[Proposal] rbpitch: Rhythmbox Plugin

2010-07-05 Thread Sean McNamara
Hello list, I have been working on a new plugin for Rhythmbox in my spare time for several months. The plugin allows the user to change the pitch, tempo, and speed of the music currently playing (each of these elements can be changed independently of each other). Since I am an Ubuntu user and

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Sean McNamara
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:21 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/07/2011 06:38 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: Hello all, Back at UDS for 11.04 in Orlando, Mark set the goal of using Unity by default on the Ubutu desktop. Given the current course of development, it appears that we are going to

Re: Ubuntu usability is significantly decreased with Unity

2011-12-28 Thread Sean McNamara
Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Nenad nenad_le...@yahoo.com wrote: On 12/28/2011 09:38 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Den 28. des. 2011 20:40, skrev Nenad Lecek: Dear all, as I don't know where to put my comments about Ubuntu 11.10 usability, I'm posting here. My apologies if this is

Re: Screen recorder - Kazam

2011-12-31 Thread Sean McNamara
Hi, On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:23 PM, David Klasinc bigwh...@lubica.net wrote: Greetings, Recently I picked up Kazam Screencaster. I needed to record something and noticed that Kazam is not working and has some dependency issues in Oneiric. After trying out few other solutions none of them

Re: What I love about Unity

2011-12-31 Thread Sean McNamara
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Ted Gould t...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 23:03 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Den 30. des. 2011 20:30, skrev Ted Gould: Thanks for writing this up.  I appreciate it.  We're never perfect, but it's nice to see some positive reviews every once

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-27 Thread Sean McNamara
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jorge O. Castro jo...@ubuntu.com wrote: With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and didrocks putting basic configuration in the control panel I'd like to propose the removal of compizconfig-settingsmanager. I don't mean stop telling people to use it or add a

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-19 Thread Sean McNamara
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@ubuntu.com wrote: Den 18. april 2012 09:14, skrev Martin Pitt: Hello Desktop fans, We have had Jockey for quite a while now to perform the installation of proprietary (e. g. NVidia), alternative (e. g. fglrx vs.

Re: Unity Going Forward

2012-08-17 Thread Sean McNamara
It's not necessarily just old systems that will hit this, by the way. New systems with the latest generation AMD or Nvida GPUs can just as easily hit this snag due to lack of open drivers support. For example, even to this day there is no real 3d support for Radeon HD7000 series except for fglrx.

Re: Validity of bugs whose solution involves adding an option somewhere

2012-12-14 Thread Sean McNamara
Hi, I have thought about this a lot too, as a developer. It is hard to make an overall judgment that is true in all cases. Sometimes an option really is needed, and trying to workflow around it just leads to frustration. Take for example, the fact that you have to log out to get to a shutdown