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Nick change: chillywilly_ -> chillywilly ahoy psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) joined #gnuenterprise. psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) left irc: Ping timeout: 202 seconds psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (alexey@195.151.214.34) left irc: "Client Exiting" psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) left irc: Ping timeout: 183 seconds alexey (~alexey@195.151.214.34) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (alexey@195.151.214.34) left irc: "Client Exiting" ra3vat (ds@195.239.64.7) left irc: Ping timeout: 191 seconds Isomer (dahoose@210-86-58-80.jetstart.xtra.co.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds Isomer (dahoose@210-86-58-80.jetstart.xtra.co.nz) joined #gnuenterprise. ra3vat (~ds@195.239.64.48) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (~alexey@195.151.214.34) joined #gnuenterprise. reinhard (~rm@62.47.44.7) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (alexey@195.151.214.34) left irc: "Client Exiting" Isomer (dahoose@210-86-58-80.jetstart.xtra.co.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds reinhard (rm@62.47.44.7) left irc: "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. -- Aurelius Augustinus" chillywilly (danielb@d180.as7.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds chillywilly_ (~danielb@d63.as12.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) joined #gnuenterprise. jrobiez (~jrobiez@AFontenayssB-101-1-4-141.abo.wanadoo.fr) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (~alexey@195.151.214.34) joined #gnuenterprise. Nick change: chillywilly_ -> chillywilly alexey (alexey@195.151.214.34) left irc: "Client Exiting" ra3vat (ds@195.239.64.48) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds ra3vat (~ds@195.239.64.5) joined #gnuenterprise. CyrilB (~cyb@AToulouse-201-1-4-119.abo.wanadoo.fr) joined #gnuenterprise. Hello Several images on the gnuenterprise.org website seems to be made with non-free Adobe softwares, I hope I'm wrong: it is quite shocking. Does anybody now more on the subject ? lynx -source http://www.gnuenterprise.org/modules/NS-My_eGallery/gallery/GNUe/GNUePkgArchitecture.png | strings | head CyrilB: ???? bye bye derek (derek@cpe-24-221-112-50.az.sprintbbd.net) left irc: "um my gnue tree is bigger than your gnue tree" We should avoid using non-free software at all cost, am I wrong ? Jeroen (jeroen@kf-nawij-fp06-005.dial.kabelfoon.nl) joined #gnuenterprise. Anyone awake in here ? Jeroen (jeroen@kf-nawij-fp06-005.dial.kabelfoon.nl) left #gnuenterprise. jbailey (~jbailey@Toronto-HSE-ppp3637012.sympatico.ca) joined #gnuenterprise. Nick change: jbailey -> thugfolks-jbailey-mrphython-go ra3vat (ds@195.239.64.5) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds Nick change: thugfolks-jbailey-mrphython-go -> thug-jbailey-mrphython-gowlin psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) joined #gnuenterprise. ra3vat (~ds@195.239.64.10) joined #gnuenterprise. hi jbailey reinhard (~rm@N801P007.adsl.highway.telekom.at) joined #gnuenterprise. jrobiez (jrobiez@AFontenayssB-101-1-4-141.abo.wanadoo.fr) left irc: "Client Exiting" CyrilB: our main goal is to produce good free software we accept contributions without regarding what tools were used to do the work especially we accept documentation in nearly any form we can get because we are desperate for documentation just like any other gnu project just as long as the format itself isn't proprietary, and it can be viewed without proprietary programs anything is ok for us at least that is my understanding reinhard: good point of view but if you want to redo those pictures in dia (or whatever) we will _gladly_ take it the contributor was not familiar with dia at all and felt that he would be more productive when he used his adobe which he is used to because he used it before and we were ok with that psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) left #gnuenterprise. well i think "contributor" is a bit of an understatement for neilt please s/contributor/core team member/ :) I understand your point of view but if you accept contributions that can be viewed with free softwares, you also have to be able to modify the contributions. What if we need to add a component to this graphic ? Even ASCII art graphic would be better. CyrilB: isn't png viewable with free software? reinhard: png is viewable with free software, you are right. You can consider this PNG as a binary distrubution of the contrib, not the source code. We NEED to be able to modify the code. so we need someone that can do the graphic in dia? And we can't modify adobe files with free softwares. so we need someone that can do the graphic in dia? We need people do be able to use free softwares. And produce free documents. ok you know someone who would want to do this graphic as well as maintain it for adding new modules etc over the next few years? i think we have to seek such a person till we found it i think we can live with what we have now as an intermediate solution If this solution is considered as an intermediate solution, it is ok for me. good any other comments on gnue? iirc i saw you a few times in #fsfeurope but never here on #gnuenterprise? This is the first time for me in #gnuenterprise. Did the author of this graphic understood that this file has to be freed ? If think that if he is able to produce this kind of graphics with non-free softwares, he can easily do the same with free softwares. from what i know about the author i think he is aware of the issue but he works on mac mostly and afaik not so much free software is available for mac This discussion is interresting and I have to talk much with you later but I have to go outside now. See you later. Action: CyrilB is away: afk l8r CyrilB neilt (~neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) joined #gnuenterprise. thug-jbailey-mrphython-gowlin (jbailey@Toronto-HSE-ppp3637012.sympatico.ca) left irc: "Client Exiting" hello neilt i just had a discussion about the graphics you did for the homepage i hope what i said is ok for you hello Action: neilt goes to lok at log reinhard: it would be nice of we had free software that would do nice diagrams reinhard: it does not exist IIRC i have never made such a diagram in my entire life neither with proprietary nor with free software :) so i can't tell but i can imagine very well you're right :) you do know that my graphics are the most viewed screenshots on the web site :) and it was not me sitting here hitting the reload button :) lol i think i missed the point what is the problem with the graphics his poit was that only you have the "source" and only you can change the graphic if i understand him correctly as you are probably the only one among us that has this adobe software any program that reads png which is a standard format can edit the graphics if you can suggest another format, derek said this was the preferred for graphics, then I will convert to a better format i think his point is that usually you create such a graphic with a vector drawing too tool however this is somewhat "silent post" png is a vector format graphic, so all vector information is in the version on the web or how you call that game it is? i thought png is a pixle graphic format but i can be wrong i'm not sure at all portable network graphic http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ ra3vat (ds@195.239.64.10) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds a PNG image saved in one app is readable in any other PNG-supporting application ra3vat (~ds@195.239.64.10) joined #gnuenterprise. from what i can read on that page png has no vector information stored but is rather comparable to gif, jpeg etc. ok, you might be right i thought it was a vector format nevermind so actually a good thing that CyrilB brought that up but gimp and gnome both edit png files sure gimp is a pixle drawing tool not a vector drawing tool gimp is like photoshop or so and i'm sure you wouldn't want to edit this graphic in photoshop ;) http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngaped.html is a list of applications that can edit png files i hope not what would be a vector format we should use? i can't tell i know zero about graphics at all neither proprietary nor free you know i don't deal with things i can't view in vi ;) CyrilB should be back in some time, maybe he can make a proposal off for a bit bbl Nick change: reinhard -> rm-away ra3vat (ds@195.239.64.10) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds i'll probably switch the graphics to svg http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations#svgedit http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/ is the editor from gnome i just need someone to let me know if http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/ actually works? CyrilB (cyb@AToulouse-201-1-4-119.abo.wanadoo.fr) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds also http://www.levien.com/svg/ will edit svg ToyMan (~Stuart@c5300-2-ip254.albany.thebiz.net) joined #gnuenterprise. interesting article is at http://xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/svgtools.html CyrilB (~cyb@AToulouse-201-1-4-119.abo.wanadoo.fr) joined #gnuenterprise. Nick change: Maniac -> Maniac-yawa dyfet (dyfet@dsl-65-188-113-57.telocity.com) joined #gnuenterprise. dyfet (dyfet@dsl-65-188-113-57.telocity.com) left irc: "Client Exiting" neilt (neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) left irc: Maniac-yawa (darryl@h24-82-132-209.wp.shawcable.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds Nick change: rm-away -> reinhare Nick change: reinhare -> reinhard ra3vat (~ds@195.239.64.204) joined #gnuenterprise. sodipodi works Action: chillywilly is away: I'm busy sodipodi works but it needs lots of work, its not all that pleasent to use chillywilly_ (~danielb@d153.as8.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) joined #gnuenterprise. chillywilly (danielb@d63.as12.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds Action: CyrilB is away: I'm busy Action: CyrilB is back (gone 00:00:01) I'm back. <-- reinhard wb please read the logs the author of the drawings was here meanwhile I've read the logs. Did the author left ? (yes) 2 hours ago yes he left but i think he got your point The point is not vector drawing or pixel drawing, as you say I don't deal with non ascii files. The point is free software VS non-free software. neilt (~neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) joined #gnuenterprise. oh neilt: welcome back. neilt: you have a watchdog or something like that? yep :) reinhard: it would be nice of we had free software that would do nice diagrams (...) it does not exist CyrilB: what do you suggest neilt: friends of mine are using dia and xfig for this kind of graphics. dia sucks i can second that what is xfig dia can't even display the same font on screen as it does when printing out neilt: dia suxx less than adobe non-free softwares neilt: but dia sucks, you are right CyrilB: i am sorry, but i am not a biggot about software http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfig/ my time is valuable anything that wasts my time is not good, free or not What is 'biggot' ? biased neilt: I don't agree at all, we should use free software at all costs. CyrilB: no i don't agree here we should develop good free software at all costs reinhard: using non-free software _do not_ 'develop good free software'. it cn can and promoting them is really a shame. reinhard: not in this case. Action: neilt does [dhcp64-134-54-175:~] ntiffin% fink install xfig installing now i don't see that this is promoting a "normal user" doesn't see where this png comes from afaik reinhard: neilt just said Adobe non-free software make him avoid loosing time. reinhard: and free software DO make him loose time CyrilB: i agree to goal GNUe, that is to use free software for stuff in cvs Action: CyrilB is shocked so if there is a free software alternative, i will support that neilt: I've used xfig a couple of time, I can help you. i did not know xfig existed i am installing now i'll let you kow know how it works otoh i see no reason to avoid non-free software either if this is really a freedom thing then we should be free to use whatever we want psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) joined #gnuenterprise. hi psu neilt: i agree neilt: as long as we don't take away freedom from others for example in you case you are saying its not about freedom i guess, its about using what the free software movement tells you to use that is just another form of bias hi aj i think it's ok if i use vi, emacs or even windows notepad to write my source code psu: seems you've walked into a free vs non-free debate again :) but if i used winword and stored as .doc i would take away freedom from those wanting to read the text again only because i am being told that using non-free software is bad :( i wish we could just leave the opinions about free vs non-free out the main point is that we want to achieve something a very ambitious goal actually in this project and everyone tries is best to reach that goal his best and we make compromises if it helps the overall goal anyway gotta get me some sleep night all reinhard (rm@N801P007.adsl.highway.telekom.at) left irc: "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. -- Aurelius Augustinus" reinhard: later CyrilB: ok i installed xfig it does not show up in gnome CyrilB: any ideas where it went neilt: what do you mean by 'not show up in gnome' ? Does it has to 'appear' magically somewhere ? yes i found it it looks like my old mac 128 circa 1986 hehe neilt: the interface is ugly but useful. CyrilB: sorry but i have to suffer through this, because you think its better why? CyrilB: what do you do professionally? dia is much more useful than xfig for these types of diagrams mdean: does dia do color ? yup definitely I was just messing around with it - converting your diagram it can definitely do it neilt: you are compromising our freedom by using non-free software: we can't modify and/or redistribute the source vector file. so we should change to *.xfig because its such a popular format? neilt: you don't need colors CyrilB: thats pure crap neilt: not popular but FREE CyrilB: what do you do professionally? dia outputs a free format, which is XML neilt: sysadmin is a european isp dia exports png, eps and other popular formats too ;-) which makxes it exceptionally useful for converting dia diagrams into things like SQL CyrilB: cool, thanks neilt: sysadmin iN a european isp ajmitch (me@p54-max10.dun.ihug.co.nz) left irc: Read error: 113 (No route to host) nickr: i would use dia, as soon as someone provides a way to convert dia diagrams into our gcd format so we dont have to maintain 2 sources neilt: are you doing data modeling with it? dia, not uet neilt: it would be very easy to do that. yet i use visio hehe I have a very simple sheet that converts dia UML in sql. into nickr: i would rather use dia than hand write gcd's the same concept could convert it to any format needed nickr: yuppers but no-one has the time to figure out how to make dia diagrams because gcd files gcd is the XML DL right? nope or s it the IDL? gcd is the geas server object definitions not xml its the IDL then http://www.gnuenterprise.org/~neilt/GNUeModuleGuide/main/x369.html is the definition of gcd format i did not define the gcd format I have to leave you now. CyrilB: later it actually looks like a weird cross between SQL and IDL its wierd all right but thats what derek wanted back 1 1/2 years ago I don't see what you gain by drawing boxes and typing all this into them neilt: excuse me if I said stupid things. CyrilB: no problem, i dont takes things badly neilt: do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions with xfig: cyb@gnu.org i just feel free to express myself as