Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-05 Thread Craig Bakalian
Hi, I am also having many problems on natty. Logging in and out is the biggest problem. Font smoothing doesn't work when logging in and out of an account, or the only way font smoothing works is from starting up (re booting), and the initial login from that boot. If I log out from the initial b

Re: Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Davyd McColl wrote: > On the other hand, I was dismayed, upon upgrading to 11.04 to find: > 1) My personal choice of GNOME was stomped over with Unity. I had to change > this at the login screen. It's trivial, I know, but it violates the > principle of least surpris

Re: Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 May 2011 08:26, Davyd McColl wrote: > reporting this. Indeed, I would love any suggestion as to where to report > this so that someone with more time (and probably more smarts) than me can > have a look at it. Just run ubuntu-bug and fill in the blanks to file a display bug. Jeremy Bicha -

Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-04 Thread Davyd McColl
Just a small(-ish) note on the Unity vs GNOME thread running here... I wholeheartedly support diversity in products/desktops/choice. So, whilst I've tried Unity and personally it does not fit my requirements at all (it just felt odd and, imo is better suited to wide-screen displays than my old 128

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-03 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: > By contrast, I am struggling to get rid of this horrible Unity thing > and get Gnome Shell. > > Ubuntu is pulling a Microsoft by using its clout to push a product and > kill another; they can make Unity default, but they've actively > removed

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 23:03 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Yes. python-kde4 and python-qt4 would love to let you do that. As much as I would love to show up Gnome by writing a qt4 gdm-greeter, it doesn't really work well. Gdm has issues with compositing that I can't quite get my head around. Pe

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread John Moser
On 04/29/11 23:40, Bilal Akhtar wrote: Why GNOME3 didn't make it to 11.04 is a different story. There are a handful of Ubuntu Desktop developers who had to focus on Unity work. It would be difficult for Unity to be made on then-unstable GNOME3 libraries and it would have been equally difficult f

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Bilal Akhtar
On Saturday 30 April 2011 08:47 AM, John Moser wrote: > On 04/29/11 23:11, Deric Stowell wrote: >> My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA >> upgrade. now it all makes sense. >> > > > Yeah, Ubuntu has a habit of playing the same market game as everyone > else (ship an

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread John Moser
On 04/29/11 23:11, Deric Stowell wrote: My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA upgrade. now it all makes sense. Yeah, Ubuntu has a habit of playing the same market game as everyone else (ship an incomplete i.e. broken product, release patches); but same rules

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Deric Stowell
My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA upgrade. now it all makes sense. Thanks!! Deric Stowell Technology Consultant http://sandyeggoboy.net"/> My profiles: [image: Facebook] [image: Google] [image: Word

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, April 29, 2011 10:42:50 PM John Moser wrote: > - Installing Gnome3 from the PPA really does completely hose the > system; after that, Unity and Gnome-classic break, only Gnome-shell > works, and Gnome-shell doesn't work with my ATi card (it skews the > contents of windows diagonally

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, April 29, 2011 10:33:20 PM Martin Owens wrote: > Oh woe! Won't someone let me write cool stuff in python? Yes. python-kde4 and python-qt4 would love to let you do that. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread John Moser
On 04/29/11 22:33, Martin Owens wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket and

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: > > The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket and visited the moon, brought back a wh

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread John Moser
By contrast, I am struggling to get rid of this horrible Unity thing and get Gnome Shell. Ubuntu is pulling a Microsoft by using its clout to push a product and kill another; they can make Unity default, but they've actively removed Gnome Shell to the tune of ...well the PPAs all say "THIS CAN BRE

Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Jones
Just a quick congrats on the 11.04 release. I was previously running Fedora and openSUSE because I was angry with the previous state of Ubuntu. Yet the 11.04 release has made me return. Well done to all the developers and all others involved to make such an awesome release possible. Cheers and reg