On Mo, 2011-04-11 at 18:28 -0400, Jason Todd wrote:
I LOVE that the launcher only activates when the cursor goes to the
upper-left corner! Please don't say this has changed. If the launcher
activates anytime the cursor touches the left margin, it will result
in endless burdens for everyday
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:02 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
Your going to have to grab the source code from launchpad package by
package[0].
Running apt-get source package from an Ubuntu system seems much more
convenient, and there should be a way to run or script it so that it
fetches the source for
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:00 -0700, George Farris wrote:
Just uncheck the copy photos checkbox when
importing.
Yes, every time. And never ever forget it.
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 17:24 +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
This was a bug in f-spot. But it has been fixed at least since Ubuntu
9.04.
How so? It still shows the checkbox in the import dialog and there is
not setting in the preferences. Or do you mean that this checkbox
remembers its state now?
As a happy F-Spot user, let me make a few comments.
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 05:07 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
i still get complaints of it being slow and the fact that it requires
you to import all of your photos into one folder is...beyond words.
(...)
i remember the last answer i got was a
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 02:27 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
Skype will work on infinityOS and on any audio system that I propose
Ubuntu should adopt. Skype works fully on the pure ALSA system
employed currently by infinityOS as I use it personally.
I did question whether Skype will work on your
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:05 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
I did question whether Skype will work on your distro,
I did *not* question ..
Sorry.
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On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:49 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
How many users actually use Bluetooth headsets with their computers or
mute their browsers?
I feel that being able to play games without having to edit text files
or install alternate packages is much important to the average user
then the
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:49 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
End users don't want to have to add PPAs or download .deb files off of
websites.
These end users don't want constantly changing applications (and bugs)
all the time either, in my experience.
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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:35 -0300, vododo wrote:
I tried to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 and I had several problems.
I used the save-upgrade method. Once it was done, GNOME didn't start.
As others have said, upgrading with apt-get or aptitude is not the
recommended method. The recommended method is
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:47 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
Having used all these methods to file bugs, I have never been stopped
from commenting on the bug report before all of the automatic methods
attached the log files and filled in commentary.
I think the problem is that ubuntu-bug excepts
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:15 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
That exactly demonstates what I meant with not helpful at
all.
Markus, this is not the support list for random problems.
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On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 02:29 +0200, Amahdy wrote:
I'm wondering why starting from 9.10 the boot loader started to be an
infinite loop progressbar (like windows always does)??
This was discussed at length during the last few days. Check this thread
in the archives:
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:08 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 02:29 +0200, Amahdy wrote:
I'm wondering why starting from 9.10 the boot loader started to be an
infinite loop progressbar (like windows always does)??
This was discussed at length during the last few days. Check
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:36 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote:
please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it
You really should file bugs in launchpad for such things, they will just
be lost on the list. Preferably use ubuntu-bug to report:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 13:48 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
Remember, Lucid is an LTS release. This will have four big side effects:
- Generally fewer new features (Though rumor of Gnome 3.0,
and pushing for a 10 sec boot is kinda scary)
Gnome project just announced that 3.0 will be released
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:46 +0200, yurik 81 wrote:
Can you move the line 'gtk-icon-sizes =
panel-menu=24,24:gtk-button=16,16' from the Human theme to
'/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc'. In this case, these parameters can be overridden
in '~/.gtkrc-2.0'. Only Human theme force 'gtk-icon-sizes' :(
Now this
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 17:03 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Lets not be too hasty in larting someone for using apt-get instead of
update-manager or do-release-upgrade.
Agreed, and I seem to remember that I was the one to have pestered Colin
until he wrote this :)
BUT, this implies that the user of
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 03:31 +0100, Remco wrote:
Ouch, that's bad. Whether it's true or not doesn't even matter.
The Register is trying to drive visits up. It was bound to happen with
increasing popularity, there is always something to be gained by
shooting down last year's favorite. Nothing new
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:58 +0800, DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar wrote:
I have t41 too. But it's working fine with compositing. It has radeon
7100 mobile graphics card.
There are many different T41 configurations and some have old Intel
onboard chipsets.
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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:59 +0200, Hein Hanssen wrote:
Hello,
When using USB memory sticks, I would expect to have an right click menu
showing a format option. This is not the case (well, at least on the
Gnome desktop, I don't know about KDE).
I have the option in Karmic's Gnome, for USB
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:23 -0700, George Farris wrote:
I'm saying that Applications and
Places have icons but System doesn't and that looks unfinished and not
consistent.
I think that's the bug, because I have them in all three menus.
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On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 03:55 +0200, Remco wrote:
I'm not saying that Ubuntu shouldn't be accessible by default. I think
that would be a great idea. But accessibility settings have a strong
impact on the user experience. One size certainly doesn't fit all. And
this particular accessibility
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 14:50 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
Do you mean that I have a possibly remote possibility of convincing the
ubuntu developers to ship pidgin instead of empathy? Do I need to write
a scientific paper on that, or is it possible that someone actually does
an unbiased
Hi all,
If someone feels so inclined I would be happy if I could get an
explanation about a bug resolution, to improve my understanding of what
to expect from the new Karmic boot process. Thanks in advance.
In response to the karmic beta announcement [1] which asked for bugs to
be filed
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:12 -0500, Robbie Williamson wrote:
Apologies for this. While the systems startup text is normal, e.g. the
fsck stuff, the kernel messages are not, e.g. the usb stuff. I've dup'd
this to bug 438335.
Thanks. I should have found and read this myself, sorry for that.
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 07:34 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
Dear all,
today I noticed that the consistency problem between the default
ubuntu start page, which is a custom google search, and the search box
at the top-right of firefox, has finally been solved. Now also the
search box is a
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:38 +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
Looking at the source for gconf2 it looks like the xml backend is
abstracted quite neatly from the main body of the code so perhaps it
wouldn't be too difficult to create an experimental sqlite/somedb
backend and compare performance.
In
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:33 -0600, Ryan Hayle wrote:
which is
evident in this screenshot:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23152448/10pt.jpg
Nothing at all is evident in screenshots that are saved as jpg to show
font issues. It's impossible to distinguish font rendering compression
artefacts.
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:45 +0100, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
They are png. I renamed them to jpg by mistake
Oh, goody then :)
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On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:15 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
I don't think I am getting the point
Please excuse my jumping in (it's probably an accident that I am again
picking you :) but I think the point is that if a developer asks you
(not) to do something, you (don't) do it.
I think Colin
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:52 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
And *YOU* are missing the point that Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Ubuntu
*already* does what Windows does when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete but are
actually already logged in: it asks if you want to log out.
Nope it does not. The windows *kernel*
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:16 -0500, Mike Jones wrote:
I have absolutely no desire to C-A-F#, find the program that is giving
me fits, and then kill it in the hopes it fixes my issue.
You rather lose your complete X session along with all data in open
files than switching to a virtual console and
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote:
To address the actual point, security of files on removable media can
only be handled at the hardware level, by making sure bad people don't
steal your disks. Bad guys can be assumed to have root access to at
least one box that they can
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:02 +1100, William Grant wrote:
I strongly doubt it. My changes there didn't touch hotkeys.
Thanks everyone. Another set of updates arrived before I could figure
out what was going on, and now everything is fine again.
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Hi,
today a number of updates were pulled, aptitude log excerpt follows
below. They included gnome-settings-daemon and
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-8-generic, both from intrepid-proposed.
I suppose one of them made the hardware buttons on my laptop (hp nc6440)
non-functional, though I only
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 02:21 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
I thought cruft was used interchangeably with crud when talking about
real-life things.
I thought it is a known word too, but US-natives called me to ask what I
was talking about.
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On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote:
had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due
to trademark related names.
Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what cruft means.
Wikipedia correctly says, Cruft is computing jargon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
I was so used to the term
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 01:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
From what I see, the announcements and warnings that
were posted had the intended, and expected, effect.
If I may chime in. Next time there is a serious problem it would be a
good idea to also include the ubuntu-users list in the
Hi,
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
For the upgrade Dapper - Hardy, it recommends either update-manager
-d or do-release-upgrade -d. However, in both cases the -d switch
checks for the next development release, which seems to me not to be
Hardy.
There just was a case on the -users
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:14 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
FWIW: download from firefox.com
- nothing
As was pointed out to me, FF3 needs gtk+ 2.10, which is not in Dapper.
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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:15 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
The main point is that it is possible
(and easy) to install Firefox 3 on Windows XP (released 2001), while
try to install Firefox 3 on Dapper (released 2006).
