Re: The DPI problem
Le jeudi 18 décembre 2008, à 13:21 -0500, Nikolaus Rath a écrit : The gnome DPI is set to 96 by default and can be changed and viewed graphically. There is no distinction between horizontal and vertical. Unless Ubuntu changes things, GNOME uses the X dpi by default (unless the user forces a dpi). Note that in openSUSE, we went back to 96 by default, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553652 (but there's no distinction between horizontal and vertical, indeed) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: removing themes
Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008, à 23:33 +0200, Kenneth Wimer a écrit : I think that if we replaced the aging themes we could, in their place, include a couple of interesting new ones. I think users would get much more out of being able to select a modern sexy theme. In this way we offer our default theme, accessability themes and a few beautiful, sexy themes. Sounds like something that should be done upstream ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Reorganisation of the desktop wiki pages
Le jeudi 25 septembre 2008, à 18:30 +0200, Cesare Tirabassi a écrit : Anyway, are the tools you use to generate that page open source? I'd be interested to see how you fetch the data (especially for stuff not hosted on ftp.gnome.org). It's not just open source, it's free :-) It's in http://www.vuntz.net/git/osc-plugins.git/ (in the obs-dissector plugin -- look at download-upstream-versions). I need to fix the license (it's LGPL or GPL, instead of what's mentioned in the header). You also need to take a look at upstream-limits.txt and upstream-tarballs.txt. It's in no way openSUSE specific, and the long-term goal I have is to make this data easily available so everybody can use it (instead of having everyone run this kind of scripts). FWIW, it currently output a file with lines like this (format is stupid and might need a change): nonfgo:cairo:1.8.0:http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.0.tar.gz (nonfgo is just historical cruft, because I took the format we use inside the GNOME release team to release GNOME) I'll probably add the md5sum and/or sha1sum when possible. If you add more upstream modules, please send me patches :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Reorganisation of the desktop wiki pages
Le jeudi 25 septembre 2008, à 17:38 +0200, Didier Roche a écrit : For you information, I spoke with Vincent Untz at PCL (french promotion event) and he shew me this link: http://tmp.vuntz.net/opensuse-packages/obs.py This tools has the same goal for the OpenSUSE distribution and a command line client enables them to update some information. As vuntz subscribed to this ML, I think he can give more information if needed. Sure, more information available :-) Just ask stuff. I didn't read the thread so far, but the point of my tool is to make it easier for people to update packages in openSUSE. Knowing which packages are not up-to-date is part of this, but there are other things. Need to leave soon, so I don't really have time to write down how this works right now -- but yeah, ask questions! (Didier, btw, it's openSUSE, not OpenSUSE ;-)) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: OpenOffice.org using %U vs %F to open files
Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, à 18:24 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit : Chris Cheney [2008-07-23 11:58 -0500]: Also, I don't know if this is a bug but after opening a document over smb it shows up in the Places-Recent Documents, but if you click on it there it opens it in File Roller instead of OOo. Maybe it only looks at applications that support %U to open Recent Documents? That indeed sounds like a bug in the panel. I don't see why a file should behave differently when you open it in nautilus or in recent documents. Is that filed somewhere already? Most probably not a bug in the panel: look at ~/.recently-used.xbel for the file and the mime type of the file written in there. The panel uses this. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Change autohide panel default settings ?
Le lundi 02 juin 2008, à 11:36 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : Vincent, what do you think about doing such changes? I think I agreed with most of the changes some time ago already. Please open an upstream bug or ping me on irc this month so that I change this upstream. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?
