Re: Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> > >> >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. >> > >> > I really doubt anyone is going to 'suffer'... This NamingClashCrisis is >> > more >> >> They will. As an example,

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-24 Thread Alex Fiestas
> The only point that I would like to add is that the 'System' part of > System Settings should be dropped since the settings listed there are > not for the system but for the DE('s). Well it depends, Networking Bluetooth, Service startup are not DE('s) stuff

Re: Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. > > > > I really doubt anyone is going to 'suffer'... This NamingClashCrisis is more > > They will. As an example, KMyMoney users for instance depend on System > Settings to be able t

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Dimanche, le 24 juillet 2011, à 23:07, Ben Cooksley a écrit: >> Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't >> interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, >> they're insular and only ca

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:26 PM, marcel partap wrote: >> KDE 4.7 will probably be shipped by distributions alongside GNOME 3.0. >> A short term solution is required at the bare minimum to fix that - >> which can be done as I noted. > > Where's the problem? Have the release tarballs already and ir

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-24 Thread Steven Sroka
On 23 July 2011 15:20, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > Mark wrote: >> Just a small suggestion on how i think this should be "fixed" (since 2 >> desktop files for one app seems just ugly to me). >> Perhaps it's better to extend the desktop file specification: >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-ent

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Dimanche, le 24 juillet 2011, à 23:07, Ben Cooksley a écrit: > Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't > interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, > they're insular and only care for themselves. This is quite insulting, I do not think many share y

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread marcel partap
KDE 4.7 will probably be shipped by distributions alongside GNOME 3.0. A short term solution is required at the bare minimum to fix that - which can be done as I noted. Where's the problem? Have the release tarballs already and irrevocably been forged and fed into some unstoppable mechanism? O

Re: Go Daddy root certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday, 24 de July de 2011 14:51:34 Gary Greene wrote: > On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Martin Koller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anyone answer the case https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277319 , > > please ? > Honestly, I really wish that Mozilla/KDE/Google/Wget/ has their own root certificat

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
2011/7/25 Cornelius Schumacher : > On Sunday 24 July 2011 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't >> interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, >> they're insular and only care for themselves. > > I don't want to let a stateme

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread marcel partap
Still, we should treat each other with respect. [...] being angry doesn't solve problems, especially not when communication about a common solution is required. [...] Not everything can be done easily, but we should look for the right solutions and persue them. There is no established mechanism t

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Sunday 24 July 2011 Ben Cooksley wrote: > Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't > interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, > they're insular and only care for themselves. I don't want to let a statement like this stand as it is. There are a

Re: Go Daddy root certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Gary Greene
On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Martin Koller wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone answer the case https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277319 , > please ? > > -- > Best regards/Schöne Grüße > > Martin > A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion > Q: Why is top posting bad? > > () ascii r

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, they're insular and only care for themselves. In any case, we need a short term solution to this. Basically, we are going to have to provide a different name under G

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le 24/07/2011 17:11, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > GTK+ applications use the XSETTINGS keys: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html > > so every key that is shared using that specification is picked up > automatically by GTK+ applications. > > we can definitely

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 24 July 2011, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:38:34PM +0200, Martin Sandsmark wrote: > > My two cent is that Gnome should rename it's configuration > > application to something that reflects what it is, instead of > > stealing the name from the KDE system configuration ap

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le 24 juil. 2011 14:35, "Aurélien Gâteau" a écrit : > Le 24/07/2011 12:55, Giovanni Campagna a écrit : >> Which is a KDE bug. You should use GNOME shortcuts when possible. I >> mean, Gtk has emacs and Mac OS modes for keybindings, I doubt Qt hasn't >> something similar. > > >> It is true that you

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : > What about the other way around BTW? Do GNOME applications running on a > KDE workspace follow KDE keybindings, theme, palette, fonts and icon > theme? GTK+ applications use the XSETTINGS keys: http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.h

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 24 July 2011 10:00, Ben Cooksley wrote: >> the short-term fix is to make the KDE system settings OnlyShowIn=KDE, >> so that users running KDE will not have any issue, and every other >> desktop will correctly not show the KDE system settings shell. > > Wrong. Emmanuele, read my initial ema

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Jansen
On Sunday 24 July 2011 20:27:58 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2011 14:12:21 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > If there is no need for KDE System Settings on a Gnome desktop, then > > adding a OnlyShowIn=KDE; key to the desktop file would be appropriate. > > If on the other hand there is a need

Re: Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 24 July 2011 14:12:21 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > If there is no need for KDE System Settings on a Gnome desktop, then > adding a OnlyShowIn=KDE; key to the desktop file would be appropriate. > If on the other hand there is a need for KDE System Settings on a Gnome > desktop, then Shaun solu

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:38:34PM +0200, Martin Sandsmark wrote: > My two cent is that Gnome should rename it's configuration application to > something that reflects what it is, instead of stealing the name from the KDE > system configuration application. I've already mentioned in the first re

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le 24/07/2011 12:55, Giovanni Campagna a écrit : > Which is a KDE bug. You should use GNOME shortcuts when possible. I > mean, Gtk has emacs and Mac OS modes for keybindings, I doubt Qt hasn't > something similar. > It is true that you can change KDE theme without changing the GTK one, > but why

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le 24/07/2011 10:25, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > hi; > > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : >> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed >> computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System >> Settings would not be installed. >> >> You are only likely to get b

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Sunday 24 July 2011 17:55:54 Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 22.37 +1200, Ben Cooksley ha scritto: > > Wrong, wrong and wrong. > > Phonon backend cannot be configured without System Settings. > And that's a feature, I suppose. As a GNOME user, I want GStreamer at > all

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 22.37 +1200, Ben Cooksley ha scritto: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Giovanni Campagna > wrote: > > Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 21.00 +1200, Ben Cooksley ha scritto: > >> 2011/7/24 Emmanuele Bassi : > >> > hi; > >> > > >> > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : > >> >>

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 21.00 +1200, Ben Cooksley ha scritto: >> 2011/7/24 Emmanuele Bassi : >> > hi; >> > >> > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : >> >> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed >> >> computer w

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 21.00 +1200, Ben Cooksley ha scritto: > 2011/7/24 Emmanuele Bassi : > > hi; > > > > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : > >> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed > >> computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System > >> Sett

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
At Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:43:16 +0200, Lorenz Quack wrote: > So how can this be resolved? … > TLDR: > For this release: GNOME back off > For the next release: KDE and GNOME unify your settings infrastructure > and pick non-generic names for your apps. Why can’t the Gnome System Settings simply be sho

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Sunday 24 July 2011, Ben Cooksley wrote: > 2011/7/24 Emmanuele Bassi : > > hi; > > > > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : > >> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed > >> computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System > >> Settings would not be instal

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
2011/7/24 Emmanuele Bassi : > hi; > > 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : >> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed >> computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System >> Settings would not be installed. >> >> You are only likely to get both System Settings

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; 2011/7/24 Aurélien Gâteau : > Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed > computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System > Settings would not be installed. > > You are only likely to get both System Settings pre-installed if your > computer was s

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-24 Thread Lorenz Quack
Hi, I am non-partisan user of both GNOME and KDE and wanted to add my my humble two cents. I belive that picking a generic name such as "System Settings" for such a common place application and then claiming unique ownership of that name is a bit brazen. On the other hand now that we have th

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-24 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
Mark wrote: > Just a small suggestion on how i think this should be "fixed" (since 2 > desktop files for one app seems just ugly to me). > Perhaps it's better to extend the desktop file specification: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html > > And i would propose