more of assorted natty errata

my pc is 64bit. my lucid is 32-bit (works ok), and my natty is 64-bit
(full of bugs).

all the people below program and complete products written in asm (as a
hobby)...

(04:57:06) buguldey: I tried ubuntu natty with classic interface. It is not 
better than lucid - same bugs in evolution and empathy. So installed all apps I 
usually use - for example, Pidgin. Pidgin on natty often shows 70% CPU usage. 
On lucid, pidgin doesn't use such amounts.
(04:57:21) buguldey: That was with natty updated to the latest.
(04:57:33) user2: evolution sucks
(04:57:54) user3: evolution will be replaced by thunderbird in 11.10
(04:58:04) user1: finally
(04:58:30) user2: I replaced it the first time I installed it ;-)
(04:58:35) user3: me too :)
(04:59:15) user3: but the thunderbird default is nice because they will 
integrate Thunderbird Lightning with the calendar function of the date/time 
toolbar
(04:59:22) user2: true
(04:59:33) user1: I even tried unstalling evolution, but apparently I did a bit 
too much cleaning as the whole GUI was inaccessible the next login
(05:00:02) buguldey: And natty is even worse than lucid: 1) mouse cursor often 
moves highly jumpy and freezes for seconds or fractions of second, 2) stupid 
thin 3...4-pixel-wide scrollbars that I have difficulty to notice and point 
with mouse cursor - and such scrollbars cannot be disabled in guis - I tried to 
disable them at various appearance places, searched all of them several times 
all the way around the System menu - no luck.
(05:00:24) buguldey: user2: evolution sucks because it is highly underdeveloped.
(05:01:24) buguldey: thunderbird 3.1.(latest) sometimes irreversibly loses 
(deletes) parts of text in emails when sending. data lost bug.
(05:03:00) buguldey: such thin invisible scrollbars must definitely be replaced 
by normal gnomish wide scrollbars.
(05:03:47) buguldey: user3: specifying wide scrollbars requires developing a 
new theme. Scrollbars' width isn't editable by normal theming GUI / by 
appearance editor.
(05:03:59) buguldey: you need to hack a new theme or like that.
(05:03:59) user3: just pick an existing theme
(05:04:03) user3: such as THE OLD "human" theme
(05:04:08) user3: same as previous ubuntu versions
(05:04:09) user3: it's still there
(05:04:11) user3: just click it
(05:04:32) buguldey: user2: thunderbird data loss is extremely rare, but I've 
seen it yesterday.
(05:04:35) user2: Indeed. Settings->Appearance
(05:05:44) buguldey: user3: TB saved it to sent with part of text already 
deleted. When I opened web-gmail to look at the message source - same there - 
text partially lost.

TBD. buguldey: i will try memcheck. And also fsck for all filesystems

(05:06:50) buguldey: user2: i always use pop3
(05:08:07) user2: I didn't even consider ISPs that didn't provide imap
(05:08:23) buguldey: user3: i've tried a lot of themes - but not sure that i 
tried human. I need to try all default themes - though i think most of them are 
visually awful and misleading at their pictograms/icon types
(05:09:09) user3: IIRC you can pick separate icon themes and window decoration 
themes
(05:09:50) buguldey: user3: i tried to find TB bug report place - failed - 
asked at communty/forum support at TB site. I need to locate developer's 
maillist and developers' site.
(05:10:50) buguldey: decoration... i will try
(05:12:00) buguldey: though i tried a bit to find an existing icon theme to 
replace userstatus icons for the screen's top right corner status menu - no 
luck - tried a few icon themes. it seems that needs to developed.
(05:12:23) buguldey: lucid's icons for that are much better imho
(05:13:32) buguldey: natty ones are unacceptable for me - hard to understand 
what their very little details drawn on icons mean. stupid icons with a lot of 
visual areas within every icon.
(05:14:31) user3: dunno why you need developer mailinglist. bugreports live 
here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
(05:15:35) buguldey: well. Pidgin at 70% CPU and extremely quirky mouse 
handling kills natty completely on my machine. I will not delete it meanwhile - 
maybe they'll update stuff - i will bugreport all of the above stuff - but i 
stay at lucid.
(05:16:20) buguldey: user3: i tried to find a central entrance from TB official 
site which is in TB About menu. Didn't try googling.

(05:17:41) user4: ubuntu is starting to have the windows syndrome..
(05:17:49) user3: ?
(05:17:50) user4: many linux distro's at that anyway
(05:18:00) user4: breaking :-)
(05:18:23) user4: the irony however is that microsoft has actually started 
getting its act together and is having less issues like that ;)
(05:18:49) user4: yeah thats true.. but I mean breaking stuff with updates ;)
(05:19:40) user4: ive had stuff break like 10-15 times in the last yr or so 
with linux and maybe 5X or something with windows :P
(05:19:49) user4: while it used to be 0-1X a yr with linux ;)

(05:22:06) buguldey: i also tried to install a pidgin-skype plugin which
installs skype contacts into pidgin, but that plugin doesn't work : i
tried to chat - it doesn't show responses. and the "skype-X" flavour of
this plugin hung completely (together with pidgin). the "skype-dbus"
flavor slighly works for some kinds of message packets - more stable.
(one can choose either skype-X or skype-dbus or both.)

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