[Bug 237941]

2021-07-02 Thread André Pirard
If we get the "open parent folder" working again, it would be a great help in finding the searched keyword in a bookmark, jumping to the parent folder and reaching the list of associated bookmarks. As a kludge, one can create a dummy bookmark with the exact name of its folder. Thought in

[Bug 237941]

2019-03-11 Thread André Pirard
I'm not sure what "column" you would like and where. A folder icon would be sufficient in the hit list. But if one puts in a folder one URL named "folder folder's name (keywords)" to find, that should be sufficient. There was a very nice "open parent folder" extension to right click that URL

[Bug 1781819] Re: libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 missing from bionic and on

2018-07-15 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 missing from xenial and on + libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 missing from bionic and on ** Description changed: - libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 are missing from xenial depot and on. + libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 are missing from bionic depot and on.

[Bug 1781819] [NEW] libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 missing from xenial and on

2018-07-15 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: libacr38u and libusb-0.1-4 are missing from xenial depot and on. They are required for Belgian people to fill their income tax forms and to sign online. See https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/utiliser_carte_identite_electronique_belge#utilisation Alternatively, you may

[Bug 1771113] [NEW] window title bar roll up should restore window where it was

2018-05-14 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: 1-2) I'm using marco on MATE 16.04 but this ticket's scope is wider than that (since 12.04). Please reassign if not a window manager issue, or if more than one. 4) User clicks a title bar to roll up a window. Great feature to later find and get back to suspended current

[Bug 1754458] Re: nm-applet symbol not displayed on mate (18.04)

2018-05-08 Thread André Pirard
After installing a 18.04 that couldn't be fresher, I added the applet Indicator Applet Complete and now I've got in a bunch: that Network Manager applet that was missing (that of 16.04.4 was badly working after suspend) a Battery applet that was missing too a duplicate Sound applet a Mixed

[Bug 12893] Re: Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices

2016-01-27 Thread André Pirard
I was asking "what solution was used?" because I can't really find out if my suggestion was considered. Do not create /.Trash-$USER directories but $USER directories in /.Trash and only if that directory exists. So, the user chooses if he/she/it wants a trash by creating /.Trash or not when

[Bug 12893] Re: Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices

2016-01-25 Thread André Pirard
How? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12893 Title: Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1110188] Re: USC allows a package installation to uninstall vital packages

2015-11-02 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: + Update: + Bug #793318 has been made an alias of this bug without notifying here that it relates to APTURL and modifying this header. + A similar horror story happened invisibly after clicking an APTURL link in a Web page. + Please add "Affects apturl (Ubuntu)" like

[Bug 1110188] Re: USC/APTURL allows a package installation to invisibly uninstall vital packages

2015-11-02 Thread André Pirard
** Project changed: apturl => ubuntu ** No longer affects: ubuntu ** Also affects: apturl Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110188 Title:

[Bug 1110188] Re: USC/APTURL allows a package installation to invisibly uninstall vital packages

2015-11-02 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: Update: - Bug #793318 has been made an alias of this bug without notifying here that it relates to APTURL and modifying this header. - A similar horror story happened invisibly after clicking an APTURL link in a Web page. + Bug #793318 has been made an alias of this

[Bug 1082215] Re: Writing on a certain USB HDD causes corruption

2015-10-23 Thread André Pirard
I am one of the victims of the bug described above. In fact, my neigbour is the victim: Ubuntu destroyed her Windows partition. I was trying to help her. That is more than a reason to turn people away from Linux. But what is written here above is another reason. It is perfectly incomprehensible.

[Bug 1082215] Re: (at least) USB id 14cd:6116 SATA Bridge M6116 chip causes HDD corruption

2015-10-23 Thread André Pirard
It sounds as this bug was fixed in Kernel 3.8.1. Use System>Administration>Synaptic and install linux-image-3.8.1-??-generic linux-headers-3.8.1-??-generic reboot and make sure this kernel is running ** Description changed: + Update: Correction: + + It sounds as this bug was fixed in Kernel

[Bug 410288] Re: Nautilus does not handle FTP timeouts well

2015-08-29 Thread André Pirard
Sebastien, bug #1416891 is about updating 12.04 LTS. to 1.20.3. I sure would like to test it, but where can we get the fix? The problem I see occurs when the server times out and closes the connection, looking like this on our side (netstat) tcp 53 0 192.168.0.20:44879

