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Re: Tea Time release for 12.04

Joey-Elijah Sneddon — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:02:57 -0000

Ahh! I love tea-time :)

Re: Intruducing Teatime

Buick — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:30:59 -0000

unfortunately it isn't usable under Ubuntu 12.04 anymore. Can we expect a update soon?

Thanks.

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

rojtberg — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:19:21 -0000

you mean after trying to use the same technology as Gnome Shell, but being dissatisfied with its performance?
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10...

and even then they rebased Unity on Compiz, instead of writing a compositing manger from scratch..

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Hans — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:03:36 -0000

Say, how about talking this Shuttleworth guy out of Gnome and starting this whole GUI thingy anew? From scratch.

Re: No fglrx for Jaunty?

sbobet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:40:54 -0000

I’ve been visiting your blog for a while now and
I always find a gem in your new posts. Thanks for sharing.

Re: AR shadowmapping demo

Hoshang — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:57:29 -0000

Dear Sir
Is your project open source?
I am really intrested in. Thanks anyway.
Hoshang

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Nicolay Doytchev — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:15:19 -0000

Absolutely the case. And the biggest deal of all are GObject and Vala. There are so many good reasons why one would go with C++ over making another language that it's not even funny...

In fact I am glad that Ubuntu chose to use Qt for Unity 2D as it is an ultra-mature and written in proper language toolkit.

Re: Intruducing Teatime

Captain Awesome — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:57:39 -0000

Love it - just one thing. It doesn't seem to accept times higher than 59 minutes! :(

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Pawlo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:20:49 -0000

You could also add MSOOXML to the list. When KDE and FSF openly said ODF is way to go, gnome foundation didn't say a thing, but some people from gnome were leaning toward MS ugly format. I think the main culprit of gnome suffering from NIH is Icaza. He still has quite big influence on gnome and he's working for MS. It's in their interests to divide and conquer.

I'm very happy such systems like Kubuntu and Ubuntu exist. They're very user friendly which cannot be said about Fedora and gnome shell.

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Pawlo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:15:52 -0000

@Felipe Contreras

Linus was talking about kernel programming and not about desktop environments. Don't you think it's strange that Linus preferred KDE over gnome?

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

rojtberg — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:14:27 -0000

in this post he explains the shortcomings of upstart. And he is most certainly right about that. But my point was that he should have built upon upstart instead of starting from scratch.
Now Lennart would probably respond that it would be too difficult to add the new features, but the recent updates to upstart which actually add lots of systemd features to it prove this wrong. The bottom line is maybe the collaborating with others is indeed harder than working on your own. But thats plain NIH.

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

rojtberg — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:10:43 -0000

do you refer to this post of Linus? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane....
If so most of his arguments can be as well applied to Vala - in this regard it rather supports my point ;)

But seriously, Linus might be right that plain C is more efficient where performance is the primary goal. But for GUI applications performance is not the primary goal, as they mainly consist of glue code to different libraries.
And for a open source project with limited resources, the expressiveness of the language is also important - there is a reason why alomst everything in gnome is being rewritten in Vala now..

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Felipe Contreras — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:32:40 -0000

You lost me when you pushed C++ forward. Linus Torvalds has explained very well the reasons why C++ sucks. It might suit your needs, but there's a lot of people who think otherwise.

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Lucas — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:15:12 -0000

Lennart has exposed the reasons why systemd was developed. It's definitely not NIH syndrome:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projec...

About the other points, they are fairly reasonable.

Re: GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

Bert Van de Poel — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:19:43 -0000

What you are saying is very true. I would also like to add another example where they messed up stuff, you can read all about it in this post: http://www.stefanoforenza.com/... (it concerns how their strange obsession with gnome-shell is killing compiz)

Re: Will Ubuntu 10.10 ship with Gnome3?

vansshoesshop — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:44:23 -0000

I support!

Re: fglrx 8.9: improved 2D performance

Niccola Torres — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:30:06 -0000

can you post your xorg.conf to compare?!
Thanks!

Re: Intruducing Teatime

Guest — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:01:02 -0000

There is an issue with Tea Timer under Gnome 3 Classic. The application doesn't recognize a window pop-up when a time period has expired and continues to alarm every N seconds until you explicitly maximize its window.

Re: Teatime Updated for Oneiric

Ward Duncan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:55:22 -0000

Is there a way to do an audible alarm along with the visual? Or to have it show that it is running a timer?

Re: Teatime Updated for Oneiric

Seyed Mohammad — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:55:33 -0000

Hi
Thanks for the nice app!
Please add it to the Ubuntu-Software-Center so no PPA adding would be required.

Re: Teatime Updated for Oneiric

Jorge Castro — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:31:57 -0000

Ooooh, submit this to the software center!

Re: Intruducing Teatime

Guest — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:10:21 -0000

Thanks! It works now

Re: YouAmp (Maemo)

rojtberg — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:03:13 -0000

seems like a bug as the database should put the tracks in correct order. It might take a while until I can take a look at this...

Re: Intruducing Teatime

rojtberg — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:14:35 -0000

that bug is fixed now :)

Re: Intruducing Teatime

rojtberg — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:40:38 -0000

thats a bug in the 11.10 version - will upload a fixed version asap