I wonder if this will hit trunk/ of the Qt codebase. I seriously think this kind of thing is absolutely required in order to move forward and let developers take maximum advantage of their skills.
Anyways, I really, really hope this gets into everybody’s computers.
QDevBlog » Qt and Glib has the story.
ChipLog » Blog Archive » Taggable Desktop says they’re not planning on implementing tags as Extended Attributes.
I still disagree. I think the library should implement both a database for the user, and also write the tags out to extended attributes whenever possible.
But they told me no, it ain’t gonna happen this way
and here are the reasons, together with my rebuttals:
Chip:
Would you please make your tagging library store tags as extended attributes on the file system as well? This would enable many applications, from solid backups of tags (pax, gnutar, cpio), to interfacing with command line applications like find, xargs and the entire coreutils suite (which I use all the time, believe me!)
(in response to ChipLog » Blog Archive » Taggable Desktop)
ioctl, fsync - how to flush block device buffers? asks a simple, yet still unanswered question: how to have a device’s buffers get flushed on critical times (such as when a USB stick or otherwise removable storage medium is about to get ejected).
Since merely resorting to an ioctl is not possible, because of permission issues, I’d suggest a standalone command, that runs as root, to do the job. Much like mount.
Think about it: we have a sync command. GNOME could also ship a bflush /dev/some-device-about-to-be-removed command, which doesn’t return until the device has been flushed. Then, gnome-volume-manager could resort to invoking bflush. Plus, bflush itself would take care of checking whether the invoking user has the right to perform a buffer flush on said device. For security, this hypothetical bflush command should not even need to link to GNOME libraries.
That command can be built portably. Later on, at some point, the author could push for its inclusion in one of the standard packages for disk tools. Down the road, it could be standardized as part of LSB or maybe even other POSIX-compliant operating systems.
I frequently hear complaints about CIOs in other companies. Complaints directed straight at Microsoft Windows. I’ve seen people go blue in the face when complaining about the assorted kinds of malware they’ve had to remove from the networks they manage.
But the mere suggestion of migrating to Linux, directed at those CIOs, is enough to trigger a bunch of emotional responses on them. “Our users won’t go along”, “We depend too much on Office to make the switch”, “Linux costs more in the end” are common responses.
Today, I’ll be telling the story of our own migration to Linux. As you can probably infer from the title of this story, it’s been a success.
Jimmac, I use the vFolders all day long. vFolders let me get new perspectives. I use them to build a sort of cross product between all my real mail folders about Open Source, which gives a whole different context to conversations.
Yes, sir. The newest UPS monitor is now in the air. Session management fixes were the dish of the day. Go get it as soon as you can.
Yes, sir! The new UPS monitor features some bug fixes, and (yes, that’s right) GNOME session support, so when you close your session and reopen it, UPS monitor will be sitting right there on your tray.
Estoy construyendo todo el nuevo GNOME a base de GARNOME, una cuestión super vacán que te deja correr un script y solito se descarga de internet todos los paquetes de GNOME y los compila de golpe y zopetón. Buen aspecto!