Graphical Installer & bootloader

2008-03-24 Thread Ming
Perhaps the ubuntu developers might want to consider using a graphical installer & bootloader in the next release (hardy). I'm currently using ubuntu studio gutsy, and I think the gnome desktop is great ;) my notebook's LCD is well recognized at 1280x800. So I think it's a bit ironic that it still

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
> Internationalization: http://www.getdeb.net/languages.php A side note -- since you are using global.zh-tw.php for traditional Chinese (zh_TW in the locale notation), you probably want to use global.zh-cn.php instead of global.zh.php for simplified Chinese (zh_CN). Ming 2007.10.17 -- Ubuntu

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
ow about it They have to know about GetDeb, too. > b) it is very inconvenient > c) you do not get updates to installed app (i.e. security fixes) This makes me curious: how do you get security fixes for a package installed from GetDeb? Ming 2007.10.17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discu

Re: Gutsy's HAL is "broken".

2007-10-06 Thread Ming Hua
er said that I believe Caroline meant that all those information you provided should be sent to the bug tracker instead of this mailing list. Ming 2007.10.06 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.

MOTU meeting minutes

2007-07-13 Thread Ming Hua
and people discussed ways to attract more participants, as well as coordination with BugSquad. People also discussed whether the current policies and procedures are too many so that they scare away potential contributors. Ming 2007.07.14 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-d

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

2007-05-25 Thread Ming Hua
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:03:36PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > But what about the GPG key? Do they still need to add that with a > terminal command? There are GUI tools for manipulating GPG keys for APT as well, the one I know is gui-apt-key, written in GTK-perl. Ming 2

Re: Draining the font swamp

2007-05-24 Thread Ming Hua
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:59:42PM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > I believe the general consensus among Chinese users is that bitmap fonts > > are preferred for small font size. > > Do the xfonts-* fonts fall

Re: Draining the font swamp

2007-05-21 Thread Ming Hua
there is a group actively working on a set of Chinese bitmap fonts and has improved the quality quite a bit, their work can't be embedded into the existent TrueType font due to licensing restrictions. So I am afraid in the short term stand-alone bitmap fonts are still necessary for Chin

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-10 Thread Ming Hua
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:33:41PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > Ming Hua wrote: > > > > For the sake of discussion, I think > > > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > > > will pick up $PATH and is a valid #! line. I also believe this is widely > > used. >

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

2007-05-10 Thread Ming Hua
> #! {perl,python,...} > > That doesn't work. #! requires a path. For the sake of discussion, I think #!/usr/bin/env perl will pick up $PATH and is a valid #! line. I also believe this is widely used. Ming 2007.05.10 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: texlive

2007-04-26 Thread Ming Hua
le, discussing TeX-related packages that have broken deps or upgrading/installing problems is a good topic for ubuntu-devel. Your example, discussing what packages should be maintained by -tex team, is probably not. Also, adding a new list have the problem of making interested people subscribe, set u

Re: texlive

2007-04-26 Thread Ming Hua
ebian-tex-maint/2007/04/msg00130.html Debian has a rather long release cycle to solve this, but with our six-month cycle, it would be nice if we can start early and find and fix as many such problem as possible. Ming 2007.04.21 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubun