Re: notify-osd & specification: something is missing/changed?

2009-03-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolò Chieffo wrote on 18/03/09 18:23: > > I've read the page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD which contains > the notify-osd spec (tell me if I'm wrong) and I noticed that some > parts of the spec are not present: >... > I've just written here to

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-19 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Mackenzie e a todos. On Tuesday 17 March 2009 21:26:05 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > I thought he was saying that the OEMs agreed with you... I'm sleepy and have bad memory, but AFAIR this all tread as been kept active because Design Team as one or more _closed source_ studies from OEMs that sta

Re: notify-osd & specification: something is missing/changed?

2009-03-19 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
Thank you very much, I will report them -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: notify-osd & specification: something is missing/changed?

2009-03-19 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I've seen that in notify-osd source there are some calls that contains the name "blur". Does it blur for you? Maybe it's a problem of my video card... -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/li

VPN package installer UI (old nework offline icon)

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Barbaccia
Going OT, would any one go For or Against having NM vpn option auto > launching some kind of VPN friendly UI to get the NM-pptp/openvpn/cvpn like > we do for codecs? Changed the subject to something more appropriate... This was misleading to me as well (as I just setup a VPN last night for a col

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-19 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 18/03/2009 Michael Vogt wrote: > This is > pretty rare, but it does sometimes happens. > How can this be rare if the user is supposed to test things after the upgrade? I didn't think about it but it's actually risky - every application can potentially be non-forward-compatible. Users should

Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread George Farris
Hi all, You know what would be very cool for new users. Once they have a package installed and decide they don't want it anymore, they could right click on the application menu item and see "Uninstall program". This would immediately remove the package, appropriate dialogs and authorizations woul

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Oli Warner
A general "edit mode" would be great because Alacarte is a pain to use. I'm imagining right clicking the menu I want to edit, clicking edit and then being able to drag things around, or right click items to do further things (hide an item, create further levels, uninstall its package, etc)... With

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:56 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: ... > How can this be rare if the user is supposed to test things after the > upgrade? I didn't think about it but it's actually risky - every > application can potentially be non-forward-compatible. Users should be > adviced to use the

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Joao Pinto
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, George Farris wrote: > Hi all, > > You know what would be very cool for new users. Once they have a > package installed and decide they don't want it anymore, they could > right click on the application menu item and see "Uninstall program". > This would immediate

volunteer tor maintainer

2009-03-19 Thread Travis
Hi, Regarding: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tor/+bug/328442 I am willing to maintain the tor packages, I think. What do I do first? -- Obama Nation | It's not like I'm encrypting... it's more like I've developed a massive entropy deficiency | http://www.subsubpacefield.org/~travi

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 19/03/2009 Joao Pinto wrote: > > +1 > > Mosf of the times we realize the bunch of applications that we no > longer use/need when we search on the menu. I think linuxmint already has this so it's just a matter of shameless free-software-blessed copying? Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss ma

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Jonh Wendell
Em Qui, 2009-03-19 às 19:41 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu: > On 19/03/2009 Joao Pinto wrote: > > > > +1 > > > > Mosf of the times we realize the bunch of applications that we no > > longer use/need when we search on the menu. > > I think linuxmint already has this so it's just a matter of sh

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Barbaccia
I agree. Two places to accomplish the same thing seems confusing. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jonh Wendell wrote: > Em Qui, 2009-03-19 às 19:41 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu: > > On 19/03/2009 Joao Pinto wrote: > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Mosf of the times we realize the bunch of applica

patch to add file transfer notification to pidgin-libnotify

2009-03-19 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345522 the patch is there and ready to be tested, it works for me. it needs some review especially on strings. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: volunteer tor maintainer

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Travis wrote: > I am willing to maintain the tor packages, I think. Work with the couple of us who have stepped forward: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/007373.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/arch

No option to "save history as" in Gnomes terminal

2009-03-19 Thread Nigel Henry
In KDE's Konsole, there is an option to "save history as", but that option does not exist in Gnomes terminal. I have a directory in my /home/user directory named History-files, and whenever I do an update, I save the history from KDE's Konsole, suitably datestamped to this directory. Gnomes te

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Mike Jones
My explanation would honestly be because the add-remove dialog is a pain to use if I'm kind of in the middle of something else and I realize that I really would prefer not to have application "x" sitting on my system. The space required to store it isn't really what bothers me. My smallest drive i

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Oli Warner
2009/3/19 Andrew Barbaccia > I agree. Two places to accomplish the same thing seems confusing. That's like saying files shouldn't have context menus because you can do [nearly] everything there by left-clicking in some form. Don't take this personally, but it's a poorly thought out response. T

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Barbaccia
> > *When I load up the Application menu, I want to run a particular > application*. I'm trying to get things done. Interrupting that process to > search for a package in a package manager, gets nothing accomplished. But if > I could right click and deal with 90% of the process *from the menu*, my

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 19.03.2009 um 22:08 schrieb Oli Warner: > I don't see how adding context menus to the menu items could > confuse anybody Right-click menus inside a left-click menu? I can't imagine any user interface guideline agrees here. Many people use menus with a single click (mouse down - drag to

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Remco
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: >> -- there *are* context menu's on almost everything else in Ubuntu > > Yes, almost everything. Everything exept menus them selfs. That's not true. The menu has a context menu with the following options: Add this launcher to panel Add this

Re: notify-osd & specification: something is missing/changed?

2009-03-19 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thursday 19 March 2009 5:45:17 am Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > I've seen that in notify-osd source there are some calls that contains > the name "blur". Does it blur for you? Maybe it's a problem of my > video card... It can only do the dimming/blurring if you use a compositing window manager like

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Markus, I once was in a Lighting Talk which was describing some interface research related to context. It was fascinating because it showed the difference between nouns (applications) and verbs (run, delete, uninstall) On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 00:35 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Right-click men

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thursday 19 March 2009 10:46:11 pm Martin Owens wrote: > Hi Markus, > > I once was in a Lighting Talk which was describing some interface > research related to context. It was fascinating because it showed the > difference between nouns (applications) and verbs (run, delete, > uninstall) > > O