Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:55:48AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Di, 2013-04-02 at 16:45 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > > OK, the reasons make sense, but do we need to advertise them as Apps? > > i think xdiagnose doesnt need to be shown in any menus (though that > would be a matter of the m

Re: Concerning the state of Compiz

2013-03-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:21:03PM -0600, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: Ahem, gentlemen, let's keep this maillist to topical technical matters. Bryce -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: Raring installation problems

2013-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:43:34AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi Xavier, > > I've targeted those bugs to 13.04, so they'll show up on the release > team's charts, although I don't know what level of bug scrub is planned. Also, I should add I don'

Re: Raring installation problems

2013-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Xavier, I've targeted those bugs to 13.04, so they'll show up on the release team's charts, although I don't know what level of bug scrub is planned. (Fwiw, ubuntu-devel@ would be a better list for this email, since several of those issues are foundations issues.) Xavier, I would encourage yo

Re: [Desktop13.04-Topic] Stop relying on GNOME fallback code for unity

2012-09-28 Thread Bryce Harrington
-1 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey everybody, > > One topic for UDS, since GNOME is talking about dropping their code > for fallback to just use gnome-shell, we should make sure we stop > relying on that (it would also be good to stop relying on not so > ma

Re: Future of the Hundred Papercuts project

2012-09-26 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 01:05:33PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hi there Desktop and Dev teams, > > My name if Chris Wilson and I've recently taken over the leadership of the > Hundred Papercuts project, and am exploring ways to revitalise it now that > contributions have all but dried up. I'm dra

Re: [ubuntu-x] Ubuntu-x mini-meeting minutes

2012-07-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
Quick update on last month's X meeting: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:32:54PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > We had a ubuntu-x team meeting today to coordinate tasks across several > topics. Below is a brief summary of the discussions. The xserver 1.12 stack was uploaded last wee

Ubuntu-x mini-meeting minutes

2012-06-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
We had a ubuntu-x team meeting today to coordinate tasks across several topics. Below is a brief summary of the discussions. == X stack for LTS point release == The repository is up with the renamed X stack, and it is successfully working as a proof-of-concept for the rename procedure. Next st

Re: [ubuntu-x] Please test new X server in precise-proposed

2012-04-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:08:07AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday I uploaded a new X server to precise-proposed as a 0-day SRU. > It contains fixes for: > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/974887: Various touchscreen issues > https://launchpad.net/bugs/930936: Xorg crashes after c

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:56:53AM +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > If this was going to be redesigned, I would rather see it as a "Hardware > manager". Ubuntu is currently promoting drivers as an optional extra. > But that's not true; drivers are always necessary for all hardware. One > problem

Re: {Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation

2012-04-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:51:02AM +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 19. april 2012 03:11, skrev Jeremy Bicha: > > Your topic mixes developer docs, entry-level user docs, and "power > > user" docs. Each of those needs a different approach and I think it's > > simpler to tackle them as three m

Re: [Desktop12.10-Topic] Awareness of existing user configurations in software feature upgrades

2012-04-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
Back when everyone had an xorg.conf and a lot of the X bugs were due to malformed config files, we would collect the files and run them through checkers. Brian Murray ran a bot that'd test xorg.confs in bugs posted to launchpad for instance. Found quite a few issues that way. These days xorg.con

Re: [Desktop12.10-Topic] Default application selection process

2012-04-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:08:52PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 03/04/2012 19:33, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > >An invitation to UDS wouldn't be out of place in this case. > I'm unsure about that, it's expense (time and money) to invite > somebody at UDS only

Re: [Desktop12.10-Topic] Default application selection process

2012-04-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 02:06:11PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Thanks for writing that email, I had that on my list as well, making > sure we don't have another of those "default application selection" > session like previous UDS ;-) > > - we should reach the concerned upstreams at least one

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-03-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 08:55:58PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > I'm beginning to think that this is all so complicated even when we > try to be verbose and convey things as accurately as possible that > nothing short of "it just works perfectly and exactly how I wanted" > will be good enough. Alth

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-02-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:11:30PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sending this to both ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-desktop to try to > get a larger pool of feedback. Here's some random thoughts. I don't have a fully formed opinion on the topic, but maybe these general observations can

Re: CFT: ClickPad support

2012-02-13 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > I've spent some time working on making "ClickPad" trackpads work better. > I have put the end result up at ppa:chasedouglas/clickpad. I would like > some testing feedback for the changes. > > In this context, a "ClickPad" is any touc

Re: Unity and compiz SRU candidate available for testing

2011-12-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:46:39PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 16/12/2011 17:15, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : > >Hi, > > > >The dx team worked on backporting some of the fixes available to > >the Oneiric serie and rolled a 4.26.0 tarball. > > > >This unity version and an updated compiz with s

Re: Desktop Meeting Format Change

2011-12-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 06:38:53AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Bryce Harrington [2011-12-05 16:16 -0800]: > > Given this increased importance of the wiki status page, could it be > > made policy to set up the following week's meeting page at the > > conclusion of

Re: Desktop Meeting Format Change

2011-12-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:18:54AM +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > Hi Everyone - > > At UDS we discussed trying a new format for the desktop meeting. Here is > what was discussed. > > Going forward we'll update the wiki[1] as usual, but we'll now add possible > agenda items that warrant further disc

Re: ubuntu lacks ideas, firefox is full of ideas

2011-11-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:36:04PM -0500, Alexander wrote: > Where can I get involved without directing me to developer.ubuntu.com > or providing me suggestions? Hi, this mailing list isn't really about development of Unity but more focused on the overall desktop integration. For Unity-specific m

Re: Inter-bugtracker Comment Forwarding [was: Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04]

2011-11-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:11:08AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > [Sorry to those who receive this twice. I accidentally sent it out from the > wrong e-mail.] > > On 09/11/2011 02:42, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > The launchpad guys say that GNOME had been on the todo list but t

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 01:51:26AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > P.S. One thing I've found particularly annoying when working on Banshee bugs > is > the lack of a comment-crossposting-bridge thing between GNOME Bugzilla and > Launchpad. As a result, I have had to relay (manually) all the requests

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Crash Database

2011-10-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:59:47AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > Like mpt said, it's been discussed now for a couple years but there > > hasn't been that much progress. > > I did not say that, and it is not the case. (And even if it was the > case, that would not be grounds for delaying it

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Crash Database

2011-10-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:44:41AM -0400, Ted Gould wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 15:39 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > For Precise, I don't think we want to try to undertake implementation, > > but it would be nice to get the design more fleshed out and perhaps do a

[Desktop12.04-Topic] Crash Database

2011-10-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
There's been discussions around establishing a crash database of sorts (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker). The idea is to have a place to collect crash report data to view it in aggregate, so we can track what the most common crashes are in the release. There are a lot of similarities to

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Multi-screen setups

2011-10-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Dereck Wonnacott wrote: > My laptop has an Nvidia card and I was not able to activate my external > monitor with unity 3D. [BUG 864784] > > I miss the window snap function on the shared edge of the screens. Snap only > seems to work on the far edges of the

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

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:17:56PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:46:10PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 12:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > > > > But I think as a next action, I think I have all the hard

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

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:46:10PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 12:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > > But I think as a next action, I think I have all the hardware I need to > > test it myself, so I'll try and do that today or

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Wayland tech preview

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:33:32PM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > It would be nice to be able to optionally run Wayland in 12.04 to try > out the technology. This will involve: > - Modifying LightDM to support Wayland > - Writing a Wayland compositor Would the demo compositor be sufficient? If no

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

2011-10-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:59:43PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 11:17 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > It looks to me like it basically works, modulo maybe a bug or two. > > So removing it seems unnecessary; just need to isolate and prioritize

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

2011-10-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:58:21AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > FYI, On Natty, I experienced the issue on my Intel laptop, but not on my > Nvidia laptop. I've added the xdamage workaround before upgrading to > Oneiric, so I don't know if it's fixed or not. I use the remote desktop > functionali

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Multi-screen setups

2011-10-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:54:02AM +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > One area that really needs extra attention, is multi-screen setups. > There are currently numerous issues. Some are just plain bugs, whereas > others need designed solutions. It is currently very inconsistent. > > For instance;

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Desktop quality (bugs fixing)

2011-10-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey, > > That's not really a topic but we all know we need to fix bugs (a lot of > those) for the LTS, we should make sure to budget time for that and have > a driven focus on the goal. One thing we might want to discuss is how we

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

2011-10-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:40:43PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hi, > > That's a small topic but seems vino and compositing (i.e unity) don't > work really fine together: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/772873 > > Not sure if that's a driver issue, xorg, vino, other but

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Improved screen locking, user switching

2011-10-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:07:39AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey again, > > Continuing the work started with the login experience this cycle I think > we should improve the screen locking, user switching experience. We > should also revisit if we want to support screensaver graphics or rath

Re: Dropping tomboy from the CD at least for part of the oneiric cycle

2011-06-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:24:26AM +0100, Piotr Drozdek wrote: > Dnia 2011-06-14, o godz. 21:00:31 > Sebastien Bacher napisał(a): > > > Since that work has been stalling for a while, we need CD space and we > > want to get ride of the deprecated library we decided during the > > meeting to drop t

Re: Call for testing: LightDM

2011-06-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:45:38AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: > On 8 June 2011 02:58, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:03:12AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: > >> I'm taking this opportunity to post a link to this comment on the > >> propose

Re: Call for testing: LightDM

2011-06-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:03:12AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: > On 7 June 2011 10:02, Alan Bell wrote: > > yeah, I would very much hope that lightdm does not introduce more > > accessibility regressions. > > I'm taking this opportunity to post a link to this comment on the > proposed switch to li

Re: gnome-panel as a fallback

2011-06-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:46:51AM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: > > I'd like to know if Unity 2D will also be used for for FailsafeX sessions. > > Not sure about that one as different people means different things about > "FailsafeX" sessions. if it's session without 3D acceleration, right, > that's

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:33:27PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote on 15/04/11 06:48: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > Also, these tests measure usability, but not their overall impression. > > Did t

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:08:02AM -0700, Rick Spencer wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 22:48 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > * 8/10 people could find a window's menus, but 7/8 of them learned

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > * 8/10 people could find a window's menus, but 7/8 of them learned to > * Only 4/11 worked out how to change the background picture. > * 6/10 could easily find and launch a game that wasn't in the > * Only 1/9 (P4) easil

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Integrate unity-2d/Qt / install media space

2011-04-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:06:54AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > So if we want to keep adding new features without removing > others, we might also eventually reconsider moving to 1 GB USB images > and entirely stop shipping CD images (on mirrors/shop/Loco > distribution, etc.) This would be somethin

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:29:35AM -0700, Jane Doe wrote: > On my machine that has integrated Intel 845G graphics Natty Alpha 3 defaults > to Software Rasterizer and that means 3D acceleration is not available! The > Mesa DRI Intel(R) 845G GEM 20090712, 1.3 Mesa 7.6 driver and those previous > w

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:18:22PM -0500, Sean McNamara wrote: > 5. Stability has been poor in my experience; I run into X crashes from > time to time doing fairly mundane stuff that doesn't trigger a crash > with Gnome2. Can you provide a bug # (with a full backtrace if possible)? I'm putting a

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:24AM +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: > > * The look and feel > > * Usability > > * Stability (knowing that

Arsenal reports for Unity and Indicator Applet teams

2011-02-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
I've added summary reports for the unity-team and indicator-applet-developers teams: http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/ These provide the teams with three reports I've found useful in managing the influx of xorg bugs: Milestones - All bugs with milestone targets Patches - All

Re: Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

2011-01-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of > shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought it > might be worth discussing the pros and cons on these lists as well. > > So, thoughts, discussio

Re: GNOME session saving dropped in natty

2011-01-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:36:55AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:16 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Vishnoo [2011-01-21 20:41 +0530]: > > > Is there a bug filed for this, which we could follow? > > > > I don't think we should bother. Session saving can't ever be perfect. > >

And graphs... Re: Desktop teams filtered bug lists for natty

2011-01-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
X http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/ubuntu-x-swat/totals-natty-workqueue.svg Bryce On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:34:16PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Some new Arsenal bug listings: > > Audio > http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/ubuntu-aud

Desktop teams filtered bug lists for natty

2011-01-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
Some new Arsenal bug listings: Audio http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/ubuntu-audio/workqueue-natty.html Compiz http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/compiz/workqueue-natty.html Desktop http://www.bryceharrington.org/Arsenal/Reports/desktop-bugs/workqueue

Re: Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

2010-12-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:46:48AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Bryce Harrington [2010-11-30 23:23 -0800]: > > Perhaps you could elaborate on your vision for how our audience would > > use this blocker information in the report? > > I think the primary audience for th

Re: Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

2010-11-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:51:20AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Robert Ancell [2010-12-01 17:40 +1100]: > > I propose we keep this format for now on. Yes/no/should we change it? > > Thanks for this initiative! I like the format as it is now, it's a > much more interesting read.

Re: Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

2010-11-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:40:12PM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > So this concludes the trial of the desktop meeting summary... Results > are here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-30 > > I propose we keep this format for now on. Yes/no/should we change it? One other thought

Re: Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

2010-11-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:40:12PM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > I also bolded some key words to make it easier to skim-read, these are > easy to add in the wiki as you enter items (use three apostrophes > '''), and/or they can be quickly updated during the meeting (only > takes a minute or so). >

Re: Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

2010-11-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:11:09AM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > In my opinion the current activity reports are more about proving > you've done a weeks worth of work, than providing a good summary of > what's happened in a week. > * x new bugs were opened, y were closed ... > > Note that some of

Re: Featured Apps for Maverick

2010-09-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:32:49PM +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote: > On 8 September 2010 19:22, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > "Good" is a fairly subjective measure with games.  ;-) > > I'd say, let all the games cycle in and out. > > > With good games I meant gam

Re: Featured Apps for Maverick

2010-09-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:07:19PM +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote: > I'm in favour of swapping applications, but if a game is really good > it should stay. The best should stay, lesser known games could be > swapped. "Good" is a fairly subjective measure with games. ;-) (Is nethack "good"?) Games w

Re: indicator-weather

2010-08-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:26:49PM +0530, CA G Rajesh wrote: > Dear All, > I installed indicator-weather (applet being developed for maverick) from > guido-iodice PPA. I added my city *Dindigul, Tamil Nadu* to it. On bug I > found therein is that the sunrise/sunset is not correct. You can check > i

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > IMHO, the correct stance on this would be: change if it turns out new > apps are really better than the current one. If not, better be > conservative. Adopting an app which is still in progress won't help > making it better. No

Arsenal reports for 'bugs fixed upstream'

2010-03-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi all, Here are some new reports, showing bugs that are open in launchpad but marked as fixed upstream. I figure at this point in the release it's useful to go through these to look for easy cherrypicks: http://bryceharrington.org/X/Reports/compiz/upstream-fixed.html http://bryceharrington.

Featured Games (was Re: Review of featured applications)

2010-03-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:55:09AM +, Shane Fagan wrote: > > I've tested both openarena and nexuiz. > Nexuiz is dying upstream from what I hear so I wouldnt feature it > myself. The development team had a big split recently and a lot of the > developers are making forks of it. So id say Open Ar

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:42:04PM -0700, Rick Spencer wrote: > > > Saying it in a simpler way: > > > - Will an IDE encourage people to learn programming? > > > - Will opportunistic developers be able to use it to complete their > > > desired project? > > > - Will experienced developers find the s

Re: Ubuntu Minimum Supported Resolution

2010-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:26:14PM -0400, Jason J. Herne wrote: > Desktop bare minimum = 640x480 > Desktop recommended = 1024x768 > > Netbook Remix bare minimum = [not listed] The original Asus Eee PC was 800x480. Don't think I've heard of anything smaller in the netbook category. > Netbook Rem

Milestone Bugs for Desktop Teams

2010-03-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
I've added a query to arsenal to gather bugs that either 1) have a milestone set, or 2) have been nominated for lucid. HTML reports can be found here: http://bryceharrington.org/X/Reports/*/milestone-bugs.html JSON reports, suitable for use with Bughugger, are here: http://bryceharrington

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:40:46AM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > Sure. It was hovering at the top of the B-list for me :) > >> yofrankie (3d platform, no clear objectives - boring!) > >> > > This game has been pretty popular when it was out and I think we > > should really include it in the

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-02-28 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:04:13PM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > The criteria from the specification are: > >* Is available in main or universe Quick question, for applications that make the featured apps list, do they need to get promoted to main? Bryce -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubun

Re: Desktop annoyance #3: Desktop Applets frequently break during login

2010-02-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:55:47AM +, Bob Hazard wrote: > You can reload the panel without having to log out. Press Alt-F2 and > type killall gnome-panel in the run dialog. The panel will reload > automatically after you kill it. > > If you are short of resources you might want to try in

Re: Nothing happens when pressing CD tray eject button

2010-01-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:35:18AM +0200, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote: > 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. >

Re: Congrats on karmic, looking forward lucid

2009-11-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:26:38PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Sebastien Bacher [2009-11-02 14:45 +0100]: > > Karmic has seen lot of technologies changes (new gdm codebase, > > pulseaudio required by GNOME, empathy by default, devicekit-disks and > > devicekit-power used in GNOME, etc) so it was ex

Re: Congrats on karmic, looking forward lucid

2009-11-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Bryan Quigley [2009-11-05 23:37 +0530]: > > Maybe, I'm just being to optimistic but I plan on starting to roll out > > Karmic to my users later next week. > > Conversely, I'm probably too pessimistic here since I have just dealt > with

Re: Desktop team weekly report -- 2009-09-22

2009-10-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > On 10/03/2009 11:39 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > >You know, in these cases the current +filebug is destroying information > >we need. If the bug reporter already knows at time of filing that it is > >a &#x

Re: Desktop team weekly report -- 2009-09-22

2009-10-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:29:32AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > == Changed bug reporting process == > > Feedback about the `+filebug` redirection: > * many bugs can legitimately be filed without apport information (such as > translation bugs), wishlist bugs, or UI problems You know, in these ca

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > > _like_ "Package Bazar". Given we already have a concept of 'packages' > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:42:41AM -0700, ajmctaggart wrote: > post, or bazzar? So what evokes this idea of a trading post or a bazaar in Given that this word has been s

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:27PM +0530, mac_v wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:04 +0200, Siegfried Gevatter wrote: > > I have to add my voice in that I strongly dislike the name containing > > "Store", for the already echoed reasons. "Software Center" or even > > "Add/Remove..." are much better

Re: Ubuntu Software Store: What it does, and how you can help

2009-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:16:20AM -0700, ajmctaggart wrote: > I definitely agree Bazaar could be confused with "bzr,"...But it is a word > that seems to align well with Ubuntu and the goals, etc...maybe we just need It does align nicely, although I think it'd be a strange name for anyone not fami

Re: Desktop Team 20090623 meeting minutes

2009-06-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:37:48AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Rick Spencer [2009-06-23 17:00 -0700]: > >* KMS on -intel is ready to switch on by default. -ati / -nouveau > > WIP. > > With those fixes in place now, would it make sense to do a mass bug > reply/set to "needsinfo" after alpha-3

Re: updating standards-version, lintian warning

2009-03-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:26:02AM +0100, Andreas Moog wrote: > Hi! > > What is the desktop-teams policy on bumping the standards-version in > debian/control? Should we check everytime if the file complies to the > current (3.8.0) version and update the information? > > IOW: When is it appropriat

Re: Desktop Team 20090224 meeting minutes

2009-02-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
Nevermind, found it: https://projects.ivija.com/canonical/pdr On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:12:54PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > == Performance Reviews and Goals == > > Performance reviews are coming up in about three months. To prepare, > > everyone on the desktop team sh

Re: Desktop Team 20090224 meeting minutes

2009-02-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:09:45PM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > * ACTION: bryce to set up an FFE for -ati 6.12.0, which will bring > R6xx/7xx support. Done: 334101 I also packaged a current git snapshot for regression testing, although the kernel bits are still needed before validation testin

Re: Desktop Team Weekly Summary, 2009-01-20

2009-01-28 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:57:27PM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > == Apologies == > * Bryce Harrington (bryce) - family emergency Father is finally through the woods and doing well now. > == Berlin Sprint == > We discussed possible topics for the upcoming sprint. These are all the