[Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while

2008-03-24 Thread thibaut bethune
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote : "This is a good idea, but ubuntu-devel-discuss is IMHO not the best place to talk about that. Please report a bug (wishlist) on http://bugzilla.gnome.org to the gedit product: they'll see what they can do. Here we can just agree, but nobody codes directly into gedit." B

Re: Graphical Installer & bootloader

2008-03-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:54:10AM EST, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Ming wrote: >> Perhaps the ubuntu developers might want to consider using a graphical >> installer & bootloader in the next release (hardy). I'm currently >> using ubuntu studio gutsy, and I

Re: GUI login banner at console?

2008-03-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Scott R. Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried most every other unpaid path, with no luck, so maybe the > developers forum will yield some insights... > > I've just installed 7.10 64-bit on a workstation and want to produce a > multi-line X Windows text b

Re: Who wants to share their PPAs?

2008-03-24 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Friday 21 March 2008 18:30:21 Caroline Ford wrote: > Upstream for tuxpaint is distributing my hardy packages, I'm looking out for > them on launchpad but only feedback so far has been via irc. (Of course you > only get feedback when stuff breaks) > > Caroline Users tend to be like that... So

Re: [Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while

2008-03-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
thibaut bethune a écrit : > I think that : > either the save button should not be active (at less) > either the user should have the possibilty to give the password to be > able to save the file (that would be perfect to me) > This is a good idea, but ubuntu-devel-discuss is IMHO not the best pl

Re: Graphical Installer & bootloader

2008-03-24 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Ming wrote: Perhaps the ubuntu developers might want to consider using a graphical installer & bootloader in the next release (hardy). I'm currently using ubuntu studio gutsy, and I think the gnome desktop is great ;) my notebook's LCD is well recognized at 1280x800. So I think it's a bit ironic

Graphical Installer & bootloader

2008-03-24 Thread Ming
Perhaps the ubuntu developers might want to consider using a graphical installer & bootloader in the next release (hardy). I'm currently using ubuntu studio gutsy, and I think the gnome desktop is great ;) my notebook's LCD is well recognized at 1280x800. So I think it's a bit ironic that it still

[Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while trying to modify xorg.conf

2008-03-24 Thread thibaut bethune
Policykit is there to avoid the user to get a dialog box that would say "that can't be done" without offering a workaround (if i'm not mistaken) well i've run Nautilus, and i've opened in Gedit etc/X11/xorg.conf i've made some changes in it and pressed the "save" button (which was active) and i've

apturl in Evince with PDF files

2008-03-24 Thread thibaut bethune
Apturl is very useful for documentation concerning Ubuntu. Firefox and Epiphany use it and allow to easily install a software from a documentation website There is also documentation in PDF files, and therefore Evince should also cope with apturl https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/

GUI login banner at console?

2008-03-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I've tried most every other unpaid path, with no luck, so maybe the developers forum will yield some insights... I've just installed 7.10 64-bit on a workstation and want to produce a multi-line X Windows text banner with an acknowledgement button (OK/Yes/whatever) on the console before the use

Re: What happened to IcedTea in Hardy?

2008-03-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/3/23, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-java7/+bug/203636 I don't think that answers the last question, since the current openjdk-6-* packages do not include Java browser plugin. So is there a specific openjdk-6 browser plugin coming, or is the