[Bug 1987162] Re: 43: New Device Security feature is confusing and unhelpful currently

2022-08-23 Thread William Dietrich
I think the whole concept of numeric security "levels" is wrong. Instead there should be a list of threats: - physical (address by using LUKS, disabling USB ports, locking screen after N minutes inactivity, etc) - bad apps (address by enabling AppArmor or SELinux etc, using Snaps or Flatpaks,

[Bug 1897856] [NEW] snap launch fails: symbol lookup error

2020-09-30 Thread William Dietrich
Public bug reported: Using snap 3.38.0+git1.ffa3fd98 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04: /snap/evince/532/usr/bin/evince: symbol lookup error: /snap/evince/532/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevdocument3.so.4: undefined symbol: gdk_pixbuf_init_modules ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 1893119] [NEW] Restart-required dialog gives no feedback

2020-08-26 Thread William Dietrich
Public bug reported: I uninstall something that affects Nautilus, such as the MEGA sync package. I get a dialog that says "Nautilus Restart Required" (see attached screenshot). I click the "Restart Nautilus" button. I get no feedback that anything happened. I sit there wondering if it worked.

[Bug 1889447] Re: Progress dialog looks frozen for multi-file 7z archives

2020-07-30 Thread William Dietrich
Maybe use these steps to create the archives, then double-click on the first resulting archive file (tmp1.7z.001) and do an extract. mkdir tmp1 cd tmp1 for f in a b c d e f g h i j do for g in a b c d e f g h i j do for h in a b c d e f g h

[Bug 1889447] [NEW] Progress dialog looks frozen for multi-file 7z archives

2020-07-29 Thread William Dietrich
Public bug reported: Suppose you have a four-file archive with files a.7z.001 a.7z.002 a.7z.003 a.7z.004 containing 500 files. While extracting from it, the progress dialog will show filename "a.7z.001" and "500 files remaining" and the progress-bar will stay near the left end, for the whole

[Bug 1885130] Re: Please add a way to show only open-source apps

2020-06-25 Thread William Dietrich
Okay, filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1021 Would be nice if ubuntu-bug sent me there directly. I'm getting tired of having to file a lot of bug reports twice. Sometimes downstream says go to upstream, sometimes upstream says go to downstream. The app displays as

[Bug 1885130] [NEW] Please add a way to show only open-source apps

2020-06-25 Thread William Dietrich
Public bug reported: Please add a setting in the store app to show only open-source apps, hiding proprietary apps. Thanks. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-software 3.36.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-39.43-generic 5.4.41 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-39-generic