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christhecoolboyhello all :)06:16
christhecoolboyany unity Devs here? :)06:24
Kaleochristhecoolboy: it's too early for them (mostly in UK/US)06:37
christhecoolboyI am in the UK?06:38
christhecoolboylol06:38
christhecoolboyits 6:38AM06:38
kvalomorning06:41
christhecoolboythanks :)06:42
christhecoolboyany idea what time the rest will be on06:44
christhecoolboyI have an idea06:44
christhecoolboyabout unity06:44
Kaleochristhecoolboy: probably in around 2-3 hours06:47
christhecoolboyok...06:47
christhecoolboydo you wanna hear my idea? :)06:47
christhecoolboyalso,I'm pretty new to ubuntu...06:48
Kaleochristhecoolboy: I have to go to bed :)06:48
christhecoolboyok, night :)06:48
Kaleochristhecoolboy: thank you06:48
Kaleochristhecoolboy: have a nice day06:48
christhecoolboythanks...06:48
christhecoolboyyou too...06:48
christhecoolboyI mean... tomorrow, :D06:49
kvalohmm, I can't install unity in natty because of some nux dependency problem...07:39
coz_kvalo,   I thought  unity was already installed onto natty07:41
kvalocoz_: I had to uninstall it last week because I was testing something07:45
kvaloI guess have to wait for didrocks07:46
coz_oh ok07:46
christhecoolboyhey all :)08:19
christhecoolboyany1 here now?08:48
christhecoolboyanyone here? :)09:12
christhecoolboyI wanna talk about unity stuff09:17
christhecoolboyand nobody is here 2 talk09:17
njpatelchristhecoolboy, hey, many people are off today as we're all returning from a conference. What's up?09:20
christhecoolboyI had an idea about unity09:21
christhecoolboysome big project09:21
christhecoolboyI wanted to talk to people09:21
njpatelcool, design-wise or code-wise?09:21
christhecoolboynot sure lol09:21
christhecoolboyI'm pretty new09:21
christhecoolboyI wanted to talk to some devs09:22
christhecoolboyand get their input09:22
christhecoolboyand possible help09:22
christhecoolboylol09:22
njpatelchristhecoolboy, you can start with me, I'm the technical lead for Unity....I'll know who to refer you to ;)09:22
christhecoolboyok... well, I have an idea for a peice of software that would come as part of ubuntu or as an update and uses unity as part of it09:23
christhecoolboyit would use unity as part of it, but it would be customized to work with that program...09:26
christhecoolboyWhatever you need to know... Ask...09:26
christhecoolboyI'm pretty new...09:26
christhecoolboybut I should be able to tell you enough09:26
njpatelOkay, so what is the idea?09:27
christhecoolboysomething like XBOX 360 OS but for ubuntu, called "Ubuntu Games Center"09:27
christhecoolboya gaming platform that uses unity09:28
njpatelwhere would it use Unity?09:28
christhecoolboyhave u ever used xbox 360?09:29
njpatelyep09:29
njpatelyou mean as a launcher for the games?09:29
christhecoolboynot just for games09:29
christhecoolboyfor "acchievements" as well09:29
christhecoolboy^bad speller! :D09:29
christhecoolboyhttp://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20081117/dash1_610x411.jpg09:30
christhecoolboy^that09:30
christhecoolboybut using unity09:30
njpatelyeah, i get what you mean09:30
christhecoolboyubuntu needs its own gaming platform09:31
njpatelit would be interesting, but it's a massive project...I mean we don't even have a proper application SDK yet09:31
christhecoolboyyeah09:31
njpatelI think Ubuntu Platform, specifically #ubuntu-desktop would be the place to start discussion, tb09:31
njpateltbh*09:31
christhecoolboywhat would I ask lol?09:31
njpatelmainly because they control what goes into ubuntu09:31
christhecoolboywhat would I say?09:32
njpatelchristhecoolboy, it might actually make more sense to email ubuntu-devel list, so people can think and respond09:32
njpatelwell, just say your idea :)09:32
christhecoolboysaid that! :D09:33
njpatelyeah, but on the email so everyone can see :)09:35
christhecoolboywhat is the email?09:35
njpatelthe email you'll send to the mailing list09:35
christhecoolboywhat mailing list?09:35
christhecoolboyI am new here, :D09:35
njpatelchristhecoolboy, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#Communication09:36
christhecoolboyok09:37
christhecoolboyrodrigo_, where is the email, I cant see one?09:43
rodrigo_christhecoolboy, what email?09:44
didrocksgood morning09:44
christhecoolboy"njpatel> the email you'll send to the mailing list"09:44
christhecoolboy^that one09:44
christhecoolboyrodrigo_,09:46
rodrigo_christhecoolboy, you need to send a mail to ubuntu-devel-discuss@?09:47
christhecoolboyI wanna send an email about my idea09:49
christhecoolboyrodrigo_, @ what.what?09:52
rodrigo_christhecoolboy, https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel09:52
rodrigo_ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com09:52
christhecoolboydid u see my idea about unity?09:53
kvalodidrocks: good morning10:03
kvalodidrocks: I can't install unity in natty. I think unity requires older libnux than what I have. a known issue?10:03
didrockshey kvalo, had a nice trip back?10:04
didrockskvalo: how? and it doesn't propose to you installing the new nux?10:04
didrockscan you apt-get install unity and pastebin the output there?10:04
kvalodidrocks: thanks, had a good trip. I got three seats when going over atlantic and didn't miss any plains :) what about you?10:07
kvalodidrocks: I'll get you the output soon, it's on my other machine10:08
didrockskvalo: my neighbours were moving a lot, so I couldn't manage to get a lot of sleep, unfortunatly…10:09
kvalodidrocks: oh, sorry to hear that :(10:09
kvalodidrocks: http://paste.ubuntu.com/555023/10:09
kvalodidrocks: just realised, it could be that fi mirror is out of sync again. I'll try another mirror10:10
didrockskvalo: seems that unity is out of sync in your mirror10:11
didrocksand bamf as well10:11
kvalodidrocks: yeah, switched to the main server and got lots of new updates. sorry for the noise again! :)10:12
didrockskvalo: no worry :)10:12
kvalothis is the second time I have had this with the .fi mirrors. I should finally learn not to use it10:13
didrockskvalo: for unstable, I keep the main archives, most of the time…10:16
didrockskvalo: keep me updated if you still can't install it10:16
kvalodidrocks: from now on I'll also use the main server with unstable releases10:16
didrockskvalo: sounds the best option :)10:17
christhecoolboyI'm not sure what to do about my big idea ;(10:18
didrockschristhecoolboy: today isn't the best day to get answers. People are recovering after a platform rally in Dallas,  just wait for a couple of days10:19
