top 10 FAQ for Xubuntu site

2011-06-20 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hello to all, hope you are having a very nice day. First of all thanks to all the people who makes xubuntu, I always find this to be one of the greatest linux distros I've tried. So Thank You All. Now to business, as I've proposed on the #xubuntu-devel channel I would like if Xubuntu had a Top

Re: top 10 FAQ for Xubuntu site

2011-07-06 Thread Bruno Benitez
questions I can find. Again, thank you all who do Xubuntu, and have a nice day. :) 2011/6/29 Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:06:32 -0300 Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all, hope you are having a very nice day. First of all thanks

Replacing GIMP

2011-07-19 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hello, how is everybody? Hope you are all okay. I have always found that having GIMP as the default graphic editor for any distribution to be too much, I am of the opinion that people get scare if then come and see so many options and floating menus and etc, so I think that Xubuntu (and any linux

Re: Xubuntu.org Website Review

2011-07-19 Thread Bruno Benitez
I have to say that I agree on beardygnome's analisis of the site, and I would like to add that being a non-english speaker (spañish) I find the lack of different languages to choose the page to be rather dissapointing. I do understand that keeping multiple languages on a same site that updates

Re: Replacing GIMP

2011-07-22 Thread Bruno Benitez
programs I don't think xubuntu will ever use k3b, being kde dependant and all, and i think xfce people is working on improving xfburn, so yeah. :) 2011/7/22 James Freer jessejaz...@aol.co.uk -Original Message- From: Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com To: xubuntu-devel xubuntu-devel

Re: Replacing GIMP

2011-07-25 Thread Bruno Benitez
manipulation program and later notice it can not do what you want. The original poster Bruno Benitez requested some standard simple editor, but I am afraid it does not exist. Pinta is pretty new, I would not call it standard, at least yet. However, its user interface might be somewhat simpler

Re: Replacing GIMP

2011-07-31 Thread Bruno Benitez
2011/7/31 Jarno Suni jarno.ilari.s...@gmail.com Please note that rotation/straighten function implementation varies between editors/viewers. Some allow only 90 degrees steps, others arbitrary. Some let you give the rotation angle as a number, some allow visual adjusting. -- xubuntu-devel

Re: Amendment to the Xubuntu Strategy Document - Final request for comments

2011-08-11 Thread Bruno Benitez
2011/8/11 Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel oh, yes, I don't know if I'm able to vote or no, but then again I do support this idea. I think it is clear and simple,

Propositio to team leader.

2011-09-26 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hello, I'm fairly new to the Xubuntu community, only for the past six months i've been participating doing the little things I think I'm able to do. In this time I've found that Charlie's support and encouraging was a huge part of what made me like to participate. I would like to nominate him to

Re: RFC: An ISO reporting system.

2011-10-31 Thread Bruno Benitez
2011/10/29 madnick dr.madn...@gmail.com Hi, GridCube has been working on a system for reporting the results of our ISO testing, the system can be found here: http://www.madnick.se/~gridcube/ . Yesterday, we decided to create a LP project for this system. As a result, it will be a software

Pre-Alpha1 test reports.

2011-11-27 Thread Bruno Benitez
Given that the current, aka good, Ubuntu ISO Tracker is not yet abailabe for daily test reports it was decided that we should use the one I did instead for a while until the good tracker is ready. So if you please and want to start doing tests and reporting them the Daily ISO Reporting Site, also

Pre-Alpha1 test reports.

2011-11-27 Thread Bruno Benitez
UPDATE: The good tracker got updated just a few hours after this message was posted, it should be used instead: http://91.189.93.73/ sorry for the inconveniences -- Forwarded message -- From: Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com Date: 2011/11/27 Subject: Pre-Alpha1 test reports

Re: Xubuntu LTS proposal

2011-12-12 Thread Bruno Benitez
2011/12/12 Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:29:40 +0200 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org wrote: Hey Lionel, good to hear your thoughts too. On 12/11/2011 03:10 PM, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote: Hi,

Re: Xubuntu Home Page | Xubuntu.org

2012-02-05 Thread Bruno Benitez
2012/2/3 Jaume Alegret Llorens jajaumealeg...@gmail.com Señores, Acabo de recibir la notificación del lanzamiento del alpha 2 del Xubuntu 12.04 Trabajo con Xubuntu 11.10 desde que me pasé desde Ubuntu 10.04 Ghone Clasic. Mi consulta es : ¿Debo quemar un CD para instalar alpha 2? o, ¿Ya

