[Bug 580882] Re: favorite status message feature is not documented

2010-06-13 Thread Alfredo Pironti
Referring to comment #2, a sentence could be added to the documentation, and/or the tool-tip could be updated. -- favorite status message feature is not documented https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 580882] Re: favorite status message feature is not documented

2010-06-13 Thread Alfredo Pironti
By documentation, I refer to the content shown by the Help program that opens when I click the Help -- Contents menu in Empathy. Sure, this whishlist item could be reported upstream. -- favorite status message feature is not documented https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580882 You received this

[Bug 580882] Re: favorite status message feature is not documented

2010-05-19 Thread Alfredo Pironti
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- favorite status message feature is not documented https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. --

[Bug 580882] [NEW] favorite status message feature is not documented

2010-05-15 Thread Alfredo Pironti
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: empathy Use case: I am a user with some knowledge of IM, but facing empathy for the first time, and I don't know what a favorite status is for. (How can I use it? are my favourite statuses stored somewhere? Will other people see my favorite statuses in a

[Bug 580882] Re: favorite status message feature is not documented

2010-05-15 Thread Alfredo Pironti
Sorry for being incomplete. When I choose a custom status, a greyed-out star appears close to it. A tool-tip says Click to make this status a favorite. By experimenting (clicking on the star) I discovered that a starred custom status gets put among the selectable statuses. If I un- start that

[Bug 367169] Re: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding

2010-04-20 Thread Alfredo Pironti
I was affected by this bug, and I can confirm that on the remote machine the ~/.dbus directory was owned by root. By changing the owner to myself the problem is solved. For some reason some people got the ~/.dbus ownership unwillingly changed, can't tell in which package, but this is certainly a

[Bug 410407] Re: Flash does not work correctly [READ DESCRIPTION]

2009-12-17 Thread Alfredo Pironti
Please, when this bug is fixed, also provide a way to revert the user made workarounds. For example, when fixing the bug, a pop-up window may say: If you disabled compiz because of the flash bug, you can now safely re-enable it. Or, for workaround 3, the package installer may silently modify the

[Bug 410407] Re: Flash does not work correctly [READ DESCRIPTION]

2009-12-17 Thread Alfredo Pironti
I buy your point. Nevertheless, at least the users should be notified when the problem will be solved (not only by marking this bug as solved), so that they can revert their workarounds. Otherwise it is very likely that the fix will go unnoticed and many workarounds will remain in place

[Bug 465464] Re: Gnome panels continuously crash, then reload

2009-11-04 Thread Alfredo Pironti
Actually, I can reproduce this bug even after I deleted my old configuration (that is, when the default configuration is in place). Steps to reproduce the bug on my system: 1) rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/panel/ # restore default configuration 2) killall gconfd-2 # make sure the new configuration is

[Bug 465464] Re: Gnome panels continuously crash, then reload

2009-11-03 Thread Alfredo Pironti
I started having this bug by just removing the notification area. After notification area was removed, gnome-panel started crashing, and now it crashes every time it starts up. Attached please find my .xsession-errors. Please note that this bug is currently making my system completely unusable

[Bug 465464] Re: Gnome panels continuously crash, then reload

2009-11-03 Thread Alfredo Pironti
I do have a dual screen config, but accessibility options are not enabled anywhere. As a work around, I just deleted everything under ~/.gconf/apps/panel/, then restarder gconf2-d. That solved the problem by restoring the panel to the pristine default condition. Accidentaly, this also solved the