[Bug 1110188] Re: USC allows a package installation to uninstall vital packages

2015-06-15 Thread André Pirard
See bug #793318 for a similar horror story. The issue is not only preventing the system to crash but hiding from the user all the information that Synaptic Packet Manager shows. One of the reasons I abandoned Windows is that setup.exe is (was?) a black box most often without warning of what it's

[Bug 12893] Re: Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices

2014-07-17 Thread André Pirard
Тhere is on the other hand a high number of discussions of guys now trying to make a volume trash. The solution looks very simple to me. Instead of automatically creating .Trash- directories with possible permission problems to do so, make it a partition formatting user option to create a

Re: [Bug 206884] Firefox Character encoding

2014-01-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-01-21 07:45, Henri Sivonen wrote : (In reply to André Pirard from comment #17) I think that the first thing for Character Encoding Autodetect to be less confusing is ti say what it does. Assuming that it means that any indication of a character set is ignored ans that it is guessed

[Bug 226436] Re: Home folder names don't change after changing language if folder not empty

2013-10-19 Thread André Pirard
Hi. Do the names of your system folders appear in Czech or in English on your desktop (menu Places ...)? Could you please post the output of ls -l ~/ where you keep only the names of the system folders in Czech and/or English like this? $ ls -l ~/ total 100 drwxr-xr-x 6 p p 4096 Oct 19

[Bug 1043601] Re: Sound no longer coming out of usb headset

2013-06-16 Thread André Pirard
I made a batch of updates in which this and other pulseaudio components. pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2) to 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.3 Now, I still see my phone soundcard under PA Sound Preferences/Hardware But it disappeared from the /Input and /Output tags. I can no longer select them as default !!!

[Bug 1043601] Re: Sound no longer coming out of usb headset

2013-06-13 Thread André Pirard
Sorry Raymond, does that relate to what I wrote and how can I use it? If it fixed my problem, this would be a great day in my life !!! Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1043601

[Bug 1043601] Re: Sound no longer coming out of usb headset

2013-06-12 Thread André Pirard
I'm in a somewhat different case. I recently upgraded to 12.04, updated to lately, almost now, and the sound no longer comes in (not from the headset but from the microphone). In fact, strangely, the mike works just after a reboot but not after it has been unplugged (and, need I say,

[Bug 602347] Re: Renaming of the locally displayed names of the network resources should be allowed

2013-06-05 Thread André Pirard
I have no problem executing ln -sfT ~/.gvfs/FTP as username on hostname мой if that's what you mean. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602347 Title: Renaming of the locally displayed

[Bug 932935] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs when transferring directories

2013-06-05 Thread André Pirard
Workaround within. I am surprised to upgrade to 12.04 with updates up to 13.06 and to meet this very serious problem reported 12.02 that did not exist with 10.04. In my mind, a bug report system should contain not only a Bug description and a Bug Discussion sections but also a Bug solution

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2013-05-15 Thread André Pirard
This problem does not affect the graphical installer, so it's brilliantly solved it by removing the text installer ;-) Not everyone finds sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and tzselect trivial. sample ;-) : http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/locale-settings-are-not-right-how-can-i-reset-them

[Bug 794727] Re: Please symlink /var/log/messages to syslog

2013-05-04 Thread André Pirard
If you remove /var/log/messages you must also update 13.500.000 Web pages that refer to it. You just can't tell the general user to constantly scrutinize bug comments and update his rsyslog.conf. Unless Ubuntu is only for geeks... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1165292] [NEW] openjdk-7-* won't install: packaging internal dependencies incoherence

2013-04-05 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openjdk/ppa/ubuntu lucid main $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib ... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

[Bug 372286] Re: possibility to upgrade the french hunspell dictionary ?

2013-01-02 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: Binary package hint: hunspell-fr Hello, the french dictionary is a bit old . There are new opensources *.dic and *.aff dictionaries here : http://dicollecte.free.fr/download.php?prj=fr is it possible to upgrade the dictionaries with them ? Thanks

[Bug 193738] Re: ACPI wakeup crashes on Toshiba (Tecra 8000)

2012-10-11 Thread André Pirard
I'm sorry I no longer participate in this kind of bug solving consisting of doing nothing and asking 5 years later if the bug still exists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193738 Title:

[Bug 676722] Re: keep aligned feature gets re-enabled

2012-08-20 Thread André Pirard
** Also affects: linuxmint Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676722 Title: keep aligned feature gets re-enabled To manage notifications

[Bug 676722] Re: keep aligned feature gets re-enabled

2012-08-20 Thread André Pirard
After 2 years, this bug reappeared in Mint (seen in MATE). That's because they use Caja for the Desktop, I suppose. I'm stretching patches ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676722

[Bug 399974] Re: 'Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop reload

2012-08-20 Thread André Pirard
After 2 years, this bug reappeared in Mint (seen in MATE). That's because they use Caja for the Desktop, I suppose. I'm stretching patches ;-) Reopening for Mint. Making Bug #676722 a duplicate. ** Also affects: linuxmint Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug

[Bug 676722] Re: keep aligned feature gets re-enabled

2012-08-20 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 399974 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399974 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 399974 'Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop reload -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 399974] Re: 'Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop reload

2012-08-20 Thread André Pirard
Please note that I found no 'linuxmint' in 'Also affects distribution'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399974 Title: 'Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop

[Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2012-08-15 Thread André Pirard
I suppose you mean there has been no Ubuntu (Canonical) activity for 3 ½ year. I'm afraid I am a normal Ubuntu user and I cannot afford extra computers to test the latest, unstable development release. In my mind and in Canonical's words, correcting bugs is not testing every new release to see

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-08-04 Thread André Pirard
** Tags added: precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828412 Title: installer does not allow the right country/language combination To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-08-04 Thread André Pirard
These are screen shots of a 12.04 installation screens with the error message over-lined. (wonderful those Сони cameras!!!) ;-) ** Attachment added: Screenshot-Ubuntu 12.04 Precise [Running] - Oracle VM VirtualBox-0.png

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-08-04 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: Screenshot-Ubuntu 12.04 Precise [Running] - Oracle VM VirtualBox-1.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/localechooser/+bug/828412/+attachment/3248150/+files/Screenshot-Ubuntu%2012.04%20Precise%20%5BRunning%5D%20-%20Oracle%20VM%20VirtualBox-1.png -- You received

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-08-04 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: Screenshot-Ubuntu 12.04 Precise [Running] - Oracle VM VirtualBox-2.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/localechooser/+bug/828412/+attachment/3248151/+files/Screenshot-Ubuntu%2012.04%20Precise%20%5BRunning%5D%20-%20Oracle%20VM%20VirtualBox-2.png -- You received

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-08-02 Thread André Pirard
This eternal bug had been reported one year ago in hope to be fixed in 12.04 but it seems useless to report bugs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828412 Title: installer does not

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab

2012-05-11 Thread André Pirard
Yes, using the real well known UUID of the booting partition to replace UUID=0 is quite possible during the boot process (egg laying time if you like). I am not, of course, speaking of determining which hen^H^H^H UUID to boot, which is a cock^H^H^H^H pre-boot instead of boot matter. Please

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for boot partition, e.g. in fstab

2012-05-11 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab + use UUID=0 for boot partition, e.g. in fstab -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996443 Title: use UUID=0 for boot

[Bug 996443] [NEW] use UUID=0 for this partition

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Any version, any release and probably any distribution. What happens. When GParted makes a backup of a partition, two partitions with the same UUID exist, which is contrary to principle. This produces a lot of confusion if both are visible, such as one being mounted but

[Bug 828412] Re: installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: Ubuntu 11.10 beta installation. - 1. What you expected to happen +  1. What you expected to happen The same as what happened, but without the inconvenience - 2. What actually happened +  2. What actually happened + + Update: seems to affect only Alternate

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for this partition

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
Thank you for affecting this report. Please notice that using UUID=0 as an alias of a real UUID is not a GParted matter but one of some disk management component. Gparted renaming an UUID is only part of the whole story and you may want to open an additional bug for it with the same text, one

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - use UUID=0 for this partition + use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996443 Title: use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g.