christhecoolboydidrocks, I cant really wait a couple days... :(10:19
didrockswhy?10:20
christhecoolboycause I'm trying to get it ready10:21
christhecoolboyfor 11.0410:21
christhecoolboyand if I wait too late10:21
christhecoolboyit wont get in, (:10:21
didrockswell, 2 days will make such a huge difference?10:23
christhecoolboyit's gonna take ages to code10:23
evilvishchristhecoolboy: also 11.04 is not really a possibility for adding a whole new app, decisions need to be made much in advance10:23
christhecoolboyhow far in advance?10:24
evilvishchristhecoolboy: atleast have some working code 6months before proposing to ship in a release..10:24
christhecoolboysomeone told me that if I started late jan / early feb, I could get it in to 11.0410:25
evilvishchristhecoolboy: this is the release schedule> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule10:25
christhecoolboyso could I get it in 11.10?10:26
evilvishsure10:26
christhecoolboyits a big app10:26
christhecoolboydid u see my idea?10:26
evilvish christhecoolboy: feb24 is feature freeze for Natty , and starting something new and getting it completed by feb24 is not easy..10:26
didrockschristhecoolboy: correction, late jan/early feb will enable you to get in universe, but not as default10:26
didrockswe discuss the defaults at UDS, with the whole community10:27
christhecoolboyevilvish, you said six months?10:27
didrocksand don't do big changes on what is scheduled without the community10:27
christhecoolboywouldnt that be wouldnt that be the 4th month?10:27
evilvishchristhecoolboy: yup.. 6months prior to a release is when a UDS takes place :)10:27
christhecoolboyI just dont wanna put it in too late10:28
christhecoolboyso that the competition puts their big thing up10:28
evilvishchristhecoolboy: and if an app needs to be included in the default install it needs to be open source10:29
christhecoolboyit would be10:29
kvalodidrocks: thanks, unity works now.10:29
kvalodidrocks: but I can't install the two unity-place* packages10:29
christhecoolboyI'm just saying that I want to make something before someone else does10:30
christhecoolboyI have an awesome idea10:30
kvalodidrocks: but I don't need them for anything right now, so I just ignore them :)10:31
didrockskvalo: yeah, the protocole changed and the places aren't working yet10:31
didrockschristhecoolboy: do you have an email on a mailing list you put it?10:32
christhecoolboyno10:32
christhecoolboyI dont know how10:32
christhecoolboyI'm new here10:32
christhecoolboyto the dev side10:32
evilvishchristhecoolboy: right.. like what njpatel already mentioned , your first step would be to it send an email to ubuntu-devel list, so people can think and respond10:33
christhecoolboywhat email would I use10:33
christhecoolboyis there a specific email?10:33
evilvishchristhecoolboy: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss10:34
christhecoolboywhat should the title be10:35
evilvishchristhecoolboy: its your idea.. sell it! :d10:36
christhecoolboythe only problem is that I cant code :(10:36
evilvishchristhecoolboy: right, then you can post you ideas on ubuntu brainstorm, it some developer likes it they can implement it10:37
evilvishif* some10:37
christhecoolboybut then...10:37
christhecoolboythey wont use my plans10:37
evilvishchristhecoolboy: alternatively,you can learn to code it yourself ;)10:38
christhecoolboyIf I was to even try, I'd need a team lol10:38
evilvishchristhecoolboy: haha! you are trying to hijack the Unity team?  i dont think they come cheap.. they get paid top dollar ;)10:41
christhecoolboyI'm not trying to hijack the team lol10:41
multiplatinumwhen you guys decided to ditch the systray cuz of its inconvenience u developed the appindicators, but now all apps are creating an appindicator, i thought it was the goal to get rid of all the icons? or did i misinterpret it and did you guys aim for just a consistent behavior, regardless of the number of icons?10:42
christhecoolboyevilvish, I'd like to get a few unity developers to help10:43
christhecoolboycause this app really could push ubuntu towads a new market10:44
didrockschristhecoolboy: again, you have to post on a mailing list to share as well with people not online10:45
evilvishchristhecoolboy: well, if you are serious about using their skills, then you'd need to hire them.. you can talk to Mark and say you'd like to pay for the developer's time they spend on your idea.. anyway thats a discussion you need to do with Mark.. or post on the ML10:46
multiplatinumwhen you guys decided to ditch the systray cuz of its inconvenience u developed the appindicators, but now all apps are creating an appindicator, i thought it was the goal to get rid of all the icons? or did i misinterpret it and did you guys aim for just a consistent behavior, regardless of the number of icons?10:46
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christhecoolboyargh, this is going nowhere... :(11:09
christhecoolboyevilvish, how much would that cost?11:16
christhecoolboyjust guessing11:16
evilvishchristhecoolboy: as cjwatson mentioned on the other channel, learning a bit of code is the first step.11:17
christhecoolboybut what lang?11:17
christhecoolboywhat lang do I code something that uses unity11:18
evilvishchristhecoolboy: what grade are you in right now?11:18
christhecoolboyi'm 1611:18
christhecoolboyi'm british11:18
christhecoolboyyear 1111:18
evilvishchristhecoolboy: http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/#coding11:19
\shdidrocks: good that you are here...when I use xev to check keyboard events and keycodes, is it ok, that my "Super_L" key is not "Super_L" anymore inside unity?11:19
christhecoolboyevilvish, but what lang?11:20
christhecoolboylooking at that11:23
christhecoolboyit doesnt say11:23
christhecoolboywhat lanf11:23
christhecoolboy*lang11:23
evilvishchristhecoolboy: click the link in : Unity Code Style Guidelines.11:24
christhecoolboyi mean...11:24
christhecoolboywhat program11:25
christhecoolboyto write the code11:25
christhecoolboyand test / recompile / rebuild11:25
* evilvish gtg now.. ttyl..11:25
torkvemadachristhecoolboy: have you read the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/CodingStyle link?11:29
torkvemadaYou can find C, C++ and Vala there, aren't you?11:29
christhecoolboyyeah11:30
christhecoolboybut I'm new to this11:30
christhecoolboycoding11:30
christhecoolboyand ubuntu dev11:30
torkvemadaso describe your question in more understandable way :)11:30
