Re: [Bug 192629] Re: Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately? on NTFS / VFAT partitions

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Simpson
I've been following this bug pretty much forever now, and I have to say I think touristguy is not being rude or disruptive, but is bang on the mark. The discussion was wondering off track and needed pulled back to the point. Talk of admins granting permission to users, choice of file systems etc

[Bug 350068] [NEW] gdm fails to start X with autologin

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Simpson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm Problem: Network upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty with Xubuntu. On reboot after upgrade, normal bootup, but error message: 'No exec in session file: .xfce4' (Can't remember the exact words - this is close). Then gdm defaults to a failsafe X mode

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Simpson
To add my voice to this bug, I installed 13.04 today, on my work computer (previously Windows 7 only), to enable me to use a variety of bash scripts to process a large number of files on an external ext3 drive. At home I have 12.10 installed. The files are images, several thousand per folder,

[Bug 1223181] Re: After upgrading to saucy, eclipse crashes in gtk_tree_view_get_background_area+0x8a while debugging

2014-02-01 Thread Andrew Simpson
Seems to be related to KDE bug #324438 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324438) which was fixed in KDE bug #329112 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329112). There is a patch and reference to a git commit in #329112 which claims to have fixed the problem. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2018-08-13 Thread Andrew Simpson
There is a fundamental difference between search (what you do when you don't know where something is) and navigate (what you do when you know exactly where something is, and want to go there). Why the gnome team have chosen to conflate them, and their mental state while doing so, is anyone's

[Bug 1666681] Re: Restore interactive_search.patch (type-ahead search)

2018-03-07 Thread Andrew Simpson
It's a shame there is no way to vote for things here, and instead weight seems given to bugs with a large number of comments / activity. The current version of nautilus, which is the very core of Ubuntu, is broken. Search is not the same as navigation. I do not want to search my files when I know

[Bug 1164016] Re: restore type-ahead find

2018-03-07 Thread Andrew Simpson
> Oh I see why: most of us cannot change back the status of the bug once it has been changed to "fix released" (which is stupid, too). If that is genuinely the reason (and this bug has been marked as "Fix Released" since Jan 2014, so it seems correct), then is it not time to raise a new bug? --