[Bug 793318] Re: Should confirm package conflicts from the user as apturl can silently uninstall vital packages like network-manager

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
** Package changed: apturl (Ubuntu) = software-center (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793318 Title: Should confirm package conflicts from the user as apturl can silently

[Bug 793318] Re: Should confirm package conflicts from the user as apturl can silently uninstall vital packages like network-manager

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
** Also affects: apturl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: apturl + Binary package hint: apturl, software center + + Update: + Please note that this report has a much wider scope than just APTURL not preventing system

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
Please notice that using UUID=0 as an alias of a real UUID is not a GParted matter but one of some disk management component. PLEASE READ THE TITLE and see that this report is not (only) related to Gparted but (mostly) to UUID=0 being an alias. The Gparted side of the story turns out to be

[Bug 996443] Re: use UUID=0 for this partition, e.g. in fstab

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: Any version, any release and probably any distribution. + + Update: + + Please please please read the title of this report and see that this report is not (only) related to Gparted but to UUID=0 being an alias of the UUID of the partition in which that reference

[Bug 737387] Re: gparted should offer option to change UUID when copying partition

2012-05-08 Thread André Pirard
As changing the UUID of a partition also implies to change the references to it, for example in fstab, I opened Bug #996443 suggesting that UUID=0 meant the UUID of the partition this reference is in, this partition, myself, solving 90%+ of such cases. I think that the effects of not changing the

[Bug 565249] Re: write to disc dialog shows No disc available, re-insert allows successful burn but still shows No disc available

2012-01-19 Thread André Pirard
You won't be told you're the only one, Eemil. Apparently exactly the same symptoms here. But I did not notice that the button was enabled. I rebooted a 68 days running system and lost the competition ;-) So, 1) I should learn to read ;-) 2) These bug reports should have a Bug Solution/Workaround

Re: [Bug 793318] Re: apturl can silently uninstall vital packages like network-manager

2011-11-05 Thread André Pirard
Thanks for taking care of this bug. Please note that it has nothing to do with pcsc etc... but with the fact that APTURL is a black box that, as opposed to Synaptic, does secret things to your system including possibly destroying it. I have started writing a full text about that. Wait a little

[Bug 363619] Re: Language-support-extra-de breaks OpenOffice spell checker in Jaunty

2011-10-27 Thread André Pirard
I'm sorry. My above should be disregarded. According to the following, de_med needs no .aff file of its own. man hunspell -d en_US,en_geo,en_med,de_DE,de_med en_US and de_DE are base dictionaries, they consist of aff and dic file pairs: en_US.aff, en_US.dic and

[Bug 793318] Re: apturl can silently uninstall vital packages like network-manager

2011-10-27 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - apturl can silently uninstall vital packets like network-manager + apturl can silently uninstall vital packages like network-manager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 538600] Re: Various bad Monitor resolutions after installation or monitor change

2011-10-19 Thread André Pirard
The word invalid is really full of tact. The fact that the release in which the problem was tested is no longer maintained is not a valid reason for not fixing the bug in subsequent releases. But reactions like this have had me quit the bug reporting and Ubuntu help business anyway. -- You

Re: [Bug 831081] Re: muse version 1.1-0ubuntu5 failed to build in oneiric

2011-09-14 Thread André Pirard
Muse should start with just timidity daemon running. But it does not: please see bug #677931 Could you please build muse so that - some DEB can be installed in 10.04 too - it can be started as simply as a Windows program: - just with timidity daemon running - with no complicated jack needed

[Bug 828412] [NEW] installer does not allow the right country/language combination

2011-08-17 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 11.10 beta installation. 1. What you expected to happen The same as what happened, but without the inconvenience 2. What actually happened Supposing a foreign person person in Belgium, let's say an American. Installation starts. Language choice: what he speaks:

[Bug 677931] Re: Muse does not start

2011-08-14 Thread André Pirard
@igi Canonical Could you please explain (best in the bug description) which and how rtc permissions should be set? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677931 Title: Muse does

[Bug 164719] Re: muse sequencer -new version

2011-08-14 Thread André Pirard
Well, whatever the way the release of 1.0rc3 is a bug and solved, the fact is that the current LTS 10.04 uses muse 1.1 which does not start according to Bug #677931 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 363619] Re: Language-support-extra-de breaks OpenOffice spell checker in Jaunty

2011-08-13 Thread André Pirard
I hacked hunspell-de-med_20100204-1_all.deb to apply what I say, plus= - popping the version up to -2 - making hunspell-de-DE the only dependency. Needs to check that de_DE.aff is a good aff file for de_med.dic hunspell does correct checking. After installing this DEB, Evolution detects the

