I think that I read somewhere that Mandriva *started *as KDE centric. AFAIK,
Gnome, KDE and some other popular DE are supported and Mandriva spent an
important effort to make them look alike from the main menu and other
customizations point of view.
As file browsers I like Dolphin, Konqueror and I
2010/10/7 Kira elegant.pega...@gmail.com
在 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:29:25 +0800, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com
寫道:
No, konqueror is still useful as a file manager (some users don't like
dolphin for some reason), also as a man pages viewer. Also it shares
some code with dolphin (some
On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 19:11:45 Mihai Dobrescu wrote:
I think that I read somewhere that Mandriva *started *as KDE centric.
AFAIK, Gnome, KDE and some other popular DE are supported and Mandriva
spent an important effort to make them look alike from the main menu and
other customizations
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:22 -0400, andré wrote:
Sorteal a écrit :
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2010/10/7 Marc Parém...@marcpare.com:
I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev
group. Just so that we know for sure.
Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit :
The fact that almost no-one on this list seems to have known about backports
at all doesn't mean that the backports feature is not useful, it may be that
it wasn't accessible enough to end users.
+1
Now, maybe the user interface
Le 2010-10-07 04:55, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 07:34, Gustavo Giampaoli
giampaoli.gust...@gmail.com wrote:
Could it be possible to use the same schema that Mandriva use + one
LTS with three years of support?
Regular releases every six months with 18 month support.
But
Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 02:34 -0300, Gustavo Giampaoli a écrit :
Could it be possible to use the same schema that Mandriva use + one
LTS with three years of support?
Regular releases every six months with 18 month support.
But we could include this kind of LTS with 36 month.
Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 12:10:11, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:36, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote:
Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit :
Maybe a rating/voting/popularity system should be available, however in the
past people had
Le 2010-10-07 07:23, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 13:00:21, Marc Paré a écrit :
I would challenge people to find a regular user who knew what the
Backport option was for, you may find some but clearly, they would be
in the minority. Otherwise, it would have been used quite
Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com schrieb am 2010-10-07
Thanks. That makes sense. Sorry, I was still thinking the Mandriva
corporate way. So, we are pretty well left at the mercy of the devs
interest with this regard. (I don't mean to sound negative, but more
realist in saying this.)
Do you know,
On 7 October 2010 13:10, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote:
Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 23:18 -0400, Sorteal a écrit :
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2010/10/7 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com:
I guess this information would have to come from someone from the
On 7 October 2010 13:50, Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote:
Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com schrieb am 2010-10-07
Thanks. That makes sense. Sorry, I was still thinking the Mandriva
corporate way. So, we are pretty well left at the mercy of the devs
interest with this regard. (I don't
Le 04/10/2010 00:14, Maât a écrit :
Stay tuned,
Hi,
News about forums progress :
We are currently starting to work on mageia ldap and forum connection.
If properly working that will avoid contributors to have to create
accounts everywhere (forums, build system, bugtracker...)
A common web
To make it clearer, if the user wants to install oo-base at a later
point with the currend Mdv model he would have to download 20MB if there
has been no security updates since release, or 70MB if there has been a
security update in the meantime.
FYI, there is currently a discussion on the
It has been posted before but I guess it's a good read for anyone
willing to push an argument in this debate:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/a-story-about-updates-and-people/
Really excellent article. I enjoyed reading it because it's based on
people-from-real-life.
Even when I'm not
On 7 October 2010 15:08, Gustavo Giampaoli giampaoli.gust...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been posted before but I guess it's a good read for anyone
willing to push an argument in this debate:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/a-story-about-updates-and-people/
Really excellent article. I
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
Besides absolute lack of knowledge about backports, I still have failed to
read an answer how backports are not filling the needs for bleeding-edge
users.
It's the focus that changes, currently with Mandriva backports are a
barely known
IMHO that if we want that backports be more popular, we must stop
promoting like for advanced users:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Advanced_use:_Backports_and_candidate_updates
Quote:
The testing and backports repositories for each section will be
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
Besides absolute lack of knowledge about backports, I still have failed to
read an answer how backports are not filling the needs for bleeding-edge
users.
It's the focus that changes, currently with
Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 10:22 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
You hit the point precisely. Mandriva's backports was a terrific idea
that does not succeed because (1) it is disabled by default and the
means to enable it as an update medium are made obscure by intention and
design and (2)
Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 11:14 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
I certainly agree, and mean no disrespect to you and other maintainers
who generously contribute their time and energy. But the Mandriva
implementation of backports is not a solution for those who want a
continuously updated
On jeudi 07 octobre 2010 at 09:15, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote :
For me, Konqueror is the main application in my system. file manager and
browser. May be for others too
Yep, konqueror is my filemanager, web browser, (s)ftp client and quick
previewer (with kparts integration).
It is just great
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