Re: Donate 1 minute of your time to test upgrades from F40 to F41

2024-09-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 02:10:20PM +0200, H H L P wrote:  Problem 3: package qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld-5.15.17-1.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-free requires libre2.so.9()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed   - problem with installed package qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld-5.15.17-1.fc40.

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:21:17PM +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > Summary: I have a proposal to make it easier for maintainers to have > multiple versions of the same library in distro (by making it *naturally* Mageia has something, but only meant to transition from one library version to the n

Re: FESCo Elections results

2015-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 02:52:51PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > What does this tell you? :-) [..] > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora

Re: F22 System Wide Change: GNOME 3.16

2015-01-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:46:48AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > Actually, I've ran into a few cases now where upstream has removed > essential workflow features and I think we should make it clear to > upstream that we are deviating from them unless they re-focus on user > freedom. For example: [..

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 13.06.2014 10:15, schrieb Richard Hughes: > > On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible > >> and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new > >> generation of YUM > > >

Re: Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla -> trivial patch policy?

2014-06-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:27:21PM -0500, Mukundan Ragavan wrote: > Isn't it best for the project as a whole to have the bar for proven > packager high? :) I think it is detrimental. If someone has loads of time to do bugfixes across packages, let them. I do loads and loads of trivial bugfixes (no

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:33:09PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 05:33 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:50:11PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Oh, hey, look. That place is rapidly becoming the 'crap, we don't

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:50:11PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Oh, hey, look. That place is rapidly becoming the 'crap, we don't know > where to put this' dumping ground for GNOME 3, isn't it? It has been there since 3.0 AFAIK, so rapidly becoming is incorrect. Anyway, calling design decision

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:51:22PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > GNOME has a few 'preferred apps' settings left but I don't think they're > exposed in the UI anywhere. There are the following dconf keys: Settings → Details → Default applications No terminal option though. -- Regards, Olav --

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:45:13PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Maybe that's because Coprs were never announced with huge rants about > market-share and how Fedora packaging sucked and was irrelevant? I'm pretty sure you're misunderstanding what people are saying if you think above. What I wrot

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Peter Robinson wrote: > > I don't see many people forcing things through, I believe that the vast > > majority of contributors either like the change or aren't bothered by it. > > Ah, the "silent majority" hypothesis, always a fun arg

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:57:06AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Which basically says that the working group is going to work on that. > There's actually 0 technical details on how the implemetation will work > out, or even if it will. http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applications-

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 11/06/2013 11:30 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: > >>Has this "sanboxed-bundled-from-upstream" proposal been discussed with > >>oth

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:45:29AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:17:28 +0100 > Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > AFAIK (not sure), it sh

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:28:09PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I fail to see the point of discussing non-GNOME-specific problems on a > GNOME development list. A bit more logical to include people who actually > work on non-GNOME software and don't want to discuss non-GNOME app > distribution o

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:33:57AM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: > 2013/11/7 Olav Vitters > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > AFAIK (not sure), it should come somewhat easy once you the >

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:50:59AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Bastien Nocera wrote: > >> > Might not want to put answers in people's mouths. Did you read up on

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:01:09AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Well yes, each time you try to force a change through which actually makes > things worse, there WILL be resistance. In fact, this is already what is > happening in this thread, the "app" proposal coming from (parts of) the > Workst

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 03:53:48AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > AFAIK (not sure), it should come somewhat easy once you the distribution > > is based upon systemd. > > That means it will exclude the most popular distribution out there. I fai

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: > Has this "sanboxed-bundled-from-upstream" proposal been discussed with > other distributions? If the final result is that the "Universal Linux > Package" only works in Fedora we are not gaining anything. A lot of this is being base

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:26:48PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > places - _the_ distribution, _the_ app store, _the_ amazon.com. And > the difficulty of getting a set of bits to amazon.com / an app store / > a RPM is very similar. If one will immediately solve it for multiple distributions, then

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:35:59AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I think users will not understand why all the vendor repositories with non- > free crap are there and the stuff they are actually looking for is not. Whether or not proprietary is crap or not is offtopic. -- Regards, Olav -- devel

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:25:29AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > But many of those concerns are inherent to the concept of "sandboxed > applications" or the methods of delivery they'd enable and cannot possibly > be addressed, ever. The whole concept is fatally flawed. I'd suggest trying a differ

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > So let me step into my handy Tardis and bring back a vignette from the > Real World after Fedora and other distributions bless upstream app > distribution as a preferred channel: Could you give some practical programs which are imp

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:00:16AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Might not want to put answers in people's mouths. Did you read up on the > > various bundling techniques that were explored and the API/ABI guarantees > > we want to offer? I'll stop short of paraphrasing you.

