Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/26 Jan Claeys : > Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny > Piccirillo: >> Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =] > > Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote.   ;-) > > That makes it much faster to read mail! > It's also faster (and cheaper) fo

Re: replacing xsane by gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
I'm also intersted to replace xsane. Yesterday I needed to scan a paper and I could't find out how to zoom on a portion of text without loosing resolution! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

Re: Disabling update-manager

2009-04-26 Thread John Vivirito
On 04/25/2009 05:20 AM, Odysseus Flappington wrote: > 2009/4/25 John Vivirito : >> Without removing update-manager i have tried to uncheck everything in >> gconf-editor under update-manager and update-notifier. I also unchecked >> check updates in software sources and yet it still pops up all the t

Re: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 25/04/2009 alle 20.44 +0200, Andreas Wenning ha scritto: > > > Until now I've only heard talk about the reverse search, and that was > the > reason for bringing kdvi back in Intrepid. You might be right that > forward > search doesn't work in Okular; then that is indeed a valid r

Re: replacing xsane by gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Yes, it is right time to replace xsane with gnome-scan and get some order in Scanning business on Ubuntu/Gnome. As far as I know, Étienne Bersac has started work on 0.7 which was/is planned to become part of GNOME 2.28. However, it should be asked to him if could achieve stability before 9.10 featu

Re: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Andreas Wenning
On Sunday 26 April 2009 12:05:29 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Yes, in the end tex users may be more keen to do things "by hand", but > it should have been added to the release notes (can they be modified > now?). Sorry for coming up about this too late. However: kdvi was in the > jaunty archive until

Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Andreas, > The fact is, that we don't like to have unmaintained packages in the archive, > kdvi in this case is one of them. It was re-introduced in intrepid solely to > fill the gap for some features missing in okular. (If some people starts > maintaining it and releases new versions, it c

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Anzan Hoshin Roshi
2009/4/26 Martin Owens > > The other option is to move these things to an "unmaintained" repository > where users can have the initiative to install things they want but also > be made aware of it's unmaintained nature (perhaps even encouraging > developers to maintain it). At least then people w

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi Martin On Sunday 26 April 2009 17:58:20 Martin Owens wrote: > Hey Andreas, > > > The fact is, that we don't like to have unmaintained packages in the > > archive, kdvi in this case is one of them. It was re-introduced in > > intrepid solely to fill the gap for some features missing in okular. (

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
> At the point where Kdvi was removed: > - All important features that had been reported as missing in Okular compared > to Kdvi, had now been added to Okular. > - Kdvi is unmaintained. > - Kdvi is an KDE3 application where a KDE4 replacement exists. > So those three things combined was the reaso

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:02:21 -0400 Martin Owens wrote: > >> At the point where Kdvi was removed: >> - All important features that had been reported as missing in Okular compared >> to Kdvi, had now been added to Okular. >> - Kdvi is unmaintained. >> - Kdvi is an KDE3 application where a KDE4 rep

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:58 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > More usefully would be to assess the bit-rot, number of bugs, any > critical or security issues which makes it dangerous. [...] > baring any security issues I see no reason why it should be removed. > (although I'm sure these things are asses

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Danny Piccirillo wrote: > In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has > been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, > the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in. Working > towards improving FOSS games and developing its communi

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 48

2009-04-26 Thread solaris manzur
i agree about replacing xsane by gnome-scan -- 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: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Danny Piccirillo wrote: > > In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has > > been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, > > the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in.

gnome-scan

2009-04-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2009-04-26 kello 21:41 -0500, solaris manzur kirjoitti: > i agree about replacing xsane by gnome-scan Are we talking about flegita? (There is no gnome-scan package in jaunty, and I can't find a command by that name.) Flegita doesn't find my scanner, which is attached to another computer, and