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ABI compliance checker

    Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System
Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free
lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of
shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and
data type definitions in two library versions (headers and shared
objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.
We have released 1.2 version of this tool and we'd like you to consider
its usefulness for your project.
    The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker is
http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker

Andrey Ponomarenko

idea for new feature: ubiquity in gnome? (request for brainstorm)

I am not sure how many used ubiquity, the Firefox plugin, I find it
highly innovative and useful. How about making it available in gnome?

In short, we make gnome work in this way:

User can do a mouse selection anywhere on a gnome desktop, e.g.
addressbar, email composing window, openoffice writer or calculator,
tomboy notes etc. When something is selected, the user can press a
special key (I recommend the "menu key" sitting adjacent to right Ctrl),
a bubble pops up asking user what he wants to do with the selection. He can:

    * Type "wiki" and enter to see wikipedia article about the selected word
    * Type "google trans en" and enter to see selected text translated
      to English using google translate. While this is done, the
      translated text is also pre-selected for pasting.
    * Type "whois" and enter to launch a GUI application return whois
      result of selected IP address or domain name;
    * Type "man" to launch a manual page browser for selected command;
    * Type "calc" to calculate selected math expression (or even "plot
      it" to get output from gnuplot)
    * Type "dic" to get the translation.
    * ....

This change user behavior from "launch application, use it to process
information" to "pick information, and choose how to process it", which
is closer to nature user action, because in most cases a nature user
think of information first instead of tools first.

Other ideas:

Re: idea for new feature: ubiquity in gnome? (request for brainstorm)

Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>    6. Allow typing any console command and the selected text will be
>       used as last parameter (e.g. user type "ping") or piped in as
>       stdin (e.g. user type "sort <"). After execution, stdout is shown
>       in the bubble and also pre-selected for pasting. This makes it
>       easy to pick a price table in an email and instantly get output of
>       products less than 50 USD by typing an one-line awk script. This
>       idea would bring +100 extensions in one shot and make commandline
>       elites really fall in love with gnome.
I can think of a few useful trick of this:

    * In a text-only (no BB-code) forum, select a forum post, "menu
      key", type "fold < | sed 's/^/< /'" to get quoted message to do
      in-line reply.
    * Seeing a command "bc", select it, "menu key", type "man -t | lp "
      would cause it run "man -t bc | lp".
    * Seeing a link to the source code package, select it, "menu key",
      type "curl < | tar -C ~/code/ jxvf -" and wait for the bubble to
      finish. When it does, the source code is unpacked at the right place.
    * Select text and run "aspell", instantly turn gnome to spell-check
      capable platform. However this require interactiveness in the
      bubble which is not sure if doable.
    * Add word count feature to any text by selecting the whole article
      and do "wc <";
    * Select a whole web page and do "a2ps <" to get clean text-only
      print out;

In general there could be a lot of uses.

Request for removing clutter in current form

I'm sorry I'm posting it on wrong list.

I'm usuing currently Gnome 2.27.x and I've become worried about new
dependency - clutter.

OpenGL traditionally have been problematic on GNU/Linux, not mentioning
other *nixes. Many cards are only partially supported and/or produces
not exactly correct results. Proprietary drivers not only are
proprietary but often are not stable. 

Unfortunately I have rather old and strange ATI card and OpenGL I can
best describe as 'sometimes' working. If an game uses it I'm prepared to
have blinking screen or artifacts (I'm using 2.6.30.4 kernel but
problems was 'since always'). I don't use propertary drivers since it
tended to crash computer. While recently situation improved much I guess
that many users may have similar problems.

When I tried new clutter-based gnometris I haven't see it running at
all. The main portion of screen was the previous background. While I
understend that it is not a gnome bug it shows that OpenGL is not
perfect even on 'geeks' desktop. 

While I understend the need of eye-candies I'd be rather grateful if
features would not be hard-depended on OpenGL - since it is not working
everywhere - especially rather old/new/peculiar computers.

Best regards

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