Re: desktop icons removed from Nautilus

2018-01-17 Thread Adam Dingle
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Didier Roche <didro...@ubuntu.com> wrote: Le 17/01/2018 à 09:48, Adam Dingle a écrit : As many of you are probably aware, Nautilus in master can no longer display icons on the desktop. This change landed in Nautilus master on January 2nd:

Re: will Ubuntu switch to GNOME Online Accounts?

2017-05-16 Thread Adam Dingle
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Khurshid Alam <khurshid.a...@linuxmail.org> wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Adam Dingle <a...@medovina.org> wrote: My immediate concern is that gnome-calendar is installed by default in Zesty but is semi-broken: I'm unable to add a Goo

Re: Ubuntu policy for WebKit security updates?

2016-09-13 Thread Adam Dingle
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: 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

Ubuntu policy for WebKit security updates?

2016-09-13 Thread Adam Dingle
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 be fixed, and yet some apps (e.g. Geary, GnuCash) still

Re: GTK 3.14 coming to Vivid?

2014-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: No, we plan to support those widgets as well as we can, and fix the theme and unity issues. This is great to hear! An update: I see that GTK 3.14 has

GTK 3.14 coming to Vivid?

2014-12-06 Thread Adam Dingle
Ubuntu team, I see that Vivid (15.04) still has GTK 3.12, just like Utopic. Is there a plan to update Vivid to GTK 3.14? Even if you're not planning to update GNOME apps to newer versions, it would still be very useful to have a newer GTK so that it will at least be possible to build newer

WebKit-based apps are sluggish in latest Utopic

2014-09-15 Thread Adam Dingle
Today I made a fresh install of the latest daily build of 14.10 (Utopic). Unfortunately applications that use WebKit, including Geary and Epiphany, are now strangely sluggish. When I type characters (e.g. in a new message in Geary or in a form field in Epiphany) they don't echo for several

Re: WebKit-based apps are sluggish in latest Utopic

2014-09-15 Thread Adam Dingle
By the way, I just installed Utopic again and can now confirm that this behavior occurs in a completely fresh install. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Adam Dingle a...@medovina.org wrote: Today I made a fresh install of the latest daily build of 14.10 (Utopic). Unfortunately applications

Re: GTK 3.12 coming to Utopic?

2014-09-01 Thread Adam Dingle
else happen? Obviously you may not know yet, but we'd be happy to hear more here once you know anything. cheers - adam On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 09/08/2014 19:03, Adam Dingle a écrit : We didn't decide yet. We are first looking

bad Utopic update?

2014-08-29 Thread Adam Dingle
I normally run Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic) - it has been quite stable for months now. This morning I applied software updates as usual, attempted to reboot and saw a blank black screen with a mouse cursor and nothing more. I used Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console and logged in. As I did so, I saw

Re: bad Utopic update?

2014-08-29 Thread Adam Dingle
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Adam Dingle a...@medovina.org wrote: I normally run Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic) - it has been quite stable for months now. This morning I applied software updates as usual, attempted to reboot and saw a blank black screen with a mouse cursor and nothing more. I used

Re: GTK 3.12 coming to Utopic?

2014-08-09 Thread Adam Dingle
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 26/06/2014 22:36, Adam Dingle a écrit : Right. On that note, I've noticed that all the GNOME desktop apps in Utopic (e.g. gedit, Nautilus, Epiphany) are still at version 3.10. Do you plan to upgrade

Re: GTK 3.12 coming to Utopic?

2014-06-26 Thread Adam Dingle
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 14/05/2014 15:18, Adam Dingle a écrit : I'm looking forward to an Ubuntu build with GTK 3.12 so I can build newer versions of various GNOME applications. Is GTK 3.12 coming to Utopic? Hey Adam, Sorry, I

Trusty broken?

2014-02-05 Thread Adam Dingle
I've run the daily build of Trusty (14.04) every day for a couple of months now. This morning I installed the latest updates and after I rebooted and logged in, I saw only the desktop background - there was no launcher or top panel. So I completely reinstalled Trusty from the latest daily image,

Re: WebKit apps crash after a while in Trusty

2014-01-21 Thread Adam Dingle
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Chad Miller chad.mil...@canonical.com wrote: Hi Adam. I'm surprised you didn't get an apport window to report it. I'm interested in that part, if you have time, after all this is over. I did get an apport window, but I think the report failed to submit

WebKit apps crash after a while in Trusty

2014-01-20 Thread Adam Dingle
I run Trusty (the upcoming 14.04 release) every day. In the past week or so I've started seeing the following behavior. After I've been logged in for some amount of time (perhaps an hour, though it may vary), all WebKit-based applications (such as Epiphany, Chromium and Spotify) crash and

Re: Should Delete recent history in Privacy settings also delete thumbnails?

