Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/4 Steve Dodier : >  * What about laptops ? Sometimes you shutdown your laptop because you're > about to move. Do you want, in this case, to have to wait for the upgrade to > perform ? > I know a few people who initiate the shutdown process, and as they are in a hurry will leave the shutdo

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, 2009/7/7 Martín Soto : > How many applications are there that are *commonly* used for giving > presentations? Five? Ten, maybe? How many web browsers are in main? Given cloud based presentation such as Google Docs, they can all be used to give presentations, and I suspect can all be made to g

Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/12/15 mac_v : > Why ask the admin password? > - Update manager is designed to be shown only for admin accounts and > doesnt show up for non-admins. Indeed. I prefer the OSX way which asks for a user _and_ a password. This fits my use case which has my daughter using the Mac to surf the web. I

Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/12/15 mac_v : > If someone other than the user is having access to a user account , > there are bigger concerns than the guest updating the system. > Sure, but the topic of conversation is update manager, not "local access is bad, all bets are off". > The guest[in this case the child] could

Re: [Ayatana] Shutdown dialog countdown

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/12/9 Martin Albisetti : > Thoughts? > Just by way of comparison, I tried shutting down the mac I have and it uses.. "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now? If you do nothing, the system will shutdown automatically in NN seconds. [Cancel] [Shutdown]" Cheers, Al. ___

Re: [Ayatana] Fw: Re: Rethink the noninteractive Live CD default boot?

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
2010/5/26 Kristoffer Lundén : > As a point of curiosity: how common are errors in the media? I do remember a > time when we had to burn our CDs at low speeds or there was a high risk of > just making coasters; however, it's been many years since I've done anything > but burning at max speed, and ev

Re: [Ayatana] Fw: Re: Rethink the noninteractive Live CD default boot?

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 15:15, Anzan Hoshin Roshi wrote: > For what its worth: I've given out about a hundred shipit DVDs and many > hundreds of self-burne. Never had a report of a problem with the shipits but > about a ninth of the self-burned were bad. > You test every single shipit CD you give out? Tha

Re: [Ayatana] Implementation of a built-in screencaster in Unity like there is in GNOME Shell

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Pope
On 2 February 2011 19:34, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > I believe GNOME Shell actually does have screencasting functionality built > into > it, which triggers upon that key combination. > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Features "GNOME Shell has a built-in feature that allows video recording of the

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher pulse prominence

2011-03-19 Thread Alan Pope
On 19 Mar 2011, at 04:03, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have something I've been thinking about and I'd like to discuss. > > Does anybody else feel that Unity's pulse animation (when you click an item > on the launcher) isn't prominent enough of an effect to show something i

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher pulse prominence

2011-03-19 Thread Alan Pope
On 19 March 2011 09:07, IKT wrote: > This is something that I noticed but never seemed to act on, when I click on > a button on the launcher sometimes the pulse is so low I don't even know if > I've clicked on it, confused I end up looking at the hard drive light to see > if it's indicating anythi

Re: [Ayatana] Detached menus and not-click-to-focus

2011-03-27 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 March 2011 22:00, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >  I've been trying the menus-in-panel setup in Natty and I do like the > way it saves screen realestate when you've got multiple windows open; > however the problem I've run into is that since I use sloppy focus it's > quite hard sometimes to

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Alan Pope
On 13 May 2011, at 13:35, Shane Fagan wrote: > I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if > we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. http://ubuntutour.org/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/the-ubuntu-tour-project-needs-your-help/ Etc ___