Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager
Hi, My devious self is wondering if each computer can have an active TCP connection to a specific address, like connected.ubuntu.com, with TCP keepalives at a high interval (maybe 10 seconds). You don't have the overhead of constantly opening and closing connections, but you do have the overhead of actually keeping millions of connections open on the server. This addresses none of the privacy concerns, of course, but it does give near immediate notification when the network has died, no matter how you get your connection. I am not very involved in this discussion or its goals. However, here is what Chrome does when it checks whether it is really connected to a network or not. You might find it useful to see what evil things ISPs and such may try to do with your connection: https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup -- Mikko Ohtamaa http://opensourcehacker.com -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Nothing happens when pressing CD tray eject button
This is https://launchpad.net/bugs/397734 . Ah thanks. I expected there were some hairy issues going. -Mikko -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Nothing happens when pressing CD tray eject button
Hi, Today I stopped thinking why nothing happens when you press the (physical) eject key of CD tray (Karmic Koala) 1. Physical CD eject button does nothing - no feedback. Actually I thought my eject button was broken. 2. However, Nautilus can eject CD just fine if I press Eject in Nautilus Because of (2) there must be no reason why eject by physical button could not be the same as eject by Nautilus. What is the project this kind of bug belongs to? I think this falls to gray area where one should actually catch CD eject button press in somewhere and have handler in Nautilus for it. Also, do you think this should be nominated to a papercut? -- Mikko Ohtamaa mFabrik - Freedom Delivered. Web site - http://mfabrik.com Mobile site - http://mfabrik.mobi Blog - http://blog.mfabrik.com -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Empty Create Document menu
Hi, This is a little offtopic, but... that is a wrong statement, the launchpad nautilus bug has been closed because that's not a nautilus bug and such changes should be discussed on a mailing list where you will get comments on and not a bug tracker. the way to do that would be to copy some templates in the user directory, note that doing that automatically when adding an user has been decided against before because it's specific to GNOME and users doing server installation don't want those template for example. Could we have a different state for this kind of things in Launchpad? A lot of people get offended by invalid, since they assume that the bug is being ignored. For example being discussed with a pointer to the discussion or finding a new home when the bug is not against the correct product and the new one has not been decided yet. Where could I propose this kind of thing? -Mikko -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Empty Create Document menu
Hi, After 3 years of discussion it looks like Ubuntu is still going to ship with empty Create Document menu in Nautilus. This menu should be populated which choices Create text file, Create OpenOffice Writer document and so on. Bug #23332 was marked as invalid. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/23332 and here is discussion about the matter http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2008-June/msg00123.html This is one of these things were discussion led to nowhere. The last word was no we are not going to do anything for this because there could be possible abuse by software packagers and such. This is a bit unflattering for the end users. I'd rather have this very handy usability feature on the risk of hypothetical abuse. I can clean up my menu if my evil Linux software vendors try to clutter it up. This is a very visible bug (feature) to all users coming from other operating systems/distributions. Could we at least remove Create Document menu if it's going to be unsupported? -- Mikko Ohtamaa www.redinnovation.com -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Wrong keyboard after installation bug = serious
Hi all, This bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/95886Wrong keyboard layout after installation has been hanging in the bug tracker over Gutsy and Feisty and it is still not fixed in Heron. 1) It affects (all?) international users 2) The fix of bug could be quite trivial 3) It confuses new users very much, ruining the out-of-box experience completely Could someone bump the importance of the bug? Currently it's marked as low, but I'd consider it far more serious. -- Mikko Ohtamaa -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Using xdg-user-dirs for the gutsy desktop
The default set of directory is: DESKTOP=Desktop DOWNLOAD=Download TEMPLATES=Templates PUBLICSHARE=Public DOCUMENTS=Documents MUSIC=Music PICTURES=Pictures VIDEOS=Videos The desktop applications make use of it to know what directory to use. Does anyone has concern about the list of directory or does it look ok to everybody? Looks great to me! I have been waiting something to this pop-up for a long time, since the usual *nix behavior is stick all to $HOME and $HOME gets crowded pretty fast. How about contacts? In the future (not yet here!) it might be useful to have common contact format in desktop applications. Various PIMs use their internal backends. Maybe we could have a standardized user wide contact sharing hitting the mainstream in few years? What kind of application support xdg-user-dirs enjoys? -Mikko -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Using xdg-user-dirs for the gutsy desktop
Erik Andrén wrote: 2007/6/18, Luis de Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very nice, I think this will improve a lot Ubuntu's user-friendliness for new users. I suggest taking Download out of the list to have the magic 7. As most people download stuff to the Desktop, and then move it to it's proper place (depending on what hey have just downloaded). Isn't a desktop, cluttered with old download garbage something we want to avoid? I agree. I suggest to preverse DOWNLOAD variable at least. If you wish to download to desktop, you can always reconfigure xdg-useres-dir file. Old downloads really clutter up desktop (as they do for $HOME too). If you have all downloads separately in one folder, it's easier to clean up (delete them). -- Mikko Ohtamaa Associate, Red Innovation Ltd. +358 40 743 9707 www.redinnovation.com begin:vcard fn:Mikko Ohtamaa n:Ohtamaa;Mikko org:Red Innovation Ltd. adr:;;;Oulu;;;Finland email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:CEO tel;cell:+358 40 743 9707 url:http://www.redinnovation.com version:2.1 end:vcard -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
