Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-01-25 Thread Mason Hock
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/flidas-release-issues

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-01-25 Thread shiretoko
Well, I guess that makes it sound a bit too simple. However I'm also interested to know what's the major "blocking bug" that is keeping trisquel 8 from being released. Anybody got some info on this?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't get math to work in PDF

2018-01-25 Thread legimet . calc
Use the Android version of MuPDF. It is available on F-Droid.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread studio
I have just found something interesting. As a default setting in Tor there is: network.allow-experiments;true For which ghacks says: // 0341: disable Mozilla permission to silently opt you into tests user_pref("network.allow-experiments", false);

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread studio
And the so called documentation: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries doesn't even mention settings about experiments, telemetry and datareporting.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread studio
> But may I ask, what't the alternative? Use Tor Browser exclusively? Lynx, Mosaic? Wget? Curl? Encrypted smoke signals.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread greatgnu
>so that people stop using their products Nobody cares, unfortunately, amigo Joe el Guitarra >They will keep doing worse things and become stronger and more arrogant in that. Sure, the fact that nobody cares means their gooble's greens are not threatened. People will continue using it no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread studio
Mozilla: - deliberately created telemetry - enabled it by default - created "features" imprisoning the user in their network - made privacy an impossible task - disrespect the effort put in the bug reports - obviously don't care about fixing documentation - partnered with Google - relay the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't get math to work in PDF

2018-01-25 Thread robert . kirkpatrick
I tried the file from the first link you posted. I can't get it to work with Evince, either. I just tried it at the office on my work PC, and I *am* able to get it to work with Adobe Acrobat. I wonder if the interactive form in the file uses a proprietary extension of the PDF format?

Re: [Trisquel-users] LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-25 Thread fbits
Yep, you're right. My bad.

Re: [Trisquel-users] (Trisquel Mini) Loading/buffering into eternity when selecting SMPlayer YouTube Browser in repository

2018-01-25 Thread svenerik_vn
Update: It worked, I just copied the link, so I guess there was some typos, thanks :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] (Trisquel Mini) Loading/buffering into eternity when selecting SMPlayer YouTube Browser in repository

2018-01-25 Thread svenerik_vn
Lol, you're absolutely correct. I got this error" ERROR: hMVYIE3_XJ0: YouTube said: Invalid parameters. Any idea what that means?

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with DOCX?

2018-01-25 Thread onpon4
> I am not sure that it will amount to much, because it is a "lip service" by Microsoft, never meant to work properly in large/professional scale. I meant that the fact that they support the standard means you can safely ignore OOXML as a "standard" and just use ODF. I don't know if it

[Trisquel-users] Re : Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread lcerf
I think the effort should be concentrated on top management of Mozilla (how? I don't know). As a developer yold heyjoe in his first bug report: Bugzilla is not the place to discuss these topics; the governance mailing list might be the right place for it:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread ar018
> This creates another potential benefit to > these bug reports that will occur if we *fail*. Hmm never looked at it from this angle. Yes it may be a smart move and effective. Also heyjoe said that RMS will look at the bug report, so FSF is kind of in the process already. OTOH, there's a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-25 Thread Mason Hock
> Is this privacy flop > inadvertent or is it deliberate? It's hard to say. The data sent does provide some benefit that I think could be desirable for many users, but as heyjoe has said users should be aware of it and have an easy way to disable it. Maybe Mozilla intends for the automatic

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with DOCX?

2018-01-25 Thread ar018
> Everything always seems to render differently > between MS Office and LibreOffice. And Microsoft will make sure that it will always be so, *if* I understand Microsoft's general marketing policies correctly. > Microsoft Office supports ODF now, so that's good. I am not sure that it will