Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/26 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be: Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny Piccirillo: Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =] Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote.   ;-) That makes it much faster to read mail! It's also faster (and

Re: replacing xsane by gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I'm also intersted to replace xsane. Yesterday I needed to scan a paper and I could't find out how to zoom on a portion of text without loosing resolution! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Disabling update-manager

2009-04-26 Thread John Vivirito
On 04/25/2009 05:20 AM, Odysseus Flappington wrote: 2009/4/25 John Vivirito gnomefr...@gmail.com: Without removing update-manager i have tried to uncheck everything in gconf-editor under update-manager and update-notifier. I also unchecked check updates in software sources and yet it still

Re: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 25/04/2009 alle 20.44 +0200, Andreas Wenning ha scritto: Until now I've only heard talk about the reverse search, and that was the reason for bringing kdvi back in Intrepid. You might be right that forward search doesn't work in Okular; then that is indeed a valid

Re: replacing xsane by gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Yes, it is right time to replace xsane with gnome-scan and get some order in Scanning business on Ubuntu/Gnome. As far as I know, Étienne Bersac has started work on 0.7 which was/is planned to become part of GNOME 2.28. However, it should be asked to him if could achieve stability before 9.10

Re: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Andreas Wenning
On Sunday 26 April 2009 12:05:29 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Yes, in the end tex users may be more keen to do things by hand, but it should have been added to the release notes (can they be modified now?). Sorry for coming up about this too late. However: kdvi was in the jaunty archive until very

Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Andreas, The fact is, that we don't like to have unmaintained packages in the archive, kdvi in this case is one of them. It was re-introduced in intrepid solely to fill the gap for some features missing in okular. (If some people starts maintaining it and releases new versions, it can

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Anzan Hoshin Roshi
2009/4/26 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com The other option is to move these things to an unmaintained repository where users can have the initiative to install things they want but also be made aware of it's unmaintained nature (perhaps even encouraging developers to maintain it). At least

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi Martin On Sunday 26 April 2009 17:58:20 Martin Owens wrote: Hey Andreas, The fact is, that we don't like to have unmaintained packages in the archive, kdvi in this case is one of them. It was re-introduced in intrepid solely to fill the gap for some features missing in okular. (If

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
At the point where Kdvi was removed: - All important features that had been reported as missing in Okular compared to Kdvi, had now been added to Okular. - Kdvi is unmaintained. - Kdvi is an KDE3 application where a KDE4 replacement exists. So those three things combined was the reason for

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:02:21 -0400 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: At the point where Kdvi was removed: - All important features that had been reported as missing in Okular compared to Kdvi, had now been added to Okular. - Kdvi is unmaintained. - Kdvi is an KDE3 application where a

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:58 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: More usefully would be to assess the bit-rot, number of bugs, any critical or security issues which makes it dangerous. [...] baring any security issues I see no reason why it should be removed. (although I'm sure these things are assesed

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Danny Piccirillo wrote: In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in. Working towards improving FOSS games and developing its community

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 48

2009-04-26 Thread solaris manzur
i agree about replacing xsane by gnome-scan -- 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

gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2009-04-26 kello 21:41 -0500, solaris manzur kirjoitti: i agree about replacing xsane by gnome-scan Are we talking about flegita? (There is no gnome-scan package in jaunty, and I can't find a command by that name.) Flegita doesn't find my scanner, which is attached to another computer, and