Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
When doing something like this one should be careful because here you have a copy of all files that are modified during the upgrade. Applications keeping these files open will write to the old copies, and applications which reopen the file after the upgrade will not see this data. This may be d

Re: fast-user-switch-applet

2009-03-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 12/03/2009 Matthew East wrote: > it's slightly odd to expect them to go to the right hand side to log > out or shutdown This comes from older releases where we had two important things in the four corners: menus, show desktop, trash and power off button. I always loved the power button in its

Re: Keyboard layout change visual feedback. Thoughts?

2009-03-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Dylan McCall wrote: > Here is a cute little bug (and patch) I filed upstream... > > Is it on the right track? Suggestions, etc. would be great :) > > It looks good, but I think it should also say how you can change it back, because if you accidentily hit those key

Re: Keyboard layout change visual feedback. Thoughts?

2009-03-15 Thread Dylan McCall
> I like it. How detailed does it get regarding what layout you've switched > to? > I used to use the Keyboard Indicator Applet to switch between US and US > International. That was really annoying because it showed the same thing (a > US flag) for both...which isn't much of an indication. S

GTK+ 2.16 in Jaunty?

2009-03-15 Thread Dylan McCall
Sorry, this sort of question gets asked all the time but at least it's a change from the "will you package Firefox 4 Alpha?" type :P So, GTK+ 2.16 was just released and there's already an app I can't compile: Epiphany 2.27! Bit of a shame when I'm running Jaunty. The release adds some new feature

Re: GTK+ 2.16 in Jaunty?

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 15:21 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > Sorry, this sort of question gets asked all the time but at least it's a > change from the "will you package Firefox 4 Alpha?" type :P > > So, GTK+ 2.16 was just released and there's already an app I can't > compile: Epiphany 2.27! > Bit of

Ubuntu Desktop Security Defaults

2009-03-15 Thread Null Ack
Gday folks :) There is difference between what I foresee as sensible security defaults for our desktop build against what is being currently delivered. It may very well be that there is aspects to the current setup that I am not fully aware of, and I'd like to better understand the reasoning behin