Le dimanche 10 février 2008, à 22:09 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:06 AM, William Lachance wrote: ... A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first (the default setting is locked). This prevents the user from inadvertently moving the panel when (e.g.) they're just trying to open an application. ... This really is a serious usability problem: it's tripped up my girlfriend at least once, and you can see lots of complaints in the bugs about this happening to other people as well. I'd really love to see it fixed. Unfortunately this is not a good solution to the problem, because it introduces an unnecessary mode -- unlocked versus locked. Modes should be avoided whenever possible, because remembering which mode you're in takes extra mental effort. A better solution would be to introduce a quasimode, a temporary mode based on a physical action. We already have an example of this for dragging in Ubuntu: holding down the Alt key currently lets you move windows by dragging anywhere, even on areas where dragging would normally do something else. The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel, while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less likely to move the panel by mistake. FWIW, the current plan, discussed at GUADEC, is to have both solutions: edit mode (where you can easily move/add/remove applets and panels) and the alt+drag for moving applets and panels. It just needs to be implemented :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: patch to allow pager to do free repositioning of windows
Hi, Le samedi 12 janvier 2008, à 17:07 +0100, Matteo Nastasi aka mop a écrit : Hi, I have developed a program that allow to slide windows partially out of the desktop into the desktop if the mouse pointer is over or not them. A graphical explaination is here: http://www.alternativeoutput.it/img/slidewin.jpg To work correctly my application (http://mop.mine.nu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/slidewin/) needs a window manager that allow pager to move windows outside the desktop. This patch allow pager program like wmctrl (and only these) to move windows where it communicates (my patch works accordingly to specs: http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2506756) To apply the patch you need compile the package before (sorry). Could you elaborate why this is needed (ie, why doesn't it work without this patch)? [...] + /* MOP patch */ + if (source == 0x02) +flags |= META_IS_USER_ACTION; I'm not sure that the fact that the source is a pager always implies that it's a user action (in terms of META_IS_USER_ACTION). Is this a correct assumption? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Desktop Team Development Meeting, 2007-12-13
Le vendredi 14 décembre 2007, à 17:41 +, Ted Gould a écrit : On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 15:02 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 13 décembre 2007, à 14:48 +, Scott James Remnant a écrit : * UbuntuSpec:exit-strategy : Working on cleaning up XSMP to make people happy enough to put it in more apps. So then we can query their document change status. Should solve many other UI issues. Currently there is an issue finding the current version of the spec. Seems it's not in git. I didn't bring up bazaar ;) Do you plan to work with upstream on this? I've not followed the spec since UDS, so I must admit I don't know where things are going, but this really sounds like something that could be done upstream (or at least tried to be done upstream) Dr. Untz, Yes. I started talking to GNOME folks, and realized that nothing was going to happen without cleaning up XSMP enough that people weren't angry at it anymore :) So, I've been talking to the X folks about revising the spec and cleaning it up so that it's more clear. I still haven't found the current version though... work in progress. Sounds great! You might want to ask GNOME/KDE (and other environments that are implementing XSMP) people what changes they'd like to see happening there. Well, maybe the relevant people are on the xorg lists, but a small mail to xdg to make everybody aware of this effort might help too :-) Thanks for working on this! Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Panel resizing
Hi, Just some technical background... (I don't know what's the best way to solve all this and I'm open to suggestions) On ven, 2007-11-16 at 18:07 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Ted Gould wrote: As long as the icons on the dock use the themes correctly this shouldn't be a big deal. ... Unfortunately they don't, as you can see by playing with the Panel Properties window in Ubuntu 7.10. The most egregious example is the Ubuntu icon itself: despite the presence of /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/places/distributor-logo.svg, the Ubuntu icon in the Main Menu applet doesn't scale beyond 48px, and the Ubuntu icon in the default Menu Bar applet doesn't scale at all. (The latter might be constrained by the non-resizing Applications text; I think that's an example of basic aesthetic incompatibility between text menus and a manually-resizable panel.) IIRC, the reason icons are not scaled beyond 48px was that they were taking so much place after that size that it doesn't make sense. Now that we have bigger wider screens, it might make sense again (the menu bar icon is a different issue, since the size is enforced by the fact that it's a real GtkMenuBar widget) Even if the icons did use the themes correctly, that wouldn't work well for panel sizes such as 30px, 31px, and 41px to 47px inclusive, just as it doesn't work well now. With a panel size that was specified in points and scaling itself based on the screen resolution, you might easily end up in those pixel ranges and not know why the panel looked bad. We never scale icons in the panel. For a panel with a size between 24px and 31px, we use the 24px with some padding around it. For 32 to 47, we use the 32px icon with some padding, etc. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Panel resizing
Le mardi 13 novembre 2007, à 23:21 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein a écrit : Am Dienstag, den 13.11.2007, 12:57 -0800 schrieb Ted Gould: One of the UI reviews of Ubuntu Gutsy specifically mentioned that the panel resizing was not good. And specifically that in the world of SVG icons it should be perfect. Having never resized my panels I set out to grab some screenshots: AFAIK the panel will be rewritten for GNOME 2.22. Such discussions should go upstream. (Unfortunately, not for 2.22. Schedule is way too short now.) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Default list of search engines in Deskbar
Le vendredi 05 octobre 2007, à 13:30 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit : Hi, In https://launchpad.net/bugs/131182, Ian notes that the list of search engines is rather arbitrary. The list of search engines in Deskbar actually comes from the Firefox bookmarks though. I guess the ideal long term solution for Ubuntu would be to unify default bookmarks, search engines etc. in a single package which would be used for Firefox, Epiphany, etc. As a short term solution, perhaps we can agree on which search engines to include by default, list them on some wiki page and patch Firefox to honor this list so that newer installation get these search engines in Deskbar? There's also the question of the default search engine to use when simply hitting enter in Deskbar: this should probably be the default Firefox search engine instead of the first search engine. The current list can be found with the attached script: Wikipedia topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search Ubuntu Package Search http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/ Google http://www.google.com/search Yahoo http://search.yahoo.com/search Answers.com http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery eBay http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/ Any suggestion for additions/removals? Should Google be the preferred default? IMHO, this list (and the default) should be localizable: Google might be the preferred search engine in some places and Yahoo! might be somewhere else. Amazon might not exist in some languages and some countries have similar webshops which are more used. Etc. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Fast-user-switch-applet not on panel by default
Le mardi 02 octobre 2007, à 21:21 -0400, Thomas Thurman a écrit : On 02/10/2007, Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps FUSA should just not show up if it finds only one user. As soon as there are additional users added, it would show as it does today. Sure, we can do that. Anyone want me to add it? This can be extremly confusing. Someone will add the applet and see nothing. Then adds it again. Again. Again. Creates a user. And finally sees 4 applets... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Hide on lost focus in the panels.
Hi, On Mon, June 5, 2006 18:32, Edir wrote: I would like to understand why the icons in panels are not been hidden automatically when they lost focus! For example, when you want to change the volume of the speakers, you click on volume control, change it and them you need to click on the icon to close. Why don't hide it when the focus is lost? This occurs to all the tools, calendar, deskbar, etc. If an option on panel lost its focus, this means i don't want to use it! So, this is not a general behaviour: it works like what you would expect in the volume control case, eg. However, the calendar does not work like this. There was a discussion about this a few years ago in GNOME bugzilla. It was pointed out that when you open the calendar, you might want to do some other stuff and check the date at the same time (eg, to see if the date of a trip you're planning with a website are okay for you). But it would also make sense to automatically close the calendar as you suggest: both usecases make sense and a choice has to be made. As for deskbar, it shouldn't behave this way. If it does, please file a bug. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question
Le mercredi 08 mars 2006 à 20:35 +0100, Christian Bjälevik a écrit : tis 2006-02-21 klockan 23:39 +0800 skrev Jerome Gotangco: Thunderbird 6.1mb Evolution doesn't run on Win yet? (Consistency again!) It should, but I don't believe there's an installer available yet. Abiword 5.0mb Do we really need to ship something-Word? Windows still has Wordpad, no? I think we can all agree on that if we should ship something it would be OO.o, and that's to damn big... No, we don't all agree :-) Abiword is a wonderful piece of software. Don't remove it. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Fwd: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly
On Wed, February 15, 2006 10:36, Sebastien Estienne wrote: I don't know why we would need to remove the wifi part of network-admin, though... not only removing the wifi part, but also the dynamic ip part. the reason is that network-manager handle these 2 tasks better than network-admin does. And having to way to configure the wifi will be confusing for the end user. Also the wifi part or network-admin is the part that doesn't work well. I agree that it's confusing to have two tools. The thing is that I might want a static configuration for wifi too. And I believe it's easier to make the static/non-static distinction between the two tools for now. But ideally, we'd have only one tool... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Ubuntu Desktop News - Second issue
