Xubuntu HugDay

2008-09-22 Thread Charlie Kravetz
time. Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your response, since I am not on all the mailing lists. Charlie Kravetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Xubuntu HugDay coordinator Jannis Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Xubuntu Xfce Liaison Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Xubuntu Debian Liai

(X)Ubuntu HugDay

2008-09-30 Thread Charlie Kravetz
help. If you're new to all this, head to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs Have a nice day from the bugsquad, -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- U

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 When I read this bug, bug #285595, it appears to be filed against Hardy? Please give more information in the bug report, such as what version of Ubuntu, if it is intrepid, which ISO image. Also, take a look at Debugging Procedures, https:/

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-03 Thread Charlie Kravetz
tories. There are many apps available which official repositories do not list, and the user can install on their own. That they elect not to add the repository to the list should not be reason to say the app is not needed by the user. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914

Re: [comment request]New Blueprint for UDS Jaunty

2008-11-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:44:19 +0100 f5inet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I register a new blueprint/spec for Jaunty. > > Please, take a look and comment it. > > Thanks in advance. It is hard to comment on a page I can not find. What is the page? Thanks. -- Charlie Krav

Re: How to push bugs upstream

2008-12-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
this is what the bugsquad uses: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#Forwarding%20upstream Good luck, -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discu

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
e CD! They expect it to be several cd's if it does include an Office suite, Graphics program, games, etc. There is never a second thought that everything might not be on that _one_ CD they can get. Nor is there any thought of having to be online to get all that. Windows needs several CD

Re: IPV6 causes slow internet access

2009-01-02 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ports to confirm the bug is an issue, which means two people where this is an issue need to confirm the bug is valid. Thanks, -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ub

Re: Reportbug's behaviour now that bts=ubuntu is dropped

2009-01-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
or management library ii libxdamage11:1.1.1-4 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-2build1

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-09 Thread Charlie Kravetz
achine and work for people who don't have the hardware > for compiz. Anyone who wants all the exra effects can still install > compiz, but for almost everyone, shouldn't metacity be fine? I thought Ubuntu moved from Metacity to Compiz just about a year ago? -- Charlie Kravetz Linu

Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

2009-02-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ge it to A-S-K the accidental activation > problem has a (in my opinion much) lower risk, but the workaround > still exists for when people need it to. Would changing to A-S-K be > acceptable to you? Or is there another underlying issue? Okay, I have been reading this thread from the b

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
because I can't read anything, a necessary thing to change the font size to bigger. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

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

2009-03-16 Thread Charlie Kravetz
for them? :) > > M. > > Well, I guess I should say I agree most of the time with BUGabundo. Since he does state things, I see no point in jumping in with "me too". Which, come to think of it, does make him my spokesman unless I speak up, does it not? Thanks. -- Charlie Krav

Re: Notifications as instant messages?

2009-03-30 Thread Charlie Kravetz
indeed would be part of the blueprint. > > Vincenzo > While I think this might have great merit, I have to question what happens to those who do not run any type of IM? I have, I think, started pidgin one time on my system, to test it. However, I do run any instant messeng

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ight solution? > > That won't work either. Firefox demands the restart even if you restart the system. A simple "the system has been restarted" is not enough for it. You still must restart firefox to get the warning to go away. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Nu

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
pSaQCgtSK80AyaJicGHah6C6CdIChs > JJ8AmQHIjnb2iiIqExmJVH4r15FGOn1q > =qc78 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > May not be evil, but on my 400MHz cpu, it does severely limit any further use of the computer until it finishes getting the updates. It doesn't matter what I am doing, when th

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:03:20 -0400 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 10:35:17 am Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:25:07 +0100 > > Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: glibc vs. eglibc

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
tp://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 , it appears to be an attempt to fix things. Apparently the maintainer of glibc is not cooperative when things do break. Of course, all I am basing this on is the blog entry I read. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/]

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-03 Thread Charlie Kravetz
in > > the conversation was or the don't mark any answer. > > > > Agreed. This would also be useful in the forums, but that leads to > quite a lot of overlap. Again, an official division of > responsibilities between channels would be nice. > > - -

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
gt; > thumbwidth away from the point you're focussing on is almost > > impossible to take in. > > > > END DEMONSTRATION > > > > To solve the third-order problem, I recommend putting the above > > demonstration in front of developers' eyeballs :) >

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:47:19 -0400 Evan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Charlie Kravetz > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:14:53 -0400 > > Evan wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers < > > > andrew-ubuntu-

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
#x27;t have. This will not help them, but could help many others out there. It will also relieve much of the load on the mailing list and IRC, where questions sometimes get lost in the mix. On the other hand, I don't believe one-on-one is right. There should always be a pool of experts help

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-09 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ntu.com/AutoHelpSysSpec > > Although the above example is for command line applications, it would > be possible to add a link to GUI warning and error dialogs. > -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 35, Issue 54

2009-10-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ow the release numbers are actually used would be beneficial. 9.12 would really be released in December of 2009, not a week or two from mow. Ubuntu tries real hard to maintain a 6-month release schedule. 9.10 is released in the 10th month of 2009. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number

Re: making a workaround web page for bugs, in LTS release, not fixed

2010-01-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
roper? Or > should fixes get backported to all supported releases AND LTS such > that the oldest version always has the fewest problems, but also fewer > features? > Ubuntu bugsquad already has a policy that workarounds should be identified and moved into the bug description. If that w

