Re: [Feature Request] [RoF] Ubuntu Desktop - Inclusion of mdadm for RAID

2020-04-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Jeffrey Lane wrote on 22/04/2020 3:46 pm: >… > I can confirm that Ubiquity in Focal does not provide any means to > create a software RAID setup. > > Moreover, while it at least has some LVM ability, it does not provide > the ability to create an LVM setup across multiple disks. >… In June-July

Re: First boot animation can't be muted

2019-06-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Hello Simon Simon Guilliams wrote on 02/06/2019 3:31 pm: >… > I am working full time in a _silent_ openspace. I was installing > ubuntu and luckily I knew in advance that the animation would pop up > with sound that you can't mute. >… > The animation is great... but really, the animation sound

Re: A problem with licenses

2018-06-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Hello Tommi Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote on 05/06/18 13:38: > > I have published some software under GNU GPL and LGPL. However, when I > open the Debian packages with Ubuntu Software Installation (18.04) the > application claims that the software is proprietary. How can I fix this? >… Please report

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-31 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Colin Law wrote on 26/08/17 18:21: >… > OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that > anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use > a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. >… Fonts are a clear example of packages that

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

2017-08-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Nrbrtx wrote on 24/08/17 01:33: >… > As far I can understand here were two methods of software > installation: > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users > 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for newbies. Synaptic is fine for what it is, but it is not even close to being “for

Re: Mirror sites should be only available via HTTPS

2017-01-17 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Erdos Pal wrote on 05/01/17 06:29: > > Hello, > > is there a policy (or in planning) that the Mirror sites for Ubuntu > related softwares should be only available via HTTPS? > > It is 2017 and there is Let's Encrypt. >… I reported this in 2014, and mentioned the Let’s Encrypt possibility in

Re: The Simple Things in Life

2016-07-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
John Moser wrote on 19/07/16 22:48: >… > I've been repeatedly distressed and confused by this hidden boot > process. I've sat and waited at blank screens and splashes that give > no feedback, wondering if the kernel is hanging at initializing a > driver, trying to find network, or making

Re: Caffeine enabled by defect on Ubuntu 16.04

2016-03-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote on 23/02/16 06:47: > ... > > On 22 February 2016 at 07:20, Matthew Paul Thomas >> >> Ramon Marquez wrote on 16/02/16 19:42: >>> >>> Caffeine is a package very important cause inhi

Re: Caffeine enabled by defect on Ubuntu 16.04

2016-02-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramon Marquez wrote on 16/02/16 19:42: > > Caffeine is a package very important cause inhibits the screen for > playing videos on the web browsers. Actually is offered on the > main repository of Ubuntu 16.04 but disabled by default. I think > that

Re: Disabling deb-src by default

2016-01-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Usama Akkad wrote on 28/01/16 08:38: > > Source packages are enabled by default. I've commented the deb-src > line from my sources.list file and that saved the update servers > 16 hit (out of 87) when doing apt-get update One of the package for >

Re: Proposal: Move Default Application Settings

2016-01-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Kumbier wrote on 20/01/16 08:42: > > Hi everyone, > > currently, the settings for the "Default Application" are located > in "System Settings > Information > Default Applications", same as > the "Removal Media" settings. > > I would not have

Re: Feature request: "Restart to ..." option

2015-11-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No one wrote on 02/11/15 12:09: > ... > > This feature would parse the entries in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and > list them in a menu called "Restart to...", next to Shutdown, > Restart, Suspend, etc. So you could for example choose "Restart to > Ubuntu

Re: Getting ubuntu iso securely

2015-09-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote on 11/09/15 07:48: > > I am puzzled by the absence of a secure method of downloading the > ubuntu iso images. www.ubuntu.com is not served over https and > neither is releases.ubuntu.com. I reported this as a bug in

Re: Suggestions for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-06-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Leandro Leandro Andrade Faria wrote on 18/06/15 16:52: ... I'm a Ubuntu user, former Ubuntu user actually, and I'm not a developer. But I believe that some good suggestions might come from anyone, despite the ability to develop them.

Re: [suggestion] Need a bar or wheel download for additional drivers in software updates

2015-06-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 De Zan Chrsitophe wrote on 17/06/15 18:09: Good morning. There have months (years ?) when I go software updates-additional drivers, I see only the sentence no proprietary drivers are in use...so I quite. First time this day, after a hazard

Re: Account Management / Shared Secret Generator

2015-06-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Titke wrote on 11/06/15 15:42: I propose to include my Internet account password creation scheme into the current account / password / keychain management systems on Ubuntu. That would be excellent! Whenever you would like to do

Re: Account Management / Shared Secret Generator

2015-06-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Titke wrote on 14/06/15 15:28: On 14/06/2015 14:55, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... None of this is to put you off, I'm just sketching a map of the terrain. If all you want to do is integrate your generator with what Ubuntu has right

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-05-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote on 14/05/15 04:06: On 05/01/2015 10:52 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... There have been dozens of desktop computer OS manufacturers less successful than Apple -- for example, Acorn, Be, Commodore, Google, IBM

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-05-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Moser wrote on 30/04/15 03:23: ... First and foremost, the biggest red flag you'll ever find in the UI design sphere is Apple blahblahblah. This statement comes out of people who have no clue what they're talking about, so make an

Re: mail binary from mailutils package 1:2.99.98-1.4 doesn't expand aliases

2015-02-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom H wrote on 30/01/15 13:17: ... There's already a bug so filing another report isn't really useful. Sorry, I had looked at the bug list, but didn't notice that one was the bug Jean-François was talking about. It looks like this bug is [1]

Re: mail binary from mailutils package 1:2.99.98-1.4 doesn't expand aliases

2015-01-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jfprev...@bluewin.ch wrote on 21/01/15 23:17: ... This bug has been filed in 2004 in the debian bugtracker, but apparently closed by the maintainer as he couldn't reproduce it. I confirm that on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bits, the aliases declared

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

2015-01-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Knutson wrote on 14/01/15 15:34: Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the kernel version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out old kernel version from /boot should be better managed by

Re: Feedback and Bug App

2014-12-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alexander Alexander Langanke wrote on 12/12/14 22:22: ... I recently installed the Windows 10 technical preview on my windows machine and have played around with OS X Betas in the past and really liked the feedback apps they both have and

Re: Ubuntu Software Center future

2014-09-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Heckman wrote on 28/09/14 23:32: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:11 AM, David Raphaël raphael.da...@epfl.ch wrote: However, I am a bit concerned about package management and I think that Ubuntu should develop (or improve) its own package

Re: Dropdown menu problem.

2014-08-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joshua Joshua Katz wrote on 19/08/14 21:57: Hey I'm new to this mailing list and I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but I was wondering if there where plans to implement Bruce Tognazzini's dropdown menu fix into the

Re: Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

2014-06-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal McBurnett wrote on 02/06/14 20:49: ... Is there anything in the official upgrade tools to remind users about use of ppas, non-repo packages, unofficial desktops or other potentially problematic bits of software like unofficial programs

Re: User-friendly HRTF

2014-05-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiago Matono wrote on 20/05/14 21:16: Hi. So today I tried the openal HRTF. It works wonderfully! All my games and movies play with awesome 3d sound through my headphones. To activate it I simply ran echo hrtf = true ~/.alsoftrc in the

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-03-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 staticd wrote on 02/03/14 04:50: Is this and EWONTFIX or a EBUSY? it will be nice if responses to queries clearly distinguish between the two. ;) ... I'd like us to do pdiffs, but there's a bit of a shortage of implementation time seems

Re: Ignoring privacy sabotages Ubuntu's best chance for success

2014-02-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerry A. wrote on 25/02/14 17:29: I have two specific improvements I would like to see in Ubuntu. Thanks for mentioning this. #1 is the ability for users to uninstall elements that send their data onto the internet as it relates to Dash

Re: Ignoring privacy sabotages Ubuntu's best chance for success

2014-02-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Kerensa wrote on 25/02/14 20:35: On 2/24/14, 3:08 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... Ubuntu has extensive designs for privacy settings on both PC and phone. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityAndPrivacySettings As with everything else

Re: Ignoring privacy sabotages Ubuntu's best chance for success

2014-02-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerry A. wrote on 21/02/14 16:45: Ubuntu desktop and phone are great designs but contain a fatal flaw: a failure to foster utilize what would be one of its strongest assets for gaining market share--Privacy. ... Ubuntu has extensive

Re: Bug handling in Ubuntu

2013-10-25 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olе Streicher wrote on 21/10/13 16:24: ... When I find a bug specific to Ubuntu, and I do a search for whether it is known, I always find lots of old bugs that seem to be never read by anyone; just the submitter (and mybe some others that got

