Re: Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

2015-10-23 Thread Chris Coulson
on Video > I'm guessing most users have switched to Google Chrome for them. Many > sites that don't need DRM don't use Flash anymore anyway. > > I'll see if I can get a better answer for Adobe. Obviously EOY 2017 is > very different than February 2017. > > Kind regards, > B

Re: Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

2015-10-19 Thread Chris Coulson
On 12/10/15 20:39, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Hi all, > > Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything > but Flash at the end of 2016[1]. That got me thinking that we might > have to drop it sooner than that for 16.04 LTS [2] - which is what > happened fro Chromium for 14.04

Re: Firefox + Thunderbird crash reports are now going to errors.ubuntu.com

2015-10-05 Thread Chris Coulson
s/Firefox/versions/44.0a1/date_range_type/report/crash_type/plugin/os_name/Linux/result_count/50?days=28 > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Given some ongoing issues with symbol uploads, I have jus

Firefox + Thunderbird crash reports are now going to errors.ubuntu.com

2015-10-05 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, Given some ongoing issues with symbol uploads, I have just disabled the upstream crash reporter in both Firefox and Thunderbird for all releases. This means that crash reports will be going to errors.ubuntu.com rather than Mozilla's crash database for the next few weeks. As upstream

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Chris Coulson
On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: Hi, I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as default browser on Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, if those addons are kept, perhaps they need to be signed. Today when I updated to the latest FF Nightly 42.0a1 on the daily ppa,

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Coulson
On 14/08/13 12:37, Nik Th wrote: Sorry but I cannot understand why a default application is such a big matter. Hi, The choice of default applications is important because a lot of people will decide whether they want to continue using a product based on their first impressions. You can't

Re: Upload rights for desktop-extra-set

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Coulson
On 03/04/12 13:13, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Rico, Rico Tzschichholz [2012-03-30 9:29 +0200]: I am Rico Tzschichholz and have done some work regarding the GNOME3 packaging. I am working on publishing a gnome-shell package-set since its early states in my Testing PPA and since Natty in the

Re: Why don't we use Mozilla ESR in Precise?

2012-02-07 Thread Chris Coulson
On 06/02/12 17:55, Micah Gersten wrote: On 02/06/2012 05:49 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: On 06. feb. 2012 10:22, Jason Warner wrote: Hi All - Firefox ESR is indeed interesting, and it would seem to answer some of the question corporations might have about Firefox, but I think it is less

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Chris Coulson
On 26/01/12 18:24, Micah Gersten wrote: On 01/26/2012 11:55 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Micah Gerstenmic...@ubuntu.com wrote: Because novices are using a power user tool does not mean we should remove a power user tool. I think attention just needs to be

[Desktop 12.04-Topic] Mozilla upgrade experience

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, Note, I've already registered a placeholder blueprint for this [1]. We currently have a couple of problems with the Firefox and Thunderbird upgrade experience, which users of Mozilla's update service don't experience (ie, everybody on Windows, Mac, or anyone using mozilla.org binaries on

Re: PiTiVi in Ubuntu 11.10 and beyond

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On 02/09/11 20:00, Jeff Fortin wrote: The pitivi team just got a new version out with quite some nice changesin it and said they would do the glade to gtkbuilder conversion thiscycle, that seems enough material to revisit the decision later if thenew version is proving to be solid and the

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Firefox translations in Launchpad/Language packs

2011-05-01 Thread Chris Coulson
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:50 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: On 04/07/2011 09:57 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: Chris Coulson [2011-04-07 9:25 +0100]: - This means that Firefox will output xpi's for every language in the future (not just for en-US). We either need to package these in to dedicated

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 17:52 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: Apologies for the delay in response, responses inline. This isn't about maintenance as much as a uniform browser experience. The theory being that casual users don't care about the latest and greatest stuff as long as they know

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-18 Thread Chris Coulson
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:36 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: Since now both Firefox and Chromium have committed to rapid release schedules, I think it's time to reevaluate the default browser in Ubuntu. I am concerned that some of these upgrades might break system integration at some point. While

[Oneiric-Topic] Default e-mail client

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Priority: e? At UDS for Natty we had a session to discuss the default e-mail client in Ubuntu. Whilst we agreed that we would continue to ship Evolution for 11.04 (with developer effort mostly focused on Unity), we did discuss alternatives. In particular, we looked at Thunderbird as a

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:16 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: 26 Epiphany-webkit should be default browser, since it integrates with Unity and neither Chromium nor Firefox do that Hi, Well, that is going to improve right after Alpha 3 (see [1]). Regards Chris [1] -

Default bookmarks for Firefox and Chromium

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, A few weeks ago, philinux from ubuntuforums approached me with a suggestion that we should think about updating the default bookmarks in Firefox, and I suggested opening a bug report with some ideas for new defaults on. With hindsight in mind, a bug report probably isn't the best venue for

Re: Default bookmarks for Firefox and Chromium

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 10:58 -0500, Steven wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php What's the rational behind: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion http://www.debian.org/ ? Do people really read the Answers part of Launchpad, and if so, would the devs really want people

Re: gnome-system-tools and a bug fix

2010-03-07 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 22:05 -0800, Erik Andersen wrote: Hi. Bug #433654 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/433654) is about audio not working properly on karmic and lucid when multiple users are used (one user gets to the audio device first and no one else can use

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 09:59 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: I'm not personally attached to this. To me it sounds that functionality which people need should rather be added to nm-applet. Is there a chance to split it out as a separate binary, so that it can get a dependency to g-network-admin and be

Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, As you're all aware, the mixer-applet was recently disabled in Karmic. This got me thinking about whether we need all the other applets we currently have on the default install, and I wondered whether there were any others that could be disabled too. I just wanted to know what everyone else

[Merge] lp:~chrisccoulson/gnome-session/ubuntu into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-session/ubuntu

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Chris Coulson has proposed merging lp:~chrisccoulson/gnome-session/ubuntu into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-session/ubuntu. Requested reviews: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) Here is the gnome-session patch to add 2 new DBus methods (RequestShutdown and RequestReboot). The FUSA can use

[Merge] lp:~chrisccoulson/gnome-media/bug337235 into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-media/ubuntu

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Coulson
Chris Coulson has proposed merging lp:~chrisccoulson/gnome-media/bug337235 into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-media/ubuntu. Requested reviews: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) -- https://code.launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson/gnome-media/bug337235/+merge/4422 Your team Ubuntu Desktop is subscribed to branch

[Bug 336647] Re: Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Surfaz - are you doing the merge then? You've subscribed sponsors, but there isn't anything for them to sponsor yet ** Tags added: upgrade ** Tags removed: needs-update -- Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336647 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 336647] Re: Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Coulson
As we are passed feature freeze, I believe this will also need a FFe. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess) -- Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a direct

[Bug 336647] Re: Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Thanks Didier :) -- Please merge pidgin 2.5.5 from Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 325973] Re: Starting File Manager windows open uncontrollably

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Coulson
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Assignee: Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) = Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) Status: In Progress = Triaged ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) -- Starting File Manager

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Coulson
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:15 +, Ted Gould wrote: Hello, Chris provided a patch for using PolicyKit and ConsoleKit in the FUSA applet that makes it so that if multiple people are logged in, you can get a password dialog, and shutdown the system. The way that this works is that it asks

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Coulson
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:13 +, Ted Gould wrote: That's basically what it does, but it also sends out a signal that it's going to shutdown to all the applications to allow them to inhibit the shutdown for various reasons.