Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-11 Thread Evan
While I realize that there is rarely much difference between rc and final release versions, I'm surprised that Gutsy shipped with the rc version of gimp. I was under the impression that the Ubuntu policy was to ship only stable, released versions of software with each major release. Parts of the

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-11 Thread Evan
On Nov 11, 2007 6:25 PM, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest you have a look at System - Preferences - Removable storage media (in Ubuntu)... I could be wrong, but doesn't that just automatically launch every binary on the disk? If it does refer to the autorun I was talking about

Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin

2007-12-01 Thread Evan
. Evan -- 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

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin

2007-12-01 Thread Evan
: Evan wrote: I know that Ubuntu comes with a program to read pdfs, but one of the features I miss from the full Acrobat Reader is the browser plugin that displays pdfs in the browser rather than launching them in a new window. Is there a way to achieve this in Ubuntu? If so, I'd like

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin

2007-12-02 Thread Evan
higher-up. Evan PS having the mozilla-openoffice.org plugin installed by default would be nice as well, assuming that people like inlined stuff like this. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-12-04 Thread Evan
Autofsck does look like the way to go. Especially nice would be the option to run a manual fsck, although that might already be an option ('a test can be run' or is that something else?). I'm definitely in favour of this. On Dec 4, 2007 11:50 AM, Dane Mutters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin

2007-12-05 Thread Evan
It looks like the general consensus is to leave things the way they currently are. I will pursue the creation of a mozilla-pdf plugin, but I won't ask for it to be default, just for inclusion in the repositories. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Q: Reason for partitioning scheme?

2007-12-13 Thread Evan
I definitely agree that the single / partition isn't the best way to go. My preference is swap /boot /home / While other partitions can be useful, this covers the most important areas (user data, settings, and the ability to continue to boot Windows/OSX regardless of what happens to Ubuntu).

Fwd: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-12-19 Thread Evan
in the hopes that it will get opened up for a more comprehensive discussion. Evan PS I also sent him a link to join this list, so hopefully he'll be able to contribute to the discussion. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan Musther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 19, 2007 3:35 PM

Re: fsck on boot is major usability issue

2007-12-21 Thread Evan
My personal preference would be to move it to shut-down, but an interruptable check on boot is better than nothing. Just my two cents. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

What is 'administrivia'?

2007-12-30 Thread Evan
I just sent an email to this list, and a few seconds later found out it had been put on hold pending review because: Message may contain administrivia What??? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2007-12-30 Thread Evan
except where 100% uptime is required' or something along those lines. While my suggestion does solve the problems I mentioned, I'm sure it introduces other that I haven't noticed. Just my two cents. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-04 Thread Evan
I second this. It's especially useful for those in Canada who prefer English but type a lot in French. On Jan 4, 2008 6:52 PM, Joel Bryan Juliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be a chance for compose key be assigned and enabled by default? Since Ubuntu include and support many languages,

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Evan
I prefer the left win key or 'power' key myself. AFAIK it isn't used for anything else. The problem with CapsLock is that some people will try using it for it's original purpose and get confused. On Jan 7, 2008 9:26 AM, Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:52

Re: gThumb

2008-01-16 Thread Evan
On Jan 16, 2008 4:36 PM, George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: F-Spot in Gutsy with a default install will NOT display my photos, on my Acer Aspire Laptop however Gthumb will. How do you mean? Does it not support the file format, or is this a bug that should be reported? I second the DVD

Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Evan
I like the look of this, but it's probably too late to make it to Hardy. Maybe Hardy+1? On 2/4/08, Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: What do you think about it? Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF

Re: Make sense keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

2008-02-07 Thread Evan
that frees up the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combo, then it would work for launching the system-monitor. That's all. Evan -- 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

Re: Make sense keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

2008-02-09 Thread Evan
It is only a keybinding, so as long as people can change it, then the default doesn't matter all that much. The only problem with the concept at the moment is that people will expect it to work during full-screen apps like Ctrl-Alt-Delete does in windows. It doesn't at the moment because SDL and

Re: Miro (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2008-02-09 Thread Evan
I don't know about the average computer, but it probably varies quite a bit. I'm typing this on a P3 1Ghz with 256MB of ram. Ubuntu runs moderately slowly but easily survivable. Xubuntu runs decently. I'm a bit of a speed freak though, so I installed the core bits from the alternate cd and built a

Re: Miro (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2008-02-09 Thread Evan
, but this is something that should be fixed in the packaging: miro depends on firefox. On 2/9/08, Greg K Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 13:09 -0500, Evan wrote: I'm typing this on a P3 1Ghz with 256MB of ram. Ubuntu runs moderately slowly but easily survivable. ... I'd say

Re: Miro (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2008-02-09 Thread Evan
Miro starts up with about 35MB of ram, and maxes out around 100MB, but only after downloading and watching a lot of stuff, and browsing many channels. When it starts for the first time, and you point it to any videos you already have on disk, it generates thumbnails for every one. This process is

Re: Problem with Grub being installed in MBR as default (GG)

2008-04-07 Thread Evan
IMHO, adding a boot-loader page to the installer would cause more trouble than it's worth with new users. However, the 'advanced' button should be far more visible. Make it bigger, and label it 'configure boot-loader' or something. Very few people will use it, but those who do need to be able to

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-05 Thread Evan
this, I just thought I'd mention that previous upgrades have caused issues with scrollkeeper-update, in which the only way to continue was to kill the process. Having a 'skip package' option would have been particularly useful in that situation. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-05 Thread Evan
It was actually spitting out errors in the cli. Something about a malformed prefs file. Killing the update and running sudo dpkg-reconfigure scrollkeeper fixed it. On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Sam Tygier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evan wrote: Reading this, I just thought I'd mention

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Evan
provide a warning that Naming a file on this partition with any of the following characters will prevent Windows from opening it. Are you sure you want to continue? Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008-05-16 Thread Evan
reorganization, we have to be absolutely sure that the majority would benefit from it. Evan -- 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

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

2008-05-24 Thread Evan
-English. It's quite possible that German-layout keyboards are the norm in Germany. However, it is my guess that the standard US-English layout is common enough that it makes sense to leave this as-is. Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

2008-05-24 Thread Evan
As I mentioned, it depends on what percent of non-english locales actually use non-english keyboards. I guessed that US-English layouts would be quite common even in non-english locales, but if non-english keyboards make up the majority, then this makes sense. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-08 Thread Evan
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Darren Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5) Built-in support for last.fm There is a rhythmbox plugin for this included in the default Hardy install. If rhythmbox is kept, perhaps there should be a look at enabling it by default. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-22 Thread Evan
IIRC, it was going to provide delta updates. Smaller server load, smaller downloads, etc. It's a great idea, but seems to be dead. All of the pages I can find that mention it are early 2007. Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project website is: https://launchpad.net/apt-sync The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer (usually saving around

Re: Cannot boot alpha-1

2008-07-02 Thread Evan
I installed Hardy in VirtualBox and then upgraded to alpha-1. I haven't had any problems. My kernel is currently 2.6.26-2. Guest Additions also seem to work normally. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Evan
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Luke L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769112 NOW people realize that something is wrong with the dev cycle! I started a discussion on the dev cycle on this list a while back

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-07 Thread Evan
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:43:44AM -0500, Luke L wrote: Considerations for an LTS One idea to prevent such a rush of higher version numbers and new gadgets from breaking a distro is to use a STS release as an LTS. For

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-07 Thread Evan
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Luke L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/08, Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would propose a compromise between the current LTS pattern and the proposed bug-fix only pattern: maintain the current upstream merge, but add no new packages. That way newer

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-07 Thread Evan
. I can't find it at the moment, but it's in a post somewhere at markshuttleworth.com I also think this would help significantly. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Debugging help

2008-07-17 Thread Evan
. It doesn't involve a crash, so there aren't any backtraces, and nothing related is showing up in any of the log files I've looked at. There's probably a wiki page on how to deal with these sort of situations, but I couldn't find any. Anyone care to take a look? Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Debugging help

2008-07-17 Thread Evan
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Andrew Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be related to the infamous bug #196277? To my untrained eye, it looks rather like the issues described by Frantisek Fuka in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/196277 Since the workaround

Re: Automatic fsck

2008-08-19 Thread Evan
. I like this. If this is implemented, there needs to be a timer (maybe 30 seconds) that does a normal shutdown without fsck when it times out. If the user closes their laptop before the prompt shows up, they don't want their computer on and draining batteries waiting for input. Evan -- Ubuntu

F-spot 0.5.0.1 for Intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Evan
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? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: ALSA -dev package?

2008-10-04 Thread Evan
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Have you tried installing libasound2-dev ? That was it. Thank you. I was just doing a quick synaptic search for 'alsa' and didn't find it. I didn't realize that the actual alsa lib is called libasound. Evan

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-23 Thread Evan
the user's life easier by doing at least some things automatically. Just keep in mind, the more control you want over your system, the more work you're going to have to do to keep it running. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Feedback on an install of Intrepid

2009-01-11 Thread Evan
I can only address the problem of playing music from a file server, but I'm curious why you didn't try to use the default music player with Ubuntu, called Rhythmbox? It can play music stored on an external file server without any problems. Just my 2 cents. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Memtest86

2009-01-17 Thread Evan
to remove this. Evan -- 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

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-01-31 Thread Evan
It sounds like a good idea, but I don't know how feasible it would be. I know at one point there was also work going on with debdiffs, but I haven't heard anything on that in a long time. At the very least, this is definitely an area that needs to be looked at, maybe at the Jaunty+1 UDS? Evan

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-01-31 Thread Evan
Another possibility that I just recalled was that of using lzma compression instead of gzip for the packages. Again, it was discussed a while ago and I haven't heard anything since. Did anything ever come of that? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-12 Thread Evan
, and people who don't know what they're doing won't accidentally lose all their work when they mis-type. It seems win-win to me. Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: RFC: Ubuntu Gateway

2009-02-19 Thread Evan
Sounds like a very interesting idea. One other thing I'd like to throw out there is perhaps an option for transparent TOR, for the truly paranoid among us ;) Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Questions about Encrypted Home in Jaunty

2009-02-22 Thread Evan
with the same username/password)? Evan -- 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

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-23 Thread Evan
, then Compiz from then on, and I still noticed the slow-down. My guess is that it's a bug in Compiz, coincidentally introduced in the same cycle as compiz-by-default. When I disable desktop effects (running intrepid) my login speeds up by a good 15 seconds. Does anybody else notice this? Evan

Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-03-31 Thread Evan
download/install would be happening in an entirely seperate window, affected only by steps 3 and 4. And that's the concept. Again, this is a strawman, so criticizm is welcome. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-01 Thread Evan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Evan Evan wrote on 31/03/09 23:19: While apt, synaptic, update-manager, and gnome-app-install all do decent jobs of providing front-ends for package

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

2009-04-10 Thread Evan
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 7:28:33 pm John Moser wrote: Other than that, anything I throw at it gets burned to the CD. Ability to lay out a directory hierarchy and playlists would be nice too, but pretty much it should

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

2009-04-12 Thread Evan
2009/4/12 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo ubu...@bugabundo.net Olá Evan e a todos. On Saturday 11 April 2009 02:54:14 Evan wrote: Auto-transcoding in rhythmbox has been on my wishlist for a long time. If someone familiar with the Rhythmbox code would be kind enough to point me in the right

CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-27 Thread Evan
- In jaunty the cpu scales up to 100% I found a website [1] which does a good job of explaining it, and I tried setting my ignore_nice_load to 1, but nice processes still scale the processor up. Unless I am mistaken, this is a bug. What information should I attach to the bug report? Evan [1] http

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-27 Thread Evan
Reposting to full list. Sorry Felipe. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Felipe Figueiredo phils...@gmail.comwrote: Evan wrote: I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something curious. I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be raised

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-28 Thread Evan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Evan wrote: I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something curious. I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be raised

Rhythmbox Notifications when not minimized

2009-05-04 Thread Evan
be a trivial hack, and would like to take a stab at it myself (either via recompiling or writing a plugin). Would somebody please point me in the right direction? Evan [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/219880/comments/5 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Rhythmbox Notifications when not minimized

2009-05-10 Thread Evan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote: Op maandag 04-05-2009 om 19:52 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Evan: Is there an option to display notifications even when the Rhythmbox window is open? No idea, but... Did a bit more poking around. Long story short

More CPU Scaling Problems

2009-05-16 Thread Evan
seems like it's probably related. Is something funny going on, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Evan [1] http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpufreqd/+bug/368809 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: More CPU Scaling Problems

2009-05-17 Thread Evan
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Stefan Lesicnik ste...@lsd.co.za wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: 1. What does Ubuntu use to scale CPU frequencies? Does it use the kernel method, as described at [1], or something else? 2. Did the method change between

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-21 Thread Evan
and testing them on the specific hardware configurations which they sell with Ubuntu. There are few enough different hardware pieces that this is a good way for them to avoid the occasional accidental regression. Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Evan
, always use base-10, or decide it on a case-by-case basis depending on other factors (like HDDs using base-10 size labels already). I hope this email does not simply add to the confusion this thread has already generated. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Whatever happened to...

2009-06-09 Thread Evan
as well? I personally would like to see both of these feature, and I'm curious what happened to them. Evan -- 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

Re: Better clipboard management?

2009-06-17 Thread Evan
light. I'm not too keen on their default shortcuts though; perhaps Ctrl-Alt-C would be better to bring up the menu since it's so close to the regular copy and paste commands? Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Evan
and onto disk while importing them into F-Spot, and I think that ought to be a fairly common use case. I would vote against removing this feature, however perhaps the default should be to have it unchecked. Someone should talk to upstream on that. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: RFC: binary compatibility between short cycles

2009-07-01 Thread Evan
like to have a more precise definition of Infrastructure packages. Anything with a public API seems rather broad, but I believe necessary to maintain complete compatibility between releases. It is a very interesting idea, and I look forward to seeing how it develops. Evan [1] https

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-02 Thread Evan
it would work with systems like Launchpad or the mailing lists, but it's at least an interesting concept. Something else to ponder. Just my two cents, Evan [1] http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/drupal/me-too-storms [2] http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/drupal/me-too-storms-solutions -- Ubuntu

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-02 Thread Evan
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: Evan wrote: snip - metaforums and subforums I like this idea in principle, but in practice I'd be worried about messages being pushed back and forth between forums - your sound driver breaks

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-03 Thread Evan
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew SB a.star...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Evan R. Murphyevanrmur...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose that we have a better metric for selecting the best answer, in that the person posing the question could select the answer

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-03 Thread Evan
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Evan R. Murphy evanrmur...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/3 Evan eapa...@gmail.com: I've been subscribed to this list and filing bugs for over a year now, and I hadn't even heard of Launchpad Answers before now. Maybe I live under a rock, but I think promotion

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-07 Thread Evan
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Onno Benschop o...@itmaze.com.au wrote: On 03/07/09 11:44, Andrew Sayers wrote: when someone comes to you with a problem, first fix the presenting problem, then fix the second-order problem that caused it, then the third-order problem, and so on back to the

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I think the model we're heading towards with the signpost is that the wiki page contains questions that have been asked before, while IRC and the wiki discussion page are for new questions. Makes sense

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:14:53 -0400 Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I think the model we're heading towards

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM, C de-Avillez hgg...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:47 -0400, Evan wrote: The only issue I can find with this approach is that many new users are coming from windows. Have you tried using windows help? It does

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Evan
better luck with 9.10 or 10.04. Evan -- 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

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: 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

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-29 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm

Re: OpenOffice update

2009-10-22 Thread Evan
question, Evan [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Broken session idling/power management in Karmic

2009-10-28 Thread Evan
be more appropriate, and leave the 'stable release' moniker for LTS releases only. Just my two cents, Evan -- 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

Re: Broken session idling/power management in Karmic

2009-10-28 Thread Evan
/28 Evan eapa...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:39 AM, George Farris farr...@cc.mala.bc.ca wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:36 +, Alexander H Deriziotis wrote: Is there hope for this to be fixed in karmic? I'm no developer, but I think that's very unlikely

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz Normal and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread Evan
and Extra settings). Metacity is a 2D window manager, (None setting) that should work practically anywhere. If you're running a graphical environment at all then you're likely running Metacity still, unless you manually switched to an alternative like Fluxbox or IceWM. All the best, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Install Wizard 'Looks Too Complicated'

2009-12-01 Thread Evan
screen doesn't really require much interaction, we could do some marketing with our three-step install or something along those lines. Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: making a workaround web page for bugs, in LTS release, not fixed

2010-01-07 Thread Evan
imagine most home users would rather have the original bug fixed in the first place, but they're not the ones paying Canonical for support contracts. Just my two cents, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Backup application in default install

2010-01-27 Thread Evan
I believe Deja-Dup was originally started for the purpose of becoming default. At the very least, it is simple, useful and actively developed. https://launchpad.net/deja-dup I'm not sure how stable it as at the moment, since I'm not actively using it, but I have poked around its interface a bit.

Re: if my disks start spinning wildly i wanna know whats causing it

2010-02-08 Thread Evan
a blueprint on launchpad, or upstream with gnome? Evan On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Larry D'Anna la...@elder-gods.org wrote: On 2010-02-08, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.. I got a feature request for system monitor for you: Please add the ability to view disk-activity/second per

Re: Question regarding A828_Installer_x64_0.28-Beta

2010-02-12 Thread Evan
without the source. Evan -- 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

Triaging Bugs with Patches

2010-02-17 Thread Evan
at rewriting that section. Thanks, Evan [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpcap/+bug/523340 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpcap/+bug/523349 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Patches -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Triaging Bugs with Patches

2010-02-20 Thread Evan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Brian Murray br...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:42:34PM -0500, Evan wrote: I've been triaging a few bugs, and I came across a pair of bugs in libpcap which had patches [1][2]. I found and checked the wiki page on triaging bugs with patches

Package version numbers in names

2010-03-09 Thread Evan
the Ubuntu Policy Manual and found nothing pertinent. Could someone clarify please? Thanks, Evan -- 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

Re: Package version numbers in names

2010-03-09 Thread Evan
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 10:36 -0500, Evan wrote: In a normal scenario, for a library X, we would have the package libX. When a new version of the lib is released upstream, the new version gets packaged

Re: Package version numbers in names

2010-03-10 Thread Evan
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:55 -0500, Evan wrote: Thank you so much for clarifying, that makes more sense. Now let's throw symlinks into the mix :) Suppose libexample is at version 1.0 upstream. The previous

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Evan
beyond printf, but I do hope you get it working. Cheers, Evan -- 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

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-15 Thread Evan
sort of anomaly. Cheers, Evan -- 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

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Evan
but does not completely solve the problem. That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Evan -- 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

Re: Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-24 Thread Evan
, especially if the ureadahead daemon is optimized for this use case? For security we definitely want users to enter their passwords by default. However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead should be optimized for this option, not for auto-login. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-24 Thread Evan
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/24 Evan eapa...@gmail.com: For security we definitely want users to enter their passwords by default. However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead should be optimized for this option

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-07 Thread Evan
cents, Evan -- 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

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Evan
the menu). With the integrated application list, how do we nicely handle both of these use cases? Cheers, Evan -- 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

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Evan
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Derek Broughton de...@pointerstop.ca wrote: Evan wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: I chewed on this thought for a bit, and I think adding a really close button to a window would compromise what is _potentially_

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