Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 19/06/2009 Alan Pope wrote: > > 2009/6/19 Danny Piccirillo : > > > And sadly, Banshee (mono) may soon be replacing Rhythmbox in > Ubuntu > > > > > Lets not go down that road huh? > I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb cover the basic needs one may have.

F-Spot Import Was: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/6/20 Vincenzo Ciancia : > I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb > cover the basic needs one may have. I sometimes wanted to use f-spot but the > fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives  an "alien" and > feeling to it, in the sense that it se

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 01:47 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > After reading this post on Insane Coding (via Slashdot) it seems that > PulseAudio is actually a very bad choice in the long term due to > horrible latency [Data needed] > and lower sound quality [Data needed] > and that we should work t

RE: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Davyd McColl
Personally, I would welcome just about anything which would help us to lose PulseAudio. Or magically transform PulseAudio into something which doesn't suck. Either way would be fine. Allow me to elaborate (or skip the rest of this post if you don't care): I've had an SB Live for ages. One of the m

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Saturday 20 June 2009 6:30:07 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and > gthumb cover the basic needs one may have. Agreed on Rhythmbox. Not so much on GThumb. AFAICT, it displays the images as though cataloged...and then as soon as I

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
OSSv4 is driver stuff. It'd be an ALSA replacement, not a PulseAudio replacement--and like hell ALSA's getting replaced. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss maili

Re: F-Spot Import Was: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Tim Zakharov
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 11:49 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/6/20 Vincenzo Ciancia : > > I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb > > cover the basic needs one may have. I sometimes wanted to use f-spot but the > > fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gi

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Tim Zakharov
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > >an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the > > program is doing something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space). > > Seei

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tim Zakharov wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > > >an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the > > > program is doing som

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Saturday 20 June 2009 5:31:31 pm Evan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tim Zakharov wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > > > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > > > >an "alien" and feeling to it, in

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > PulseAudio is actually a very bad choice in the long term due to horrible > latency and lower sound quality, and that we should work to use OSS v4. It's > a long read but seems to be worth it. What do others think about this? Adding more l

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Davyd McColl wrote: > I've had an SB Live for ages. One of the most redeeming features of this > card is hardware mixing. Meaning that I didn't care about OSS lockups or > ALSA's dmix. Too bad that hardware multiopen support comes at a price: all streams are forcib