[Bug 1604446] Re: getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS

2016-07-20 Thread Alan Bell
Last known position is almost always going to be a full house level GPS lock on the place where you last turned off a map application, probably the last destination you navigated to. Might also be a full GPS lock on the last place you took a photograph. This could be a problem for implementing

[Bug 1604446] Re: getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS

2016-07-20 Thread Alan Bell
worth noting that the last known position isn't an estimate of where you are with low and decreasing accuracy (like a cell tower position is), where you have a rough position and an error radius, so you are in that circle with some kind of probability distribution on where you can expect to be

[Bug 1604446] [NEW] getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS

2016-07-19 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: A browser based application that wants to use position can call getCurrentPosition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition or watchPosition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/watchPosition maps (such as

[Bug 1604446] Re: getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS

2016-07-19 Thread Alan Bell
another site to test this on is https://www.where-am-i.net/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604446 Title: getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a

[Bug 1588994] Re: Location not working since OTA-11 on BQ 4.5

2016-07-08 Thread Alan Bell
GPS is working badly on my phone - location services really doesn't like turning on the GPS which is a long standing problem. Just because GPS is turned on does not mean it is actually on at all. It should be working a little bit though, but only on moving dot map applications, single requests for

[Bug 1554604] Re: get a GPS fix before the human has to wait for the phone

2016-03-19 Thread Alan Bell
so the procedure for taking a photo will remain that you have to start a navigation application like google maps, wait for the circle to move and shrink then switch to the camera and take your photo. This is sub- optimal - you can't even take a series of photos on a walk without waking up the GPS

[Bug 1551683] Re: camera uses stale GPS location data

2016-03-01 Thread Alan Bell
** Also affects: camera-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551683 Title: camera uses stale GPS

[Bug 1551683] [NEW] camera uses stale GPS location data

2016-03-01 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: ensure that your device knows where it is (run unav or google maps in a browser until you have a good fix) close location aware apps but leave the phone on. Go for a nice long walk, and take a photos along the way of flowers or some ducks or whatever takes your fancy. Your

[Bug 1439640] [NEW] click packages not recognised as .ar archives

2015-04-02 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: the new .click package format is a .ar file containing some tar.gz files, file-roller doesn't recognise .click files as ar archives and refuses to open them. Renaming the click to a .ar allows it to open with no issues. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package:

[Bug 1086152] [NEW] mouse keys lacks acceleration

2012-12-03 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: the mouse keys setting in the pointing and clicking tab of universal access preferences allows you to control the mouse cursor using the numeric keypad. This moves really really slowly, one pixel at a time. Using the xkbset command it is possible to adjust the speed and

[Bug 1016683] Re: universal access visual alert not working

2012-09-13 Thread Alan Bell
** Tags added: a11y -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016683 Title: universal access visual alert not working To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1041369] Re: System Settings - Details doesn't match lsb_release -a

2012-08-24 Thread Alan Bell
also I have a machine running Quantal and it reports 12.04 LTS in the GUI -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041369 Title: System Settings - Details

[Bug 996228] Re: Song title in the UI is clipped below the text baseline

2012-06-07 Thread Alan Bell
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 811475 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811475 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 976692 Rhythmbox cuts track title letters when displaying below play pause next commands ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 811475 Descender

[Bug 976692] Re: Rhythmbox cuts track title letters when displaying below play pause next commands

2012-06-07 Thread Alan Bell
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 811475 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811475 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 811475 Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 811475] Re: Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song

2012-05-29 Thread Alan Bell
this should do it ** Patch added: 08_fix_song_title_descenders.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/811475/+attachment/3167456/+files/08_fix_song_title_descenders.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 811475] Re: Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Bell
it is fixed in some future version of rhythmbox with a different layout. It won't get fixed in 12.04 without the fix I suggested or some other fix. I am quite happy to make a patch that addresses the problem, or we can live with it for 5 years of LTS support. -- You received this bug

[Bug 985702] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 “Window” sounds not available

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Bell
the system ready sound was intentionally removed (some people don't like it) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985702 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 “Window” sounds

[Bug 811475] Re: Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song

2012-03-28 Thread Alan Bell
it has apparently been worked around in upstream rhythmbox now in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668262 I don't think that is a fix in the GTK ellipsize method, but it doesn't affect the new rhythmbox layout that we don't have yet. I guess we live with it until 12.10 or patch it now

[Bug 966524] Re: Compiz Interferers with Basic Disability Accessibility

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
this one isn't compiz, it is gnome-control-center ** Package changed: compiz (Ubuntu) = gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) ** Tags removed: accessability ** Tags added: a11y ** Tags removed: access compiz universal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 966549] Re: gnome-control-centre - missing accessability option to change cursor and cursor size

