Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-05-05 Thread Craig Bakalian
Hi, I am also having many problems on natty. Logging in and out is the biggest problem. Font smoothing doesn't work when logging in and out of an account, or the only way font smoothing works is from starting up (re booting), and the initial login from that boot. If I log out from the initial b

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Alexandre Strube
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Francis Bolduc wrote: > I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my > needs. What am I going to do in 6 months? > Adapt and move on. And what is with the thing about do not recognizing icons? Do you have some psychological disability or are y

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Fergal Daly
On 5 May 2011 09:55, Alexandre Strube wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Francis Bolduc wrote: >> >> I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my >> needs. What am I going to do in 6 months? > > Adapt and move on. And what is with the thing about do not recognizing > ic

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:52 -0400, Francis Bolduc wrote: > > Then, I started reading about Unity on the web. I found out that in > the next version of Ubuntu, the "Ubuntu Classic" session will be > dropped, leaving me with a choice between Unity and GNOME 3. Not > knowing what GNOME 3 was, I decid

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Patrick Goetz
From: Jeremy Bicha Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 23:24:17 -0400 Unity actually is customizable, perhaps not to the extent that power users like. I'm hoping that a simple user-friendly tool will be available in 11.04 to change the settings without needing to dig around CCSM or dconf-editor. I think yo

why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Igor Kolar
Hi all, Why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage? Also, the title used to say "Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings", now it's just "Homepage | Ubuntu". This might not seem like a big issue, bug given Ubuntu's commitment to open source it's at least a bit strange. I wo

Re: why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:35 +0200, Igor Kolar wrote: > This might not seem like a big issue, bug given Ubuntu's commitment to > open source it's at least a bit strange. I would appreciate some > background on when this happened, any why. Because Ubuntu isn't Linux and Linux isn't an operating sys

Re: why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Dylan McCall
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Martin Owens wrote: > I'm more chaffed by the lack of 'Free Software' or 'Free and Open > Source' on the homepage. That shows a lack of support more than > including the word 'Linux' there. > > Martin, There is, actually, a block of text that mentions it: “Ubuntu

Re: why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
FUD Alert: please exercise the resistance > Why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage? The same reason why you would not run across the word "Debian" on the main page, unless you explicitly look for it among other 20 menu items: For commercial purposes C

Re: why is there no mention of the word "Linux" on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 11:11 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: > There is, actually, a block of text that mentions it: > “Ubuntu is, and always will be, absolutely free. Created by the best > open-source experts from all over the world, Ubuntu is available in 24 > languages and ready for down

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Manish Sinha
On 05/05/2011 09:22 AM, Bilal Akhtar wrote: Hello there! As you've said, in Ubuntu 11.10 users will have the option to install GNOME 3 + Shell instead of Unity. One thing to note is that GNOME Panel hasn't died (yet), its still being actively developed as a GNOME Shell fallback for systems with

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread pec...@gmail.com
2011/5/5 Manish Sinha : > On 05/05/2011 09:22 AM, Bilal Akhtar wrote: >> >> Hello there! >> >> As you've said, in Ubuntu 11.10 users will have the option to install >> GNOME 3 + Shell instead of Unity. One thing to note is that GNOME Panel >> hasn't died (yet), its still being actively developed as

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Francis Bolduc
Thanks for all the answers. I'll try to give a few answers of my own to questions and concerns that were addressed directly to me. Jeremy: You're right about misconceptions. I had to dig quite a bit to find the few items of verfiable information about the future of Ubuntu and GNOME concerning the

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, May 06, 2011 12:23:40 AM Francis Bolduc wrote: > When computers are concerned, I'm usually stubborn and conservative. I > know exactly what I like and dislike and I do everything I can to get > rid of what I dislike on my own computer. JFTR, that sounds a lot like the KDE target audienc

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Francis Bolduc
> JFTR, that sounds a lot like the KDE target audience.  My experience with > seeing other long term Gnome users switch is that they are initially > overwhelmed by the number of options and the customability, but once they get > over trying to tweak everything, just because they can, and take a lit