Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-22 Thread Dane Henson
ways to test. I'm > sure we can work out a time to do a hang out. Just let me know when works > for you. > > To anyone else who is interested, I'm happy to answer any questions about > TDD or other matters pertaining to software development. If you would like &

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Congratulations Luna developers!

2013-08-22 Thread Dane Henson (elementary)
Craig, I don't think this is something you can just hand off.  You championed this to a 60+ e-mail thread and you just expect someone else to pick up the banner? My old pastor had a saying: "See the need, fill the need." If you feel this passionate about helping elementary, I know you can ge

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Basing elementary on latest and greatest pieces of software

2013-07-13 Thread Dane Henson
One does not simply fork launchpad. On Jul 13, 2013 2:52 PM, "Cassidy James" wrote: > Chris, > > Launchpad is technically open source, but it's designed to be used only on > Canonical's infrastructure and they aren't interested in making it run > elsewhere. It's open source so that people can hel

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-06-27 Thread Dane Henson
the time to do something like this? On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Dane Henson wrote: Thanks for setting up that document.  I've already added a few things and commented a bit.  I have been toying with GTest (GLib.Test) a bit, but haven't been substantially impressed by it yet.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-29 Thread Dane Henson
gt;> Interesting, I added your repo to the doc if you don't mind :) >> >> Met vriendelijke groet, >> >> Jaap Broekhuizen >> >> Aquamarijnstraat 273 >> 9743 PG Groningen >> >> jaap.broekhuizen.nu >> jaap...@gmail.com >> 06 -

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Test Driven Development

2013-04-29 Thread Dane Henson
Thanks for setting up that document. I've already added a few things and commented a bit. I have been toying with GTest (GLib.Test) a bit, but haven't been substantially impressed by it yet. You can see my noodling with it at lp:~thegreatdane/+junk/agenda-tests

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Dane Henson
Here is another practical post I found interesting regarding setting up Unit Tests in Vala with Cmake: http://blog.remysaissy.com/2012/11/setting-up-unit-tests-in-vala-project.html I apologize for spamming the mailing list. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@ele

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Dane Henson
David, I understand where you're coming from and I have worried about that in the past. There are two approaches for Unit Testing. The strong approach is to figure out what you want the app to do (i.e. design the framework), describe that app's functions and libraries using tests, then write your

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Dane Henson
Craig, I have seen that and it looks promising. That post also mentions Yorba and valadate, but the Yorba devs have told me they have no intention of continuing development on it. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Dane Henson wrote: > Yes, testing is sorely needed. > > I started down

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Testing

2013-04-04 Thread Dane Henson
Yes, testing is sorely needed. I started down the path of finding the best solution for Vala Unit Testing, but couldn't find any great options. Currently, all projects that pursued the xUnit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit) model for Vala have fallen out of development and only their shells

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

2013-04-01 Thread Dane Henson
Feels like a punch in the gut. I'm excited for you and proud to have canonical poaching our awesome community members. I wish you the best of luck and hope you continue to haunt these parts. Your prominent presence on the council will be sorely missed. On Apr 1, 2013 7:16 PM, "Cassidy James" wrote

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] How to review and merge branches

2013-04-01 Thread Dane Henson
I understand the hesitance to push lovingly crafted code through a cookie-cutter code beautifier, but we are hardly talking about chopping everything apart and putting it together backwards. The only document I know of ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AcuFhcuEkoEM5_JEhGrdeshRQP5oBudh7IPQJeeux

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Stable Audience-like video player surfaces

2013-03-29 Thread Dane Henson
I would have to agree with Cassidy.  I'm not too impressed.  Audience is more pleasing to my eye and is headed in the right direction. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Tom Beckmann wrote: As far as I've checked the code (which is C by the way), there's nothing that audience doesn't have in i

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Luna launch video

2012-11-16 Thread Dane Henson
I would like to be involved with this collaboration. My equipment: Canon T2i 50mm 1.4 17-40mm 4.0L 28mm 1.8 Monopod Tripod I could take some stock footage of Dallas/Fort Worth or film my beautiful wife using elementary on our laptop or desktop computer. I have experience using Dmedia and novacut

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] OpenGL performance with Gala

2012-11-04 Thread Dane Henson
I have the same issue. I attempted to install Limbo (yes, it's in a wine wrapper) on my MacBook with Intel graphics. The fps is terrible, the keystrokes are laggy. Not sure what the issue is, just thought I'd mention that it affected me too. On Nov 4, 2012 5:40 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < se

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Dev hangout

2012-10-21 Thread Dane Henson
I am really disappointed this didn't happen this weekend.  Of course, I am one of the people who just couldn't make it, but we really need to get this in gear as we close in on a Beta release. Do we need to try to find a different day, or is it just too much to ask of the developers to talk in

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Dane Henson
This brings up another annoyance that I have seen in my use of elementary.   When I use Luna, I use it on a laptop.  I like to perform most of my actions using the keyboard if I can.  However, when I use the "expose all windows" shortcut [Super + w], I have to move my hand to the touchpad/mouse i

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Mouse-based Workspace Switching

2012-10-07 Thread Dane Henson
This brings up another annoyance that I have seen in my use of elementary.   When I use Luna, I use it on a laptop.  I like to perform most of my actions using the keyboard if I can.  However, when I use the "expose all windows" shortcut [Super + w], I have to move my hand to the touchpad/mouse i

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Elementary Hackfest

2012-10-03 Thread Dane Henson
/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Dane Henson : If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set it so that anyone can edit it: http://goo.gl/maps/1flld I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are concerned about giving away your location, just drop a p

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Elementary Hackfest

2012-10-02 Thread Dane Henson
If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set it so that anyone can edit it: http://goo.gl/maps/1flld I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are concerned about giving away your location, just drop a placemark on the nearest major city.

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google+ Hangouts on Air

2012-09-25 Thread Dane Henson
I can't guarantee I'll show, but it's the time with the highest probability of me being there.  Either way, I would love to see this happen.  It will benefit the devs, and benefit the surrounding community. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Ivo Nunes wrote: OK to me. On 25 Sep 2012 10:48, "Sam

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Possible Plug Idea

2012-09-21 Thread Dane Henson
Thanks, Sergey!  I'm not a designer either, I just had to throw my ideas down and see how they looked.  The hard part will be coding it :) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: 2012/9/21 Dane Henson Sorry to dredge this up... again.  I mangled together a mocku

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Can't build power plug

2012-09-21 Thread Dane Henson
I encountered the same issue on the info-plug that was recently removed from the official list.  I still haven't figured out how to resolve it.  Maybe some of the build system needs to be updated?  The last time the info-plug had any sort of update was a year ago I think. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 a

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Possible Plug Idea

2012-09-21 Thread Dane Henson
ome GTK3 source code? On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dane Henson wrote: This is the dilemma that I ran into when thinking about a font plug.  My idea for a font plug was to manage all of the installed fonts, but that seemed like more of a standalone application than a plug. I would tend to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Possible Plug Idea

2012-09-17 Thread Dane Henson
lities? It very well would be one, especially if added an ability to clean up unused files. 2012/9/15 Harvey Cabaguio Well IMO those are not system settings so I don't think it would make sense in switchboard. On Sep 14, 2012 4:59 PM, "Dane Henson" wrote: I am sorry if this ha

[Elementary-dev-community] Possible Plug Idea

2012-09-14 Thread Dane Henson
I am sorry if this has been mentioned or proposed before, but I had an idea for a switchboard plug and I wanted to run it past you. I would love to see a plug that shows an overview of "disk usage" in the style of the Usage section in the mockup seen here: http://elementary-art.deviantart.com/g

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Coding Style parentheses exception

2012-09-13 Thread Dane Henson
I agree that the space should only be on the first opening parentheses, but not before the second. It looks cleaner to me. On Sep 13, 2012 8:32 AM, "David Gomes" wrote: > Hey there guys, attached is the elementary OS coding style (We have this > on a Google Doc, but the formatting is broken on it