[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1585863] Re: WiFi malfunction after suspend & resume stress - sudo wpa_cli scan required to fix it.

2016-09-29 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I installed Fourdollars' PPA but I can see current version is higher than that (1.2.4 vs 1.2.2 in the PPA). I'm using yakkety right now. How can I test the PPA's version? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1585863] Re: WiFi malfunction after suspend & resume stress - sudo wpa_cli scan required to fix it.

2016-08-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@auspex: Your script doesn't work here. I just created it and gave it execution permissions, rebooted and tried a sleep/resume cycle. No dice. I'm just amazed no one from Canonical is chiming in. This has been happening from the very moment I installed 16.04 on its release day and it happens in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-11-07 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Four years have passed and we still have no permanent menus and most of the issues posed by this bug remain acknowledged but unsolved. I can't quite get what the process is, but it just isn't working. Are these issues being looked at in Unity 8 at least? -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-08-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
May I ask what fix was released, Marco, and what's exactly the nature of the fix? Has it been fixed for the current Ubuntu version (14.04.1) or is it fixed for an upcoming one? If it's the latter, which one: 14.10 or/and 14.04.2? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-07-10 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2014-07-10 21:59 GMT+02:00 Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@canonical.com: ** Changed in: compiz Milestone: 0.9.11.0 = None Does this mean this will never be fixed? We're still waiting for the option to keep the menus permanently visible... I have a few Ubuntu installations (a lawyers office

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-06 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2014-04-03 3:55 GMT+02:00 Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@canonical.com: Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.2.0. ** Changed in: unity Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released This is simply not true. Only half of the problem has been solved. The visibility issue has been ignored by the design

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-01 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I proposed exactly that to Marcon Trevisan and he asked me to look for John Lea on IRC. I confess I haven't had the time (I've never used IRC before and haven't even learned how to). Here's my proposal: http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/ubuntu- introducing-locally-integrated-menus-to-

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1263278] Re: Use FFmpeg instead of Libav

2014-02-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Reports of the libav fork languishing to death and the original ffmpeg actually being frequently updated are all over the place. Ubuntu can -and should- use the proper ffmpeg, regardless of what Debian decides. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
May I suggest we take a look at the description of the bug? At the end it says: The following options will be added to 'System Settings/Appearance': --- Menus Location: Global/Local Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed --- Location has been masterfully solved by Trevilño. The second one

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Nice, but the menus keep vanishing. This doesn't really solve one of the most controversial issues. There must be a way to have the menus permanently visible. Many (myself included) would rather have the window title vanishing, making it visible when hovering over windows buttons or the empty area

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/8 David Wolfe davidw+launch...@wolfeden.org All to save what? 24 pixels of vertical space? Ludicrous. Actually the global menu per se is not the issue here. Almost every commenter likes it; just not the way it behaves _exclusively_ (not by default, since there are barely any options).

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Will this patch resist updates? 2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters rmkoest...@gmail.com @Mateusz Stachowski: I am currently working on a patch to do that for unity-control-center. -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters rmkoest...@gmail.com @Aleve Sicofante: Can you explain what you mean by resist updates? I mean, will we have to apply the patch after each update? Sometimes updates overwrite patched versions of Unity. I'm asking if this patch suffers from the same or is it independent

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-29 Thread Aleve Sicofante
and onwards means 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10. My fault. You're right. Aleve - Which Ubuntu release and variety (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu/GNOMEbuntu) are you using? I'm wondering if your implementation is not using gtk-window-decorator. Plain mainstream official Ubuntu 13.04.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-29 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just one more question: why should I have to install mutter on plain Unity Ubuntu which doesn't use it at all? Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote: 11.10 and onwards: Install mutter (sudo apt-get install mutter) and edit org.gnome.mutter 'draggable-border-width' in dconf-editor -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Why isn't this configurable in gconf/dconf or something? It seems every system behaves differently, which is quite weird (maybe it depends on the monitors resolution?) Please don't hardcode this and give us a workaround, at least until the touch OS is ready and resources come back to the desktop.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
And who are those Masters of the Universe who can revert the fix released status? 2013/7/29 Ben Shadwick benshadw...@gmail.com This bug is going to be ignored unless you can get someone to revert the fix released status. I've contacted some of the people who set that status on this bug, and I