everyone else should CyrilB: thank you nickr: gcd is an object definition nickr: the gcd files themselves dont show relations nickr: does that stylesheet run from a UML definition? yea its very simplistic, a proof of concept nickr: i would assume that if we used dia that the relations would be more graphic derek and I have talked about something along these lines for the DDL too the need for an editor (or "designer" ;-) i think it'd be better suited if an object set specifically for medelling GCD was built for dia sounds like a lot of these things could be leveraged from one source nickr: the original idea was to use UML for modeling then build the gcd from the UML i dont know of that makes sense or not neilt: the UML editor in Dia doesn't appear to have hardcoded types - or is there another reason for a GCD set? mdean: not sure i understand what you are asking? bbl psu (psu@manorcon.demon.co.uk) left #gnuenterprise. dia lets you type anything you want into the various areas of the object why would you like a Dia set specifically for GCD? so you can model anything that is vaguely objecty but you could be better served if you made objects more taylored to gcd, like having areas for those little sql things and such nickr: true - I don't see a suitable place for those we dont have any sql things in gcd format we have object references and object lists you could trick the XSLT sheet into putting them in the right spot, its not a huge issue, but allowing direct support for such things would be a little better I mean the order by foo things those aren't properties or methods nickr: good point, i forgot about those really they should be changed to properties and we should lose the sql'ness could be a property in a base object as well ToyMan (Stuart@c5300-2-ip254.albany.thebiz.net) left irc: "Client Exiting" tnhat would work CyrilB (cyb@AToulouse-201-1-4-119.abo.wanadoo.fr) left irc: "Client Exiting" ajmitch (~me@p47-max7.dun.ihug.co.nz) joined #gnuenterprise. neilt (neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) left irc: Isomer (dahoose@210-86-58-24.jetstart.xtra.co.nz) joined #gnuenterprise. hi Isomer mornin hmm quiet here derek (~derek@cpe-24-221-112-50.az.sprintbbd.net) joined #gnuenterprise. hi derek hi derek: whatsup with this dotgnu/gnue/dcl/gnucomm/phpgw meeting? just checking in for a minute fore i run off what do you mean whats up with it? as far as i know gnue/dcl/gnucomm and cto of freedevelopers committed to the date fsf and phpgw (the two asking for the meeting) have not (as well as dotgnu) as in when, who can join, etc. i'm talking to a dotgnu person who doesn't know much about it & is trying to find out info well dotgnu would be represented in part at least by david sugar ok its tentative for 9PM EST tomorrow (monday) i've been talking to myrddian (enzo adrian-reyes) k it will be only the core members (at this point) for at least an hour of the discussion righto, cos he is a dotgnu core member though we will try to make it so the other people can listen in who is doing design docs for SEE ajmitch : when i say 'core group' i really mean about the maintainers at thats it ok i.e. like 1 or 2 people from each camp though thats up to the projects maintainer sure after the hour period then we will probalby open it to a larger audience if it goes well, we might try to make them regular i have to run k will be back in a bit does the dotgnu fellow irc often and will he be around later? i surely dont mind talking about our projects outside of that meeting yeah, he's on irc a bit the meeeting was just a way for us all to meet and kind of see where we are at and where we overlap ok etc bbl derek (derek@cpe-24-221-112-50.az.sprintbbd.net) left irc: "Leaving" neilt (~neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) joined #gnuenterprise. ajmitch (me@p47-max7.dun.ihug.co.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds ajmitch (~me@p11-max11.dun.ihug.co.nz) joined #gnuenterprise. jbailey (~jbailey@Toronto-HSE-ppp3642350.sympatico.ca) joined #gnuenterprise. nickr (nick@e-172-IP26.empnet.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds Sacha_ (~sacha@203.190.196.208) joined #gnuenterprise. nickr (nick@e-172-IP26.empnet.net) joined #gnuenterprise. derek (~derek@cpe-24-221-112-50.az.sprintbbd.net) joined #gnuenterprise. neilt (neilt@dhcp64-134-54-175.chan.dca.wayport.net) left irc: Maniac-yawa (~darryl@h24-82-132-209.wp.shawcable.net) joined #gnuenterprise. 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Action: chillywilly swings his trout wildly hoping to connect with someone Rafterman (tim@lister.sesgroup.net) joined #gnuenterprise. hey Rafterman afternoon all ajmitch (me@p11-max11.dun.ihug.co.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 181 seconds ajmitch (~me@p58-max6.dun.ihug.co.nz) joined #gnuenterprise. alexey (alex@techkran.vladimir.ru) joined #gnuenterprise. chillywilly (danielb@d153.as8.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) left irc: chillywilly (~danielb@d130.as6.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) joined #gnuenterprise. chillywilly (danielb@d130.as6.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) left irc: chillywilly (~danielb@d58.as21.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net) joined #gnuenterprise. hi howdy --- Mon Nov 26 2001