Re: Xubuntu Community Meeting: 2012-03-14 at 19UTC

2012-03-18 Thread Bruno Benitez
2012/3/10 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org Next Xubuntu Community Meeting is to be held on Wednesday, March 14 at 19UTC on #xubuntu-devel. Agenda can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings, as usually. Please add any items you want to discuss about. If you can't make

Re: Testing Precise Pangolin Beta2

2012-03-27 Thread Bruno Benitez
2012/3/27 Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is now 01:29 AM on March 28. We have exactly zero tests finished for Precise Beta 2. A new image was just released. That means every test on the QA ISO tracker must be re-done. Having a

Re: Xubuntu Strategy Document review

2012-06-19 Thread Bruno Benitez
I agree with Eero, i don't like the term elegance if I could I would suggest change this line: *Xubuntu is a community developed, Ubuntu-based operating system that combines elegance and ease of use * with something like this: *Xubuntu is a community developed, Ubuntu-based operating system that

Re: Wish list for Xubuntu 13.04

2012-11-29 Thread Bruno Benitez
I think that the argument for keeping the iso size to less that 700MiB to provide a CD fittable size for older machines its not relevant, Xubuntu has already dropped the Alternate iso, and we foster the idea of using the mini iso to install xubuntu on older machines. I understand the problem with

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 87, Issue 17

2012-12-30 Thread Bruno Benitez
2012/12/30 AG Restringere ag.restring...@gmail.com 1. Themes Icons: Shimmer Project is the key to the Xubuntu project succeeding. The themes there are far beyond what I can find on the rest of the internet and really create a very professional look and feel. The recent updates to

Re: Global Menu Bar integration on firefox

2013-03-27 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hi Adjal, many of your questions and suggerences would be more useful and easily respondend on the IRC channels of xubuntu. If you could log in there, we could explain and hear your ideas in a more orderly manner. I'm not speaking for nobody else than me, and i dont intend to stop you from using

Re: We're finally up on the schedule at summit.ubuntu.com

2013-05-09 Thread Bruno Benitez
If its of any relevance, later would be better for me. But i have little to say or add besides my hopes about what the future of xubuntu should look like. :) 2013/5/9 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org On 09/05/13 21:07, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote: We're currently showing on the

Re: Magnet links

2013-05-27 Thread Bruno Benitez
I agree, we should have magnet links alongside standard .torrent files, just for sanity sake. 2013/5/27 Jackson Doak nosk...@ubuntu.com The Xubuntu website (and all of Ubuntu) currently only uses .torrent files for it's torrent downloads, this is an obsolete format, and nearly all other

Re: Food For Thought

2013-05-31 Thread Bruno Benitez
I have said it before, but I would like to rewrite it the clearest I can. I think that the most relevant place Xubuntu can take its on large deployements. I think that we provide an stable desktop from release to release, no surprises and increasing stability. I think that we should focus on

Re: Proposal: Desktop of the Week Gallery

2013-06-11 Thread Bruno Benitez
I like this idea aswel, I proposed something similar before, and went as far as to create a deviantART account for it. I'm up to manage and review submissions there too. I don't know about other sites, like flirck or reddit, but I can manage the deviantART one :) 2013/6/11 Dave

Re: Proposal: Desktop of the Week Gallery

2013-06-17 Thread Bruno Benitez
same here, gridc...@gmail.com :) 2013/6/15 Rich Dennis amerig...@gmail.com Elizabeth, amerig...@gmail.com Thanks rd On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Dave Pearson d...@reklan.co.uk wrote: Hi Elizabeth, My gmail account is ena...@gmail.com.. I would be more than happy to help on

Re: What's expected?

2013-06-25 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hi Rich, As i said earlier I have already set up a deviantART group that we can start to use right away. Having it makes managing submissions, licences and messages easy enough to start. If needed i can create a dummy dA account for submisions comming from other sources, like the xubuntu-user

Re: What's expected?

2013-06-25 Thread Bruno Benitez
Krumbach Joseph l...@ubuntu.com On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: If you or any other one want to have access to dA's group admin area you need to ask pleia2 if she says its OK to grant you access ill do it. The following folks have volunteered and been

Re: What's expected?

