Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-23 Thread Milan
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 who want to use this fe

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

2007-02-23 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: hidden error messages

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi, Mike Cornelison [2007-02-22 16:09 +0100]: > When a GUI application outputs error messages to stdout or stderr, it is > like writing them into a black hole. They are actually supposed to go to ~/.xsession-errors. Please file bugs if that doesn't happen for a particular case. At least it work

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-23 Thread Milan
I'm not tying to make a troll in any way, and I'm sorry if this subject is fulling the list with useless arguments. And I don't think neither that we should compare Linux to Windows: what I propose is really far from ActiveX, and I will castigate anyone intending to create this for Linux. But

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 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
I interely support Milan idea. Please stop pulling the topic elsewhere. On 2/23/07, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not tying to make a troll in any way, and I'm sorry if this subject > is fulling the list with useless arguments. And I don't think neither > that we should compare Linux to W

More explicit names for iso images ?

2007-02-23 Thread Laurent
Hello Now, every iso files of feisty (for instance) are named feisty-desktop-i386.iso. This is the same name for Ubuntu Herd-3 and Kubuntu Herd-4. I think that names should be more explicit. As for example herd3-desktop-i386.iso and kherd4-desktop.i386.iso. The name should c

Re: More explicit names for iso images ?

2007-02-23 Thread john levin
Laurent wrote: > Hello > > >Now, every iso files of feisty (for instance) are named > feisty-desktop-i386.iso. > This is the same name for Ubuntu Herd-3 and Kubuntu Herd-4. > > I think that names should be more explicit. As for example > herd3-desktop-i386.iso > and > kherd4-de

Re: hidden error messages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael R. Head
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:51 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi, > > Mike Cornelison [2007-02-22 16:09 +0100]: > > When a GUI application outputs error messages to stdout or stderr, it is > > like writing them into a black hole. > > They are actually supposed to go to ~/.xsession-errors. Please file

Re: More explicit names for iso images ?

2007-02-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:08:03PM +, john levin wrote: > Laurent wrote: > > Hello > > > > > >Now, every iso files of feisty (for instance) are named > > feisty-desktop-i386.iso. > > This is the same name for Ubuntu Herd-3 and Kubuntu Herd-4. > > > > I think that names shou

Feisty wireless issue noticed on a blog

2007-02-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/02/wpa-wireless-just-works-in-ubuntu-704.html The review of wireless, especially WPA, in Herd 4 is glowing, but there is one issue he mentions (I don't have a wireless connection, so I'm just forwarding this along :) "The network manager software is smart en

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 22

2007-02-23 Thread Mike Cornelison
<< They are actually supposed to go to ~/.xsession-errors. Please file bugs if that doesn't happen for a particular case. At least it works fine for me with f-spot under Gnome. >> YES, that's the problem. And the real problem is that Linux gurus don't understand that it's a problem. I went look

Re: Feisty wireless issue noticed on a blog

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Robitaille
On 2/23/07, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/02/wpa-wireless-just-works-in-ubuntu-704.html > > The review of wireless, especially WPA, in Herd 4 is glowing, but > there is one issue he mentions (I don't have a wireless connection, so > I'm just forwa