Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:15:09PM +, Asif Youssuff wrote: > I also saw this issue earlier today, after installing from the Karmic > 64 LiveCD (used USB creator, so it was actually LiveUSB). > > Here's a bug report for the crashing in LiveCD phenomenon: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+

Re: why not scim 1.4.9?

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:05:54AM +0700, Lê Quốc Tuấn wrote: > scim 1.4.9 has released in 2009/4/19 but why ubuntu not include it? No particular reason; it's on the to-be-merged list (https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html), it's just that nobody's got round to it yet. Siegfried-Angel? -- Colin Wa

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Andrew SB wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas > wrote: > > The absolute size of a sample is more important, statistically, than its > > relative size. In other words, 1136581 popcon submissions is a large > > enough sample regard

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:44:11PM -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote: > > No, I just tested this myself and was unable to reproduce the behavior > > you experienced.  Are you sure the installation did not crash near the > > end, and enough of the sys

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Derek Broughton
Martin Soto wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 00:19 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: >> >From the appcenter wiki page: >> >> "If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows >> user, it's installing new software. Be prepared to enter a new world in >> which Windows Update is a model

Re: Pidgin and Yahoo! login

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 13:52 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Martin, please could you advice a server or link some web page with a > list of server? Sure. All I had to do (unfortunately, I cannot find the original link right now) was entering cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com into the "Page Server" field ("

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Jones
I just installed the Karmic Alpha in a VM to help out with testing, and I figured I would pop in my two cents on the issue of enabling popcorn during the install process. The option to enable popcorn was on the last step of the process, when the installer was giving a summary of the operations

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 25/06/2009 alle 13.40 +0200, Martin Soto ha scritto: > > I'm convinced that expert users are, by far, the hardest to migrate. > Efforts like AppCenter will definitely help in this area, but we > should > think of making available a "Quick Migration Guide for Veteran Windows > Users"

Re: Pidgin and Yahoo! login

2009-06-25 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 25/06/2009 alle 13.11 +0200, Martin Soto ha scritto: > > Indeed, you can currently work around the problem by connecting to a > server that still supports the older protocol. Yahoo! could deactivate > this alternative server at any time, though. Martin, please could you advice a se

Re: Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-06-23 17:30:34 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > -1 It flashes the notification area. THIS IS FORBIDDEN. Update notifier > can not do that. Why should empathy do that? This must be fixed. > > -1 It does NOT OPEN A POPUP on new messages. When the infamous > update-notifier popup was decide

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 00:19 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > >From the appcenter wiki page: > > "If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows > user, it's installing new software. Be prepared to enter a new world in > which Windows Update is a model of simplicity by compariso

Re: Pidgin and Yahoo! login

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:08 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:54:27 am Adrian Perez wrote: > > There's any chance or prospect to integrating the new Yahoo! protocol > > support present in new upstream Pidgin 2.5.7 into jaunty-updates or > > maybe jaunty-proposed-updates?

Re: Pidgin Yahoo SRUs and authent changes

2009-06-25 Thread Iain Lane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Jun 2009, at 08:00, Alex Cockell wrote: > Hi folks, > > Spealing as a basic LTS-to-LTS user, any chance that those > authentication changes could be backported to Hardy as well? > > Just that you do still have us preinstall users out there... Y

Pidgin Yahoo SRUs and authent changes

2009-06-25 Thread Alex Cockell
Hi folks, Spealing as a basic LTS-to-LTS user, any chance that those authentication changes could be backported to Hardy as well? Just that you do still have us preinstall users out there... Alex Cockell Reading, Berks, UK alcock...@eclipse.co.uk -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu