[Bug 197537] Re: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text

2011-09-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
god damn spammer. How is this sort of crap supposed to be reported? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 Title: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japa

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2010-06-18 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I couldn't remember this discussion after a couple of years, but I was amused by the comment and depressed to see that after two (more) years things have NOT turned around. I still want alternatives to Microsoft's awful software, but the major change of the last few years is that Microsoft has appa

[Bug 197537] Re: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text

2010-01-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I wanted to check the status of this ancient bug, but on this particular machine I only have a VMware Player with Ubuntu as a guest OS. It runs, but I am unable to get the Japanese support to work properly for Japanese input now that I have upgraded it to the newest version of Ubuntu. I can confirm

[Bug 478134] Re: Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Sorry I'm slow getting back to you on this. I sort of hoped it was just the usual glitches (even though they're supposed to be ready to release the software when they release it)... However, it appears the sound- related problems are much more serious than I understood at the time, and much more wi

[Bug 478134] Re: Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352536/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352537/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352538/ProcStatus.txt -- Totem

[Bug 478134] [NEW] Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem My main audio use of Ubuntu was for streaming MP3 audio, and it's been working fine (for perhaps a year or two on this machine) until the Koala upgrade. It seems to be attempting to do something, but there's no sound and I can't find any way to get

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-28 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
With poppler-data installed it shows garbage characters all over the place. Some of them were graphic characters, and others looked like numbers from Unicode. Seems like xpdf is still the solution. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-27 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Whoops. I forgot to note that I'm running Ibix 8.10 now, and with all of the latest updates. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-b

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-27 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Well, I just checked the latest Japanese file, and it's still broken, and xpdf still works properly. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- d

[Bug 185157] Re: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon

2008-09-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I haven't been willing to try Intrepid yet, but I'm still seeing it on one machine. I actually have a highly reproducible version on that machine. Do you want me to try to get some diagnostics, or can it be regarded as a moot point as Intrepid arrives? -- There was an error starting the GNOME Set

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2008-08-20 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Not sure which way you're handling this, but the bug is still present in the default document viewer as of today. However, my workaround was to install the xpdf viewer, and it handles the Japanese without any problems. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1975

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2008-05-14 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Sorry, I don't live in America and I don't know who Jerry Springer is. I hope it's a comedy show, but I'm not even interested enough to run it through Wikipedia. Anyway, I admit that I am too easily annoyed sometimes. Back on the bug itself, I was interested enough to investigate the fix reported

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2008-05-13 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
You make it sound like having thousands of bug reports is a bad thing. Unless you have extremely bug-report-diligent users or extremely bug- filled software, it implies you have tens or even hundreds of thousands of users--which ought to be a good thing. If you can't make plans to deal with and eff

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2008-05-11 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
And your [Sebastien Bacher's] comment was constructive in exactly what fashion? Since you apparently think this is some sort of debate, I'll deal with it on that basis--but be advised that I do *NOT* regard your approach as constructive and is an excellent example of why I have basically stopped r

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2008-05-11 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I've been using this feature for a long time and found it very helpful-- on the theory that the Ubuntu people actually wanted to improve the software by making it easy to report bugs. Now I see that this new problem was discovered, reported, and marked to be ignored two months ago. Excuse me, but

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2008-03-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Not sure what this test file is supposed to look like... There is some Japanese that does appear when look at the file, but other parts are almost surely garbled and missing text. I'll try to test both of them on another machine later, but it will probably take me a couple of days. This Sharp is ki

[Bug 197537] [NEW] Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2008-03-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince After opening a PDF file full of Japanese text, all of the Japanese is missing. Layout appears to be correct, but nothing there. My system is fully enabled for Japanese and seems to handle it for all of the other purposes that I've tested, but the

[Bug 28668] Re: can't find bugs user commented on / reported

2008-01-20 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I basically have the same comment and problem, most recently related to a bug that was apparently fixed by the update xserver-xord-core patch 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3 that (I think) undoes a recent xserver patch. Look, I want Ubuntu to succeed, but this is increasingly annoying... I'm beginning

Re: [Bug 53575] Re: Random screensaver is always the same one

2007-04-18 Thread shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)
I don't think so, but it's so old I can't really recall. I'm running Ubuntu on a number of machines. --- Sebastien Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you still get the bug? > > ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) >Importance: Undecided => Low > > -- > Random screensaver is always

[Bug 31014] Re: Can't find lan printer

2006-09-30 Thread shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 17981 *** I think I'm also confirming the network printer detection fails, though I'm not really sure I'm doing it correctly. Definitely enabled in the global settings, but... However, I was able to install the printer by using the IP address directly. Not sure

[Bug 22335] Re: gnome-screensaver conflicts with ubuntu-desktop

2006-07-29 Thread shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)
Basically just noting that I have the same question, but so far haven't been able to come up with an answer. I would like to remove several components from ubuntu-desktop without sacrificing all of it. -- gnome-screensaver conflicts with ubuntu-desktop https://launchpad.net/bugs/22335 -- desktop

[Bug 53575] Random screensaver is always the same one

2006-07-20 Thread shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to the Dapper Drake, the random screen saver feature has always been locked on one specific screensaver, the one called Xylap. (Actually, I'd rather remove all of the screen savers and just use a power saver, but I haven't gotten to that level yet... It seems

[Bug 29760] Re: Sound does not work properly in Flash in firefox

2006-06-25 Thread shanen \(Shannon Jacobs\)
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 34051 *** I also confirm that Daniel Carrera's three line solution worked for me. As a neophyte to Ubuntu, I have to express appreciation for such guruness. (Now if I could just stop it from frequently engaging Japanese input mode (via Anthy) when I'm typing...)