gnome15-team team mailing list archive

[Nuno Araujo <nuno.araujo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:23:08 +0000, Brett Smith 
<tanktarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Nuno :)
Hi Brett!

> Apologies for the silence, I will try and communicate more what is
> happening here from now on.
Same here!

> There have been lots of changes for 0.5.0, some of which are probably
> going to affect your Arch packages.
>
> The Ubuntu packages now look like this :-
>
> gnome15           	- The core, depends on GTK
> gnome15-indicator 	- For panel indicator, requires Ubuntu
> gnome15-panel-applet	- For panel applet, requires GNOME
> gnome15-systemtray	- Uses notification area icon, requires GTK
I will update the Arch packages accordingly!

> And then finally, some time after that, a QT based Gnome15 core. At 
> this
> point, the 'gnome15' package will be split into 'gnome15-qt' and
> 'gnome15-gtk'. If it gets to this point we really should be thinking 
> of
> a new name for Gnome15!
I propose UberSuperKeyboardTools! :-)

> Also, GNOME/Ubuntu specific plugins have been separated into the
> gnome15-gnome-plugins package. This currently consists of evolution,
> imap/pop3 notifier (because it uses GNOME keyring), Indicator 
> Messages
> and Indicator Me. Everything else remains where it was.
This is great news for me!
Maybe we can even go further and have a "plugins-core" package that has 
no more
dependencies than gnome-15 has, and then package each plugin 
independently.
This way dependency management would be simplified.

> The other main change has been an expanded DBUS API. The hope is to
> allow easier integration for other applications (say those that have
> their own extensions system) and can approach the problem the other 
> way.
> For example, I intend to try write a Minecraft plugin when it has a
> client modding API available :)
>
> There will also be a Java helper library provided as an example 
> (using
> dbus-java). The only reason I chose Java is it is another language I 
> use
> a lot, so it was quick to knock something together.
If I find the time, maybe I will do the same thing for C#.

> In theory, none of this should affect your stop watch plugin (if you
> have found the time to work on it ;), but let me know if there are 
> any
> problems.
I admit that progress is slow!
I was on vacation for one week, and there are some ongoing changes at 
work
that made me change my priorities temporarily.
But I'm working on it :-)

> Oh, thanks for updating the Arch packages to 0.4.1 btw!
No problem, I will do my best to keep them up to date.

> I am looking to release 0.5.0 in a couple of weeks, maybe a bit 
> earlier.
> The main task I want to complete before release is getting rid of the
> need for G19D, and have g15-desktop-service talk directly to the
> keyboard. Again, this may affect packaging on Arch as it will require
> device permissions are set correctly (i.e. it will need some Udev 
> rules
> created). I will keep you informed.
Let's see if I can finish the timer plugin on time for that release!

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Nuno Araujo <nuno.araujo@xxxxxxxxxxx>