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

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:03 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thursday 19 March 2009 5:45:17 am Nicolò Chieffo wrote: I've seen that in notify-osd source there are some calls that contains the name blur. Does it blur for you? Maybe it's a problem of my video card... It can only do the

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2009-03-19 kello 16:20 +0100, Martin Soto kirjoitti: Seconded, you start your session once with the new version installed, and there's often no way back. Applications will surely update their configuration data as soon as they're started, and there's no guarantee that they'll work when the

Re: No option to save history as in Gnomes terminal

2009-03-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2009-03-19 kello 21:55 +0100, Nigel Henry kirjoitti: Can anyone suggest who I should contact to have the save history as option added to Gnomes terminal. The best way to do that would be to talk to the gnome-terminal maintainers within the GNOME project. Start by filing a bug to

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

2009-03-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 20 March 2009 3:41:30 am Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:03 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thursday 19 March 2009 5:45:17 am Nicolò Chieffo wrote: I've seen that in notify-osd source there are some calls that contains the name blur. Does it blur

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

2009-03-20 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I don't think that compiz is required, because compiz blur plugin blurs everything, so it shouldn't be required the blur code in notify-osd, but only a composite window manager enabled. Can you tell me which video card you have and if it works for you (without the compiz blur plugin enabled)?

Re: Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
We're all aware that the migration to PulseAudio has been less than smooth. I don't need to explain that several glaring audio aberration and stability symptoms remain in current Jaunty. The good news is that there's light at the end of the tunnel. I've built test kernels (sorry, no headers

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Oli Warner
2009/3/19 Andrew Barbaccia andrew.barbac...@gmail.com We also have to consider what happens if we remove something like gnome-terminal which in case will remove gnome-desktop and then cause things to not get updated in the future... That's true. Couple of suggestions there: 1. Remote

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Freitag, den 20.03.2009, 09:49 +0200 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: to, 2009-03-19 kello 16:20 +0100, Martin Soto kirjoitti: Seconded, you start your session once with the new version installed, and there's often no way back. Applications will surely update their configuration data as soon

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

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:07 +0100, Nicolò Chieffo wrote: I don't think that compiz is required, because compiz blur plugin blurs everything, so it shouldn't be required the blur code in notify-osd, but only a composite window manager enabled. Can you tell me which video card you have and if

Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We're all aware that the migration to PulseAudio has been less than smooth. I don't need to explain that several glaring audio aberration and stability symptoms remain in current Jaunty. The good news is that there's light at the end of

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

2009-03-20 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I've understood. so will the blur plugin be enabled by default? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I am an end-user with no development experience. Would my input in testing still be valuable? If so, then how can I start? Simply pointing me to the relevant documentation for enabling the kernel you mentioned would be a

Re: Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
Please remember that I am only interested in PulseAudio *stability* changes, not whether PulseAudio is inaudible, etc. Will do in the coming days. Thanks, Daniel. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remco wrote on 20/03/09 00:13: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: -- there *are* context menu's on almost everything else in Ubuntu Yes, almost everything. Everything exept menus them selfs. That's not

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

2009-03-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
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 the opposite of the spirite of free software - or at least of open source. Closed-source companies

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 19/03/2009 Jonh Wendell wrote: Why can't the user go to add/remove programs to uninstall them if [s]he went there to install in the first place? An argument can go as follows: when you look for something that you don't have in the menus, you'll naturally select the voice that says

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 19/03/2009 Andrew Barbaccia wrote: I agree. Two places to accomplish the same thing seems confusing. Then we should either remove the trashcan or the corresponding right-click menu entry :) Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

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 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote on 19/03/09 01:18: ... I'm sleepy and have bad memory, but AFAIR this all tread as been kept active because Design Team as one or more _closed source_ studies from OEMs that state that the old icon as bad UI, while most

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 20/03/2009 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: An argument can go as follows: when you look for something that you don't have in the menus, you'll naturally select the voice that says add/remove, as the application is not yet in the menu. It is similar to creating a new file in a folder. But

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Sex, 2009-03-20 às 13:44 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu: On 19/03/2009 Jonh Wendell wrote: Why can't the user go to add/remove programs to uninstall them if [s]he went there to install in the first place? An argument can go as follows: when you look for something that you don't

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew Barbaccia
Anyway, what if the user wants to remove the Freecel game, but want to keep the others? That's almost impossible, cause they belong to a single package. Possibly the immediate fix is to allow users to simply remove the item from the menu and not remove the package from the system? --

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:18:50AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:53:23PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: Yes, after the upgrade the system will be jaunty until the next reboot, then the writable overlay is

Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Jones
Why exactly is it that I can't remove freecell but leave the other games? Seems to me that some people don't like freecell, but might enjoy solitaire? whats up with not being able to remove certain applications without being able to remove gnome-desktop? Can we change this to allow a user to

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Martin Owens
It is true that some menu items in Ubuntu have context menus (another example is Firefox's Bookmarks menu), but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea. Firefox bookmarks are a great comparison, because the bookmarks menu isn't a context menu, it's a list menu. It's a good idea to

k3b for kde4 in kubuntu jaunty?

2009-03-20 Thread Vishal Rao
Any chance of k3b-for-kde4 getting into jaunty before the release as part of kubuntu's move to eliminate kde3 deps? Or is it no point waiting for it since it might not be done by April? Or is it too late already with feature freeze past? See

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/18 Alexander Sack a...@ubuntu.com: Is there any reason why we don't overlay /home? Just so that you can test upgrade for existing configs? That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using aufs and

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 the

Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-20 Thread Ernst Persson
Hi, I saw Scott removing animation from gnome login. What's the reason for that? I don't see any motivation or reference to a bugreport. It works very nice here and looks nice with all the nvidia drivers, nv, nouveau and nvidia. By Scott James Remnant: nautilus (1:2.26.0-0ubuntu2) *

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

2009-03-20 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Matthew e a todos. On Friday 20 March 2009 11:29:56 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Thanks for your efforts. I hope you can understand I can, of course. I'm not a one side person... I listen to all sides if possible. Thanks for your efforts. -- Hi, I'm BUGabundo, and I am Ubuntu

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:25 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: Hi, I saw Scott removing animation from gnome login. What's the reason for that? I don't see any motivation or reference to a bugreport. It works very nice here and looks nice with all the nvidia drivers, nv, nouveau and nvidia. In