Re: Putting security-based applications as a separate menu entry rather than in Accessories

2007-05-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On May 17, 2007, at 7:19 AM, shirish wrote: ... What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager, GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based softwares in a separate menu entry titled Security Seahorse is on track to replace gnome-keyring-manager

Re: Broken Packages Dependencies

2007-05-20 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 12:58 +0200, Thilo Six wrote: Tell me the bug number then i will set to confirmed. Bug 115,754: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cyrus-sasl2/+bug/115754 -- Alec Wright -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

2007-05-20 Thread Davide Corio
Il giorno sab, 19/05/2007 alle 12.29 +1000, Chris Jones ha scritto: I am rather impressed with the ReadyBoost technology that has been implemented into Windows Vista. And providing you get an appropriate and compatible memory stick to make good use of the technology, it actually works.

Re: we should set a grub password by default

2007-05-20 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Sven] Iam allready averted from the request of setting it by default. My proposal is: Making grub password an optional but easy to configure feature. The setup of the grub password should assist people, inform them about the additional step of bios-boot configuration, inform them about

Re: Draining the font swamp

2007-05-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 12:34 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: - Exactly which pieces are used by GTK, Qt, XUL, etc. and how applications using those APIs ask for a font specification You forgot the following, which is what GTK+ uses ... - Pango, a text layout and rendering engine with an

Re: xmms into universe?

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 16-05-2007 om 11:27 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Matt Zimmerman: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:07:59PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: ... isn't it possible to change the FLAC dependency on XMMS to a dependency on/from Beep (or Audacious?) and get that patch accepted upstream (in either

Re: xmms into universe?

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 20-05-2007 om 21:54 uur [tijdzone +], schreef William Tracy: On 5/20/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, currently we have packages for 3 programs with the same roots, but judging from their respective websites only the newest fork (Audacity) is really actively

Re: RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

2007-05-20 Thread William Tracy
On 5/20/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems Includes at least 3 versioned filesystems... Ooh, somebody's implementing ZFS over Fuse as well! http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 18-05-2007 om 04:42 uur [tijdzone +], schreef William Tracy: Of course a completely different approach would be a file system capable of roll-back, and in doing that, a user may well benefit from the backup services such a solution offers. [...] Actually, I off and on

Re: Draining the font swamp

2007-05-20 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
There has been some confusion and dissatisfaction over the treatment of fonts in Ubuntu for a some time now, and no common understanding of how to improve the situation. I spent a little time thinking about this today, and would like to present some questions whose answers I hope will help us