Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Bilal Akhtar
Hello there! As you've said, in Ubuntu 11.10 users will have the option to install GNOME 3 + Shell instead of Unity. One thing to note is that GNOME Panel hasn't died (yet), its still being actively developed as a GNOME Shell fallback for systems with GPUs not being able to run GNOME Shell. GNOME

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Francis Bolduc wrote: > ... I'm a software developer and I like to have > updated development tools every 6 months ... > I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my > needs. What am I going to do in 6 months? A false dichotomy. You have numero

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread delan
Hi Francis, > I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my > needs. What am I going to do in 6 months? You may get a 'better' answer from someone who is more involved in Ubuntu development, and this is my opinion. Being a moderately long user of Ubuntu (though I wasn't there

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 04/05/11 22:52, Francis Bolduc wrote: > Then, I started reading about Unity on the web. I found out that in > the next version of Ubuntu, the "Ubuntu Classic" session will be > dropped, leaving me with a choice between Unity and GNOME 3. Not > knowing what GNOME 3 was, I decided to try it that s

GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Francis Bolduc
Hi, I'm not certain if I'm writing in the proper mailing list. If it's the case, kindly direct which one I should express the following concern. I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04, so it's been a good 6 years now that I'm with Ubuntu at home and at work. I chose Ubuntu for my desktop computers bec

About mouse controlling in c/c++

2011-05-04 Thread Vernon Cole
On Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 12:37:05 -0400 From: Guannan Ma wrote: > [...] > With putty, I can execute commands such like mplayer in order to play > music when i am in my bed. > > The problem is putty cannot controll mouse directly. Yes. It's not really a C problem, it's a definition problem. PuTT

Re: Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Davyd McColl wrote: > On the other hand, I was dismayed, upon upgrading to 11.04 to find: > 1) My personal choice of GNOME was stomped over with Unity. I had to change > this at the login screen. It's trivial, I know, but it violates the > principle of least surpris

Re: Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 May 2011 08:26, Davyd McColl wrote: > reporting this. Indeed, I would love any suggestion as to where to report > this so that someone with more time (and probably more smarts) than me can > have a look at it. Just run ubuntu-bug and fill in the blanks to file a display bug. Jeremy Bicha -

Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Davyd McColl
Just a small(-ish) note on the Unity vs GNOME thread running here... I wholeheartedly support diversity in products/desktops/choice. So, whilst I've tried Unity and personally it does not fit my requirements at all (it just felt odd and, imo is better suited to wide-screen displays than my old 128

Re: About mouse controlling in c/c++

2011-05-04 Thread Tormod Volden
Guannan Ma writes: > > Several questions about how to write a mouse controlling module in c/c++ > Any comments are much appreciated. xdotool can do this for you (or libxdo if you really want to do it c). For python there is warp_pointer() in python-xlib. Tormod -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailin

Re: About mouse controlling in c/c++

2011-05-04 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Tue, 3 May 2011 12:37:05 -0400, Guannan Ma wrote: > > If anyone knows how to deal with it, please give me some advices. > Where should i get started? which c/c++ header/libs that i have to use. > Any websites or online mannual that i should take a look at. dunno about libs, but I'd start wit