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-07-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/7/29 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Please stop asking to revert the status of this bug. It is fine as is: 1. This bug was fixed in compiz and Unity in 11.04 (two years ago now). The left, right and bottom window borders now have a ten-pixel each-way grab area. This is plain

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-07-24 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I'm confused. This bug can only be solved in future versions of Unity. Since current is Unity 7 and the design hasn't been changed, our first hopes go to Unity 8, where Compiz won't be used at all. So unless Unity 7 introduces the desired behavior in 13.10, which seems unlikely (since nobody has

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-07-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Sorry for my ignorance. What exact changes have happened to Compiz regarding this bug that you're informing us about here? 2013/7/22 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com ** Changed in: compiz Milestone: 0.9.10.0 = 0.9.10.2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-06-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
This bug isn't fixed in 13.04 yet. Maybe the developers John Lea and Marco Trevisan (Treviño) could chime in and let everybody know if we can expect it to be fixed in 13.10? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-05-16 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Leonardo Donelli: Have you actually read this bug report at all? People here is not against the global menu per se. Gosh, even the title says it very clear!!! All we want is IMPROVEMENT, which in this case means some pretty well argued options (compared to the total lack of rationale for the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-05-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
LIM has been announced for Saucy. I understand it's not a proper announcement, but just an idea in the ongoing UDS. Whoever is attending the UDS, please remind the team of this hugely followed bug. If they're planning an overhaul of the menu system, they should pay attention to everything that

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!) Hi. 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D, which has been the default since 12.10 No it's not. I'm using Unity-3D,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On 31/01/2013 8:51 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: It does not make any sense to continue a discussion on an old bug report that is about a totally different issue. Excuse me? The title and description

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just added Unity as a project affected by this bug. ** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to light-themes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com: Dear Aleve, Please, do not modify this old bug. You are wasting contributors' time. As John Lea has already pointed out, the issue you are describing has already been reported as bug #717444. The reason why this bug should remain

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Aleve, if you are still having problems resizing windows you can bump up the padding around the window. If I remember correctly its in the key org.gnome.mutter:draggable-border-width There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell...

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com There's no such thing in Unity. Mutter is used in Gnome Shell... gtk-window-decorator integrates with the mutter keys. Lovely, but there's stil no org.gnome.mutter:draggable- border-width key in my Unity-only installation's dconf. Actually,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/2/1 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com Ah, I believe I made it so that if mutter wasn't installed, it just uses the default value of 10px, as there was very little usecase for making it configurable. If you want to adjust it, you'll have to install mutter, and adjusting that setting

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/28 Chad Germann cgerm...@gmail.com in other words: show the title of the window whenever the mouse is on the top bar but outside the menu area And we don't see the problem with this whole thing by how many words it took to type that? Actually, my other words are pretty few. You bet

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-24 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/24 Chad Germann cgerm...@gmail.com And just remove the vanishing functionality completely. its not like that panel area is being used for anything else. It's used for the window's buttons and title when in maximized mode, and the application name when non-maximized. The solution is to

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/23 Brad Jensen bradwjen...@gmail.com WHY are we auto-hiding menu options? Because the owner of the playground believes it's more aesthetically pleasing and that the menus are disturbing, ugly and awkward. He also believes this pack of peculiar opinions form a rationale. Basic logic is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1094389] Re: Default synaptics settings not the best for Apple trackpads

2013-01-10 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Actually, I'm just discouraging people to install Ubuntu on Apple hardware just for this. It's too much of a hassle to configure the touchpad properly and it's definitely not newbie-grade stuff. I would suggest: 1. Create a single point of configuration for touchpads (there are currently simply

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1098388] [NEW] Too many places to set up a touchpad

2013-01-10 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Public bug reported: I'm having issue with my touchpad on a Macbook 1,1. After much investigation I've found there are at least these many places to tweak the behaviour of my touchpad: 1. The default sytem settings mouse and touchpad tool. 2. The dconf-editor key

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 124440] Re: Ubuntu needs a way to set mouse scrolling speed

2013-01-07 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Some people wonder why I sometimes say Ubuntu is half-finished. This and the sorry state of gpointing-device-settings is the best proof. If there's no way to properly set/use mice and touchpads on many desktops/laptops, there's no way Ubuntu can gain more users. No amount of Unity improvements

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-03 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Hey, five years and a half and grabbing handlers (not just windows resizers) is still buggy in Ubuntu. What puzzles me is, why is it easy to grab the left, right and bottom edges of the screen and it's almost imposible to grab the top edge, pane borders in some apps and many other handlers? Isn't

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1081702] Re: Update the default wallpaper in 13.04

2012-12-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
My background is computer graphics. I've been on that industry for about 20 years. There's no way wallpapers with so much gradients on a limited color range that cover a big screen area at the same time will look good on most screens today. Not only laptops use mainly 6-bit panels. There are also

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-11-23 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Guys: stop discussing the implementation. The design team and the Ayatana team have all the briefing and are working on this. There's only one question remaining: WHEN? This bug was to be solved for 12.04, then 12.10... Mark Shuttleworth promised well before 12.04 that the default menu behaviour

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-11-23 Thread Aleve Sicofante
There you go guys: we're just a bunch of petulants. That's PR at it's best Mr. Shuttlerworth. Good job, as usual. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title:

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-19 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2012/10/20 Kamran Mackey kamranm1...@gmail.com Fixed the issue, You can check for updates using the Software Updater to update your software.To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/682788/+subscriptions Thanks for your effort but I just

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-12 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Pedro: no offense but I'd say new designs are not the issue here. It was pretty much established months ago. We're just waiting for implementation and some voice from the devs camp to explain what's going on. What's stopping them from implementing and publishing the fix. I think your proposals

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-11 Thread Aleve Sicofante
What I find appaling here is that we're a few days away from 12.10's release and not a single developer has had the courtesy of explaning to the 614 people affected by this bug what's being done (or not done) about it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 964365] Re: Weather indicator fails to update anything when earthtools.org is down

2012-10-03 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Ignore my last comment. I'm opening two new bugs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-weather in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964365 Title: Weather indicator fails to update anything when

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 964365] Re: Weather indicator fails to update anything when earthtools.org is down

2012-10-03 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Same issue here: weather is properly updated (with Yahoo, not with Google) but I can't get forecasts. Forecast information cannot be fetched. Connection cannot be established. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-16 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Rachel Greenham: I couldn't agree more with you. We need to solve one single issue first: show the global menu all the time, then proceed with caution for any other options. Just a few comments/suggestion on the main and secondary issues: - Showing global menu permanently will hide the title

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2012/9/13 Pedro Bessa 682...@bugs.launchpad.net Development stopped, because there are lots of ***disagreements*** between us all. There were three alternatives. [] global menu on [] global menu off [] global menu only on maximized windows We came up with new alternatives. [] mockup 1

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I'm really confused. LIM and those two mockups have NOTHING to do with how the global menu behaves or the original description of the Enhanced Menu project (described in the Desired change section of the description). How is it a solution to the VERY SERIOUS ISSUE that the global menu hides,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-01 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Thanks, but I'm expecting global menu options, not the LIM. you know: [x] Global Menu on [x] Global Menu off [x] Global Menu only for maximized windows We had been promised some of this would land on Precise. I understand it couldn't make it, but hoped it would be in Quantal. Can any Ubuntu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-08-19 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just tested Quantal's daily build and there doesn't seem to be any changes from Precise. Will this be ready for feature freeze? I checked at Settings-Appearance-Behavior, maybe the configuration is somewhere else? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 969708] Re: Workspaces icon should hide when only 1 workspace is used

2012-03-30 Thread Aleve Sicofante
) Assignee: (unassigned) = Aleve Sicofante (sicofante) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dp-unity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969708 Title: Workspaces icon should hide when only 1