Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 15:05 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I couldn't this time last year either (and that's not a benchmark for > > how long it takes to learn either). > > I don't think your case is a good one, given that you worked on Tracker > almost exclusively during that time. Well, t

Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

2010-04-15 Thread Owen Taylor
(Replying selectively - lots of stuff snipped that I agree with) On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 21:18 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 18:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > I've attempted below to extract out some of the technical bits from > > http://live.

Re: Build fails - missing files from gdk

2010-04-19 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:14 +0200, Luuk de Waal Malefijt wrote: > I'm running the stable build from the repo (on Ubuntu 9.10), but I > wanted to get to use the latest version of GS, so I could align my > thoughts for a design proposal with it. > However, the build fails at phase 2 when running jhb

Mutter 2.31.2 released

2010-05-25 Thread Owen Taylor
meta_window_raise() meta_window_set_demands_attention() meta_window_unset_demands_attention() [Colin] * Bug fixes [Dan, Edward, Owen, Tomas] * Build fixes [Owen, Dominique, Vincent] Contributors: Robert Bragg, Adel Gadllah, Tomas Frydrych, Javier Jardón, Dominique Leuenberger, Florian Müllner, Edward Sheldr

GNOME Shell 2.31.2 released

2010-05-25 Thread Owen Taylor
GNOME Shell 2.31.2 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.31 cf16167cf2354f57431125b38a7b3de424c3c9d3d44627c52ee4596694ee80f2 gnome-shell-2.31.2.tar.bz2 65997e94f02ebb6ef912e68abf3470b235ecee3de0fe10fddbfab0a7be911664 gnome-shell-2.31.2.tar.gz Note: This is th

Re: An intention note

2010-05-30 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:57 +0200, Kao Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry to ask this question only now, but I was in a huge > discussion about GnomeShell, and I discovered that many people, > including me, haven't got a clear vision of the Gnome3 final > objectives neither the ways to achieve them.

Re: Screencast VP8/WebM support?

2010-06-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:38 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote: > I have recently tried out the fantastic GNOME Shell built-in screencast > recorder, and while looking through the gconf settings for it, I was > reminded that it saves videos in Theora format. Since VP8/WebM has > proven to be a much better

Patch review policy change

2010-06-15 Thread Owen Taylor
We're making a small change to the way we handle the patch review queue for GNOME Shell: for a bug in Bugzilla with an open patch on it, the "Assigned To" field is the person responsible for reviewing it. Consequences: * If you see me (or someone else) assign a bug with a patch on it to you,

Mutter 2.31.4 released

2010-06-25 Thread Owen Taylor
optimizations for rapidly drawing clients [Robert] * Add meta_window_is_remote() [Colin] * Add meta_add_debug_topic() for turning on logging of specific topics [Colin] * Fix bug with window unmaximization [Owen] Contributors: Robert Bragg, Maxim Ermilov, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters Translations

GNOME Shell 2.31.4 released

2010-06-25 Thread Owen Taylor
aas (nb), A S Alam (pa), Piotr Drąg (pl), Matej Urbančič (sl), Sira Nokyoongtong (th), Aron Xu (zh_CN) Contributors: Raphael Bosshard, Milan Bouchet-Valat, Giovanni Campagna, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Koop Mast, Florian Müllner, Matt Novenstern, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Joseph Scheuhammer, Owe

This list, suggestions, frustration

2010-07-05 Thread Owen Taylor
I think there's a fair bit of pent-up frustration on this list... people describe their problems, they don't get a response from the core developers. People make suggestions, create mockups, they don't get a response from the core developers. I don't think I can really address that frustration

Re: This list, suggestions, frustration

2010-07-05 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:33 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 22:43, Owen Taylor wrote: > * You aren't a representative user. (How do I know > this? Because you are reading a mailing list on gnome.org; > which > p

Re: This list, suggestions, frustration

2010-07-06 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:28 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > I understand what your saying but I think its a little bit near-sighted > IMO. I think this list should be more used by the developers for > feedback about design. Most people cant watch IRC 9-5 5 days a week at > the times you guys work just

Mutter 2.31.5 released

2010-07-12 Thread Owen Taylor
, Owen] Contributors: Nickolas Lloyd, Andreas Mueller, Florian Müllner, Claudio Saavedra, Owen Taylor Translations: Petr Kovar [cz], Jorge González [es], Fran Diéguez [gl], Yaron Shahrabani [he], Matej Urbančič [sl] Fixed Bugs: 587991 - Remove deprecated GTK+ symbols 616275 - -Werror should

GNOME Shell 2.31.5 released

2010-07-12 Thread Owen Taylor
vanni Campagna, Florian Müllner, Matt Novenstern, Owen Taylor, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Translations: Petr Kovar [cz], Jorge González [es], Fran Diéguez [gl], A S Alam [pa], YunQiang Su [zh_CN], Chao-Hsiung Liao [zh_HK, zh_TW] Bugs fixed: 621014 - Allow notification action buttons to be icons 6

Re: Clock

2010-07-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 16:07 +, Sean Dunwoody wrote: > I realise in the past I have made some rather unreasonable posts to > this mailing list, so in light of that I'm going to make a very small > suggestion / observation. > > The clock positioned in the center top of the shell has two arrows t

Re: Starting a gnome-shell session using .desktop file?

2010-07-30 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:56 +0200, Mads Villadsen wrote: > For many months now I have had a symlink in .config/autostart pointing > to gnome-shell/install/share/applications/gnome-shell.desktop > > This has caused me to have a nice gnome-shell session when I log in. > However after a recent update

Re: Crash

2010-08-24 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 11:20 +0200, Mads Villadsen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:43 -0400, Bryan Moore wrote: > > After successfully building GS yesterday, it's crashing today with the > > following error: > > Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for > > 0x220002f (Ubunt

Re: debug X errors?

2010-09-08 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 13:38 -0700, Luis Villa wrote: > Hey, guys- > The latest stuff is looking pretty nice, but unfortunately it is also > crashing pretty regularly for me, with errors like the following: > > Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap > or Window param

Mutter 2.91.0 released

2010-10-04 Thread Owen Taylor
Gadllah, Nickolas Lloyd, William Jon McCann, Florian Muellner, Benjamin Otte, Thierry Reding, Rob Staudinger, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters Translations: Alexander Shopov [bg], Mario Blättermann [de], Ask H. Larsen [dk], Michael Kotsarinis [el], Philip Withnall [en_UK], Jorge

GNOME Shell 2.91.0 released

2010-10-04 Thread Owen Taylor
GNOME Shell 2.91.0 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.91 02e8e6fa055acb34af0d783e1cc1d9128c0d91a651228d9a1c23e03db5320ea2 gnome-shell-2.91.0.tar.bz2 dc46c96f98c8057d74e2c9156679428731d1076d39baef4fc787a4b866b3e4c7 gnome-shell-2.91.0.tar.gz Note: This rel

Mutter 2.91.1 released

2010-10-27 Thread Owen Taylor
parsing color constants in themes [Jon, Owen] * Build fixes [Colin] * Miscellaneous bug fixes [Giovanni, Rico] Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Nickolas Lloyd, William Jon McCann, Owen Taylor, Rico Tzschichholz, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, Brandon Wright Translations: Fran Diéguez [gl], Yingh

GNOME Shell 2.91.1 released

2010-10-27 Thread Owen Taylor
v, Adel Gadllah, Guido Günther, Florian Müllner, Bastien Nocera, Ray Strode, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Translations: Mario Blättermann [de], Jorge González [es], Mattias Põldaru [et], Fran Diéguez [gl], Yaron Shahrabani [he], Luca Ferretti [it], Kjartan Mar

Re: Some issues calling atk methods II

2010-10-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 20:37 +0200, Piñeiro wrote: > (Not sure if this is the proper list, but detected using gnome-shell, > sorry for the noise if this is the case). Well, there is no GJS-list, and it's a problem you are hitting working on gnome-shell so it's fine to discuss here. (We don't do a

