Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Null Ack wrote: > I dont think the ordinary user cares about PulseAudio or other > internal components to their desktops. They just want audio to work. Definitely agreed. > 1. Not delivering reliable audio experiences in production releases of Ubuntu Certainly,

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Chen
2009/10/7 Lukas Hejtmanek : > why there is now hard-coded pulse audio in Ubuntu/Karmic? Simply, this approach is upstream's, and it makes sense resource-wise to follow upstream. More bluntly, if you'd like to contribute a novel audio framework to Linux, particularly Ubuntu, then here's as good a

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Null Ack
Hi Lukas, I dont think the ordinary user cares about PulseAudio or other internal components to their desktops. They just want audio to work. The problem that I see is not so much about internal components, but is about failures in: 1. Not delivering reliable audio experiences in production rele

Re: Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 23:55 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/10/7 Przemysław Kulczycki : > > Hi devs. > > I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently > > noticed after Karmic is released: > > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136 > > So

Re: Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Coulson
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 00:45 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > Hi devs. > I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently > noticed after Karmic is released: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136 > In short: the new devicekit disk util

Re: Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

2009-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/7 Przemysław Kulczycki : > Hi devs. > I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently > noticed after Karmic is released: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136 Sorry, I thought it might be a dupe of 412152, but that might not be

Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

2009-10-07 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Hi devs. I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently noticed after Karmic is released: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136 In short: the new devicekit disk utility (palimpsest) might report lots of disks as failing, even the new ones

Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, why there is now hard-coded pulse audio in Ubuntu/Karmic? There seem to be many users not willing to use PA at all: http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/ What are benefits for ordinary users? No, ordinary user really does not wa

RE: Default vfat file permissions - why executable?

2009-10-07 Thread Ethan Baldridge
Either way - but I'm pretty sure the current version of the Loki Installer making the rounds still installs to ~/bin by default (for single-user install). I was just rolling with the status quo there. :) -Original Message- From: Matt Wheeler [mailto:m...@funkyhat.org] Sent: Wednesday, O

Re: Default vfat file permissions - why executable?

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/10/7 Ethan Baldridge : But those still put an executable or a symlink into one of /usr/local/bin || /opt/bin || /usr/local/games (or /usr/bin, even though they shouldn't) when installed system-wide. When installed for a single user the binary goes into his $HOME/bin (which I don't th

RE: Default vfat file permissions - why executable?

2009-10-07 Thread Ethan Baldridge
-Original Message- From: Brian Vidal [mailto:dae...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:07 AM To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Ethan Baldridge Subject: Re: Default vfat file permissions - why executable? >On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:45:37 -0400, Ethan Baldridge > wro

Re: Developer Membership Board public meeting about approval process

2009-10-07 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Ubuntu community, > > We recently shifted the responsibility for approving new Ubuntu > developres from the Technical Board (TB) to the new Developer > Membership Board (DMB). This, and the parallel ongoing > archive/privilege restructurin