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt B. wrote on 03/07/13 15:00: ... I too am concerned about a lot of are you sure dialogs. I think people are just looking for a way to learn/know what apps are connecting to the internet (and why). Like I described how VLC asks to connect

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/06/13 17:19: On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas In the next couple of weeks I will design the UI for apps to request privileges on Ubuntu Touch. Yay! I've now published it, though the UI text still

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J Fernyhough wrote on 24/06/13 13:28: On 24 June 2013 13:13, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-06-24 08:07 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: J Fernyhough wrote on 22/06/13 16:06: On 22 June 2013 15:12, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J Fernyhough wrote on 22/06/13 16:06: On 22 June 2013 15:12, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: On Ubuntu, an app will request a privilege during runtime. For example, a game might have a find my friends who already play this game

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Hollocher wrote on 22/06/13 16:31: ... This is poor design. Of all the time you spend with an app, the moment you're about to install it is the moment when you know the least about it. So it's the moment when you're least able to make

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-06-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Kerensa wrote on 23/06/13 08:41: On Jun 22, 2013 7:16 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... Ubuntu is an operating system, not a person. Neither you nor I get to decide priorities for Canonical engineers. But anyone

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Kerensa wrote on 20/05/13 18:02: On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, Daniel J Blueman dan...@quora.org ... For all the general users I install Ubuntu for (including servers), it's an utter waste of bandwidth for everyone, particularly when

Re: Ubuntu Manpage Repository need some love

2013-04-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ma Xiaojun wrote on 29/03/13 17:38: Man pages for QQ, RR is still not available, despite the fact that they are listed. ... http://launchpad.net/bugs/1156258 - -- mpt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ma Xiaojun wrote on 14/03/13 18:28: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: As Sergey said, and as hinted at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#bugs, problems with search results are either

Re: How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ma Xiaojun wrote on 09/03/13 07:12: ... For example, Fcitx is an input method framework that I probably use sudo apt-get install fcitx to install it. However, in Ubuntu Software Center, fcitx-data package, a dependency of fcitx packages is

Re: kexec and Grub

2013-02-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Moser wrote on 10/02/13 23:52: ... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartupSettings I wish I could un-see that second one. I'm completely baffled as to what startup software is (I'd imagine that would be the bootloader, kernel, systemd, all

Re: Crashes from Unity/Xorg continues with 12.10

2012-10-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Novin wrote on 23/10/12 19:23: ... On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Timo Aaltonen ... On 23.10.2012 09:36, Thomas Novin wrote: However, after logging in, I didn't get any notification that my system had crashed and question about

Re: could you add this feature or discuss it at 13.04 Developer Summit?

2012-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Michel wrote on 17/10/12 07:23: I think what Brian wants (correct me if not) is an application level firewall. On Windows most antivirus do it : you get a popup when an application try to access something you didn't already allowed

Re: The place of the Ubuntu Software Center regarding Steam, Desura and others

2012-08-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Michel wrote on 21/08/12 22:52: ... So I thought the best I would want as a user is to search for everything I want to install on my desktop from the Ubuntu Software Center. Although I'm not aware of the future plans for the

Re: Potential UI bug: wrong type of dialog upon hibernation notice

2012-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhishek Bhatnagar wrote on 01/04/12 01:09: ... As per my attachment, when battery on laptop is critically low, I get a dialog informing me that hibernation is imminent, and then gives me two options: Cancel and OK. They both do the same

Re: Controlling menubar title on Ubuntu 11.10?

2012-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nikos Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 18/03/12 22:11: On 14/03/12 18:07, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... I wrote an application that, at startup, prompts the user for a file (using a standard open file dialog). Ubuntu 11.10 takes the title of that

Re: Privacy,history and search options

2012-03-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petko wrote on 19/02/12 11:10: I like to keep it brief so here it goes : 1. The privacy compartment of the System settings withholds settings that rather correlate with the word History in browsers (that's not the main argument , but my view

Re: can we find a solution to bug #820895 (show Process Name in log files) (imaginative solution/description presented)?

2012-02-09 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HSO wrote on 08/02/12 09:02: 2012/2/7, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com: Stop throwing around privacy like there is some big security flaw in Linux, there are tools that do what everyone wants, it seems to me that nobody is willing to even

Re: can we find a solution to bug #820895 (show Process Name in log files) (imaginative solution/description presented)?

