[Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2014-03-15 Thread Holger Berndt
The documentation patch is wrong. Notification is a client/server infrastructure, and it is up to the server to respect or ignore certain client requests (such as timeout settings, amonst others). The man page of the client cannot possibly know which server the user is using. Thus, currently

[Bug 715257] Re: multi-notification plugin indicator support disabled and broken

2011-06-13 Thread Holger Berndt
I had positive reports from users that were using libindicate 0.5, so it's now picked up upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/715257 Title: multi-notification plugin indicator

[Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-10 Thread Holger Berndt
Sounds better, doesn't it? No, it does not. At least not to me. If you think talking to people like that is good, we'll see how far that gets you. Good luck. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 715257] Re: multi-notification plugin indicator support disabled and broken

2011-06-09 Thread Holger Berndt
It's not necessary anymore in this case, but for future reference: If it's not a distribution-issue but an upstream change in the library that causes these kinds of problems (as in this case with the .pc file rename), it would be nice to notify upstream of the library user (i.e. Claws Mail)

[Bug 715257] Re: multi-notification plugin indicator support disabled and broken

2011-06-09 Thread Holger Berndt
I can't install libindicate 0.5 right now, but if somebody can confirm that it is compatible to 0.4 I'll add support for it to the build system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/715257

[Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-08 Thread Holger Berndt
@Adrian Roman: what you say below about being the controlling jerk What you might have not realized is that this phrase was a quote from comment #168. But I'm glad we agree that this is not a nice way to communicate. The point is: If somebody agues that if developers for project xy don't add

[Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-06 Thread Holger Berndt
@Mike Hartman: I told you already in comment #158 where that deeply buried configuration option in a text file somewhere is that lets you choose your notification daemon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-06 Thread Holger Berndt
@Mike Hartman: I don't see anyone forcing you to do anything. I was merely suggesting a way to solve the problem you and others here seem to be facing. Clearly, you're not interested in selecting a suitable daemon out of the many that exist - including a modified notify-osd ppa that does exactly

[Bug 95853] Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

2010-08-15 Thread Holger Berndt
The Wastebasket has no way to sort by deleted date. If it did, then this improvement would be a lot less urgent, IMHO Please read what I wrote. Quoting myself: In fact, current Nautilus git master has trashed-on column in list view, and (irrespective of the view) sorts the trashcan by reversed

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-07-28 Thread Holger Berndt
That's a pretty ridiculous thing to suggest to developers planning to distribute their code If you plan to distribute something, you'll have to live with the lowest-common-denominator problem, and cannot rely on implementation details. Just like everywhere else. I don't see how it's ridiculous

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-07-23 Thread Holger Berndt
The open source philosophy has nothing to do with configurability, options, or features. I wonder where that idea comes from. -- notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-07-07 Thread Holger Berndt
The first line of the Desktop Notifications Specification says In my copy, the first line says that it is a draft (!) document for async event notifications. The first line of the Desktop Notifications Specification says, The following messages MUST be supported by all implementations. There

[Bug 600861] Re: path location bar of Nautilus doesn't appear by default when configured so in gconf-editor, and disappears on navigation

2010-07-02 Thread Holger Berndt
The always_use_location_entry gconf key does not determine whether the location bar is visible or not, it just toggles between breadcrumb navigation and text entry. The visibility itself is set by View - Location Bar. -- path location bar of Nautilus doesn't appear by default when configured so

[Bug 95853] Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

2010-06-20 Thread Holger Berndt
Suppose that you have 1500+ items in your trash bin. You pressed DEL without noticing which file it was. A warning for every single move-to-trash operation to fix this problematic usecase is implementing a cruel workaround instead of fixing the issues (in this case trash view usability). In

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-06-14 Thread Holger Berndt
...so, how does one create one of these instant-confirmation bubbles? The design spec for notify-osd has been linked several times in the comments of this report. I'll paste the link again for your convenience, even though usage questions seem off-topic in a bug tracker:

[Bug 306630] Re: nautilus should copy/move smarter (queue files)

2010-05-13 Thread Holger Berndt
@Walter_I In my oppinion, David Siegel's remark is absolutely correct, and you are wrong. It's not as simple as you put it. Whether or not copying in parallel takes significantly longer depends on a number of factors (is target and/or source on a slow network connection, am I copying from a CD

[Bug 306630] Re: nautilus should copy/move smarter (queue files)

2010-05-13 Thread Holger Berndt
@Darshaka Pathirana: How can you full ACK a statement that you oppose in your very next sentence? Walter proposed to ALWAYS queue files, which is definitely not a good idea. Do something more than just always process in parallel or always queue, be it to ask the user, have some smart logic or a

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-05-05 Thread Holger Berndt
@Heather Van Wilde To do what you recommend, any application would have to create their own notification system to do exactly what notify-osd does, but is unable to interact with it. No, that's not true. You can trust me on that - as it happens, I wrote notification spec integration for

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-05-04 Thread Holger Berndt
@Airton Torres: Fiddling with timeouts sounds like an exceptionally strange way to solve that particular issue. So, you'd still like to have tens or hundreds of bubbles, flickering unreadably on your screen with short timeouts? Doesn't make any sense to me. Developers already have a way to avoid

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-24 Thread Holger Berndt
@Adrian Roman: Weird analogy. You can do the same with notify-osd as you can do with other default applications: Replace it with an alternative from the repository if you don't like the feature set. notification-daemon would be an alternative to notify-osd that offers the features you want. Why

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-22 Thread Holger Berndt
Guys, you just don't seem to get that notify-osd is about unification and consistency amongst applications using it. It's fundamental design point is to NOT allow applications to use it in different ways, and also not to let the user configure it extensively. In this light, what you request as a

[Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-22 Thread Holger Berndt
Totally wrong No, it's not. Denying reality may be fun, but it's not helpful. I was not talking about what you'd like, but about what notify-osd is aiming at. It is part of project Ayatana, and here's a statement about configurability in that project:

[Bug 442078] Re: Buttons in Eclipse not working correctly with GTK+ 2.18.1-1

2009-10-29 Thread Holger Berndt
Patrick: Your assumption is wrong to start with. The bug is not in GTK+, but in Eclipse. Starting from 2.18 on, GTK+ changed some of its internal behaviour (google for client side windows). This change is intentional, and needed for other development. It doesn't make any difference to programs

[Bug 442078] Re: Buttons in Eclipse not working correctly with GTK+ 2.18.1-1

2009-10-28 Thread Holger Berndt
Ubuntu folks can't fix bugs in software that you download from eclipse.org or zend.org. It's up to them to fix the software they offer. The Eclipse package in the repo contains the workaround, and I don't see what else could possibly be done on Ubuntu's side. -- Buttons in Eclipse not working

[Bug 95853] Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

2009-07-12 Thread Holger Berndt
@kikl: Completely unrelated to whether it's a good idea to get undo dialogs/bars on moving to trash or not, Nautilus's trash display does indeed have poor usability. No deletion date grouping, sorting or even displaying. Also, one can't really know where the files are going to be restored to. That

[Bug 95853] Re: Delete file in Nautlus - no warning

2009-06-24 Thread Holger Berndt
I think Nautilus' behaviour is correct. The behaviour is by design, and the confirm_trash option is doing what it is supposed to do: Request confirmation for the non-revertable actions Delete Trash and Delete files, but not for the revertable Move to trash. And guys, please stop speaking for the

[Bug 152879] Re: Nautilus does not warn when deleting read-only files

2009-06-24 Thread Holger Berndt
The bug description reveals a misunderstanding of the permissions system. File creation and deletion are operations on the _containing directory_ and are affected by the permissions set on that directory. You can create and delete files if you have +w on the parent directory. File permissions, on

[Bug 162352] Re: Open in terminal should have a keyboard shortcut

2009-05-13 Thread Holger Berndt
The upstream bug was http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577139, and it's fixed in the repo. Nautilus still doesn't allow extensions to register shortcuts (which has conflict potential with builtin shortcuts or other extensions), but now users can assign a shortcut themselves. ** Bug watch

[Bug 151407] Re: Modified keyboard shortcuts not remembered

2009-04-09 Thread Holger Berndt
Both patches have been accepted, and will be included in the next Nautilus version (likely already the one shipping with Gnome 2.26.1, due in a few days). -- Modified keyboard shortcuts not remembered https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151407 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 151407] Re: Modified keyboard shortcuts not remembered

2009-04-02 Thread Holger Berndt
You're right that Nautilus doesn't save and restore the keyboard shortcuts across restarts. You may call that a missing feature. I've sent a patch to implement this (and a related feature: the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts) to the Nautilus list. We'll see if it gets accepted. --

[Bug 249488] Re: Wish: Small command line application to check LTS installation support time

2008-07-18 Thread Holger Berndt
Hi Mike, maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work here, but I can't really follow your reasoning. Support means that individual packages get updates and fixes when security issues have been discovered. The various kinds of Ubuntu flavors are just different in installer

[Bug 249488] [NEW] Wish: Small command line application to check LTS installtion support time

2008-07-17 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: LTS versions of the Ubuntu server edition is advertised with 5 years of support (security updates), while the desktop edition features 3 years of support. Now, since server and desktop edition share the same repositories, how do I know whether my installation only consists

[Bug 137458] Re: Inconsistency with Nautilus dragdrop and ACL

2007-12-17 Thread Holger Berndt
Submitted upstream (Bug #504049 in GNOME bugzilla) -- Inconsistency with Nautilus dragdrop and ACL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 137458] Inconsistency with Nautilus dragdrop and ACL

2007-09-05 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus I am using Nautilus in connection with Eiciel for ACL support (what is the status of Nautilus' native ACL support anyways? I heard it should be there from GNOME 2.16 on...). When I copy a directory with files from a partition that was not

[Bug 126268] Re: poker2d crashes during startup

2007-08-18 Thread Holger Berndt
Thanks for your efforts, Scott. -- poker2d crashes during startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126268 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 126268] Re: poker2d crashes during startup

2007-08-12 Thread Holger Berndt
Thanks. I cannot test Gutsy right now, so I can not yet confirm that this problem is fixed. Would it be possible to upload the fixed version to Feisty also? After all, Feisty is current stable, and poker-network is not usable on it with that bug. -- poker2d crashes during startup

[Bug 126268] poker2d crashes during startup

2007-07-16 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: On a fresh install of python-poker2d, during startup of poker2d, I can see the main window appearing and immediately disappearing again. Started from a console, the following traceback is reported: Traceback (most recent call last): File

[Bug 98896] Core dump when setting up new user.

2007-03-30 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: aqbanking16-qt-wizard When I try to set up a new user with the AqBanking QT Wizard, it dumps core. The bahavior is repeatable. Steps for me to reproduce: Start the wizard User - New user HBCI backend Setup PIN/TAN Enter bank and user information (tried

[Bug 98896] Re: Core dump when setting up new user.

2007-03-30 Thread Holger Berndt
It seems like it can't connect to my bank server. The bank server hostname was auto-filled in after I entered the bank number and chose my bank (with online banking) from the list. Output of $ LANG=C /usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/wizards/qt3-wizard 2 stderr.log is attached. ** Attachment

[Bug 98896] Re: Core dump when setting up new user.

2007-03-30 Thread Holger Berndt
** Attachment added: $ strace /usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/wizards/qt3-wizard 2 strace.log http://librarian.launchpad.net/7054061/strace.log.bz2 -- Core dump when setting up new user. https://launchpad.net/bugs/98896 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 98896] Re: Core dump when setting up new user.

2007-03-30 Thread Holger Berndt
Backtrace obtained with gdb ** Attachment added: Backtrace http://librarian.launchpad.net/7054062/backtrace.log -- Core dump when setting up new user. https://launchpad.net/bugs/98896 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 98896] Re: Core dump when setting up new user.

2007-03-30 Thread Holger Berndt
The auto-filled in bank server was not completely correct. The wizard works fine if the correct address is manually filled in, so this is not a major bug. Still, it should not crash in case of an incorrect server address. -- Core dump when setting up new user. https://launchpad.net/bugs/98896

[Bug 31789] Re: HBCI banking doesn't work due to dependency problems (aqbanking problem)

2007-03-29 Thread Holger Berndt
What exactly was fixed for Feisty? I have an up-to-date Feisty, and I still can't use HBCI from GnuCash. There just doesn't seem to be any menu item connected to HBCI. -- HBCI banking doesn't work due to dependency problems (aqbanking problem) https://launchpad.net/bugs/31789 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 84226] Fast user switch applet causes high processor load

2007-02-09 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet On Feisty, since a recent upgrade, the fast user switch applet causes 50% processor load on my AMD64 dual core when it is added to a gnome panel. ** Affects: fast-user-switch-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 67545] Re: usplash appears black and white (grayscale) on amd64

2007-01-30 Thread Holger Berndt
I had the same problem as the original poster on an AMD64. Since a recent update, however, I don't have a splash screen at all anymore. The screen remains dark (with a blinking cursor in the top left corner) during startup and shutdown of the computer. Everything works fine, just the splash does

[Bug 67545] Re: usplash appears black and white (grayscale) on amd64

2007-01-30 Thread Holger Berndt
I assume this is with feisty, as I have the same issue on feisty. Yes, this is on feisty indeed, sorry for not mentioning it before. It is a Herd 1 installation, kept up-to-date with apt-get. -- usplash appears black and white (grayscale) on amd64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/67545 --

[Bug 71983] Re: Software Sources Window Closes Upon Opening

2006-12-05 Thread Holger Berndt
I can confirm this behavior. The sources - window closes immediately after selecting it from Synaptic. This is on a fresh Feisty install (with Herd 1) on AMD64. -- Software Sources Window Closes Upon Opening https://launchpad.net/bugs/71983 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 70032] Possible crash in dynamically loaded modules

2006-11-03 Thread Holger Berndt
Public bug reported: See http://trac.galago-project.org/ticket/86 for a problem description and a patch. Possible solutions: - apply the patch from above bug report - upgrade to 0.4.3 (where this patch is already included) ** Affects: libnotify (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided