Re: Dump Google?

2010-09-10 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 23:14, Martin Albisetti be...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Jordan jordanh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Ubuntu Developers, I'm not sure if I'm the first person to suggest this, but lately Google's reputation has diminished, especially with talk of

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
gNewSense is moving to be debian based, while Trisquel is Ubuntu based. Those interested in packaging the free linux kernel should follow this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/370675 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:46, John King kingj.linuxml...@gmail.com wrote: GNewSense isn't an active

Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Of course it is! At least according to our philosophy: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free software in practice. These people can and should be our allies. Their concerns are valid, and they are not

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:19, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Of course it is! At least according to our philosophy: http

Tool needed to import AVCHD files

2010-05-31 Thread Danny Piccirillo
New consumer video cameras use AVCHD so we need to make sure that it is supported. Playback and editing is finally shaping up, but a tool is still needed to extract these files from video cameras while retaining the metadata. Currently, users must copy individual .mts/.m2ts files and combine them

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-19 Thread Danny Piccirillo
to do changes striaght after LTS release, so there is time to polish it until next LTS. (On the other hand we have seen changes with significant impact also in LTS, so one never know.). Regards Laco On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 13:28, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: 2010/5/15

Re: Replace F-Spot with Solang?

2010-05-15 Thread Danny Piccirillo
], Shotwell is replacing F-spot in Maverick. Article says that this was agreed at UDS. Kind Regards Laco [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html On 15 May 2010 10:07, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: If i remember correctly, F-Spot

Re: Replace F-Spot with Solang?

2010-05-15 Thread Danny Piccirillo
2010/5/15 Marco Laverdière marco.laverdi...@gmail.com: Also, there were specific reasons as to why Shotwell isn't ready, but for Solang it was just, yeah this isn't ready either. What specifically would you like to see in Solang for it to be considered ready?  For me, wheher it is Solang

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu pre installed

2010-05-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
It already is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPre-installed There's a bug to have this listed as an option to get ubuntu on the website https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118823 On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 20:56, shankara shankaranarayan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends. When ubuntu 10.04 pre

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-05 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Hm, i brought this up last year: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-June/008813.html After reading this post on Insane Coding http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html(via Slashdot

Re: Next thing for Ubuntu to learn: how to pay their engineers well enough, and how to give them enough time to work on upstream issues

2010-05-05 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Haha, is there a list canonical monitors? Perhaps ubuntu-devel? On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 19:18, John King kingj.linuxml...@gmail.com wrote: This is true on so many levels, Canonical, are you paying attention?! Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: I came across this on reddit

Re: Ubuntu as project in Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-25 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Alright, let's get all the CC'd lists on the same thread. I have a number of bugs i think might be worthy for Google's SoC-- Experimenting with intuitive scrollbars: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/253546 Conference (multi-party) calls in Empathy:

Re: Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

2010-03-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 19:04, Scott Beamer geek...@angrykeyboarder.com wrote: Flávio Etrusco spake thusly: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Damn, ran into this too, but i don't have an old kernel to fall back on. Is there a way i can

Re: Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

2010-03-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Disabling the dri module altogether by putting an invalid parameter: e.g. nouveau.blacklist=yes allowed me to boot and update which fixed the issue On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:42, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 19:04, Scott Beamer geek

Webcams and flash

2010-03-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
For years, i have had a webcam that works out of the box with Ubuntu and cheese-- but it doesn't play nice with Flash. This has been through multiple versions of Ubuntu and multiple versions of flash on both 32 and 64bit. Finally, i have found two projects that are supposed to fix this. Webcam

Re: Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

2010-03-15 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Damn, ran into this too, but i don't have an old kernel to fall back on. Is there a way i can fix this without having to reinstall? On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 13:10, Scott Beamer geek...@angrykeyboarder.comwrote: Scott James Remnant spake thusly: You sure this isn't a Kernel-related issue?

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
What if you created a framework that could add support for other states and countries so that a new application isn't needed for each case? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:27, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:22 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The problem with most open

Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Before too much effort is invested into making F-Spot good enough to meet all of the needs outlined at the UDS Default App Selection session, i thought i should bring up Solanghttp://santanu-sinha.blogspot.com/2009/06/solang.htmland Shotwell http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ to see if it might be

Supporting a GNU Hurd port?

