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Re: Cross-platform, standalone Silverilght Applications - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:21:40 -0000

With the mopen approach, you have two options: running sandboxed, or running with full access to the API.

With this approach you only get sandboxed, but on your "server" side you get full access, so your client can connect to the server (HttpListener) and have that side do the actual work of talking to the file system.

As davidacoder this would allow a model similar to what Mesh is doing: you run on the local system something that exposes a similar experience from what is exposed in the connected world.

Re: Cross-platform, standalone Silverilght Applications - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:11:14 -0000

I have no clue what you mean; Next time be more specific, or I will delete the comment.

Re: ThinkPad T61P Speed Problems - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:53:44 -0000

Am using 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp from SUSE. I also tried an Ubuntu LiveCD (forget the version) and had the same problem.

Re: Mono's Winforms 2.0 is now API Complete - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:24 -0000

I found a service that does nice comments for blogs without having to worry about maintaining it myself, and it integrates nicely with LameBlog.

Re: Mono's Winforms 2.0 is now API Complete - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:01:11 -0000

If we were to start from scratch today, we would pick WebKit. At this point, with almost a year of work invested in Gecko we are going to move on to new projects (bug fixing, new APIs from 3.5SP1, performance, getting some key applications running) so redoing this is not a priority for us.

But if members in the community want to work on it, and provide a different backend, we would integrate the patches.

Re: First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:03:18 -0000

Thanks! Fixed

Re: Mono's Winforms 2.0 is now API Complete - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:07:59 -0000

It will work as long as you do not "escape" the .NET sandbox by doing things like using P/Invokes in your code.

To check if your software will run, use the Moma tool, which will analyze your software for these and other issues:

www.mono-project.com/Moma

Re: First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:03:27 -0000

You are confused.

Moonlight is free software, as its distributed under the terms of a free software license. Moonlight today ships with no codecs, but we plan on using proprietary codecs with it from Microsoft. The Microsoft codecs will be free to use, but they are not "free software" in the spirit of the FSF free software definition. The reason is that codecs are heavily patented. But creative minds can compile Moonlight with ffmpeg (another piece of free software) that happens to implement the decoding components. We are just not in a position to ship it ourselves.

Our software is free software because we grant you all the rights that you need to use, modify, distribute and redistribute modified copies of it. And since its under the LGPL, you also know that Novell (the shipping entity) will not sue you over the use of patents that Novell might have over any code we ship in Moonlight.

But we (Novell and the Mono team) can not make claims as to patents from any other third parties. Third parties could include any high-tech company that has patents on this space or the patent owners for media code. We know that at least Microsoft is willing to give a patent covenant to patents that they might have, and they give those under the conditions that you quote.

Whether the patents exist, or whether they are solid is a different issue. We do not know.

Whether a third-party has patents that Moonlight might infringe on, we do not know either.

Re: First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:03:57 -0000

John, we are taking patches. Feel free to send us the code that adds support for OSS Audio.

Re: Moonlight - Full Packages Available from Packman - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:32:35 -0000

Are you using Firefox 2 or Firefox 3?

Firefox 3 does not work (see my previous post, it has a Greasemonkey workaround for some regressions introduced by FF3)

Re: Moonlight - Full Packages Available from Packman - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:53:33 -0000

The dependency on ffmpeg.

We will have it on the main repos once we integrate Microsoft's Media Pack with Moonlight.

Re: Games Worth Playing - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:35:07 -0000

Yes ;-)

Re: Silverlight 2.0 Hello World - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:12:36 -0000

Moonlight is licensed under the LGPL. But you might be referring not to the license, but to the Microsoft patent covenant. For the details on that, see Microsoft's web site or read the extensive discussions on the previous comments on this blog.

Re: Games Worth Playing - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:34:48 -0000

I played Mass Effect, had a story, but it was nowhere as engaging as Bioshock.

Thanks for the other recommendations, I will try those out.

Re: Games Worth Playing - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:37:43 -0000

I got frustrated with Uncharted. Its fairly repetitive, and by the 200th battle with the same dudes I just dropped it. The story was not that compelling.

As for resistance, I did not really like the graphics, they reminded me of Test Drive on DOS. "Time to render the bitmap at 40x40! go!" At least that is how it felt.

Re: Games Worth Playing - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:38:55 -0000

Ok, tried that last night; Kind of has a story, but it fails to engage. And other than shotting stuff, and finding ways of opening doors, am not getting into it.

Re: Language Shootout - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:41:38 -0000

I removed the comments about performance that were done in May 2008. I just do not have time to follow up on the comments for old blog entries, see Jeff Stedfast's blog for a discussion.

Re: Custom Controls in Gtk# Article - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:08:02 -0000

DrawingArea just happens to be a useful class to derive from if you are going to be painting yourself, you could derive from Container (if you wanted to "host" other Gtk.Widgets) or Button if you wanted to, nothing prevents you from doing it.

You can be a Gtk.Container *and* paint your own surface, you just need a little bit of setup, that is all.

Re: Custom Controls in Gtk# Article - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:20:56 -0000

Please be more precise; What you say sounds very much like you have to derive from Gtk.DrawingArea

Re: More Gtk# Widgets - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:08:28 -0000

Es psoible que Telerik tenga codigo para hacer eso.

Re: Wow. Adobe Buzzword - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:52:57 -0000

Silvewrlight 1.0 has no real keyboard event handling, its incredibly primitive.

2.0 is a different story.

Re: Unity3D now available for the Wii - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:57:12 -0000

Agreed. It would be nice.

Re: Unity3D now available for the Wii - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:06:12 -0000

Judging by the typos and mistakes in the post, you seemed to be in a rush to share with the world your in-depth analysis of Unity.

The game industry is not likely going to make open source games, the cost is too high to produce these, and games have historically short lifetimes.

Some of us want to see Unity on Linux so that games developed using Unity for the Mac, the Wii and other systems can run unmodified on Linux (this is possible per Unity's architecture, but the engine is not yet fully ported to Linux).

Additionally, it would be nice to run the IDE on Linux, but that is probably a pipe dream at this point.

Re: Gnome-Do 0.5: "The Fighting 0.5!" - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:11:12 -0000

As I was reading David's whitepaper (http://davebsd.com/do/gnome... I got the same impression. It would be nice if applications could benefit from this infrastructure.

In particular applications that have a lot of commands and currently use chords, some of them hard to memorize.

Re: Gnome-Do 0.5: "The Fighting 0.5!" - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:12:03 -0000

The feature that I would like the most would be Banshee myself. Maybe a capable hacker can get interested in this.