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

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com wrote: I want to remind everyone that Microsoft _had to_ switch quickly. It was apparent that ARM was here to stay and they had no defence. With all the third-party apps, created around the proprietary ideals,

Re: Pipelight in 14.04LTS?

Pipelight has been working with upstream Wine to get their patches there. But they won't be in a stable release till wine1.8, which will be some years from now. In the meantime the PPA actually works by bundling a second, modified version of Wine only used by pipelight and installed in /opt.

gnome-raw-thumbnailer by default?

for (most) digital camera picture formats. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

to the white list as it will increase the pressure for applications to change, but in the meantime we'll have deliberately introduced a regression. I can't see how that would be a good thing. Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

On 04/11/2011 06:26 AM, Martin Owens wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 04:22 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: I think it's the height of arrogance for us to tell a user that we're going to deliberately break his application because it wasn't updated to use our new indicator library. We tell users all

How to handle PPAs that need to override Software Center metadata?

how to do this properly, since it essentially means logic that would happen in Software Center after adding a PPA other than simply editing sources.list. So, I'm mailing the list. Thoughts? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https

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

automatically using the machine-readable debian/copyright file spec we discussed last UDS. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Why is Gnome-App-Install inaccessible from the netbook remix?

Corey Burger wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote: I installed 9.04 on my girlfriend's EeePC and discovered that, while it can be run manually from a terminal, there's no way to launch Gnome-App-Install from the interface. Instead I had to rely

Why is Gnome-App-Install inaccessible from the netbook remix?

available somewhere. Why don't we put it on the applications menu in netbook remix? Or, at the least, somewhere in the administration menu? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Special-casing Ubuntu CD autorun (was: Re: When inserting an Ubuntu CD on Ubuntu...)

powered dist-upgrade is required) 4) user inserts CD/DVD for any of these, but for the wrong arch. These all require some substantial work, so we should probably spec it out and discuss it a bit at UDS unless there's a good chunk of it done already that I'm unaware of. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

Should mousing over (but not clicking) audio files on the desktop cause them to play invisibly?

. So, would it be appropriate to disable this in Jaunty? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Desktop Usability Feedback Notification discussion at UDS

/DesktopUsabilityFeedbackNotification Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: removal of diveintopython seed

value to our users. As one developer at UDS put it, because it makes Mark happy I see you've CCed him for the same reason ;) Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Gnometris is still embarrassingly broken

will be uglier than Gutsy, but at least it will work. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop