RE: Freedesktop Default sound theme in jaunty archive

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

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 Hi all,
  We are discussing this thread
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1032429
 and came to know about freedesktop sound theme .

 It seems that this theme isn't packaged yet although andrewsomething
 has put it in his PPA.

 https://edge.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/+archive

For the record, I did not package this myself. It is just a build of the
package that was rejected from Debian since some of the sounds are
licensed CC. The packaging branch can be found here:

http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/freedesktop-sound-theme.git


 There is a bug which talks about it in more detail.

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/281044

 Can something be done about it during this cycle?


As I mentioned in the linked forum thread I would be happy to package
some sound themes for Jaunty if any one can point to some good sound
themes that are appropriately licensed.

I looked around gnome-look, and couldn't find anything that seemed
appropriate. Most sound themes on gnome-look seem to actually be KDE
themes or just random sounds, not following the theme spec. The most
popular theme that follows the spec is specifically licensed to prevent
derivative works, which rules it out.

Especially since the new volume control applet makes the sound themes
much more visible, it would be nice to populate the archive with at
least a few.

Also, does packaging already exist for the theme that was briefly tested
in the Intrepid cycle? While it was ruled out as a default, is there any
reason to not provide it in the archive?

- - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Ubuntu Universe Contributor
https://edge.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com
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Re: Call for testing empathy

[Bryan Quigley]

Did they add IRC support?  We really want to have an IRC client by default
(Pidgin is one).

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Danny Piccirillo 
danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion?


 I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better!
 File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic!

 On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas 
 m...@canonical.comwrote:

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 Laurent Bigonville wrote on 08/08/08 21:12:
 ...
  Empathy[1] will be part of the upcoming GNOME 2.24 desktop.
  The ubuntu desktop team considers using it instead of Pidgin for
  intrepid as default IM client. If you are running intrepid, please give
  empathy a test and report bugs to launchpad[2].
 ...

 To help in this decision, I have evaluated the usability of Empathy and
 Pidgin, and written up my findings.
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability
 In summary, I suggest that Ubuntu continue using Pidgin by default for
 Intrepid, and that we reconsider Empathy for Intrepid+1.

 Empathy currently does a couple of big things Pidgin does not (audio and
 video chat), and handles one big feature much better than Pidgin (chat
 logging). But I found most features were more obvious in Pidgin,
 especially account setup, which is important for anyone who will start
 using IM in Intrepid. (And people who were already using either Empathy
 or Pidgin in a previous version of Ubuntu will continue using the same
 program in Intrepid anyway, regardless of our decision.)

 I found dozens of small learnability and efficiency problems in both
 programs, and I have not yet had time to report them all as bugs. If
 anyone would like to help out with this, especially in finding bugs that
 have already been reported, I'd greatly appreciate it. (Wherever the
 wiki page says (), it needs a link to a bug report.)

 Cheers
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