Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > Firts, I don't understand why "language-support-translations-XX" > install a package(s) "thunderbird-locale-xx-XX" when Ubuntu don't > install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution > as mail client, non? It's due to the way translations are handled

Re: How can we run the default browser under Linux?

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Lars e a todos. On Wednesday 04 February 2009 12:05:30 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > In Debian, and Ubuntu, and systems based on them, you can run the > sensible-browser command and it will figure out what the user wants. That actually opens epiphany, when my jaunty system is set to user FF3.1 --

Re: Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Nigel e a todos. This should be sent to ubuntu-users. So please reply only there. On Tuesday 03 February 2009 17:23:40 Nigel Henry wrote: > I have vlc installed on both my Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 installs, > but vlc will not play dvd's. It finds the optical drive ok, and I get the

[RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Hi. Ever since 6.10 Beta 1, I've been a alpha/beta tester of all Ubuntu releases. Like me, there are several other users that at same point start testing the development branches. But the main difficulty I have in keeping track during the development are the changes that occur. I usually track t

Re: How can we run the default browser under Linux?

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 21:34 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Lars e a todos. > > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 12:05:30 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > In Debian, and Ubuntu, and systems based on them, you can run the > > sensible-browser command and it will figure out what the user wants. >

Re: How can we run the default browser under Linux?

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Mackenzie e a todos. On Thursday 05 February 2009 16:57:51 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > You only *think* it's configured to use FF3.1 then. Did you check your > "sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser"? I'm pretty sure, Mac: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser There are 5 al

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/2/5 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo : > Hi. > Ever since 6.10 Beta 1, I've been a alpha/beta tester of all Ubuntu releases. > Like me, there are several other users that at same point start testing the > development branches. > > But the main difficulty I have in keeping track during the development a

Re: How can we run the default browser under Linux?

2009-02-05 Thread Ioannis Vranos
I am the original poster of this thread. I decided to use xdg-open, and the application, which is named Glass, can be downloaded along with its source code, from here: http://www.cpp-software.net -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or uns

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Sense e a todos. On Thursday 05 February 2009 18:32:54 Sense Hofstede wrote: > Maybe an Identi.ca stream, maybe partly automatically generated, would > be useful? Or weekly posts on the QA blog? As much as I like µblogging and RSS feeds, I rather have a choice for email. -- Hi, I'm BUGabund

Re: How can we run the default browser under Linux?

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:47 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Mackenzie e a todos. > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 16:57:51 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > You only *think* it's configured to use FF3.1 then. Did you check your > > "sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser"? > > I'm

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Chen
--- On Wed, 2/4/09, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Still, and understand I dont want to impose any more work > to the already busy scribblers, but it would be nice to have > either an email announcement, or a wiki page with ALL > changes of policy, UI, package adding/removal. > > Stuff like th

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Dan e a todos. On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:16:27 Dan Chen wrote: > > Stuff like the changes PulseAudio in jaunty is an example > > of what would fit into this. > > There have not been significant policy, UI, or package additions/ > removals to base PulseAudio or ALSA userspace components

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Chen
--- On Thu, 2/5/09, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > I mean the going away of the old alsa controls that opened > from the audio applet. So you'd like documented the changes in Desktop components. > Maybe I wasnt clear here: > This is not meant FOR Devs, but for testers and users. > Of course th

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Dan e a todos. On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:32:27 Dan Chen wrote: > > --- On Thu, 2/5/09, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > > I mean the going away of the old alsa controls that opened > > from the audio applet. > > So you'd like documented the changes in Desktop components. Not all chang

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Loïc Martin : > Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: >> Firts, I don't understand why "language-support-translations-XX" >> install a package(s) "thunderbird-locale-xx-XX" when Ubuntu don't >> install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution >> as mail client, non? > It's due to th

Re: [RFC] Improve communication with testing users about master key changes in development branches

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Chen
We use package changelogs to describe some changes; you can find them in /usr/share/doc/$package/changelog.* As for volunteering, I was referring specifically to making the wiki document. I already expend countless non-job hours working on the packages, so any additional effort by other communi

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:57 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > If they know English, do not need English support of Ubuntu. > If they do not know English, I do not think the English support of > Ubuntu could change something. There are different values of "know." They might know enough English to

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan : > There are different values of "know." They might know enough English to > file a bug saying "Firefox crashed" but then the logs they post will be > in, for example, Croatian. Most triagers don't speak Croatian, so we > can't read the logs. And the reporter might not

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:20 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > 2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan : > > There are different values of "know." They might know enough English to > > file a bug saying "Firefox crashed" but then the logs they post will be > > in, for example, Croatian. Most triagers don't spea

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan : >> Although the Ubuntu user has installed English translations, he use >> French as the default language because it was that he chose when he >> installed Ubuntu. > > But that option to re-run with "LANG=en_US firefox" and reproduce the > bug to get English logs is gone

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:50 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > 2009/2/5 Mackenzie Morgan : > >> Although the Ubuntu user has installed English translations, he use > >> French as the default language because it was that he chose when he > >> installed Ubuntu. > > > > But that option to re-run with

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 15:47 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:57 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > > If they know English, do not need English support of Ubuntu. > > If they do not know English, I do not think the English support of > > Ubuntu could change something. > > Th

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:14 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > IOW, there's really no reason to specifically install the English > language packs, if you don't want to use a locale of en_US or whatever. > Certainly you don't need to do it for any sort of debugging purposes. > If you want to force "no local

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
2009/2/6 Paul Smith : > I thought I'd just post this so everyone is on the same page WRT > internationalization in GNU/Linux systems. For those that already know, > sorry for the noise :-) > > GNU/Linux uses the gettext package for i18n. There are other packages > used by other UNIX systems, whic

LDAP/ActiveDirectory log-in on Ubuntu

2009-02-05 Thread John Moser
I have a really, really hard time recommending Ubuntu to schools, at all. I can't recommend something that, as far as I know, relies entirely on local administration. I know I could dig through 5 files for this but it's just annoying; for schools or the most basic 3-computer networks, Fedora Core

Re: LDAP/ActiveDirectory log-in on Ubuntu

2009-02-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:03 -0500, John Moser wrote: > I have a really, really hard time recommending Ubuntu to schools, at > all. I can't recommend something that, as far as I know, relies > entirely on local administration. I know I could dig through 5 files > for this but it's just annoying; f

Re: LDAP/ActiveDirectory log-in on Ubuntu

2009-02-05 Thread System User
Hi John, Did you try likewise-open? Its an open source product that allows you to join Active Directory domains with a single command. There is also a gui in the likewise-open-gui package. If I remember correctly it was introduced into main with 8.04 and it is the same product I belive is used

"Open With" dialog not user-friendly

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Novin
This bug really needs some attention: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/18995 It should, AFAIK, be a high priority bug and a release stopper. It is not reasonable to expect that the average Ubuntu-user is able to find the correct helper application for the file that they are downloading and