Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-24 Thread Jesse Steele
I am an American living in Taiwan. Chinese input is a problem that prevents Taiwanese from using Ubuntu. Two problems: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin order of character appearance in the input menus. - gcin doesn't install well, depending on t

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 119, Issue 30

2016-10-24 Thread Jesse Steele
their kids to do it for them. Really love you guys. Taiwan is SO ripe for Ubuntu! Gunar wrote: Hi Jesse! On 2016-10-22 02:15, Jesse Steele wrote: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin order of character appearance in the input menus. - gcin doe

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 119, Issue 30

2016-10-24 Thread Jesse Steele
their 40's often can't type at all and ask their kids to do it for them. Really love you guys. Taiwan is SO ripe for Ubuntu! Gunar wrote: Hi Jesse! On 2016-10-22 02:15, Jesse Steele wrote: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin orde

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 119, Issue 30

2016-10-25 Thread Jesse Steele
;t type at all and ask their kids to do it for them. Really love you guys. Taiwan is SO ripe for Ubuntu! Gunar wrote: Hi Jesse! On 2016-10-22 02:15, Jesse Steele wrote: 1. gcin ONLY: Taiwanese's speed-typing habits in Chinese only fits with the gcin order of character appearance in the

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-10-25 Thread Jesse Steele
l. On 10/25/2016 09:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote: On 2016-10-24 13:21, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: The Taiwan Chinese language support is included on an Ubuntu install if you in the installer select Traditional Chinese as the language. If you don't, ye

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan

2016-12-04 Thread Jesse Steele
Thank you. I will be testing it soon. I haven't had time yet. On 12/02/2016 02:35 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 10/25/2016 03:58 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-10-24 19:43, Jesse Steele wrote: gcin worked in 15.10 Unity but hid under the app search fuzz, broke as of 16.04

Re: Ubuntu in Chinese for Taiwan - Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 121, Issue 3

2016-12-06 Thread Jesse Steele
o ask me questions or improve my work at verb.ink and related projects. Thank you so much for being approachable. This forum is now my number one reason I prefer Ubuntu. Jesse Steele PS I plan to test GCIN on a few Ubuntu distros soon. EVERYONE seems swamped with work these days—at least good pe

64bit Motherboards are a minefield of config problems

2017-08-04 Thread Jesse Steele
*Shopping for a 64 bit motherboard for Ubuntu feels like a trip to the casino... It affects development and users. * *Over**view:* With the move toward 64 bit -only support, 64 bit motherboards, native BIOS settings, BIOS config for Linux, and motherboard manufacturers are an important topic.

Re: 64bit Motherboards - "all work"

2017-08-05 Thread Jesse Steele
l or developers. For now, we could use a hashtag like #mb64 in any of these endless forum discussions on the matter to look up /by machine/. On 08/05/2017 09:11 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 08:37 +0800, Jesse Steele wrote: Generally, installing Ubuntu on 32 bit machine

Re: 64bit BIOS changes to GUI Ubuntu Installer

2017-08-06 Thread Jesse Steele
's Topics: 1. Re: 64bit Motherboards are a minefield of config problems (Paul Smith) 2. Re: 64bit Motherboards - "all work" (Jesse Steele) ---------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:11:27 -04

Middle Mouse Click to behave as two-finger natural scroll

2017-10-19 Thread Jesse Steele
I code, draw, write, podcast, vlog, and design art. I've seen many mouse wheels wear out fast. Middle mouse click while moving the mouse around inside a scrollable area behaving like two-finger "natural" scrolling would be breakthrough in ergonomics AND save the mouse wheel. But, it would also

MATE DE saga answer: NO DESKTOP, PAY FOR UNITY

2017-10-23 Thread Jesse Steele
GET OUT OF DESKTOP. Stop dividing developer attention. Part of the reason in dropping 32bit was for devs to have less laundry gobbling their man hours. Now, drop desktop. My vote would be: "Budgie + Optional GNOME Window Spread replaces Plank". BUT, that's just me. Conspiracy Man wants MATE DE

open-doc/image > PDF/PRINT engines, from terminal & desktop GUI

2018-06-27 Thread Jesse Steele
Issue A: .pdf exporting is like Hong Kong's Walled City Some fonts in other languages don't render correctly in pdf. I created a repo duplicating the problem with multiple pdf export engines: https://github.com/JesseSteele/pdf-bug Bug report to LibreOffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.or

No more dialog in `apt upgrade -y` events

2018-11-24 Thread Jesse Steele
I'm a dev who relies on updates on many machines; I write scripts to handle them. I don't have the resources to investigate every daily build to see if GRUB or PHP is going to ask a question that, under most circumstances, needs the obvious, default answer. This isn't just any Linux distro, th

snap home directory should be hidden

2020-06-09 Thread Jesse Steele
As good and growing as snap is, the extra clutter in my Nautilus file explorer is a problem. It is likely a violation of UX theory because it is a folder I can click into that I should never click into. It surely violates the principle of "Linux for humans" only code resides there. And, I need