The reasons for Unity 7 being built as a Compiz plugin?

2013-07-01 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Hi, I find current approach clumsy because it makes at least two desirable features hard to implement. 1. Changing desktop shell without changing applications. Changing DE is actually painful, as one have to familiar herself with a set of new applications. Running multiple DE in parallel

Steam's Dependency on Jockey

2013-06-27 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Hi, I know I should raise this on the Steam side but I'm not a real user of Steam yet. apt-cache rdepends jockey-common jockey-common Reverse Depends: steam-launcher steam-launcher As is known to many, Jockey is replaced by Ubuntu Drivers Common in 12.10+ Regards, -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

ttf-mscorefonts-installer broken in Saucy

2013-06-13 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Run this action window always pops up but the download of fonts can never be finished. -- 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: Developing for ubuntu-desktop

2013-06-12 Thread Ma Xiaojun
L2TP support has been repeatedly requested for NM but no one response at all. Someone has made an NM plug in though: https://launchpad.net/~seriy-pr/+archive/network-manager-l2tp -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Always having latest point releases of LibreOffice

2013-06-11 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Shouldn't we have such healthy trust of LibreOffice upstream that they are really fixing bugs in point releases? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libreoffice -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

2013-06-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Robert Park robert.p...@canonical.com wrote: I propose that we fix Eog, but leave the file with the extension .png ;-) Is it that hard to change a file name? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

2013-06-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: Is it that hard for you to send a patch changing a file name? Not sure, as the package should contain a ton of binary wallpapers. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

2013-06-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: It was a hard bug which is why it hadn't been solved years ago. I think the bug is fixable now (and not as hard) with the switch to gsettings and by using dh-migrations. I can understand that it may be quite hard to do a

Re: Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

2013-06-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: It wouldn't matter if you minded because Saucy is in development so it would be rather ironic for you to mind things breaking. That's exactly why it is strange that the bug is still open now. There are too many cycles to

Re: Authentication services in Ubuntu

2013-06-04 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Didn't read the whole thread. IIRC, Fedora and RHEL have some options for remote login at the end of installation? -- 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

Adobe Flash Broken For Obvious Case?

2013-05-21 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Hi, ( I know this can be made into a bug report. ) On 13.04 64bit with Adobe Flash installed. Go to youtube.com, play any video, right-click and select Settings... Then a dialog pops up, but it doesn't respond to user click at all; the only way to close it is refresh the page... I know Adobe

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
The situation seems to be: Both apt-get and aptitude is far from perfect. apt-get: more secure and stupid aptitude: more smart and dangerous Since apt-get has been regarded as default for long, let's keep it? But seriously, can we fix the known issues in apt-get or aptitude? They need some

Re: Ubuntu Manpage Repository need some love

2013-04-02 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: http://launchpad.net/bugs/1156258 I noticed this bug already. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Ubuntu Manpage Repository need some love

2013-03-29 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Man pages for QQ, RR is still not available, despite the fact that they are listed. Even for available releases, the site just give us a directory listing, which looks quite lousy. I guess both Debian and FreeBSD have decent manpage repository. http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi

Re: Ubuntu Manpage Repository need some love

2013-03-29 Thread Ma Xiaojun
The URL for Ubuntu Manpage Repository is http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ -- 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: How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-18 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: Yes, the same way you would fix any other bug in Ubuntu. No, the branch of app-install-data contains GENERATED data. I cannot find the source of origin data and/or generation script. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

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

2013-03-18 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: Indeed the archive extractor code is in http://pad.lv/c/archive-index I'm planning to run it before wednesday and upload it. I will try to fix up as many reported bugs as possible (it has been a while since we

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

2013-03-18 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I guess many app-install-data-ubuntu related bug can be fixed by tweaking https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~j-johan-edwards/archive-index/app-install/files/head:/config/ On the other hand, can packagers of particular software fix such bug on by themselves? Since they should have better idea how the

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

2013-03-18 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: In practice this means that application should ship the .desktop file and the icon in the main arch:any package where the main executable is. Sometimes the software is split into several packages and the meta

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

2013-03-18 Thread Ma Xiaojun
s/Synaptics/Synaptic -- 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: How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-14 Thread Ma Xiaojun
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 the fault of the individual package, or the app-install-data-ubuntu package. The link is useful!

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

2013-03-11 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Ping? -- 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: How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-11 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I guess you are right. I'd like who to contact to deal with bugs like: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu/+bug/1114363 ( synaptic duplicate entry in ubuntu software center ) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

2013-03-08 Thread Ma Xiaojun
as Fcitx app. https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/search/?q=fcitx Another example is that Hangul engine of IBus (ibus-hangul) is advertised as IBus Hangul Preferences https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/ibus-hangul/ Cheers, Ma Xiaojun -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Why there are many discussions in ubuntu-devel recently but not here?

2013-03-07 Thread Ma Xiaojun
As title. -- 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: An easy-to-fix hardware related bug still stuck

2013-01-23 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Dan Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: Which is the preferred diff? Marco's (linked from LP) or your second one on BTS? Thank you for your note. The situation is that the b43 gives two firmware download link one for 3.2+ kernel, one for older kernel. 1.

Re: Possibility to add Create Launcher to right click context-menu in Nautilus

2012-12-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Kieran Grant kieran.thehacker.gr...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I'll just switch to another Desktop Environment for what I need, (besides, on my netbook Unity 3D uses too many resources, only have 2GB RAM and Some Intel SU2700 1.3Ghz processor, 'tis a cheap netbook

Annoying GNOMEism, again (was: Update on the new ibus-1.5 and gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center 3.6 situation)

2012-11-23 Thread Ma Xiaojun
After GNOME people decided that per windows input source (layout or input method) is useless. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684210 ( The feature existed in 3.4 and before) They made something even more surprising; white listing input engines and properties input engines can expose.

Re: rar extraction (was: Thinking about SRU)

2012-11-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: I recommend to try unar instead. It's a free software tool that can extract all kind of rar files. file-roller supports unar in Ubuntu 12.10. (Package hint: unrar) Well, it's non-free but open source software. Download

Re: Thinking about SRU

2012-11-08 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com wrote: This is the nature of a stable release. Better the devil we know. This is the reason why we ask for simple, easy to understand patches, or require an extremely detailed testing plan if the patches are larger than that. We

b43 driver in Ubuntu (and also Debian)

2012-11-08 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I have questions on two levels. The first is about b43-fwcutter meta-package. Pseudo binary package, firmware-b43-installer's postinst is still using firmware for kernel below 3.2.

Re: Thinking about SRU

2012-11-07 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: This is covered by point four of the When section: Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org

Re: CMake and Ruby1.9 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2012-11-07 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com wrote: I disagree. A new software version can bring new features, but also a lot of new bugs. There are even examples of new version that reduces the functionality to simplify the program. True. Nautilus 3.6 is a notable example.

Re: Questions About Ubuntu One Music Store

2012-11-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: The store does not have stores for all regions, and in China you perhaps may be seeing the world store. The songs and artist names are probably translated in the store provider's database for the other stores. Now

[Idea] PhoneGap support for Ubuntu

2012-11-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
This is inspired by the following post: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg6.html Since Ubuntu is heading towards Tablets and mobile phones now. It would be very nice if we also join the PhoneGap camp. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: [Idea] PhoneGap support for Ubuntu

2012-11-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:22 PM, James Haigh james.r.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Please take a look at Kivy. It aims at crossplatform multitouch support for both mobile and desktop. Anyone looking at web-based apps as a way to be crossplatform should consider Kivy.

Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

2012-11-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:35 PM, James Haigh james.r.ha...@gmail.com wrote: We use Free software. That's Free as in Freedom. But in reality, users do not get that freedom, only developers. In order to be Free to modify the software, you have to know how to do that. Even developers don't know

Questions About Ubuntu One Music Store

2012-11-03 Thread Ma Xiaojun
1. Where is the discussion channel? I know this list may not be a good choice. 2. Why is it available in English only? I find it annoying to find Chinese artists and songs using English names. I guess non-English speaking people may have similar feelings. 3. Why is it use patented MP3 format?

Re: EFF Privacy; hopefully Ubuntu will listen to users‏

2012-11-03 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Whenever we use a website, say amazon, the website can record IP and search history anyway. Unless you use Tor kind of stuff. So if you are determined to hide your IP, disable Dash search features and use Tor. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: CMake and Ruby1.9 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2012-11-03 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Though newer software is generally better and often contain important bug fixings. Ubuntu developers (with upload right) would often ignore or reject such SRU requests. Their excuse are always a magical word called regression. To be fair, it's good to carefully consider regression risks. The

Thinking about SRU

2012-10-28 Thread Ma Xiaojun
SRU stands for Stable Release Updates: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates I think the When list may need some additions. Probably everyone wants latest version if she happens to notice the difference between upstream and Ubuntu. I'm in no way suggest that Ubuntu should become

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

2012-10-17 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Nicolas Michel be.nicolas.mic...@gmail.com wrote: In consequence, all applications that you install from the Ubuntu Software center are considered safe by the distribution maintainers because they or others members of the open-source community already reviewed

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

2012-10-15 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I guess a relevant tool would be AppArmor. I'm not an expert of it, though. -- 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

Request for Package Synchronization in 12.10

2012-10-05 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I've filed bugs according to documents in Wiki. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1020428 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1020431 The software concerned is RIME, an alternative (CJK) input method. It's an excellent input method that can even attract some Windows or Mac OS X users. (

Re: 求助 windows下网络问题

2012-09-14 Thread Ma Xiaojun
請幹掉任何版本的Windoze(如有)並安裝Ubuntu。 安裝方法請參考: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall 注意在Allocate drive space時選擇Erase disk and install Ubun 使用方法請參考: http://people.ubuntu.com/~happyaron/ubuntu-docs/precise-html/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu 12.10 No Longer Have Alternate CDs

2012-09-07 Thread Ma Xiaojun
FYI, http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Drops-Alternate-CDs-from-Ubuntu-12-10-289338.shtml https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: