[Bug 360353] Re: missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, jaunty

2009-04-13 Thread ami_nakata
** Summary changed: - missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, janunty + missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, jaunty -- missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360353 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 360353] Re: missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, janunty

2009-04-13 Thread ami_nakata
I see I should have searched for outstanding bug reports for xulrunner-1.9; this bug also appears to be related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9/+bug/209041 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9/+bug/252382 I'm less sure, but It may also be related to

[Bug 360353] [NEW] missing dependencies in hardy, intrepid, janunty

2009-04-13 Thread ami_nakata
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9 Hi! Hardy, Intrepid, and Jaunty appear to have a longstanding missing- dependencies bug in their xulrunner-1.9 package and its Python-related XPCOM libraries that cause errors like this one, associated with Firefox: "Failed to load XPCOM c

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-10 Thread ami_nakata
@Matthew (MPT): Matthew, I'd like to highlight some of the things you've written about user-interface design that directly inform this controversy: You wrote above: > Brian, whether an automatically-opening window is > from a newly-running application or an already-running > application is, id

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-08 Thread ami_nakata
@Matthew: I neglected to say something I think is pretty important: I do recognize how very frustrating it must be for you, Mark, et. al to have put so much work into this and to have received so much criticism, even hostile criticism, when you of course believed (and believe) you were introducing

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-08 Thread ami_nakata
Matthew, you wrote: >> ami_nakata and Peter Whittaker, your proposed rule >> about never opening windows automatically is unworkable. Peter's threefold 'PUGIT' division of screen real-estate does confer a kind of 'holy ground' status upon what he identi

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-07 Thread ami_nakata
The "abolish the icon and bubble, and instead open the updates window directly" behavior introduced as part of this change just feels very disrespectful to me. One of the things that prompted me to install Ubuntu and move away from the market-share leader's products is what I view as that vendor's

[Bug 8896] Re: Enable auto-install of packages in recommends field by default, like in aptitude

2009-04-01 Thread ami_nakata
Christian's very helpful fix appears to include a small error that causes Synaptic to fail on attempted startup. He writes, > And paste > APT::Install-Recommends “true"; I think users will have better success if they instead copy and paste the following line into the 99recommends file that Chris