Re: Call for Lucid testing: GTK enhancements

2009-12-11 Thread Shane Fagan
I upgraded to lucid again to get some tracebacks and logs for the errors so if I have a few to show. Most programs are crashing with the same error after installing the ppa with the UI enhancements. Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug

Re: Google Chromium In Lucid

2009-12-12 Thread Shane Fagan
addition. Shane Fagan On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 18:31 -0500, John Baer wrote: I've been a loyal Firefox user for many years and until I tested the new Google Chrome browser everything paled in comparison. IMO Ubuntu should adopt Chrome as the default browser. The general adoption of Chrome

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Shane Fagan
- Remove Eclipse - Huge download - Only supports Java out of the box - The Eclipse brand is strong enough that it doesn't need promoting Im going to go out on the limb and suggest we replace it with Monodevelop it supports mono,java,python,valaetc although require the user to

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Shane Fagan
tools are interesting for featured applications. The Featured section is not geared to a developer user, so I think we should just pull out Eclipse and leave it at that. Cheers, Rick On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 03:05 +, Shane Fagan wrote: - Remove Eclipse - Huge download - Only

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 14:22 +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: On 26/03/10 14:05, Shane Fagan wrote: - Remove Eclipse - Huge download - Only supports Java out of the box - The Eclipse brand is strong enough that it doesn't need promoting Im going to go out on the limb

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 03:27 +, Arand Nash wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Krzysztof Klimonda kklimo...@syntaxhighlighted.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 02:16 +, Arand Nash wrote: I've tested both openarena and nexuiz. What about Warsow? I've found it the most

10.10 plans for gnome-panel rollback

2010-04-02 Thread Shane Fagan
-Panel-Session package in the archive for a rollback? (I know its a little early to be talking about 10.10 but I thought id share the idea before I forgot it :) ) Regards Shane Fagan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Flash 10 prerelease in lucid

2010-04-12 Thread Shane Fagan
flash in 64bit. Anyhow im not pushing it but it would be nice. Regards Shane Fagan [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/141613 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Should gnome-panels enable_animations key be true by default?

2010-04-21 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:49 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Why are we animating everything? Does it make Ubuntu look cool and professional when the panels slide into the screen at login? I don't think so. I think it looks cheap, especially since it doesn't always work as intended. It also

WebM in Maverick?

2010-05-19 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume there would be lots of interest coming for this and it is going to be added to gstreamer (if it hasnt been already). --fagan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

WebM in Maverick?

2010-05-19 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume there would be lots of interest coming for this and integration in the desktop and the browser would be great. The Firefox, Chromium and gstreamer (ffmpeg) trunks have landed with code by now. The main benefit from

Re: WebM in Maverick?

2010-05-20 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:20 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 01:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: Hey all, Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume there would be lots of interest coming for this and integration in the desktop and the browser

Re: Rhythmbox question.

2010-06-29 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, You would have to ask on the rhythmbox list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel The lossless wma files is a gstreamer thing but I thought it already works but I dont use those files so I wouldnt know myself. --fagan On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:00 -0400,

Re: I want to contribute

2010-07-17 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Henrik, Well there is a few things you can do if you can do UI and stuff id recommend you look at ubuntu's launchpad bugs[0] or Gnome bugzilla[1] and submit patches to fix bugs that you think you can fix. --fagan [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org On

Tweet Deck in the repo?

2010-08-19 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I was wondering if there is any way we can package Tweet Deck or any other adobe air application for the repo? Im just wondering if there is any licencing problems with having it in there. (It would be a really good addition IMO) --fagan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list

Re: Tweet Deck in the repo?

2010-08-19 Thread Shane Fagan
you'd first need to get Adobe Air into the partner repository. But I don't believe TweetDeck is open source either so it couldn't be in the normal repos either. Jeremy Bicha On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey all, I was wondering

Re: LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey David, Im sure there would be volunteers from the ubuntu-art team you should forward it over there. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art --fagan On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:35 +0800, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO)

Re: OpenShot instead of PiTiVi

2011-02-14 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Jono, I think someone mentioned it before but at the time it looked really bad and its a lot bigger than pitivi if I remember correctly since pitivi only needs a few libs on top of what we already have so on the disk its tiny. I suppose we could switch to openshot but since space is starting

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-09 Thread Shane Fagan
Please note, I was suggesting not having Firefox or Chromium as the default, but a webkit based browser with a normal release cycle like Epiphany (which uses webkitgtk :)). Hey all, Well there are two ways you can look at this. 1. Recognized brands like Chrome and Firefox which most people

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-09 Thread Shane Fagan
Hi Chris, Maybe I was presuming a bit of things :) Firefox I don't think ever fit in because of XUL. I'd like to know why you think Firefox won't ever fit in because of XUL? After all, it's just another toolkit (like QT is just another toolkit, or perhaps you think that QT wouldn't fit in

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Desktop sound theme,effects?

2011-10-04 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey, That's a small topic, but the current sound theme and effects are not great, the sound effect configuration tab doesn't make lot of sense either. Would somebody be interested to pick up on that and improvement it

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Video playback?

2011-10-05 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Didier, People trying to use video have the same critics that when they don't look the audio support: slow to start, confusing interface and so on. Well there is a bit of an interesting give and take here and it should be talked about. The people who complain about a player being slow to

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

2015-08-10 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Jorge, Nice idea, if any help is needed ill throw my hat in the ring for it too, I think its a pretty important cause to push gaming as much as we can. Some things to note, so this is an Nvidia only thing going by what you are saying, could we have a split for AMD users too? Also I know