No such issue here with up to date Hardy. The one spot which doesn't
obey Fitt's law for me is the notification area, which seems to be
creating a small border around the icons it holds.
All other applets, with a few rare exceptions, are clickable from the
very edge of the screen. The one exception
Ideally, couldn't the install script for xserver-input-wacom add the
necessary stuff to xorg.conf itself?
I imagine that would lead to really ugly xorg configuration files,
though, as we see with the old Screens & Graphics tool. I guess what
we need is a magical, open-ended and centralized tool fo
> 2) country seems to be set to "UK", which can explain (1) but I don't
> like this behaviour especially because it breaks usability for non-UK
> users and creates confusion
Oh, that is pretty ugly :o
> 4) the obtained page does not have the standard google look and feel (in
> particular there is
John Williams' blog post [1] about the horrible usability breakage in
the "Computer failed to suspend" popup reminded me of some other
downstream changes to GNOME Power Manager that appear, frankly, to have
been done entirely as busy work and do absolutely nothing for usability.
Power Management P
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:33 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall:
> > Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders
> > to control when the computer sleeps and when the display sleeps all have
> do you have gnome-screensaver installed ? thats no "downstream patching"
> thats the default behavior if gnome-screenasver has a 20min limit set we
> never touched that area of either gss or gpm.
Hrm, could have sworn I saw that in vanilla GNOME. Thanks, Oliver. Good
thing I didn't file a bug ye
Linux kernel
and the free software foundation?
I would be interested to know what strange weakness you have discovered,
because that sounds like a serious flaw.
Thanks,
-Dylan McCall
PS: The incredible use of dollar signs for this discussion is seriously
hurting my head. Not sure if it is the fa
> At UDS, we actually looked hard at the experience of Music players and
> playing - and both Banshee and Rhythmbox fared very badly, and we were
> quite rude about both of them ;)
>
> The Banshee authors got a list via Jorge Castro, and Rhythmbox authors
> will be getting lots of bugs filed for t
> > But that's not a solution. People migrating from Windows probably will
> > expect to have such a feature in the menu, not somewhere else. And I
> > don't think they would search for it in the applets.
> > There is a Gnome bug filed about it:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45553
This thread pokes quite nicely at the idea of an Ubuntu home server
metapackage to complement the rest of the desktop. I think this could be
a very edgy move if approached correctly.
First of all, I am amongst those who think this should have nothing to
do with Ubuntu Server.
Now that's out of
> Alexander Jones wrote:
> > Voice and video, period.
> >
>
> amen.
>
> whats the point of another chat client with no added functionality.
Empathy is without a doubt a richer platform than Pidgin in our case.
Because it is not intent on working across platforms, it can assume the
presence of c
> Maybe scrolling itself could be sacrificed. What if we use the scroll
> wheel like this: when you scroll down, actual scrolling down will
> start, and will increase in speed if you keep turning the wheel. It
> will only slow down, and eventually stop if you scroll up again. The
> same goes for sc
Today I needed to reorganize the partitions on a MicroSD card. I found
that the best solution was GParted, so pulled that open to reformat the
thing.
I needed to unmount its two partitions first (a FAT32 and an ext3).
Okay... did that through GParted since the option was there. NOTHING
Happened; N
I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set
to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those
windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does not
handle the necessary click events itself (eg: Is a button, text box,
scroll bar, etc), t
> Brushed metal windows were Carbon, I think. I'm also pretty sure what
> you're saying of Cocoa is not true though. Just got a Mac user nearby
> to demonstrate it, actually. You have to click in the titlebar to
> move the window. Not having Alt-Click-and-move-from-anywhere is one
> of my big
Woohoo! I (sort of) figured it out and created a branch implementing
this change on Launchpad. So far it's more a proof of concept than
anything else.
The branch is here:
code.launchpad.net/~dylanmccall/metacity/drag-from-anywhere
To test this, you will need to run "./src/metacity --replace" afte
> I asked them for info on casper and ubiquity and never even
> got a response back from them so remastersys is a complete
> solo effort on my part and anything I learned about casper and
> ubiquity was from reading an examining all of the scripts
> involved
ill stretch.
So there is my thought on the matter. Rather different from yours, but
we certainly agree on one thing: Backup tools are nice and this is a
place where we CAN innovate.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
PS: Now /that/ is stream of consciousness writing. Speaking of cruft...
> Hello al
urity updates while installing". Getting the UI
right requires some extra effort; the fix has the potential to destroy
Ubiquity's charm :)
It isn't quite as simple a solution as it is a problem, although
definitely in need of fixing.
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Here's a little experiment I threw together.
First of all, sorry about the huge quantity of babbling. In short, you
can jump to the bottom, apply the patch and say what you think.