[Bug 363619] Re: Language-support-extra-de breaks OpenOffice spell checker in Jaunty

2011-08-12 Thread André Pirard
Please ignore, or better erase that patch file and replace it with the symbolic links below. That the lack of a de_med.aff file is an error is correct: the programs do not recognize that dictionary without it. That its absence caused OpenOffice problems is possible. With my file: $ hunspell

[Bug 363619] Re: Language-support-extra-de breaks OpenOffice spell checker in Jaunty

2011-08-11 Thread André Pirard
There's a lot of reports around the Web - that the de_med dictionary no longer works - that it causes many collateral damages like crashing OOo I'm surprised that nobody reported this: $ hunspell -d de_med Can't open affix or dictionary files. According to man hunspell, there should be a

[Bug 363619] Re: Language-support-extra-de breaks OpenOffice spell checker in Jaunty

2011-08-11 Thread André Pirard
$ hunspell -d de_med Hunspell 1.2.8 ödem * öodem öodem 5 0: ödem, Ödem, Codein, demenz, Duodenum I have written and attached a patch. It works for me. Please have it validated by a doctor and a hunspell specialist, though. According to the following, I know nothing about hunspell and languages

[Bug 824907] [NEW] package ubuntu-desktop 1.237 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

2011-08-11 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: I inserted the virtual desktop CD and, as strange as it may sound, two dialogs proposing an upgrade opened. I closed one and OKed the other. Then a network update started and I knew why 2 dialogs. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubuntu-desktop

[Bug 824907] Re: package ubuntu-desktop 1.237 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

2011-08-11 Thread André Pirard
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824907 Title: package ubuntu-desktop 1.237 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured To manage

[Bug 669141] Re: Check spelling in more than one language, or rather dictionaries

2011-08-04 Thread André Pirard
Please note that many people consider multilingual spelling a key feature of a spell checker. Please note that only Evolution allows check marking several languages. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3364837group_id=143754atid=756398 ** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker

[Bug 662840] Re: Spell checking more than one language in Firefox

2011-08-04 Thread André Pirard
Please note that many people consider multilingual spelling a key feature of a spell checker. Please note that only Evolution allows check marking several languages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 816868] [NEW] Windows control buttons on both sides not working

2011-07-27 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: There has been VERY much talk whether windows control buttons should be on the left or right. The rationale are: - personal taste - buttons accessibility when the window corners get out of the screen Be it as a personal setting or as a distribution wide choice, an Egg of

[Bug 816868] Re: Windows control buttons on both sides not working

2011-07-27 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: There has been VERY much talk whether windows control buttons should be on the left or right. The rationale are: - personal taste - buttons accessibility when the window corners get out of the screen + The corners and buttons can disappear at any side. + Be

Re: [Bug 807652] Re: 11.11 on 11-11-11T11:11:11

2011-07-10 Thread André Pirard
What is this I don't even? I don't understand your sentence. I've had troubles putting that in the prescribed format ;-) 10.10 was released on 10-10-10T10:10:10 and I found that funny. But that was half one ;-) We might release the upcoming version on 11-11-11T11:11:11. But that would be no fun

[Bug 807652] [NEW] 11.11 on 11-11-11T11:11:11

2011-07-08 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: 1. What you expected to happen Release version 11.11 on 11-11-11T11:11:11 2. What actually happened Nothing yet. 3. The minimal series of steps necessary to make it happen, where step 1 is start the program 1 start the program 2 decide you will ** Affects: ubuntu

[Bug 676701] Re: syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages

2011-06-16 Thread André Pirard
Nice find: these messages completely stopped after uninstalling scim. I've run 48 hours free of any said messages after doing so. With the added stop of scim messages themselves, my log became readable. scim is responsible for a host of very unexpected, surprising problems. It should not be used

[Bug 793318] [NEW] apturl can silently uninstall vital packets like network-manager

2011-06-05 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apturl This happened on Ubuntu 10.04 upgraded from 8.10 and with latest updates applied. 1. What you expected to happen The same as what happened, but without the inconvenience 2. What actually happened In order to help Belgian people paying

[Bug 283115] Re: gimp 2.6: toolbox windows can't be minimized

2011-02-27 Thread André Pirard
Does the fix make Normal the default option so that people don't look for those buttons during two years? Read comment # 5 here, pls. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283115 Title:

Re: [Bug 283115] Re: gimp 2.6: toolbox windows can't be minimized

2011-02-22 Thread André Pirard
It's not me and you but the kind of people I help, their amazement and subsequent literature. 52000 hits, they say: http://www.google.be/search?q=maximize minimize close -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 283115] Re: gimp 2.6: toolbox windows can't be minimized

2011-02-12 Thread André Pirard
bug solved - pls confirm ! Indeed for me (GIMP 2.6.8, Lucid, Metacity). However... - I'm surprised that Normal is not the default option, be it only to do without 2-year bugs like this. - The upstream discussion is surprising (including not knowing the versions they speak of) - Shouldn't

[Bug 288461] Re: gimp menus always on top of images

2011-01-06 Thread André Pirard
gnome-bugs #556896 does not correspond at all with the description of this bug. gnome-bugs #556896 corresponds with Bug #283115. Bug #283115 is not a duplicate of this one. See comment for Bug #283115. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 283115] Re: gimp 2.6: toolbox windows can't be minimized

2011-01-06 Thread André Pirard
This bug is NOT a duplicate of bug #288461. Bug #288461 says that GIMP images are below GIMP dialogs when GIMP is used. Bug #283115 says that when GIMP is not in use, its dialogs clutter the screen because they can't be minimized. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 288461 gimp menus

[Bug 283115] Re: gimp 2.6: toolbox windows can't be minimized

2011-01-06 Thread André Pirard
While waiting, I put up a sort-of workaround : GnomeSystemPreferencesWindowsDouble-click titlebarRoll up ** Description changed: gimp 2.6 in intrepid: it is impossible to minimize toolbar windows; they have only a x-Button to close ideally, these windows should be minimized

Re: [Bug 676701] Re: syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages

2010-12-26 Thread André Pirard
I have attached the list of my config, extensions and plugins. Hoping it will help. Best regards. ** Attachment added: TB config.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676701/+attachment/1776524/+files/TB%20config.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 41780] Re: Muse fails to start and segfaults.

2010-12-23 Thread André Pirard
The information you lack is: yes. And I do not hesitate to say that this bug report is not invalid at all. As of 10.04 and probably later, a corner stone of Ubuntu Studio simply does not start. Anyone can check this in minute(s?): apt-get install muse ; muse I see no crash but the timer

Re: [Bug 67358] Lives

2010-12-21 Thread André Pirard
Does this issue occur in Lucid? For your convenience, I have included below the result of a libmjpegtools* search of http://packages.ubuntu.com. Regarding the practical Lives issue: 1) Lucid's lives_1.3.2-2ubuntu1_i386 (1.3.2) crashes on Lucid up to date, see debug trace below 2) after

[Bug 556933] Re: Update standard folders should add language links to folders, not rename them

2010-12-12 Thread André Pirard
Thanks for changing your mind in time. The problem has been reported upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 May I try once again to explain that ONE CANNOT RENAME STANDARD FOLDERS because there may exist references to them. Please stop repeating that I said that not

[Bug 226436] Re: Home folder names don't change after changing language if folder not empty

2010-12-12 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 556933 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556933 It's an error to [try to] rename standard folders because there may exist references to their files. That is why xdg-user-dirs does not rename nonempty folders. But this is indeed inconvenient and there is a

[Bug 556933] Re: Update standard folders should add language links to folders, not rename them

2010-12-12 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xdg-user-dirs + + Update: I made a more concise version of this text upstream at: + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 This applies to all Ubuntu (Gnome) versions up to 10.04. Note: understand Bureau below as the name of any

Re: [Bug 434351] Re: gnome-language selector is labyrinthine

2010-12-12 Thread André Pirard
It would be great if you could install the versions of language-selector and gdm that include the fixes: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test and check out if you think the conflicts are properly dealt with. I have little time, but I'm very soon going to install Ubuntu for

[Bug 434351] Re: gnome-language selector is labyrinthine

2010-12-12 Thread André Pirard
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #32342 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434351 Title: gnome-language selector is

