On 9 August 2012 17:08, Kyrillos Mossad kmos...@gmail.com wrote:
Can we really not just making this an option? Instead of arguing
againstit?
Finally, the first piece of unbiased, non-inflammatory, useful content on
this entire thread.
Why designers seem to consider it their duty to force
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:33:30 +0200, Aur?lien Naldi aurelien.na...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you want to keep installed packages, you can upgrade instead of
installing from scratch (if you don't skip a version or if you go from
LTS to LTS, otherwise it may be painful).
I'd like to just raise a paw
And there I was, thinking there was something wrong with my
recently-upgraded machine! Being a lazy dev, I just added a cron job to
apt-get update on the hour... So I get hourly checks, as per the original
thread, but this isn't exactly friendly for the average user ):
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I'm just annoyed that this setting (and locking my workstation when it goes
to screensaver -- probably others too) was applied on a dist-upgrade without
any prompt. I don't want a macified interface -- it doesn't feel natural to
me, partly for the uses Windows the rest of the time argument (I work
on Sat, 08 May 2010 10:38:12 +0200 Oliver Grawert wrote:
the problem here is that you very likely didnt have a user setting for
it (it wasnt necessary since the default pleased you). only the system
default changed and if there is no diff between your setting and the
system default there cant
For what it's worth, I'd like to put in 2 (perhaps long-winded) cents here.
The short story and suggestions:
I think that culling the Notification Area could be problematic (more below,
if you have time and patience to read). I would suggest:
1) Keep the Notification Area applet alive -- try to
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Derek Broughton de...@pointerstop.ca
wrote:
Neither do I - but for, apparently, opposite reasons. I don't understand
why we need, or even want, minimize to tray and minimize to task bar
(aargh, please don't push _my_ buttons, and write minimise :-) )
Sorry
For what my input is worth, I'd just like to point out that I'm one of those
people who is annoyed when an app which runs in the systray *exits* when I
close the interface window (main or otherwise). For apps that support the
minimise to tray functionality instead of closing the window minimises
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:00:21 Brendan Miller catph...@catphive.net wrote:
Ah, Ok. I haven't updated any of my systems to 9.10, so I didn't
realize that 32 bit compatibility had been removed... Given that, I
probably just won't update since it would break adobe air and all my
third party
I'd just like to add probably-not-even-two-cents-worth:
Whilst I personally can't see any immediately viable (read: in the next 10
years, if ever) work to use HURD (*shudder*) or MINIX, the OP might get some
satisfaction from Nexenta (http://www.nexenta.org). From what I've read
(project
Hi all It's me again (:
This time, I think I might have some useful information if anyone is
actually trying to figure out why upgrades have been of the failing
persuasion...
Anyone who has wasted time reading my drivel may know that I attempted to do
an upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic with
Thanks
Multiple replacements of
allow_activeauth_admin_keep/allow_active
with
allow_activeyes/allow_active
stops the prompt for authorisation. The prior file doesn't pass parsing
checks. Multiple replacements are required to handle multiple languages. I
don't know if this somehow breaks some
upgrade I have ever experienced
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Davyd McColl [2009-11-07 9:54 +0200]:
I'll be quite happy to report a bug. I don't think my problem is udev
though
On 2009/11/7 Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Try have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463347 -- there is
currently an udev in proposed which should fix a lot of those
symptoms. If it still happens, please do ubuntu-bug and file a new
bug against the storage device symptom.
On 2009/11/7 Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Try have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463347 -- there is
currently an udev in proposed which should fix a lot of those
symptoms. If it still happens, please do ubuntu-bug and file a new
bug against the storage device symptom.
Apologies for the double-post: gmail timed out. Gave me an opportunity to
add a useful line though (:
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:58 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
I don't think that the OP provided enough information to understand
what went wrong during his upgrade; it does seem that he may have tried
update-manager first and resorted to the manual process only once it
failed.
Apologies if I
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:44:07 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
First and foremost I'm sorry that you had such a bad upgrade
experience. We work hard to make it smooth and painless and take the
bugs/issues very seriously.
Thanks. Sorry if I seemed a
Let me suggest that Ubuntu appoint an usability triager/ombudsman,
to determine (from the Ubuntu users' perspective, not from an Ubuntu
developers' perspective) how much attention ought to be paid to each
and every usability-related bug report.
My 2c: I have to whole-heartedly agree. Probably
Will do. Give me some time since this only seems to happen on fairly rare
occasions -- I've had it more than once, but it's not every time (:
-d
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.comwrote:
Hello Davyd,
Davyd McColl [2009-07-07 20:26 +0200]:
[421393.358731] sd
Good day
Just throwing this out there to see if anyone has an idea how to sort this
out or at least can perhaps help me make up my mind which package to file a
bug against:
I'm running Jaunty 64-bit, all packages up to date. I've seen this a couple
of times now and it's getting a little pesky,
With the spanky new Jaunty notifications in place for commonplace items such
as IM messages, I have found it rather disappointing that we've actually
*lost* the safe to remove media notifications that I came to love and wait
patiently for under prior versions of Ubuntu.
In the place of a rather
Personally, I would welcome just about anything which would help us to lose
PulseAudio. Or magically transform PulseAudio into something which doesn't
suck. Either way would be fine. Allow me to elaborate (or skip the rest of
this post if you don't care):
I've had an SB Live for ages. One of the
up-to-date. Compulsively so (:
-d
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dane Mutters dmutt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 07:59 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote:
Good day
I've used Ubuntu for quite some time (years), following upgrade cycles
on 32-bit and staying clear of 64-bit just
I'm sorry, but the 12-year-old in me needs to scream this out:
PWNED!
Mark, come on dude, just say uncle and leave the playground. The
adults have work to do here.
Well, just for starts, I was instrumental in supporting Stuart Cheshire's
work on ZEROCONF while I was his manager at
Apple,
a friend to test that card in another
machine. Perhaps the troubleshooting will continue for him ^_^.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Dane Muttersdmutt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:01 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote:
Good day
Thanks for your response. Suspecting that there could
On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:16:25 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
If you want to avoid those sorts of updates and only get the security
ones,
you can disable the updates repository and just use security. That'd
result in quite a lot of the updates being eliminated. There are also
changelogs
I'm just putting this out there, for some consideration and discussion.
I'm hoping someone can come up with a better idea than I have and that
perhaps there will be some kind of positive response to the request.
Here it is: whilst I totally appreciate all the hard work that goes into
patching and
Good day
I am quite new to the devel mailing list, so please bear with me.
Recently, I've had a lot of trouble with wodim -- failed burns, refuses to
blank a CD-RW until I have already done so with cdrecord from cdrtools. It
seems that I'm far from being alone.
My initial investigations (prior
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