[Bug 1901150] Re: No "Are you sure?" question when deleting something from Desktop

2020-10-26 Thread Adam Dingle
Adam Niedling: That's a long story. Very briefly, about 2 years ago the GNOME project, which develops Nautilus, decided to remove support for desktop icons from Nautilus, controversially: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/gnome-desktop-icons-removed-3-28 Ubuntu still wants desktop icons, so

[Bug 1901150] Re: No "Are you sure?" question when deleting something from Desktop

2020-10-23 Thread Adam Dingle
Note that Nautilus does not ask "Are you sure?" when you delete a file. Instead, it deletes the file immediately, and displays a notification saying that the file was deleted, along with an Undo button. So if the goal is for the desktop to behave like Nautilus, then the desktop should not ask

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

2020-07-05 Thread Adam Dingle
On the upstream report for this bug in GNOME Mutter (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/1268), Robert Mader just wrote > We landed a fix for this specific issue in 3.36.4 which is going to get released over the next few days. Please report back if you still see the bug after your

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

2020-07-04 Thread Adam Dingle
As some of you have noticed, the status for "Mutter" at the top of this page changed to "Fix Released". That's because a change was just committed to the Mutter GNOME project that apparently fixes the underlying bug:

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93 and 176)

2020-05-28 Thread Adam Dingle
For anyone who is still experiencing this issue after the mutter upgrade, the right place to comment or discuss on Launchpad is the followup bug #1879968, not here. You may also wish to discuss the problem at the corresponding upstream GNOME bug https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/1268 .

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
OK - reported upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/1268 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues #1268 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/1268 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
By the way this bug, like the previous copy/paste issues, is specific to X11. I just logged into Ubuntu 20.04 in a Wayland session and could not reproduce this bug there, either using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or the Copy/Paste context menu items. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Davide, that's a very interesting discovery that every other copy/paste fails when you use the menu caommands. I see that on my machine too. Hopefully that will make it easier to debug the problem, since it is a much more direct way to reproduce the problematic behavior. (On the other hand,

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
It's nice to see that the mutter fix has landed in focal-updates. Above, Daniel wrote "Let's try to release this fix and then the first person still having problems after it's released can open a new bug." OK - I am that person. I have the new Mutter package, and I can still easily reproduce the

[Bug 1879968] Re: copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
** Description changed: In Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 there was a bug that caused copy and paste operations to fail pretty often: the text that was pasted was not the text that was just copied. See the long discussion at bug #1852183. The bug was recently marked closed, since the package

[Bug 1879968] [NEW] copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 there was a bug that caused copy and paste operations to fail pretty often: the text that was pasted was not the text that was just copied. See the long discussion at bug #1852183. The bug was recently marked closed, since the package mutter -

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)

2020-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
A brief update: I am still running with the proposed mutter package on Ubuntu 20.04, and hae seen this copy/paste problem occur several more times in the last few days. I continue to believe that the new mutter is an improvement, but that the bug has not been fixed completely. -- You received

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)

2020-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
Tim and others: It is certainly possible to install just this upgraded mutter package without installing all the other pending updates in proposed. See the page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed Follow the instructions in the section "Selective upgrading from -proposed". That's

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)

2020-05-17 Thread Adam Dingle
Once again I am the original reporter - Daniel recently asked for my opinion about whether this bug has been fixed. I have now been running with the proposed 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 package for three days, during which I have done a fair amount of editing with copying and pasting. During that

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)

2020-05-14 Thread Adam Dingle
Hi Daniel - I'm the one who first reported this Launchpad bug back in November. :) I'm very happy to see that there is a proposed fix, since I (like many others) have continued to experience this bug on a daily basis for many months now. I appreciate your asking my opinion, though it certainly

[Bug 1844808] Re: Can't delete file from desktop by clicking it and hitting delete key

2020-05-08 Thread Adam Dingle
This bug still exists in Ubuntu 20.04. It's particularly insidious because it's easy to delete a file by mistake: if a Nautilus window has focus and you click on a desktop icon and press the Delete key, then Nautilus will delete the file (which you might or might not notice). -- You received

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10

2020-02-01 Thread Adam Dingle
Benoit: What version of Ubuntu and LibreOffice are you running? Are you in an X11 or a Wayland session? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852183 Title: [X11]

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10

2019-12-12 Thread Adam Dingle
I think that the upstream bug https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/878 may not be the same issue. This bug has "X11" in the title, and so it really refers to behavior under X11. On Ubuntu 19.10, if I run an X11 session then copying/pasting fails very often, especially in

[Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10

2019-11-13 Thread Adam Dingle
@marcustomlinson, when copying/pasting from Geany into Geary, I didn't get an image. I believe I got the wrong text. But unfortunately I don't remember precisely. I have seen this bug zillions of times in LibreOffice Writer, typically when copying in one window and pasting in another, and only

[Bug 1852183] Re: copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in LibreOffice on Ubuntu 19.10

2019-11-12 Thread Adam Dingle
I now believe this problem is not specific to LibreOffice. I see it there often since I use LibreOffice Writer a lot, but it just happened again when I cut some text in Geany (a text editor) and attempted to paste it into the email program Geary. So I think this is a general clipboard problem in

[Bug 1822254] Re: Can't drag and drop files to Desktop on Disco 19.04 beta

2019-04-18 Thread Adam Dingle
Actually this issue is already known upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/issues/22 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/issues #22 https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/issues/22 -- You received

[Bug 1704765] Re: can't drag file from desktop to folder window on Artful

2018-01-22 Thread Adam Dingle
This bug is still a major annoyance. It would be really nice to solve this for 18.04 (Bionic). GNOME has recently removed the desktop code from Nautilus, so it seems very unlikely that this will be solved upstream. So presumably someone from Canonical or a community volunteer will need to fix

[Bug 1691112] Re: gnome-calendar doesn't see Google calendar from Ubuntu Online Accounts

2018-01-06 Thread Adam Dingle
This is no longer an issue in 17.10 since Ubuntu Online Accounts has been replaced. Can we close this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-calendar in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691112 Title:

[Bug 1704765] Re: can't drag file from desktop to folder window on Artful

2017-12-12 Thread Adam Dingle
JLuc, I don't see that option on Ubuntu 17.10. The only Experimental option in the Nautilus preferences is "Use the new views", which I have unchecked (as is the default), and this bug still occurs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1704765] Re: can't drag file from desktop to folder window on Artful

2017-12-07 Thread Adam Dingle
I still run into this bug all the time, and look forward to a fix. In the meantime, here's how to recover without logging out: 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Run 'pkill nautilus'. 3. Run 'nautilus-desktop &'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1704765] Re: can't drag file from desktop to folder window on Artful

2017-07-18 Thread Adam Dingle
Yes, I see this when logged into the (default) GNOME Wayland session. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1704765 Title: can't drag file from desktop to folder window

[Bug 1704765] [NEW] can't drag file from desktop to folder window on Artful

2017-07-17 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful). If I create a text file on my desktop and then attempt to drag it into a Nautilus folder window, it fails: when I release the mouse cursor over the folder window nothing happens and the file is not moved. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1704753] [NEW] Ubuntu 17.10 uses 24-hour time by default even in US locale

2017-07-17 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm trying out Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful). During installation I said that I'm in a US locale: I chose New York as my current city. Despite this, the system used 24-hour time by default. I had to manually go to the Date & Time settings panel and change the time format to AM/PM.

[Bug 1670959] Re: systemd-resolved using 100% CPU

2017-06-12 Thread Adam Dingle
I've also run into this CPU problem on 17.04. Like tlk, I had to install dnsmasq because I'm running a hotspot on a USB wifi device, and the system log indicated that it wouldn't work unless dnsmasq is installed. ** Also affects: dnsmasq (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 1627769] Re: limits.conf not applied

2017-05-26 Thread Adam Dingle
** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: jackd2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1693593] [NEW] libgtk-3-0-dbg is missing in Zesty

2017-05-25 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: Through Yakkety there was a debug package for libgtk 3, but it's missing in Zesty: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libgtk-3-0-dbg=names=all=all ** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1691112] [NEW] gnome-calendar doesn't see Google calendar from Ubuntu Online Accounts

2017-05-16 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: On Zesty (17.04), if I add a Google account in Ubuntu's Online Accounts panel then its calendar doesn't show up in gnome-calendar, even if I restart Evolution Data Server (e.g. by rebooting my machine). If I install Evolution and add the Google account there then the

[Bug 1551769] Re: [online-accounts] no calendar displayed until restarting e-d-s

2017-05-13 Thread Adam Dingle
Actually my Google calendar doesn't show up in Evolution either, so presumably this is a problem in Ubuntu Online Accounts, not in gnome- calendar itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-calendar in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1551769] Re: [online-accounts] no calendar displayed until restarting e-d-s

