Re: lucid beta 2 : too long sleep delay of the screen by default

2010-04-15 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/04/15 16:14 (GMT-0400) Jérôme Bouat composed: > >> The default sleep delay of the screen is set to 30 minutes when >> operating on mains. > >> I think it is too long because : > >> - Nowadays are the screens using mostly the lcd/led technology with fast >> resume.

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-08 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Derek Broughton wrote: > John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > >> Maybe. But the paradigm isn't really that pressing the Close >> button minimizes the window to the systray. > > I beg to differ. Think as a user, not a developer. I submit that _users_ > do not generally understand a difference between

Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
"Dear Mr. President. There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot!" http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F16.html Why in the name of all that is good? My process list features 7 gettys, it's true, but they're utterly insignificant compared to the 194 other proce

Re: Touch Screen Issues

2010-03-21 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Erik Andersen wrote: I'm running Lucid on a touchscreen system and am not having many of the issues that you mention.  I strongly recommend downloading Beta 1 and testing it, even as a Live CD, with your system. In particular, does click-and-drag work? I was consi

Touch Screen Issues

2010-03-18 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Hello all, I want to inquire about the state of touchscreen development in Ubuntu. I recently built a touch-screen-only system running Karmic and I'm generally happy with it (the OS is pretty heavy weight, lots of caching to disk, etc, but that is the way of things in this Aero-Aqua-world) bu