Re: System compositor progress

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +1200, Robert Ancell wrote: > Hi, > > We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to > work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a > look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY > EXPERIMENTAL, so pl

Re: System compositor progress

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +1200, Robert Ancell wrote: > Hi, > > We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to > work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a > look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY > EXPERIMENTAL, so pl

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-21 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Iain Lane wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:14:46PM +1030, Jason Warner wrote: >> Hi Everyone - >> >> Thank you all for sending feedback[1][2][3] on the default music player for >> 12.04. It is clear the right decision for 12.04 is to make Rhythmbox th

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 15:49 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:17 +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > > Hi All - > > > > During the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we discussed moving from Banshee > > back to Rhythmbox as the default music

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-07 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:17 +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > Hi All - > > During the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we discussed moving from Banshee > back to Rhythmbox as the default music player for Ubuntu 12.04. No definitive > decision has been taken yet (major default apps tend to have many int

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Handling Failure Gracefully

2011-10-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 09:56 -0400, Robert Ancell wrote: > Late topic... > > In the real world there are always going to be failures, triggered by > things like software bugs, hardware failures and misconfiguration. > Ubuntu should where possible handle common failures and provide > predictable fe

Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be addressed. The problem description here is: You have a multi-user system with multipl

Re: Call for testing: LightDM

2011-06-08 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:01 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 01:09 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > Boiling Matt's post down this is what I'm reading: > > > > 1. NIH > > 2. It doesn't start a GNOME session > > 3. Doesn't have arbitrary shiny stuff like slid

Re: gnome-panel as a fallback

2011-06-06 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:46 +0200, Didier Roche wrote: > On lun., 2011-06-06 at 02:18 -0400, Eric Appleman wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering under which circumstances the GTK3 gnome-panel can > > be used as a fallback for Unity or GNOME-Shell. > > Hi Eric, > > We are trying to build a coherent envi

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Simplifying system sleep functions

2011-04-20 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 21:17 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jason Warner > wrote: > [...] > > 'sleep', the computer should both suspend and hibernate simultaneously. The > > computer remains suspended for a set period of time (e.g. 30min) or until > > the

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

2011-04-10 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:12 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: > On 04/07/2011 05:59 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and > > GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see > > the following particular chall

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 13:51 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > 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 y

Re: GNOME session saving dropped in natty

2011-01-23 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 03:09 -0500, Jacky Alcine wrote: > On 01/21/2011 01:14 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > 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 f

Re: Maverick -> Natty upgrade, unity, gnome-panel and windowmanager's party…

2010-11-26 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 11:22 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > On ven., 2010-11-26 at 10:10 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers > wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:52 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > > > Hey fellow desktopers, > > > > > [snip] > > > 2.2.2 So

Re: Maverick -> Natty upgrade, unity, gnome-panel and windowmanager's party…

2010-11-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:52 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > Hey fellow desktopers, > [snip] > 2.2.2 So, we can think the other way around: only run gnome-panel when > needed and not setting it as a required_components by default in the > default sessions but still on the gnome classic session (this c

Re: Review of featured applications

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 03:32 +, Shane Fagan wrote: > 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

Re: Gthumb as default image viewer?

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:42 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > su, 2010-03-07 kello 12:09 -0800, Rick Spencer kirjoitti: > > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 12:06 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:02 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > > The thread ended up in that F-Spots view one image