Re: [BUG] Calling clutter_actor_destroy from JS makes the Shell SIGABRT

2010-10-31 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 19:36 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > This is a bug that can be experienced for example with the patch from > bug 618312 (the bluetooth indicator). To reproduce, enable then disable > bluetooth. Device items are removed from menu by calling .destroy on > PopupBaseMenuItem. >

Mutter 2.91.2 released

2010-11-08 Thread Owen Taylor
u alt-Tab [Owen] Contributors: Matthias Clasen, Florian Müllner, Owen Taylor Translations: Petr Kovar [cz] Bugs fixed: 633133 Remove compatibility for GTK+-2.0 633352 prepare for the demise of size_request 633398 Fix check for events on UI widgets 633401 Fix warning from synthesized events

GNOME Shell 2.91.2 released

2010-11-08 Thread Owen Taylor
GNOME Shell 2.91.2 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.91 b7a32b55a99193b552ac4e9cb574d76659874abbf9777cd7f74a5685e082ec0f gnome-shell-2.91.2.tar.bz2 16ff142dd48dc3f40af04c64e73c0fb9cb6d9f5c827ba444f227b68893f3841c gnome-shell-2.91.2.tar.gz About GNOME Shel

Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy/Empathy improvements for Gnome Shell

2010-11-13 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:08 +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > > Finally, Empathy's full name in its desktop file should be changed to > > Chat. The design is that applications that are part of the desktop > > platform (like File Browser, Calculator, etc.) should always have > > unbranded name

Re: Wayland plans for gnome-shell? (was Re: Unity Update)

2010-11-21 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:07 +0100, Piñeiro wrote: > From: Alan Coopersmith > > > Piñeiro wrote: > > >> I know that probably this comment is doesn't 100% suits in this Unity > >> thread, but as you are talking about the GNOME 2.0 timeframe, I think > >> that it is worth to mention that for GNOME

Mutter 2.91.3 released

2010-11-29 Thread Owen Taylor
in theme files with a theme version of 3.2. * Fix updating key bindings when the keyboard layout changes [Derek, Owen, Thomas] * Bug fixes [Adel, Florian] * Build fixes [Dan Williams, Diego, Javier, Owen] Contributors: Adel Gadllah, Javier Jardón, Florian Müllner, Derek Poon, Owen Taylor,

GNOME Shell 2.91.3 released

2010-11-29 Thread Owen Taylor
n McCann, Florian Müllner, Bastien Nocera, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Rico Tzschichholz, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Design: Allan Day, William Jon McCann Translations: Fran Diéguez [gl], Kjartan Maraas [nb], Lucian Adrian Grijincu, Dan

Re: Application matching in GNOME 3

2010-12-06 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 08:49 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 15:52 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > > > What problems were you having? You might want to look at bamf > > > (https://launchpad.net/bamf) to help you. > > > I didn't really have applications matching issues,

Mutter 2.91.4 released

2010-12-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Bouchet-Valat, Florian Müllner, Benjamin Otte, Ray Strode, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters Translations: Matej Urbančič [sl], Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [vi] Bugs fixed: 630548 gnome-shell could auto-maximize windows when dragged to top edge of screen 636083 workspace: Consider text direction when switching

GNOME Shell 2.91.4 released

2010-12-22 Thread Owen Taylor
* Miscellaneous bug fixes [Bastien, Colin, Giovanni, Florian, Jasper, Matt, Owen, Ray] Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Jason D. Clinton, Luca Ferretti, Adel Gadllah, Jon McCann, Jonathan Matthew, Florian Müllner, Bastien Nocera, Bill Nottingham, Matt Novenstern, Jasper St. Pierre, Ray Stro

Re: jhbuild error

2010-12-23 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 10:12 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > It works partially, but: > > > Requested 'mutter-plugins >= 2.91.4' but version of mutter-plugins is > 2.91.3 This was my mistake - I forgot to push the version bump for Mutter to the main Git repository after making the new tarball.

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:21 +, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:50 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > > > For expose, I'm sorry that you don't like, but before we remove the > > > feature or make it optional, we need to understand why you feel it is > > > wrong. > > > > The problem

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:32 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:37 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > > If you *don't* want your windows moved around when selecting them (you > > don't want that feature of the overview), then wouldn't you just click > &

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:46 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:38 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > > There are going to be improvements for switching between workspaces > > (see http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/), but current plans are to keep > > things a two

Re: Start a gnome-shell-extensions repository / module

2011-01-11 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:32 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:06, Giovanni Campagna > wrote: > Also, GNOME Shell is currently very unstable, both in API, > implementation and design, meaning that extensions written for > 2.91.4 > may not wo

Mutter 2.91.5 released

2011-01-11 Thread Owen Taylor
: Adel Gadllah, Nickolas Lloyd, Andreas Mueller, Florian Müllner, Owen Taylor Translations: Mattias Põldaru, Ivar Smolin [et], Gheyret T. Kenji [ug] Bugs fixed: 613124 Invalid visibility-related asserts in MutterWindow 626875 Fix handling of --composite and --no-composite command line options

GNOME Shell 2.91.5 released

2011-01-11 Thread Owen Taylor
.99 [Adel, Giovanni, Owen] * Code cleanups [Dan, Giovanni] * Visual and behavior tweaks [Adel, Dan] * Misc bug fixes [Adel, Dan] Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Federico Mena Quintero, Florian Müllner, Hellyna Ng, Owen Taylor, Vincent Untz, Dan Winship Translation

Re: Start a gnome-shell-extensions repository / module

2011-01-12 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 20:59 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Il giorno mar, 11/01/2011 alle 14.30 -0500, Owen Taylor ha scritto: [...] > > But that's not the experience we want with extensions. Installing an > > extension is like modding your car. You've opened the hoo

Mutter 2.91.6 released

2011-02-01 Thread Owen Taylor
an Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor Translations: Khaled Hosny [ar], Alexander Shopov [bg], Petr Kovar [cz], Fran Diéguez [gl], Marios Zindilis [gr], Gabor Kelemen [hu], Kjartan Maraas [nb], A S Alam [pa], Daniel Nylander [se], Chao-Hsiung Liao [zh

Re: Gnome Shell

2011-02-01 Thread Owen Taylor
"Calum Benson" wrote > > "Flicking the pointer" is easy enough to do with a real mouse, but > isn't a gesture that works very well with touchpads, which I'd guess a > lot of our users will be using most of the time. When I try to flick > the pointer with my touchpad, it just stops halfway :) From

GNOME Shell 2.91.6 released

2011-02-01 Thread Owen Taylor
Colin, Dan, Florian, Jonathan S, Maxim] Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Cosimo Cecchi, Maxim Ermilov, Luca Ferretti, Adel Gadllah, Florian Müllner, Bastien Nocera, Alejandro Piñeiro, "Sardem FF7", Jonathan Strander, Ray Strode, Owen Taylor, Daiki Ueno, Vincent Untz, Colin Walters, Dan

Re: tray description not clickable

2011-02-09 Thread Owen Taylor
"Henry" wrote: > > It's cumbersome to right-click an icon in the gnome-shell tray (e.g. > Skype) to access the context menu. The icons move around and I fail to > target them. I'd be easier if the textual description that pops up > would honor the right click. > > I couldn't find any discussion

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-16 Thread Owen Taylor
"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" wrote: > To: "Lucian Adrian Grijincu" > > The font is quite limited with respect to character coverage. For > > example it does not have all characters required for the Romanian > > language (I've recently added those characters and sent a message to > > the maintainer). >

Window controls for GNOME 3

2011-02-22 Thread Owen Taylor
OK, I promised Jon McCann to write a mail here giving information on my thoughts on removing the minimize and maximize buttons since I've been resisting the request of the designers to remove these buttons. My main objection to removing them has been that I didn't think we really understood the

Application categories

2011-02-22 Thread Owen Taylor
So, in addition to the window controls, the other tiny code change with a large controversial impact that is sitting around as we come to the GNOME 3 UI freeze is the question of the category filters the Application browser. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638271 The designer reques

Mutter 2.91.90 released

2011-02-22 Thread Owen Taylor
llow the creation of workspace previews [Owen] * Fix bug with opacity of MetaBackgroundActor Contributors: Rui Matos, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters Translations: Jorge González [es], Mattias Põldaru [et], Sweta Kothari [gu], Luca Ferretti [it], Changwoo Ryu [ko], Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [vi]

GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

2011-02-22 Thread Owen Taylor
rian Müllner, Hellyna Ng, Bastien Nocera, Jonathan Strander, Ray Strode, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Sergey V. Udaltsov, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, Thomas Wood, Pierre Yager, David Zeuthen, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Design: Alan Day, William Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner Translations: Khaled Hos

Re: Fedora build dependency

2011-03-06 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 20:20 +1000, Eric Springer wrote: > When building on Fedora 14, there appears to be two missing > dependencies (libical-devel and gperf) that stop it building. > > Below is the change required them. Not sure of the licensing / > contribution model -- but I'll put my "commit"

Mutter 2.91.91 released

2011-03-07 Thread Owen Taylor
Mutter 2.91.91 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mutter/2.91/ 2b894a9f57891853438b8f5b774bfb4b985e482c2a8dbdffa01398aa9139cb3d mutter-2.91.91.tar.bz2 fcba42d60a7ef95724c7e9725b1d54f2a95f3222da15d8fee19368581a70cc38 mutter-2.91.91.tar.gz About Mutter Mutte

GNOME Shell 2.91.91 released

2011-03-07 Thread Owen Taylor
Larsson, Ryan Lortie, Federico Mena Quintero, Florian Müllner, Hellyna Ng, Bastien Nocera, Jasper St. Pierre, Eric Springer, Owen Taylor, Rico Tzschichholz, Vincent Untz, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, David Zeuthen, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Design: William Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner Translations: Khale

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:05 +0100, Oliver Mangold wrote: > On 15.03.2011 12:50, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: > > That's true - it should be a lot easier to distribute as a javascript > > extension. Oliver, have you asked the mutter developers whether they'd > > be open to merging tiling features? Can any

Mutter 2.91.92 released

2011-03-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Mutter 2.91.92 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mutter/2.91/ 7117be5798cf5b8d52bd26fd6b515aeae53845f66d252ae8137217b7df0f5076 mutter-2.91.92.tar.bz2 c1932d17bdb851a98d74f970f1fca9e2073a171db3787dc4184e2abcc5c7fe86 mutter-2.91.92.tar.gz At this point Mutter is code-fro

GNOME Shell 2.91.92 released

2011-03-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Florian Müllner, Hellyna Ng, Bastien Nocera, Jonathan Strander, Neil Perry, Frédéric Péters, Jasper St. Pierre, Ray Strode, Owen Taylor, Diego Escalante Urrelo, Colin Walters, David Zeuthen, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Design: William Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner Translations: Friedel Wolff [af], K

Minor freeze break: gnome-shell: hot corner and prelight

2011-03-28 Thread Owen Taylor
Patch landed in gnome-shell on 3-16 prior to 2.91.92 that added prelighting to items on the top bar to make it obvious that they were clickable. In this patch the case where the pointer is sitting on the 3x3 actor that is there to implement the hot corner for "Activities" was missed (this actor is

Re: Minor freeze break: gnome-shell: hot corner and prelight

2011-03-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 12:20 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > Patch landed in gnome-shell on 3-16 prior to 2.91.92 that added > prelighting to items on the top bar to make it obvious that they > were clickable. [ This was a mis-send of a mail that was supposed to go to release-t...@gnome.org

Mutter 2.91.93 released

2011-03-28 Thread Owen Taylor
Mutter 2.91.93 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mutter/2.91/ abce247f8b2da1213a66983540be8632d6c4dabd7d272eaaa361bd30ecf9cc87 mutter-2.91.93.tar.bz2 046a1e90ae0d3bfd4340569520a886a9bea30ab533e230fddf25f9aa5b288c69 mutter-2.91.93.tar.gz At this point Mutter is code-fro

GNOME Shell 2.91.93 released

2011-03-28 Thread Owen Taylor
Campagna, Luca Ferretti, Takao Fujiwara, Florian Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Kjartan Maraas, Ray Strode, Owen Taylor, Vincent Untz, xColin Walters, Dan Winship, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Translations: Khaled Hosny [ar], Ivaylo Valkov [bg], Runa Bhattacharjee [bn_IN], Gil Forcada [ca], Kris Thomsen

Mutter 3.0.0 released

2011-04-04 Thread Owen Taylor
Mutter 3.0.0 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mutter/3.0/ 171a25fa01592e0234592df3c7bf5cf7198cd51851b1b3c98364d7aac1b1a891 mutter-3.0.0.news 2560c8b3b5d47f0f4d4440c3087da76765b6ad9de6010662983846a3fed87eb2 mutter-3.0.0.tar.bz2 About Mutter Mutter is a wi

GNOME Shell 3.0.1 schedule

2011-04-05 Thread Owen Taylor
So, we have a lot of stuff potentially queued up for 3.0.1 - to give some idea of the scope I'll append my working list of bugs (with patches) that are candidate for 3.0.1. There's no official GNOME code freeze for 3.0.1 changes (though UI and string freezes remain in effect), but 3.0.x is probabl

Re: GNOME Shell Extensions 3.0.0 release

2011-04-05 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:04 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > I've updated my gnome-shell-extensions to 3.0.0 but since gnome-shell 3.0.0 > > I've lost all extensions and don't have any errors. > > Seems extensions are not loaded and don't have any idea why, if someone > > have an idea > > As

GNOME Shell 3.0.0.2 released

2011-04-06 Thread Owen Taylor
=== * Fix problem with stuck event handling if network menu pops down while user is using the scrollbar. [Owen Taylor] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646825 Changes since 2.91.93 = * Fix crash from changed annotations on g_file_load_contents() [Colin

Re: GNOME Shell Extensions 3.0.0 release

2011-04-06 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 17:15 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:04 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > > I've updated my gnome-shell-extensions to 3.0.0 but since gnome-shell > > > 3.0.0 I've lost all extensions and don't have any errors

GNOME Shell 3.0.1 released

2011-04-25 Thread Owen Taylor
647098, 646730 Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Nohemi Fernandez, Adel Gadllah, Rui Matos, Florian Müllner, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, Dan Winship Translations: Hendrik Richter [de], Jorge González [es], Arash Mousavi [fa], Fran Diéguez [gl], Jiro Matsuzawa [ja], Piotr Drąg [pl], Dani

Mutter 3.0.1 released

2011-04-25 Thread Owen Taylor
About mutter Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used

Re: Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell?

2011-04-26 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:10 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote: > Can I get confirmation that r100 and r200 will not work with gnome shell? > > "gnome-shell isn't expected to work on r100 (or r200) you need >= r300 for > radeon cards for it to work." > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=67926

Making the discussion here friendly, concise, and productive

2011-05-16 Thread Owen Taylor
Some notes from your friendly list owner: * Please understand that, at this point, fundamental design decisions about the GNOME user interface are unlikely to be revisited in the GNOME 3 timescale. You may disagree with things like the absence of a taskbar, but decisions of that scale have c

Re: Gnome bugs for 3.0.2 Push

2011-05-23 Thread Owen Taylor
Hi Nohemi - Welcome to SOC! Thanks a lot for doing this, it's very useful. I'll comment on Mutter patches first since that's a smaller set. - Owen On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:06 -0500, Nohemi Fernandez wrote: > MUTTER > Definitely Want to Have: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64861

Re: Gnome bugs for 3.0.2 Push

2011-05-24 Thread Owen Taylor
For gnome-shell, I've integrated below a list sent to me by Ionut Biru and information about patches in the Fedora 3.0.1 RPM (mostly suggestions from Dan Williams.) Because of the number of patches *on* these lists, I'm not going to look at all at stuff on master nobody proposed or outstanding unc