2017-05-13 Thread Adam Dingle
On Zesty (17.04), my Google calendar dodesn't show up in gnome-calendar even *after* I restart evolution-data-server (e.g. by rebooting my machine). Online Accounts shows a Google account connected to Evolution Data Server, but the Calendar Settings dialog in gnome-calendar shows only the

[Bug 1641740] [NEW] gnome-calendar needs an Ubuntu-style title bar

2016-11-14 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: On both 16.10 (Yakkety) and 17.04 (Zesty), gnome-calendar has no Ubuntu- style title bar displaying the name of the program. So it looks inconsistent with other applications on the Ubuntu desktop. What's more, if I set the option "Show the menus for a window" to "In the

[Bug 1404683] Re: page title appears both in title bar and below it

2015-11-28 Thread Adam Dingle
This problem still occurs in Epiphany 3.18 on Ubuntu 16.04. The above patch works there too. In my opinion this patch makes Epiphany a lot nicer to use - I think Ubuntu should adopt it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1404683] Re: page title appears both in title bar and below it

2015-08-18 Thread Adam Dingle
This problem still occurs in Epiphany 3.16.3 on Ubuntu 15.10. The above patch works there too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1404683 Title: page title

[Bug 1451180] [NEW] Open in Terminal doesn't appear in top-level menus

2015-05-03 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: In Nautilus 3.14 as it comes from GNOME, the Open in Terminal command (provided by the gnome-terminal package) is available in the gear menu on the right side of the toolbar. (It's also available from the context menu when you right click in an empty area of the list or icon

[Bug 189774] Re: seahorse shows passwords without verification

2015-01-05 Thread Adam Dingle
GNOME is probably not going to fix this - it's not just the GNOME Way. I'd like to see Ubuntu address this, though. Today, if I walk up to any Ubuntu user's unlocked computer I can see any of their passwords in just a few keystrokes: Super + P + A + S + Enter starts Seahorse, then I can double

[Bug 189774] Re: seahorse shows passwords without verification

2015-01-05 Thread Adam Dingle
I just placed a bounty on this bug at Bountysource: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3849352-seahorse-shows-passwords- without-verification It will be paid to anyone who provides a patch that Ubuntu accepts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 1404683] [NEW] page title appears both in title bar and below it

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running epiphany-browser 3.14.2-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid). With this version of epiphany-browser, every Web page's title appears twice: once in the window's title bar, and once immediately below it. This is redundant and looks poor. ** Affects: epiphany-browser

[Bug 1404702] [NEW] selected radio button is not visible in WebKit 2.6 in Ambiance

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running WebKit 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid). With this version of WebKit, a selected radio button looks exactly like an unselected radio button in the Ambiance theme. You can see this, for example, if you run Epiphany and visit

[Bug 1404683] Re: page title appears both in title bar and below it

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
I've attached a patch with a simple fix. ** Patch added: double_title_fix.diff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/1404683/+attachment/4285363/+files/double_title_fix.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1241894] Re: Network History no longer works in System Monitor since 13.10

2014-10-24 Thread Adam Dingle
This works just fine in the final release of Ubuntu 14.10, which has Linux 3.16.0. I think this bug should be marked fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu.

[Bug 846873] Re: Evince: Invisible text in PDF file

2014-10-15 Thread Adam Dingle
This post looks relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13390236/editable-pdf-fields- disappear-but-visible-on-field-focus-after-save-with-evin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1376220] [NEW] quick open crashes gedit as soon as I press Enter

2014-10-01 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running gedit on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic). 1. Enable the Quick Open plugin. 2. Press Ctrl+Alt+O to open the Quick Open dialog. 3. Press Enter to select the first file in the list. gedit will crash with a segmentation fault. I also reported this bug to GNOME at

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2014-02-15 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel, I believe you should now be awarded the Bountysource bounty for this bug. It hasn't closed yet (probably because this bug still points to an open GNOME issue that is only semi-related), but I just emailed them asking to close the bounty. They're usually pretty responsive so I expect to

[Bug 1273019] [NEW] epiphany-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in equal()

2014-01-26 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I visited http://onion.com and Epiphany crashed. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: epiphany-browser 3.10.3-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture:

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2014-01-22 Thread Adam Dingle
Wow - it's great to see this land in proposed at last! Many thanks to Daniel, Sebastien, and everyone else who's helped make this happen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-23 Thread Adam Dingle
Sebastien, would you consider taking this patch now? Let us know if there's anything more we can do to help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164016 Title:

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-23 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel, I tried your latest changes and it seems to work great now. I'd be happy to see this land. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164016 Title: restore

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel, thanks for your heroic efforts to reproduce the issue I described. I just followed your list of steps above with a fresh install of 14.04, fully updated. And I still see the bug! To be clear, after your steps above: 9) Open a Nautilus window on your home directory. 10) Click the list

[Bug 1263495] [NEW] rerunning Epiphany 3.10 opens two windows

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Trusty with Epiphany 3.10.3, which just landed there. To see the problem: 1. Launch Epiphany. 2. Exit Epiphany. 3. Launch Epiphany again. Two Epiphany windows will appear. (Usually both are full size, but sometimes one of them is tiny.) Actually when you exit

[Bug 1227440] Re: Nautilus' Format option doesn't actually work

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
This is still broken in Trusty. Nautilus is invoking gnome-disks like this: gnome-disks --block-device /dev/sdb1 --format-device --xid 39846040 I believe the problem is actually in gnome-disks, not Nautilus. When I launch gnome-disks directly and attempt to format either a single partition of

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel: Great - I'm glad you see this now. I only ever use the list view, so I haven't even looked to see if it might occur in icon view. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1263536] Re: title bar and address bar have starkly contrasting colors in Epiphany 3.10

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
** Attachment added: epiphany_3.10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/1263536/+attachment/3934484/+files/epiphany_3.10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in

[Bug 1263536] [NEW] title bar and address bar have starkly contrasting colors in Epiphany 3.10

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm attaching screenshots of Epiphany 3.8.2 and Epiphany 3.10.3 (which just landed in Trusty) with the default Ambiance theme. In Epiphany 3.8, the title bar and address bar have the same color, which sets them nicely apart from content on web pages (which most often have a

[Bug 1260761] Re: file browser toolbar has wrong background color in Ambiance

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
** Also affects: gedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260761 Title: file browser toolbar has wrong background

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel, thanks for your continued work on this. I tried your branch and this seems like a step forward: most of the issues I mentioned above are fixed. I'm still seeing this issue from before, though: - Select the first file in a directory, press the down arrow once, then type the first

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
@Daniel: Hm - that's interesting that you don't see the issue I mentioned. What version of GTK do you have? I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 with GTK 3.10.6. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1263387] [NEW] Epiphany 3.10 has no title bar

2013-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: Epiphany 3.10.3 just landed in Trusty. This version of Epiphany uses a GtkHeaderBar, so it has no title bar. This looks out of place on the Unity desktop. ** Affects: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: -

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-15 Thread Adam Dingle
@Daniel: it's been a while since I posted my feedback on your branch so I thought I'd check in. Are you planning to continue working on this? Do you think it will be possible to resolve the issues I mentioned? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 1260761] [NEW] file browser toolbar has wrong background color in Ambiance

2013-12-13 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: 14.04 (Trusty) now has gedit 3.10.1 and GTK 3.10.6. With these versions of gedit and GTK, the file browser in the sidebar (enabled via Edit-Preferences-Plugins-File Browser Panel) has a toolbar with a dark background color in the default Ambiance theme. This looks poor (see

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-07 Thread Adam Dingle
@Daniel: Thanks for the additional hints. Actually I found an easier way to build from your branch: $ dh_autoreconf $ ./configure --disable-tracker $ make That avoids the zeitgeist.h and gtk-doc errors, and allows me to simply 'make install' without having to generate a Debian package. So

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-12-05 Thread Adam Dingle
Daniel, could you give us a hint about how to build Nautilus from your branch? I grabbed it with 'bzr branch', then tried $ sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus $ ./configure --disable-tracker $ make but the build died with === nautilus-file-operations.c:69:23: fatal error: zeitgeist.h: No such

[Bug 1251346] Re: upgrade to Epiphany 3.8

2013-11-23 Thread Adam Dingle
Ah, I see. Thanks for the update! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251346 Title: upgrade to Epiphany 3.8 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1251346] [NEW] upgrade to Epiphany 3.8

2013-11-14 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: Now that WebKitGTK 2.2 has landed in Trusty, we should upgrade epiphany- browser to 3.8.2 (the latest version on the 3.8 branch). ** Affects: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: upgrade-software-version -- You received this

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-11-11 Thread Adam Dingle
To be clear, the term fork usually refers to a split in development that no longer merges in changes from the other side, which is not what I'm proposing here. Instead, I'm hoping that if we had a patch to restore type-ahead find, Ubuntu would include and maintain it just as it already maintains

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Dingle
I just created a bounty for this bug at Bountysource: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1072092-restore-type-ahead-find If enough people chip in, perhaps someone will be motivated to provide a patch that restores type-ahead find as it once was. :) -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1187203] Re: can't set Epiphany as default browser

2013-10-20 Thread Adam Dingle
Unfortunately this bug still occurs in Saucy final. It would be really nice to fix this for Trusty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1187203 Title: can't

[Bug 1222725] Re: rename gnome-disk-utility to gnome-disks

2013-09-19 Thread Adam Dingle
Indeed. I just filed a bug for that at GNOME Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708429 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #708429 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708429 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1222725] [NEW] rename gnome-disk-utility to gnome-disks

2013-09-09 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: The former GNOME Disk Utility is now called GNOME Disks and the binary is named gnome-disks. Given that, I think we should rename the gnome- disk-utility package to gnome-disks. ** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed

[Bug 1029412] Re: Bring back the old 'compact' format, coz the latest one is (a) not compact and (b) not compact and (c) has a teenie zoom level

2013-09-08 Thread Adam Dingle
What version of Ubuntu and Nautilus are you using? I think this bug no longer applies, since the current Nautilus (version 3.8.2 in Ubuntu 13.10) has no compact view at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in

[Bug 1057019] Re: No format option for devices in Nautilus

2013-09-08 Thread Adam Dingle
I think this bug no longer applies to the current version of Nautilus (3.8.2 in Ubuntu 13.10). In that version, the Computer page lists files in the root directory of my hard drive. Devices are shown only in the sidebar. If I right click a device there, there is a Format... option in the

[Bug 1222446] [NEW] Format... does nothing

2013-09-08 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Nautilus 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 13.10 To see the problem: 1. Insert a removable drive such as a USB flash drive. It will appear in the Nautilus sidebar. 2. Right click the drive and choose Format... 3. Nothing happens. If you run Nautilus from a terminal, then

[Bug 1069235] Re: Cannot format disk with new partition table

2013-09-08 Thread Adam Dingle
I'm running gnome-disk-utility 3.6.1 on Ubuntu 13.10. I see this same error whenever I try to format any USB drive at all. Perhaps all of my USB drives already have partition tables. In any case, the format command should be able to format any disk, no matter what is on it already. ** Summary

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-07-29 Thread Adam Dingle
Dr. Osman, thanks for your patch. A few comments: 1. Of course, this patch does not restore type-ahead find as originally requested in this bug ticket. Instead, it simply disables recursive searching, so that as you type only files in the current directory are returned. Still, this does

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-07-24 Thread Adam Dingle
Well stated, Andrew. I myself have used Ubuntu since the days of Dapper Drake, and I agree that this is one of the most serious usability problems I've seen in Ubuntu during that entire time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-07-10 Thread Adam Dingle
Sebastien, thanks for your comment - it's nice to know that someone at Ubuntu is paying attention to this thread. I don't think forking an old version of Nautilus is practical. The problem is that it would be a ton of work to keep such a fork compatible with new versions of GTK, GLib and other

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-07-10 Thread Adam Dingle
Sebastien, thanks for your reply. Given your staffing level I can see why this is not as easy as it might seem. According to this page Canonical has over 500 employees: http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical If only 10 of them are assigned to desktop maintenance, I would say that team is

[Bug 1172573] Re: Nautilus 3.6 list view adjusts size of columns frequently

2013-06-18 Thread Adam Dingle
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1018718 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018718 I believe this is a duplicate of bug #1018718. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1018718 columns width redrawn by multiple events -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1018718] Re: columns width redrawn by multiple events

2013-06-18 Thread Adam Dingle
I see this too with Nautilus 3.6.3 in Saucy. I can reliably reproduce this bug like this: 1. Start Nautilus. 2. Go to the /etc folder in list view. On a typical machine this directory will have a few hundred files. 3. Make sure you're displaying the default set of columns (Name, Size, Type,

[Bug 1190097] [NEW] Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type

2013-06-11 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Nautilus 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy). When I double click a file in Nautilus and there is no application installed which can open the file, Nautilus will try to auto-install an application but the auto-install hangs. Specifically, for example: 1. Make sure

[Bug 990908] Re: Won't honor Do Nothing when Lid is Closed

2013-06-09 Thread Adam Dingle
I see this too. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) on a MacBookPro9,1. In the power settings I have When the lid is closed: Do nothing, but the machine suspends every time I close the lid. And unfortunately when I open the lid it can't wake from suspend (see bug #1186818), forcing me to reboot.

[Bug 995840] Re: When laptop lid is closed screen locks even if it should not

2013-06-09 Thread Adam Dingle
I believe this is a duplicate of bug #990908 ('Won't honor Do Nothing when Lid is Closed'). As described in that bug, the computer suspends when the lid is closed even though you've selected Do Nothing in the power preferences. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 736606] Re: Do Nothing option not available for lid closing in Power settings

2013-06-09 Thread Adam Dingle
In the current development version of Ubuntu (13.10 Saucy) the power settings do offer a choice When the lid is closed: Do nothing. So I'm marking this as fixed. (The behavior is broken, but that's a different issue; see bug #990908.) ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status:

[Bug 990908] Re: Won't honor Do Nothing when Lid is Closed

2013-06-09 Thread Adam Dingle
This bug is a duplicate of bug #1180513 (lid close actions are ignored laptop always suspends) in the gnome-settings-daemon project. These days gnome-settings-daemon actually handles power-related events such as suspend/resume (gnome-power-mangaer is historical). -- You received this bug

[Bug 1180513] Re: lid close actions are ignored laptop always suspends

2013-06-09 Thread Adam Dingle
Martin, thanks for looking into this. By the way, is gnome-settings- daemon 3.8 expected to land in Saucy? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180513

[Bug 1187203] [NEW] can't set Epiphany as default browser

2013-06-03 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy), which has Epiphany 3.6.1. I have Epiphany installed on my system and I'd like to set it as default, but it doesn't show up in the list of browsers to choose from in System Settings-Details-Default Applications-Web. The problem is that

[Bug 1186740] [NEW] closing Trash window crashes Nautilus in g_type_check_instance

2013-06-02 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy), which has Nautilus 3.6.3. To see the problem: 1. Open a Nautilus window. 2. Click the Trash icon in the sidebar to view the trash. 3. Close the window. Nautilus will crash: #0 g_type_check_instance

[Bug 1186633] [NEW] gedit find box background should turn red when text is not found

2013-06-01 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: In gedit 3.8.2 in vanilla GNOME with Adwaita, the find box's background turns red when text is not found. This doesn't happen in Ubuntu with Ambiance. We probably need to add styling information to Ambiance to make this happen. ** Affects: ubuntu-themes Importance:

[Bug 1136644] Re: gedit search function is not practical anymore

2013-06-01 Thread Adam Dingle
As described in the gedit help at https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/3.8 /gedit-search.html.en : - You can press Enter to cancel a search and retain the current cursor position. (This behavior is admittedly not consistent with other GNOME applications; see

[Bug 1184363] [NEW] Default Applications offers only Firefox even though Epiphany is also installed

2013-05-26 Thread Adam Dingle
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy). I have both Firefox and Epiphany (the epiphany-browser package) installed on my system. But in the control center, Details-Default Applications lists only Firefox. This is a recent regression (it possibly arrived via the recent update from

[Bug 1184363] Re: Default Applications offers only Firefox even though Epiphany is also installed

2013-05-26 Thread Adam Dingle
I investigated. All that's going on here is that Saucy still has Epiphany 3.6, whose .desktop file doesn't mention x-scheme-handler/http, which is currently necessary for gnome-control-center to recogize an application as a Web browser. Epiphany 3.8's .desktop file does include this MIME type,

[Bug 946095] Re: font not visible in terminal plugin

2013-05-24 Thread Adam Dingle
This has now been fixed in gedit-plugins git master upstream, but it doesn't yet work with Ambiance when Use colors from system theme is checked in your gnome-terminal profile (which is the default setting). Ambiance will need a patch to make this work in Ubuntu - see

[Bug 1053242] Re: gedit terminal plugin doesnt work properly

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 946095 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 992396 Can not read embedded terminal or change colors ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 992396 Can not read embedded terminal or change colors

[Bug 995490] Re: emebedded terminal in gedit shows no cursor even though it accepts input

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 946095 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 992396 Can not read embedded terminal or change colors ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 992396 Can not read embedded terminal or change colors

[Bug 992396] Re: Can not read embedded terminal or change colors

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 946095 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 946095 font not visible in terminal plugin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1165131] Re: Raring: gedit embedded terminal has unreadable white on gray text

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 946095 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 946095 font not visible in terminal plugin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 946095] Re: font not visible in terminal plugin

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Dingle
** Package changed: gedit (Ubuntu) = gedit-plugins (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946095 Title: font not visible in terminal plugin To manage

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