Re: [Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

2013-02-22 Thread Pierre Jarillon
, running ntpd -qg here with a large skew seems to not actually work here :s IMO, you have to open a bug report and report it upstream. According to the documentation, ntpd -qg = ntpdate -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft

Re: [Mageia-dev] Soft regressions

2013-02-16 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le samedi 16 février 2013 02:41:54, Nicolas Lécureuil a écrit : Le samedi 16 février 2013 00:26:40 Pierre Jarillon a écrit : Hi, These last years I have found two changes which I don't like. 1- A right click on the background of the desktop opens a popup in which it was possible

[Mageia-dev] Soft regressions

2013-02-15 Thread Pierre Jarillon
,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 [General] Command=su - MenuIndex=0 Name=root Parent=FALLBACK/ RemoteTabTitleFormat=%h : %u ShowNewAndCloseTabButtons=true I wish to have not to create this feature each time I install a new Mageia. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org

[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

2013-02-11 Thread Pierre Jarillon
) daemon page. After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution. ntpdate and ntp are active in drakxservices... IMO, this is a nonsense. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft

Re: [Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

2013-02-11 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft is for computers what McDonald is for French gastronomy

Re: [Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

2013-02-11 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Perhaps a script ntpdate executing `ntpd -g` could be useful? I have also a question about ntp-wait : I have read its code (perl) but I don't understand what is its use. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft is for computers what

Re: [Mageia-dev] Feedback on Mageia 3 beta1

2013-01-17 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Grub2. I had to add a Mandriva or Mageia (I don't remember) on a PC with Ubuntu. It was not easy to make them work with a double boot. Uniformity of the boot loader is necessary. It will be easier to help people migrating from Ubuntu to Mageia. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice

Re: [Mageia-dev] Frequent freezes in M2

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. It is a kind of enhancement which increases the complexity, make the system very difficult to understand and to repair in case of troubles. It gives a feeling of an unreliable complicated system. This must be an optional software, it can be installed but not activated by default. -- Pierre

Re: [Mageia-dev] Frequent freezes in M2

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Jarillon
much complicated. Too much difficult to repair. Unsuitable with laptops and old machines. It must not be activated by default. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 EOL.

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Term Support is a bad thing and I don't want to waste my time. Is it possible to have security updates until a month after Mga3 is out? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] Regression in menus

2012-11-29 Thread Pierre Jarillon
I have found some drawbacks in menus. 1- In games, klickety is in strategy but in rpmdrake, it is in plateau with kmines. 2- I have installed gEDA. It does not appears in menus. In Mageia 1, it appears in Sciences. Have you found other things like this? -- Pierre Jarillon - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Regression in menus

2012-11-29 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le jeudi 29 novembre 2012 19:09:08, Barry Jackson a écrit : On 29/11/12 17:12, Pierre Jarillon wrote: I have found some drawbacks in menus. 1- In games, klickety is in strategy but in rpmdrake, it is in plateau with kmines. 2- I have installed gEDA. It does not appears in menus

Re: [Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 8230] Too short timeout

2012-11-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 20:13:35, Frank Griffin a écrit : On 11/28/2012 02:10 PM, Pierre Jarillon wrote: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8230 Anyway, IIRC the help for Kill Timer is right on the screen. We are not testing the same distro :-( F1 Help is ont the bottom left

Re: [Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 8230] Too short timeout

2012-11-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 23:21:38, Frank Griffin a écrit : On 11/28/2012 02:57 PM, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 20:13:35, Frank Griffin a écrit : Anyway, IIRC the help for Kill Timer is right on the screen. We are not testing the same distro :-( F1 Help

Re: [Mageia-dev] Video players

2012-11-24 Thread Pierre Jarillon
are given with the command file $ ls | while read f;do file $f;done|awk -F: '{print $2 : $1}' | sort Some formats 19/9 are displayed at 4/3 ratio. As I said previously VLC works fine in every case. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary /bin/rm

2012-11-23 Thread Pierre Jarillon
in /etc/fstab. He does his job. Everything was working fine and the remote machine was setup in production... Some days later, he reboot his workstation. The boot was long, very long... The reason was that rm -rf /tmp/* was done at each boot ! -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice

[Mageia-dev] Video players

2012-11-23 Thread Pierre Jarillon
but not in cauldron. VLC works always. My suggestions are: - When VLC is loaded, it must become the default video viewer. - For each video type, define the viewer (Totem, Dragon) which works. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with Totem packages?

2012-11-21 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012 13:29:26, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:11:40AM +0100, Pierre Jarillon wrote: If we want a full usable distro out the box, VLC must be the default choice for all videos and then Totem could be removed. Which desktop are you using? VLC is IMO

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with Totem packages?

2012-11-21 Thread Pierre Jarillon
/9). Totem works after a work which is not feasible by a newbie. Totem and dragon look like to a work in progress. I am sorry of that, but is is the sad truth. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with Totem packages?

2012-11-19 Thread Pierre Jarillon
could be removed. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

Re: [Mageia-dev] Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-07 Thread Pierre Jarillon
allows to read legally acquired datas. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] Merge MCC and KDE config center

2012-07-21 Thread Pierre Jarillon
I don't know if this is a safe way but it should be interesting to have a look on it. https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65681 http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Drakxtools_Future_Directions -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre Jarillon
are in a frozen state. Can we answer to these questions: - What are the hidden dependencies? - What are the risks? - What are the new bugs ? IMO, the safer way is to put the new release as an alternate choice but not as default - perhaps in Backport Testing? -- Pierre Jarillon - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with flash 11.2

2012-04-11 Thread Pierre Jarillon
i586 and ati radeon 9000. The problem seems occur only on x86_64. Ps: I use only konqueror It is the same problem with Firefox -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] Inverted colors in the flashplayer

2012-04-10 Thread Pierre Jarillon
for a better player to Adobe. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

Re: [Mageia-dev] Inverted colors in the flashplayer

2012-04-10 Thread Pierre Jarillon
with EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 It works for me (Intel - Nvidia - x86_64) Is there a patch to add this in rpm install? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

Re: [Mageia-dev] painful discussion n°1: debloating

2012-04-08 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. With totem, few of them work without a lot a install (sometimes conflicting). Dragon is not better out the box. Only VLC works with all my samples. To make the best distro, working in any case, VLC succeeds, Totem sucks... -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-08 Thread Pierre Jarillon
of people dont't read this mailing list. My suggestion is to put in /usr/bin/startx #!/bin/sh echo startx is deprecated, use instead kdm or gdm or lxdm echo More informations on http://..; Then old linux users will be not not lost... for Mageia. -- Pierre Jarillon - http

[Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

2012-02-24 Thread Pierre Jarillon
in [Cooker] Multilib next steps?, the only reason to run in 32 bit mode is legacy binaries that cannot be rebuilt. IMO, the last useful binary was flashplugin, now the adobe 64bit binary works fine. Is it still useful to keep this outgrowth alive? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr

Re: [Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

2012-02-24 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le vendredi 24 février 2012 12:14:30, nicolas vigier a écrit : On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Pierre Jarillon wrote: I have just installed Mga2b1 x86_64 and it is already a great distro. But once more, I was annoyed with an unuseful bunch of rpm in rpmdrake which make the list less readable

[Mageia-dev] HAL daemon required for Mageia 2 alpha 3

2012-01-20 Thread Pierre Jarillon
... Am I wrong? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] Sources of RPM

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Jarillon
(and select) Core, nonfree, tainted, their updates and unselect the CD/DVD. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] 32bits i586 still useful in x86_64 ?

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Jarillon
is no more necessary, either these packages must be installed during the original installation. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] MCC-sound configuration

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Jarillon
to find which part is defective, inserting a sound in different points in the chain. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie

[Mageia-dev] Setting the clock during install

2012-01-14 Thread Pierre Jarillon
In MCC and during installation, the default time reference is pool.ntp.org which is too wide. As the country has already been selected, it should be easy to set the reference to XX.pool.ntp.org with XX=country such as fr.pool.ntp.org. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice

[Mageia-dev] Upgrade to KDE 4.7.95 breaks the desktop

2011-12-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
to KDE = 4.7.95 ? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.

[Mageia-dev] Mail client not installed

2011-11-30 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. Maildir is perfect for a living content. Is mbox stripped from kmail? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
to offer a rpm for Mageia on its own website. If it does not work it is a problem for them, not for us. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Consolidation of the spelling tools in Mageia

2011-11-07 Thread Pierre Jarillon
(contributors welcome) The independance of datas, software and interfaces should be great to preserve the future. Ten years ago I did this proposal, more than a spell-checker: http://pjarillon.free.fr/eurolang/cetral-propos.en.html http://pjarillon.free.fr/eurolang/cetral-propos.fr.html -- Pierre

Re: [Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

2011-11-05 Thread Pierre Jarillon
the http server: # ln -s /home/pierre/mga/upd-1/ /var/www/html/upd-mga1 Then I can use as root the script add-medias-mga on each machine to be updated and I unselect the other updates with MCC. If the updated machine is not mine, I unselect my mirrors and re-select others. -- Pierre Jarillon

[Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

2011-10-27 Thread Pierre Jarillon
use a slower link. A workaround is necessary. There are two path: 1- publish each month a new iso: mageia-1a, mageia-1b, and so on 2- create an iso with updates: mageia-1-upd01, ... In each case, the sources of packages must be updated. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président

Re: [Mageia-dev] Updating a new install is too long...

2011-10-27 Thread Pierre Jarillon
used to have a mirror of updates and add-media.sh. I use them for Mandriva. It can be a beginning. I wish to do better for Mageia. How to unselect the updates in the list of mirrors? Perhaps renaming and saving urpmi.cfg? Is this clean? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice

Re: [Mageia-dev] New packager

2011-09-20 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. It is great to have José in the main contributors of Mageia! -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.

Re: [Mageia-dev] RM replacement

2011-08-07 Thread Pierre Jarillon
data with varying patterns, and if you want to dispose a whole disk. then maybe an userspace tool to delete single files is not the best suited tool, IMHO. Do you know WIPE ? http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ I don't know if it is the most secured rm, but it could be. -- Pierre Jarillon - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 - Improving educational programs

2011-06-10 Thread Pierre Jarillon
a professional support. The first release was built on Mandrake but was difficult to maintain. Then the project has migrated on Debian and Ubuntu because of this. It is perhaps the good time to make Abuledu running on Mageia. Eric Seigne is the leader of the Abuledu project since 1999. -- Pierre

Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM5 AND MAGEIA

2011-03-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
. For example I succeded to have the sound on my external Delta44 card. It doesn't work since Mdv 2010.0... I have however found some bugs. Where and how can I report them? -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce

Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM5 AND MAGEIA

2011-03-28 Thread Pierre Jarillon
only a working system! A part of the success of Ubuntu is that it works. Even if it is not always the best technical choice, the best choice is always the choice which works. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique

Re: [Mageia-dev] Alpha2 iso content

2011-03-12 Thread Pierre Jarillon
, but as it was not correctly built on KDE4, I leaved it. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/ Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie.

Re: [Mageia-dev] default kde media player

2011-03-11 Thread Pierre Jarillon
:) A user does not want a player X or Y, we need only a player which works in any case without any trouble. The file association can call a different player if is it needed for a special file type. For example, VLC is better than dragon to play an iso image of a DVD. -- Pierre Jarillon - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM5 AND MAGEIA

2011-03-08 Thread Pierre Jarillon
long discussions, - a lot of side effects - costs a large amount of time. For Mandriva, the cost was acceptable: the number of people, the calendar and the infrastructure already in place made the switch possible. IMO, Mageia cannot waste time and efforts *now*. -- Pierre Jarillon - http

Re: [Mageia-dev] Alpha2 iso content

2011-03-04 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le vendredi 4 mars 2011 16:49:00, Balcaen John a écrit : Le Friday 04 March 2011 12:24:39, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : kmplayer is missing (was in alpha 1). dragon player, the default player don't works : white screen. It's certainly due to missing gstreamer plugins not to dragon player