Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-30 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not > pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early > gnome2 over 1.4 was :( > > Apparently 3.2 has a weather app available, but I cant find it or how to >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Grant
>> Regarding proposals, schedules, roadmaps, milestones  I've got a >> list of a million changes to make to my website's front-end and >> back-end.  There is a very specific way I want things to work, so >> everything is broken down to a granular "task" level.  In the old days >> I would just d

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Grant
>> > You can get away with almost anything except these two things: >> > >> > Do not micro-manage >> > Do not tell them how to do what they do >> >> Could you give me an example of this last one? > > - I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have you > considered (i.e. I would li

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?

2012-05-30 Thread Easior
> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés writes: CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior wrote: >> Hi, all! >> >> I found that there were some strange files or directories under root CPV> directory. Let's >> see what happened? >> >> $ ls -a >> .    boot

[gentoo-user] Re: A couple questions related to fbsplash

2012-05-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/05/12 09:42, Paul Hartman wrote: In all my years of Gentoo I've never set up fbsplash and fbcondecor, so I finally did so on my old laptop. It all worked, pretty easy to set up -- however, there are 2 things I have questions about: 1) I see much of OpenRC's colorful output before the fbspl

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

2012-05-30 Thread Joseph
On 05/30/12 07:43, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: [snip] when I run it as user: scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documen

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 30/05/12, Grant wrote: > So if I see a way that their coding could be improved (faster > execution, greater legibility, etc) I just keep quiet about it? Improvements is only one aspect of where to focus the efforts. > How often should I read their code? I was planning on reading it a lot.

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-30 Thread walt
On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not > pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early > gnome2 over 1.4 was :( I find gnome3 to be not very different from gnome2 *if* I run it in "fallback mode". Tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

2012-05-30 Thread Joseph
On 05/30/12 08:59, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 30.05.2012 04:37, Joseph wrote: On 05/29/12 19:23, walt wrote: On 05/29/2012 06:23 PM, Joseph wrote: 2.) Application --> Run Program a windows pups up. When I type: nano 1.txt Nothing happens. Please be more specific about 'nothing'. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

2012-05-30 Thread kwkhui
On Wed, 30 May 2012 07:12:23 -0600 Joseph wrote: > > No, "xterm nano" doesn't work either. > > More information than "doesn't work either" please. For example: Does xterm alone (or whatever terminal you use) start? Does nano start in tty? Does your Xsession error log record anything when '

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?

2012-05-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Easior wrote: >> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > >    CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior wrote: >    >>  Hi, all! >    >> >    >>  I found that there were some strange files or directories under root >    CPV> directory. Let's >    >>  see wh

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues

2012-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.05.2012 23:37, schrieb Rafa Griman: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:56:07 +0200 >> Rafa Griman wrote: >> >>> Hi Vaeth :) >>> >>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Vaeth >>> wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2012, Rafa Griman wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

2012-05-30 Thread Joseph
On 05/30/12 23:16, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 07:12:23 -0600 Joseph wrote: No, "xterm nano" doesn't work either. More information than "doesn't work either" please. For example: Does xterm alone (or whatever terminal you use) start? Does nano start in tty? Does your Xses

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues

2012-05-30 Thread Rafa Griman
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.05.2012 23:37, schrieb Rafa Griman: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:56:07 +0200 >>> Rafa Griman wrote: >>> Hi Vaeth :) On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Vaeth >>

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 30 May 2012 02:11:54 -0700 Grant wrote: > >> > You can get away with almost anything except these two things: > >> > > >> > Do not micro-manage > >> > Do not tell them how to do what they do > >> > >> Could you give me an example of this last one? > > > > - I see you are using Perl with h

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?

2012-05-30 Thread Easior
> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés writes: CPV> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Easior wrote: >>> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >> >>    CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior CPV> wrote: >>    >>  Hi, all! >>    >> >>    >>  I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-30 Thread Alecks Gates
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:57 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/29/2012 10:56 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not >> pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early >> gnome2 over 1.4 was :( > > I find gnome3 to be not very diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple questions related to fbsplash

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 30/05/12 09:42, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> In all my years of Gentoo I've never set up fbsplash and fbcondecor, >> so I finally did so on my old laptop. It all worked, pretty easy to >> set up -- however, there are 2 things I have quest

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Grant
>> >> > You can get away with almost anything except these two things: >> >> > >> >> > Do not micro-manage >> >> > Do not tell them how to do what they do >> >> >> >> Could you give me an example of this last one? >> > >> > - I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have >> > you