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
** Tags removed: access accessability gnome-control-center universal ** Tags added: a11y -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966549 Title:

[Bug 966524] Re: control center window is not manually resizeable

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
** Summary changed: - Compiz Interferers with Basic Disability Accessibility + control center window is not manually resizeable -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Bug 966524] Re: control center window is not manually resizeable

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
It isn't compiz. Compiz is the compositing window manager that puts all the windows on the screen. Each gnome application will create one or more GTK windows and by default the resizeable property is set to true, gnome-control-center sets it's resizeable property to false because it sizes

[Bug 811475] Re: Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song

2012-03-18 Thread Alan Bell
this is a bit of a gtk bug in the ellipsize method of the gtk_lable. It resizes vertically to the height of the default text, but doesn't consider the pango formatted big bit around the song title. Forcing the widget to request a height of 25 seems to fix it nicely. -- You received this bug

[Bug 811475] Re: Descender letters (g j p q y) get their tail cut off in current song

2012-03-18 Thread Alan Bell
it needs gtk_widget_set_size_request (GTK_WIDGET (header-priv-song),-1,25); added around line 254 of widgets/rb-header.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu.

[Bug 945813] Re: magnification settings do not work on Ubuntu

2012-03-05 Thread Alan Bell
what should we do with it? ripping it out seems harsh as people can use gnome shell on Ubuntu. Could we add some things to poke compiz enhanced zoom into life, and show those bits when compiz is running and the gnome-shell stuff when it isn't? Not sure we have a zoom solution at all with Unity 2d.

[Bug 945813] [NEW] magnification settings do not work on Ubuntu

2012-03-03 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: gnome-control-center universal access panel has a switch for a screen magnifier and a further dialog with a heap of settings presumably for gnome-mag which is not installed in Ubuntu by default. Having installed the gnome-mag package these settings still do nothing. The

[Bug 945813] Re: magnification settings do not work on Ubuntu

2012-03-03 Thread Alan Bell
settings that don't do anything ** Attachment added: zoom.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/945813/+attachment/2807786/+files/zoom.png ** Tags added: a11y -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 934053] Re: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in cc_shell_category_view_get_item_view()

2012-03-01 Thread Alan Bell
you can tab between sections and use cursors to move about in a section, but if you cursor up or down out of the section you are on it crashes. ** Tags added: a11y -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center

[Bug 924612] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGABRT in __GI___assert_fail()

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Bell
I have had this a number of times when moving the mouse between monitors, the mouse cursor freezes on the transition and all control is lost, can't ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a terminal even. I can ssh into the machine and restart lightdm, but restarting just unity did nothing. I think this has

[Bug 919082] Re: Keyboard layout selector only supports max of 4 layouts

2012-01-20 Thread Alan Bell
I think it might be because the libxklavier engine is reporting it can do a maximum of 4 keyboard layouts http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/xkbdesc/doc/libxklavier-xkl-engine.html#xkl-engine-get-max-num-groups no idea where it gets this from, but the limit does not appear to be in

[Bug 879143] Re: The app windows gets cut off at greater then 2050 pixels

2011-10-28 Thread Alan Bell
I have a gnome-terminal working fine at 3,390px × 602px in unity 3d. I will try later in 2d -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879143 Title: The app windows

[Bug 878739] [NEW] terminal scrolls up when resized taller

2011-10-20 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: in the Unity window manager (3d and 2d) when resizing the terminal window to make it taller it sometimes (fairly reliably fails, but sometimes works in unity2d if you resize slowly) ends up scrolled back a way. This is particularly annoying when using it with screen or byobu.

[Bug 835649] [NEW] warns about numlock when entering password

2011-08-27 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: I am entering my password and it warns me that I have numlock on. On a desktop or laptop with full keyboard it would be more appropriate to warn when numlock isn't on. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-screensaver 3.1.5-0ubuntu6

[Bug 835649] Re: warns about numlock when entering password

2011-08-27 Thread Alan Bell
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/835649 Title: warns about numlock when entering password To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 835649] Re: warns about numlock when entering password

2011-08-27 Thread Alan Bell
** Attachment added: numlock.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/835649/+attachment/2323761/+files/numlock.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu.

[Bug 820333] Re: Regional Formats

2011-08-09 Thread Alan Bell
** Package changed: ubuntu = gdm (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820333 Title: Regional Formats To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 642792] Re: ALT+PrtSc not recognised: breaks built-in screenshot function

2011-05-07 Thread Alan Bell
I have just done an install of 10.10 64 bit then an upgrade to 11.04, alt+prtscr now works as expected and takes a screenshot of the current window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu.