2014-01-19 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@ubuntu.com wrote: In the Privacy settings, you can choose not to store things you do in Zeitgeist or you can delete entries based on time, such as delete all entries from the last hour. However, this does not delete

Re: Epiphany 3.10 landed sans title bar

2013-12-22 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 22/12/13 10:36, Tim wrote: On 22/12/13 08:51, Iain Lane wrote: Indeed, we shouldn't be uploading GtkHeaderBar-using software into the archive without fixing it to use traditional menus when appropriate.

Epiphany 3.10 landed sans title bar

2013-12-21 Thread Adam Dingle
I noticed that Epiphany 3.10.3 just landed in Trusty. It uses a GtkHeaderBar, so it has no title bar and looks pretty out of place on the Ubuntu desktop. I thought the plan was not to land applications that use GtkHeaderBar just yet. Was this an error? Or is there a plan to patch a title

Re: Some desktop updates for this cycle

2013-11-30 Thread Adam Dingle
Sebastien, thanks for the update - it's great to know what's going on. I see GLib 2.39.1 in Trusty now and don't see WebKitGTK 2.3.1 yet, but I assume it will arrive soon. I installed GTK 3.10 from the PPA and it seems to be working pretty well so far. In a previous message you wrote We

Re: Some desktop updates for this cycle

2013-11-30 Thread Adam Dingle
, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adam Dingle a...@medovina.org wrote: Sebastien, thanks for the update - it's great to know what's going on. I see GLib 2.39.1 in Trusty now and don't see WebKitGTK 2.3.1 yet, but I assume it will arrive soon. I installed GTK 3.10 from the PPA and it seems to be working pretty

WebKitGTK 2 for Trusty?

2013-10-26 Thread Adam Dingle
As we all know, Ubuntu is staying with GNOME 3.8 for 14.04 (Trusty). Has a decision been made about whether Trusty will include a WebKitGTK 2.x package? I'd certainly like to see one. Applications that want to run both on Ubuntu and Fedora can limit themselves to the features in GTK 3.8,

Re: WebKitGTK 2 for Trusty?

2013-10-26 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Dmitry Shachnev mity...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adam, On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Adam Dingle a...@medovina.org wrote: As we all know, Ubuntu is staying with GNOME 3.8 for 14.04 (Trusty). Has a decision been made about whether Trusty will include

Re: WebKitGTK 2 for Trusty?

2013-10-26 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 21:45 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: With respect to bug #1163886, I have now reproduced it multiple times using 13.10 released i386 desktop cd, in the live session running in the VM

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

2013-10-01 Thread Adam Dingle
I've used Ubuntu every day for 7 years and am active in the GNOME community. The fact that Ubuntu lags one release behind GNOME is already a significant burden for me. I often spend time building the newest version of GNOME apps, which can be challenging since Ubuntu's libraries lag behind.

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

2013-10-01 Thread Adam Dingle
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: On 13-10-01 03:16 PM, Adam Dingle wrote: I've used Ubuntu every day for 7 years and am active in the GNOME community. The fact that Ubuntu lags one release behind GNOME is already a significant burden

Re: Bad experience with Ubuntu

2013-09-08 Thread Adam Dingle
Ravi, thanks for your message. I don't work for Canonical (I'm just a longtime Ubuntu user) but here are some thoughts. First, making Ubuntu (or any Linux-based OS) work well on the vast variety of hardware that exists is a tremendously hard problem. Ubuntu and others have made great

Re: GNOME 3.9 coming to PPA?

2013-05-27 Thread Adam Dingle
AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 18/05/13 19:09, Adam Dingle wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fmdark...@fastmail.fmwrote: On 18/05/13 18:47, Adam Dingle wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fmdark...@fastmail.fmwrote

Re: GNOME 3.9 coming to PPA?

2013-05-18 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 18/05/13 01:43, Adam Dingle wrote: Ubuntu has started lagging one release behind GNOME, which makes things a little tricky for people like me who want to build and run the latest versions (i.e. git master) of various GNOME

Re: GNOME 3.9 coming to PPA?

2013-05-18 Thread Adam Dingle
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 18/05/13 18:47, Adam Dingle wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 18/05/13 01:43, Adam Dingle wrote: Ubuntu has started lagging one release behind GNOME, which makes things a little

GNOME 3.9 coming to PPA?

2013-05-17 Thread Adam Dingle
Ubuntu has started lagging one release behind GNOME, which makes things a little tricky for people like me who want to build and run the latest versions (i.e. git master) of various GNOME apps. In the Raring development cycle the GNOME 3 PPA