2013-06-26 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hi, the name was choosen to encompase us to the most popular ubuntu/linux related group in dA, #ubuntu-artists (1), changing the group name its not available for groups, not even premium ones, i can drop the group and found a new one if the name its relevant. I don't think its that important, the

Re: [Bulk] Re: Project: Community Computers/ Xubuntu Feedback

2013-06-26 Thread Bruno Benitez
IRC its by far the best option, then you have this devel mailing list. Using IRC its actually very simple once you grasp the minimal of it. 2013/6/26 Jackson Doak nosk...@ubuntu.com not really. Forums never seem to work for devel stuff. The is a faux-social network being made, but no-one

Re: What's expected?

2013-07-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
good to me. Available. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: Quick Update: A new group was created, the old one was closed, the new group its http://xubuntu-showcase.deviantart.com/ all the people who asked for moderation has been added to the group. We need

Re: What's expected?

2013-07-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
, @iamMJae On Jul 9, 2013 1:54 AM, Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: ok guys, im on winter vacations now, please help me coordinate a good moment for us all to join and talk about this, preferably before the 11th, when the standard community meeting will take place, please lets do

Re: What's expected?

2013-07-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
and 12:30 pm PHT and 4:00-7:00 pm PHT, today. - Joan Advincula, @iamMJae On Jul 9, 2013 8:37 AM, Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: well as i said earlier, im available at any moment this days, so if you would go and choose a moment Joan, we will meet at the #xubuntu-devel channel and will go

Re: [Test Report 1] Minimum System Requirement for Xubuntu 12.04 LTS

2013-07-29 Thread Bruno Benitez
Joan, kernel for non-PAE microprocessors was dropped since 12.10, last ISO with non-PAE kernel support was 12.04, see the release notes http://xubuntu.org/news/12-04-release/ :) 2013/7/29 Joan Advincula mj.advinc...@gmail.com By the way, I think we also need to clarify the CPU type and

Re: [Test Report 1] Minimum System Requirement for Xubuntu 12.04 LTS

2013-07-29 Thread Bruno Benitez
focus on giving a modern and stable desktop. 2013/7/29 peter a.gil...@mo-po.de so dear linux-team, does it means: all old notebooks and computer are to die ? there must be a way to keep old maschine alife ! looking forward to a how to , peter Am 29.07.2013 14:19, schrieb Bruno

Xubuntu, Mir XMir ISO tests

2013-08-01 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hello, our good friend Unit193 has set up an ISO we can use to live-session test an XMir Xubuntu session. It is of EXTREME importance that we do as many tests as possible as thetechnology evolves. We need to understand how our system will behave under XMir in order to make the decision later this

Re: [Testing Report 1] Xubuntu Saucy with MIR

2013-08-03 Thread Bruno Benitez
After booting the system, a terminal window with the unity-system-compositor log will display. To confirm that you are running XMir, type ps ax | grep system-comp - I did not yet see this and have no idea what do you mean by after booting the system? what system the Live Session? after installing?

Re: [Testing Report 1] Xubuntu Saucy with MIR

2013-08-04 Thread Bruno Benitez
2013/8/4 Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.com I wish someone could change/rephrase that on the website: http://vanir.unit193.tk/mir/ So, it would be clear and easy to understand for everyone :) This is what I got: http://i41.tinypic.com/f56j2w.jpg As said, you used a vm, so it fall back

Re: Xubuntu vUDS sessions

2013-08-14 Thread Bruno Benitez
I would like for it to be in the IRC channels, for logs and for inclusion of those who cant watch the video for some reason or the other. However as Stephen point out it would be interesting to have a video of our rationale for those who would care about such things, more is better in this case,

Re: Just setting up and account as I download the xubuntu-13.10-xmir-amd64.iso and testing my entrance to the mailing list.

2013-08-16 Thread Bruno Benitez
you should try to boot it and see if things work. THats about it, we just need to know if it works on all the possible hardware. 2013/8/16 mikodo michaelodonn...@shaw.ca Hi guys, Wana tell what to do with the ^^ dvd I will burn? Like what do you want me to do and what to send you guys.

Re: [Testing Report 1] Xubuntu Saucy with MIR

2013-08-20 Thread Bruno Benitez
hi amjjawad! if you could do the test that would be great. The mir developers have asked us in our last meeting for us to give them a bit more time to test the release that they asure us will come by august 22. We need to know if its worth to do that or not having real tests results at hand. this

Re: [Testing Report 2] Testing XMir on Xubuntu Saucy

2013-08-20 Thread Bruno Benitez
thanks amjjawad, your test counts as a Fail. please update your video card and issues to http://pad.ubuntu.com/xubuntu-mir , also if you can, here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/GPUTesting and by the way you can read: http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/15/mir-update-and-testing-mir-in-ubuntu-13-10/ :)

Re: Next Xubuntu community meeting

2013-10-17 Thread Bruno Benitez
I do not either, but it would be nice if there where an option somewhere to let people clean it and choose the amount of kernels they want to keep or a particular one, or something like that. Like if the user would search for the kernels on synaptic and choose the ones to remove or keep, but

Update of the minimum requierements

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Benitez
As technological boundaries move on, and as newer hardware and softwaremake t heir presences felt, perhaps it is time to take a look at our hardware requirements. [1] Many users move to Xubuntu from older computers to try to revitalize them. While the system will work, and they will be able to

Re: Icon changes for 14.04?

2013-11-22 Thread Bruno Benitez
this is true, i've noticed this a few times, when a window seems to be maximazed but its just big, i don't find this particularly annoying since the functionality of a seeminlgy maximazed and a trully maximized window are basically the same any way. But it would be nice if the where a visual cue

Re: Bug #1208204 - indicator-sound no longer functions with xfce4-indicator-plugin

2013-12-04 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hello Richard, as I understand from the meetings we have held , if there is enough need of it our developers can make a fix through the backport channel. http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2013/xubuntu-devel.2013-11-03-22.39.log.html#l-41 It is very sad that we have this issue in

Re: Bug #1208204 - indicator-sound no longer functions with xfce4-indicator-plugin

2013-12-05 Thread Bruno Benitez
Hi, Pjtor, I am not a programmer, but I see a huge problem with your very easy fix, you see, xubuntu shares most and almost all their setting from mainbuntu, so the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service belongs to all the *buntu multiverse, changing its content would have

Re: New proposed Xubuntu team member: Thomas Molloy

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Benitez
+1 2014/1/2 Stephen Michael Kellat skel...@fastmail.net +1 Stephen Michael Kellat On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org wrote: Hey, I'm proposing to add Thomas Molloy (lderan) to the Xubuntu team. If no objections arise in the next 48 hours, the action

Re: New proposed Xubuntu team member: David Pires

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Benitez
+1 2014/1/2 Stephen Michael Kellat skel...@fastmail.net +1 Stephen Michael Kellat On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org wrote: Hey, I'm proposing to add David Pires (slickymaster) to the Xubuntu team. If no objections arise in the next 48 hours, the

Re: New proposed Xubuntu team member: Jackson Doak

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Benitez
+1 2014/1/2 Stephen Michael Kellat skel...@fastmail.net +1 Stephen Michael Kellat On Jan 2, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org wrote: Hey, I'm proposing to add Jackson Doak (Noskcaj) to the Xubuntu team. If no objections arise in the next 48 hours, the action

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Benitez
I have to thanks Elfy for all the work he has been doing about QA, his work and attitude where excellent to provide a good feedback between finding errors and reporting them. The calls for test where visible and he was available to support any new testers landing on the irc channel. My opinion is

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Benitez
2014-03-20 21:52 GMT-03:00 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org: Social media is not the right place to communicate every single change. We have seen in the past how this can create a lot of negative and even trollish feedback that only distracts the contributors. I do not mean that all

Re: Problem with wakeup?

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Benitez
Im experiencing this same issues as well, as Shuhao has suggested having an xrandr line to restart the screen its a viable solution. My issues started before though with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/1302244being my first reported bug, but maybe this is a

Re: Call for quick testing on 14.04: xfce4-indicator-plugin

2014-04-06 Thread Bruno Benitez
shuhao, xfce4-infiator-plugin 2014-04-06 13:05 GMT-03:00 Shuhao shu...@shuhaowu.com: In what package should I report a bug in? Shuhao On 04/06/2014 06:23 AM, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: This might be a bug in the bluetooth indicator or the bluetooth stack, hard to say. So I suggest you

Re: Upgrade Testing

2014-04-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
hello Tiago, you can read the proper way to do the test on the tracker http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds/65285/testcases for amd64 http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds/65286/testcases for i386 The information and guides to do the upgrade path is

Re: Upgrade Testing

2014-04-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
gave me was to a build that ended testing on April 1st and with no download options. Just to make sure. Regards, Tiago Ribeiro On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com wrote: hello Tiago, you can read the proper way to do the test on the tracker http

Re: Setting up a xubuntu-team mailing list

2014-04-28 Thread Bruno Benitez
As a person who has not been able to join most of the meeting the last cycle, and when I can, I can not focus all my attention to it completely, I find the idea of having time to properly read and vote a topic very interesting and I personally would like that to happen. I do not really care if its

Re: Xubuntu Project Lead voting

2014-05-08 Thread Bruno Benitez
:) i would like to cast my vote to Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi) 2014-05-08 17:49 GMT-03:00 Robert Streeter rstreete...@gmail.com: I vote for Sean Davis. On May 8, 2014 3:00 PM, Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org wrote: Hello Xubuntu team, we started the voting for the new Xubuntu Project

Re: [TEAM] Mailinglist setup

2014-05-16 Thread Bruno Benitez
2014-05-16 13:18 GMT-03:00 Elizabeth K. Joseph l...@ubuntu.com: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Simon Steinbeiß si...@xfce.org wrote: Hi Xubuntu team members, we started voting on Pasi's mailinglist-proposal (previously circulated on this list [1]) in today's community meeting [2]. So

Re: Default application for IRC

2014-06-25 Thread Bruno Benitez
I just tried to use Hexchat on my work computer and it refused to work with my proxy settings, while at the same time it was working on xchat perfectly. 2014-06-25 8:27 GMT-03:00 Thomas Molloy lde...@outlook.com: Aye will have a go with the Hexchat and the plugin over the next few days to see

Re: Default application for IRC

2014-06-25 Thread Bruno Benitez
2014-06-25 11:23 GMT-03:00 Bruno Benitez gridc...@gmail.com: I just tried to use Hexchat on my work computer and it refused to work with my proxy settings, while at the same time it was working on xchat perfectly. ​Oops, I tried again changing the url for freenode to the url

Re: [TEAM] Drop XChat for 14.10

2014-07-29 Thread Bruno Benitez
2014-07-29 9:35 GMT-03:00 Elfy ub.u...@btinternet.com: On 29/07/14 13:10, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: Hey Xubuntu team members, we started voting on a proposal for the default IRC client in today's meeting[0]. In short, what we're voting on is whether to drop XChat for Xubuntu 14.10. ==

Re: [TEAM] Support for testers at cycle end

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Benitez
The people who would hang around in a #x+1 channel would probably be the same that is at #x-devel, I don't think it would make much sense to have a different place just for that, also the kind of questions users from the betas bring are usually asociated with bugs that are important to fix and

Re: Unit193 added to the Xubuntu Developers team

2014-12-13 Thread Bruno Benitez
Excellent! Was about time too :D El dic 13, 2014 6:28 a.m., Elfy ub.u...@btinternet.com escribió: On 13/12/14 03:22, Sean Davis wrote: Hey everyone! Please welcome Unit193 to ~xubuntu-dev! He's been a great help recently (and even well before my time with the Xubuntu team) with

Re: [TEAM] ISO target size

2015-02-11 Thread Bruno Benitez
2015-02-11 12:06 GMT-03:00 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org: I would suggest a one click install or something similar for LibreOffice amd stick with 1GB. This has been suggested before with LibreOffice and other software. What does the rest of the team feel about this generally

Re: Installed Games

2015-01-28 Thread Bruno Benitez
I think I agree with Pjotr when he says that not having any game will make the distro look more dry, less friendly. Not all the people who would choose xubuntu to install on machines will have internet conections constantly, some might go to places where its just an easy to install and use OS for

Re: Discussion: GIMP in the default seed

2015-01-28 Thread Bruno Benitez
I think that the basic use of an image editor for a standard user are the ones signaled on the tables on the comparison page [1], Croping, Adding text, Rezise, Rotate, Navigate Folders. The only thing a good image viewer still lacks on linux is adding text, thats the only thing from the list that

Re: Discussion: GIMP in the default seed

2015-01-29 Thread Bruno Benitez
the problem with pinta[1] is that it runs on Mono, if it wherent for that i would imagine we would not be having this discussion as its perfect for what we need. [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/pinta 2015-01-29 10:34 GMT-03:00 Peter Rauhut dab...@gmail.com: Pinta would be a great option

Re: [TEAM] Default Game Change

2015-01-30 Thread Bruno Benitez
2015-01-30 15:08 GMT-03:00 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org: Here's a few games that I think are simple and small enough to be suitable for consideration: - AisleRiot (aisleriot) - Five or More (five-or-more) - Lights Off (lightsoff) - Nibbles (gnome-nibbles) - Simon Tatham's Puzzle