2012-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robbie Williamson wrote on 29/01/12 21:39: On 01/26/2012 11:12 PM, nick rundy wrote: ... Just to be clear, I'm not asking that an application-firewall (as Jason Todd was speaking of) be created to solve this problem. I'm totally fine with a

Re: project ideas ubuntu

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gaurav Gaurav Saxena wrote on 25/09/11 18:08: hello all i want to do a my fina; year projrct on ubuntu.. please help me with some ideas realted to ubuntu on which i can work... These mailing lists are for current Ubuntu developers. They

Re: Upgrade to 11.10 claims to remove vlc

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Geiger wrote on 02/08/11 17:18: I just upgraded to 11.10. On the upgrade summary I was told that the upgrade would later remove the Vlc package as one of 21 packages that were about to be removed after the upgrade. Just now the upgrade

Re: Fwd: Re: Eventually drop the top-panel?

2011-06-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Mast wrote on 27/06/11 22:50: ... On 27.06.2011 11:39, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: This would mean that we could drop all the maximize to panel and globalmenu-patches. I don't know what you mean by maximize to panel. As for the global menu

Re: Eventually drop the top-panel?

2011-06-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Mast wrote on 25/06/11 12:35: Hey Guys, I was wondering with adding functionality to the dash like indicating progress or a message counters, are there plans to drop the indicator menu and with it the whole top panel? No. This would mean

Re: Unity, consistency and password-protected web pages

2011-03-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 28/03/11 04:32: ... Something I've noticed lately has me a little concerned. I am hoping you folks can put my fears at ease! When I look at bug reports for Unity, I often encounter links to what I assume are design documents

Re: Location of installed files

2011-02-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregor Shapiro wrote on 10/01/11 16:21: The Ubuntu Software manager does not tell users where to find the files that are installed using that service ... Anyone is welcome to implement a Properties window for USC to present detailed information

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzbFQYACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrGeACfZojcSBSPTlQg3PoV3tnIff9X kiwAn1+MuCD93MGX5ytiozkVzuq/h32i =vM74 -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
that is both real and more interesting, is working out why so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Where can I find more docs/help on upstart?

2010-09-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
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Re: Thoughts about software-properties

2010-08-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
(such as a PPA) will show that the source is authorized (http://yfrog.com/jbsoftwarecenterauthentifp). ... Unfortunately, all except the last of those wireframes is tiny, so I can't read them. Could you upload larger versions? Thanks - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Better 3+ monitor support

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
. It would be fantastic if someone could start this redesign work themselves. :-) Producing a solid interface design makes it much easier to find interested programmers. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
. ... I think I explained pretty well what's wrong with the Windows 7 system. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Ubuntu Help Center

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
page style sheet. Another would be to improve the search (for example, from an application's help pages, the search should return results just about that application). Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
can't read black on white. ... The reason I specified a color there is that I wanted to emphasize your location in the Get Free Software section (blue) as opposed to the Installed Software section (white). Maybe there is a more theme-sensitive way we can do that. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
programs obey these settings; you could help by reporting bugs on the individual programs. You might reasonably argue that this setting should be easier to find, but the same is unfortunately true for every other accessibility setting in Ubuntu. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz

Re: configuration utility for compiz

2009-11-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
be something else. compizconfig-settings-manager is included, in the Universe repository. If you mean why isn't it shipped by default, that's because CD space is limited, and twiddling window manager settings is far down the list of interesting things to provide software for. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
will. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrlqDwACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecr1zwCgpe4JXXW/5bS7ZsiGOYb2GUj1 LqwAoIrad1nP6TQsNeHZydJzvLnuaDxx =HjaF -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Icons in Place and System

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
that..if they know where the items are with icons...the positions have not changed..so therefore I hope that isn't the reasoning:) ... No, it isn't. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: External storage ejection notifications

2009-07-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
If Karmic is not following that specification, please report a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility with steps to reproduce, and give the bug report the notifications tag. Thanks - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
documentation. ... Interesting idea. I've added it to the wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppCenter?action=diffrev2=76rev1=75 Thanks - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
the same roles. The problem that the boot menu seems to falsely promise full multi-language support is a critical one. ... I agree, but you're most likely to help fix it if you change the way you're going about it. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Empathy or Pidgin with, or music tracks to use Rhythmbox or Banshee with. For all those applications you need to set them up after installing them. Why should F-Spot be treated dfferently? - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

Re: Browser chat (was Re: about empathy as the default IM application)

2009-06-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
. It is possible that some of these items have been addressed since the version of Midori available in Ubuntu 9.04. But at the same time, the list of requirements to displace Firefox 3.5 would naturally be steeper than the list of requirements to replace Firefox 3.0. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas

Re: Few notes on filing papercut bugs

2009-06-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
in a particular application or not. A bug that affects 50% of people using Banshee is probably more important to fix than a bug that affects 5% of people using gnome-panel's brightness applet. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

Re: Jaunty's update notifications

2009-04-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
that would be better than opening the updates window. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknxf1YACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqMzgCgse+ND50eC+ronk9ofobcAb3Q P

Re: 20M users ( Please don't automatic upgrade )

2009-04-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote on 11/04/09 01:36: ... On Tuesday 07 April 2009 14:27:41 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: That approach might scale to about 10 million users max -- or maybe 20 million when you buy any of the several computers they have

Re: RFC: tutorial on new design features

2009-04-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
be considered for Karmic, though. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknbRXsACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqxSQCfUVWfJJKsbrJS3VMJ83I76P5i 33wAniDZdmev5BUzsCG4ri6gjBbPZyAq =j8pp

Re: Please don't automatic upgrade

2009-04-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
this, contact me, I will signal your name for a Turing award. Then, in the absence of any other realistic solution, we need to work out how to make upgrades more safe. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
future updates by default. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknZ5o8ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpSaQCgtSK80AyaJicGHah6C6CdIChs JJ8AmQHIjnb2iiIqExmJVH4r15FGOn1q

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
(or where a wrong assumption would have effects that are difficult to undo later). - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Olsson wrote on 02/04/09 10:42: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: We have not made any decisions about whether this program would be based on PackageKit, Add/Remove Applications, Synaptic, or something else, or written from scratch. We should

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
for the same task makes sense only for software companies that are charging different prices for them. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan wrote on 01/04/09 22:21: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com mailto:m...@canonical.com wrote: ... The front end would display two progress bars, one for download and one for installation. Hopefully

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
in the coming weeks, so feel free to post more either here or on the wiki page. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: The new logout design can cause unwanted reboots

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
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Re: The new logout design can cause unwanted reboots

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote on 01/04/09 17:04: Il giorno mer, 01/04/2009 alle 16.05 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas ha scritto: ... The logout alert box is supposed to float on top of other windows. If it doesn't, please report a bug. Are you sure

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
on them as when you right-click on them. There's no visible distinction between menu items that have a context menu and menu items that don't. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
can avoid being outraged by the title. ;-) Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknDfi8ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrNYwCdEB4c/VHcMry5ZZMqe8vYG38R

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote on 20/03/09 12:36: On 20/03/2009 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: That's a reasonable complaint, but not an easy one to address. OEMs don't want to give their hardware competitors any ideas prematurely Come on! That's

Re: notify-osd specification: something is missing/changed?

2009-03-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
frequently https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD?action=info, and watching the Notify OSD bug reports in case they reveal anything that needs clarifying. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mat Tomaszewski wrote on 16/03/09 10:02: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... and it's not what OS X does. OS X shows 0 signal icon for both no signal and disconnected. Not sure what I've missed? ... Yes, but Bugabundo's original complaint

Re: fast-user-switch-applet

2009-03-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
applet has icons (volume, clock, network-manager, deskbar, inhibit, ...) ... Mark Shuttleworth designed that menu, and his POV is that it is more elegant without icons. When you are signed in to Empathy or Pidgin, the menu does use icons for IM statuses. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-03-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
is a 100x100 image not displayed as such? ... Whenever it is displayed on a medium that has more than about 145 dpi. For example, when it is printed on a 300 dpi printer. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
). And the text used for file/folder/volume names probably should be a little smaller than the text used in the rest of the interface, but that's true regardless of DPI (I suggest reporting a bug on Nautilus for that). Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
programs. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmVu3UACgkQ6PUxNfU6eco6LACfW/L3NzggQ+GgXAbXscJAN2lv XrgAoIsm1UF2o7MpGJwNaY/JfDM5Tuma =J5Ps -END

Re: Pointer glide idea for Synaptics driver

2009-02-09 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
more people to try it out if you make a package in a PPA. :-) Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
filtering. But that's only a small subset (and the least reliable subset) of what you're looking for, the interfaces are rather awkward, and the rest of those systems may not be to your taste. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU

Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development questions about Plymouth

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
with this, but it could also net a more positive user experience . ... Plymouth is scheduled for discussion at the Ubuntu Developer Summit two weeks from now. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/plymouth Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ PGP.sig Description

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
, Save, and Close. If changes took effect immediately, none of those buttons would be necessary. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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