Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:43:43 +0100, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't see why the Debian menu would be so special that it would > require me to maintain menu entries in parallel to the .desktop > files. Because as a Debian maintainer of gnome programs that work even whe

Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:15:50 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Am 2007-01-12 07:16:12, schrieb Christian Perrier: >> > I do not like to see Debian doing the same thing... >> >> >> You mean doing what's needed to be by default accessible to people >> who don't speak English if

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-17 14:37]: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > > This provides a unified and easy to use interface to modern PDF sets. It > > is designed to work not only with individual PDF sets but also with the > > more rece

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jeff Carr wrote: You've hit the nail on the head. That whole thing came about from earlier times. I wish you every luck in purging it from existence. Uhm - sometimes things from earlier times are not that bad. I hope that you will not send an assassin to the menu maintain

Re: xpm menu icon requirement. Was: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Drew Parsons
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 16 janvier 2007 à 02:46 +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : > >Is there a practical reason for requesting xpm icons? No need to > >explain if an answer already exists, but I cannot find it. > > This is because some menu systems don't understand other formats.

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:47:16AM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:42 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Supposedly a gnome program will run under KDE. Right? > > > > How will a KDE user find it, if not through the Debian menu system? > > GNOME and KDE use the same menu s

Bug#407380: ITP: xfce4-eyes-plugin -- eyes plugin for Xfce panel

2007-01-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers * Package name: xfce4-eyes-plugin Version : 4.4.0 Upstream Authors: Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Danny Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick Schermer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Jeff Carr
On 01/16/07 20:22, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thus their goal is to help win market share, That's an important goal. Have you heard this before: the fear is that not gaining significant market share will allow Microsoft to effectively render free software unusable by the average user. > not to he

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:08:52PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: > On 01/17/07 00:22, Lo?c Minier wrote: > > > The Debian menu system is completely useless to me, and > > I expect to most GNOME and KDE users. > > You've hit the nail on the head. That whole thing came > about from earlier times. I wish

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Jeff Carr
On 01/17/07 00:22, Loïc Minier wrote: > The Debian menu system is completely useless to me, and I expect to > most GNOME and KDE users. You've hit the nail on the head. That whole thing came about from earlier times. I wish you every luck in purging it from existence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:42 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Supposedly a gnome program will run under KDE. Right? >> >> How will a KDE user find it, if not through the Debian menu system? > > GNOME and KDE use the same menu system, so unless a desktop file is > marked On

Bug#407346: ITP: magicor -- puzzle game in the spirit of solomon's key

2007-01-17 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: magicor Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : peter gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://magicor.sf.net/ * License : Public domain Description : puzzle game in the

Re: X-Debbugs- headers (was Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface)

2007-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:37:13AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > You can use any of the X-Debbugs-... headers in the psuedoheaders, > > but they must be prefixed with X-Debbugs-. The converse is not true. > > Sorry, I got lost here. Is the

Re: X-Debbugs- headers (was Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface)

2007-01-17 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:37:13AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > You can use any of the X-Debbugs-... headers in the psuedoheaders, > but they must be prefixed with X-Debbugs-. The converse is not true. Sorry, I got lost here. Is the converse 'non-prefixed non-x-debbugs headers cannot be used' ?

Re: Rebirth of Status of Maintainer's packages and bugs and more

2007-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > So, now my silly question follows, isn't there any way to get > read-only access to at least BTS on some lower level (eg direct > access to DB) to implement more efficient querying of the data? There is a soap interface which enables you to access s

Re: X-Debbugs- headers (was Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface)

2007-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Luca Capello wrote: > Never tested, but FWIU in the page I linked [1], you can use the > pseudo-headers [2]. So, again, never tested, something like the > following should do the work: > = > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ITP foo -- a bar viewer

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 20:22 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:55:53PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:22:51PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:03:15 +0100 > > > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just FYI, I *per

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:37 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Unless I'm confused, this is what makefiles are for. How much trouble > > is it to set it up, which must only be done once? > > Why convert it at build time? Can't update-menus do it onl

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 12:34 schrieb Luca Capello: >> Please the next time use the X-Debbugs-CC: header [1] instead of [...] > Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? Yes (at least, it should). See #179340 against debbugs, currently flagged

Re: Problema no Debian 3.1

2007-01-17 Thread Santiago Vila
Douglas Costa wrote: > Estou com um probleminha no meu Debian 3.1, quando vou tentar mudar > as preferência do plano de fundo da a seguinte mensagem de erro. ( O > programa "gnome-background-properties" terminou inesperadamente. > Você pode informar aos desenvolvedores sobre o que aconteceu para >

ITP: vdr-plugin-subtitles -- provides DVB subtitles display for VDR (was Re: Bug#407319: ITP: 1 -- VDR plugin to download and display weather maps and forecasts)

2007-01-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
ok, something weird happened in my head, here's a corrected version: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian VDR Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdr-plugin-subtitles Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Pekka Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://

Bug#407330: ITP: vdr-plugin-weatherng -- VDR plugin to download and display weather maps and forecasts

2007-01-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian VDR Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdr-plugin-weatherng Version : 0.0.7pre2 Upstream Author : Sascha Bajonczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.glaserei-franz.de/VDR/Moronimo2/vdrplugins.htm * License

Problema no Debian 3.1

2007-01-17 Thread Douglas Costa
Boa tarde à todos. Estou com um probleminha no meu Debian 3.1, quando vou tentar mudar as preferência do plano de fundo da a seguinte mensagem de erro. ( O programa "gnome-background-properties" terminou inesperadamente. Você pode informar aos desenvolvedores sobre o que aconteceu para ajudá-lo

Bug#407327: ITP: vdr-plugin-lcdproc -- Plugin for vdr that connects to lcdproc

2007-01-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian VDR Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdr-plugin-lcdproc Version : 0.0.10 Upstream Author : Martin Hammerschmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://home.pages.at/linux/dvb.html * License : GPL Description

Bug#407323: ITP: vdr-plugin-ttxtsubs -- Teletext subtitle plugin for VDR

2007-01-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian VDR Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdr-plugin-ttxtsubs Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Ragnar Sundblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nada.kth.se/~ragge/vdr/ttxtsubs/ * License : GPL Descripti

Bug#407319: ITP: 1 -- VDR plugin to download and display weather maps and forecasts

2007-01-17 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian VDR Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vdr-plugin-subtitles Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Pekka Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://virtanen.org/vdr/subtitles/ * License : GPL Description :

Quick Question

2007-01-17 Thread info
My name is Raven and I run http://www.myairshoes.com/ which is a website with fashion & sneaker info on it. I was browsing online and I somehow stumbled upon this page of your website: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/09/msg01009.html . I was quite impressed with your website and would lik

Re: Rebirth of Status of Maintainer's packages and bugs and more

2007-01-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Everyone, I really liked the karma page http://io.debian.net/~tar/bugstats/?filter and was upset to see that it is not updated regularly. So bothered Gürkan to discover that the main reason seems to be the necessity to fetch thousands of pages from debian BTS system and others, which places a

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > This provides a unified and easy to use interface to modern PDF sets. It > is designed to work not only with individual PDF sets but also with the > more recent multiple "error" sets. Could you please explain what a PDF is in thi

X-Debbugs- headers (was Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface)

2007-01-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:24:53 +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-17 13:17]: > >> Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? >> E.g. reportbug and kmail do not really work together (one of them >> must get smarter) and I didn

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 13:24 schrieb Martin Wuertele: > * Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-17 13:17]: > > Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? > > E.g. reportbug and kmail do not really work together (one of them must > > get smarter) and I didn't find

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-17 13:17]: > Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? > E.g. reportbug and kmail do not really work together (one of them must get > smarter) and I didn't find a way to add custom headers for the _current_ mail > only in km

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 12:34 schrieb Luca Capello: > Please the next time use the X-Debbugs-CC: header [1] instead of > directly writing to d-d so the ITP will be sent to debian-devel only > after a number has been assigned to the bug (and if any one wants to > answer to the bug, he doesn't nee

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Quoting Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:55:53PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:22:51PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:03:15 +0100 > Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just FYI, I *personally* would prefer an ev

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! Please the next time use the X-Debbugs-CC: header [1] instead of directly writing to d-d so the ITP will be sent to debian-devel only after a number has been assigned to the bug (and if any one wants to answer to the bug, he doesn't need to search for the correct bug number). On Wed, 17 Ja

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:28:06 +0100 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having eog and evince in the menu serves the "I want to look at a file I > know I have on my disk" case. But you can open the file in the same > number of clicks but with a better interface, by launching a nautilus >

ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lhapdf Version : 5.2.3 Upstream Authors : Mike Whalley, W. Giele, and D. Bourilkov and C. Group * URL : http://projects.hepforge.org/lhapdf/ * License : GNU GPL 2 Description : Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:42 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Supposedly a gnome program will run under KDE. Right? > > How will a KDE user find it, if not through the Debian menu system? GNOME and KDE use the same menu system, so unless a desktop file is marked OnlyShowIn=GNOME, it will appea

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Unless I'm confused, this is what makefiles are for. How much trouble > is it to set it up, which must only be done once? Why convert it at build time? Can't update-menus do it only when it's needed (i.e. the menu display only supports XPM)?

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:22 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > > am I wrong or one can have foo.png in foo.desktop, and foo.xpm in > > foo.menu? If upstream does not provide an xpm icon, the "convert" > > command of the imagemagick package can easily create on

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 16 janvier 2007 à 20:22 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Real users with brains, instead of the idealized "ooh I'm afraid of > computers eek a mouse kill it kill it!!!" novice idiots who are the > exclusive target of all modern usability testing? > > All computer usability studies I've s

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > am I wrong or one can have foo.png in foo.desktop, and foo.xpm in > foo.menu? If upstream does not provide an xpm icon, the "convert" > command of the imagemagick package can easily create one at build time. My point is that I shouldn't have to mainta