FWIW: download from firefox.com, unpack, run installer. Granted, it is
not
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:14 +0200, Thomas Novin wrote:
It seems your installation has started on 2.6.24 and then been
upgraded.
Yup, I installed Hardy and upgraded. At the time there were no installer
images yet.
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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:24 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
FAT is a defacto standard for portable storage devices.
Not true anymore, the external disks I have seen that have 300 GB came
with NTFS. Anyway, external disks may be a different topic altogether,
but what about the Windows system
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:14 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
but there is nothing inherently defective with the
current behavior.
I'd agree for any other fs, but the only reason you would use an ntfs
partition is because you want to read this in windows. Thus it makes
little sense to allow
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
Doesn't wubi install Ubuntu into an existing Windows partition?
Exactly. And then Ubuntu will happily let you create files that you
can't read in Windows. It's weird.
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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:55 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
Your idea would mean going around having to delete a bunch of
temporary files that were autogenerated.
When closing the file, the editor could ask whether to keep the file. It
already asks whether it should be saved, anyway.
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 02:50 -0400, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/
The underlying system, yes. The UI, um, no :)
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On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 00:27 +, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
The only sounds I hear are at GDM login screen and when I do the
hardware
test.
Otherwise, nothing, nada, zilch.
Is System Preferences Sound tab Sounds Enable Software Mixing
checked?
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On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:31 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
System-Preferences-Sound-Sounds-Enable Software Mixing
Exactly
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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 21:51 +0100, James Westby wrote:
the comments in their explain how to make it start. I don't know
if you need to do anything else.
The comment also explains why you shouldn't start it from there :) See
the other replies about running the daemon per-user from the Gnome
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:05 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
I think everybody will agree that making ubuntu work well on tablet
PCs is a Good Thing for the image of ubuntu itself.
I can only second the importance of tablets nowadays. I work in an
international business consultancy, and out of
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 11:20 -0800, Martin Olsson wrote:
I was going to post a bug about this yesterday. I think CTRL-SPACE is a
very very bad keyboard shortcut for this. I accidently triggered it 5 or
6 sixes when typing an e-mail, before I understood what was going on.
Read the existing bug
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:32 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
I just uninstalled it!! there was no way i couldnt find of removing it
from the startup.
Read the bug report I linked from the other post, it contains a better
solution
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Hi,
is it just me or has something changed in gnome-panel or compiz that
makes all applets violate the implication of Fitt's law [1] that
clickable button areas should extend to the screen edges?
I'm using gnome panel 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu2 as current in Hardy, the screen
effects are on. With this
Hi,
a couple days ago, suddenly strange characters appeared in all apps when
typing. Shortly before that I accidentally pressed a button combo -
didn't know which.
I figured out that this was caused by SCIM having been triggered by the
combo. The problem is that now it does not go away anymore:
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 22:27 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
I can't find a bug report about this, does this only happen to my
machine?
I ፎኡንድ (ዓዓርግህ)) (argh!) found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/199030 and will add
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On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:49 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
It's part of why I don't use file managers--I don't get to reclaim
hard drive space immediately.
This seems to be a radical move when you can also just check the option
Include a delete command that bypasses the Trash in Nautilus.
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:34 -0400, Jon wrote:
Now I see that the reference was to being compatible with the server
OS. I guess I'm still left scratching my head why a server app would
be included in what I consider to be largely a desktop distro.
Maybe I'm just out to lunch today.
:) Enjoy
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:28 -0500, David A. Harding wrote:
F-Spot is inefficent
and may violate Microsoft's patents.
Ubuntu users deserve beautiful things and they don't deserve to have
them taken away because we ignored potential patent violations
According to MS, the Linux kernel
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
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:09 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
Can we not just check and never run (auto)fsck when on battery?
But there are definitely people who rarely or never use the laptop while
plugged in. E.g., they may charge overnight, unplug and take the laptop
on the road, replugging in the
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:44 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote:
I would very much like to hear from somebody on the ext3 team about
this.
When ext3 was new, I am pretty certain that I have read quotes by
Theodore T'so that he does not recommend turning off the checks. It's
been a long time though,
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 01:09 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
~30% less download time
A while ago I read about changing apt/dpkg to allow for the handling of
security updates through binary patches. Does anyone know what came out
of this?
It seems to me that for slower connections, binary patches are
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