Re: Proposal: (No?) email client for Ubuntu 17.10

2017-04-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 06:07:16AM AEST, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > If we do include an email client, which one? > > Thunderbird (TB) This is the most usable from a screen reader accessibility point of view. Evolution is getting there, but still has some work needing to be done. Not sure about the

Translatable strings in custom key files.

2016-01-31 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi folks. I'm using ini-like files for metadata, using the glib key file API to read these files. I'm wanting to implement translation support for some of the keys within the files. All is ok on the code side, using the get locale string calls, but I am wanting to integrate these files into my

Re: Trying to reduce our memory and battery footprint

2012-10-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:06:53AM EST, Ted Gould wrote: So then can we really early (right now) rearrange the desktop startup to start upstart when then start dbus and gnome-session? That would give us the ability to start migrating jobs over to being upstart user jobs over time without

Re: Trying to reduce our memory and battery footprint

2012-10-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:38:59AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: If using GTK3 apps, a11y is brought up by Dbus activation from within libatk-bridge, which GTK now depends on. In other words, a11y as of GNOME 3.6 is now always on. There is still a .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: What do we do with the file manager?

2012-08-09 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:54:25PM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le 09/08/2012 14:50, Georgi Karavasilev a écrit : The three things that Marlin misses are: A) Stability B) Split screen (multiple panes) ... maybe? C) Ability to draw the desktop' (e.g. desktop icons, right click on desktop -

Re: Gstreamer version to use in 12.10?

2012-07-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:53:38PM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hey everyone, GNOME said they would try to update their code to use gstreamer 1.0 in 3.6: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PortToGstreamer1 I think there is a couple of issues there: - GNOME doesn't give any guarantee it

Re: Accessibility always on in GNOME 3.6.

2012-06-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 06:25:22PM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote: So I've read the bug upstream and I'm not sure how they are addressing the performances concerns, is the bottom line there gtk3 has no performance issues, a11y will not be turned on for gtk2 but only for gtk3? If that's the case,

Accessibility always on in GNOME 3.6.

2012-06-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks, So some of you who watch the goings on and discussions in GNOME upstream may have noticed this bug(1) and the surrounding discussion about enabling accessibility everywhere in GNOME 3.6. I've decided to start this thread for 2 reasons, first, a heads up that this is coming in both

Re: a dream

2012-01-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:57:33AM EST, Pedro Bessa wrote: steps to reproduce 1. not all keyboards have a Super key, so using a keyboard that has no Super key, hit Super For keyboards that don't have a super key, pressing Alt + F1 then enter will load the dash, since the dash is the first

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] GNOME Version for the LTS

2011-10-13 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:45:12AM EST, Sebastien Bacher wrote: That would put us in a position where we can upload at least glib and gtk, then we need to figure what we do with GNOME 3.2 against 3.4. If we have an updated stack I would lean toward stay on 3.2 by default, then we can maybe

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Accessibility pollish.

2011-10-05 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:07:08PM EST, Didier Roche wrote: Can we add to the list installation and setup process? I had met some people with disabilities during the RMLL in France (French FLOSS event) and tried with them ubiquity, + setup Orca + magnification and I clearly saw that it's was

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

2011-10-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:41:17AM EST, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 4 October 2011 14:49, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: We probably don't want to switch video players in a lts cycle but not sure if we should go with the new version (we staying on 3.0 which still uses xv for Oneiric).

[Desktop12.04-Topic] Accessibility pollish.

2011-10-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks, Since Unity has been introduced, many strides have been made with accessibility. Unity 3D is approximately 80% accessible, so far as official oneiric packages go, and unity-2d is 99% accessible, thanks to the great work from the QT a11y folks, and the unity-2d developers. Both are

Ubuntu-desktop nautilus packaging branch.

2011-03-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi, When working on the nautilus package today as a part of patch pilot, I tried commiting a release and tagging with the appropriate version in debian/changelog, however bzr complained that there was already a tag for that release version. I didn't overwrite it in the lp branch in the event