Bug#744004: RFP: libkpeople -- Library providing access to and grouping for KDE contacts

2014-04-08 Thread Diane Trout
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: libkpeople Version: 0.2.1 Upstream Author: Aleix Pol David Edmundson Martin Klapetek URL: https://proje

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread converge
The point is: is all this effort pointing to the future of linux desktop, or is it just some workaround to try to make users a bit happy for now ? The truth is that linux still doesn't have a competidor for windows and mac window manager and we should care about it. Em 28/08/14 14:09, Kevin

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:21:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I am a techie user using Awesome, so my judgement is flawed too. As is > most of us in this discussion, I suspect. > > Recently a [Debian design team] was initiated, and work is ongoing to > make a Debian Blend for designers.

Bug#743978: ITP: libbde -- Library to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) format.

2014-04-08 Thread Hilko Bengen
Package: wnpp Owner: Hilko Bengen Severity: wishlist * Package name: libbde Version : 20140405 Upstream Author : Joachim Metz * URL or Web page : https://code.google.com/p/libbde/ * License : LGPL-3.0+ Description : Library to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption (

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:24:47AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2014-04-05, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Especially one as minor as the installation CD which has no actual > > conceivable use today. > > At least I don't think that anything 86xish that can't boot from a usb > stick is wihtin wha

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 08/04/2014 20:35, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Remember all the hype that arose when Beryl was announced, with >> per-window transparency settings, the rotating cube, wobbly windows, >> and all that. It was flashy, and I do think it made some heads turn to >> Linux, previously perceived as plainly

Bug#743966: ITP: lua-term -- a Lua module for manipulating a terminal

2014-04-08 Thread Aaron Zauner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Zauner * Package name: lua-term Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Rob Hoelz * URL : https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term * License : MIT Programming Lang: Lua Description : a Lua module for manipulating a ter

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:46:59PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hear, hear. > > Remember all the hype that arose when Beryl was announced, with > per-window transparency settings, the rotating cube, wobbly windows, > and all that. It was flashy, and I do think it made some heads turn to > Linux, p

Bug#743956: ITP: stellarium-stars -- additional stellarium star catalogues

2014-04-08 Thread Tomasz Buchert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tomasz Buchert Package name: stellarium-stars Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Tomasz Buchert URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-astro/packages /stellarium-stars.git License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: She

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Kevin Chadwick dijo [Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100]: > I think you are reflecting a subset of users priorities. I've switched > users from desktop to desktop and they don't care a jot about > flashiness in fact many like simple but pretty which is perfectly > do-able with almost any window

Bug#743669: gedraa-dsh ITA: gravitationally associated binary stars hunter

2014-04-08 Thread Victor Di Rienzo
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #743669 Owner: Victor Di Rienzo Package: gravitationally associated binary stars hunter Priority: optional Section: science Version: 1.0 License: GPL Programming Language: Java Description: This package provides an easy-to-use graphical front-end for finding gra

Bug#743949: ITP: gedraa-dsh -- gravitationally associated binary stars hunter

2014-04-08 Thread Victor Di Rienzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Victor Di Rienzo * Package name: gedraa-dsh Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Alejandro Garro * URL : http://gedraa.com.ar * License : GPL Programming Lang: java Description : gravitationally associated binary star

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured"): > It's probably a good idea to move away from dpkg-ftp as it doesn't seem > to support signed Release files from a cursory look at the old package > from snapshot.debian.org. Indeed. However ... > Ansgar >

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 04/08/2014 18:06, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not > deconfigured"): >> The much maligned dselect frontend has managed w/o any force option, >> and unfortunately only somwhat recently I reasinged bug reports to apt >> (#579790) and cupt

Re: Bug#743887: ITP: direnv -- A utility to set directory specific environment variables

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Punit Agrawal > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Punit Agrawal > > > >> Instead of putting every environment variable in your > >> "~/.profile", have directory-specific ".envrc" files for your > >> AWSACCESSKEY, LIBRARY_PATH or other environment variables. > > > >

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > > ISTR reading somewhere that Depends do not mean that the dependency is > > always configured before the package depending on it is configured, but > > only that it once was configured successfully. > > This is true. If A -Depends-> B and A is "installed

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Jean-Christophe Dubacq contributed: > > I am talking about focus follows mouse but raise only on clicking say > > the border or bar, you can still enter text into any layered windows > > that have focus. So you can quickly switch for entry to or from web > > pages on one sc

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured"): > The much maligned dselect frontend has managed w/o any force option, > and unfortunately only somwhat recently I reasinged bug reports to apt > (#579790) and cupt (#575786 which I need to follow up on) to reque

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured"): > Norbert Preining logic.at> writes: > > In the trigger program we already check that texlive base is in proper > > state (ii in dpkg listing), but that seems not to be enough. > > ISTR reading somewhere that

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured"): > For the record, the removal of texlive-common without the deconfiguring of > texlive-base is because apt will pass --force-depends to dpkg. I think this is a (longstanding) bug in apt. It should never be nec

Fwd: Microsoft Azure provider available in bootstrap-vz

2014-04-08 Thread olivier sallou
-- Message transféré -- De : "olivier sallou" Date : 8 avr. 2014 09:05 Objet : Microsoft Azure provider available in bootstrap-vz À : "debian-cloud" Cc : Hi, I have just finished the provider for Microsoft Azure on bootstrap-vz, in the development branch for the moment. I have te

Re: Bug#743887: ITP: direnv -- A utility to set directory specific environment variables

2014-04-08 Thread Punit Agrawal
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Punit Agrawal > >> Instead of putting every environment variable in your >> "~/.profile", have directory-specific ".envrc" files for your >> AWSACCESSKEY, LIBRARY_PATH or other environment variables. > > Is there any security built into t

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Mathieu Malaterre , 2014-03-27, 13:06: > >I preferred not to mass bug everyone out there and instead: > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742780 > > But many packages don't regenerate autofoo at build-time. :-( > > >LFS is still a rel

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 28/08/2014 15:39, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I am talking about focus follows mouse but raise only on clicking say > the border or bar, you can still enter text into any layered windows > that have focus. So you can quickly switch for entry to or from web > pages on one screen or read a web page in

Re: Bug#743887: ITP: direnv -- A utility to set directory specific environment variables

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Punit Agrawal > Instead of putting every environment variable in your > "~/.profile", have directory-specific ".envrc" files for your > AWSACCESSKEY, LIBRARY_PATH or other environment variables. Is there any security built into this? It sounds like a potential recipe for disaster if code get

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Mike Hommey > If only focus-follows-mouse in GNOME didn't have so much latency... I suspect you might be victim of focus-change-on-pointer-rest being true by default. gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides focus-change-on-pointer-rest false fixes this. At least I don't have any latency on

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > And without a kvm, I'd have to run to the server room each time the > hardware crashes hard or similar problems. Or you could just have a serial console and a networked power switch. Those can at least be replaced when they are compromised, unlike many BMCs. -- T

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Stephan Heidinger
On 28.08.2014 15:40, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > what they hate is > > a) things moving too much that they can't find > > b) not being able to do what they want or things disappearing c) things they are not used to (like different usage concepts) -- Stephan Heidinger PGP-Key: 6853A18E http://www.

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Bálint Réczey contributed: > Xfce is friendly enough, but it feels old compared to Gnome 3 and I > would like to attract new users before convincing them. It is much > easier than in the opposite order. :-) I think you are reflecting a subset of users priorities. I've swit

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list people contributed: > but that doesn't change the fact that ffm with autoraise > works in gnome3. >> GNOME 3 is based on Mutter which has, AFAICT, all features Metacity >> (GNOME 2) used to provide. The focus settings are not shown in the >> control center, but you can use

Bug#743921: ITP: versiontools -- Smart replacement for plain tuple used in __version__

2014-04-08 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: versiontools (binaries: python-versiontools and python3-versiontools) Version : 1.9.1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki * URL : https://launchpad.net/versiontools * License : LGPL-3 Pro

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bálint Réczey (2014-04-08 12:09:55) > 2014-04-03 23:18 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Smirnov : >> On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: >>> The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default >>> desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of >>> course,

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/08/2014 01:51 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > And, of course, non-free software from top to bottom. Not the case of Supermicro: free software, in outdated (and unsafe) versions, from top to bottom, and impossible for the customer to rebuild anything. I wonder if they will one day understand the p

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 23:55 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' tha

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Dmitry, 2014-04-03 23:18 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Smirnov : > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: >> The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default >> desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of course, >> it all depends on where the project is

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/08/2014 02:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > No need to be rude about that, ok? I've re-read my posts about a dozen time, and I fail to see which part you thought was rude. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 23:55 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' that originally > switched me to XFCE, and to a significant degree keeps me the

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:55:02PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' that originally > switched me to XFCE, and to a significant degree keeps me the

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Agustin Martin
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 05:24:09PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > >My mother is using Debian 6 with Gnome 2. I don’t know if I will ever > >update this system. Gnome 3 is not a solution, and I’m not interested in > >teaching XFCE. > > > >Shade and sweet water! > > > > Stephan > > > > Th

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Mika Pflüger
Hi, Wookey wrote: > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' that originally > switched me to XFCE, and to a significant degree keeps me there. So > far as I know gnome3, and u

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-04-05, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Especially one as minor as the installation CD which has no actual > conceivable use today. At least I don't think that anything 86xish that can't boot from a usb stick is wihtin what we should target as 'default experience'. Maybe even stretching it to '