Re: Backup application in default install

2010-01-29 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Evan wrote: I believe Deja-Dup was originally started for the purpose of becoming default. At the very least, it is simple, useful and actively developed. https://launchpad.net/deja-dup This program is absolutely excellent! I am amazed by how much power there is in an application that is so

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/1/29 Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com: one can shift-alt-tab to move back 1 spot in the list of apps you're alt-tabbing through.. can ubuntu do the same? by default, please? It does. (At least with Metacity, not sure about Compiz as I haven't used that for ages). -- Siegfried-Angel

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Remco
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 13:58, Siegfried-A. Gevatter siggi.gevat...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/29 Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com: one can shift-alt-tab to move back 1 spot in the list of apps you're alt-tabbing through.. can ubuntu do the same? by default, please? It does. (At least with

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Amahdy
In Compiz there is an amazing feature different than alt+tab which iswinkey+tab and in this case winkey+shift+tab also works... I said amazing not for it effect but for the making usage of the winkey that exists in almost all keyboards and tends to be useless, so this feature make it a bit useful

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 29 January 2010 17:36, Amahdy mrjava.java...@gmail.com wrote: In Compiz there is an amazing feature different than alt+tab which iswinkey+tab and in this case winkey+shift+tab also works... This is not enabled by default. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 17:38, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Amahdy
I'm not sure but for me under my 9.10 upgraded from 9.04 upgraded from 8.10, it works without changing anything ... -- Amahdy AbdElAziz IT Development Manager 3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 19:42, Jonathon Fernyhough

Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-01-29 Thread Sense Hofstede
Hello, Often there's someone who knows some programming and asks how (s)he can help Ubuntu. Currently those people are mostly referred to the MOTU: packaging. However, I'm not so sure if directing all programmers to packaging is the best solution. Some people just want to write code and the MOTU

Re: Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Sense, Perhaps the problem is that inside the Ubuntu project there aren't a great number of development projects that new users can just dive right into. Basically anything to do with bzr, launchpad, ubiquity or the handful of other little extras that help the Ubuntu distribution. Most

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Olsson
Rene, Please open a launchpad bug requesting SHIFT-ALT-TAB as default. Then click Also affects project on that bug and search for the hundredpapercuts project, if that doesn't work just try to click Subscribe someone else and enter djsiegel and explain in a comment that you'd like the bug to be

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Rene Veerman
Ok, should i open for compiz + hundredpapercuts? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se wrote: Rene, Please open a launchpad bug requesting SHIFT-ALT-TAB as default. Then click Also affects project on that bug and search for the hundredpapercuts project, if that

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 29 January 2010 17:55, Amahdy mrjava.java...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure but for me under my 9.10 upgraded from 9.04 upgraded from 8.10, it works without changing anything ... On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 19:42, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 January 2010 17:36,

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Olsson
Rene Veerman wrote: Ok, should i open for compiz + hundredpapercuts? Yes, try booting the LiveCD to verify it's actually a problem with the _default_ configuration. And then use the terminal command ubuntu-bug compiz to open the bug report. Martin On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at

Re: Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-01-29 Thread Sense Hofstede
2010/1/29 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: Hey Sense, Perhaps the problem is that inside the Ubuntu project there aren't a great number of development projects that new users can just dive right into. Basically anything to do with bzr, launchpad, ubiquity or the handful of other little

Re: dragging icons onto desktop - place where i drop plz

2010-01-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:36 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it You really should file bugs in launchpad for such things, they will just be lost on the list. Preferably use ubuntu-bug to report: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-29 Thread Derek Broughton
Amahdy wrote: Like many ppl, I don't want to check a lists group over an rss like gmane, You really, desperately, need to learn terminology if you want to convince _anybody_ that you are right. gmane news is _not_ in any sense an rss. and the reason of checking this list over web-browser

Re: dragging icons onto desktop - place where i drop plz

2010-01-29 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:36 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: if i drag any icon onto the desktop, it just goes to a random place it seems. please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it. Known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/246981 -- Cheers, Vish --