Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-03-02 Thread T.J. Duchene
Later on, we may still want to have a respin installer and/or liveCD with Mate default and anyway Mate is simple to apt-get install. With XFCE 4.12, just released any interest I had in Mate is now diminished considerably. I've nothing against Mate personally, but objectively speaking, XFCE

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-03-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/28/2015 04:40 AM, Jaromil wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Ok, that sounds like a plan. But which is the default DE for Devuan-- XFCE or Mate? It will be Xfce4, since Mate is somehow too big. Later on, we may still want to have a respin installer and/or liveCD

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-03-01 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 07:32:05PM -0430, Richard wrote: [cut] > > > > And leaving the code as-is might be the faster way to get to Devuan 1.0. > > > > -- hendrik > > ___ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:47:03 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 06:40:41PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:04:06 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pirker wrote: > > > > > Some other XFCE users might prefer the classical > > > XFCE application menu. > > > > I do ;-3)

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Richard
On Feb 28, 2015 5:17 PM, "Hendrik Boom" wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 06:40:41PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:04:06 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pirker wrote: > > > > > Some other XFCE users might prefer the classical > > > XFCE application menu. > > > > I do ;-3) > > And l

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 06:40:41PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:04:06 +0100 > Wolfgang Pirker wrote: > > > Some other XFCE users might prefer the classical > > XFCE application menu. > > I do ;-3) And leaving the code as-is might be the faster way to get to Devuan 1.0

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Ron
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:04:06 +0100 Wolfgang Pirker wrote: > Some other XFCE users might prefer the classical > XFCE application menu. I do ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Women should be obscene and not absurd. -- Groucho Marx

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Gravis
> > > I don't know. Given the entire NetworkManager's dependency on dbus, > > > > Dbus is just the mechanism other programs use to interact with NM. > > If you were to carve out the dbus API from NM, it would still manage > > your network as before, but you'd need to add a different way to > > cont

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Wolfgang Pirker
I have a remark on dmenu. It might be a practical way to achieve #2 for all desktop environment in a uniform way. But in a desktop environment like XFCE and heavier ones there are alternatives which might integrate better in its desktop environment and look prettier. For example in XFCE you

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:34:37 -0500 Jude Nelson wrote: > > I don't know. Given the entire NetworkManager's dependency on dbus, > > Dbus is just the mechanism other programs use to interact with NM. > If you were to carve out the dbus API from NM, it would still manage > your network as before, bu

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Jude Nelson
> I don't know. Given the entire NetworkManager's dependency on dbus, Dbus is just the mechanism other programs use to interact with NM. If you were to carve out the dbus API from NM, it would still manage your network as before, but you'd need to add a different way to control it. -Jude On Sat

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:00:01 -0500 Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > On 02/22/2015 07:38 PM, Jaromil wrote: > > dear Jonathan, > > > > you have very good concerns on usability. After Devuan 1.0 we might > > be able to quick fix desktop behaviour, I bet many developers > > involved will go do respins and b

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Stefan Ott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/2015 11:38 AM, Jaromil wrote: > > I'm an avid user of tiled desktops, in particular Awesome and > LarsWM, so I'll certainly make sure those work well, for my own > good. i3 user here. In case we ever need specific tweaks for that (eg. Debian

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 28/02/2015 11:38, Jaromil a écrit : hi Didier, On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Didier Kryn wrote: It seems we will have to wait a little for Mate, and maybe also for all the lightweight tiled DE's. we'll likely support all lightweight desktops just out of the box, I doubt they have hard depend

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/22/2015 07:38 PM, Jaromil wrote: dear Jonathan, you have very good concerns on usability. After Devuan 1.0 we might be able to quick fix desktop behaviour, I bet many developers involved will go do respins and blends. however, for what concerns us here and at least until the Devuan 1.0 re

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Jaromil
hi Didier, On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Didier Kryn wrote: > It seems we will have to wait a little for Mate, and maybe also > for all the lightweight tiled DE's. we'll likely support all lightweight desktops just out of the box, I doubt they have hard dependencies on systemd. Enlightnement perhap

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Didier Kryn
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Ok, that sounds like a plan. But which is the default DE for Devuan-- XFCE or Mate? It will be Xfce4, since Mate is somehow too big. Later on, we may still want to have a respin installer and/or liveCD with Mate default and anyway Mate is

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-28 Thread Jaromil
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >Ok, that sounds like a plan. > >But which is the default DE for Devuan-- XFCE or Mate? It will be Xfce4, since Mate is somehow too big. Later on, we may still want to have a respin installer and/or liveCD with Mate default and anyway Mate is

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/22/2015 05:45 PM, Mark Maxwell wrote: On 22/02/15 20:11, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hello, A few questions about the GUI for Devuan... 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi networ

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-24 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Steve Litt wrote: > As far as I know, wicd depends on dbus, which is why I'm thinking of > making a substitute. As mentioned in a previous thread, we are leaning towards connman these days one VUA is active patching some details in it and keeping contact with its upstream de

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:06:47 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > I discovered the name of wicd on this list recently. I didn't > try it, therefore I can't compare, but it looks that it has more > diverse interfaces than wpasupplicant, CLI, GUI and even Curses. I > will probably try it the first time

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-24 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 22/02/2015 21:11, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi network connections? 2) When the DE's main menu pops up, will the user be able to _immediately_

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Pirker
On 2015-02-22 20:11, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > [...] > 2) When the DE's main menu pops > up, will the user be able to _immediately_ start typing characters > and see a list of applications filtered to match what is being > typed? > [...] Hello there, I am aware of two ways to achieve this, wh

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:11:12 + (UTC) Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi Jonathan, I rearranged the order of your post... > > Anyhow, if any of those three are missing under the planned system, > I'd be happy to help try to rectify the situation.  That's supremely cool. Discoverability is *everyth

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-22 Thread Jaromil
dear Jonathan, you have very good concerns on usability. After Devuan 1.0 we might be able to quick fix desktop behaviour, I bet many developers involved will go do respins and blends. however, for what concerns us here and at least until the Devuan 1.0 release (which is a base system) you might

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:31:34PM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:11:12 + (UTC) > Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or > > other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi > >

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-22 Thread Ron
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:11:12 + (UTC) Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or > other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi > network connections? >#1 is vital because it makes the entire knowledge-bas

[Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello,A few questions about the GUI for Devuan... 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi network connections?2) When the DE's main menu pops up, will the user be able to _immediately_ s