Re: Touch Screen Issues

2010-03-19 Thread Caroline Ford
Do programs generally work okay or does it depend on libraries etc? Sent from a mobile device. On 19 Mar 2010, at 17:53, Erik Andersen erik.b.ander...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23, Brian Murray br...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:32:27PM -0700, Brandon

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-25 Thread Caroline Ford
On 25 Oct 2009, at 13:03, Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Remco wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:22, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of tools will not prevent untrained users from doing things they don't know how to do, but

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-25 Thread Caroline Ford
On 25 Oct 2009, at 15:09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Or puts them out of a job? Likely we are talking about a small business here, so the decision maker might be the top of the organization's food chain. But it might get him sued, and thus out of a business. If it is a sole

Re: libnm-glib0 in karmic

2009-09-24 Thread Caroline Ford
Please put bugs on the bug tracker - launchpad. This isn't it. 2009/9/24 Ondrej Lexa lexa.ond...@gmail.com Hi there, I just updated my karmic alpha6 (few minutes ago) and I realized that network manager doesn't work (and my internet connection as well). I found that nm-applet cannot load

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/18 J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com Hi list, First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a simple clean install.

Re: What about SLiM and tint2?

2009-09-23 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/23 rent0n ren...@email.it Loïc Martin wrote: Loïc Martin wrote: rent0n wrote: Hello, I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on.

Re: Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/20 Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl Hello, Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred way to report bugs. (For more information, have a look at the QATeam spec [1]) The move away

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Caroline Ford
What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in jaunty. I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it does seem that the fixed version is in karmic so we need to arrange a

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-23 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/6/23 Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org: Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Tuesday 23 June 2009 1:36:21 pm Siegfried-Angel wrote: If I remember correctly there is already such an option in the installer. I think he wants it to be more prominent, not hidden behind advanced, that

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Caroline Ford
Improving FOSS games at a distro level? Why not just participate upstream? Also are you going to work with the Debian games team and work on packaging? Caroline Sent from a mobile device. On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:33, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: In recognition of

Re: CD burning: Audio, mixed, and MP3 CDs

2009-04-12 Thread Caroline Ford
I suspect gnome haven't got that far. Looks like only one main developer who has lost interest. Some talk on the thread about the underlying database and that it needs moving to something better such as sqlite. This discussion is on a rhythmbox list. I don't know if main gnome lists have

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-20 Thread Caroline Ford
If we really have broken everyone's joysticks it's bad that we've found out so late in the development cycle. I suspect we'll have some very unhappy gamers. Thanks very much for doing work on this. Caroline On 10/20/08, Loïc Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10

Re: User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

2008-10-05 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/9/30 Tony Yarusso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll certainly add a vote against the new logout dialogue stuff. Honestly, until I remembered this sort of thing being discussed in the past I couldn't figure out how to shut down, since I haven't used the System menu to do so for so long.

Re: F-spot 0.5.0.1 for Intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/9/27 Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The current version of F-spot in Intrepid was released back in May. A new version was released in the middle of September. Is there any hope of seeing this in Intrepid? Should I bother filing a freeze exception request for it? We're in beta freeze. What does

Re: readahead slow down

2008-08-28 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/8/28 Krzysztof Lichota [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/8/28 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ubuntu (and also Fedora) are trying to make the boot of a system be the shortest possible, but on my system, readahead is adding up to 90 seconds to my boot time. I've attached my lastest

Re: PulseAudio integration issues

2008-08-20 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/8/20 Conn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Feature Freeze is scheduled for Intrepid in eight days, and several configuration issues relating to PulseAudio have not yet been addressed. I feel it is very important to encourage some discussion and collaboration towards fixing these issues (or at

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-20 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/8/20 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But there are also many crash reports where the retracers fail and we dont have any testcase. You want those to stay open as well? But what do we do with these then? They are still bugs, and with some crashes we never seem to get a backtrace with

Re: PulseAudio integration issues

2008-08-20 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/8/20 Conn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Caroline Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash and audacity? It sounds like anything people are likely to be using is broken. I think it's actually better to ship without pulse audio than to break people's sound like this. My

Re: Add Limewire to the Main respository.

2008-07-10 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/7/10 Trevor Schauls [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Limewire is a very popular PTP sharing software. This is the license for it.http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=Gnu There is a long standing needs packaging bug on this application. Not all the source is available which is the

Re: No run menu item?

