Re: focus!

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Federico said:

> Big tangent:  the "GNOME Certification" plan will help in defining what
> is a "good GNOME application" and what isn't.  That certification will
> include things like consistent look&feel [insert a lot of handwaving
> about how to quantify this...]

/me points to 
Gnome Accessibility Guide For Developers,
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad , and 
Testing Gnome Applications for Accessibility:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/index.html


Bill

> 
>   Federico
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:07:57 +0200
> From: Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution-hackers] Memory consumption and virtual
> 	machines
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
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> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:05 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:46 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've been talking to Philip on IRC, and gave him these requirements for
> > his patch:
> > 
> > 1. Don't change the external ABI of Camel, so that Evo needs no changes,
> > *OR* also submit a patch to update Evo for the changed API.
> 
> Achieved
> 
> > 2. Make sure the summary format on disk works with older Evos without
> > making *them* rewrite the summaries.  This is for deployments which have
> > machines with old and new versions of GNOME, but NFS homedirs accessible
> > from any machine.
> 
> Achieved my renaming all the summary filenames
> 
> > 3. Keep the coding style, variable naming convention, indentation, etc.
> 
> Done
> 
> 
> For you, attached and on a plate:
> 
>         o. The patch for evolution-data-server
>         o. The patch for evolution-exchange
> 
> 
> Trying to get this upstream is, for me, saying thank you.
> 
> Looking at the patch technically AND testing it (and if it doesn't
> perform, giving me numbers that compare it with the original implement-
> ation) is all I'm asking for.
> 
> If Novell wants me to implement unit tests (or other tests) for this, I
> will ask for payment.
> 
> -- 
> Philip Van Hoof, software developer at x-tend 
> home: me at pvanhoof dot be 
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