, the preferred way to create UserMapper is from within Windows
which is by no means intuitive.
Hopefully, I am not duplicating this.
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Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 à 17:40 +1000, Luke Yelavich a écrit :
snip
I'm just a little appalled at the state of audio support on Linux (I believe
this issue is not Ubuntu only); I was trying to have a conversation on the
google chat (from within the browser) and since the chat has audio alerts,
Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 08:06 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit :
Aha! Sorry about the double post. Just realized that the minimum is idle
time + 1 minute, which probably makes sense somewhere. (Except for the 1
minute part?!). Still, the fact that this basic setting of timers needed
research to
Le dimanche 25 mai 2008 à 18:33 +1000, Sarah Hobbs a écrit :
snip
There seems to be an attitude of screw the developers, we are the
mighty bug squad, and can do what we like here.
The contrary can be true as well, but that's absolutely not the point
here. ;-)
But really, isn't the job of the
Le vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 11:26 +0200, Thomas Novin a écrit :
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 03:02 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
Wouldn't it be interesting to take that a step further and have Ubuntu
represent the best Linux apps (e.g. K3B?), regardless of widget
dependency? If QGtkStyle (or such)
Le vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 00:06 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:31, Evan wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'd say that if there's a bug it's in Windows. I could see a wishlist
bug against Ubuntu to provide a
Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 18:10 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit :
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 02:17 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 17.32 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto:
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:40 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote
I wish I
Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 21:03 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit :
That's a much better explanation than the error message. So you're
right, it's not a bug: it's two bugs. One is that the error message is
unhelpful, and the other is that the CD should be ejectable if the only
programs that
Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit :
hi,
Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat:
I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High
frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
please see
Le vendredi 09 mai 2008 à 17:02 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit :
Martin Pitt wrote:
I don't consider it a new feature, but a better UI. Firefox has always
complained about invalid certificates, but until version 2 it was just
the well-known 'SSL yadayada cannot be verified mumblemumble click
Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made
local.
Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do
when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This
practice mades me
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 03:44 +, Justin M. Wray a écrit :
Another idea would be to not only tunnel SSH but also VNC.
Allowing the newbie to watch the helper do something at times might be
the goal, and will make help facilitate learning. In addition the issue
might be with a GTK/GUI
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 14:36 +0200, Stéphane Graber a écrit :
Apport is only used during development, it's turned off in final release.
Why is it disabled? I find it very useful to debug for advanced users
instead of getting gdb traces. Is there a way to manually activate it?
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Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 18:00 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit :
Hi,
Milan Bouchet-Valat [2008-05-07 17:41 +0200]:
Why is it disabled?
Because
(1) we have our hands full with fixing the development release and
want to concentrate on it
(2) we should already know about the top
Please don't take my remarks so badly! I did not said I was smarter than
every audio packager in Ubuntu, nor did I said this was absolutely
required for Ubuntu to be something usable and that else I'd immediately
go to Windows. Believe it if you want: I'm not even personally
interested in getting
Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 19:45 +0200, Gonz Hauser a écrit :
My opinion is that it should be possible to provide a _default_
configuration where jackd connects to pulseaudio (this is what
module-jack-source is for, right?).
Let me repeat my two concerns:
1. Ardour in Ubuntu Hardy
Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 16:23 +1000, Jared Moore a écrit :
Around a month ago I uploaded a patch to GNOME bugzilla to merge the
keyboard shortcuts capplet (gnome-keybinding-properties) into the
keyboard capplet (gnome-keyboard-properties) [1]. This was discussed
on the gnomecc-list [2],
Le jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 21:45 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
Op zondag 20-04-2008 om 20:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Milan
Bouchet-Valat:
I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery,
the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even
when
Hi all!
I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery,
the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even
when no application is running but the desktop.
atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but
I could not identify why.
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 15:11 -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing
search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a
feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a
magnifying glass (usually orange on
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 23:11 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
Do you have laptop mode enabled?
My guess is that it might be the (in)famous bug 59695.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
No, it's a fresh install without any tweak. But my guess would rather be
that the bug I experience
Has anybody managed to get the bogofilter plugin for Evolution work in
Hardy? For me, Evolution reports that learning spams works fine,
everything is present (plugin and binaries), spamassasin is disabled,
junk filtering is enabled, but spams don't get caught.
I wonder about this because I did
In Hardy, all applications that don't really manage system-wide or user
settings were moved from System-Preferences and -Administration to
Applications-System Tools.
This is a good idea as a general rule since previously both
configuration menus were bloated by numerous tools. But in the default
Sebastien Bacher wrote:
We will likely move some other things back there if we continue to use
the category. The comments there are interesting though. Why do you
think it's an issue? Do you find confusing to have the category unmasked
and containing only one item if you install vmware for
Le lundi 31 mars 2008 à 10:32 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit :
My panel is at the top of the screen. Perhaps this changes weirdly
depending on orientation?
Mine is a the top too.
I am using Metacity, with compositing turned on. Possibly a Compiz
issue?
This has always been a compiz issue.
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On Monday 24 March 2008 15:01:07 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Here we can just agree, but nobody codes directly into gedit.
Cheers
But isn't this a problem with PolicyKit and not Gedit?
AFAIK PolicyKit already allows to do this, gedit just needs
thibaut bethune a écrit :
I think that :
either the save button should not be active (at less)
either the user should have the possibilty to give the password to be
able to save the file (that would be perfect to me)
This is a good idea, but ubuntu-devel-discuss is IMHO not the best place
Greg K Nicholson a écrit :
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:19 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
You'd call it My
Diary because you are creating it for yourself.
The user doesn't label the Preferences menu for themself—the label
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Anyway, do we validate Preferences to Your Preferences ?
I'd say My preferences, as Remco argued few mails before:
Those are different things. Those tool tips are like a teacher
directly speaking to you. But the text in programs is about the
Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
A possible idea to improve the situation is to have a regression tag,
and to mark high priority all regressions. Say what you want, but this
is *exactly* the behaviour that one would expect from any software
distributor: things works, you break it, I tell you as soon
I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks.
Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a
good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it.
Naming them User Preferences and System Administration can be nice
since it's not too
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote :
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks.
Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a
good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it.
Naming
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) a écrit :
I like the proposal. Moving from
System
| - Preferences
` - Administration
to
Configuration
| - Your Preferences
` - System Administration
Is every one okay with this one ?
To me it's seems clearer: *Configuration* is more generic and
Chris Warburton wrote:
Hi thanks for the input. I realise that such a proposal is quite open
ended, thus I tried to split it into relatively clear steps to go
through to try and prevent both blue sky designing and worrying about
issues that end up not appearing in the implementation.
I think
Almost a year ago, I reported an issue [1] that appeared in OO.o Witer
in Feisty: the default font is set to Times, which does not exist and
actually acts as an alias for the former default Nimbus Roman No 9 L
(this does not affect users that upgraded from Edgy and older).
The problem is, people
Christian Csar a écrit :
So far the only problem with Firefox 3 in hardy, is that it seems to
have substantial problems visiting Google, but not other websites I have
noticed. This also only happens if I go by URL rather than IP address
from ping. What is also strange is that it is
Richard Mancusi wrote:
Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test
system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know
that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system.
As soon as I set a root password in
Since we talk about it, two questions about hunspell in Hardy:
1) The specification [1] about removing duplicate dictionnaries suggest
we make OpenOffice.org use myspell in order to avoid the need for
unspell. A comment states that hunspell is an improvement of myspell,
dropped by OO.o in the 2.x
Kevin Fries wrote:
This argument has raged before. Has anyone thought of maybe a
compromise... Something much better than GThumb (not hard) but not based
on Mono. Maybe something like Blue Marine?
http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/
Just a thought. They already package a DEB file and it is
Jan Claeyswrote:
Op vrijdag 04-01-2008 om 04:33 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Bryan
Quigley:
Is there any possibility of have locate use the tracker database?
