Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/30/2017 07:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> For file searching, I can recommend SearchMonkey >> (http://searchmonkey.embeddediq.com/index.php/download), which can >> search both file names and content, understands regex expressions and >> generally does what I need (pretty easily). > > Thanks, I

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/30/2017 06:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > My camera doesn't work, my scanner doesn't work, To some extent, as I'll say below, this is due to whether the manufacturers of these devices choose to provide device drivers for Linux. Or if some clever Linux users manages to write one themselves (more

Re: Initial view of document (master)

2017-10-30 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 30 octobre 2017 16:00:13 GMT+01:00, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >My guess is that if we do it generally for all cases some messaging >gets >broken (like the updates for longer lfuns - e.g. reconfiguration or >compilation). Yes, this is needed in some cases. I see 3 types

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 31.10.2017 a las 00:08, Paul A. Rubin escribió: That said, I've been happy with my move to Linux Mint. Hi Paul, the problems I encountered are independent of the distribution. The bugs are in the drivers and/or libraries. (I started with the distribution Manjaro then tested OpenSuse, Ubun

Re: off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/30/2017 06:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: El 30.10.2017 a las 08:29, Scott Kostyshak escribió: > Do you still have access to Linux? Yes. I work with Linux as testing system for 3 months now. Long story short, I am a bit disappointed. Linux is OK for Internet, office and email. But that is it.

off topic: feedback after 3 months with Linux

2017-10-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 30.10.2017 a las 08:29, Scott Kostyshak escribió: > Do you still have access to Linux? Yes. I work with Linux as testing system for 3 months now. Long story short, I am a bit disappointed. Linux is OK for Internet, office and email. But that is it. I mean I even cannot fill out a PDF form o

Re: configure.py regression in RC1 compared to beta

2017-10-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 30.10.2017 a las 08:31, Scott Kostyshak escribió: I'll cherry-pick Jürgen's change regarding WMF -> EPS converter. I don't want the commit that stores text editors in a variable in RC1 (even though I requested that improvement) since it is more of a long-run benefit fix. OK, then only also

Re: Initial view of document (master)

2017-10-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The patch does the right thing by using Cursor::message instead (so that I can confirm that the crash is fixed. > where this may happen. I'd be grateful for ideas that would make > buffer::message and BufferView::message safer. It might be enough to just > delay t

Re: configure.py regression in RC1 compared to beta

2017-10-30 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:10:23PM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 29.10.2017 a las 16:52, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: > > > Note that I am traveling. So if it works on the Mac, someone will have > > to cherry-pick it. > > I might also not be able to commit soon. So Scott, could you please do this

Re: wmf2eps

2017-10-30 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 03:10:21PM +, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 29.10.2017, 15:13 +0100 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > El 29.10.2017 a las 09:00, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: > > > > > We currently look for wmf2eps as EMF -> EPS converter. However, > > > this > > > does not seem to w