Re: Testing request: gdm-on-Wayland on hybrid graphics laptops (esp. Macbooks)

2015-05-15 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi William, please add yourself to the bug and of course provide any information you can provide. We need to know more about the scope of this to be able to determine if its a blocker or not. Of course our challenge is that until we have a way to reproduce on a system our devs can look at or get

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Christian Schaller
Sounds great, I know Allan and Richard has some mockups for how they want to do upgrades in GNOME Software, so hopefully this will make it even easier to implement. Christian - Original Message - From: "Will Woods" To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:42:56 A

Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

2014-02-17 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Przemek Klosowski" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:43:16 PM > Subject: Re: Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be > listed in software center > > On 02/14/2014 01:41 PM, Adam Williamson w

Re: What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

2014-03-21 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Miller" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:59:01 PM > Subject: Re: What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:28:26AM +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote

Re: F21 Self Contained Change: Playground repository

2014-04-09 Thread Christian Schaller
To chime in here, we have been doing something like this in GStreamer for a long while. There is 'plugins-base' and 'plugins-good' plugins which is comparable to the current core Fedora repository. Any plugin going into base or good need to conform to certain coding standards, licensing standards

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-15 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Reindl Harald" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:40:20 AM > Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall > > > Am 15.04.2014 11:32, schrieb drago01: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Reindl Hara

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-15 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Simo Sorce" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:37:38 PM > Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall > > On Tue, 2014-04-15

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-22 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Liam" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:10:13 PM > Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall > > > > > On Apr 21, 2014 4:32 AM, "drago01" < drag...@gmail.com > wrote: > > >

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-22 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Thomas Woerner" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:23:46 AM > Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall > > On 04/21/2014 12:22 AM, drago01 wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Reindl Ha

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-22 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Nikos Roussos" > There is also a third group, somewhere in between, who believe that's ok > to ship Free Software that connects and interops with proprietary > services (gtalk, aws, etc), but it's not ok to ship proprietary > software, metadata about proprie

Re: F21 System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall

2014-04-22 Thread Christian Schaller
HA1 > > On 04/22/2014 05:43 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: > > > > > > > > > > - Original Message - > >> From: "Thomas Woerner" To: > >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 > >> 11:23:46 AM S

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-23 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi Mairin, Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of wanting legal to weigh in, but in general I don't think legals opinion is very relevant and this point. The first step here should always be us as a project deciding what user experience we want to offer our users, then once that i

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Schaller
ora's Foundations > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 23 April 2014 02:29, Christian Schaller wrote: > >> > >> Hi Mairin, > >> Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of

Re: The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Schaller
gt; > > On 24 April 2014 09:56, Stephen Gallagher < sgall...@redhat.com > wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/24/2014 11:01 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > > > > > On 24 April 2014 02:49, Christian

Tasklist for the Fedora Workstation

2014-06-25 Thread Christian Schaller
quite low on detail atm., and not all items might be self explanatory and as mentioned we do hope to add more detailed information to each item in the next few days. Sincerely, Christian Schaller -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: wayland in rawhide

2015-11-12 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Josh Boyer" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:05:27 PM > Subject: Re: wayland in rawhide > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:58 PM, David Airlie wrote: > > > >> That's fine. I don't have a problem add

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Robert Marcano" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:57:51 AM > Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall > > On 12/09/2014 08:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > > > Am 09.12.20

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Brian Wheeler" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:18:47 AM > Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall > > On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > On 9 December 2014 at 13:39, M

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Gerd Hoffmann" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:22:01 AM > Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall > > On Di, 2014-12-09 at 08:16 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > ---

Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Reindl Harald" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:04:46 AM > Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall > > > Am 09.12.2014 um 15:57 schrieb Christian

Re: Fedora 25 defaults to X instead of wayland

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Schaller
My guess is that you have a system with hybrid graphics, we made it default to X since the support for hybrid graphics is not available fully in Wayland yet. We hope to land that for F26. Christian - Original Message - > From: "Timothy Ward" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent:

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Kevin Kofler" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 11:06:36 PM > Subject: Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25 > > Hans de Goede wrote: > > First the what: ever since AMD and NVIDIA started shipping > > their own Linux drive

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Schaller
There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on the mesa-devel list and at XDC. This is not Fedora specific technology, but a change in how Mesa will work everywhere and thus there has not been a lot of discussions about it here on Fedora-devel. But that is true for most

Re: The glvnd + mesa update for F25

2017-02-07 Thread Christian Schaller
wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 06-02-17 23:01, Jan Pokorný wrote: > >> > >> On 06/02/17 15:13 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > >>> > >>> There has been a lot of discussions for the last few years about glvnd on > >>> the mesa-devel l

Re: YAST for Fedora?

2017-04-13 Thread Christian Schaller
Actually isn't Cockpit our 'YAST', I mean it is not a 1to1 thing, but for a lot of things Cockpit provides the featureset a sysadmin would want. Christian - Original Message - > From: "Adam Williamson" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 20

mp3 encoding now ok

2017-05-03 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi, So just wanted everyone to know that we now have the go ahead to ship mp3 encoding in Fedora too. So anyone involved with packaging mp3 encoders can now start migrating them to the Fedora repositories. We are still in the process of evaluating other codecs. Christian

Re: mp3 encoding now ok

2017-05-03 Thread Christian Schaller
3, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 > related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has > been terminated. > """ > > https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html > > --Jon > > On We

Re: mp3 encoding now ok

2017-05-04 Thread Christian Schaller
topic through RH legal? > > Presumably one does not need legal sign-off when patents legally > expire, but this topic is significant. > > We can now package mp3 encoding software. > > That is a big thing. > > --Jon > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Christian Sc

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-14 Thread Christian Schaller
One major reason is that it enables us to move towards having the Atomic Workstation version be the primary one and maybe in the (very) long run be the only one. A bit more detail about that can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation Or this talk from FLOCK b

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-18 Thread Christian Schaller
I think this email from Owen summarizes what we need to keep in mind here. Containers have caught on due to solving some important problems and thus people are looking at models for what the future operating system would look like where containers are the primary content delivery mechanism. In Fedo

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-01 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > > > > It looks like it is designed only for developers by developers. > > > > What about graphic designers, musicians, document writers, etc.? They > > all are not mentioned as target audience. > > Per this document, those would fall into the "Other users" secti

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-02 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi Bill, It is a good question. It does seem a bit more detailed than the level I tried to put this document on, so maybe should a style guide would be part of second stage working group output. But what probably would belong in this document would be a paragraph saying we intend to come up with

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-02 Thread Christian Schaller
The PRD avoids these questions by design. To often open source discussions end up being discussions about the merits of the means as opposed to the actual goals. It should be a sobering notion that for all the years when the community discussed if the a successful desktop should be implemented i

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-02 Thread Christian Schaller
Funnily enough I had a discussion last week where it turned out the disagreement wasn't so much a disagreement, but a different contextualisation of the word 'support'. And I think that will be the crux here too. To me the main part of 'supporting' something here will be in handling our ABI story

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Christian Schaller
The term 'Power user' is not meaningless if you use it to refer to users of Fedora on IBM Power architecture ;) But apart from that I do agree that the term as generally used doesn't provide a very clear target for development. Christian - Original Message - > From: "drago01" > To: "D

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-05 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi Ryan, I been discussing the possibilities of doing some surveys with Langdon White, so hopefully yes. We just need to rustle up the budget first :) Christian - Original Message - From: "Ryan Lerch" To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" , devel@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Christian Schaller
> >> So sure, we can have software that will pull things in if the user has > >> done some manual intervention. We just cant, currently, do that thing > >> for them. > > > > Right, that's exactly what I was saying. I just think this is all the > > _original poster_ was talking about, not any kind

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-06 Thread Christian Schaller
> > I would actually like to go a little further, and make it easy to enable > > 'clean' third-party repositories. If we imagine a future where e.g. > > valve is hosting a repository with their steam client, or say, the > > chromium web browser is available from the a fedora people page, I would >

Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi Frank, They will, although in some sense I am the wrong person to ask this question as it will be up to the people developing and packaging these DE's just like it is now. The difference from today here though will be that there will be some requirements for being available for the workstati

