Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-03 Thread Michael Scherer
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:14, Adam Williamson wrote: I ran urpmi.setup the other day and I didn't see the opportunity to setup a plf source anywhere... it is a secret trick. you should run it from the command line, and use --allsources. -- Mickaël Scherer

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 07:23, Michael Scherer wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:14, Adam Williamson wrote: I ran urpmi.setup the other day and I didn't see the opportunity to setup a plf source anywhere... it is a secret trick. you should run it from the command line, and use

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-03 Thread danny
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:14, Adam Williamson wrote: I ran urpmi.setup the other day and I didn't see the opportunity to setup a plf source anywhere... it is a secret trick. you should run it from the command line, and use

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread Duncan
On Mon 01 Sep 2003 13:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted as excerpted below: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: See mutray (for KDE at least) and mdk-check-update-gnome (works in KDE and GNOME, and probably the rox desktop too), both in contrib. It would be a shame not to just enable these

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 01/09/2003 à 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Buchan worded it all much better than my own reply. So i leave it with only this: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: See mutray (for KDE at least) and mdk-check-update-gnome (works in KDE and GNOME, and probably the rox

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread danny
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Duncan wrote: Both those applets are pretty new, AFAIK, introduced into contrib this beta cycle. Yes, there's a place for them. Yes, main and installed for the convenience of newbies by default would be good. No, I don't believe they should be in 9.2 by default.

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread Thierry Vignaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that I am complaining, why does urpmi.setup not have it's own button in drakconf (ok, it's a bit bugged, is that the reason?). It is such a waste to have all the nice functionality of urpmi lost to most non-CLI users. plf other not so legal in all countries

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that I am complaining, why does urpmi.setup not have it's own button in drakconf (ok, it's a bit bugged, is that the reason?). It is such a waste to have all the nice functionality of urpmi lost to most

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-02 Thread danny
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Thierry Vignaud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that I am complaining, why does urpmi.setup not have it's own button in drakconf (ok, it's a bit bugged, is that the reason?). It is such a waste to have all the nice functionality of urpmi lost to most non-CLI

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: How's this? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php ? Does that do what you want? I finally got to using it with superkaramba:

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: How's this? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php Does that do what you want? I finally got to using it with superkaramba:

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: I finally got to using it with superkaramba: http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/superkaramba-mandrakesecure-rdf.png Just need to work on the graphics a bit, either use a light background,

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: Wow... that looks pretty neat. Does this superkaramba thing work in gnome too? ah..the price for running GNOME :-P On a more serious note, are you (=mdksoft) or are you not

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Olivier Blin
I think the equivalent of SK for gnome is gDesklets, a recent addition to contrib packaged by Götz Waschk. I haven't played around with it yet, but it looks like a fun new toy. I've packaged lot of sensors and displays for gDesklets, but no one can read RSS feeds. For now, you can use

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Olivier Blin
I think the equivalent of SK for gnome is gDesklets, a recent addition to contrib packaged by Götz Waschk. I haven't played around with it yet, but it looks like a fun new toy. This may be useful if someone want to start a such RSS applet for gDesklets :

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Blin wrote: I think the equivalent of SK for gnome is gDesklets, a recent addition to contrib packaged by Götz Waschk. I haven't played around with it yet, but it looks like a fun new toy. I've packaged lot of sensors and displays for

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread danny
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: Wow... that looks pretty neat. Does this superkaramba thing work in gnome too? ah..the price for running GNOME :-P On a more serious note, are you (=mdksoft) or are you not going to set up something like this by default? If the user has to search

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le lun 01/09/2003 à 03:39, Vincent Danen a écrit : On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: How's this? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php ? Does that do what you want? I finally got to using it with superkaramba:

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 01, 2003 at 11:58:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow... that looks pretty neat. Does this superkaramba thing work in gnome too? ah..the price for running GNOME :-P On a more serious note, are you (=mdksoft) or are you not going to set up something like this by

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Sep 01, 2003 at 11:58:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow... that looks pretty neat. Does this superkaramba thing work in gnome too? ah..the price for running GNOME :-P On a more serious note, are you (=mdksoft)

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread danny
Buchan worded it all much better than my own reply. So i leave it with only this: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: See mutray (for KDE at least) and mdk-check-update-gnome (works in KDE and GNOME, and probably the rox desktop too), both in contrib. It would be a shame not to just

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-31 Thread Buchan Milne
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 12:43:33AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: - daily updates/security updates if available If mandrakesecure.net had RDF this wouldn't be too difficult. Vince? RDF of what packages are available or recently released? I

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-27 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 06:13:02PM -0400, Levi Ramsey wrote: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php I can go about submitting it to the likes of K5 and Slashdot for sidebar headline boxes if desired... It's up to you. Doesn't really matter to me. I don't know if slashdot

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 12:43:33AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: - daily updates/security updates if available If mandrakesecure.net had RDF this wouldn't be too difficult. Vince? RDF of what packages are available or recently released? I suppose something like that could be done,

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Laurent Culioli
Le Lundi 25 Août 2003 14:38, Buchan Milne a écrit : snip BTW, I have packages of karamba-0.22 and superkaramba-0.30, but I need some opinions on what to do with them. karamba-0.22 doesn't run many new themes (since most of them were developed after karamba-0.17 for superkaramba), but they may

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laurent Culioli wrote: Le Lundi 25 Août 2003 14:38, Buchan Milne a écrit : snip BTW, I have packages of karamba-0.22 and superkaramba-0.30, but I need some opinions on what to do with them. karamba-0.22 doesn't run many new themes (since most of

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 12:43:33AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: If mandrakesecure.net had RDF this wouldn't be too difficult. Vince? How's this? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php ? Does that do what you

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:40:12 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 12:43:33AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: If mandrakesecure.net had RDF this wouldn't be too difficult. Vince? How's this?

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 11:40:12AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: If mandrakesecure.net had RDF this wouldn't be too difficult. Vince? How's this? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php ? Does that do what you want? I can't test with karamba now (doesn't have

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-26 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Wed Aug 27 0:24 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Levi Ramsey wrote: On Mon Aug 25 17:44 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/rss.php I can go about submitting it to the likes of K5 and Slashdot for sidebar headline boxes if desired... I was

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le dim 24/08/2003 à 01:30, Leon Brooks a écrit : On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:06, Emmanuel wrote: What do you mandrakees think about including SuperKaramba and running it by default with simple things like weather etc... I think an office with 200 or so Mandrake machines doing this wouldn't

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Lea Gris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice a écrit : | some suggestions : | - hourly fortune messages | - hourly tips/help messages | - daily mdk ads | - daily updates/security updates if available troll you forgot theses : - - hourly random memory allocation (never freed) - -

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait Lea Gris : FACORAT Fabrice a écrit : | some suggestions : | - hourly fortune messages | - hourly tips/help messages | - daily mdk ads | - daily updates/security updates if available troll you forgot theses : - hourly random memory allocation (never freed) - hourly core

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 12:41, Lea Gris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice a écrit : | some suggestions : | - hourly fortune messages | - hourly tips/help messages | - daily mdk ads | - daily updates/security updates if available troll you forgot

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le dim 24/08/2003 à 01:30, Leon Brooks a écrit : On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:06, Emmanuel wrote: What do you mandrakees think about including SuperKaramba and running it by default with simple things like weather etc... BTW, I

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 25, 2003 at 02:38:43PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Of course, was my first thought. If we are going to try this, I think the first thing we need is some karamba themes that implement the pieces we want, while someone

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 25, 2003 at 02:38:43PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Of course, was my first thought. If we are going to try this, I think the first thing we need is some karamba themes that implement the pieces we want, while someone investigates running karamba in kdm ... but the themes would be

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-24 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:06, Emmanuel wrote: What do you mandrakees think about including SuperKaramba and running it by default with simple things like weather etc... I think an office with 200 or so Mandrake machines doing this wouldn't have an Internet link any more, and an individual without

[Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-22 Thread Emmanuel
Hi all, What do you mandrakees think about including SuperKaramba and running it by default with simple things like weather etc... Even possibly integrating it with KDM??? How professional would a login screen look with say the SuperKaramba weather running in the background? Cheers,

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-08-22 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emmanuel wrote: Hi all, What do you mandrakees think about including SuperKaramba and running it by default with simple things like weather etc... Superkaramba is the only thing that has crashed X on my machine in recent times, this occurs with