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:59:00AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > In short: Make the defaults as sane as possible, but still allow the user to > change them if they disagree with you on what is "sane". The more options, > the better. The definition given by Frank Murphy is totally different and do

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:56:47PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > bad outcome as low as possible. "Let's just try it and see what > happens!" is not a mature approach to risk management. Ehr, instead of promoting something as supported, just start off slow. Call if alpha, write down all the conce

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:19:48PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I disagree with the premise that to get anywhere, we would need to bend over > backwards to the proprietary market and adopt their inferior software > distribution strategies. If that were true, we could give up right here, > we'd h

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:05:21PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > As all such schemes it works as long as you ignore the fact that apps > process data and communicate with other apps. That's not being overlooked. Probably the presentation already addresses this concern. -- Regards, Olav -- dev

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:32:22PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Fedora the project which means two entirely separated > infrastructures. yeah sure these two might be communicating heavily > between themselves unless ofcourse you want to risk issues from > either the company or the projec

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:57:15AM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > But, personally, I agree with billycr...@gmail.com... > On the servers I run, and the server applications I've written, > the use of email is mandatory and the use of an MTA is the > best, most-efficient way to deal with the email. > I s

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: > I would love to see the day systemd is as polished, ubiquitous, and > robust as smtp. But until that happens, nobody is helped by removing > MTA from the default install. We're not there yet, and theres no systemd and SMTP are not re

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

2013-07-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > What's inappropriate is giving instructions to others what they can, > or can not say. Even better would be to take this sort of stuff off list asap. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://ad

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:03:02PM -0700, Dan Mashal wrote: > Let's be realistic here. The precedence they have recently set is they > make decisions and if you don't like it "too bad". Even if that is true, what is your point? -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Anaconda has a pretty special place in this project. It is the > uber-administrator of every new Fedora install. We would do better > as a community to hash out major changes before they're made, and > try to reach some agreement bef

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:51:22AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 05/04/2013 12:30 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:24:01PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >>Matthew, with all due respect the tone of the bug doesn't make me think > >>that there is a lot of interest in dis

Re: libvirt-cim - RPM build error

2013-04-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:15:45AM +0200, poma wrote: > As stated in the attach. For bugs please use Bugzilla (attach the patch there). Also, in mailing list please send a new email instead of replying to an existing email. Many people on mailing lists use software that'll still show your email a

Re: Wayland and Fedora

2013-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:52:10AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > [2] https://live.gnome.org/Wayland > > I'm also curious about how wayland might work with kde. Suggest everyone to read the above URL. It has a to the KDE plans, Enlightenment, status of applications, amount of work needed, etc. Du

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:12:54PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > +1 -1 Or in other words: This is not Google+, please don't quote entire emails. I do remember the AOL time. An argument can stand on itself without a popularity vote. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:20:21AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > It's unfortunately demoware. While the LinuxBIOS project has optimized > BIOS on a few systrems, server grade hardware can take up to five > minutes simply to get past all the Power-On-Self-Test operations. And > just because the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > I haven't seen systems that boot in less than 6 seconds (and by "boot" I > mean power-on to login prompt). Maybe they exist, but that is not my > experience with common hardware. At FOSDEM they demonstrated 2 seconds for kernel + user

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:14:05AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On 03/13/2013 09:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > > Then you have good students. Are teens and pre-teens fedora's main > > target audience now? I'm really not sure what it is anymore. > > Is there any good reason to exclude them? > > I sta

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: > On 03/12/2013 02:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >but the better option for us all would be if people with > >this attitude switch to these operating systems instead > >damage slowly what we know as UNIX-LIKE system I *completely* *detes

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:56:57AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: > On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: > >You know: *you* might not need fast boot. *Your* systems you might not > >reboot only every other week. *Your* ser

Re: Fedora 18 and new version of Gnome (3.7.x)

2013-03-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > There is some way to test new version of gnome on Fedora 18? > Thanks The GNOME live image is currently based on Fedora (without the branding). So you could copy this to some USB stick and test that: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/mis

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:18:04PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Some of the things we want to achieve: > * Make rawhide to be reliably installable and usable by developers by > coherently introducing changes. Mageia packages libraries by the .so major version. So you can upgrade a library and th

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 02:14:30PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > 1. Show sessions before selecting/entering the user: > >Means basically including something like 'default session' or > >'previous session' > > That'

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: > What about users *without* password? It's insecure (in most cases), but > possible. That is a known tradeoff/bug. IMO this is a case of 'it hurts when I do this'. Tradeoff is how often you have a nicer experience (showing the right

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 06:20:52PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > My understanding is that the session list is dependent on the user > selected. At least the default session is, so it made sense to wait > until a user is chosen before showing the list. Using this you can show the correct default ses

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:50:56PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 12.02.2013 15:47, schrieb Olav Vitters: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 11.02.2013 11:31, schrieb Olav Vitters: > >>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 11.02.2013 11:31, schrieb Olav Vitters: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > >> In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give > >> up on a project i

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:20:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI > > It was written by one individual employee and released as an unsupported > tool. It'd have been a third-party tool if the author didn

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > I don't get why you reply to me. It seems anything people do is just > > bad. > > > > No tweak tool: bad > > A tweak tool: bad > > Strawman… > > What

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:07:23AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/08/2013 01:39 PM, drago01 wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > >>Gnome3 and Gnome2's GUI working principles are entirely different and > >>therefore are catering the demands of different target

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:29PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > This argument doesn't really work, either. Care to provide any argumentation? At the moment if that were true, I'd could just refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black But actually I explained myself. You

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:02PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno dom, 10/02/2013 alle 14.47 +0100, Olav Vitters ha scritto: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > > > Christopher Meng writes: > > > > > > > So

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:59:22PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > In the end, more than any usability quibbles, the best reason to give > up on a project is when it refuses to listen to its end users. The GNOME release notes over various cycles have listed loads of changes which have been made based o

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Having a separate "tweak tool" is a lame workaround for lack of settings in > > the official tools. The only reason such "twe

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Having a separate "tweak tool" is a lame workaround for lack of settings in > the official tools. The only reason such "tweak tools" exist on proprietary > operating systems is because the proprietary companies don't want to > offic

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > Christopher Meng writes: > > > Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask > > everywhere about this.. > > I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some > functionality are fou

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:22:41AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > drago01 wrote: > > There is no easy way to install applications (regular user don't want > > to mess up with packages). > > Huh? Fire up gnome-packagekit or Apper, choose your app, make 2 or 3 clicks > (install, apply, confirm depend

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:38:46PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > The only thing I can think of is that people turning their back on you, > not looking at you when you are asked to raise your hand on something > they worked on, this might be intimidating to some people. > I was not one of these

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael Scherer wrote: > > Gnome-shell is not mean to be used nor appropriate for a mobile phone. > > And despite being rather usable on a touch screen ( I tested ), it is > > still not sufficient there for 1 million of details ( Vince

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:21:49PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I stand by my statement that this was a very awkward moment, with Vincent > and the GNOME team radiating unhappiness and pretty much everyone else > being perplexed and wondering whether they should take offence at being > accused o

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:35:56PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Ven 8 février 2013 13:22, Olav Vitters a écrit : > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > >> I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original > >> sta

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-08 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:34:58AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I am providing a datapoint that directly contradicts your original > statement, namely that there is a "completely different target > audience" for GNOME 2 vs GNOME 3. > > I am that datapoint. As are various others during FOSDEM (Vince

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:13:48AM -0500, Pavel Simerda wrote: > I wouldn't ask specific people to actually work on it. But it would be > nice if the core developers provided more support, feature stability > and API stability. To ask them to actively encourage alternative GUIs > and allow them to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:04:44AM +0100, Rave it wrote: > Your look in a crystal ball is far away from reality like the topic > himself. > Pls, give more to laugh. > and stay close to facts instead of posting your personal > perspective. > This doesn't help us really. Pot calling the kett

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > what makes me rellay angry (as one who never used and will use > GNOME and i knew GNOME 1.0 and KDE 1.0 as well where most users > of today not heard about linux at all) is that the GNOME developers > did NOT learn ANYTHING by the KDE

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:28:16PM -0800, Eric Bergen wrote: > Success! I've switched over to Cinnamon. The start style menu is back > and I am happy. I'm sure I could get used to gnome-shell but my first > experience wasn't a good one. To add: - Cinnamon was forked from gnome-shell, so any slowne

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Normally I try not to do this, but: what he said. Vincent Untz asked for a show of hands of people who used GNOME 2, GNOME 3, switched, etc. Recommend seeing the FOSDEM video. Loads of people indicated that they use GNOME 3, though less

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 31.01.2013 09:55, schrieb Olav Vitters: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: > >> From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that > >> either beyond

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: > From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that > either beyond lip service. 6 versions to return shutdown speaks for > itself. I saw this negativity was also on Phoronix, where someone else commented in a similar way: A

