Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Martin Olsson wrote: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: A confirmation alert is usually the worst possible solution to any design problem. People treat it as an interruption rather than as a serious question. (Some horrid Web sites already do this, with JavaScript alert

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 21-10-2007 om 11:28 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Scott Kitterman: > IIRC, there were a number of open bugs against Firefox regarding > incorrect loss of focus and so what often happened was that you could > lose focus in a text box without taking action to do so and then end > up paging

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 21-10-2007 om 12:53 uur [tijdzone +1300], schreef Matthew Paul Thomas: > On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Martin Olsson wrote: > > > > Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > >> > >> It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter > >> while a link is focused too, should we disable the ent

How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread yueyu lin
I'm going to do so. The first assumption is that a set of repository servers have synchronized data correctly. But that will be ok after the md5sum verification. On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/22/07, Nicolas A

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed > > > that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to dow

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread yueyu lin
The problem to download from multiple server is that multiple servers may not be synchronized at the same time. Data synchronization is a serious problem. But I guess this should be better if we can make sure that multiple servers have the same package files. On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <[EMAIL P

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed > that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But > synaptic seems seldom to do this. > I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify

How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread yueyu lin
As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But synaptic seems seldom to do this. I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify codes to support active multiple threads downloading. But

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-21 Thread Dane Mutters
I think that there is an occasional need to check the file system for errors, but I think that it might work better as an optional, but "highly recommended" thing. Here's another case in point: I have been working to set up an Ubuntu-based Asterisk phone server at my workplace. For this applicat

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 17:45 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote: > Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Sunday 21 October 2007 14:08, Martin Olsson wrote: > > > >> And to justify this crippled BACKSPACE key you still would have to > >> explain why this is not a problem on Windows ("the main platform of > >> igno

Bad bug

2007-10-21 Thread Gianmarco Leone
I know the policy about not posting here bugs because they are often not so important as they seem to the original reporter, but I'm really afraid this one could give a really bad image about Ubuntu ability to cope with common desktop users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-21 Thread Erik Andrén
I'm going to add an anecdote to this thread why running fsck (at least in textmode) at startup is bad. Some good friends of mine use ubuntu on their HTPC. The connected HDTV can't display the text mode under which the fsck runs, this results in a blue screen during the whole operation. As these fol

Re: Untrusted software and security click-through warnings

2007-10-21 Thread Thorsten Sick
Hi Maybe i found a solution for this problem: Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2007, 15:48 +0100 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Alexander Sack writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through > warnings"): > > I completely agree. My point is: if captchas don't help then why would > > pasting commands fr

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Martin Olsson
Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 14:08, Martin Olsson wrote: > >> And to justify this crippled BACKSPACE key you still would have to >> explain why this is not a problem on Windows ("the main platform of >> ignorant computer users")? Why is it that Firefox on Windows still has >>

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread João Pinto
> If you want to talk about Windows/Linux consistencey in Firefox, there are > far > more common issues. Get Preferences moved from Edit to Tools in Linux is > you > are worried about consistency. Sure, from an accessibility perspective you are comparing a non frequently used menu entry change w

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday 21 October 2007 14:08, Martin Olsson wrote: > And to justify this crippled BACKSPACE key you still would have to > explain why this is not a problem on Windows ("the main platform of > ignorant computer users")? Why is it that Firefox on Windows still has > this "really serious data loss

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Martin Olsson
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > A confirmation alert is usually the worst possible solution to any > design problem. People treat it as an interruption rather than as a > serious question. (Some horrid Web sites already do this, with > JavaScript alerts of the form "Are you sure you want to navi