Re: [Umc-dev] Discussion agenda for UDS-Intrepid around the integration of Elisa media center

2008-04-24 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Hello Loic, I agree with you that working in the integration of the Media Center into Ubuntu should come prior to the Ubuntu Media Center distro ( at least with the actual development force). But we can still do both in parallel if some are interested in developing on either one or the other of th

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-15 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Ioannis Nousias wrote: > Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: >> Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be >> very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are >> different applications). So there is 2 solutions I

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-15 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
cribe to those list, please look at the video here http://wattazoum.fr/Optimised-usage-of-Ubuntu-mailing.html to use NNTP with gmane. Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: > Remco wrote: >> (I could've sworn that I hit Reply to All... oh well, I'm sorry for >>

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-15 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Remco wrote: > (I could've sworn that I hit Reply to All... oh well, I'm sorry for > the double emails to you, Greg. ) > > I sent the following to Greg an hour ago: > > I think that a simple renaming or merging isn't going to fix this. The > complete configuration system has to be thought out. So

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-15 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Cory K. wrote: > Just wondering. Do any of you know how this is technically implemented > and what it could possibly effect? > > -Cory K. > > Well, it depends on what you want to do. If the point is just to change the menu layout and labels , it only affect gnome-menus. But to change an entry

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : > Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) a écrit : >> I like the proposal. Moving from >> >> System >> | -> Preferences >> ` -> Administration >> >> to >> >> Configuration >> | -> Your Prefere

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
> But even if it's there, I would propose the following renaming: > System->Configuration/Preferences > Preferences->Your Preferences (as I agree with Greg) > Administration->System configuration > > V > I like the proposal. Moving from System | -> Preferences ` -> Administration to Configura

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks. > Clarifying the confusion around Preferences & Administration is IMHO a > good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it. > > Naming them "User Preferences" and "System Administr

Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-13 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Dear developers, I am working on a bug on Launchpad https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/174277 and I suddenly though that I might ask here if the effort I am doing are worthy ( I wouldn't like to work a lot on this bug and have my patches refused :-) ) . So could you please have a look

Re: What happened to the Ubuntu SoC 2006 projects that we're so excited about?

2007-08-01 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Joel Bryan Juliano a écrit : > What happened to those SoC 2006's "Ubuntu Welcome Center?" and "Panel > Switcher?".. > the last time I checked them out through svn around 5 months ago, is > still the same files I have now. > > It's really disappointing that those people actually have resources to >

Re: About XDG specification implementation in Gutsy

2007-07-15 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Cody A.W. Somerville a écrit : > The default IS the standard. > > The ability to change the default is just apart of that standard in case > there is a need to change the default. > Ah ! ok, I now understand, thank you both for your explanations :-) . (I'll now implement it on my software ;-) )

Re: About XDG specification implementation in Gutsy

2007-07-13 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Christopher James Halse Rogers a écrit : > On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:51 +0200, Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am very happy to see that Gutsy started to implement the XDG >> specification. That makes a cleaner and more usable d

About XDG specification implementation in Gutsy

2007-07-13 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
Hello, I am very happy to see that Gutsy started to implement the XDG specification. That makes a cleaner and more usable desktop. But is it decide to implement the whole specification : http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html In the specification there is some env var

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-12 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : > i thought about a gui to configure xorg.conf and execute some commands > to say to the gpu "hey now you have to show with second head too" ! That's it. a gui that is firstly meant to work with xorg, but can also use gpu api. > how did fedora ? they don't care about gpu mo

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-12 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
One should exist, which, at least, would be a layer for GPU specific so that every one would know where to go to configure its dual screen . (``-_-´´) -- Fernando a écrit : > There are a afew, but they are GPU specific, lie for NVidia, and ATi. > There none, for my onboard Intel. > > On 3/12/07,

Re: GetDeb.net vs. Backports...

2007-03-03 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Michael R. Head a écrit : > Hi, > > I just came across www.getdeb.net today. The goals appear to be similar > to those of the backports project (to provide the latest versions of > desktop apps for previously released versions of Ubuntu). > > However, they also have a number of packages availabl

Re: forgotten ubuntu-calendar

2007-03-01 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
David Farning a écrit : > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:13 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > >> >> What the hell is wrong with everyone!! Hey Wake UP!! >> Ubuntu is a ROCKIN' Distribution, can't you not see?!! >> It got Shipit!! Kubuntu! Xubuntu! Don't be ignorant!! >> We are the f*ckin Rockstar here

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-23 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Milan a écrit : > I think this kind of use is a main target for Ubuntu, and using no > password at all should be proposed to the user when he creates an account. that was in your message date 22.02.2007 14:46 on my computer. So I understood *no password at all* . Now that you're saying clearly t

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-23 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
> Moreover, this feature won't bring down security at all: you still need > to enter your password to use gksudo, or ssh... This is only an old > Unix-geek reflex putting down Windows about its lacks. But this is not a > lack, even Windows has many! Linux power is that you can enable almost > a

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-23 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Milan a écrit : > Hey, you guys have a geek way of thinking I didn't expected to encounter > on an Ubuntu mailing list ! I'm not talking about five-year-old > children's ability to type in a password, nor of the need of their > parents to control them. I'm talking of making life easier to users

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-22 Thread Ouattara Oumar Aziz
Milan a écrit : > Martin wrote: >> This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program >> already offers the option of automatic login (which should stay off by >> default, of course). If this does not work, can you please file a bug >> against gdm? > This is working fine. But it was t