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

2013-01-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:47:33PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > When I install a freeipa server I do not want firstboot because I am not > going to create local users anyway. I am going to install freeipa and > then create users in LDAP. > > So far I just skipped firstboot by using tricks, like tell

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:36:22AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > >MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. > > I know that. > > >GNOME classic is not the same as a fallback mode. > > >

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:13:34AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: > Let's see how lightweight, bug free and usable it is. Why don't you just > merge the 3 projects instead of wasting your time? We could all work > together. MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. > There could be differen

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:27:42PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Mon 28 Jan 2013 02:17:29 PM EST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > "Going away" isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going > > to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official > > feature of Gnome 3.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for > Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but > MariaDB will become the default. Also, we do not intend to support concurre

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > I would also add that if the switch to gnome 3 made enough people leave > the project, they would have gone to mate, and afaik, no one coding on > mate has a @gnome.org email. In fact, mate do take a lot of commits from > gnome : S

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:12:27AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: > For example, the same thing happened with Gnome 3 upstream where a lot > of developers left the project due to a lack of a real vision or > direction. Please don't rely in rant-like blog posts for your source of information. In my impre

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-10-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54:22AM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Lack of communication lol those RH storage developers could have. > > A) subscribed to the Anaconda developers list to monitor changes > relevant to their setup as anyone else affected by any upstream > changes ( this got m

Re: What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

2012-10-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:25:11AM -0700, les wrote: > Also one of the things we (linux folk) decry about most proprietary > packages is in fact the arbitrary encoding of information in proprietary > formats. Add in the fact that storage is relatively cheap today, and it > would seem that having a

Re: Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

2012-07-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:20:59PM +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: >+ 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ( to export menus through DBus, this > one is still used, and if I understood correctly, this is currently > the only remnant of non-upstreamed patches and I believe it was > declined by GTK+ upstrea

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-06-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:44:38AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Its not his ignorance - he's on vacation for the next two weeks... > > Brian replied to Lennart 7 minutes after Lennart's e-mail and mine was > an hour after that as a pretty good indication Lennart w

Re: Managing the GNOME updates in Fedora

2012-03-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:49:32PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 26 March 2012 11:58, Peter Robinson wrote: > > It would be nice if the rawhide stream was built at the same time as > > well as not doing so has the effect of people trying to work with > > rawhide as well get random failures and

Re: Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

2012-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:19:45AM +, mike cloaked wrote: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/ This one had 12000 votes apparently: http://www.linuxjournal.com/slideshow/readers-choice-2011?page=3 htt

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:07:11AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: > On 02/10/2012 05:28 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:11:06AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>Yes, I'm arguing that the "feature" is undesirable by design and should not > >>

Re: /usrmove?

2012-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:11:06AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Yes, I'm arguing that the "feature" is undesirable by design and should not > have been approved, not for Fedora 17, not for Fedora 18, not even for > Fedora 31337. It has been approved, other distributions are following. It is very

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:17:16AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > ~ without recurse, and standard XDG directories in ~ with recurse. > In ~/Documents I have 4GiB of mostly .c source files in various revisions, > for a total of 189833 files. In other directories I have 5 photos in .jpg, > and couple

Re: Bad package selection practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:09:07PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I suppose I have to go to the gnome lists and raise Cain about this > kind of fundamental mis-engineering? If you want bugs to be fixed, then please file bugreports. Tracker should NOT have a noticeable impact on performance (in the defa

Re: Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

2012-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:47:11PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Also, 30 GiB in .cache/tracker is a bit extreme when rest of my ~ is 4 GiB. Tracker should only index a few standard directories ($HOME without subdirectories, ~/Documents, etc). What does it index on your machine? Is that the defau

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:17:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > True. As far as GNOME goes, though, whenever you suggest 'bulletproof > session management', they say 'that's what suspend is for'... I'd like to see proper session management. However, the existing X protocol is terrible (a KDE'er

Re: systemd: Is it wrong? -> wrong order

2011-07-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:50:58PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 11.07.11 13:20, Steve Dickson (ste...@redhat.com) wrote: > > they are handling the systemd conversation... What other > > distro are planing to use it? > > I lost track of this a bit, but MeeGo already switched, and M

Re: GNOME3 and au revoir WAS: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > gnome3 was not driven by user feedbak. It was driven by getting vendors > to install it on factory shipped netbooks. Latter is not true. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

2011-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > (anything they could do in shell scripts, but not they can't). This will > feel good, right? You will be such an important guy! I think most lurkers have understood you seem to have some personal issues with Lennart. Please still sh