Re: tree package to be included out-of-the-box
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au wrote: Ok, this is really starting to bug me. Why is the tree package not installed by default in Ubuntu? Other distros such as Fedora have it installed by default. I know it's easy enough to install at only ~500kb, but it irks me as it's a command I use all the time and I think it is just something/a command that should be included without the user having to install it. Cheers. I think we all have our personal pet packages we would like to have installed by default, and all our answers would be a bit different from each other. Mine are flip and vim (instead of the default vim-tiny...). There is just so much space available to whatever become the Ubuntu default, and every kb counts; and it's not like the extra few seconds to install them in the few cases during the year I setup a system totally from scratch will kill me. -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 54
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote: Op maandag 26-10-2009 om 14:36 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef George Farris: Oh right and also http://www.cbc.ca/video none of them play in Firefox. If anyone knows how to debug this stuff I'd love to try, but really it works with Firefox on Windows and Mac but not Linux, Fail. Well, I got a We're sorry the video you've selected cannot be streamed outside of Canada movie, so it seems to work on linux too... ;-) except that it seems if you actually live in Canada, the flash video doesn't actually play. I have the exact problem than George, and Google searches seems to indicate that others may also have the same problem. I wouldn't qualify this as a showstopper for Karmic and I wouldn't be surprised this is not a Ubuntu problem but something they do on cbc.ca's side, but it is annoying nevertheless for the the few Canadians Linux users out there who cannot to access the online videos from our national broadcaster. By the way, this is the bug report George opened about this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/455852 -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: Did we really release 8.04?
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Emmet Hikory wrote: This isn't a CLI vs. GUI issue, it's that some upgrade cases don't work well for special reasons. Some of these are difficult to encode in terms of provides, conflicts, and replaces, and some are even impossible. Upgrade Manager (which also has a cli client) has information about these special cases that allow the upgrade to continue. update-manager has a cli client? Never heard of it. How do you call it? On one of our server I'm about to embark of the road of the double upgrade Feisty to Gutsy to Hardy, so that may be an interesting option. The command-line help of update-manager (at least in Feisty) doesn't seem very promising about the command line option to use to stay in cli mode. Daniel -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: Did we really release 8.04?
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:57:26 -0400 Daniel Robitaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: update-manager has a cli client? Never heard of it. How do you call it? sudo do-release-upgrade +1 for the availability of that command -1 for it's name. Even something like update-manager-cli would have made it easier to discover. (or call it using a special command-line flag to update-manager) Someone else asked earlier today about why the special capability of update-manager is not rolled into apt. I always wondered why it is a delta between Debian and Ubuntu that seems to stay around and possibly even get worse between releases. Is there a technical reason why all of this special IA shouldn't be included in apt? apt-get dist-upgrade is something a lot of technical users are more used to (and natural at) than update-manager or do-release-upgrade when doing upgrades via the command line. Daniel -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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
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 to nominate it for Hardy. Evan isn't that something mozplugger can do by calling evince? But it seems it doesn't work in some cases: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozplugger/+bug/145064 -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?
On 5/8/07, Fergal Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't see any real benefit to including /usr/local/bin and I can find plenty of people in the forums who can't start *-admin, presumably due to problems similar to mine, I personally use /usr/local/bin to install my own version of Firefox, without the need to uninstall the Ubuntu's version of Firefox. Since /usr/local/bin/ is ahead of /usr/bin in the standard $PATH of users, if I have a /usr/local/bin/firefox it is picked up by default by all my users. -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
On 3/5/07, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been wandering recently, why doesn't Ubuntu come with more wallpapers? It currently only comes with three wallpapers, all of which are made on the computer; whereas Windows XP comes with lots of very nice wallpapers, including actual photos. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here are a few examples (I home Microsoft don't hunt me down for this): http://img400.imageshack.us/my.php?image=autumnbi1.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=azuldd6.jpg http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stonehengegj9.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tulipsvy3.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blissai9.jpg I am aware that because Ubuntu is free and open source, it would not be possible to hire professional photographers, but I expect that there would be some people in the Ubuntu community willing to donate photos which they have taken to Ubuntu. For example, if you went on holiday and took a picture of an important landmark, and the photo looked professional, the photo could be considered for inclusion in Ubuntu as a desktop background, if the photographer was willing to publish it under an appropriate license. An obvious way of getting pictures form photographer to developer is via art.ubuntu.com. The higher rated user uploaded photos should be considered by the developers for inclusion in Ubuntu. by the way, the photographer who took some of the background pictures used for Vista put some of the pictures that didn't make the cut into Vista on his web site. http://www.hamaddarwish.com/ That could be a nice PR move by Canonical to ask him to do a photoshoot for a future version of Ubuntu :) -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: feisty needs newer ndiswrapper
On 2/24/07, golfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see feisty currently has only ndiswrapper 1.30, while current stable version is 1.37. I need at least 1.31 to get my wireless card working. Could we get an upgrade? golfbuf :~$ modinfo ndiswrapper filename: /lib/modules/2.6.20-8-generic/kernel/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko license:GPL version:1.30 description:NDIS wrapper driver author: ndiswrapper team [EMAIL PROTECTED] srcversion: 3EE6A57143A2DD3C2D1269A depends:usbcore vermagic: 2.6.20-8-generic SMP mod_unload 586 parm: if_name:Network interface name or template (default: wlan%d) (charp) parm: proc_uid:The uid of the files created in /proc (default: 0). (int) parm: proc_gid:The gid of the files created in /proc (default: 0). (int) parm: debug:debug level (int) parm: hangcheck_interval:The interval, in seconds, for checking if driver is hung. (default: 0) (int) Someone already filled a report in Launchpad about this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/83479 -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: Feisty wireless issue noticed on a blog
On 2/23/07, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/02/wpa-wireless-just-works-in-ubuntu-704.html The review of wireless, especially WPA, in Herd 4 is glowing, but there is one issue he mentions (I don't have a wireless connection, so I'm just forwarding this along :) The network manager software is smart enough to remember all of your network credentials, but it requires you to create a master password to secure these passwords. So every time you reboot or come back from hibernation, you have to log into Ubuntu AND log into the network keyring. In my opinion, this is redundant and the network keyring should see that you have already authenticated yourself. He mentions that there is a work-around here: http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/02/21/unlock-the-gnome-keyring-upon-login/ CK I think the bug report about this is, and it is an old one from Dapper's time, is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/34898 At least I don't experience anymore on my laptop in Feisty the multiple keyring password prompts where you are asked 2 or 3 times in a row to unlock your keyring before network-manager can reconnect to a protected network: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/31286 That workaround in that blog you found seems interesting. I'll have to give it a try. -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: Allowing passwordless login via GDM
On 2/22/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote: Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a password is better cause we should teach people about security measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simple thing but means a lot. True, but I see at least one exception: young children don't know how to enter a username password. OTOH they don't need administrator (sudo) rights of course... what I did in that situation was to have the young kids account autologin without a password after 20sec via gdm. That account obviously didn't have any admin rights. If a grown up wanted to login into their own account, they had 20 secs to do it after the machine booted into gdm, or via the fast-user-switch-applet from within the kids session. So the kids just had to turn on the computer, and within a minute they were in their user session without any interactions. With the appropriate icons setup in the panel or in the desktop, they will all ready to go to play, even if they don't know how to read. But kids can learn pretty easily about username/password And by the time they know how to read and type my experience is that they will use the password method rather easily. I known that my oldest son, once I created his first own user account and password, was pretty excited to have his own like his parents. His password is still a bit weak, but we'll work on this later on :) -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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: flash player 9 -don't include it in Feisty
On 1/18/07, t u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I usually don't write to tell stuff like this, but this is just unbearable... I was using Flash 7 Fx 2 with Dapper and I was very happy. After the release of the interview with Torvalds, I updated to Flash 9 (after it was announced not to be a beta anymore). For the last two days, Fx crashed about every 20 minutes on flash-using sites like youtube. I read about similar experiences with Flash betas at the forums too. Fx never crashed on me before... I would like to ask the devels not to include Flash 9 in our repositories... It is too damn buggy, and it's not worth the bad PR Feisty might get with crashing Firefoxes... Thanks for your patience in reading this Sincerely. I have been using Flash 9 for weeks, with the first 2 beta and now the final, with Firefox in Dapper, Edgy, and now Feisty, and I can't remember having one single crash due to flash. And I use it quite regularly (i.e, daily) on various online sites. So I'm not experiencing the type of crashes you are seeing.I wonder what makes some people seeing these crashes, and not others. And being a close source plugin, I suspect we'll never know... -- Daniel Robitaille -- 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
