Call for Testing: webkit

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hello, I have prepared security updates for webkit for Karmic, Lucid and Maverick that fix a ton of security issues. Since these updates actually update webkit to version 1.2.5, they are currently in -proposed and are awaiting positive feedback. Here is a list of some of the applications that

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 06:28 +1030, Jason Warner wrote: I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd like it to be pretty unfiltered and raw. In particular, I'm interested in seeing how people feel about: So, now that the binary nVidia driver is working in Natty, I was able to try

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Deslauriers
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

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-04 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:44 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: From what I've gathered talking to people the classes of user are: 1. Users who set the system language at install/first boot time, and never change it (the vast majority) 2. English as a second language users, who switch between their

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-04 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:06 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: On 04/07/11 21:57, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:44 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: From what I've gathered talking to people the classes of user are: 1. Users who set the system language at install/first boot time

Re: Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)

2011-09-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Working VNC (or no VNC)

2011-10-05 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:13 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 14:00 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : Pitti had mentioned a couple months ago that this is an -fglrx specific issue, which well could me; if that can be confirmed, we could just have Alberto add it to

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:28 -0500, Jorge O. Castro wrote: With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and didrocks putting basic configuration in the control panel I'd like to propose the removal of compizconfig-settingsmanager. I don't mean stop telling people to use it or add a warning, I

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 16:48 +, Alan Bell wrote: On 26/01/12 16:28, Jorge O. Castro wrote: With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and didrocks putting basic configuration in the control panel I'd like to propose the removal of compizconfig-settingsmanager. How do we turn on and

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:02 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: On 01/26/2012 10:28 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and didrocks putting basic configuration in the control panel I'd like to propose the removal of compizconfig-settingsmanager. I don't mean

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 12:16 -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: - People report these bugs, and instead of fixing real bugs we have to deal with corner case bugs for things we never plan on supporting. This is a very real problem, but simply getting rid of CCSM doesn't sound like the

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:24 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: CCSM breaks other desktops also, not just Unity, and novice users are installing it to customize their desktop without being aware of the damage they can cause. Other desktops should gain a reasonable settings manager, much like

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 22:57 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: Marc Deslauriers schreef op do 26-01-2012 om 12:26 [-0500]: Those are the exact places that are telling novices to install CCSM in the first place :P At least partially because Ubuntu *removed* the tools that allowed end-user-friendly

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 01:57 +0100, Mathieu Comandon wrote: One thing I agree with is that CCSM does not play well with Unity and, yes, it's very easy to mess your Unity install with it. But I'm not concerned by that, I don't use Unity. The fact that I don't use Unity doesn't mean that I would

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 01:40 +, Oli Warner wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: Of course, the correct way to solve this issue is far more complicated than just removing a package from the archive, it require solving bugs

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 20:49 -0500, Jason J. Herne wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Oli Warner o...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marc Deslauriers - If CCSM is killing compiz the new compiz-monitoring logic should swoop

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-27 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 12:28 +0100, Mathieu Comandon wrote: upload it very easily to my PPA. The real problem in my opinion is that this would send the wrong message from the Ubuntu Desktop team to the upstream Compiz project. It basically says We only support compiz as long as it's tied to

[Bug 925474] Re: Find remote keys function is completely broken

2012-02-02 Thread Marc Deslauriers
** Tags added: rls-p-tracking ** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: None = ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 ** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) ** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: New = Confirmed **

[Bug 841541] Re: num lock is on warning remains even after num lock is turned off (thinkpad, numlock status for laptop and external keyboard different)

2012-02-05 Thread Marc Deslauriers
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) = Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841541

Re: Staying on GTK/GNOME 3.8 next cycle/for the LTS?

2013-10-01 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-10-01 01:45 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: I think we should stick with GNOME 3.8 another cycle, here are the reasons why: I think this is a great idea, and will give us time to iron out all the current bugs before the LTS. For one, screen locking is all broken _again_, and really needs to

Re: Staying on GTK/GNOME 3.8 next cycle/for the LTS?

2013-10-02 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-10-02 05:25 AM, Adam Dingle wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 01/10/2013 21:16, Adam Dingle a écrit : I've used Ubuntu every day for 7 years and am active in the GNOME community. The fact that Ubuntu lags one release behind

Re: Computer should NOT shutdown from Guest or Standard user while an Administrator user is still logged in

2014-04-02 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-04-02 06:49 AM, Amr Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I filed this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1300658 and here is its description: Computer should not shutdown/restart from a Guest session or from a Standard user session while there is still an Administrator

Re: Computer should NOT shutdown from Guest or Standard user while an Administrator user is still logged in

2014-04-02 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-04-02 08:29 AM, Amr Ibrahim wrote: I disagree with your reasoning. It's preventing users who have console access from shutting down the machine that will result in data loss, as they will simply fallback to using the power button or the magic sysrq key. If the user does not have console

Re: you can't catch me notifications

2014-12-09 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2014-12-09 09:21 PM, Cameron Whiting wrote: I was wondering who I should forward this to, so any help forwarding would be lovely :) On ubuntu 14.04, notifications play can't catch me, they become more transparent and non-hidable/clickable when you gloss over them. On linux mint (any

Re: you can't catch me notifications

2014-12-11 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2014-12-11 08:25 AM, Björn Torkelsson wrote: 2014-12-11 1:26 GMT+01:00 Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com mailto:o...@ubuntu.com: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2014, 23:19 +0100 schrieb Björn Torkelsson: the notification behaviour is quite nice as is, i

Re: you can't catch me notifications

2014-12-11 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hello, On 2014-12-11 12:25 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 01:26 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Intends-to-Keep-Its-Notifications-without-User-Interaction-on-Unity-8-467206.shtml Wow. Just wow. so since this

Re: Ubuntu policy for WebKit security updates?

2016-09-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 2016-09-13 05:14 PM, Adam Dingle wrote: > This article from Michael Catanzaro is sobering: > > https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/ > > It essentially makes two points: > > 1. WebKit 1 contains many security vulnerabilities that will probably never

Re: Look ahead at GNOME 3.26

2017-04-24 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 2017-04-24 07:00 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > The Nautilus developer suggested that Nautilus 3.26 might use gtk4. > Nautilus is fairly standalone and doesn't need to be updated at the > same time as the rest of GNOME. The GTK+ developers were hoping that > part of GNOME would have been using

Re: Look ahead at GNOME 3.26

2017-04-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 2017-04-24 09:53 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Marc Deslauriers > <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: >> gtk4 is currently at version 3.90. If I understand the new upstream >> versioning >> scheme correctly[1], gtk4 won't have

Re: Default App: GNOME Weather

2017-06-09 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2017-06-09 06:24 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey, > > Le 09/06/2017 à 11:09, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : >> GNOME Weather is a simple app to show you the weather. It is written >> in gjs. It has been part of GNOME core since GNOME 3.20. It has no >> universe runtime dependencies and is

[Bug 1688627] Re: Amazon web app needs an implemetation that does not require webbrowser app

2017-05-08 Thread Marc Deslauriers
I'm not ok with having epiphany in main at this time. While there have been a number of webkit2gtk security updates recently, at this point in time we don't know how long it will continue to be maintained upstream in an API/ABI compatible way that would make it supportable for an LTS release. For