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ali1234ochosi: i think i know why it isn't working. there is no libsoundmenu.so anywhere on my system. it looks like the way indicators work has been changed yet again and now they are just executables, so there is nothing for the indicator-applet to load (it directly loads the .so files)03:24
ali1234if i understand correctly it means indicator-applet will have to be totally rewritten to make this work03:25
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ali1234ochosi: this is where they patched the gnome fallback indicator applet for the new style indicators, the same thing needs to be done with xfce: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-applet/trunk.13.10/revision/40916:41
ali1234actually this code looks rather familiar :P17:23
NoskcajIf i get gthumb working this weekend, will we be able to get it into saucy?20:40
NoskcajAN IT BUILDS!20:48
skellatNoskcaj: Does it fix any bugs by getting a new gthumb in?  If not you need to file a Feature Freeze Exception request bug.21:10
knomemicahg, i disagree with your indicators decision...21:40
ochosiknome: i was off for a while, what's up ^ ?21:41
NoskcajThe gthumb changelog is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/6045779/21:41
knomeochosi, referring to https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2013-August/002523.html21:41
ochosiah21:42
ochosii see21:42
ochosiwell frankly, so far, little testing has been done on that21:43
ochosiali1234 reported some issues that i'm chatting andrzejr up about atm21:43
knomei think it's too late to back up after fighting with it and not saying no back then..21:43
skellatNoskcaj: But are bugs being fixed that are tracked in Ubuntu?21:43
knomei think i'm more against the way/time how the decision turned out rather than the decision itself21:44
ochosimhm21:44
ali1234ochosi: it looks like it should be easy to make the new indicators work, the source code of the indicator applet is mostly shared with the gnome one, and that is already fixed.21:44
ochosiagreed, that should be discussed21:44
ochosiali1234: thanks for the research and testing on that btw!21:45
skellatNoskcaj: That is to say, any of the bugs listed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gthumb21:45
knomeotoh, it's too late to discuss it now because it won't now land in for beta 1, and i agree landing after b1 is too late21:45
* ochosi dislikes last-minute hop-or-drop decisions...21:46
Noskcajskellat, i'll do that when i get back from my first soccer game21:46
skellatNoskcaj: Okay.  Debian-side has a Request for Adoption so I'm wondering if pushing this through Debian first might be a better idea21:47
Noskcajskellat, i am21:47
skellatOkay. 21:47
knomefor me, gthumb is an okay application, but i'm not specifically a fan of it.21:48
ochosi+121:48
ochosiif shotwell weren't qt, we could ship that21:48
ochosiit's quite nice thb21:48
NoskcajI don't use it either21:48
ochositbh21:48
skellatNoskcaj: Now, if you're looking for a new challenge to start packaging I can help you with the manual page for this one: https://launchpad.net/markdowner21:48
knomehaving said that, i don't think anybody should maintain it just because it is a "xubuntu application", but because they like it and *want* to maintain it21:48
* ochosi remembers we started shipping it for supporting special cameras...21:49
skellatThat needs to start off in Debian so it isn't going to get into Saucy but it would be nice to have it in T21:49
knomeochosi, you remember wrong21:49
knomewe started shipping it because ristretto was broken21:49
ochosiknome: so why then?21:49
knomewe kept it because it supported more cameras21:49
ochosiweird, it's not really a simple image viewer21:49
knomesure, but that was our best option to replace ristretto21:50
knometo replace *broken* ristretto21:50
knomeonce ristretto was back in the business, it could've served as the simple image viewer, but by that time people apprently wanted more21:50
Noskcajskellat, i'll look into that after gthumb works (i'll try and transfer ownership to the gnome team) and i've finished etm-qt21:51
Unit193knome: He said somthing about pushing in backports for saucy, though it may have changed.21:51
skellatNoskcaj: Okay.  Markdowner is a fun little python-based thing that is a basic Markdown text editor that lets gives you HTML preview and lets you save Markdown & HTML.21:51
skellatSomething a little less heavy-duty than some of the other things you've tackled thus far21:52
Noskcajskellat, sound interesting21:52
Noskcaj*sounds21:52
knomeUnit193, not the same, but yep, i remember seeing that as well21:53
