Upgrade to 11.10 claims to remove vlc

2011-08-02 Thread Sebastian Geiger
I just upgraded to 11.10. On the upgrade summary I was told that the upgrade would later remove the Vlc package as one of 21 packages that were about to be removed after the upgrade. Just now the upgrade has run through and vlc was not among the packages to be removed anymore. Im currious why the u

The freedom to configure

2011-04-25 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Today I read a critique on the German Pro-linux.de by Michael Kofler titled "Unity - Der Anfang vom Ende für Ubuntu?" (Unity - The beginning of the end of Ubuntu?)[1] The article spawned a huge discussion about the pros and cons of choosing default settings and removing the options to change these

nvidia

2011-01-31 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi there, I have a question about the nvidia software packages that I regularly find on my PCs. I have an ATI card but for some reason the nvidia-* packages have still ended up being installed on my computer. Even on my notebook I have intel graphics but I have alreay seen nvidia packages in

XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi, has there ever been a discussion about the FreeDesktop Spec for configuration files. FYI, the spec says to put config files not into the home folder directly but instead proposes there separate directories: XDG_DATA_HOME: ~/.local/share XDG_CONFIG_HOME: ~/.config XDG_CACHE_HOME: ~/

Hide name in Indicator Applet Session

2010-05-02 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi, is ist possible to hide the name of the user in the indicator applet session? Currently the Indicator contains the off-button a green circle and the name, but the name is uncessesary and uses a lot of space, I tried right clicking on it but there is no preferences option. Is there any other

[Lucid] Thunderbird issues

2010-04-07 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Since I upgraded to Thunderbird I am getting strange notices that a mailbox is not available but the message does not tell me which folder/mailbox is not available. Please also note the strange formatting of newlines in the message. This message pops up about 30 to 40 times before it disappears

Mirror Issues

2010-03-31 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi, today I tried to upgrade one of my Computers to Lucid to try and to some bug reporting, however I encountered a few issues that have kept me from upgrading so far. I am currently in China, and thus need to use one of the local mirrors, since any international mirrors are simply _too_slow_.

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-11-20 Thread Sebastian Geiger
I have been reading the discussion so far, and would also like to say a few words about it. Because I feel that both sides here have some valid points. On the one hand of course it is true that stupid people will do stupid things. It doesnt matter if you work on console or on gui. To oversimplify i

Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics

2009-11-07 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Resending since first mail was too big. Images are now at Imageshack: Image 1: http://yfrog.com/75appearanceproblem1p Image 2: http://yfrog.com/14appearanceproblem2p Since a few weeks now I am experiencing a strange bug when I am switching my desktop to use the second monitor thats connected throu

Errors during the update process

2009-10-21 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi, I just subscribed to this mailing list because Im not sure it what Im experiencing was a bug or just a random error. I updated my Karmic today with aptitude save-upgrade and got the following error. I added some lines of the output before and after the error: Preparing to replace eclipse-platf

Errors during update process

2009-10-20 Thread Sebastian Geiger
Hi, I just subscribed to this mailing list because Im not sure it what Im experiencing was a bug or just a random error. I updated my Karmic today with aptitude save-upgrade and got the following error. I added some lines of the output before and after the error: Preparing to replace eclipse-platf