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second issue of UDN, the Ubuntu Desktop News. The previous issue was released more than six weeks ago, but we're sure you remember that we wrote UDN will be randomly issued once in a while :-) Please note that there is no definitive format for UDN and that *you* can change it and make it better. Like the Ubuntu Desktop. If you want to contribute to UDN, just send a mail to the ubuntu-desktop mailing list! In this issue: * Good day? * Here comes the desktop lover * Snappier multimedia experience * New interface to install packages * What's new in the Dapper desktop? * Light on... ekiga * Interview with a desktop hero * Love tasks for Desktop lovers * Desktop Team meetings * Hug days * About the Desktop Team Good day? === One big event that happened in dapper is the promotion of avahi [1] to the main repository. Since this doesn't sound exciting, let's look at what it enables: share your bookmarks on the local network and browse the ones of other users (works with epiphany), or do the same for your music (works with rhythmbox), or talk with some people (works with ekiga), or even discover the shared desktop on your network (works with vino). Got the idea? Welcome to the zeroconf world: discover services on your local networks and use them without any configuration! [1] http://avahi.org/ Here comes the desktop lover In the last issue of UDN, some love tasks were proposed to help people start contributing to the Ubuntu Desktop. This is where the magic of the Ubuntu love stepped in: Alain Perry contributed a patch to change the default directory in the GTK+ file chooser (which was one of the love tasks). But Alain didn't stop there: he continued and wrote a patch for nautilus to make it use the Documents folder in the sidebar, so that it is consistent with the patched GTK+. Woooh: Alain is a desktop lover and we love his contributions! Snappier multimedia experience == Did you notice that there's no noticable delay any more when starting a new song in rhythmbox? And that seeking in totem is now working better than ever? GStreamer 0.10 [2] has landed in dapper and more and more applications are now using it. While it still have some rough edges (DVD support is not available yet, for example), it makes the multimedia experience really smoother. Not all plugins are installed by default since some of them cannot be in main for legal reasons, but more plugins are available in the universe and multiverse repositories. [2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ New interface to install packages = More and more packages are getting in Ubuntu. This is a great thing since it gives more choise to the user. But it was getting difficult to find the package you're looking for in gnome-app-install: lots of packages generally means scalability issue in an interface. Sebastian Heinlein and Michael Vogt worked on this and proposed a new interface for gnome-app-install. After some comments and some small changes, this new interface [3] is what is available in dapper now. Fast and good work! [3] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/gnome-app-install/new-look/gai--new-look.png What's new in the Dapper desktop? = Are you wondering what's new in dapper? Well, as usual, there's a lot of small (and not so small) new features and fixes. Here's a quick highlight on some of them. Since the last issue of UDN, three new GNOME versions have been uploaded: 2.13.4, 2.13.5 and 2.13.90. It really shows how active our lovely packagers are: dapper users could benefit from all the new GNOME goodness right after the GNOME releases. A small patch was added to evolution so that you can use bogofilter [4] to detect spam in your mails, instead of spamassassin [5]. You really don't have to live with spam, and you can choose how to live without them now :-) [4] http://www.bogofilter.org/ [5] http://spamassassin.apache.org/ To offer an even more integrated experience, people have been working on a GNOME frontend for the X-Chat IRC client. It's called XChat-GNOME [6] and has been rocking for some time. And it's now the default IRC client in Ubuntu. You'll feel interface love when you'll try it. [6] http://xchat-gnome.navi.cx/ New versions of the notification framework have come in, with interesting UI experimentations for the notifications. There has been the old look [7], a new bubble look [8], and another standard look with a small close button [9]. But it might change again with the new version that will be in dapper soon ;-) [7] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/notification-daemon/notify_unchanged_small.png [8] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/notification-daemon/bubble.png [9] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/notification-daemon/notify_right_top_small.png The PenguinTV software [10] is now packaged. It's a new feed reader, but it is a bit different from the other ones: it
Re: Love tasks for desktop lovers
Le samedi 31 décembre 2005 à 11:23 +0100, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : Le jeudi 29 décembre 2005 à 18:17 +0100, Alain Perry a écrit : So the big question is: should I use my time trying to solve all these issues, or do we not care ? Having patches to fix them would be nice. Sorry to not be too responsive this week, but I'm on holidays for the week and I try to not work during them to change :) I'll catch up on monday Sébastien, don't say you're not working: I saw you comment on/close a lot of bugs ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Love tasks for desktop lovers
