[Bug 55709] Re: Scots Gaelic should be Scottish Gaelic

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Rae
As indicated in ISO 639 standard[1], the English name for the Gaelic of Scotland is Scottish Gaelic and not Scots Gaelic. Although it is used, Scots Gaelic is the wrong term and what's more, is confusing. The Wikipedia article on Scottish Gaelic [2] agrees with this. It does not need

[Bug 70585] App doesn't recognise ~/ shortcut for /home/user/

2006-11-06 Thread Alan Rae
Public bug reported: I installed the MoinMoin wiki (Desktop Edition) for my personal use. It is written in python, and in the terminal, the command to run it is: python ~/moin-desktop/moin.py However, when entered into the Additional startup programs, this doesn't work. It does work when

Re: [Bug 13530] Re: nvidia-glx crashes/lockups

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Rae
I don´t know. I´m living in Spain at the moment and I don´t have access to a Dapper computer. I´ll return to Scotland in a few weeks and I´ll let you know. But, I have a feeling that it was a hardware problem. It has happened on my Windows partition too, since. Alan Is this still a problem

[Bug 55709] Scots Gaelic should be Scottish Gaelic

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Rae
Public bug reported: Scots Gaelic is not the correct term for the language because Scots also exists. It should be renamed Scottish Gaelic to differentiate from Scots. Gaelic is a Celtic language and Scots is a Germanic language: they are completely different. Acceptable names would be