[Bug 655357] [NEW] New Rupee symbol not shown

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Bell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gucharmap as per bug #645987 the new Ubuntu font supports the new Indian Rupee symbol, this glyph is at U+20B9 further information about the symbol is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign. Character map lists the code point as

[Bug 655357] Re: New Rupee symbol not shown

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Bell
** Attachment added: Screenshot-Character Map.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655357/+attachment/1673934/+files/Screenshot-Character%20Map.png -- New Rupee symbol not shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655357 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 655357] Re: New Rupee symbol not shown

2010-10-05 Thread Alan Bell
detail page of character map ** Attachment added: Screenshot-Character Map-1.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gucharmap/+bug/655357/+attachment/1673935/+files/Screenshot-Character%20Map-1.png ** Also affects: ubuntu-font-family Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 23810] Re: Evolution is unusable in 1024x768

2010-09-27 Thread Alan Bell
now in Maverick the evolution preferences window in version 2.30.3 has a minimum size of around 690x780, thus quite a bit taller than a 768 high window with panels top and bottom. The reason seems to be the amount of content on the mail preferences-general tab. This pushes the size of the parent

[Bug 589204] Re: Evolution Setup Assistant dialog too large for netbook screens

2010-09-24 Thread Alan Bell
This affects the Evolution preferences window as well as the setup routine. -- Evolution Setup Assistant dialog too large for netbook screens https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589204 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 25977] Re: places menu should include the trash as a place

2010-05-31 Thread Alan Bell
I think we have to separate the operations one might do with the trash system. The function of the applet is primarily so that stuff can be dropped on it to be deleted, so we have the deleting stuff use case. One might also want to undelete something, which involves opening it up as a folder

[Bug 436537] Re: advanced settings not shown in first use wizard makes sametime setup hard

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Bell
here it is, note the lack of option to specify the server. This is on the first use wizard. ** Attachment added: Screenshot.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38362616/Screenshot.png -- advanced settings not shown in first use wizard makes sametime setup hard

[Bug 436537] Re: advanced settings not shown in first use wizard makes sametime setup hard

2009-10-22 Thread Alan Bell
this was in Karmic, I will test again and add screenshots -- advanced settings not shown in first use wizard makes sametime setup hard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

[Bug 54024] Re: WIN key SUPER_L should be mapped to Applications menu

2009-09-04 Thread Alan Bell
the string is in the language files of gnome-panel. This does not seem to be a rosetta/launchpad managed translation and the strings get compiled in to the binary. There seem to be translations for 102 languages. If you get the source of gnome-panel and do grep -r -A 1 Browse and run * you will

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Bell
having learned a bit about ubuntu bug fixing I have evolution compiling now, will test later. I did see a dell mini9 with evolution and the dialogs did fit, not sure what the fix was to make that happen. maybe a different font or something to do with the lpia build. -- Evolution setup wizard

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Bell
there are a whole raft of 1024x600 patches in the debian/patches directory of ubuntu evolution dpkg. I wonder why they don't work. -- Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Bell
actually they do work, but only on an actual 1024x600 screen, I was testing on a bigger screen and measuring it. Fits perfectly on a real netbook. Still going to apply my resizable hack though. -- Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8629 You received

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-04-19 Thread Alan Bell
I am struggling to rebuild evolution, it compiles and installs but won't start, the error is Evolution can not start. Your system configuration does not match your evolution configuration I am fairly optimistic that adding the line gtk_window_set_resizable(= ((GtkWindow *)w, TRUE); at line 919

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-04-18 Thread Alan Bell
ok, lets put some effort into this one. I am not a C programmer, but lets see where we get to. I downloaded the source code for evolution, in the file evolution-2.26.0/plugins/startup-wizard/startup-wizard.c it includes libgnomeui and creates a gnome druid (a wizard) it does not do anything at

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-04-18 Thread Alan Bell
ok, some progress. Using parasite http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite I was able to determine that setting the allow-shrink property of the window to true would be a good idea, probably as good as getting the size right in the first place. The druid code doesn't actually create the window, the

[Bug 8629] Re: Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Bell
I added a comment and link to the patches from Ying-Chun Liu (GrandPaul) to an upstream bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267787 -- Evolution setup wizard does not fit in 800x600 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 125179] do you have moving things on screen

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Bell
is there a CPU monitor or pulsating Skype icon in the panel at the top of the screen? I think this was related to the problem for me. -- when vino is running for several hours, performance degrades, making xorg to eat up cpu usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125179 You received this bug

[Bug 31037] Re: Vino-server takes 90% of cpu when only listening for incoming connections

2007-09-07 Thread Alan Bell
I have found that Vino-server really does not like animated things on screen, especially in the panel at the top. I had a CPU monitor and a skype icon with a flashing alert flag on it, keeping up with these changes maxed out the CPU and made the remote session very unresponsive. Removing skype and