Re: [Trisquel-users] Desktop Effects Could Not Be Enabled

2011-05-12 Thread davidegallo
Hi DasFox, I suggest you to launch gnome-appearance-properties from shell, then on the Appearance Preference window try to enable Visual Effects and see the error showed in the shell ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread davidegallo
I think that Canonical is trying to get rid of Gnome and open source community and have its own desktop, exactly what Microsoft is doing for ages! Canonical is a company as Microsoft, with developers to pay each month and is trying to take a big piece of the UI cake to make money ... simply

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread ninenine78
I know, I'm not saying we should use Unity. What I'm saying is they make a valid point in that people are coming to expect something other than Microsoft's UI. Between Apple's iOS and Android and even Blackberry and Symbian, a lot of people might be wooed if we give them a familiar

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread davidegallo
Yes, I agree! Unity is a valid point of starting using Pc in a different way ... but how many people know that there's a choice in the OS of his own PC? We know that in our car whe can use different gas brand ... we cannot say the same thing about the PC ...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread snot . herry
MS pays a lot of money that endusers get Windows PCs. In normal stores, there is always Windows pre installed. People believe that PCs are hard to build (ok its sticking 5 things on one Big Thing). Its like BP says with other companys gas you could only drive half as far. They Pay money that

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing latest Gnash

2011-05-12 Thread dns
You could try the latest gnash from my gnu ppa (i try to update this quite often): https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/gnu you just need to add my launchpad key: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 479B857B and then this to your sources.list.. ..if you have

Re: [Trisquel-users] RARv3 support

2011-05-12 Thread Roeplay
Why wouldn't they package it? They package lots of trivial things that five people use, but not this?

Re: [Trisquel-users] RARv3 support

2011-05-12 Thread adrian . malacoda
They already provide non-free unrar in multiverse. My guess is Ubuntu users who want RARv3 support will probably either use that or use winrar through wine.

Re: [Trisquel-users] RARv3 support

2011-05-12 Thread Roeplay
If that's your argument, then why is Gnash packaged in Ubuntu?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread ninenine78
Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of MS Office. It's all pirated. Their ignorance has them not only using

Re: [Trisquel-users] RARv3 support

2011-05-12 Thread hound
relax, time will tell

[Trisquel-users] PPA'S

2011-05-12 Thread pvalley67
every PPA I've tried using errors out is there a fix for this? using 4.5

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread Roeplay
Damn, that is sad.

[Trisquel-users] Migrating to free software at education

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Molina
It comes from topic Big Changes Comings. Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of MS Office. It's all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel Molina
Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of MS Office. It's all pirated. Their ignorance has them not only

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread Rubén Rodríguez
ignorance has them not only using proprietary formats when for their uses free software and formats would work, but also pirating software. This then in turn is basically a green light from university faculty that the students should pirate the software too. Students everywhere should stand

Re: [Trisquel-users] PPA'S

2011-05-12 Thread freemind
I've already fixed this, made a patch and sent it to quidam. I don't know when it will be applied, but i hope it would be in the next version, if not sooner.

Re: [Trisquel-users] PPA'S - use sugar-sweets 0.88 instead for sugar-desktop

2011-05-12 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
use this install method in place of a ppa: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#Install_Sugar-desktop_0.88_.22SWEETS.22 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Trisquel pvalle...@gmail.com wrote: every PPA I've tried using errors out is there a fix for this?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Latest Libre

2011-05-12 Thread ninenine78
Sounds like getting the Debian 64 bit 38.x kernel will be the easiest for me. I'm off to read Gdebi man page to give it a go.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread Rubén Rodríguez
@Ruben That sounds like an awesome slogan Come on guys, don't copy that floppy! (copy ours!) or has someone already used it? Don't copy that floppy was an awful anti sharing campaign from the 90s

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

2011-05-12 Thread ninenine78
I know, but the addition of Hey buddy, don't copy that floppy(copy ours!) makes it awesome.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Latest Libre

2011-05-12 Thread lcerf
It should only be a matter of right-clicking on the DEB file and choosing GDebi. Do not remove the other kernel... and please report here if this easy solution actually works (the kernel is a sensible component)!

Re: [Trisquel-users] installing latest Gnash

2011-05-12 Thread dns
the 1st 3 should be removed/replaced yes, but hummm i wonder why it asks you to remove the last 3 packages that u listed... you did not overwrite the existing entries in the sources.list file or? and which trisquel version do you use?

[Trisquel-users] Libre Supporters Here's A Chance To Help Further The Cause!

2011-05-12 Thread dasfox
I want to bring this to everyone's attention that as a GNU Libre Linux user, when possible I spread the word online. I'm a member of the Wilders Security Forum, which happens to be an official support forum of many big name software companies, so Wilders does get a pretty big share of