In long (with chapters :P):
The background (rationale?):
The mouse is a successful input tech
It isn't /required/ to use synclient and SHMConfig; one can use the
configuration in xorg.conf if he wants. For temporary fiddling,
though, synclient is a nice and simple way to get the friction
settings just right.
The patch is a bit troublesome because some of it is in a list of
variables that l
Another thing worth noting is that Ubuntu's /default/ effects via Compiz
are very modest. In fact, they provide the same general features as
Metacity's compositor does by default with about a quarter the standards
compliance. (A stand-out example for standards compliance being the fact
that GIMP's
> I agree with this guy, have it on by default, noobs can use GUI to switch it
> off.
>
> Else, millions of users will be doing this on first boot up:
>
> alt f2
> gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "DontZap" "no"
> EndSection
The important thing is that those milli
This discussion is hardly relevant anymore. I agree the popup
explaining what the user is about to do would be a nice alternative,
but this is also a completely adequate solution.
I'm sure any patches for that alternative would have a good, warm and
fulfilling life.
Preferences? Fine; you can set
igure GDM fairly extensively, although I
can't quite remember exactly what is running in its session.
Bye,
Dylan McCall
(On another line of thinking: This + PolicyKit opens up some neat
possibilities worth pursuing. Wouldn't it be awesome if people could add
a user / guest account st
Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ when Alt is
being pressed.
If you change the GNOME keyboard settings you could find different
results. Is it possible that whe
that the new
message notifier should go where all other notifications go for the
sake of desktop-neutrality and usability?
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Here is a cute little bug (and patch) I filed upstream...
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567880
The idea is that right now changing keyboard layout via shortcut keys
(Eg: Alt + Caps Lock) provides absolutely no visual feedback by default.
Bad for many reasons. It's bad for people learn
> I like it. How detailed does it get regarding what layout you've switched
> to?
> I used to use the Keyboard Indicator Applet to switch between US and US
> International. That was really annoying because it showed the same thing (a
> US flag) for both...which isn't much of an indication. S
th those features, I get the strong suspicion that lots of apps will
quickly come to depend on 2.16.
Is it possible this will hit Jaunty by any means, or should I start
installing from source?
Thanks,
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27;s shutdown menu works just fine for everyone else. Why
do you guys keep tinkering with it?
I just had my tea so I feel a bit happier after writing all of that.
Err, keep up the awesome work! :)
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ould (in theory) give users a one-stop-shop for all
things physically attached to their computers so they know where to look
after connecting new hardware.
Perhaps a worthy target for Karmic. Is anyone doing this? (Or is there a
spec I can gawk at?)
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> On Thursday 09 April 2009 1:18:04 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
>> Following that whole "let's tidy the notification area" idea, I have the
>> feeling that the biggest offenders now are the standard hardware
>> applets. On m
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obnoxious.
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right now, but this resolves the issue perfectly.
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rl doesn't strike me as the right design for
listing public keys to import. (At least not without generating a
horrifying abomination of a URI). And if it doesn't import public keys
with some reasonable automation, it will not work for PPAs.
Now, discuss :)
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On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 00:53 +0200, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 09:48 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> > Sounds like the discussion at UDS about having support for adding
> > repositories (or at least PPAs) via apturl didn't get very far. At risk
> > of pro
e, I would do this out of basic survival
instincts.
(Something which I probably should have put into consideration before
writing this message).
I've been tempted to jump ship a few times lately and it has nothing to
do with lawyers, legal agreements or brain-dead CEOs.
Thanks,
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s,' or even
general coolness department. It really shouldn't.
Fast reading, by the way.
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May I quickly point out that lots of users' feedback in the realm of
"ooh, Gnote is faster than Tomboy" is entirely based on the Tomboy
shipped with 9.04 or earlier? There have been many speed improvements
since then both in Tomboy and (as usual) the Mono runtime.
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> They were in my Japanese class going "h" at the linking between notes ;)
> Most of my computer science classmates don't know what LaTeX is / how to use
> it anyway (sad, yeah...).
Sorry, this is wildly OT, but you should show them Lyx. I am told "it
isn't real LaTeX" (even though their web s
this new
method will seriously cripple the flow of minor bugs (eg: papercuts) by
making them too much of a pain to file.
Perhaps ubuntu-bug should just be strongly encouraged instead of
completely enforced.
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icon because it
reads that from your local file system, which is blocked by most
browsers).
I would love to know what you think :)
Thanks!
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need feedback or need help.
I was poised to make a blueprint + wiki page for this, but I think it
would be best to ask for feedback first. Please, fire away :)
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To keep the thoughts flowing, I have a question: Is there a
performance / power efficiency gain from not querying the battery as
frequently as gnome-power-manager used to?
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Hi,
There is a usability issue with indicator-applet in Lucid that I
consider _very_ serious.
First of all, there is no drag handle for the applet, but the applet's
contents are unpredictable. It is possible for the applet to have
nothing in it, in which case it cannot be controlled or seen by t
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:47 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:39 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote:
> > In my fix, I still have indicator-applet specifically only react to a
> > button 1 press, but it returns True instead of False so nothing else
> > will touch t
errogation techniques are necessary on the netbook.
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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Blackhall
wrote:
> It's very confusing for me when I click the big 'X' in my window controls,
> only to find that the application I was attempting to close has since been
> minimized to my system try (or notification area or its respective indicator
> apple
> Mind-boggling: yes. Lunatic: not necessarily :)
Yay!
>
> If I'm understanding you properly, the user should have no concept of
> services or processes. There is a single list of all applications,
> whether they are running with a window, running as a service, or not
> running at all.
> When the
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ryan Oram wrote:
> A great overview of the problems with PulseAudio:
> http://www.webcitation.org/5kcZfOb4l
>
> It is 2 years old, but the facts in the article above are still
> completely true. PulseAudio has made essentially zero progress in the
> last 2 years, wh
> It would have been really appreciated if someone had thought of this in the
> case of package upgrade. Better still, this change shouldn't require one to
> have to open gconf-editor and find the place to set it -- most people that I
> know who use Ubuntu don't even know what a window manager is -
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, I.E.G. wrote:
> …
> Gentlemen and Ladies I have not had any success in total or in part with
> PulseAudio . I have had a single trip to youtube for instance inactivate all
> audio on my system(s) . I have had VLC not only fail to produce any audio
> but seg_fault .
> I've posted this on the debian-devel mailing list as well. This was
> posted out of a concern that Canoncial is thinking about switching
> over to Chromium in later releases as Lubuntu has done already. I have
> seen articles of this possibility as well. I don't feel making
> Chromium the default
Hello!
Software Centre makes package screenshots (via screenshots.debian.org)
extremely prominent, which is wonderful. Before I dive in, I think this
really improves how packages are presented and I would never want to go
back. Having said that, I think the screenshots stuff is currently
problema
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Evan wrote:
> I was in the middle of a couple of things, and realized I needed to
> reorganize my workspaces because they were getting quite messy.
>
> By the end, I had an entire workspace dedicated to progress-bars:
> - Downloads (Firefox and Transmission)
> - Fi
> To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcing one's own view of
> usability onto the users. GNU/Linux is all about free customization.
> Give the user your preferred applications, but let him choose what
> he/she wants to use.
GNU/Linux is absolutely not “about” anything, especially not free
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> Personally, I would prefer it, and I think it's quite reasonable. Thoughts?
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Hi!
I was hunting for information on the bug (it _is_ a bug, right?) where
the U1 Nautilus extension in Maverick shows its bar thingy all the time,
instead of just under folders that are synced.
(I would hope that's a bug, by the way…)
I found this in Launchpad: http://code.launchpad.net/bugs/5
ors stuff has always been a
wonderful example of good communication. So, I hope I don't come
across as grumpy or anything. I just know we can do this a lot better.
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Oh no, not this thread again!
Folks, we have proven one thing with these threads over the last year:
it is impossible to adequately solve the Chromium vs. Firefox debate
in a mailing list. There are just too many variables; install size,
stability, accessibility, support lifecycle, upstream involv
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
The Ubuntu install slideshow for Precise should be a pretty ordinary
little copy update, I think, so it'll just kind of happen little by
little in the next couple months, as it does. Might be nice to tinker
with it in Q, but that's the future, and the future can go jump in a
lake for all I care :b
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:37:20PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote:
>> Colin Watson wrote:
>> > Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu
>> > installs to only touch Ubuntu network resources. However, that isn't to
>>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:00 PM, David Klasinc wrote:
> Implementation wise, I think the best way would be if PPA system can be
> extended to offer necessary support for selling software. This way Steam,
> Desura and alike could offer a simple PPA. PlayOnLinux could probably do
> this already.
>
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Dale Amon wrote:
> Source is an educational tool.
> Learning command line is a lesson in taking control of your own computer.
> Kids explore.
>
> Make sure J Random's computer is full of things to intrigue and
> lead a 13 year old to the power of the source.
Perso
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> In the next couple of weeks I will design the UI for apps to request
> privileges on Ubuntu Touch.
Yay!
>
> When installing an app, Android shows you a list of privileges the app
> will require -- accessing your contacts, accessing yo
the balance adjustment, which
should really have a light humming noise as it is adjusted in order to find
the perfect spot, but I suppose that would be the volume control's problem.
Anyway, you can ignore my unimaginative suggestions. Basically, need speaker
tester :)
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
O
t not ready for default. Yet. I do
agree, however, that it may be a neat idea in the future :)
Bye,
--Dylan McCall
PS: In my opinion, naturally.
On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Vadim Peretokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Miro is a great program, but it was *barely* working on my 1.5Ghz,
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