Unit193Sure it's not the same, but far better than nothing.21:53
knomei suppose.21:54
skellatI'll be interested if the maintainer ever responds on Debian Bug #712102 even though that little package is finally unseeded on our end downstream.21:54
ubottuDebian bug 712102 in pidgin-microblog "Plugin no longer functions with Twitter or Identica" [Grave,Open] http://bugs.debian.org/71210221:54
knomebut then again, eating at a crappy fast-food restaurant is better than not eating...21:54
Unit193I wouldn't compare backports to crappy fastfood, but that's me.21:55
skellatUnit193: Depends upon the euphemisms in use21:56
knomeUnit193, not backports, but the saying "better than nothing"21:57
Unit193Alright, I'll try it again.  It may be in backports, so that'll be nice.  :P22:02
knomeheh22:12
knomefast food is nice if you're hungry...22:12
knome...but it's not the thing you'd put in your mouth if you could choose22:12
Unit193Mmmmmm, fish sandwich from Rallys... :D22:15
skellatUnit193: You still have one of those establishments nearby?22:16
Unit193On trips it's close.22:16
ArminasAnarchyHi all, does anyone have any news about an xfce-core package? I read something about how it might be in development, but figured this would be the place to check the progress.22:22
ochosiyou mean a xfce-core packageset?22:22
skellatArminasAnarchy: I dropped the ball on that as other life issues came up.  22:24
ArminasAnarchyPackage set? I heard there was discussion about creating a meta package with just vital desktop components (i.e. window manager, xserver, thunar etc) with things like xchat, gnumeric, abiword out.22:24
ArminasAnarchyit might have been xubuntu-core or something, I can't remember22:24
ArminasAnarchyAhh were you the dev? Has anyone else picked it up?22:24
skellatArminasAnarchy: Again, I dropped the ball on that.  Little things like dealing with one's mother in the hospital with cardiac issues kinda do a number on your priorities.22:25
skellatArminasAnarchy: Unless somebody has done so in secret, nope.22:25
knomeArminasAnarchy, no, it hasn't been worked on now.22:25
knometheoretically it could hit 13.10, but not as an option at installation time22:25
skellatArminasAnarchy: We're after Feature Freeze so it is very likely to not hit 13.10 in anything shipped.  I may get started next month putting together documentation for us to consider prior to the T cycle that begins near the end of October.22:26
Unit193I looked at that one, and mentally half made the list...22:26
knomeUnit193, yes, it's one of those things that are easy to half-do mentally...22:27
ArminasAnarchySorry about your Mam, skellat. =( I hope she gets well soon and you both pull through. I don't suppose it's the kind of thing you can really build into any plans/timetable :|22:27
knomeregardless if you meant "in a mental state" or "in one's mind"22:27
Unit193knome: Really all you need to do is look at the current seed, and drop out useless items (I'd compare with the lubuntu one too, but that's me.)22:28
knomeuseless is a bad term, but yes.22:28
ochosiat least it's not a useless term22:28
knome:P22:28
skellatOnce we're not messing with the seeds anymore I'll download the branches and start putting together something we can slap up on the wiki for discussion22:29
skellatAlong with the other documentation work that needs to happen in September & October22:29
ArminasAnarchyI figured the way to do it would be to install it on top of a minimal installation...it'd be a little pointless otherwise?22:29
knomeskellat, or pad22:29
ArminasAnarchyDo we have a release date for salamander?22:29
skellat17 October 2013 (See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule )22:30
Unit193ArminasAnarchy: On top of the mini.iso is generally the thought.22:30
ArminasAnarchyAt the moment I've a bit of time (at least until uni on the 20th), and I'd be interested in putting together this metapackage...I'm keen to get involved but don't really have much of an idea of HOW to.22:34
ArminasAnarchyWorking out the packages that are needed should be easy enough, just a case of going through the packages I have installed currently, and seeing how many I could pull out without things breaking...right?22:35
skellatThat's not the safest way to go22:35
ArminasAnarchyOr would it be easier to work from the ground up?22:35
skellatArminasAnarchy: Yes22:35
knomeor from the seed22:36
ArminasAnarchythe seed?22:36
skellatThere are also some Technical Boards resolutions that have to be followed that are documented in the seeds that discuss minimum things that must be included.22:36
knomewe can probably point out which packages are essential for the system "working"22:36
htmlgiftedhay all htmlgifted 12.04 xubuntu user... Nice to met u.. I hope i can find and provide help to any one and every i can... Happy labor day to u all... tty all l8ter. 22:36
skellatThe "seed" is the file that is what the metapackage is built from.  It contains the list of packages and whether they would be hard dependencies or removable ones.22:37
ArminasAnarchyWhere could I find that?22:37
skellatFor Xubuntu, our seed for Saucy can be found here: https://code.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/ubuntu-seeds/xubuntu.saucy22:38
skellatThe whole set of seeds being worked on can be found here: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-seeds22:39
ArminasAnarchySo how do I use that? o.o22:41
htmlgiftedwhat i see.... after doing the password...22:42
htmlgiftedIDS/IPS interfaces.22:42
skellatYou mostly want to look at the STRUCTURE file in this view: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/ubuntu-seeds/xubuntu.saucy/files22:42
htmlgiftedconfigure which interface you want snort to listen to22:42
knomehtmlgifted, wrong channel?22:43
skellatFrom there you can look at each individual file which has quite a bit commenting to it22:43
htmlgiftedyah.22:44
htmlgiftedsrry.22:44
skellatAnd then you could compare against the Lubuntu seed which has a core file in it which lays out their core packages: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~skellat/ubuntu-seeds/lubuntu.saucy/files22:45
ArminasAnarchyOh, and, is there any documentation on how to get involved? If there isn't any currently, maybe it'd be an idea for an experience dev to create something? It's a bit of a pain in the short term, but if it gets more people involved and makes contributing easier, in the long term it should be more than worthwhile.22:45
OvenWerk1skellat: Studio may be interested in such a meta.22:45
knomeArminasAnarchy, yes. http://xubuntu.org/contribute/22:45
skellatOverWerk1: smartboyhw apparently has some open seeds on Launchpad of his own.  He may be able to help cook something up.22:46
OvenWerk1I have been playing with some stuff too, but not anything custom in that way. It is not much work to take a xubuntu install and cook it to look like our install.22:48
ArminasAnarchyI'm in the situation where I love Xubuntu, and would love to be able to contribute, but don't have the time/patience to learn to code. So I could do stuff with testing, and maybe with writing documentation, but I've no idea with how to start. @knome: that page is far too brief. "Join the IRC and mailing lists" is going to leave most people lost.22:49
OvenWerk1The new monitor app works really well btw.22:50
OvenWerk1I am now aware of how messed up the intel g500 (I think) driver is.22:50
ArminasAnarchyMaybe something more explicitly stating how the project is governed and developer, where developers are needed?22:50
skellatArminasAnarchy: knome is the Xubuntu Project Leader and guides the project overall22:51
knomeArminasAnarchy, also see the subpages below22:51
knomeArminasAnarchy, there's no clear area where we need help - we always need help with everything22:51
knomei also think that you should do something that scratches your itch, not something somebody just happens to need22:52
knomethat's the best motivator, not us telling "our documentation is crappy"22:52
knome(it used to be... now people that like working on documentation has found their way to our project)22:53
skellat:-)22:53
skellatNext week is when we'll been probably needing suggestion on things to add to the offline documentation22:53
* skellat has fingers flailing over the keyboard making typos...must go find food...22:54
knomethat, and we'll need to rewrite some sections as well22:54
knomeskellat, bon appetit :)22:54
knomeArminasAnarchy, also, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument22:55
lderanoh knome theres been no further comments on the slideshow MP, shall i poke him a bit? :P22:58
Unit193OK, so did a round one for core...22:59
knomelderan, wondering if we should get more feedback from more people23:00
lderansounds good to me23:00
knomeoh bah, i need to test Unit193's slideshow-respin23:00
knomecan't do that before mon though :/23:00
Unit193http://paste.openstack.org/show/EnlmnypYiWKZfVRTjQxD/ it's not much, but a start.23:07
lderanooo23:08
Unit193May have to put elinks or w3m in there to silence some deps on www-browser.23:10
knomebbl, sleepytime now23:43
pleia2good night, knome 23:43
ochosinight knome 23:43

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