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: "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", > >

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: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Alex Jones
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:14 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > 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

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sebastian Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > But since I only use the Ubuntu repositories I would need your help to > collect some repositories. Please reply to this mail which repositories > you use. If you're collecting repositories, you can get a large amount of them, with some brief descriptions,

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Aren Olson
Here's a few useful repositories I use (copied from sources.list): ## Beryl Compositing Window Manager ## Site: http://www.beryl-project.org/ ## GPG key: wget http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -O- | sudo apt-key add - deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main deb-src http://u

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:14 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > 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

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

2007-01-06 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:02 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > Oh, and since everybody loves screenshots: > > http://files.glatzor.de/updates.jpg > > Cheers, > > Sebastian Nice, but I can see a spelling mistake: protocoll should be protocool. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-deve

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

2007-01-06 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:22 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > > In the "Internet Updates" tab: > > > > 12. There is no explanation of the difference between "Important" and > > "Recommended" updates. Why is it possible, for example, to have the > > former turned off and the latter turne

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

2007-01-06 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:44 -0800, John Bartlett wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-01 at 20:25 +, Alec Wright wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:02 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > > > Oh, and since everybody loves screenshots: > > > > > > http://files.glatzor.de/updates.jpg > > > > > > Cheers, > >

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Ernst Persson
I'd like to add #DEBIAN MULTIMEDIA deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimediaunstable main to the list. It's one of many mirrors of cource... BR /Ernst On 1/6/07, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am thinking about providing nice descriptions fo

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

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Matthew Kuiken
Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > 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 so

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

2007-01-06 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 1/6/07, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the configuration part works already. All I still need to > implement is the inconsistent state and the revert action. But these are > low hanging fruits. > > Oh, and since everybody loves screenshots: > > http://files.glatzor.de

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On za, 2007-01-06 at 21:59 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > I'd like to add > #DEBIAN MULTIMEDIA Yes, let's add Debian repos to Ubuntu! Let's lt all our users do weird lubc upgrades again! Woohoo! -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Gramps Filter navigation improvement

2007-01-06 Thread John Bartlett
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 the 'Enter' key complete the input instead (or as well as)? 2. Is it

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Matthew Kuiken wrote: > If a repository is not found in the configuration file that you keep > this description list in, a comment one line above the deb line in the > sources.list is used. When new repositories are added using the > Software Sources dialog, it could prompt for this description

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 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 method would require that repositories do extra work > to support it, but I expec