drivers for this proposal. I'll respond to your comments regarding the system status proposal itself in the original thread. There has certainly been discussion in the past. We talked about it last GUADEC during one of the BoFs, for example. I agree that it's difficult to be completely agnostic when it comes to input devices. That said, the number of devices shipping with touch screens in combination with other input devices is on the increase. I think it would be a really bad situation if people wanted to install GNOME on their laptop, would be unable to use their touchscreen with it. So as an initial goal, I'm hoping that we'll be able to have a good form of touch compatibility, with a target of laptops with touchscreens. I don't think we have the resources to create several versions of GNOME for different types of devices. To a certain extent we do have </pre> Allan Day 2013-04-22T15:26:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48773 <pre>Hi all, This is something that me, Jon and Jakub have been thinking about for some time, and is now at the stage where we can start to think about implementation. I'm proposing it as a feature for 3.10 [1]. The main element of the design is to combine the sound, network, bluetooth, power and user menus into a single menu. This will enable us to resolve a number of UX issues we've encountered with the existing design (badness on touch, difficulties having the user name in the top bar, lots of complexity in some menus, like network, virtually none in others, like sound...). It will also give us greater flexibility, and will allow us to deal with some features - like airplane mode - in a more elegant and discoverable manner. More details are outlined on the wiki [2]. If you do look at the designs, please pay particular attention to the example scenarios - these give a clearer idea of what the menu will actually look like. The designs aren't finalised yet, so comments and ideas are welcome. It should be said</pre> Allan Day 2013-04-22T13:36:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/48772 <pre>Hi, I'm currently migrating git.gnome.org to a new machine, there will be a little downtime tomorrow 23th April from 11:00 - 12:30 GMT+2. The service involved will be shutdown to prevent any data loss during the move. As always I'll make sure to follow-up this e-mail to confirm that the move went smoothly. Have an awesome day, </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-04-22T12:46:15 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.desktop