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: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Barth david.ba...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com wrote: 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

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Jorge O. Castro jo...@ubuntu.com wrote: After some googling I found two people who are doing amazing work: Bah, as pointed out in IRC I totally missed Rico and Robert: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Sorry guys, it wasn't my intent to

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com wrote: 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

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Rico Tzschichholz
Having a disjunct set of packages for every nvidia driver series has served us well in my opinion. So this should be continued. A slight change I would prefer is a det of common metapackages. Those would control which driver gets chosen for install. Basically this could match the linux-kernel

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 30/07/2015 19:13, Amr Ibrahim a écrit : I suggest putting a roadmap for this to see if it's possible or not. Hey Amr, Having a roadmap and people interested in working on the transition seems like a good first step! Before suggesting a replacement the alternative should be proved to be good

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi David, Are those extensions still needed for our Unity vision or does the new Ubuntu browser make them obsolete? Already the Chromium part of those extensions no longer works, could the Firefox part be dropped too? What specifically is each one supposed to do? Kind regards, Bryan On Tue,

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 11/08/2015 14:48, David Barth a écrit : Hmm, actually there is a problem, but thanks for the reminder. Hey David, Thanks for the reply, can you give some detail on that? Do we have registered bugs for the issues? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Bryan Quigley
Thanks for the email. I read what you wrote but failed to understand the details of issue, could you give some details on what sort of issues you saw? Did we ship drivers buggy enough that you couldn't play with them? Was that fixes with the version you found in ppas? For my use case, the

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
You're right: not all of them actually make sense in the new world order, as we have a better solution on touch devices in particular. That's why we started with just the one that signals the existence of webapps. The better integration points and OA links are now directly with webapp-container.

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks for the email. I read what you wrote but failed to understand the details of issue, could you give some details on what sort of issues you saw? Did we ship drivers buggy enough that you couldn't play with them?

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 11/08/2015 01:05, Jorge O. Castro a écrit : because our Nvidia driver story in Trusty isn't ideal Hey Jorge, Thanks for the email. I read what you wrote but failed to understand the details of issue, could you give some details on what sort of issues you saw? Did we ship drivers buggy enough

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 11/08/2015 16:13, Jorge O. Castro a écrit : From a Just Works for the Desktop, the drivers we ship in the archive work just fine. However, with all that's going in upstream OpenGL and (soon) Vulkan; coupled with AAA game releases; users are wanting to get the absolute latest drivers.

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-11 Thread Robert Ancell
For us to use GNOME Software we probably want to update to the latest version [1]. That's currently blocked because it needs PackageKit 1.0 [2]. And that's blocked until we get a Click update. If anyone knows more migration issues please add information to those bugs. I suspect we might also need