Mutter 3.0.2 released

2011-05-25 Thread Owen Taylor
About mutter Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used

mutter 3.0.2.1

2011-05-25 Thread Owen Taylor
About mutter Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used

GNOME Shell 3.0.2 released

2011-05-25 Thread Owen Taylor
=650219 * Memory leak fixes [Colin, Maxim] 642652, 649508, 649497 * Miscellaneous minor bug fixes [Adel, Christopher, Jasper] 649596,648765, 648983, 649632 Contributors: Christopher Aillon, Giovanni Campagna, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Jonny Lamb, Rui Matos, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-27 Thread Owen Taylor
The only real cultural mismatch I think exists here is what the right response is to do if the user gets confused by a menu that says: Suspend Hibernate Power Off Restart Is the right thing to do to provide training for the user, or is the right thing to do to improve the user interface? I'm

Re: The good, the bad, the insane

2011-05-27 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 08:53 -0700, Diego Fernandez wrote: > Well then couldn't there just be a 'Power Off' and 'Suspend' option in > the menu then? That doesn't seem too confusing... Suspend = "I'll be > back in a bit and want to get back to what I was doing". Power Off = > "I'm done for a while

Re: Gnome 3 vs scientists (ie., external monitor problem)

2011-05-31 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 08:25 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:20 -0400, Jan Skowron wrote: > > I am writing to ask: which exact parameter of a graphics card decides > > about the maximal resolution card can handle in 3d accelerated mode > > (needed for Gnome 3)? > > I co

Re: Gnome 3 Extensions/Themes Website?

2011-06-13 Thread Owen Taylor
Option 1: We don't control the situation: - People package up extensions in distributions - There's no version mechanism or update mechanism, so when you update the shell, your extensions get out of sync, and start causing your shell to misbehave - People have no idea what extensio

Mutter 3.1.3 released

2011-06-30 Thread Owen Taylor
ain, since Mutter is a library as well as an application [Dan; #649202] * Exit with the right (success or failure) exit status [Dan] * Code cleanup [Florian] * Miscellaneous bug fixes [Owen; #649114, #652507] Contributors: Florian Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, D

GNOME Shell 3.1.3 released

2011-06-30 Thread Owen Taylor
1012, #651086, #651606, #651569, #651866, #652388, #653511] Contributors: Ionut Biru, Giovanni Campagna, Guillaume Desmottes, Adam Dingle, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Tassilo Horn, Javier Jardón, Jonny Lamb, Alexander Larsson, Rui Matos, Morten Mjelva, Florian Müllner, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Alejandro

Mutter 3.1.3.1 released

2011-07-01 Thread Owen Taylor
Apparently I like GNOME 3.1 enough to want to say it twice; this fixes an accidental change to version of the GObject introspection information that made Mutter 3.1.3 incompatible with the release of GNOME Shell 3.1.3 that I also did yesterday. About Mutter Mutter is a window and com

Mutter 3.1.4 released

2011-07-27 Thread Owen Taylor
bug fixes [Dan, Florian, Jasper, Owen, Rui; #642957 #649374 #650661 #654489 #654539] Contributors: Emmanuele Bassi, Adel Gadllah, Rui Matos, Florian Müllner, Neil Roberts, Jasper St. Pierre, Jakub Steiner, Owen Taylor Translations: Ihar Hrachyshka [be], Jorge González, Daniel Mustieles [es

GNOME Shell 3.1.4 released

2011-07-27 Thread Owen Taylor
About GNOME Shell = GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to pro

Mutter 3.1.90

2011-08-29 Thread Owen Taylor
x attached dialogs to not be resizable from the top and to be position correctly [Jasper; #656619] * Misc bug fixes [Jasper, Rui; #656335, #657583] Contributors: Tim Cuthbertson, Adel Gadllah, Rui Matos, Florian Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Dan Winship Translations: Alexander Shopov [

GNOME Shell 3.1.90

2011-08-29 Thread Owen Taylor
While there are many substantial features in this release, it's particular worth pointing out the changes contributed by our Summer of Code Students: Nohemi Fernandez's onscreen keyboard, Morten Mjelva's contact search, and Neha Doijode's work on getting cover art and other images to display in not

Mutter 3.1.90.1

2011-08-30 Thread Owen Taylor
. News * Fix crash when no windows are open [Adel; #657692] * Fix annotations for new strictness in gobject-introspection [Jasper, Owen] * Fix some errors with rounded frame drawing [Jasper; #657661] Contributors: Adel Gadllah, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor Download http

GNOME Shell 3.1.90.1

2011-08-31 Thread Owen Taylor
Basically a fix-up release for a couple of critical small issues found in 3.1.90; also includes new support for asynchronous search providers. About GNOME Shell = GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching ap

Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-08-31 Thread Owen Taylor
The idea of a GNOME Shell extension is to let the GNOME community build on top of the GNOME Shell code base, to tweak, to customize, and to prototype new GNOME features and behaviors. GNOME Shell extensions aren't sandboxed, and sandboxing them is fundamentally hard because shell extensions are de

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-09-01 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 17:16 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: [...] > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > The idea of a GNOME Shell extension is to let the GNOME community > > build on top of the GNOME Shell code base, to tweak, to customize, and > > t

Re: Notes on extensions.gnome.org security

2011-09-01 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 22:35 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Of course, Linux users run unsandboxed code with arbitary capabilities > > every day - applications, for example. So the security question with > > GNOME Shell extensions is not how we can do the almost impossible job > > of sandboxing them, bu

Notes looking at sweettooth-plugin

2011-09-01 Thread Owen Taylor
Some review comments reading the code to sweettooth-plugin: * I don't see any reason that this shouldn't just live in the gnome-shell tree - that would at least reduce the problem of the plugin and gnome-shell having incompatible versions. It would also avoid having packages with the sweett

Re: Notes looking at sweettooth-plugin

2011-09-02 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 00:24 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Some review comments reading the code to sweettooth-plugin: > > > > * I don't see any reason that this shouldn't just live in the > > gnome-sh

GNOME Shell 3.1.91

2011-09-06 Thread Owen Taylor
About GNOME Shell = GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to pro

Re: Notes looking at sweettooth-plugin

2011-09-11 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:57 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 12:24:18AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > Some review comments reading the code to sweettooth-plugin: > > What is/will be the s

Mutter 3.1.91.1 released

2011-09-14 Thread Owen Taylor
isc bug fixes [Jasper] * Build fixes [Javier] Contributors: Matthias Clasen, Adel Gadllah, Javier Jardón, Alex Larsson, Rui Matos, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor Translations: Ihar Hrachyshka [be], Bruce Cowan [en_FB], Daniel Mustieles [es], Claude Paroz [fr], Andika Triwidada [id], Luca Ferr

GNOME Shell 3.1.91.1 released

2011-09-14 Thread Owen Taylor
This release contains a large number of small fixes, and Jasper St. Pierre's browser plugin which will enable convenient installation of extensions from extensions.gnome.org. About GNOME Shell = GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switc

Re: Sweet Tooth : license of uploaded extensions for GNOME Shell ?

2011-09-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:47 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 10:33 +0200, thibaut bethune wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just learned about that project and i find it great. > > > > I haven't tried it yet but i saw that video > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZuhn5_b_

Mutter 3.1.92 released

2011-09-20 Thread Owen Taylor
About mutter Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used

GNOME Shell 3.1.92 released

2011-09-20 Thread Owen Taylor
70, #659370, #659633] Contributors: Giovanni Campagna, Cosimo Cecchi, Xavier Claessens, Matthias Clasen, Rui Matos, Florian Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Owen Taylor, Vincent Untz, Colin Walters, Sean Wilson, Dan Winship Translations: Ihar Hrachyshka [be], Alexander Shopov, Ivaylo Valkov [bg], Mario Blä

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