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread Charlie Kravetz
users a critical matter. > > > > > > > I'm very tempted to say that 99% of users think you are wrong ! > > > > > > > > I think the issue here is how old the machine is. On an older machine, a blank screen is difficult to deal with. When the

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread Charlie Kravetz
mizing your system. > Indeed, the first indication should be when I see that the system stops. Unfortunately, I can not see that. There is no indicator to tell me the system stopped. My system takes a minute or two to start up. Without the indicator, I can NOT tell if it stopped working. -- Charlie Kra

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ab to open the email in another tab without loosing this page -- Amahdy AbdElAziz IT & Development Manager 3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz I fail to see where it lost anything? -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
t contains a multi-tab to open the email in > another tab without loosing this page > > > -- Amahdy AbdElAziz > IT & Development Manager > 3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz Personally, I prefer claws-mail, which allow

Re: Bug reporting for Ubuntu Server? WTF?

2010-02-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
at those who triage bugs are going to ask for if they are not included. What is bad about that? It never stops you from adding your comments prior to allowing that to happen. If you the needed log files, the distribution version is entered already. Even expert users should appreciate the

Re: Should Short really be username when creating a user in users-admin

2010-02-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
r to tell a new person to look you your home, it is under your USER, than to tell them to look in your SHORT name. We use $USER in programs, but I don't know if any use a variable called $SHORT ? -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Nev

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Charlie Kravetz
m other applications. > > Having said that, everybody(*) knows that a real hardcore terminal > should be like the VT100 of old: green text on black background ;-) > > (*) everybody = me and my non-existent dog > > Bruno > That was a black background? ;) --

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
after. He thinks that the market is > here, am I wrong? > > Would anyone buy a $20 app on Linux? > > Thanks, > > Jon > > That depends on the application and perceived value. People will buy applications that are better than what is in the free stack. -- Charlie

Re: missing Trash shortcut into shortcuts menu of the top panel

2010-04-04 Thread Charlie Kravetz
. You ask the developers to "give the user the choice of his/her desktop customization". You have that choice, as demonstrated by your own design of your suggested changes. Make those changes for yourself. Let me keep my desktop as I am used to it. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registe

Re: Qt Creator major bug

2010-04-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
> Thank you, > > and the bug number is ... ? -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify set

Re: Accessibility issues in the new theme

2010-04-11 Thread Charlie Kravetz
current monitors, which don't have to sacrifice backlight > > brightness for power consumption, but it is on most laptops. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532641 > > It was addressed

Re: lucid beta 2 : too long sleep delay of the screen by default

2010-04-15 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ir > preferences. > > > Regards. > How many users are a few? I don't even know the number of users in the different countries around the world, but I don't think all of them have lcd's. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://cou

Re: Troubleshooting boot problems

2010-04-21 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ld be useful? > > Speculation about how to suspend a service is all well and good > (commenting out the start line seems logical) but there should be an > *official* way to do this to avoid problems down the road. > > What about using the settings in /etc/default/ufw ? -- Char

Re: Chromium for Xubuntu?

2010-05-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
Qt plus > qt-gtk-engine or something to look right, which would consume more > disk and memory and possibly be unstable. > Perhaps the best fit of all would be midori, which is part of Xfce development now. Is chromium still in beta? I don't seem to keep up with all of these anymore.

Re: How to use the new Launchpad status?

2010-07-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
in your > mailbox. Once that's available, you should be able to significantly > reduce the amount of email you're not interested in. > > > > > > If a bug is Invalid or Won't Fix, then the bug tracker isn't the right > > place > > to discu

Re: we should make a bacup and restore utility for ubuntu like in windows it will make it more professional

2010-07-13 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:21:40 +0530 aakash pandey wrote: We already have several. An easy to use one that comes to mind is called "simple backup". You can search Synaptic Package Manager for 'backup' and see many listed. "simple backup" will be called "sbac

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-04 Thread Charlie Kravetz
ser's data either. > > > > > > > It sure is if I choose to format the partition > > As you would if you chose to do a fresh install or to install a different > distro. > I believe the default now is to not format on a fresh install. You have to actu

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-04 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:19:54 -0600 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:45:48 -0700 > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:39:09PM -0700, George Farris wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:24 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > >

Re: Keyboard disposition selection during install under Natty

2011-01-28 Thread Charlie Kravetz
> > Regards, > > Alain-Olivier Breysse > Montréal. There is a bug filed against Ubiquity related to this, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664639 . - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM.

Re: Dash and onscreen keyboard

2011-03-21 Thread Charlie Kravetz
med onboard.) > > Cheers, > > Francesco > I have been unable to find a way to type in the Search field, using either Onboard Keyboard or Dasher. I believe that accessibility is supposed to be a high priority during this Natty cycle, unfortunately, for every gain, we seem to lose

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
#x27;t use it until after the beta2 releases. - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOghJC

Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
t > any post-Natty version of Unity. > > James Haigh. Unity in 11.10 is way more stable than in 11.04. Also, why Gnome 3 if Unity is the main desktop environment for Ubuntu now? Shouldn't it be the showcase to present, if you are giving out Ubuntu CD's? - -- Char

Re: Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st Jan-2nd Feb

2012-01-25 Thread Charlie Kravetz
om/events/215339905226998 > > Have a great day, > Daniel > Wishing I could at least attend some of these sessions. Unfortunately, Precise Alpha2 is scheduled for release Feb 2, which makes these the days set aside for testing