Canonical's future

I'm actually gonna go against the grain and say that I reckon the release of Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity is going to benefit Canonical and make them even bigger than what they are already. Cheers -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 WWW: http:

Re: Keyboard mapping selection comes to late during install

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre schreef op vr 29-04-2011 om 16:02 [-0400]: > Otherwise, at the boot menu, select French for the language, and press > F3 (IIRC) to get to the keyboard selection list. You should be able to > select another layout from there. Almost nobody knows that this boot menu (still) e

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 23:03 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Yes. python-kde4 and python-qt4 would love to let you do that. As much as I would love to show up Gnome by writing a qt4 gdm-greeter, it doesn't really work well. Gdm has issues with compositing that I can't quite get my head around. Pe

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On 04/29/11 23:40, Bilal Akhtar wrote: Why GNOME3 didn't make it to 11.04 is a different story. There are a handful of Ubuntu Desktop developers who had to focus on Unity work. It would be difficult for Unity to be made on then-unstable GNOME3 libraries and it would have been equally difficult f

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

Scott Kitterman schreef op di 26-04-2011 om 14:14 [-0400]: > Jan Claeys wrote: > >John Rowland Lenton schreef op do 21-04-2011 om 18:23 [+0100]: > >> * recently we had to upgrade couchdb in lucid for replication to work, > >> and the upgrade broke replication with the old version (which was the

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On Saturday 30 April 2011 08:47 AM, John Moser wrote: > On 04/29/11 23:11, Deric Stowell wrote: >> My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA >> upgrade. now it all makes sense. >> > > > Yeah, Ubuntu has a habit of playing the same market game as everyone > else (ship an

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On 04/29/11 23:11, Deric Stowell wrote: My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA upgrade. now it all makes sense. Yeah, Ubuntu has a habit of playing the same market game as everyone else (ship an incomplete i.e. broken product, release patches); but same rules

Re: Congrats on 11.04

My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA upgrade. now it all makes sense. Thanks!! Deric Stowell Technology Consultant http://sandyeggoboy.net"/> My profiles: [image: Facebook] [image: Google] [image: Word

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On Friday, April 29, 2011 10:42:50 PM John Moser wrote: > - Installing Gnome3 from the PPA really does completely hose the > system; after that, Unity and Gnome-classic break, only Gnome-shell > works, and Gnome-shell doesn't work with my ATi card (it skews the > contents of windows diagonally

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On Friday, April 29, 2011 10:33:20 PM Martin Owens wrote: > Oh woe! Won't someone let me write cool stuff in python? Yes. python-kde4 and python-qt4 would love to let you do that. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On 04/29/11 22:33, Martin Owens wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket and

Re: Congrats on 11.04

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: > > The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket and visited the moon, brought back a wh

Re: Congrats on 11.04

By contrast, I am struggling to get rid of this horrible Unity thing and get Gnome Shell. Ubuntu is pulling a Microsoft by using its clout to push a product and kill another; they can make Unity default, but they've actively removed Gnome Shell to the tune of ...well the PPAs all say "THIS CAN BRE

Congrats on 11.04

Just a quick congrats on the 11.04 release. I was previously running Fedora and openSUSE because I was angry with the previous state of Ubuntu. Yet the 11.04 release has made me return. Well done to all the developers and all others involved to make such an awesome release possible. Cheers and reg

Re: Keyboard mapping selection comes to late during install

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Alain-Olivier Breysse wrote: > Bonjour, > > Keyboard mapping selection comes too late during installation. When one > wants to manually partition the drives on, for example, a French-Canadian > keyboard, the key mapping selection window hasn't been presented yet (i

Re: Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great

Just to report back I think my issues are hardware related, so haven't filed a bug performance issues started up again on my custom .39-rc5 kernel after about 2 hours use I compiled a kernel.org .38 just to see, same as .39-rc5 I'm think my graphics card is overheating (it's only passively coole

Introduction of Unity

Dear Canonical people, First of all thank you for creating Ubuntu 11.04 and your continuous effort in this. I will surely keep using and stay fan of Ubuntu. However, I was not pleased with Unity as my desktop manager. I am using a wacom tablet to prevent me getting RSI. Starting with the updated

Re: Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:06, Daniel Chen wrote: > To note, vanilla mainline builds are available, too, for precisely > this sort of regression narrowing; see > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/. > > -Dan > Just a simple question: are the base-packaging, debian-changelog, defaults-