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 i

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 GNO

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 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 and does not

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: https://www.

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

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.

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 writes: > > > 2014-04-04 19:52 GMT-03:00 Philip Hands : > > > >> pointless discussion > > > > First of all, great attitude, my friend. It seems like you are a very > > reasonable person. Second, pointless discussion? S

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. > >> > >> A

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. > I think you are one more suffering from Bug #726763. > > T

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 N

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,

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). I

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

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 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 release wheezy

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 debian-devel

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,

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 flavo