Re: Bug#796464: general: there is no auto crash reporting

2015-08-21 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Richard Jasmin wrote: Package: general Severity: important debian should implement an automatic crash detection and reporting system like Fedora and Ubuntu teams have.If not mistaken, Fedora uses upstream of what ubuntu uses --apport. apport is in

Debian 8 - Best Yet

2015-05-01 Thread Stephen Allen
Just wanted to add some cheer since the past 12 months or so have been somewhat rocky, what with the transition to systemd and ensuing controversy with a vocal minority. Being an end-user of Debian desktop, I'd just like to say that Jessie, In My Opinion, is the best release yet - I'm loving

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:05:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Noel Torres env...@rolamasao.org writes: It is a gut feeling also, and one that has been widely expresed by others, (with better and worse words) that Debian server admins will not be pleased with an init system which is bigger

Re: delete resume

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 03:24:28PM +, Jenny zhou wrote: HI, I found my resume is in your mailing list. Can you help me to delete it. Thanks, Yingwei Being that this email list is mirrored all over the net, you might as well forget about it. One example is here:

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 release

2014-08-15 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:15:05PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian 8 Jessie. Thanks. [ ...] Known bugs in this release == * Firmware handling: udev no longer

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:21:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I am a techie user using Awesome, so my judgement is flawed too. As is most of us in this discussion, I suspect. Recently a [Debian design team] was initiated, and work is ongoing to make a Debian Blend for designers. I am

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:32:45AM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: On 04/04/14 00:50, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: I think Xfce is much better *default* desktop environment (DE) than Gnome. As KDE fan I do not like Gnome. Those who forget

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:36:30AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Undefined User unknowuse...@gmail.com writes: 2014-04-04 19:52 GMT-03:00 Philip Hands p...@hands.com: pointless discussion First of all, great attitude, my friend. It seems like you are a very reasonable person. Second,

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of course, it all depends on where the

Re: Multiple suspend issues

2014-03-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:37:00PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Hi Patrik, On 25.02.2014 13:50, Patrik Dufresne wrote: I've installed jessie on my laptop during the week-end. I do have many issues related to suspend. snip I think you are one more suffering from Bug #726763. This

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:07:43PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage? Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:38:42PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 09/06/12 19:54, Stephen Allen wrote: +100 On that. Anyone that thinks 2 was better doesn't know much -- What most are saying is they liked the layout better (I think). In that case Cinamon is a good choice; best

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:27:05PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: Stephen Allen, 2012-06-09 13:54:17 -0400 : [...] +100 On that. Anyone that thinks 2 was better doesn't know much -- There's no call for that belittling. You're right, poor choice of words. My apologies. ;-D What most

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 08:46:31AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:23:41 +0200 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: On Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, Norbert Preining wrote: Is this a joke? Are we going to release that in June/July/whenever? yeah, the plan is to

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: Norbert Preining wrote: is this only me or do I have the feeling that we are going down the trench with Gnome? Repeatedly: - first login: nautilus segfaults in libnautilus-fileroller.so after log out and log in it sometimes

Re: Bug#645723: Fixed!

2011-10-20 Thread Stephen Allen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Jimbo Jim wrote: Sudo su, users-admin fixed it. How did i lose sudo in first place? ---end quoted text--- Could you explain a little better what fixed it? I run this command and I get; 'Unknown id: users-admin' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#645723: The password

2011-10-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:48:04PM -0700, Jimmy Li wrote: This dialog box happens for any application that asks for the root password (not gksudo). I don't know what caused it, so I can't do anything about it. I have a similar if not the same issue. Attempting to run Synaptic from the menu, it

Re: Unofficial Debian Monthly Testing Snapshot Release (version 2011.06)

2011-06-16 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:06:04PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am pleased to announce the unofficial Debian monthly testing snapshot release for June 2011 (version 2011.06). This release is currently available in two flavors,