Re: Hardy Alpha-2 notes

2008-01-07 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Saturday 05 January 2008 06:18:08 Richard Mancusi wrote: I have one application (non-opensource) that will not install with sudo. You must logon as administrator. I checked the box to Allow local system administrator login And via System/Administration/Users and Groups set a

Re: USB drives and unmounting

2008-01-07 Thread sigurd wien
I filed a bug about this a while back: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/34140 It has been an issue since a kernel update in breezy. I was working fine before that. On Jan 7, 2008 2:18 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether or not it shows up probably has to

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael R. Head
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:52 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: Will there be a chance for compose key be assigned and enabled by default? Since Ubuntu include and support many languages, I think it will be very useful to enable this feature as well, to make it easily available. I like setting

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-07 Thread Bryan Haskins
Well that's the entire concept: It's simple. For people who need advanced backups, and other burning tools, they can simply install k3b or a plethora of other burning programs we have in the repositories alone. This is a designed as something for a new user who just wants to throw some files on a

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Evan
I prefer the left win key or 'power' key myself. AFAIK it isn't used for anything else. The problem with CapsLock is that some people will try using it for it's original purpose and get confused. On Jan 7, 2008 9:26 AM, Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:52

Re: Team TODO pages

2008-01-07 Thread Daniel Holbach
On Mi, 2008-01-02 at 12:02 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: This seems to me like you've done a lot of careful work to implement a listing that Launchpad really should be able to do itself. :-) Thinking about it this makes sense. :-) What would you need in Launchpad to make this wiki

Re: ghc6 (Haskell compiler) becoming old

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2008-01-06 02:15:18 -0500, Paul Dufresne wrote: One of my new year resolution is to become a not too bad Haskell programmer in 2008. That said, I would like to have latest development version of ghc6 (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) which is the most well known Haskell compiler in Haskell

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael R. Head
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:53 -0500, Evan wrote: I prefer the left win key or 'power' key myself. AFAIK it isn't used for anything else. The problem with CapsLock is that some people will try using it for it's original purpose and get confused. Well, that was kinda my point: unless you've got

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
 On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:42 -0500, Bryan Haskins wrote: This is a designed as something for a new user who just wants to throw some files on a disk, burn a DVD for their player, and so on. AFAICT from the Brasero GUI, it does not create Video DVDs that any standalone-player can play, just

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-07 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 7, 2008 5:50 PM, Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT from the Brasero GUI, it does not create Video DVDs that any standalone-player can play, just data DVDs (DeVeDe or similar is needed for Video DVDs) No, but it is on the developers todo list: http://live.gnome.org/Brasero

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Jan 7, 2008 9:26 AM, Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like setting the CapsLock to be the compose key, since I never intentionally press the CapsLock... which raises the question: which key should be set to be the compose key? I'd end up confused that it's not escape (remapped

A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! I did a walk-through and compiled issues, suggestions and several mockups regarding the Ubuntu installation: http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf Any comments welcome. I'm willing to refine things where and if there's interest. I could file requests if

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Magnus Runesson
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 20:16 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Hi! I did a walk-through and compiled issues, suggestions and several mockups regarding the Ubuntu installation: http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf Any comments welcome. I'm willing to refine

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Bryan Quigley
I just wanted to say awesome job! A previous effort: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExplainingUbiquity Among the items listed in there and not in yours are: - Label disks by diskname. - (auto)Magically do timezone (If connected to internet, LinuxMCE can do this) I really like the idea of

Re: Hug Day - 09 January 2008

2008-01-07 Thread Mathias Florian Menzer
Hi Brian! It would be much better, if future Hug Days could be announced some more time in advance. We could then reach more people when publishing this in forums and Newsposts. Am Montag, den 07.01.2008, 09:02 -0800 schrieb Brian Murray: I'm happy to announce the first Hug Day of the new year

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
Wow, that's very thorough. I particularly like the partitioning suggestions, since that seems to be the hardest thing to explain, and Partman (that's what's in the new installer right?) feels uncomfortable. Switching from GParted to Partman resulted in a more geeky interface, IMO. I partition

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Musther
Agreed. I don't know why gparted was abandoned, it provided a more user friendly way to do things. I like the proposal here too! On Jan 8, 2008 9:00 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, that's very thorough. I particularly like the partitioning suggestions, since that seems to

Questions about devel-discuss

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Musther
I'm quite new to this list, but I think it's great. The people here seem to accurately reflect the users opinions and ideas, and are knowledgeable enough to discuss and understand software issues, and to contemplate new features and fixes for the future. There are plenty of lists and forum

Re: Hug Day - 09 January 2008

2008-01-07 Thread Brian Murray
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:58:01PM +0100, Mathias Florian Menzer wrote: Hi Brian! It would be much better, if future Hug Days could be announced some more time in advance. We could then reach more people when publishing this in forums and Newsposts. If the Hug Days are on Wednesday when

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
10GB is more than enough under normal usage. You'd have to install..all of GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment...and it still wouldn't be full. Even with all that and a lot more, I'm at around 7GB full. On Jan 7, 2008 4:05 PM, Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:50 +1300,

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Fergal Daly
On 07/01/2008, Bryan Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to say awesome job! A previous effort: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExplainingUbiquity Among the items listed in there and not in yours are: Label disks by diskname. Be careful with meaningful names, you need to ensure

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Vadim Peretokin
That's a very nice pdf. One minor thing: User Switching The User Switcher applet shouldn't appear with only one user. I think it should, to let the use familiarize themselves. It'll be a bit disorienting (like where did that come from?) if the applet suddenly appeared after the installation. On

How an unstripped binary in a .deb package could be stripped?

2008-01-07 Thread David MENTRE
[ Could you please keep me in Cc:, I'm not subscribed to this list. ] Hello, I have recently noticed that the /usr/bin/ocamlrpcgen program coming from libocamlnet-ocaml-bin package is broken in Ubuntu Gutsy (bug #180364 [1]) while the same program from the same package version (source package