torkvemadacan't really realize what d'ya want11:31
christhecoolboyhow do I code stuff to work on ubuntu and how do I compile/use the unity code?11:31
torkvemadahm11:31
torkvemadahave you written code ever?11:31
torkvemadaand what sort of code?11:31
christhecoolboytorkvemada, dont laugh, I've only coded in AGS and QBASIC11:32
didrocks\sh: It's still Super_L there, do you see a similar issue with other compiz accelerators? Like Alt + Key for instance?11:32
torkvemadaough, QBasic, I haven't seen it for ~10 years11:33
christhecoolboylol11:33
christhecoolboyi'm a retro person11:33
torkvemadaso I can suggest you some different ways11:34
torkvemada1. old-school and dangerous: you can start coding in C or C++. Hard to learn, can cut your leg off, but you can become the God in future11:35
torkvemada2. C++/Qt or Vala: first is the pretty C++ with very nice framework, you'll have nice cross-platform GUI, nice documentation and many other things. Latter is the pretty C++-like language useful to write GTK-applications. I know nothing more about it, but it looks rather pretty :)11:37
christhecoolboyok11:38
\shdidrocks: I'll test...11:38
torkvemada3. Python: easy, very easy to start, can do many things, very popular among young developers and have fine tutorials. But you'll produce inefficient and slow applications :)11:40
hyperairsometimes it's not about speed11:40
hyperairit's about memory consumption11:40
hyperairand python sucks with that11:40
christhecoolboywhat do you think would be the best, torkvemada11:41
torkvemadahyperair: have you ever started ubuntu and something pythonic on intel atom netbooks?)11:41
hyperairtorkvemada: nope.11:42
torkvemadahyperair: it's sloooooow11:42
hyperairtorkvemada: however, i've started many pythonic things on my intel core 2 duo laptop that used to have 2G of RAM.11:42
hyperairit ate memory. =p11:42
hyperairibus is a classic case11:42
hyperairbut the major consumers of memory were firefox, thunderbird, and the indicators which have memory leaks in lucid and maverick11:43
christhecoolboya gaming platform called "Ubuntu Games Center" that uses unity to create a XBOX 360 style looks and allows for achievements, leaderboards and people to create their own games11:44
christhecoolboy^thats what I wanna make11:44
torkvemadachrisccoulson: from my point of view, python sucks. But I'm the developer coding highload projects, I hate python. Neither I love GTK (I prefer Qt) so if you want my opinion, start with C++/Qt11:44
didrockstorkvemada: you meant christhecoolboy ? :)11:44
torkvemadaor start with python/Qt and then migrate to C++/Qt11:44
torkvemadaoh, yes11:45
torkvemadasorry11:45
\sh_didrocks, Super_L in xev gives me under unity: FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001,11:45
\sh_    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor11:45
didrocks\sh_: ok, I assume you have the latest release, isn't it?11:46
christhecoolboybrb11:46
\sh_3.2.12-0ubuntu211:46
didrocks\sh_: can you assign the "show the launcher" key to something else in ccsm and try xev again?11:47
\sh_didrocks, I mean...when the launcher panel to the left disappers super_l brings it back..11:47
\sh_didrocks, ccsm?11:47
didrocks\sh_: I know, it's me adding that :)11:47
didrocks\sh_: compizconfig-settings-manager11:48
didrocksit's in universe11:48
\sh_one moment..installing ;)11:48
didrocksyou will see the "unity" plugin11:48
didrocksand can change that option to something else11:48
didrocksbut that shouldn't change your xev key11:48
\sh_inside ubuntu unity plugin?11:49
didrocksright11:49
\sh_didrocks, ok...I switched it to Shift+l and shift alone gives the corect keysym , but shift +l gives me:  FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,11:51
\sh_    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor11:51
christhecoolboytorkvemada,  whats a good program on ubuntu for c++11:51
torkvemadafor development?11:52
christhecoolboyfor development, complining and testing11:52
torkvemadamany people prefer: QtCreator, Eclipse, Netbeans, vim, emacs and some others11:53
torkvemadai prefer vim but you'd better to use QtCreator :)11:53
christhecoolboyok11:53
torkvemadait rather pretty and useful not only for qt11:53
didrocks\sh_: seems to be related to compiz. Can you ping smspillaz (he's in australia timezone) to get more info on that?11:53
christhecoolboyis that "sudo apt-get install qt11:53
christhecoolboyor11:53
christhecoolboyis that "sudo apt-get install qtcreator"11:54
torkvemadalatter11:54
christhecoolboyok11:54
christhecoolboydownloading11:54
christhecoolboy:(11:54
christhecoolboy*:)11:54
\sh_didrocks, should I file a bug report? just to be sure...i don't know if I'm still awake when australia wakes up :)11:54
didrocks\sh_: I would prefer you to first discuss with him. I'm not sure what should happen when the window manager interrupts key TBH :)11:55
didrocks\sh_: I guess there are good reason for it to alter the keycode11:55
* torkvemada will try to reboot... damn .37 kernel with broken radeon and uvesafb11:55
didrocksso discussing with him will shed some lights on that11:55
\sh_ok..I'll try to catch him11:56
christhecoolboywhats the closest thing to imovie on ubuntu?11:56
christhecoolboydownloaded12:18
chrisccoulsontorkvemada, was that directed at me?12:25
multiplatinumwhen will the appmenu be good?12:26
torkvemadachrisccoulson: no, that was mistake12:31
torkvemadachrisccoulson: i've chosen wrong nickname completion :)12:32
\shdidrocks: after coming back from screensaver (blank screen) somehow my mouse is not working anymore (mouse == touchpad on lenovo thinkpad)..12:56
didrocks\sh: try killall gnome-panel in a tty12:56
didrocksoupss12:56
didrocks\sh: killall gnome-screensaver12:56
\shdidrocks: oh well..nvidia here...so my tty after alt-ctrl-f1 is not usable12:57
didrocks\sh: it is for me with GFX_PAYLOAD_blabla set manually12:57
\shah12:57
didrocksssh to it then12:57
\shthe screensaver password dialog is not displayed correctly...entereing my password helped12:58
didrocksbut the wrong stacking order is probably guilty12:58
didrocksyeah, that was what I was thinking of :)12:58
\shso...unity is still viewd even when screensaver kicks in12:58
didrocksyeah, the compiz stacking order isn't right12:58
didrocksalready under work :)12:58
\shdidrocks: you rock :)12:58
didrocks\sh: hehe, thanks :)12:59
\shah and now the panel is gone12:59
didrocksnvidia… :)12:59
didrocksyou have a lot of noise on it, isn't it?12:59
\shno...that I had when I came back from suspend ;)13:03
\shnow I just have no panel...when I move to the top I can see something like the app menu from gnome-terminal ;)13:03
didrocks\sh: oh, that's weird, even if you restart unity with launching unity?13:06
joaopintomultiplatinum, if I understood it correctly one of the main goasl of using appindicators vs systray was to group controls from similar apps into single action menus13:06
\shdidrocks: you mean typing "unity" in terminal? when I start it again, from cli, panel comes back13:07
didrocks\sh: ok, then please file a bug with detailed reproduceable steps against unity13:07
didrocks\sh: can be related to another one with appmenu not being always in synced with focus app13:08
\shdidrocks: I'll try to reproduce first :)13:08
ogradidrocks, my arm image builds fail due to libindicator1 which is a rdepends of libunity0 which in turn is an rdep of unity-place-* on which unity depends ...13:10
ogracan we drop that dep from unity somehow until the unity-place-* stuff is solved ?13:11
didrocksogra: are you sure? I saw a rebuild of unity by Riddel to dep on libindicator2, isn't it the case?13:15
ograunity still depends on unity-place-files/applications13:15
didrocksogra: it doesn't. it's a recommends13:15
ograand as i understand that wont be updated until a new design exists13:15
didrockshttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/62258100/unity_3.2.12-0ubuntu1_3.2.12-0ubuntu2.diff.gz13:15
christhecoolboyI have an idea for a new site for ubuntu13:15
ograwell, our image builders dont make any difference between recommends/dep13:16
christhecoolboywho would I talk to?13:16
didrocksogra: I can remove that for now, yes, but it's unity recommending it, not the places AFAIK13:16
didrocksogra: so it shouldn't be an issue for unity-qt, isn't it?13:16
ograits an issue for unity-2d too13:16
ogra(note we dont call it -qt anymore)13:17
ograbut thats not on the images yet13:17
didrocksogra: I don't understand, what's the issue exactly? that the places are pulled in?13:17
ogracurrently i only care for the image builds13:17
ograright13:17
didrocksogra: do you install unity in it or only unity-2d?13:17
ograand the places depends on the missing lib13:17
ograunity-2d is in universe13:17
ograwe dont use it yet13:17
didrocksok, so the recommends is breaking the arm image13:17
didrocksok, will remove the recommends for now13:18
ograignore unity-2d for now, i'm only talking about our failing image builds13:18
ograthanks13:18
ograroot@ac100:/# apt-cache depends unity-place-applications|grep libunity13:18
ogra  Depends: libunity013:18
ogra...13:18
christhecoolboydidrocks, who would I speak to?13:18
ograroot@ac100:/# apt-cache rdepends unity-place-applications|grep unity13:19
ograunity-place-applications13:19
ogra  unity13:19
ograchristhecoolboy, file a whishlist bug on the "website" component in launchpad13:19
christhecoolboybut I wanna open the site13:19
christhecoolboyif it is gonna happen13:19
didrocksogra: that's because libindicator2 conflicts against libindicator1, isn't it?13:20
ograyep13:20
didrocksogra: ok, thanks, doing it now :)13:20
ograthanks, i will do the same for unity-2d once i have talked to Kaleo about it13:20
didrocksogra: then, we should be good to remove libunity0 from the archive btw13:21
ogragreat13:21
didrockschristhecoolboy: all central discussion should came in ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list13:22
christhecoolboywhat?13:22
didrockschristhecoolboy: it's an answer to 14:19:00 christhecoolboy | didrocks, who would I speak to?13:23
christhecoolboyoh...13:23
christhecoolboyI want to make this site13:23
christhecoolboythat uses QSDA13:23
didrocksso, just make it :)13:23
christhecoolboy*QSQA13:23
christhecoolboybut I want support13:23
christhecoolboyfrom ubuntu13:23
didrocksyou mean, support as "development support" ?13:24
didrocksor infrastructure?13:24
christhecoolboyno13:24
christhecoolboyI want them to host the site13:24
didrocksso infrastructure13:24
christhecoolboyyeah13:24
didrocksopen the discussion on the mailing list13:24
christhecoolboyok13:24
ograi think that already exists on http://stackoverflow.com/13:24
christhecoolboyI want something that is ubuntu supported13:26
ograhttp://askubuntu.com/13:26
christhecoolboyso people can help each other13:26
christhecoolboywith problems...13:27
christhecoolboyand it could be upgraded13:27
ograsee the latter page13:27
ograit is a frontend to stackoverflow13:27
ograsupported by ubuntu13:27
christhecoolboyyou dont understand13:28
ograwhat you want already exists on http://askubuntu.com/13:28
ograand that page uses http://stackoverflow.com/ as a backend13:29
christhecoolboyI get an idea13:29
ograwhich is the same as OSQA13:29
christhecoolboyand I cant use it to my own extent13:29
christhecoolboyI wanted to do something13:30
christhecoolboyto put my mark on ubuntu13:30
ograyou said you wanted something like OSQA with ubuntu branding, which is exactly what http://askubuntu.com/ already provides13:31
\shdidrocks: I can't reproduce it right now...somehow screensaver is now behind unity...and after entering password, everything looks normal13:31
christhecoolboyorga, I want an idea that can help me get my postition13:32
akshatjUnity 2D is awesome!13:32
christhecoolboybut now, that Idea I thought I could use, I cant13:32
ograakshatj, send flowers to Kaleo ;)13:32
didrocks\sh: yeah, it seems quite not reproduceable everytime. the stacking issue will be fixed soon, not sure about the second issue in the panel however…13:32
akshatjogra: works perfectly but still a little slow due to bad drivers13:32
ograi dont see slowness on my arm netbook (using framebuffer drivers only)13:33
didrocksakshatj: the drivers aren't the issue in unity-2d, it's more due to the CPU13:33
didrocksas all is CPU-based instead of GPU with opengl13:33
ograakshatj, what kind of system is that ?13:34
christhecoolboywhat web based things could I do / make for ubuntu to help get my position / make my mark?13:34
akshatjogra: Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz13:34
ograand *thats* slow ?!?13:34
ograwow13:34
akshatjthe 1845 drivers are bad13:35
akshatj*i84513:35
akshatjand they crash X randomly :(13:35
ograi see unity-2d fly on an 800MHz 512MB arm netbook with xfbdev driver13:35
akshatjI am using the intel driver13:36
christhecoolboydoes ubuntu.com have a sitemap?13:37
christhecoolboyso I can see what it has / doesnt have13:37
ograakshatj, you should probably try to enfoce xfbdev13:37
ograif the i810 driver is really an issue ...13:38
* ogra hugs didrocks .... thanks for the quick fix 13:38
christhecoolboyI need to think of things I can do13:39
christhecoolboyto help ubuntu13:39
* didrocks hugs ogra back, thanks for the notice!13:39
christhecoolboywithout coding13:39
christhecoolboyonline13:39
akshatjchristhecoolboy: um, you can help people in #ubuntu13:39
ograchristhecoolboy, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu13:40
christhecoolboyakshatj, I wanna make my mark13:40
christhecoolboyshow my position13:40
ograthere are a ton of suggestions13:40
christhecoolboylol13:41
christhecoolboywhat is #ubuntu-women?13:41
akshatjchristhecoolboy: channel for women involved in Ubuntu13:41
christhecoolboyso should I mentor some of them?13:42
akshatjogra: don't worry, my new hardware arrives on this wednesday :D13:44
akshatjwith a quad core i7, I should be flying13:44
joaopintochrisccoulson, about your idea, there is already a similia idea in place for desktop achievements, http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/bringing-fun-back-to-the-desktop-with-omg-the-app/13:45
joaopintoops, was for christhecoolboy13:45
chrisccoulson-ETOOMANYPEOPLECALLEDCHRIS13:46
christhecoolboyjoaopinto, that isnt the same as my idea13:46
christhecoolboymy idea was to use unity13:46
christhecoolboyfor full screen13:46
joaopintochrisccoulson, "unity" is not something you use for application development13:47
joaopintogrrr13:47
joaopintochristhecoolboy,13:47
akshatjjoaopinto: its renamed to 'Cheers' now13:47
christhecoolboyjoaopinto, call nme13:48
christhecoolboyCTCB13:48
christhecoolboy*me13:48
christhecoolboywhat would I do on #ubuntu-women?13:50
christhecoolboywould I mentor?13:50
christhecoolboyhow would I do that :)13:50
akshatjchristhecoolboy: well, you help report bugs in 11.04, that would be enough for making your mark13:50
akshatj+can13:50
christhecoolboyso what would I do if I went on #ubuntu-women?13:51
christhecoolboyI read about males tutoring women on ubuntu?13:52
akshatjdunno13:52
christhecoolboyIf you are a woman wanting to get involved in the Ubuntu community, or if you're a man interested in increasing the diversity of the Ubuntu community, you can join the Ubuntu-Women team13:52
christhecoolboy^thats what it says13:52
akshatjchristhecoolboy: well, ask the people there13:52
christhecoolboyok13:53
christhecoolboy:)13:53
Kaleohi guys14:17
akshatjhi Kaleo14:19
tedgkenvandine, Things in general seem pretty good to me... are you seeing any bugs that look critical on your side?14:21
tedgkenvandine, Things not going away seems like the biggest.14:21
Kaleoakshatj: thanks for the good feedback :)14:22
akshatjKaleo: I will be on Natty soon to report bugs ;)14:23
Kaleoakshatj: great!14:34
Kaleoakshatj: me too :)14:34
ogradidrocks, so for unity-2d we need that metacity patch (not sure you remember)14:48
* spikeb is excited about this unity-2d stuff14:48
didrocksogra: I remember to have been pinged about it. I asked for a bug/branch to see the patch :)14:48
ograit apparently only is in effect if a gconf key is set so i dont understand why it was rejected14:48
ograoh, i understood you rejected it already14:49
Kaleospikeb: great :)14:49
ograKaleo, where ts the patch ?14:49
Kaleoogra: let's have a look14:49
spikebi love Unity, and I was sad to think that perhaps i couldnt use it on ARM or PPC (for nvidia macs).14:49
spikebbut now, oh boy! ;)14:49
ograspikeb, it will be default on all arm images we build ;)14:50
spikebogra, awesome14:50
spikebnow i have no excuse not to get some arm hardware...my wallet isn't going to be happy14:50
ograand if you actually have 3D drivers it will try to run the 3D version14:50
ograget a pandaboard ;)14:50
ograthey are cheap and the most powerful stuff you can get atm14:50
spikebthinking about it. or an efika mx14:51
Kaleospikeb: the efika is not really .. fast14:51
spikebKaleo, that much i already knew heh14:51
didrocksogra: no, I didn't14:52
didrocksogra: I asked to be subscribe to something I can review :)14:53
didrockssubscribed*14:53
didrocksogra: sorry, was disconnected14:54
spikebhmm i just realized i can run unity-2d on my old work machine14:54
didrocksogra: so yeah, I just asked for a branch/something I can review14:54
didrocksogra: so that I can look at how it works and ensure we won't have side-effects in the other sessions14:55
ogradidrocks, yeah, i got that14:55
didrocksogra: take care, that patch was written by a KDE guy (and French to make it worse :p)14:55
ograhah14:55
agateauI am that bad!14:56
didrocksagateau: at least, two reasons, right ;)14:56
didrocksagateau: btw, how was your flight back?14:57
ograthe code itself looks good to me14:57
agateaudidrocks: fine, and you?14:57
ograit only acts on the gconf key14:57
didrocksagateau: didn't find any sleep, but fine still :)14:58
ograi cant judge the theme stuff though, that needs a metacity expert14:58
didrocksogra: can I see it? (and so, you enable the gconf key in the unity2d session?)14:58
spikebhmm im going to have to put back that old machine together and try out the ppa for unity-2d.14:58
ogradidrocks, let me pastebin it14:58
ogradidrocks, http://paste.ubuntu.com/555098/ (ignore the debian/patches/series messup)14:59
agateaudidrocks: do you want me to propose a branch of lp:~ubuntu-desktop/metacity/ubuntu with the patch?15:00
ograagateau, it is a packaging patch anyway15:00
ograif didrocks approves by the paste above i will just take care of it in the package15:00
agateauogra: great, thanks15:01
ograno need for additional paperwork ;)15:01
agateau:)15:01
spikebwell, it is a new week, so i want to thank everyone involved for helping make ubuntu rock.15:02
ograyou do that weekly ?15:02
ogra:)15:02
spikebyes.15:02
spikebi am that excited about ayatana's impact.15:02
ograhmm, i should hang out more often in #ayatana we dont have such praise in the other ubuntu channels ;)15:02
Kaleospikeb: glad to have you15:03
spikebthank you.15:03
spikebI am more of a fanboy than a contributor thus far, but that is slowly changing. :)15:06
Kaleospikeb: moral support is very important!15:07
nerochiarobeer support is also very important ;)15:08
bratscheMorning.15:08
Kaleonerochiaro: make it a nice Mendoza's Malbec15:09
agateauKaleo: something is wrong with unity-2d milestones: http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpg-0-plasmoidviewery13564 ... any idea?15:09
nerochiaroKaleo: i'll see if i can find out around here15:10
Kaleoagateau: oh god15:10
Kaleoagateau: no idea, it's definitely a lp bug15:10