Tracker databases are currently per-user, so I don't think that would be
useful.
Maybe if there ever exists a concept of
Kevin Fries a écrit :
snip
Modern Nix based systems have a wonderful tool called SUDO that makes
getting around this issue extremely easy. If you want someone to be
able to admin your box, add them to the admin group on any Ubuntu based
system. Then they have sudo access to any root
Timo Jyrinki a écrit :
snip
So still, I argue that slocate should be _at least_ moved to
cron.weekly, with the additional steps I'd hope for too:
1. move to cron.monthly instead of cron.weekly
2. switch from slocate to mlocate
3. remove mlocate/slocate dependency from Ubuntu default desktop
? It may be
worth to care about it, since it has many nice features, and only lacks
a few (UI for the most part, and Conduit will come).
Cheers,
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OK, just forget the GRUB password idea, I've understood how it can
become a complete mess. Sorry for the idea...
But what about that?
unggnu wrote:
snip
I like the way Ubuntu handles root that always sudo is needed so why we
don't make it with Recovery mode too? Just don't autologin root
The issue for now is clear: you can't let your, say, laptop to anybody
for an hour or even less without risking ha may easily get root access
and maybe change your password or modify your system. It can simply be
used to read confidential files, like personal mail, not like military
secret but
(Please don't kill me for intervening in this thread. :-) )
Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
I expected anything out of this thread, but people defending the idea
that keeping /usr/local/lib in the library path during system upgrades
is a good idea. I can accept to have problems *after* the upgrade,
There's obviously a need for a new infrastructure/UI. Since GDebi and
apt-url are to be disabled in future versions (which I approve of), we
should find a way to allow the user to select trusted repositories and
easily install software from there, either on a
replace-alla-installed-packages basis
I completely agree with Ian: let's just get rid of GDebi Co. installed
by default, thus requiring the users to copy/paste commands to a
console. This is IMHO the best warning we can provide, and daring/being
able to start a console and do this is already a check of the user will
and capacity at
Sebastien Bacher wrote:
As mentioned on the bug already that's not an Ubuntu specific issue and
should be worked upstream. There is no easy workaround known at the
moment but if you know one you are welcome to describe it on the bug
You know I'm not the kind of guy to damn Ubuntu because of
I'd like to raise your awareness about bug 141227
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-themes/+bug/141227)
which deals with a major issue in Gutsy.
Many menu icons appear blurry when you choose a theme other than Human.
I believe this is impacting all Ubuntu Destkops. This is
And how about using ReiserFS by default, or any other journaled
filesystem that doesn't require fsck to run regularly? I'm using
reiser3, and I hadn't noticed that fsck was run by default on startup
until a friend of mine installed Ubuntu with standard settings (i.e.
with ext3).
From Wikipedia:
Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
Adding a way for people to provide user-friendly apt sources without
having to upload screenshots on how to add sources in
system/administration/sources (whatever it is called in english) does
not change the overall security model of ubuntu and apt, which is, if
you
Mark Schouten said:
I prefer this too. I also think it is good to think about newbies, but
is it really necessary to ignore more advanced users just because they
know what they're looking for? I know I would be annoyed if locate was
missing on my server.
We're not talking about servers but
new users consider that their Ubuntu system is
doing jobs without their consent and in an irrational way. Thanks for
reading... :-)
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installing all
translations.
This way, you can select easily nice and relevant fonts, and we may
install more oringinal fonts. Am I saying something stupid here ? ;-) Do
you think this is worth a spec ?
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Done :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414862
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. This way, nothing would have been done at all on Ubuntu (compared
to Debian, which I love, for example).
Amicably,
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if this is taking space in the mailing list with no
interest at all. But I'm surprised of the reaction.
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with the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnifiedLoginUnlock spec, this
will make Ubuntu usable for home users. Currently, I have to hack
/etc/pam.d and /etc/shadow to allow my parents to login without
password: this is a real lack compared to Windows !
What do you think ?
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of use is a main target for Ubuntu, and using no
password at all should be proposed to the user when he creates an account.
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