Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-24 Thread Asif Youssuff
Was just playing with the latest daily-live cd (testdrive is very cool!) and noticed that when installing, after entering a username and password, the "Require my password to log in" is selected. If the ureadahead daemon is optimized for auto-login ("slightly assumes you're using auto-login; so wa

Re: Fallback plan if Empathy isn't ready for Karmic?

2009-06-23 Thread Asif Youssuff
Yes, people should be filing bugs. Or they might be like me -- I had a two hour long conversation with a colleague, and *expected* that the conversation would be logged -- lo and behold, only the last 15 minutes or so of the conversation ended up being logged, and I lost a good deal of valuable co

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

2009-06-23 Thread Asif Youssuff
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/+source/ubiquity/+bug/391162 -Asif On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Nathan

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-16 Thread Asif Youssuff
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:39 +0100, Alexander H Deriziotis wrote: > This would be a pretty bad move regarding Ubuntu's development model. > With a 6-month release cycle, things need to remain cutting edge. If > every release is just going to be a rehash of a previous one, then > Canonical should be

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-16 Thread Asif Youssuff
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:37 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > Wait, I have a new proposal! Let's not include Empathy in Karmic, but > plan on including it in Karmic +1 (and announce this) > > Why? Well, it will still give Empathy the attention it needs from > developers to fix the bugs that would

Re: about empathy as the default IM application

2009-06-15 Thread Asif Youssuff
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:36 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > IMHO Empathy is great for most users, especially new ones, and it can > replace poth pidgin AND ekiga. It lacks the basic features like the > ones you mentioned, but i don't think they are showstoppers and > including it in Karmic or the