Re: [Bug 434351] Re: gnome-language selector is labyrinthine

2010-12-10 Thread André Pirard
The reason why I introduced this bug report (that was appreciated) is that it is not obvious for someone having some 6 or more languages to install, to check which one is or isn't installed already. Restating myself, the two-columns scheme where installable languages are in the left column and

[Bug 676972] Re: pidgin does not connect to msn, certificate error

2010-12-01 Thread André Pirard
Thanks for the work that's been done for all those MSN lovers. I find strange to read the last comment. The update consists of adding 2 certificates to libpurple0, and that holds and must work very well for all distributions. I find strange that Karmic isn't spoken of. I find strange to read

Re: [Bug 676972] Re: pidgin does not connect to msn, certificate error

2010-11-27 Thread André Pirard
On 2010-11-27 03:34, Chow Loong Jin wrote : On Saturday 27,November,2010 10:16 AM, Christian Reis wrote: There's something wrong here; I'm wondering if I'm just the only one that has noticed. If you look at what Roel Huybrechts provided as a lucid debdiff, it includes a number of changes

[Bug 399974] Re: [Bug 676972] Belgian workaround

2010-11-26 Thread André Pirard
Workaround for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/399974 1) Open Desktop in Nautilus 2) Vieweverything unticked 3) ViewArrange ItemsManually 4) Maximize and you've got a new, multiple, folding, mobile Desktop. Even larger that n° 0 if you don't mind the scroll bar(s).

Re: [Bug 676972] Re: pidgin does not connect to msn, certificate error

2010-11-26 Thread André Pirard
On 2010-11-25 21:21, Martin Pitt wrote : Accepted pidgin into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in

[Bug 399974] Re: [Bug 676972] WARNING

2010-11-26 Thread André Pirard
Interesting: just as I did that, the arrangement was n°1=n°0. But hitting F5 resulted in an immediate shuffle. You never run out of discovering Ubuntu ;-) Less interesting, if one returns to Desktop n° 0 an F5s it, the mess follows up. This Nautilus feature has nothing to do with a Belgian

[Bug 677931] Re: Muse does not start

2010-11-25 Thread André Pirard
Salut Fabrice, Hi igi, In my case, Ubuntu 10.04 up to date and Muse 1.1 same problem: Muse won't start unless Jack is started. Looks like Muse isn't getting enough precision from the rtc. Running Muse as root allows it of course. Otherwise, it wants Jack for its timer. To allow enough rtc

[Bug 677931] Re: Muse does not start

2010-11-25 Thread André Pirard
Oops, sorry, I had left Jack running :-( The command does not set the required permission. But I think the reasoning is at least half correct. When will we have comment update? Here is my root Muse trace: $ sudo muse Denormal protection enabled. no message buffer overruns cannot connect to jack

[Bug 677931] Re: Muse does not start

2010-11-25 Thread André Pirard
/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq is the variable which should be set to 1024 According to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man4/rtc.4.html it should exist but it does not. This seems to be the frequencies the kernel has been compiled for: $ grep CONFIG_HZ /boot/config-`uname -r` #

[Bug 676972] Re: pidgin does not connect to msn, certificate error

2010-11-24 Thread André Pirard
I'm surprised that this bug blocking MSN chat doesn't have top but only medium importance. It could turn many people away from Ubuntu. I'm surprised not to find a pidgin update already in Ubuntu's depot for the general user. All it takes is repackaging with two added certificates in

[Bug 676701] Re: syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages

2010-11-19 Thread André Pirard
As I have introduced this bug on request of a developer, I would appreciate it got confirmed or triaged status, some comments, hopefully a solution. Thank you. -- syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676701 You received this bug

[Bug 676701] [NEW] syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages

2010-11-17 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apparmor https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs compliant report 1. What you expected to happen going to the swimming pool 2. What actually happened System : Ubuntu 10.04 (upgrade) up to date, Kernel is 2.6.32-26-generic, Firefox:

[Bug 573103] Re: scim-bridge crahes due to segfault error 4 in libscim-1.0.so.8.2.4

2010-11-11 Thread André Pirard
Exactly the same problem with up to date Lucid and .scim has been renamed. The same SCIM messages are filling my log. Well, 5 persons have reported the same problem and every question has been answered, The report still remains incomplete after 6 months and the priority has been set to low...

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