Re: Move this mailing list to the Community Hub

I wonder if that is mailing list mode in settings? But yes, by default it goes to nore...@ubuntu.com which goes nowhere. Been trying out the hub and after using it for just a few days I am +1 on this change, regardless of not having that option. Thanks, Bryan On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:09 PM,

Re: Remove Python2 for 18.04?

that to community.ubuntu.com for more feedback. Thanks! Bryan On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunna...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-27 21:22, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> >> >> * ibus-sunpinyin >> >> Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of moving

Remove Python2 for 18.04?

Hi, 2 items keeping python2.7-minimal on the livecd. * cifs-utils Was added in 2010 for using a CIFS root= in casper. That seems like a very specific use case, that could just be on a customized image? (it also appears in server manifest) * ibus-sunpinyin Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of

Re: Restricted extra/addons

I've been advised to leave gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 on, so revised debdiff to do that. On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Le 29/08/2017 à 20:34, Bryan Quigley a écrit : >> gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 isn't needed for mp

Re: Restricted extra/addons

extra and addons) Everything needed for video accelerations should be included. Thanks! Bryan On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Will Cooke <will.co...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 1 August 2017 at 17:18, Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com> > wrote: >> >> Pr

Re: Restricted extra/addons

After installing va-driver-all on fresh ubuntu 17.10 install (so ignoring the few packages that brings in) gstreamer1.0-vaapi does still bring in libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libopencv-core3.1 libtbb2 libva-drm1 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 (only 5 MB). This doesn't block us adding it to the

Re: Restricted extra/addons

ude i965-va-driver) > - gstreamer1.0-vaapi va-driver-all is already brought in by gstreamer1.0-libav Which means we only need to add gstreamer1.0-vaapi to the list and it's less than 1 MB, so easy win :). > On 02/08/17 00:18, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >&

Restricted extra/addons

Hi all, Been looking at what's brought in by default by the restricted checkbox in the installer and I think we can have better defaults. Here is a brief summary of what we have today: ubuntu-restricted-addons (what the installer checkbox does) - Flash - gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 -

Re: Firefox supported architectures

spberry Pi 3. > > My 2 cents. > > > On 7/10/17 6:28 PM, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> It's been discussed a few times on IRC how Firefox gets stuck in >> -proposed in dev releases because it doesn't compile for all the archs >> on

Remove default app: xterm?

Xterm takes up two menu items (xterm and uxterm) and doesn't provide any more functionality then gnome-terminal. In an installed setup, those two menu items make gnome-shell have 3 pages instead of 2 in my testing. The comment in seeds for adding it is "Provide a backup terminal and complete X

Firefox supported architectures

Hi all, It's been discussed a few times on IRC how Firefox gets stuck in -proposed in dev releases because it doesn't compile for all the archs on every Firefox release. This also occurs for those same archs on updates - for example the most up-to-date Firefox release for ppc64el Xenial is 52.

Re: Default App: xdiagnose

Where does this code actually live? The LP project hasn't got a commit since 2014, but the package has been updated since then... View Errors - prints out logs to stdout?, not the graphical window (might be related to me uninstalling syslog?) The other options seem to mostly be about changing

Re: Default App: gnome-sushi

Is this substantially faster than just opening the files on other people's computers? For me it seems to take the same amount of time, which afaict defeats the main point (or am I wrong about the main point?) Making the thumbnails in Nautilus their biggest side seems more useful to me to find

Re: lightdm or gdm?

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Bryan Quigley > <bryan.quig...@canonical.com> wrote: >> One of my concerns for a gdm change is are we ready to reorg our VTs? > > GDM could default to VT7 i

Re: lightdm or gdm?

I did some testing in a VM with switching different flavors to/from the default dm. Mostly I found that my current VM setup isn't stable (it's my own virt package I'm working on). But I did also see: Lubuntu -> gdm, Lock screen now falls to black screen Gnome -> Lightdm, Wayland failed on the

Re: i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the discussion. http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/ On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bryan Quigley <bryan.q

Re: i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Marcos Alano <marcoshal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-07-05 12:57 GMT-03:00 Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com>: >> >> The general ideas are: >> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from >> th

i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

Hi all, >From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the 18.04 timeframe. Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea of the impact. The general ideas are: A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and

Re: Remove gst0.10 this cycle?

> gmtk). / gnome-mplayer Looks like a definite keep now per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mplayer/+bug/1541961 Back to gstreamer0.10, I reviewed them again and found a good amount more (went much deeper): I missed seed (outdated webkit component): Definitely remove -

Re: Remove gst0.10 this cycle?

> 2016-01-28 1:24 GMT+02:00 Bryan Quigley <gqu...@gmail.com>: >> gcompris - Needs sync >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcompris/+bug/1538783 > > I started on this earlier but this is now done, meaning Edubuntu DVD > should become slightly lighter. > >

Remove gst0.10 this cycle?

Hi all, Debian developers have been working hard on removing gstreamer0.10 [1] from the next Debian release. I think it would be possible to follow them and get it done for Xenial. Here are my notes on the current status for Ubuntu (or just search for tag gst0.10 [2]for bugs). I'm ignoring what

Re: Proposed changes to default applications in 16.04 LTS

Hi, > Brasero - to be removed from the image and put into Universe. +1 (the USC reviews shows it has been going downhill for a while) > Empathy - to be removed from the image and put into Universe. +1 ( > Gnome Calendar - to be added to the image. This brings a stand-alone > Calendar

Re: Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

answer for Adobe. Obviously EOY 2017 is very different than February 2017. Kind regards, Bryan *First two years, until the next LTS is released. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 12/10/15 20:39, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> Hi all, >>

Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

Hi all, Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016[1]. That got me thinking that we might have to drop it sooner than that for 16.04 LTS [2] - which is what happened fro Chromium for 14.04 LTS. Flash (NPAPI Linux) is also possibly going

Re: Firefox + Thunderbird crash reports are now going to errors.ubuntu.com

Hi, I'm happy to keep an eye out. By the way, why do we use the Mozilla crash reporter instead of errors for Firefox? There seems to be significant differences in the number of plugin-container crashes sent to errors [1] vs mozilla's site [2]. Kind regards, Bryan [1]

Re: Ubuntu Quickly Retired?

Thanks for the feedback. I've opened a public bug for the removal - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quickly/+bug/1494345 Thanks! Bryan On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Didier Roche <didro...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Le 08/09/2015 20:58, Bryan Quigley a écrit : >> Hi al

Ubuntu Quickly Retired?

Hi all, Ubuntu Quickly's development has stopped (last trunk commit from 2012). It seems that the Ubuntu SDK (and maybe Make) has replaced Quickly. If you happen across the Quickly documentation you might assume this is the recommended way to develop apps for Ubuntu. Is there any reason to

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

, Bryan Quigley gquig...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

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: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

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

Firefox Extensions still needed?

HI, I'm wondering if we still need these three Firefox extensions. I can't tell* what they do in Wily: Ubuntu Online Accounts(xul-ext-webaccounts) Unity Desktop Integration (xul-ext-unity) Unity Websites integration (xul-ext-websites-integration) With a Unity specific browser coming, is

Re: Coordinating work around newer upstream Nvidia drivers for users

- Let's not break distro, SRUs and existing distro policies exist for a reason; breaking my dad's computer isn't worth it, so - Let's do a blessed PPA with the latest drivers, so that people can just get those drivers without resorting to xorg-edgers and bleeding. - This PPA can have a

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

are provided directly in the packages and not on Mozilla site, it is still also possible to validate them. Best regards, Xavier Le 10/08/2015 19:21, Bryan Quigley a écrit : HI, I'm wondering if we still need these three Firefox extensions. I can't tell* what they do in Wily: Ubuntu Online

Re: you can't catch me notifications

That's (unfortunately IMHO) by design. I think it will be revisited due to the phone, all of the phone platforms that I've seen have the ability to dismiss notifications.. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Bubble_behavior On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Cameron Whiting thetoxicarc...@gmail.com

Removing totem-mozilla from desktop seed?

I'm guessing this would happen eventually but I wanted to mention it because it's #40 on errors.u.com [1][2]. It's fixed by simply remove totem-mozilla which has also been discontinued upstream [3]. Seems like an easy win to do for Utopic. I was also wondering if we wanted to drop it from the

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

Would systemd be used in this new seed from the start? Thanks, Bryan On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Iain Lane la...@ubuntu.com wrote: Steve, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 05:23:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Iain, […] Instead of a separate seed branch for

Re: chromium-browser in trusty

Hi Chad, I've been curious what we are going to do about that NPAPI removal... Just to be clear, we are shipping M34 with backports of Aura from build 35+? Or is the plan to end up shipping M35? Thanks! Bryan On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Chad Miller chad.mil...@canonical.com wrote: Hi

Fwd: Removing gstreamer0.10

For some reason I thought we had already removed 0.10 from the trusty desktop cd. I've reported a few bugs to move us towards there: libpurple https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1295207 bluez 5.0 release https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1295215 Also

Re: Pipelight in 14.04LTS?

It definitely needs a good number of patches.. They are working to get them upstream though: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-compile-wine.html http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio/ https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pipelight/netflix-desktop/wine-compholio/files/head:/patches/ I have not

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

With a personal hat on... I just started maintaining Gnome Nibbles and the 3.8 release has some serious issues Obviously a game not shipped by default isn't a big issue.. I'd definitely like to see a more up-to-date version of Rhythmbox specifically. It's had various issues that are fixed

Re: 32/64 bit recommended decision rehash this vUDS?

It seems a discussion is warranted, so I've proposed it [1]. Feel free to add your other ideas/comments to the pad [2]. I'll ping again if/when it get's approved as a topic. So your (slightly modified) “If you have a 6+ year old PC, a 4+ year old netbook, or only 1 GB of ram choose the 32 bit

32/64 bit recommended decision rehash this vUDS?

quickly put a blueprint together. Kind regards, Bryan Quigley * To me this means last one with images built and kernels. Obviously we would need to keep 32 bit libraries etc for things like Steam. [1] http://bryanquigley.com/crazy-ideas/survey-results -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

Hi all, Glad this Canonical is getting a search revenue stream, I just have a few concerns that I haven't seen discussed. Does Yahoo have an equivalent of I'm Feeling Lucky for the Firefox awesomebar or is google still going to be providing that? If you switch that functionality to just being a

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

I just tried out Shotwell and found it very user friendly, fast, and doesn't force the user to reorganize their existing photo collection. It has a simple but modern look to it. They have a PPA to try it with https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppahttps://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa

Re: Empathy and Ekiga in Karmic Koala.

My understanding was that one of the biggest reasons for moving to Empathy was better audio and video support over Pidgin. Is this the correct wiki page for this? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

I agree on those two and have two more to add. (If these are already gone/changed in karmic, sorry) Neither for full removal but they just shouldn't be ran per user at startup: Jockey - purpose is *notification* of hardware changes. Update manager - purpose is *notification* of updates available

Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?

I believe it was removed as part of this: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyReducingDuplication https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyReducingDuplicationHowever the wiki page was never updated and am unsure if there was any good public discussion (I was following it at the time). Ah:

Why does Desktop CD manifest fall behind the actual cds?

Hello, Why does Desktop CD (daily-live) manifest fall behind the actual cds? For instance look at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20090624/ Note how everything was created on the same day except for the .manifest files. I am trying to retest the liveCDs every time the kernel changes to

Re: Call for testing empathy

Did they add IRC support? We really want to have an IRC client by default (Pidgin is one). On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion? I just tried the newest version of

Automatically start virtual keyboard or virtual mouse when one is not detected

if there was a better way (and more supporting of KDE, XFCE, login screens, etc) Thanks, Bryan Quigley -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: gnome-control-center

It makes it easier for new users, and anyone searching to change a setting. (which is really important) It makes it slower for those that change a setting often (or use synaptic), for those I suggest they make a shortcut. Which presents my biggest problem with it, it lets you add things to

Re: Call for testing empathy

and Ekiga. I don't currently use Ekiga, but can anyone tell me how close Empathy is to being comparable? If it can replace Ekiga, perhaps it could do that for Intrepid and leave Pidgin alone for now? -Bryan Quigley On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

gThumb needs merge?

Just wondering if this got lost in the fray. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gthumb/+bug/153572 Thanks Bryan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop