Re: Spelling library consolidation
Since we talk about it, two questions about hunspell in Hardy: 1) The specification [1] about removing duplicate dictionnaries suggest we make OpenOffice.org use myspell in order to avoid the need for unspell. A comment states that hunspell is an improvement of myspell, dropped by OO.o in the 2.x series. So is this true that we are willing to loose the new features of hunspell when the contrary should be done (i.e. dropping aspell and myspell)? Note Mozilla products also use hunspell. 2) When searching for what hunspell dicts are available, I can only find these in our package list, in both Gutsy and Hardy: hunspell-de-at - Austrian (German) dictionary for hunspell hunspell-de-ch - Swiss (German) dictionary for hunspell hunspell-de-de - German dictionary for hunspell hunspell-uz - The Uzbek dictionary for Hunspell Am I missing something, or aren't there any other languages we support for now? The OO.o wiki [2] lists many more available Hunspell dictionaries, many of which were recently updated. In French for example, current OO.o orthograph checker is quite poor, but a new dictionary will be provided with 2.4, which will solve almost all of our problems. I guess this can be the case for several languages. So is Hardy be going to provide more Hunspell languages, and is this hard work to package? Cheers [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries -- 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: Nexuiz etc LiveCD -- how far can hardware detection go?
John Richard Moser wrote: How far can Ubuntu's hardware autoconfiguration go? How far does 3D support work in Linux now? Joysticks/mice/etc? One fascinating idea I've had for a while was to turn a PC into a gaming console. I hear a lot of Windows runs my games and I have a high-end gaming PC these days. Why not burn a game onto a DVD or CD, with Ubuntu, with the configuration set up so it boots and finds a USB drive or hard drive and lets you pick where to save config/games to? This is just an off-the-cuff thought, but what about a release LiveCD that really does boot up Nexuiz or something on boot, and shut it down when you exit? Fast shutdown: remount all r/w drives as read-only, run sync, wait 3 seconds, then flat out halt the system. What about a boot menu that picks the game (read /proc/cmdline) for you? No Gnome, no Fluxbox, no stripped UI. Just load up X, have it use the game as the WM. During boot, list drives found (list initialized drives with a specific config file on them first) that may have configuration data (i.e. wireless networks, save games, hardware settings...). Allow reconfiguration, including picking a wifi network, or such. Aside from that, pretty much Pick profile. Configure? [No] Launching game... Feasible? Interesting? Challenging? Likely to expose new and interesting design considerations for general desktop OSes? Any thoughts or comments at all? I've actually done this before with Tremulous and Feisty. A little more manual than what you described but it worked. There's also already: http://live.linux-gamers.net -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: use -dbg or -dbgsym files for debugging?
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 20:48 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, I don't know should one be using -dbg or -dbgsym files for debugging. From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash : 3. The debug symbol packages have the '-dbgsym' suffix attached, so to install the debug symbols for the package 'yelp', you run: sudo apt-get install yelp-dbgsym Alternatively, main Ubuntu repositories could contain '-dbg' debug symbol packages. Those are equivalent to '-dbgsym'. You could use the one you want, but not both. 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
Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) I do have a directory /root/.synaptic and obviously there is no such thing as /home/root where it appears to be looking. -rich -- 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: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'. Regards, Scott Richard Mancusi wrote: After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) I do have a directory /root/.synaptic and obviously there is no such thing as /home/root where it appears to be looking. -rich signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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