Le mercredi 28 décembre 2005 à 16:15 +0100, Alain Perry a écrit : Ok, so to please everybody, I modified the patch to take into account the environment variable. I also added some code to make it work under win32 (though I could not test it) so that upstream can take it if they want. Here it is attached. Thanks for the patch! I don't know if it's okay to do patch review on the list, but I'll do it for now. Flame me if it's not okay ;-) * I think you should also use the environment variable in shortcuts_append_documents() * I don't remember where Documents is placed in the Places menu of the panel, but I think it should be at the same place. If it's the first item, then great. Else, you'll need to change the position in your patch. * const gchar* envvar; = const gchar *envvar; Overall, the patch looks okay. A next step would be to patch gnome-panel to make it use the environment variable too (note that the Documents item is added by an Ubuntu patch), and also to patch nautilus to have this Documents item where needed (in the shortcuts sidebar, eg). Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Ubuntu Desktop News - First issue!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first issue of UDN, the Ubuntu Desktop News. UDN will be randomly issued once in a while, but if everything goes well, there should be a new issue every two weeks. Please note that there is no definitive format for UDN and that *you* can change it and make it better. Like the Ubuntu Desktop. In this issue: * GConf should be faster than ever * Simplified menu for the user * How to install a .deb file? Double-click on it! * All your translations are belong to us * New logout dialog * What's new in the Dapper desktop? * Light on... rhythmbox * Interview with a desktop hero * Love tasks for Desktop lovers * Desktop Team meetings * Hug days * About the Desktop Team GConf should be faster than ever In an amazing development, Sébastien uploaded a new GConf with merged directories [1]. We could explain what it is, what this changes, why it is great and why you always wanted it, but no, technical details would be boring, wouldn't they? Okay, there would also be some errors in what we would say since we didn't have time to look at it in details ;-) But what is important is that this should improve performance quite a bit, especially login time. Don't you see how the Desktop Team loves you? :-) [1] http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2005-November/20.html Simplified menu for the user Following the Ubuntu Below Zero conference, decisions were made to try to make the menus even more easier to use for the users. Martin, Michael et Sébastien worked on hiding the administration tools for users who can not use them (and also hiding update-notifier for these users) [2]. Moreover Sébastien and other packagers identified all the menu items that are most often not used from the menus and hide them by default [3]. Those items can of course be shown with the menu editor. [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HideAdminToolsToUsers [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenusRevisited How to install a .deb file? Double-click on it! === You just downloaded a .deb file from the net and you wish to install it. How do you do this? Just double-click on it! With gdebi [4], you can do it without thinking about all the dependencies: everything will just works, as shown in this screenshot [5]. After 4 minutes of thinking, its author, Michael, told us gdebi will change the way your computer work. [4] http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/admin/gdebi [5] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/gdebi/gdebi-3.png All your translations are belong to us == Martin and Zygmunt have made the changes required to have the translations of .desktop files (the files used to describe the menus items) in the language packs [6]. This change enables the translators to update the translations of those files in Rosetta, and it will make update of the translations easier. [6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LangpacksDesktopfiles New logout dialog = Manu has started working on a new logout dialog [7]. This dialog will be prettier than anything that exists in the universe. Okay, maybe not that pretty, but you get the idea. It will enable the user to log out, switch user, restart/sleep/hibernate/shut down the computer with a single click. A wow, it looks so cool screenshot is available [8]. [7] http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2005-December/56.html [8] http://www.manucornet.net/GNOME/logout_dialog/Capture.png What's new in the Dapper desktop? = With the GNOME 2.13.3 upload, a lot of cool new stuff has landed in Dapper. Maybe one of the most promising feature is the search integration in nautilus: just hit Ctrl+F in a nautilus window and feel the love of the nautilus maintainers. You can learn more about this in a blog entry from Alex Larsson [9]. Some other cool features from GNOME 2.13.3 include: a new Gedit codebase that enables you to easily edit remote files, some tab reordering love in gnome-terminal (for all the terminal freaks ;-)) and a lot of performance work (look at the new version of pango!) which should make your desktop feel lighter! GStreamer 0.10 was released at the beginning of December [10] and we couldn't resist: it's already available in Dapper [11], so you can already start to play with it. More and more applications will use it in the near future! A great new packages is nautilus-actions [12]: it makes it possible to easily launch programs on selected files in nautilus. Try it and you'll love it. And if you felt that it was difficult to send files with bluetooth, just try the latest version of nautilus-sendto [13] which now features bluetooth file transfer. [9] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/2005/12/07/0 [10] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/gstreamer010.html [11] http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/source/gstreamer0.10 [12]
Re: A new (nearly finished) logout dialog
Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 16:56 -0200, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : Since it's not obvious that the Shut Down command is hidden inside a menu item called Log Out, I suggest making this a separate item in the System menu. The same applies to Sleep, Hibernate, and Restart. - Sleep Hibernate Restart Shut Down - Lock Screen Switch Account... Log Out While this sounds reasonable, this would probably require we remove some items from the system menu first. Else, it will be really overcrowded. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
