Re: Wrong chars in upgrade

2008-10-20 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:39 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Configuro capplets-data (1:2.24.0.1-0ubuntu6) ... > WARNING: Failed to parse default value > `??? ?? ;gtk-theme-selector.desktop, ??? > ???;default-applications.desktop,??? > ;gnome-cups

Two Regressions

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I'd like to point you to two regressions (from Hardy), that are probably worth fixing before Intrepid is released: - It is not possible to enter Tilde, Accents and Accent Circumflex any more by pressing the key twice: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273678 - When multiple display

Re: Does metacity compositor use acceleration?

2008-03-29 Thread Andreas Schildbach
chombee wrote: > Does the compositor that you can enable in metacity in hardy use 3D > acceleration? Yes, it does. > I like it better than compiz (the alt-tab isn't broken for one thing) but it > seems slow. Actually, on my i915GMS Metacity compositing is much faster than Compiz. And a lot les

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Dominik Wagenfuehr wrote: > most users welcome the decision to activate Compiz by default. But > others are a little bit unhappy with it [1][2]. Add me to the list of (currently) unhappy people. As soon as you have two displays connected, Compiz behaves very strange. Not even simple actions li

Re: Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-21 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Scott James Remnant wrote: > Click the "Details..." button, make sure the "Subpixel (LCDs)" Smoothing > option is set, and set the "Full" Hinting option. > > Compare with the "Slight" Hinting option, which is better? I like full hinting most, because it does not create all kinds of funny colo

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-30 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > I'm curious why there are 2 CDs, one for Server and one for Desktop. > Is it not possible to have a check box at installation time that says: > > * I would like to install an Ubuntu Desktop [ ] > * I would like to install an Ubuntu Server [ ] You might want to go for

Re: future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

2007-07-01 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Kyle McMartin wrote: > My plan is to have them both installed by parallel, and modify > discover-data to use -intel on new installs for everything newer than > i945. This should minimize regressions. > > [...] > > We'll likely keep -i810 for the i8xx by default for the foreseeable > future thoug

future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

2007-06-30 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I'd like to ask about the future of these two packages in Gutsy? Currently (Tribe 2), both are installed in parallel and you need to switch to intel by changing the driver in xorg.conf. As the i810 driver cannot handle odd resolutions well, when will the default be switched ove

Re: New feature: easy codec installation, please test

2007-02-04 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Conrad Knauer wrote: >> However, clicking an ASF only opens Totem, but does not play the file >> nor try to install any codecs, nor present an error message. Again, this >> might confuse users (like me). I must say that I did not manage to play >> this file under Dapper, which is why I was hoping

Herd 3: Crash Report right after Booting Live or Fresh Install

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi everyone, I'm just checking if these are known bug(s): 1) Right after booting Herd 3 live or a fresh install I get a crash report (about Add/Remove Programs) in the systray area. This seems to be very reproducible. 2) I tried to use the designated error reporting mechanism for reporting th

Re: New feature: easy codec installation, please test

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Sebastien, > Feedback on that new feature is welcome, feel free to open bugs with the > "easy-codec-installation tag or to reply that mail Testing this with MP3 worked, although I had the option of two different packages dealing with MP3, which might confuse users. However, clicking an ASF

Re: New feature: zeroconf networking by default, please test

2006-12-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Martin Pitt wrote: > The basic idea is that whenever you try to connect to a network and do > not get a DHCP response, you will automatically get an IP from the > 169.254.0.0/16 range (called 'IPv4 link-layer address'). Is this also supposed to work in the following environment? Two machines are

Re: New feature: mount local file systems in Gnome, please test

2006-12-16 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Martin Pitt wrote: > as specified for feisty [1] we want to handle spare fixed hard disk > partitions in a similarly easy way as we handle removable drives. > [...] > > I welcome any testing feedback (to ubuntu-devel-discuss@ or as bug > reports against gnome-mount or hal). It works as expected.