* agateau randomly picks a target15:10
didrocksogra: agateau: sorry was distracted, looking now15:11
ogradidrocks, imho the code looks fine, i just cant judge theme.c and .h15:11
didrocksagateau: are you sure about (flags & META_FRAME_MAXIMIZED), it's not a composed mask?15:13
didrocksagateau: well, there is no vertical or horizontal maximization in metacity, isn't it?15:14
multiplatinumivanka!15:21
multiplatinumare you Ivanka Majic, of the design team?15:21
Amaranthogra: This patch changes the ABI for libmetacity-private, no?15:30
AmaranthI know the desktop team has never wanted to accept a patch from me that changed a libraries ABI15:31
Amarantherr, library's15:31
AmaranthBut I suppose with upstream not caring much about metacity anymore it probably won't be an issue and afaik only compiz uses libmetacity-private outside of metacity itself15:33
ograwell, i dont think you actually need to change the ABI for adding a downstream change that adds an additional function15:34
ograits not that it changes existing fucntions in a way that would affect anything15:34
Amaranthogra: I meant the part where you add a MetaTheme argument to existing functions15:34
ograah, thats the part i said i cant judge15:34
ogra;)15:35
didrocksagateau: did you see my ping? ^^15:35
agateaudidrocks: (conf call)15:35
AmaranthThe patch as a whole looks sane otherwise15:35
didrocksok :)15:35
Amaranthdidrocks: oh, metacity does have separate horizontal and vertical maximize15:36
didrocksso, the patch needs to (value & mask) == mask15:37
Amaranthyep15:37
didrocksAmaranth: and yeah, it's changing the ABI, so it needs a compiz rebuild and such15:37
Amaranthdidrocks: but will the desktop team allow an ABI change that hasn't been approved by upstream?15:38
didrocksAmaranth: this one is quite tricky, I added a simple one for compiz last week, but it wasn't so much an issue15:38
ograwe could fork metacity and call it umetacity :P15:39
Amaranthhehe15:39
* Amaranth tries to think of another way to achieve the same effect15:40
didrocksAmaranth: well, it's not like if we added an arg to a function, it's only adding something to a struct15:41
Amaranthdidrocks: seb128 rejected adding to the end of an enum in libwnck once :P15:41
didrocksAmaranth: libwnck requires quite a big archive rebuild :)15:42
didrocksmetacity "just" requires compiz AFAIK15:42
Amaranththat's the thing, it was adding not changing15:42
Amaranthno rebuilds needed, unless you wanted to use the new thing15:42
Amaranthbut it brought the ABI out of sync with upstream15:42
Amaranthah, and there he is :)15:43
didrocksAmaranth: hum, adding an element to a struct breaks the ABI and needs a rebuild?15:43
ograspeaking of the devil15:43
didrocksAmaranth: apart if there are empty slots of course15:43
didrocksor am I totally wrong?15:43
Amaranthdidrocks: Yeah, if you add something to a struct that doesn't have padding you change the ABI because sizeof is wrong15:43
Amaranthdidrocks: Although GTK+ has done that in the past and they decided anyone doing sizeof on the struct was wrong :)15:44
didrocksahah :)15:44
Amaranthseb128: still on dallas time? :)15:44
ivankamultiplatinum: Hello! Indeed I am. Were you wanting something in particular15:45
Amaranthdidrocks: oh, in case you didn't notice, I did the compiz plugin-extra upload15:46
AmaranthI dunno if I'm supposed to mark that in bzr or something, didn't want you to try to do it as well :)15:47
didrocksAmaranth: yeah, I noticed that, thanks! :)15:47
didrocksAmaranth: did you use the bzr branch? I didn't check15:47
didrockslet me look :)15:47
Amaranthdidrocks: yeah, I merged andrewsomething's branch so what we have is what is actually in natty then updated the branch for the ABI change15:48
didrocksAmaranth: perfect, just a side note: we tend to use UNRELEASED instead of natty, and finally dch -r "" && debcommit -r15:49
didrocksthat set it to natty + tag the branch with the revision15:49
Amaranthdidrocks: ah, right15:49
didrocksAmaranth: thanks for taking care of that :)15:49
AmaranthI knew about UNRELEASED but didn't know how to update it afterward, I was always pushing stuff and having mvo pull and upload before15:49
didrocksAmaranth: it's just a dch -r "" (set it to natty, take care as it's updating the owner in changelog when you are doing sponsoring)15:51
didrocksdebcommit -r is like debcommit + tagging15:51
didrocksthe commit message becomes "Releasing <version>"15:52
Amaranthyeah, I saw those, now I know how they get created :)15:52
Amaranththanks15:52
didrocksyw :)15:52
multiplatinumivanka,  yeah, how often does Pidgin crash on you when you're connected to IRC?15:58
ivankamultiplatinum: pretty much never. I do sign in and out a lot though because I wander round the office connecting to different access points15:59
ivankamultiplatinum: why?15:59
multiplatinumwas wondering if you got the same stupid thing going on like me, I'm using Xchat now, which crashes less often16:00
multiplatinumivanka,  anyways, I got another question :P. Will I be able to change the orange selection color to blue in Natty?16:02
ivankamultiplatinum: Why blue?16:06
multiplatinumivanka,  the blue from Clearlooks fyi, cuz the orange hurts my eyes in some cases16:06
ograbecause blue is the new orange :P16:06
multiplatinumand what ogra said :D16:06
Amarantheep, unity has forgotten about my terminals16:06
ograAmaranth, *desktop*shell, you know ;)16:07
AmaranthI have a blank spot where the terminal icon should be and two terminal icons at the end of the list16:07
kvalotedg: hi. I need some help with dbus signals16:07
* Amaranth files bug16:09
didrocksAmaranth: blank terminal icon?16:10
Amaranthdidrocks: yeah16:10
didrocksAmaranth: can you look at the list of the desktop file you have?16:10
didrocksgsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites16:10
Amaranthdidrocks: there is a blank spot but it still gets a menu and such16:11
didrocksAmaranth: they should have the same order than your panel16:11
didrocksAmaranth: then, look at the desktop file to ensure there is an Icon= entry16:11
multiplatinum2got disconnected, can i see what's been said while i was away?16:11
Amaranthdidrocks: they do16:11
Amaranthdidrocks: it just went blank after running for a while16:11
Amaranthdidrocks: It did this right after upgrading too but I just restarted compiz and it went back to normal last time, figured I should poke more since it happened again16:12
didrocksAmaranth: oh? it's becoming blank? So not the big I fixed saturday :)16:12
Amaranthyeah16:12
didrocksbug*16:12