2009-12-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm not sure if this has been discussed on here before, but i started a discussion on the forums a while ago: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1096370 and filed a bug on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/343452 and someone created a blueprint:

Re: Insufficiencies in Karmic's battery behavior

2009-11-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 19:38, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Karmic's adoption of DeviceKit-Power and the latest Gnome-Power-Manager has changed the way the GUI reports remaining battery time. To keep the thoughts flowing, I have a question: Is there a performance / power

Empathy: (Telepathy) API sketches for encrypted channels, and OTR

2009-11-01 Thread Danny Piccirillo
This isn't super-new but i wanted to pass on a comment posted on the bug report regarding Empathy and OTR for those that are interested. Telepathy Empathy developers are working on API sketches for encrypted channels and OTR. The mailing list post:

Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Cross-posting just to get the word out. Many lengthy and interesting discussions have come up about what to do with the Marketing Team. Ultimately, it comes down to how motivated people are to create their own projects under the team. Just like any other LoCo, this depends on individual

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I merely wanted to propose changing or adding to the scope of the team to include general activism. Dropping all focus on marketing probably isn't going to be any better, not to mention that just like marketing, activism is also something done by local community teams, BUT adding simple

Re: let's drop compiz for gnome 3

2009-10-08 Thread Danny Piccirillo
i brought this up on my blog and i think that might already be the plan: http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/dropping-compiz-for-mutter-metacity-3.html On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 00:30, solaris manzur sl.sola...@gmail.com wrote: because compositing for this version is one thousand times good than

Next Ubuntu Gaming Team meeting, 09/27 in #ubuntu-meeting!

2009-09-14 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Please forward widely http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/calling-all-foss-game-artists-and-free.html The first Ubuntu Gaming Team https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam meeting was a huge success! With over *two hours* of discussion going strong, we covered a lot of ground. One of the major

Soylent vs People: Meta-contacts for Empathy

2009-08-30 Thread Danny Piccirillo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256478 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460647 The Empathy roadmap (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Roadmap) says that People (https://edge.launchpad.net/people-project) or Soylent ( http://live.gnome.org/Soylent) will be used to implement meta-contacts. Can

Re: Reminder: First Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting!

2009-07-26 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Last-minute reminder! The meeting is in 20 minutes! (i'm only cross-posting because this is our first and crucial meeting. future meetings won't be promoted like this) On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:29, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: I just wanted to remind everybody

Reminder: First Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting!

2009-07-23 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I just wanted to remind everybody interested about the upcoming Ubuntu Gaming Team meeting in #ubuntu-gaming http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/06/first-ubuntu-gaming-team-meeting.html Here's the Agenda so far: - Defining our team - Address concerns - Go over goals, purpose, and

Examining our release cycle: stricter instead of longer?

2009-07-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Forgive me if i'm a little out of the loop on Ubuntu release cycles, but last i heard, there was discussion about extending it. I just saw a story on Slashdot about OpenBSD's successful resease process. Parhaps Ubuntu could learn from this?

Fwd: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-07-05 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Fwd'd. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vivirito gnomefr...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 21:37 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com On 06/22/2009 09:36 AM, Remco wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Ryan

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-06-27 Thread Danny Piccirillo
To everyone interested, our first meeting will be on july 26th at 19:00 UTC in #ubuntu-gaming*http://www.reddit.com/tb/8w4tn* This is a good time to address still existing concerns On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 02:05, Emmet Hikory per...@ubuntu.com wrote: Danny Piccirillo wrote: Sorry i dropped

AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-21 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I was wondering about the state of open source graphics drivers today and which companies are the most friendly. My understanding, and i'm hoping that you can either confirm or correct this, is that: NVIDIA has linux drivers, but none of them are open (there is a project for that but nvidia

Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-21 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. Mostly because i think that System76 http://www.system76.com should start moving away from Intel and NVIDIA and towards AMD/ATIhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063323 . On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 20:13, Arc Riley arcri...@ubuntu.com wrote:

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-19 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 20:14, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:46, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Danny Piccirillo [2009-06-17 2:22 -0400]: I'm noticing that in the latest daily build of Ubuntu, Pidgin in still included, who makes

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-19 Thread Danny Piccirillo
And sadly, Banshee (mono) may soon be replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 14:01, Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it wrote: Il giorno ven, 19/06/2009 alle 09.32 +0100, Scott James Remnant ha scritto: Don't forget the question wasn't whether to add Gnote, the question

Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-19 Thread Danny Piccirillo
After reading this post on Insane Codinghttp://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html(via Slashdothttp://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1937210/State-of-Sound-Development-On-Linux-Not-So-Sorry-After-All?from=rss) it seems that PulseAudio is actually a very

