Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 16:01 -0700 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]: > > The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently > > in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit.

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-04 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein: > The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently > in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. I just uploaded packages which fix a PolicyKit issue. Cheers signatu

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-02 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 23:50 -0500 schrieb Luke L: > It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'. > > Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It > was a bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not > resize-able. It doesn't seem as full featured as Synap

PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-02 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Highlights of the 0.3.x series are: * Search for codecs and mime type handlers * Local file installation * Change log for updates * G

Re: nm-applet : Notification Area or Panel Applet ?

2008-03-23 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Zitat von thibaut bethune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Therefore i wander if network manager should not be an applet instead > of cluttering the notification area : actually network manager icon > doesn't notify anything (it acts in a manner quite similar to Tomboy > which is an applet. Besides it is ca

Re: Fwd: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2007, 05:06 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer: > Mono by default takes 48MB of space on the CD. The ISO download is > 690+ MB. Therefore, it is taking up valuable space that could be used > for a whole host of other things. Also, for that 48MB, there are just > two applications wh

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-20 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 20.11.2007, 08:51 -0500 schrieb Patrick: > Hi Sebastian > > That sounds like a good idea! > > I would like to help. Do you have a rough estimate as to when the web > based Synaptic will be ready? No, at first it needs some skilled web developers :) signature.asc Description:

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-11-20 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 20.11.2007, 04:11 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer: > On Nov 14, 2007 3:19 AM, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since we're at the formative stages of Hardy I thought I'd start a > > thread about apps which might be good for inclusion in the default > > Ubuntu setup. > >

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-20 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 19.11.2007, 22:47 -0500 schrieb Patrick: > > The post installation scripts should be divided up between > programmers > and tutorial writers. Post-installation scripts should not contain any things that are not related to installing the package, since they have to robust. Further

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-19 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 18.11.2007, 08:34 -0500 schrieb Patrick: > I see it now. I never noticed it there. Is there any reason it cannot > also be placed under the right click too?-Patrick I don't think that this is a very often needed feature. We want to keep the menu short. signature.asc Description:

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-18 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 06:47 -0500 schrieb Patrick: > #!/bin/bash > > echo "we need to do such and such, here are some options to try, blah, > blah, blah etc" > > sudo gedit /etc/exports > > echo "okay now we need to do this because blah blah" > > sudo exportfs -ra > > sudo /etc/init.d

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-18 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 11:36 +0900 schrieb Onno Benschop: > All of what you write exists: > * To reconfigure a package: sudo dpkg-reconfigure foobar, perhaps it > would be useful to add this functionality to Synaptic. This feature exists already for years. Select a corresponding

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 00:21 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 02:24 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sebastian > Heinlein: > > Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan before running a Windows > > application? > > Does that need to have a clamav daemo

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 00:29 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 05:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sebastian > Heinlein: > > AFAIK you are not allowed to virtualize MacOS. > > Which is not enforceable in how many countries...? :) Nevertheless you

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:40 -0500 schrieb Evan: > I hadn't considered the malware aspect, but running any program not in > the official repos opens that door. Running wine apps may actually be > safer since wine never needs root access (the whole win filesystem is > contained in the user's

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 11:12 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory: > If you have a powerpc machine, the MacOnLinux (1) virtual layer > may be useful for many applications (although using alternate virtual > machines may be as convenient). If you have an x86 machine, there are > a number of virtual

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 02:24 +0100 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein: > Lots of your ideas have been discussed at the UDS last week. Furthermore > you should consider that running Windows apps also opens the door to > viruses and worms. > > Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan b

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:58 -0700 schrieb Scott (angrykeyboarder): > > None that would "interest" [some Ubuntu] developers, I suppose You should get used to talk about facts. To support your request you could for example write to the GIMP authors or contact them on IRC and ask if the

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Lots of your ideas have been discussed at the UDS last week. Furthermore you should consider that running Windows apps also opens the door to viruses and worms. Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan before running a Windows application? signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 21:10 -0400 schrieb Evan: > I'd also like to take this opportunity to unofficially request the > ability to change a monitor's colour depth from the "Screen" tab of > Screens and Graphics. I know that most people won't need this, but > there are a few possibilities wher

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 19:11 -0400 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:58 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > > ... > > I know about hiding menu entries, but is there any example of related > > admin/non-admin settings going into one configuration panel, and the > > admin settings being h

Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 17:42 -0400 schrieb Tim Hull: > Hi, Hello Tim, > I have been generally lurking around Ubuntu development for several > months now (since about the Feisty release), and previously had done > the same around the Warty/Hoary time period. Though I have found > Ubuntu to b

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-11-02 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > > Such a solution would probably solve many issues. It should also be > able to hide all "system" settings for users that have no rights to > change them. This is already the case. signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital si

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-16 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2007, 15:22 +0100 schrieb João Pinto: > Scott, > besides myself there other debian/ubuntu contributors which also > contribute to getdeb, when they do it for an official project you > classify them as insiders, and on other project, outsiders ? > What part of our work is not

Re: Fonts installation

2007-08-30 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2007, 12:06 +0530 schrieb shirish: > Hi all, >I tried installing a truetype font by using the instructions in > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FontInstallHowto I tried all the > ways but dunno if the font got installed or not. > I also did a sudo fc-cache -f -v and

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 07.08.2007, 01:04 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Lichota: > Chris Wagner napisał(a): > > Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install > > software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it > > than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
I haveb't look at the code in depth, but have you thought about using the apt python bindings instead of command line calls ("apt-get install --assume-yes" is a bad idea)? aptsources even provides an abstraction of the sources.list. Cheers, Sebastian -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Feedback Request for Prototype Package Tool

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Zitat von William Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt > > Wow. This last week I was just working on a prototype of a program > that does the same thing, that I was calling "Repository Wizard". > > Besides the obvious differences in my project not being as far along

Re: Feedback Request for Prototype Package Tool

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Take a look at these similar projects: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/APTonCD https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt Furthermore the "transportable" repositories do not seem to address your basic problem: the not availability of a package for a specific piece of software. And always keep in mind that i

Re: issues with xorg-xvideo-intel driver

2007-06-01 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 01.06.2007, 23:46 +0530 schrieb shirish: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I have reported this issue > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/107380 > long time back & I'm still facing the issue but nobody has ev

Re: Putting security-based applications as a separate menu entry rather than in Accessories

2007-05-17 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2007, 00:49 +0530 schrieb shirish: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager, > GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based > softwares in a separate menu entry tit

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-24 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 18.03.2007, 23:08 -0700 schrieb Corey Burger: > On 3/12/07, Mehdi Dogguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I just want to know if it is planned to a gui to configure dual screens [1] > > like in other distros (like fedora) ? > > Because, for the moment, the operation i

Re: libgimme and libwps

2007-03-24 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 24.03.2007, 02:15 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer: > Just out of curiosity, I note in the beta that it tries to find codecs > *without* libgimme installed... and further that its not the > dependency of anything anymore; what is it still there for? :) gstreamer provides this feature.

Re: Boot from USB in Linux

2007-03-23 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 23.03.2007, 04:23 -0500 schrieb Georgeta Nistor: > It is possible to install and run Ubuntu on an external drive? I have > in mind 4GB memory stick or flash memory. I do not have USB boot > option in BIOS. > Thanks > Mihai Nistor Please discuss support issues on the user list or ma

Re: Tablet PC and Summer of Code

2007-03-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2007, 20:43 -0700 schrieb Corey Burger: > On 3/21/07, Charlotte Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Corey forwarded my previous message about a Tablet PC related project for > > Summer of Code (thanks Corey), but I thought I would try to rephrase my > > requ

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-13 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 13.03.2007, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Michael R. Head: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 19:28 +0100, Mehdi wrote: > > Oh great ! > > Thanks a lot ! > > Can we expect to have it in feisty ? Or should we wait for feisty+1 ? > > Please see: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/displayconfig-gtk

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.03.2007, 09:58 +0100 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > Hi list, > > I just want to know if it is planned to a gui to configure dual > screens [1] like in other distros (like fedora) ? > Because, for the moment, the operation is not so "user-friendly" and a > lot of persons will appreciate

Re: RHN style Satellite Server for Ubuntu

2007-03-05 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 21:32 +1100 schrieb David Dean: > Hi, > > Is anyone working on an centralized server management system for Ubuntu? > > The basic functionality being distributing commands over "groups" of > servers, checking patch levels remotely, centralized health-checks, > and so on.

Re: Remote Admin Server Spec. Request for discussion.

2007-01-16 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 18:43 +0900 schrieb Arwyn Hainsworth: > Hello, > > There is a need for a remote administration program. The ones > currently available do not suit my needs or those of my clients. As a > result I'm going to have to implement my own. However this time I > would like to

Re: Remote Admin Server Spec. Request for discussion.

2007-01-16 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Quoting Arwyn Hainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > There is a need for a remote administration program. The ones > currently available do not suit my needs or those of my clients. As a > result I'm going to have to implement my own. However this time I > would like to do it 'right'. > > I

Re: Software Sources - remove CD

2007-01-15 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Quoting Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. Just a quick feature request for the "Software Sources" thing. Would > it be possible to make an option to remove a CD repository completely, > rather than just disabling it. Right now, I have the Ubuntu CD listed > eight times there > Please use

Re: "Software Sources" design (Re: An update repository for a custom distro?)

2007-01-10 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Mi, 2007-01-10 at 19:48 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Jan 7, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2007, 13:22 +1300 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > > ... > >> 1. It is a shame that this window needs a "System

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 07.01.2007, 11:39 +0100 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker: > On za, 2007-01-06 at 17:30 -0800, Constantine Evans wrote: > > > > Perhaps it would be better to allow repositories to add an extra file > > that would contain a title and description, and then use that > > information? Such a m

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 07.01.2007, 11:39 +0100 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker: > On za, 2007-01-06 at 17:30 -0800, Constantine Evans wrote: > > > > Perhaps it would be better to allow repositories to add an extra file > > that would contain a title and description, and then use that > > information? Such a m

Re: Gramps Filter navigation improvement

2007-01-07 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Sa, 2007-01-06 at 17:34 -0800, John Bartlett wrote: > I don't know if this is the right forum for a suggestion but if it > isn't, I'm sorry ... > > When entering a search (Filter) term e.g. a name or ID, one has to leave > the keyboard and grab the mouse. > > 1. How hard would it be to make t

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 06.01.2007, 20:23 + schrieb Alec Wright: > Wow! This is a pretty good idea. > In the software sources program, the Third Party tab can be renamed to > Custom Software Sources or something, and there could be a tab added > where you can check some checkboxes for third party repo

Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Hello, I am thinking about providing nice descriptions for some widely used third party repositories: So if you add the apt line e.g. of Skype ("deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free") we could show a nice description in the software sources dialog instead of the very

Re: "Software Sources" design (Re: An update repository for a custom distro?)

2007-01-06 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2007, 01:39 +0100 schrieb Gianmarco Leone: > > > > 14. The final three checkboxes contradict each other in two ways. > > > > - If I uncheck "Check for updates automatically", and check > > "Download updates automatically, but do not install them", > >

Re: "Software Sources" design (Re: An update repository for a custom distro?)

2007-01-06 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2007, 13:22 +1300 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: Hi Matthew! > General feedback: > > 1. It is a shame that this window needs a "System" > "Administration" > menu item of its own. (This seems to be a symptom of Synaptic, > Add/Remove Applications, and Update Manage

Re: ubuntu-desktop metapackage - options?

2007-01-01 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Mo, 2007-01-01 at 00:17 +0100, Christian Leber wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:39:09PM +, Alec Wright wrote: > > > So what does everyone think? could this be acheived in fesity, or will > > we have to wait until feisty+1? > > I don't get it, why should somebody be annoyed by them? > Th

Re: ubuntu-desktop metapackage - options?

2007-01-01 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On So, 2006-12-31 at 22:39 +, Alec Wright wrote: > Ok. Here's the situation. When you install Ubuntu, you might (like me) > not want Firefox, and prefer Epiphany instead. You might prefer mozilla > thunderbird over evolution, or BMPX over Rhythmbox. If you are one of > these people, you probabl

Re: Default font settings in Ubuntu

2006-12-30 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Sa, 2006-12-30 at 00:22 +, Alex Jones wrote: > > I still have the impression that none of the options for font rendering > > currently available comes even near to Windows defaults (That may be a > > matter of taste though). > > It's really not that complicated! Windows uses bytecode-hinte

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-27 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Di, 2006-12-26 at 20:33 +0100, Francesco Fumanti wrote: > >The popularity system is really broken. :-) > >Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... > >Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most > >Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. > > > >Take I

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-26 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Di, 2006-12-26 at 21:35 +1100, Hobbsee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > About popcon - would there be a way to add it to the installer or > something to say "do you want this enabled?", with yes as the default? > > I guess you'd provide more information as to what i

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-26 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Mo, 2006-12-25 at 20:53 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > The popularity system is really broken. :-) > Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... > Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most > Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. > > Take Inkscape fo

Re: An update repository for a custom distro?

2006-12-25 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Di, 2006-12-26 at 03:06 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > Hi, > > I have a custom distro, that have alot of customize packages, I would > like to use the Ubuntu repository for the updates, but I'm afraid that > the customize packages would be replaced with the ubuntu packages upon > update, I'

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-25 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sebastian Heinlein wrote: >> On Fr, 2006-12-22 at 15:13 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: >>   >>> H

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-25 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Fr, 2006-12-22 at 15:13 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I started writing a little bit on this spec so I wouldn't forget it. > > What do you think? How do want to deal with users that are not always online? So I would vote against an integeration in the normal user interface.