2008-07-05 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/7/5 HggdH [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've never actually seen a Windows user use it. They usually seem to prefer hunting through the Start Menu, except when tech support tells them to go to the Run thing and type cmd and hit Enter. Well, I have seen it in use, a lot of times. It usually

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-08 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/6/8 Sebastian Breier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Sonntag, den 08.06.2008, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Darren Albers: If we use Banshee we can get rid of Sound Juicer and gain iPod support out of the box. If we use Banshee we can say to people: Yes, your iPod or other digital music player will work

Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008-05-24 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/5/24 Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Op vrijdag 16-05-2008 om 13:49 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Kai Schroeder: There is no good reason for the affirmative action being the rightmost button AFAIK this _is_ based on HI research (I guess it has something to do with the way our eye focus

Re: merging keyboard keyboard shortcuts capplets

2008-04-25 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/4/25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that reducing the number of items in System-Preferences is the 4th highest idea on Ubuntu brainstorm [3], and there are numerous related Launchpad bugs / wiki pages / blog posts / etc. [4][5], probably more if you dig deep enough... Yeah, lots

Re: Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

2008-04-25 Thread Caroline Ford
2008/4/24 Nicolas Deschildre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce an idea that I see as a natural follow-up to the Brainstorm website: an event similar to the Google Summer of Code, that would be launched every development cycle. Basically the

Re: Request for update to python-twisted package

2008-04-22 Thread Caroline Ford
Far too late for hardy, but doable for intrepid. Caroline 2008/4/22 Simon Pickles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Please can I lodge a request for an update to the ubuntu package for python-twisted. The ubuntu package is at version 2.5, which twisted is at version 8.0.1, with many major

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-18 Thread Caroline Ford
On 18/04/2008, Paul Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The license says share and add to but not for commercial use. Why ion

Re: Tux Paint on Gutsy

2008-03-31 Thread Caroline Ford
On 31/03/2008, Michael Petit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Caroline, I am trying to install the package through the Add/Remove Applicaitons interface from the standard build of 7.10 Ubuntu. The version of Tux Paint that I am selecting is not stated in the GUI. The GUI states Tux Paint

Re: Who wants to share their PPAs?

2008-03-21 Thread Caroline Ford
On 20/03/2008, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen a bunch at ppa.launchpad.net (ps. that shouldnt be open like that, should it?), and add a few to try out. Most seem to have stopped a few weeks to months updating... maybe when their stuff got updated on hardy. Mine are

Re: Hardware Database and Client - Dohickey

2008-03-01 Thread Caroline Ford
On 01/03/2008, Martin Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, http://dohickey.parsed.net/ https://launchpad.net/dohickey What tasks do I need to prepare to get the dohickey client in the official repositories? and if that's too much what are restrictions of getting it into multiverse

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2008-01-01 Thread Caroline Ford
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 14:07 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: I still wouldn't call Gutsy the most unstable release I've used though. That was Dapper, simply by virtue of being released right around the same time my laptop was made. It didn't have time to get proper hardware support for it.

Re: GParted installed by default?

2007-12-04 Thread Caroline Ford
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:59 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 04.12.2007 um 10:11 schrieb Jonas Jørgensen: A normal/average user won't ever use GParted, nor will they ever use many of the other tools in System-Administration -- but that isn't an argument for not including those tools.

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

2007-11-04 Thread Caroline Ford
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 23:50 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: Anthony Bryan wrote: Hi, Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error

Re: Gutsy's HAL is broken.

2007-10-04 Thread Caroline Ford
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 05:05 -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: This really belongs on the bug tracker not here. X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171 Major opcode: 149 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 What is this? Do you have any interesting hardware?

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-27 Thread Caroline Ford
We are strongly being advised NOT to leave things on standby here as it's bad for the environment. Caroline On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:46 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.09.2007 um 22:17 schrieb Phillip Susi: Scott Kitterman wrote: ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained. I've switched from

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-22 Thread Caroline Ford
And all the duplicates have closed - duplicates naturally don't have any further progress. I don't think 60 days is long enough either, but that's a different point. Caroline On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:38 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

Re: The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

2007-09-17 Thread Caroline Ford
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 07:37 +0300, Murat Gunes wrote: Not many daily images end up oversized. If it were a substantial percentage of all images, you'd have a point. With the current state of things, people can wait a day, or two at worst, or use the image from a day or two before (I think

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Caroline Ford
Alec Wright wrote: Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? On 09/03/07, *Conrad Knauer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add a note to this thread, I just realized

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Caroline Ford
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the forums as well as within launchpad. One of the more

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread Caroline Ford
t u wrote: I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) I uploaded some featured images from

SPARC port (was Re: Technical Board decisions)

2007-02-13 Thread Caroline Ford
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Chris wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: The Ubuntu Technical Board has made two technical decisions of which we would like to inform the Ubuntu community. Both of these decisions concern the upcoming 7.04 release of Ubuntu,