Re: Flash, and 32 vs. 64

2009-06-18 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Until i got the 64-bit version of flash, YouTube would crash everytime i scrolled on a page or used HD (flash would freeze and hang my browser and i'd have to wait for it to crash before i could use my browser again), and flash would immediately crash when i tried to fullscreen anything. Not to

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-18 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:46, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Danny Piccirillo [2009-06-17 2:22 -0400]: I'm noticing that in the latest daily build of Ubuntu, Pidgin in still included, who makes the actual change and when will that happen? I went through the MIRs last week

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm noticing that in the latest daily build of Ubuntu, Pidgin in still included, who makes the actual change and when will that happen? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:06, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I guess my previous message wasn't clear - I'm not making an argument

Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
IIRC, the Flash 64 bit Alpha almost made it into Intrepid, but was not because it is an alpha. It was already much more stable than using the 32-bit version on 64-bit Ubuntu, and now that 64-bit Flash alpha 2 http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.htmlis out, i recommend we make an

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
No exception can be made there? How have exceptions been made before? Is there some way to work around that? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 13:25, Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Martin Owensdocto...@gmail.com wrote: Although getting the script updated to

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Ah, how unfortunate. Would it be impossible to get Adobe to allow this in time? If we could take the file straight from their website, would that be allowed? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 13:42, Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Danny

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
In that case, who is in a position to contact Adobe to see if we can work something out? As much as i hate Flash, a stable flashplayer for all users is somewhat high priotiry, no? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 13:49, Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Danny

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
But could we ask them as a special request since the 64 bit alpha is great, and much better than the 32-bit final? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:17, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009 1:57:08 pm Danny Piccirillo wrote: In that case, who is in a position

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
www.ThePoint.com ? www.COfundOS.org ? Both are good for this On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:25, Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it wrote: Il giorno mer, 17/06/2009 alle 08.29 -0700, George Farris ha scritto: I agree and use OTR all the time, however, if more people start using Empathy

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
What about Midori instead of Epiphany? I have yet to see a chart comparing the two, but from what i've read, Midori is much better, and i've been using it as my main browser for a while now. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:44, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009

Re: Browser chat (was Re: about empathy as the default IM application)

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
for GNOME and pretend that Midori just replaced it) On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 15:38, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009 3:31:09 pm Danny Piccirillo wrote: What about Midori instead of Epiphany? I have yet to see a chart comparing the two, but from what i've

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/326555 On the LP bug page, someone posted a link to http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree which supposedly uses the native 64-bit version of flash. Can somebody confirm this? And, if it's true, can a script be used to

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
+1 10.04 LTShttp://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/06/empathy-in-ubuntu-karmic-910-or-karmic.html ? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 00:44, Asif Youssuff yoa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:36 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: IMHO Empathy is great for most users, especially new ones, and it can

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
What this? Apparently at UDS this was already discussed and Empathy is going to replace Pidgin-- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:04, Asif Youssuff yoa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:39 +0100, Alexander

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
The discussion so far has been people arguing about why they prefer Empathy or Pidgin, but at UDS it was already decided that Empathy would ship with Karmic. I humbly request that we all stop bickering about any problems we may currently have with it, and start testing it and filing bug reports so

Shutter as the default screenshot app?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I read a lot about shutter and how amazingly awesome it was so i was wondering if it was already planned to include it as the default screenshot applicatoin in Karmic? http://shutter-project.org/screenshots/ -- http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Better clipboard management?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I've recently been bothered more and more by Ubuntu's lack of better clipboard management. I don't know all the details but i think we could really do with a clipboard manager installed by default. I don't know much about this, and would appreaciate input, but from what i've read, GCM or Glipper

Re: Better clipboard management?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Parcellite looks quite good, and on second inspection it doesn't look like gcm has been updated in a very long time On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 19:33, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: 2009/6/17 Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com: I've recently been bothered more and more

Yo, Frankie! Needs packaging to show off nice game graphics

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Squeezing Yo, Frankie! in would be great so that we could show off a game with nice graphics that is completely FOSS and coplyleft and made with all FOSS tools. http://www.yofrankie.org/ https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/311938 -- http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo --

Re: Better clipboard management?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
be considered. Bug 11334 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/11334 dates from 2004. To quote the first line from the bug: This bug is an EPIC failure! 2009/6/16 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo bugabu...@ubuntu.com Olá Danny e a todos. On Wednesday 17 June 2009 00:11:52 Danny Piccirillo wrote: I've

Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Let's all refrain from a mono flamewar. We all know where we stand (if you don't, look elsewhere to learn more!) and won't change anyone's opinion. Anyways, someone on the forums started a discussion about this and i was wondering what you guys on the list though. There was a surprising amount of

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Apparently in Ubuntu the syncing feature will use Ubuntuone which can be implemented in Gnote. Don't know about the rest On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 23:42, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:32:43 pm Danny Piccirillo wrote: Reasons against seem to be: lacking

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-06-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Hey everyone, Sorry i dropped off the face of the planet for a while. I am back now! I have heard all of the concerns, and i hope i can address them now. I am open to change the team, and i want to sincerely apologize for all the confusion and misunderstanding. One of the first changes i made to

Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in. Working towards improving FOSS games and developing its community will turn a significant barrier

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
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 the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has been formed of mutual

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
In response to Oli, isn't your first argument like comparing Windows to Ubuntu? Maybe Ubuntu is a little bit ahead compared to FOSS gaming versus proprietary games, but that's what this team was set up to change. We understand the arguments for porting commercial games to Linux, and don't deny

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Could a solution be to simply link to Debian/Ubuntu games team for packaging? It may have caused a tiny bit of confusion with the announcement, but i really don't foresee any other confusion. If it becomes a problem then it'll definitely be worth changing, but i don't think it will be. thanks,

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:02, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: Top posting fixed. Ugh. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:40, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: First, apologies for the off topic cross-posting to many lists, but it was really hard for me to tell which

Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Would it be a good idea to plan to use Metacity as the default compositing manager for Ubuntu instead of compiz in the future? Compiz seems mostly unnecessary. If metacity was used, it would be easier on the machine and work for people who don't have the hardware for compiz. Anyone who wants all

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
: As it is, compiz is tried, and Ubuntu falls back on Metacity if it doesn't work. So if they don't have the hardware, they'll use Metacity. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Would it be a good idea to plan to use Metacity as the default

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Joe Terranova joeterran...@gmail.comwrote: As it is, compiz is tried, and Ubuntu falls back on Metacity if it doesn't work. So if they don't have the hardware, they'll use Metacity. That's good, but why even include compiz in the first place? Doesn't it

Re: Call for testing empathy

2009-01-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
IRC has been supported for while. You need telepathy-idle installed On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Bryan Quigley gqu...@gmail.com wrote: Did they add IRC support? We really want to have an IRC client by default (Pidgin is one). On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Danny Piccirillo

Re: Call for testing empathy

2009-01-08 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion? I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better! File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN

Re: User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

2008-09-28 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Piccirillo pisze: I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring this up or if there's already an existing thread about it, but i don't see why all the shutdown options are now separated from the logout

Re: User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

2008-09-28 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Piccirillo pisze: I'm not sure

User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring this up or if there's already an existing thread about it, but i don't see why all the shutdown options are now separated from the logout options and in the users switcher along with IM status changer even though the IM client already has it's own

New Theme every LTS release

2008-09-04 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but i've been trying to think of ways to get new, better themes into Ubuntu. What i mean is, every release, we see beautiful mockups, but nothing ever comes of it. I think something needs to change so that these mockups have a chance of getting

Connecting to a Windows newtork

2008-08-18 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I haven't been able to connect to a windows network and i was wondering if this affected everyone. I would expect more of a fuss about this if everyone is having this problem. If you are having this issue as well, is this the correct bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/207072

Re: help wiki theme improvements

2008-08-17 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I think there is way too much space taken up at the top of the page. Perhaps we could use a sidebar instead? I think something must be done to save space and make the wiki look cleaner. On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to use this thread as a

Re: Re-encoding sample content with latest theora encoders

2008-08-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
:34 AM, Timo Jyrinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/8/13 Danny Piccirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's already been done https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/example-content/+bug/257098 Right. I updated the title of it now. -Timo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Who makes the final call on the inclusion of Empathy in Intrepid? Where does that discussion happen? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Intuitive Popup Scrollbars

2008-08-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/popup-scrollbar-concept-demo/ This would just give Ubuntu more edge and make it even more intuitive. Although for people used to the old style scrollbar it may be confusing at first glance, it would quickly become another reason to get hooked on Ubuntu :)

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-11 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I second this. I'm also providing links to the brainstorm, launchpad bug, and ubuntu forums pages below. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4468/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137872 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837589 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Chris Jones [EMAIL