Re: Ubuntu 8.10 released but...

2008-10-30 Thread Daniel T Chen
On 10/30/2008 02:10 PM, Thomas Novin wrote: > ...for example these[1,2] bugs never got fixed. Too bad, Firefox is > probably the most commonly used program in Ubuntu and still it works > poorly since you have to be on a above-average-user-level to open > commonly used file formats, save stuff to g

Re: What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Daniel T Chen
On 11/30/2008 01:29 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > GNOME doesn't get updated in stable releases. Bugs are fixed, and > security issues are fixed. If it seems necessary to update the version > on a package to accomplish those goals, then on a per-package basis, > this is decided based on the St

Re: Fw: Re: Notable Changes to Jaunty's PulseAudio

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: What has been the outcome of this testing?  The upgrade was fairly painless for me, but I know that may not be indicative; are there still race conditions outstanding that pose a risk to the stability of the

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be to > have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia, Apple, > Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices? Having a Palm-o

Re: Removing tor from jaunty (unmaintained)

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: > I have no problem to maintain tor, I use it occasionally. > > I know about Debian/Ubuntu packaging, I have some packages in universe but > I'm not > a MOTU. I'll assist in looking after this package fo

Re: volunteer tor maintainer

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Travis wrote: > I am willing to maintain the tor packages, I think. Work with the couple of us who have stepped forward: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-March/007373.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/arch

Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We're all aware that the migration to PulseAudio has been less than smooth. I don't need to explain that several glaring audio aberration and stability symptoms remain in current Jaunty. The good news is that there's light at the end of t

Re: Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Vishal Rao wrote: > The install failed with "newer version already installed" because I > earlier updated and got 2.6.28-11 from main. > I doubt the hw_ptr fixes are in main, if not, will you build new > packages with updated vers

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 May 2009, Vishal Rao wrote: > Is there going to be discussion during UDS amongst yourselves (devs) about > enabling low-latency for Karmic as well? Yes. > See this mailing list post by Lennart of PulseAudio/Fedora fame: > https://tango.0p

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > A real-time (-rt) kernel is available and has been for at least a few > releases. PREEMPT (which Lennart says would help) was enabled once upon a > time, but I think it was disabled due to high laptop bat

Re: Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 May 2009, I wrote: > For Hardy, this was a significant problem. New versions of ALSA necessary for > improved PulseAudio integration were released immediately after 8.04 > released. And it has happened again - ALSA 1.0.20 was released hou

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 13 May 2009, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > I can't become an ubuntu developer > because I lack time for that. You have requirements about developers and > that's very good. I can't meet those requirements therefore I limit > myself to a liter

Re: Epson iscan and plugins

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 23 May 2009, Martin Owens wrote: > I had to compile and install the epson iscan software (LGPL) for ubuntu > since the debs provided by the manufacturer are specific for debian. If they're not already in Ubuntu or Debian, I recommend wor

Re: tsclient printer redirection patch

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 22 May 2009, Joseph Miller wrote: I have posted a patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tsclient/+bug/233784 and your email is listed for the maintainers.  Please add my patch as soon as it's convenient or tell me what I

Re: Universe Freezes

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel T. Chen
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Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:37 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving > things like the mouse poi

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:19 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > esound is certainly enabled but does that also affect X mouse cursor > movement? Also the sound card does hardware mixing and I'm sure the hold Neither of my audio devices are capable of hardware muxing, so it really was noticeable here.

ubuntu-audio Launchpad team meeting on Thursday, 15 March 2007 at 1900 UTC

2007-03-11 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi all, The ubuntu-audio Launchpad team[0] will be meeting this Thursday, 15 March 2007, at 1900 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting. We will be discussing bug triaging best practices, establishing prioritised items remaining for the Feisty release, and looking ahead to Feisty+1. Everyone is welcome to attend

MOTU meeting this Friday, May 25th, 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting/Freenode

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi all, Everyone, young and old, striped and solid, is invited to attend the next MOTU[0] meeting this Friday, May 25th, 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net. The agendum[1] has a tentative list of discussion topics. We are poised to discuss Universe protocol shortcomings, so whether

Re: MOTU meeting this Friday, May 25th, 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting/Freenode

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:00 -0400, I wrote: > Everyone, young and old, striped and solid, is invited to attend the > next MOTU[0] meeting this Friday, May 25th, 12:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting Meeting minutes for the above meeting are now available[0]. Thanks, Daniel Chen [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.co

Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-06-26 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi folks, I would like to bring several issues into the glare and to propose a non-invasive and forward- and backward-compatible (for 6.06 LTS and Gutsy+1 LTS in particular) resolution to them. (1) For some time now, the Ubuntu alsa-utils source package has shipped a udev rule that restores sound

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:32 -0700, Michael R. Head wrote: > My feeling is that levels > should be restored before gdm beats its drums (this is particularly > needful for the "laptops in meetings" case). Further, requiring users to > modify stuff in etc (or adding a new admin screen with a preferenc

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-07-02 Thread Daniel T. Chen
[Apologies for the delay; I've moved the past few days.] On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:21 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I'm not sure this alleviates number 4 - surely it will always result in > the login sound being muted? mixer_app won't be started until some time > after the sound has started pla

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:49 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote: > What I was trying to get at is that if I muted (or turned down) the > volume, when I boot up, it should be at that level before gdm pops up. That is the effect of the current scheme and not the proposed. The effect of the proposed one wo

Re: State of cleanup-audio-jumble

2007-07-23 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi, On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 15:15 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > pulseaudio instead. As far as I can see, esd is still used in Feisty > and I wonder if someone still cares about it. Moreover pulseaudio esd will still be used in gutsy. Whether it's also used in gutsy+1 (the next LTS) remains in t

Re: State of cleanup-audio-jumble

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi, On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:18 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > I thought PulseAudio had gained libflashsupport already - > http://pulseaudio.vdbonline.net/libflashsupport/ ? No. Notice that libflashsupport is not in Ubuntu. Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-08 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 19:26 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > As a rule, developers aren't terribly impressed by version numbers. What > problem are you > having that you think this would fix and that is severe enough to warrant a > stable release > update? Really seems like a gutsy-backports c