Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mir Discussion with Jono

2013-07-10 Thread Conscious User
Em Qua, 2013-07-10 às 21:25 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad escreveu: > It also seems kind of weird that a desktop distribution would want to > make such an enormous amount of applications second class citizens in > this way. They already did. With or without Mir support, The GNOME stack and Compiz a

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mir Discussion with Jono

2013-07-10 Thread Conscious User
Developers from elementaryOS should not be the main force behind porting toolkits to display servers. This is either the responsibility of toolkit developers or display server developers. If anything, for the deeper technical knowledge this depends on. Reactions from the GNOME community indicate

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Moving Away From Ubuntu

2013-07-09 Thread Conscious User
Em Ter, 2013-07-09 às 18:42 +0200, Christian Dywan escreveu: > A GNOME user will say exactly the same about Elementary. Ditching the > shell, forking the window manager, discarding all apps, adding Contractor… I am a GNOME user, and I can assure you that it's not the same thing. Elementary forks

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Moving Away From Ubuntu

2013-07-08 Thread Conscious User
But I'm talking about moving away from Ubuntu as a base distro, not moving away from Launchpad. Don't people add PPAs to Debian already? Em Seg, 2013-07-08 às 22:09 -0700, Manish Sinha escreveu: > I do get the gist of what Cody is saying. > > It's basically that the PPA ecosystem has so much p

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Moving Away From Ubuntu

2013-07-08 Thread Conscious User
nd eclipse any popular sentiment right now. > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Cody Garver > wrote: > PPAs. > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Conscious User >

[Elementary-dev-community] Moving Away From Ubuntu

2013-07-08 Thread Conscious User
Hi all, Some time ago, I have noticed that an app I'm developing had some rendering issues only when the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars were being used. When I took this to Ubuntu developers, I was told that my best chance was to patch the scrollbars myself because no one was currently working on them

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Farewell, Sort Of

2013-04-02 Thread Conscious User
Yes, such offer is something I can see happening. His acceptance, though, not so much. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Christian Dywan wrote: > I'm not a fan of making an April fool's out of perfectly legitimate > material... I genuinely would've considered Cassidy very fit for such a > role.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Messaging Menu

2012-08-29 Thread Conscious User
As an early supporter and still frequent user of the Messaging Menu, I want to reply to some of the points raised here. It is particular to take the following into consideration: 1) Whether you intend to support the concept of hiding windows. Shnatsel said it's a poor copy of the dock, but I pe