[Lubuntu-desktop] Experiment: Merge LXSession/LXSessionEdit/LXPolkit and make them a single package.
Hi all, To simpify LXDE, I did some experiment last night. Since LXSession and LXSession Edit actually are used together, I merged them and make them the same package. Though LXSession Edit is originally designed to be desktop independent and can work under other DEs, I found no real use case of this. To ease the maintaince, I moved LXSession Edit into LXsession so they will have concurrent update and there will no longer be any version mismatch between these two. For LXPolkit, since udisks and other services requires a proper PolicyKit agent, a Polkit agent is a must-have for modern desktop environment. The authentication agent runs on session startup and terminates when the session terminates. It has the same lifespan as the desktop session. So to avoid unnecessary daemons, I merged PolicyKit with LXSession. Now the PolicyKit agent is built-into LXSession and runs in the same process. So no additional authentication agents, such as policykit-gnome or lxpolkit need to be installed. This decreased number of daemons and packages. Some may argue that session manager should not be mixed with other stuff. This is true most of the times. However the rationale behind this move is quite simple. These daemons are all essential parts of the DE. They have completely the same lifespan and they should work together. They are all small and simple. So putting them in one single daemon should be better than running many separate daemons in terms of resource usage and efficiency. In addition, it will be easier for upstream developer and packager to maintain. To sum up, these three packages became one single LXSession package now and the policykit agent runs in the process of lxsession rather than as a separate daemon. For those who still missed policykit-gnome and want to use it, try lxsession --disable-polkit to disable the built-in policykit agent and to run your own instead. It's not the final decision and it's put in a branch called integration. git://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxde/lxsession branch integration Please test and give some comments. Thanks. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Lubuntu-desktop] Lsc news
hi everybody, i'm doing some work on Lsc (aka lubuntu software center). i've understood that USC is too much complex, cleaning up the code and removing unuseful parts will be too much difficutl (imho). MintInstall use massively synaptic as backend via os.popen (really i don't like it). anyway, the branch is still lp:~stephen-smally/+junk/lubuntu-software-center now Lsc list the sections give in the file data/categories (the syntax is Name||icon-name||section e.g. Utils||applications-utilities||utils). choosing a section, Lsc list the apps contained in the section, selecting an app you can see some info (description). you can also see your installed apps. at the moment you can remove or install packages (coming soon). there is a stupid function that define if the package is an app or a lib, but it doesn't work fine. please give me some feedbacks Regards Stephen Smally ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu-Desktop] Sound Editing Software
2011/8/17 Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com I've had to adjust the mic balance in alsamixer to get the mic working on my last few laptops. Seems to be a bug were both channels can't be at full volume. It's pretty common for people trying to use Skpe with Acer/Gateway/Packard Bell laptops needing to do this. A quick internet search might help. Also, there is a toggle in alsamixer to turn lines on and off. I think it worked with my hardware. I know it's just a workaround. Sorry I can't be of more help. Tim Thanks Tim, i've take a look at it but finally it seems that it's something with Lubuntu + Pulseaudio (or just pulseaudio?)... removing pulseaudio makes audacity to work again and the levels can be set to 100% again. Ps: does anyone have a clue why if i install pulseaudio the sound of everything in my laptop is better? -- jpxsat ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