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi, The core principle of the installer is that it operates on an application level and not a package level. The current way it determines if something is an application is by looking for a .desktop file. So in theory you could put a bitchx.desktop file into the bitchx package and it would app

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Schaller
Well the installer is work in progress and there are a lot of features missing still, and there are still questions that we need to figure out the answer to in terms of installing various things. We are trying to nail down the core design first before adding support for 'everything', but there

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Schaller
Ok, so I guess the solution would be for the launcher to do something like this: gnome-terminal --geometry 80x37 --disable-factory --role=bitchx --class=bitchx --name "bitchX IRC" --title "BitchX IRC" That said Ray mentioned that this is probably not supported yet in the Shell launcher. Anywa

Workstation PRD summary and next steps

2013-11-07 Thread Christian Schaller
Hi everyone, So on behalf of the Workstation Working Group I would like to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time so far to chime in. There has been a lot of passionate discussion happening and that is the way we like it. So while we might not have been able to respond to each and ever

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
The difference here is that the resources for GNOME (or anything else Red Hat needs for future versions of RHEL) are provided by Red Hat. So if you want the spins to the logically the same in terms of resources we should start demanding that any spin set up needs to provide an annual monetary c

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "piruthiviraj natarajan" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:45:51 AM > Subject: Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins > > > On Thu, Jan 30,

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
the fate of Spins > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Christian Schaller < cscha...@redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > What I mean to say is that Red Hat has a business motive to support the > Fedora community, > if supporting Fedora was a pure act of charity t

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - > From: "Jaroslav Reznik" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:25:10 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins > > - Original Message - > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
x Fedora > outside of Fedora space to avoid legal issues. > > Jaroslav > > > > > Christian > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "piruthiviraj natarajan" > > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread Christian Schaller
30, 2014 1:39:11 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins > > > On 01/30/2014 12:08 PM, Christian Schaller wrote: > > My statements was directly targeted at the often repeated attitude on this > > list which > > seems to be that Red Hat should shut u

Re: Fedora captive portal page changed output :(

2016-12-05 Thread Christian Schaller
Actually, I was told that Debarshi committed a fix for the TLS error in captive portal just last week and has pushed a fix for it. Christian - Original Message - > From: "Michael Catanzaro" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 1:16:08

Re: GSequencer upstream wants to package for fedora

2016-12-14 Thread Christian Schaller
That is not 100% correct. You can make a non-sandboxed Flatpak and it would work just as well as an RPM in terms of hardware access. Enabling sandboxing however would need some thought and development for a lot of such applications, but we are slowly but surely working on it through things like th

Re: GSequencer upstream wants to package for fedora

2016-12-14 Thread Christian Schaller
pa" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 10:52:37 AM > Subject: Re: GSequencer upstream wants to package for fedora > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Christian Schaller > wrote: > > That is not 10

Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support

2017-01-05 Thread Christian Schaller
While most desktop applications have migrated to 64 bit at this point there are still many that hasn't. Steam for instance is still 32-bit afaict. So doing a clean cutover like this feel a bit to drastic to me and I am not sure we have the market power to 'force' vendors to quickly migrate to con

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-01 Thread Christian Schaller
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:36 PM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > > Why is a Flatpak a better choice for LibreOffice? > -- > Sincerely, > Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) > There are a lot of ways to answer this, but from any upstream the advantage of Flatpak is that it means package once and then d

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-01 Thread Christian Schaller
Yes, sorry about that meant now of course 😃 On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 6:45 PM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > On 6/1/23 15:59, Christian Schaller wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:36 PM Demi Marie Obenour > > > wrote: > >> Why is a Flatpak a better choice for LibreOffice?

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-02 Thread Christian Schaller
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:40 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 2:28 PM Stephen Smoogen > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 07:20, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> > >> Lets not make this a drama. > >> > >> Package maintenance changes have never gone through change proposals

Re: Announcement: fdk-aac

2017-10-12 Thread Christian Schaller
For those interested the bugzilla request for adding this module is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522 - Original Message - > From: "Tom Callaway" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > , le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 20