Re: New Programs for Hardy?
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 01:12 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but all you have to do, if you're using a US English keyboard and want to type special characters, is enable US English International with Dead Keys in the keyboard settings, then add the keyboard switcher applet to your panel. If you click on it, it goes to international mode. AltGr (the right alt) + n gets ñ, AltGr+a gets á, AltGr+e gets é, AltGr+s gets ß, AltGr+u gets ú...and if you want ü you hit shift+ before typing the u (to get a plain , hit AltGr while you press it). Hello ! I may also be missing something, but the compose key is not handled the same way in GNOME (there is a menu in the Keyboard options) and Xfce (you have to edit xorg.conf). I do not know about KDE or other DEs. So it looks a little difficult to have a default setting. Once again, this may be a moot point if there is a global environment variable that I missed :) Cheers, Isabelle. On Jan 4, 2008 6:52 PM, Joel Bryan Juliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be a chance for compose key be assigned and enabled by default? Since Ubuntu include and support many languages, I think it will be very useful to enable this feature as well, to make it easily available. Example usage are ñ (enye) for Piñata, é in Beyoncé, Café, José, Pérez and Pokémon. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com -my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- bapoumba -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Deprecating slocate for desktop users?
Jan Claeyswrote: Op vrijdag 04-01-2008 om 04:33 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Bryan Quigley: Is there any possibility of have locate use the tracker database? Tracker databases are currently per-user, so I don't think that would be useful. Maybe if there ever exists a concept of a system database next to the user database in Tracker...? The problem is, Tracker only indexes home folders, not the whole filesystem. And Tracker uses a complex indexing with keywords that is not needed for locate. Merging the per-user databases would be a mess, so forget it... By the way, exluding home directories from the updatedb path could be nice: we don't need to index user folders because Tracker is doing that, and this would avoid much work for updatedb. Still, rlocate seems to be a nice improvement (combined or not with the latter feature): it's a locate implementation that uses a kernel module to store a list of modified/moved files and folders, and once a day (or when you want) this list is read and the database is updated via a diff. Looks more advanced than mlocate, isn't it? http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/ Just a few ideas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Easy Add/Remove Porgrams for non-sudoers with local PREFIX?
Kevin Fries a écrit : snip Modern Nix based systems have a wonderful tool called SUDO that makes getting around this issue extremely easy. If you want someone to be able to admin your box, add them to the admin group on any Ubuntu based system. Then they have sudo access to any root command. If you want to allow non-root users to be able to install software, that is easy also: - Create a group call swinstall - In your /etc/sudoers file add the following line: %swinstall ALL = /usr/bin/update-manager - Add any user you wish to have software install access to the swinstall group. Hope this helps I should add that in Hardy we should have an even nicer system called PolicyKit that will allow you to set many fine-tuned permissions, like user x is allowed to install packages from the standard repositories, but not to uninstall any package and not do administrate anything else, etc. So this will be nice to avoid the ugly (from my point of view) hacks to install packages in ~. Our current way of managing packages is very robust and much more secure, if we don't want to end up like Windows. Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Problem with latest Xorg Nvidia drivers
I fixed the Nvidia driver install by deleting the /usr/lib/nvidia folder then trying the driver install again--for some reason the newer driver install wouldn't update the older install from Gutsy. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:05:33 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Jan 1, 2008 6:12 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008 19:12:20 Jonas Jørgensen wrote: displayconfig-gtk. It hasn't worked on any of the three computers I have tried it on -- it either crashes or X refuses to start after using it. And my experience doesn't seem to be uncommon. displayconfig-gtk always worked great for me on Gutsy using an Intel 855. On Hardy it wont work, maybe due to the new X 7.3. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss I actually think that's the chip where it wouldn't let me go over 800x600. Are you using an LCD or CRT? Maybe it was freaking out thinking my monitor couldn't do high-res (though I've used 915resolution to boost it to 1600x1200 before, so I know it can do my 1280x1024 easily enough). Using a 13.2 LCD Laptop at 1280x800 -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Easy Add/Remove Porgrams for non-sudoers with local PREFIX?
On Jan 5, 2008 8:59 AM, Milan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should add that in Hardy we should have an even nicer system called PolicyKit that will allow you to set many fine-tuned permissions, like user x is allowed to install packages from the standard repositories, but not to uninstall any package and not do administrate anything else, etc. So this will be nice to avoid the ugly (from my point of view) hacks to install packages in ~. Our current way of managing packages is very robust and much more secure, if we don't want to end up like Windows. Oh, that should be very nice. I'd like to be able to allow my family to install programs and updates but not remove anything (in case they break it). Right now, my siblings have full permissions (attempting to get them used to using it since they said they want to use Ubuntu on their laptops when they go to college), and my mom has just about none at all (she's afraid to right-click...I figure if I tell her you can't break it she might be a bit more likely to try new things and learn how it works than if she's constantly fearing the whole thing will crash or explode or something if she clicks the wrong button). -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com -my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Are we looking at Flyback?
Flyback - http://code.google.com/p/flyback Either for inclusion in hardy or in the repos? -Cory \m/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Are we looking at Flyback?
That looks good. If we had something like this, could we dispose of the standard trash and just have this? On Jan 6, 2008 2:11 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flyback - http://code.google.com/p/flyback Either for inclusion in hardy or in the repos? -Cory \m/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Slingshot - a unique game everyone enjoys - and it's free :-) http://www.slingshot-game.org -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Are we looking at Flyback?
Jonathan Musther wrote: On Jan 6, 2008 2:11 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flyback - http://code.google.com/p/flyback http://code.google.com/p/flyback Either for inclusion in hardy or in the repos? https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss That looks good. If we had something like this, could we dispose of the standard trash and just have this? I filed a needs-packaging bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/180691). If nobody runs with it I think someone on my team might just do it. At least get it in the repos. -Cory -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
ghc6 (Haskell compiler) becoming old
One of my new year resolution is to become a not too bad Haskell programmer in 2008. That said, I would like to have latest development version of ghc6 (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) which is the most well known Haskell compiler in Haskell community, inside Hardy. Unfortunately, Debian Sid just have the 6.6.1 version (that was released april 26, 2007) and the current version on ghc web site is 6.8.2. (released december 12, 2007). See http://packages.debian.org/sid/ghc6 for Debian packages. See http://www.haskell.org/ghc/index.html for upstream version. According to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages.html#debian we should expect to find latest version at: http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/haskell-unsafe.html but even there it is only at 6.6.1 (oct 12, 2006), see: http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386/unstable/g/ghc6/ (Please don't ask me how they had 6.6.1 for Debian oct 12, 2006, as it was released only april 26, 2007, I don't know) I found that, but I am not sure how relevant it is: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-haskell/?opt=dirsc=1 It seems to be very recently updated (3 days ago). I am pretty sure there is/was a Debian Haskell mailing list, but I don't find it any more in: http://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html I am not an Ubuntu nor Debian developer. I could consider to try packaging it, but as this is a pretty complicated *Maybe* the reason is that many sub libraries need to be rebuilt with a new compiler, and *maybe* this is a lot of job, I don't know. Hope someone here can inform me better about this. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
