Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/3/23 Marius Gedminas : > Personally, for me the desktop startup is (or feels) I/O-bound, with the > panel applets showing up one by one with agonizing pauses in between and > the disk running at full throttle. Yes, it is. In jaunty, the current warm start (everything in cache, ie. login, logo

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-24 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá George e a todos. On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:04:55 George Farris wrote: > 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 wou

Re: Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-24 Thread Martin Soto
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:55 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: ... > While I don't know how this _could_ be done, I agree that there are good > reasons why it _should_. My particular pet peeve are the screensaver > packages, where there are some screensavers that I want removed because > they don't act

Re: Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-24 Thread Derek Broughton
Martin Soto wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:55 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > ... >> While I don't know how this _could_ be done, I agree that there are good >> reasons why it _should_. My particular pet peeve are the screensaver >> packages, where there are some screensavers that I want remov

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-24 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/3/24 Timo Jyrinki : And the I/O problem comes from the hundreds/thousands of small files that are inefficiently read. The amount of transferred data is not that much that it would take more than 2-4s to read on modern even laptop hard drives, if the data would be sequentially available in a

Call for testing - DVD playback related

2009-03-24 Thread Onkar Shinde
Hi all, This is a call for testing for DVD playback in jaunty with players totem-gstreamer, mplayer, VLC. xine based players are not affected. I myself have broken dvd playback after the migration to libdvdread4. But it looks like the playback is not broken for everybody and for all DVD types. I h