Applying for the Ubuntu Desktop team

Hi desktoppers, I've been around here for some years, previously working in unity-desktop and maintaining also the packaging side of it, (generally for unity and bamf [1]), and more recently handling the packaging for the gnome-shell stack (mutter [2], shell [3], but I also contributed to mozjs,

PSA: Ubuntu GNOME packages development moved to Debian Salsa

We finally moved all our git branches and tags for our GNOME desktop packages to debian salsa. So please don't push anything to launchpad git branches for any gnome package (let me know if I missed any of them). All the people in the desktop team, should be added to a salsa team, so make sure

Re: Move this mailing list to the Community Hub

Il 15/11/2017 14:09, Jeremy Bicha ha scritto: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Will Cooke wrote: >> You can reply to posts via email too > > I don't think this is actually enabled yet. Yeah, I've already pointed out this issue to Will and he'll take care of it. --

Re: [Bug 1715822] Re: "Ubuntu on Xorg" string not available for translation

Il 11/10/2017 09:50, Sebastien Bacher ha scritto: > It would maybe be easier to just use "Ubuntu (Xorg)" and then no > translation would be needed (those items might be a bit weird/hard to > translate anyway) Unless in RTL world... -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

GNOME Fractional (and multi-monitor) Scaling Hackfest, the reports

Hello, In the past weeks I've attended the GNOME Fractional Scaling Hackfest [1] in Taipei, you can read some reports about the event at these links: - http://go.3v1n0.net/GNOME-Fractional-Report - http://go.3v1n0.net/Jonas-Fractional-Scaling-Report-GNOME-ML Cheers [1]

Re: Extended Application Menu

Hi Jeroen, > A problem that occurs with both the Unity and the GNOME desktop is that > switching between multiple windows of the *same* application is distractive > and/or unclear. The user is either confronted with a fullscreen splashscreen > or with multiple clicks on an application icon. >

Re: Experience on switching to GNOME Shell

Il 18/05/2017 14:11, Javier Antonio Nisa Ávila ha scritto: > The only thing I need to make it a fully usable desktop is the > global menu, it's totally necessary. > > If we evaluate the ergonomic needs of a user of an operating system, > what he needs most is a spacious visual sensation. The

Re: AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support for GNOME Shell

Il 18/05/2017 00:26, Amr Ibrahim ha scritto: > I tried both extensions and I found that the appindicator extension > gives a better looking experience. > > What will be the situation of Ubuntu desktop regarding that? Would > Ubuntu follow upstream GNOME Shell, or choose an extension by default?

Re: Nautilus 3.24 and dropping type-ahead search, adding tracker

Il 20/04/2017 22:11, Jeremy Bicha ha scritto: > 1. The Activities Overview support Search Providers which are perhaps > a bit like Unity Scopes. Without tracker, the nautilus search provider > won't work so you won't be able to search your files from the > Activities Overview. I guess there's no

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

Il 19/04/2017 16:26, Will Cooke ha scritto: > On 18 April 2017 at 21:07, Jeremy Bicha > wrote: > > If we do include an email client, which one? > > > In my opinion we should ship a mail client by default. I kinda agree > How about considering

Re: Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

Il 12/10/2015 21:39, Bryan Quigley ha scritto: > 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

Re: Firefox/NPAPI/Flash discussion for UDS

Il 19/10/2015 15:21, Ramon Marquez ha scritto: > The problem of freshplayerplugin is that require Google Chrome > installed. I too use freshplayerplugin and it work excellent! Well, not really when using the Canonical partner repository, as we ship that plugin inside the adobe-flashplugin

Re: [15.04 release] Please incorporate simple Compiz rule to avoid Wine bugs

Il 05/04/2015 15:50, S. ha scritto: Hello, Wine apps that normally work fine in other distros have a very irritating bug in Unity+Compiz, in which tooltips do not disappear. There are many documented cases of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/957879 Hi, you

Re: Client-side decorations and button layout

Il 08/10/2014 13:51, Tim ha scritto: On 08/10/14 22:35, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 08/10/14 22:13, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: Hi all, Currently on Unity the apps using client-side decorations (aka headerbars) have Close button on

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

Il giorno gio, 17/04/2014 alle 06.42 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad ha scritto: On 17 April 2014 05:01, Robert Park robert.p...@canonical.com wrote: Nobody is going to force you to use a phone interface if you don't want to. If someone tells you that they're deeply passionate

Re: Epiphany 3.10 landed sans title bar

On dom, 2013-12-22 at 21:03 +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Adam Dingle a...@medovina.org wrote: I assume that this title bar patch is the first of many to come - I imagine you'll need a similar patch for every single GNOME application. I think we should add