[Desktop-packages] [Bug 946226] Re: Firefox blew away my Gnome classic (no effects) Kubuntu session

2012-03-04 Thread Michael E Granat
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946226 Title: Firefox blew away my Gnome classic (no effects) Kubuntu session Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug descript

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 946226] [NEW] Firefox blew away my Gnome classic (no effects) Kubuntu session

2012-03-04 Thread Michael E Granat
Public bug reported: Was in a new session on my laptop, running only Evolution mail and the System Monitor when I selected to run Firefox from the Applications > Internet menu. Upon doing so, the screen went black with only the animated wait pointer working and, within 10 seconds, I found mysel

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 878601] Re: New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close.

2011-10-24 Thread Michael E Granat
The sets of floders and messages appears to have duplicated to allow form my two E-mail addresses. (One complete set under each address heading). A result that was neither necessary nor desirable in my case, as my mail was always combined into single, topic or contact name based mail folders. On

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878601] Re: New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close.

2011-10-19 Thread Michael E Granat
Also, when sending mail, the following error message displays: Your message was sent, but an error occurred during post-processing. The reported error was "Failed to append to mbox:///home/writeideas/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder URI 'mbox:///home/writeideas/.local/share/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878601] Re: New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close.

2011-10-19 Thread Michael E Granat
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878601 Title: New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close. Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: New Bug de

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878601] [NEW] New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close.

2011-10-19 Thread Michael E Granat
Public bug reported: Slays as a sleeping task when you quit the application. Has to have its process killed with the System Monitor. Has doubled up all my mailboxes (for my two E-mail addresses, making for huge backup times and file sizes.) a thoroughly nasty and constantly problematic update to w

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-08 Thread Michael E Granat
Cracking cheese madbiologist! Yes, I closed the playback window prematurely, as I did not have the time to see the whole movie again just then. (It is one of the many hundreds of ABC TV Australia shows I have stored thanks to Jeremy Visser's wonderful Python iView application https://jeremy.visser

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-07 Thread Michael E Granat
Thank you for your analyses and insights. I would suggest that to advance to a new OS version, firstly one should not break what already works well in the existing version, then provide some sort on intelligence to detect what more modern and advanced features are available on the receiving PC befo

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-05 Thread Michael E Granat
Sure, feel free to close the bug, but this demonstrates that more testing needs to be done on older PCs before releasing new versions. Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest and Ubuntu is supposed to be developed mindful of community needs and widespread usefulness. Cheers. On Wed, 2011-1

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-04 Thread Michael E Granat
Yes that is unfortunate. I never thought that when I "upgraded" to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.x that I'd be stuck with a cumbersome (although good in some respects) new GUI (which would not activate on anything but my laptop and had to "revert to classic" on my desktop PCs) and my movies would no longer

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-03 Thread Michael E Granat
Now here is the output of "glxinfo | grep render" from my desktop PC. ** Attachment added: "output of "glxinfo | grep render" from my main desktop PC" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/774008/+attachment/2505051/+files/glxinfooutput.txt -- You received this bug not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-03 Thread Michael E Granat
Thanks so much for that help. Please find the output of lspci -vvnn attached. ** Attachment added: "output of lspci -vvnn from my desktop PC" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/774008/+attachment/2505050/+files/videowoesoutput.txt -- You received this bug notificati

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-03 Thread Michael E Granat
Well, I just uninstalled / reinstalled flashplugin-installer using the software centre to be sure, then restarted the PC, logged in then ran media player by itself. Sound was fine as before but, also as before, an image is only available for a fraction of a second if I drag to move then drop the me