Inclusion of theora beta 1 for gutsy

2007-09-28 Thread Onkar Shinde
Hi all, I would like to propose the inclusion of libtheora beta 1 in gutsy. The latest version provides more spec compliant decoder and performance improvement in encoding/decoding. I have tested totem, mplayer and ffmpeg2theora and haven't found any breakage so far. Performance looks to be improv

Re: Gutsy Release page points to beta DVDs only

2007-09-28 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see releases.ubuntu.com - this is a more sensible place for released, officially supported versions of Ubuntu anwyay. (Yes, there's a bug filed about how it is confusing) Hobbsee Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > I have been eagerly awaiting the rele

Gutsy Release page points to beta DVDs only

2007-09-28 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
I have been eagerly awaiting the release of the Gutsy Beta and checking https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseSchedule for updates. It has a link to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/beta/ (containing only DVD images). Eventually I learnt that there was http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/gutsybeta

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-28 Thread Tormod Volden
Evan Dandrea ubuntu.com> writes: > Sorry to be so late in reply. We actually already have most of the code > for this as a result of work that was done for the Wubi specification. > We just need to add it to the isolinux menu, but we're waiting for Hardy > to do that. Interesting. Is there a boo

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Sack
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:15PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > And third, some teams use statuses in odd ways. For example, a while ago > the Ubuntu Mozilla team were using "In Progress" when they really meant > "Won't Fix" (I don't know whether they still do this). And as we've seen >

Re: Gutsy Release page points to beta DVDs only

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi, Aaron Whitehouse [2007-09-28 22:21 +1200]: > (I also haven't seen the usual post to the announce list...) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-September/000103.html Maybe you are subscribed to u-devel-announce, but not to u-announce? Pitti -- Martin Pitthttp://ww

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Dominik Wagenfuehr wrote: > most users welcome the decision to activate Compiz by default. But > others are a little bit unhappy with it [1][2]. Add me to the list of (currently) unhappy people. As soon as you have two displays connected, Compiz behaves very strange. Not even simple actions li

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-28 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:16:16AM +, Tormod Volden wrote: > Interesting. Is there a boot option that I can use to check it out? Add 'automatic-ubiquity' to the kernel cmdline on boot. Thanks, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Strange problems using laptop + ATI graphics adapter in Gutsy

2007-09-28 Thread Thomas Novin
Hello all I felt that Gutsy was working good on my workstation at home now so I decided to switch from Feisty also on my laptop (hp hc8430 + ati x1600). Big mistake :) I had very bad performance and saw very high CPU usage from the Xgl-process. This I reported as bug 146285[1]. I then discovered

Q. Why do so many processes owned by me have PPID=1?

2007-09-28 Thread wtautz
Hi, Just wondering if someone could explain the mechanism of gnome desktop with respect to processes. In particular gnome-terminal has PPID=1 If I launch apps from gnome-panel this seems to be the case by default. I assume this is by design? Just trying to get more insights into how things work

Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:15PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: And third, some teams use statuses in odd ways. For example, a while ago the Ubuntu Mozilla team were using "In Progress" when they really meant "Won't Fix" (I don't know