Re: Validity of bugs whose solution involves adding an option somewhere

2012-12-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 14 décembre 2012 à 10:20 -0500, Sean McNamara a écrit : snip Choice 1: Implement the feature directly into the application with no way to turn it off. This is dangerous, because user pushback of it's too complicated! or it's annoying! is likely. Choice 2: Don't implement the

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] Application startup time (AKA Please use my RAM!)

2012-04-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 21 avril 2012 à 23:13 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : Application startup time is unnecessarily slow in a large number of instances. Can we see some improvement in that area in the Q cycle? The price of RAM has dropped dramatically, and usage has not increased all that much.

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Google Cloud Print Integration

2011-10-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 19 octobre 2011 à 00:12 +0200, Till Kamppeter a écrit : What we would need is something like a capplet in GNOME Control Center to (de)activate and configure Google Cloud Print. This GUI needs to be designed and it also needs to be decided which user daemon will be used to enable

Re: Sound settings changes for Precise

2011-10-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 à 16:29 +0200, David Henningsson a écrit : Also, there is no reason as I see it to not trying to upstream it into GNOME. Of course, that would probably be welcome! I don't know exactly how to do that or who to contact about it. The relevant mailing lists are

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] control center cleanup

2011-10-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 octobre 2011 à 17:25 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : Rodrigo Moya wrote on 10/10/11 17:09: It's completely misnamed though. I guess just 'System' or something similar should be enough ... It might be possible to find a name that explicably covers default

[Bug 789333] Re: users-admin crashes on start because of mixed GTK2 and 3 symbols

2011-08-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
polkit-gtk shouldn't link to GTK3, but to GTK2: polkit-gtk isn't needed by GTK3 programs, since they have to use GtkLockButton to replace PolkitLockButton. Linking to GTK2 is still the upstream default actually. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of GNOME3 Team, which

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 11:11 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : Robert Ancell wrote on 04/07/11 03:44: If you change the display language within a session, it does not take effect in that session, but only after you have logged out and logged in again. The language setting is one of

[Bug 793055] Re: Umlauts missing in several Gnome Applications

2011-06-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Actually, it seems we should tag it gnome3, and subscribe the gnome3 team. ** Tags added: gnome3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of GNOME3 Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793055 Title: Umlauts missing in several

[Bug 789333] Re: users-admin crashes on start because of mixed GTK2 and 3 symbols

2011-06-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's most likely a GNOME3 PPA bug then. ** Tags added: gnome3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of GNOME3 Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/789333 Title: users-admin crashes on start because of mixed GTK2 and 3 symbols

Re: Call for testing: LightDM

2011-06-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 01:09 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : Boiling Matt's post down this is what I'm reading: 1. NIH 2. It doesn't start a GNOME session 3. Doesn't have arbitrary shiny stuff like slidy effects 4. Auto-update when users are created or deleted 5.

Re: change mount point of the stick usb drive or USB thumb

2011-05-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 18:17 -0500, C de-Avillez a écrit : Now this might very well be something to consider: an user interface that would allow for mounting an attachable storage device under a fantasy name (something like you have mounted a new storage device: we will automagically name it

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 18 avril 2011 à 15:05 +0100, Chris Coulson a écrit : I see a lot of people are recommending Epiphany. I've used this before, but it's never been my default browser. I used it again today, for the first time in a year or so. Here's a brief summary of some of the things I noticed: -

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 10:26 +1000, Robert Ancell a écrit : Sure, there are definitely a number of required services. Note I'm not ruling out running a GNOME session, it just depends if you can have a cut down enough session to make it work. The services you require in a login screen

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

2011-04-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 08 avril 2011 à 19:04 +0930, Jason Warner a écrit : Thanks for proposing this. I'm particularly interested in any and all speed improvements that could come from this...and if we have less overhead in general, great! If you're using GNOME, loading a whole GNOME session when starting

Re: Feature Proposal: Enable two finger touchpad scrolling by default

2011-03-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On jeu., 2011-03-17 at 14:14 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: Chase Douglas [2011-03-17 8:57 -0400]: We've received a request to enable two finger scrolling by default in Ubuntu. After querying some of our uTouch and X developers, everyone seems to be in agreement that this is a good idea.

Re: Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

2011-02-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 01 février 2011 à 02:04 +0100, Jan Claeys a écrit : Rick Spencer schreef op ma 31-01-2011 om 11:04 [-0800]: The reasoning for hiding Hibernate includes: 1. It doesn't work well for many users on many machines. So do lots of other features, including suspend to RAM. Not using

Re: Sporadic UI halts on Meerkat Netbook - how to debug

2010-10-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 10:51 +0200, frederik.nn...@gmail.com a écrit : AIUI todays default user interface to the linux kernel is a GUI, the DE in our case here. If the DE itself can not rely on a minimum of CPU and memory resources to be reserved for it, how can we assume that it will ever

Re: Sporadic UI halts on Meerkat Netbook - how to debug

2010-10-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 21:42 +0300, Mikko Ohtamaa a écrit : Hi, I am trying Maverick Meerkat Netbook remix on Asus 1005HA Eee Pc. I like it. Finally the Linux desktop is going to right direction. However, I am having some slowdown issues. Once in a while (...or many times during

Re: default screensaver : why not the blank screen ?

2010-03-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 26 mars 2010 à 01:22 +0100, Jérôme Bouat a écrit : It has been fixed on lucid Beta 1. There still be a big poweroff delay of the screen (30 minutes). Maybe a shorter screen poweroff delay by default (~10 minutes) could make Ubuntu more energy efficient ? Agreed. At least, a

Re: Blocking execution of non-exec things

2010-01-18 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 18 janvier 2010 à 10:09 -0600, Ted Gould a écrit : Maybe I'm confused, but it seems like we're not executing the .desktop file, were executing what is on the Exec line of the desktop file. It would seem that what ever is first on that line should have +x, not necessarily the desktop

Re: Blocking execution of non-exec things

2010-01-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 10:19 -0800, Kees Cook a écrit : Hello! As part of implementing the Execute-Permission Bit Required policy[1], I need to make changes to a few MIME handlers and to the nautilus .desktop file handler. The main issue is that of the error message to produce, and

Re: Replacing tsclient with remmina?

2010-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 11 janvier 2010 à 22:12 +0100, Luca Falavigna a écrit : Hello, I'd like to see if there are chances to replace tsclient with remmina (formerly known as grdc) for Lucid. Isn't Vinagre the plan for most protocols in GNOME? I guess it would be simpler to ship only one well integrated

Re: Google Chromium In Lucid

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 11:01 +, José Luis Ricón a écrit : I agree with considering chromium (or even a canonical remix of it) as a default browser. The only thing firefox has over it are extensions, but in a few months, the most useful extensions will be probably ported. I think

Re: want to contribute

2009-10-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I've no idea of how familiar you are with GNOME coding (GLib, GTK+, Glade, D-BUS...), nor if you have time to learn all that stuff, but I'd be glad to mentor you if you want to help with the gnome-system-tools, that are the tools used to manage Users and Groups, Time, Shares (optional), Services

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:15 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : snip I'm a bit concerned about using price to distinguish things here. The price: free thing is flawed, because it furthers the misconception that free software is only free in price, when in fact being free in price is quite

Re: Slow authentication on every login because of eCryptfs

2009-07-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 23 juillet 2009 à 13:47 -0500, Dustin Kirkland a écrit : On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valatnalimi...@club.fr wrote: I'd like to raise a discussion about bug 295429 [1], which all of us must have experienced since Intrepid, though not all have tracked its cause

Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?

2009-07-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 03 juillet 2009 à 06:59 -0700, Tim Zakharov a écrit : I think it's worth mentioning again, but slightly off-topic, that we really need in F-Spot, to uncheck Copy files to the Photos folder as a default setting in the Import dialog. This assumes you want your photos in said folder,

Re: New style of desktop!

2009-06-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi! You're not the only one to think about usability. ;-) See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell. Ideas about the desktop are nice, but usually nobody will implement yours if you don't have the time/skills to code, or at least to participate in an actual designing project. Good luck... --

Slow authentication on every login because of eCryptfs

2009-06-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi, friends of obscure fixes that save users' time! ;-) I'd like to raise a discussion about bug 295429 [1], which all of us must have experienced since Intrepid, though not all have tracked its cause down. When enabled, eCryptfs private dir needs to perform some work on each login to mount the