Amaranthand yes, gnome-terminal.desktop has an Icon line :)16:12
didrocksfortunatly ;)16:12
kvalotedg: I don't get this. I'm trying to send n-m StateChange signals manually with dbus-send. with dbus-monitor they look exactly same as the real signals sent by n-m, but still apps ignore my signals.16:13
multiplatinum2ivanka,  the blue from Clearlooks fyi, cuz the orange hurts my eyes in some cases16:13
Amaranthdidrocks: filed a bug, is there anything apport doesn't automatically collect that I should provide before I restart compiz?16:15
didrocksAmaranth: well, I'm not sure it will provide enough info for that case. Just wait a second, looking for something16:16
evilvishmultiplatinum2: in the theme you can change it from preferences16:16
Amaranthalso, yay, another bug I can poke DBO about :)16:17
multiplatinum2evilvish,  but won't that mess up natty? i.e. the titlebar buttons in the top panel, and maybe some other things?16:17
didrocksAmaranth: you have a bamf dbus interface with views objects having Icon() method16:18
evilvishmultiplatinum2: the title bar is dark what does that have to do with select color?16:18
didrocksAmaranth: but I can DBO can answer that later :)16:18
Amaranthdidrocks: let me poke at it with d-feet, see what it shows16:18
multiplatinum2evilvish,  the titlebar buttons, even tho i will only change a color, it's not ambiance, so therefore the panel might mess things up (i think)?16:18
tedgkvalo, They're probably setting up their filters to only see the ones that come from NM.16:18
evilvishmultiplatinum2:  there is a bug to allow the top panel to switch according to the theme.. though not a high priority ;)16:19
tedgkvalo, So the dbus server is blocking them as the filters aren't setup to allow other senders.16:19
kvalotedg: but why does dbus-monitor still see my signals?16:19
multiplatinum2a bug you say?16:19
tedgkvalo, dbus-monitor sets up a wildcard filter, so it gets everything.16:20
kvalotedg: ah, you are not talking about /etc/dbus-1 configs16:20
evilvishmultiplatinum2: yup, a bug has been filed.. so you can subscribe to it …16:20
kvalotedg: ok, understood. thanks a lot16:20
tedgkvalo, No, individual client filter setups.16:20
ivankamultiplatinum2: hmmm. This is my first day back at my actual desk this calendar year and I have been in meetings away from my email all day. Perhaps ping me about this next week and we can actually talk about it?16:21
Amaranthdidrocks: well, that's not helpful. I have an application in bamf that has a blank name, application-default-icon, and some windows marked as children16:21
evilvishwho broke unity!!! ;p16:21
evilvishwhy does panel keep loading during unity session.. :s16:23
Amaranthdidrocks: they separate from that I have one for Terminal16:23
Amaranths/they/then/16:23
didrocksAmaranth: ok, then, let's wait on DBO16:23
didrocksevilvish: what's your version of gnome-session?16:24
Amaranthdidrocks: this is going to screw with my OCD heavily, hope he shows up soon :)16:24
didrockshehe, probably after US holidays though :)16:24
Amaranthoh, right, I think I'm supposed to be off today or something16:25
AmaranthI don't pay attention to such things, I just see what day it is :P16:25
evilvishdidrocks: gnome-session 2.32.1-0ubuntu1016:25
* evilvish checks updates..16:25
didrocksevilvish: try ubuntu11, but ubuntu10 should be reasonable on that already16:25
didrocksAmaranth: hehe :)16:26
evilvishk..16:26
Amaranthhmm, I wish there was a tool to dump a dbus tree to file16:30
AmaranthI may have to write something to do so, or just figure the bug will happen again eventually16:31
ogracant d-feet do that somehow ?16:31
AmaranthHmm, forgot to look16:31
AmaranthAlready restarted compiz, I'll go yak shaving next time it happens :P16:32
multiplatinum2ivanka,  what part didn't you get? :S16:34
ogradidrocks, are you still waiting for agateau answer or did you make a decision abut the metacity patch i missed ?16:34
didrocksogra: i'm still waiting for agateau answer, yes, as it's possibly buggy16:34
didrocksogra: in any case, this upload needs to rebuild compiz as well16:35
ograk16:35
agateaudidrocks: mmm... need to reread the patch to answer, hold on16:35
ogradidrocks, rebuild or code changes ?16:35
didrocksogra: just a rebuild16:35
ograi'll take care of that then16:35
didrocksogra: but I would prefer someone to day that locally to ensure all is ok then16:36
ograthats tricky since natty is so broken atm16:36
ograi cant dist-upgrade here currently16:36
ogra(thanks to webkit)16:37
didrocksogra: I can handle that tomorrow if nedded, I want to finish some hacking before16:38
ograok16:38
ograi should be able to do maverick -> natty as well over night on arm ...16:38
Amaranthogra: Right now the only thing I have affected by an upgrade is banshee16:38
ograjust webkit needs to get in sync again ... and thats building sicne 4h16:38
AmaranthOh, you mean on arm16:38
ograyes16:39
ograwe have that silly thing that arch: all packages are built on x86 ... so that brings the non x86 arches out of sync16:39
Amaranthwebkit takes ~1 hour on my desktop, can't imagine it taking more than 5 hours on ARM16:39
ograits 4h in16:39
ograsprints/rallies are really bad for arm ;)16:40
Amaranthhehe16:40
ograpeople tend to do uploads !16:40
AmaranthBefore the sprint started webkit stuff was broken on x86 so it's got to be better than that16:40
ograpffft16:41
ograwho cares about x8616:41
ograthats so last decade16:41
ograarm is the future16:41
multiplatinum2but arm is 32b16:41
Amaranthholy crap I don't get duplicated title bars anymore16:41
ogramultiplatinum2, who cares if you can have 32 cores for half the price and power of an x86 ;)16:42
multiplatinum232 cores? lol16:42
ogras/power/power consumption/16:42
agateaudidrocks: yes, I think it must be a bit check (as opposed to the '==') because flags can contain other info like META_FRAME_HAS_FOCUS for example16:42
ogramultiplatinum2, http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/09/arm-a15-a-game-changer/16:44
agateaudidrocks: or did you mean there could be other bits indicating maximized windows?16:44
Amaranthhey with 32 cores we don't need a GPU :)16:45
didrocksagateau: right, if this is like compiz, maximized is done with vertically maximized and horizontally maximized bits16:45
didrocksagateau: so your check will match for either of those, which isn't good16:45
agateaudidrocks:  MetaFrameFlags says has only META_FRAME_MAXIMIZED16:45
agateaus/says//16:45
multiplatinum2i know arm is the shit, but it's 32 bit, 64 bit is better right?16:45
didrocksagateau: ok, in that case, it should be ok. If someone will file a bug about it, I'll track you down ;)16:45
agateaudidrocks: :)16:46
ograAmaranth, yeah, GPUs are last decade as well :) just have more framebuffers ;)16:46
didrocksogra: so, just need a compiz rebuild with that to check, I can do that tomorrow if needed16:46
Amaranthogra: so the A15 is 64-bit then, right?16:47
ogradidrocks, ok, lets get together tomorrow again then, i'll take care for the metacity patching (so the upload has my name on it for blames)16:47
didrocksogra: sure!16:47
ograAmaranth, i think still 3216:47
Amaranthogra: that blog says it can access 1TB of RAM16:47
ograyeah16:47
Amaranthogra: that's 40-bit address space16:49
Amaranthactually that's higher than an x86-64 CPU can manage...16:50
multiplatinum2so arm > 32bit and arm-15 > 64 bit?17:02
dbarthdidrocks: mind if i switch https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/703140 to just high, since it doesn't crash or prevent unity from running?18:12
dbarthit's a regression though18:12
didrocksdbarth: it's a regression and people experience it can't use unity for more than 10 minutes without switching it off, it's unusable as distracting18:13
didrocksdbarth: I don't want that setting it as high will get it slip off for weeks18:13
didrocksor you will have a bunch of others not testing unity daily because of that bug18:13
didrocksogra: how did you call the 2d session file in gnome-sessions?18:29
ogradidrocks, not at all yet18:30
didrocksogra: to follow other schemas, can it be 2d-ubuntu.session ?18:31
ograah, the session file is called unity-2d iirc18:31
ograwe just dont enable a default yet (since we have not any usable images atm)18:31
didrocksogra: ok, can it be renamed to follow the other schemas? (I'm making a change depending on that)18:32
didrocksogra: I mean, the session file in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/18:33
ograyeah, thats /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/unity-2d.session18:33
ograwe can surely rename that (needs checking with Kaleo)18:33
didrocksogra: thanks :)18:36
didrocksyou'll just need to sync that with /usr/share/xsessions/yoursession.desktop18:37
Kaleoogra: sure it can be renamed18:57
ograKaleo, i'll take care tomorrow18:59
ogra(no hurry as long as we are not fully installable)18:59
JamesMRtedg: would I be right in thinking you're a good person to ask about custom indicator widgets?19:00
tedgJamesMR, Not sure, but I could probably point you in a better direction if not :)  What are you trying to do?19:01
JamesMRtedg: I'm looking to embed a webkit.WebView into an indicator19:01
Kaleoogra: indeed :)19:01
Kaleoogra: thanks for the great help19:01
ograwelcome, happy to take care of packaging issues :)19:02
tedgJamesMR, Please don't do that. :)  The indicators are designed to be menus.19:02
JamesMRis it illegal?19:03
tedgJamesMR, Heh, well, I doubt the police would enforce it even if I asked :)19:05
JamesMRtedg: would it be possible?19:05
tedgJamesMR, It would only be possible with a system indicator and not an application indicator.19:06
tedgJamesMR, You'll have a really difficult time dealing with all the grabs though.19:06
JamesMRWhy is that?19:06
tedgJamesMR, Because menus have some special properties in X to make everything work correctly.  I'm quite sure that WebKit does it's grabs differently, so they'll probably fight.19:07
JamesMRaah19:07
JamesMRtedg: what if I were using it simply to display information?19:12
AmaranthJamesMR: Is there a reason you have to use a webview to display something small enough to fit in a menu?19:22
JamesMRI want it to look pretty19:22
AmaranthJamesMR: You can make it look pretty without webview :)19:23
JamesMRwith shiny graphics?19:23
Amaranthheck, with cairo you can make it look however you want19:23
AmaranthJamesMR: webkitgtk is built on top of gtk and cairo so it makes sense to assume whatever you can do with a webview you can do with them19:23
AmaranthJamesMR: Do you have a screenshot or mockup of what you want to put in the indicator menu?19:24
JamesMRis there any easy way to do that with python?19:24
Amaranthwell, there is pycairo19:25
tedgJamesMR, In general, if you want a window you should make a window.  Don't try to force stuff into a menu.  Use the menu as a list if things or, just have a window in general.19:29
jfiJamesMR, interest of appindicator is to be homogeneous (same behaviour, same interaction,etc), you will remove this advantage if you do a custom display19:30
JamesMRIf I'm looking to create an applet to display information about the environment, and want to make it look nice, but feel that a full app/window is just too much19:31
JamesMRwhat would you suggest I do?19:31
tedgJamesMR, Well, it of course depends on the information.  But, I'd look at working with the gnome-system-monitor folks...19:34
JamesMRsorry, real world environment, not computer =/19:35
* tedg forgot about that environment -- is that the thing that looks like my screensaver?19:36
JamesMRcould be19:37
tedgJamesMR, In general, I'd recommend the app approach.  There's no reason that it can't pop-up an application indicator when there is important information.  Or to make the window call for attention.  Both of those will notify the user.  Think of it more like a music player, where it might be minimized a lot, but that doesn't take away from it.19:37
JamesMRright19:38
Kaleonerochiaro: the workspace switcher branch is pretty neat!19:56
nerochiaroKaleo: thanks, lots of work needed there though19:56
nerochiaroKaleo: what happened to mumble ?19:57
Kaleonerochiaro: I'm still there19:58
Kaleonerochiaro: arent you?19:58
jonoheya folks22:19
jonowhich package do I file  bugs against for the global menu?22:19
tedgjono, Depends what the bug is :)22:35
jonotedg, I sorted it22:36
jonofiled it against indicator-appmenu22:36
jonoGIMP menus not showing22:36
tedgjono, Hmm, okay.  On Natty?22:36
jonotedg, yup22:37
jonoother apps seem to work fine22:37
tedgUhg, happens to me too.22:39
nmarquesguys mind of a question... is it really needed to build dbusmenu with introspection for non-devel purposes ?23:04
Amaranthnmarques: the introspection stuff is used at runtime for dynamic languages23:05
Amaranthnmarques: so if you don't want any python apps, sure :)23:05
nmarquesAmaranth, I'm trying to build this on a non-ubuntu platform, but the latest updates are giving me very strange errors :/23:06

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