Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Zakharov 
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 00:00 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:

 Le vendredi 03 juillet 2009 à 06:59 -0700, Tim Zakharov a écrit :
  I think it's worth mentioning again, but slightly off-topic, that we
  really need in F-Spot, to uncheck Copy files to the Photos folder as
  a default setting in the Import dialog.  This assumes you want your
  photos in said folder, in your home directory, and one must remember
  *each time* one imports photos, to uncheck this box if you choose your
  photos to be in a different destination.
  
  Imagine for the first time running F-spot, and importing your
  collection of 30,000 photos you store on an external drive, and not
  noticing this setting.  Hours later, when the file copy completes,
  your home directory now has no free space.  Now imagine each time you
  import more photos, you forget to uncheck this setting, then must
  manually delete the photos it copied over.  This to me is a terrible
  feature of F-spot, which is otherwise a very decent photo organizer.
 Good candidate for a paper cut, isn't it? F-Spot should remember your
 last choice at least, even if we can argue that the default should be to
 copy files. Maybe we could also check the media the photos are on, and
 check the box by default accordingly (e.g. you want to copy photos
 coming from a camera or flash card).
 
 Would you report a bug as such against both f-spot in Ubuntu and
 hundredpapercuts? Thanks!

It appears to already be reported in Launchpad and upstream.  Bug report
270238.  I can't see how to nominate this bug for hundredpapercuts?
However, I did see a duplicate (393406) where the bug reporter was told
this is a bug in the program, not a papercut.  I don't want to make
waves by trying to report as a papercut when someone already decided it
wasn't. 

Thanks for the feedback.
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Re: Need some assistance...

2009-05-19 Thread Tim Zakharov 
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:12 -0500, Kevin Stagg wrote:
 I have an old HP Pavillion ze5200 (512MB RAM - Pentium 4) with Windows
 XP wasting space in my office. I set up a virtual server on my home
 machine for the latest Ubuntu OS and am loving it. So I'm thinking I
 want to reformat the HP, wiping it clean, and then install Ubuntu as
 the new OS on said laptop.
  
 Anybody know of any good tutorials on how I can accomplish this? Is it
 pretty straightforward? Do I just copy the latest Ubuntu .iso onto a
 CDROM and let it run on the HP and it will walk me through the
 process, giving me a clean reformatted pc as well?
 
 I apologize in advance if this isn't the right forum for this type of
 question.
  
 Many thanks,
 Kevin
It is pretty straightforward.  You pretty much described it to a tee.  I
always use the alternate install CD as it is quicker to install than the
live CD, but in your case you might want to try the live Cd first to
make sure your hardware is compatible with the OS.

One thing, you don't just copy the .iso to a CD, you must burn the .iso
image to disc.  It is a different process from just copying the .iso
file.  Your CD burning software should have an option called Burn .iso
image or something to that effect.  

When you get to the partitioner, you could just leave it on automatic
settings and it will partition for you. I can't recall how it handles
wiping out the old XP install, but if need be, you could manually do
that and then let the installer do an automatic installation.  For more
info, see this page and the various links on it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/index.html
 


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