Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008-05-17 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading /. and they have an article up about "QGtkStyle" > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/1319204 > > "A new project called QGtkStyle by Trolltech Labs gives Qt4 based > applications the possib

Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice!

2006-12-16 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hello, With Avahi turned on by default on Feisty, would it be nice to include libhowl-avahi-compat0 for Gaim, so people within the same LAN can talk to each other? Another is to use gshare exclusively, in replacement of samba, and add --disable-shares on gnome-system-tools? Why not Integrate Gal

Adding my humble ubuntu-based distro to "unsupported platform" dialog in gnome-system-tools.

2006-12-20 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hello, I'm creating "AMA Desktop Linux" a distribution based on Ubuntu Edgy and Debian upstream. A project of AMA Computer College, and will be used by 300+ AMA campuses all over the Philippines. Whenever I configure the network, a "unsupported platform" dialog appears, however, I searched the gn

Re: Adding my humble ubuntu-based distro to "unsupported platform" dialog in gnome-system-tools.

2006-12-20 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/21/06, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joel Bryan Juliano napisał(a): > Hello, I'm creating "AMA Desktop Linux" a distribution based on Ubuntu > Edgy and Debian upstream. A project of AMA Computer College, and will be > used by 300+ AMA cam

Suggestion: Goal towards a cleanlinks compliant Ubuntu.

2006-12-21 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Currently, cleanlinks is not friendly to Ubuntu. The use of it cripple the system and applications into unusable state. However the purpose of cleanlinks is very positive towards a lean and clean system. /usr/bin/cleanlinks removes broken symbolic links and empty directories, it's use can be good

Re: Adding my humble ubuntu-based distro to "unsupported platform" dialog in gnome-system-tools.

2006-12-21 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/21/06, Hervé Fache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About the OS, it's a simplified ubuntu distribution, with a lot of custom > graphical wizards to configure voip and stuff. It also has a welcome center >

Re: Suggestion: Goal towards a cleanlinks compliant Ubuntu.

2006-12-21 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/22/06, Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All Ubuntu applications should create directories that it needs, when it > doesn't exists. Use locate function to search for a specific file and > di

An update repository for a custom distro?

2006-12-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hi, I have a custom distro, that have alot of customize packages, I would like to use the Ubuntu repository for the updates, but I'm afraid that the customize packages would be replaced with the ubuntu packages upon update, I'm wondering how will I use the Ubuntu repository without the customize

Re: An update repository for a custom distro?

2006-12-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/26/06, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Di, 2006-12-26 at 03:06 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > Hi, > > I have a custom distro, that have alot of customize packages, I would > like to use the Ubuntu repository for the updates, but I'm afra

Re: Feisty breaking graphic card?

2006-12-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/26/06, t u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting, and scary: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=325209 (no, the OP there is not me) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listin

Hide the entries with "Unknown" from "Device Manager"

2007-01-03 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
The Gnome HAL Device manager was showing too much "Unknown" entries, which is not very helpful for users. (optimistic users that is :-), pessimist love it) I think it should be better if it should hide the entries with Unknown strings. For example, if Vendor is Unknown, just hide the entire Vendo

Is it possible to profile a live-cd with readahead-watch?

2007-01-04 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hi, I have made alot of modifications in a live-cd (updated to the latest edgy, with new kernel), and would like to refresh the readahead files in /etc/readahead. I'm trying to pass "profile" in the gfxboot, but It doesn't work. Is there a way to enable profiling on a live-cd booted system? Jo

Re: ubuntu-desktop metapackage - options?

2007-01-14 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 1/1/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok. Here's the situation. When you install Ubuntu, you might (like me) not want Firefox, and prefer Epiphany instead. You might prefer mozilla thunderbird over evolution, or BMPX over Rhythmbox. If you are one of these people, you probably get ra

Re: flash player 9 -don't include it in Feisty

2007-01-20 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 1/19/07, t u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I usually don't write to tell stuff like this, but this is just unbearable... I was using Flash 7 & Fx 2 with Dapper and I was very happy. After the release of the interview with Torvalds, I updated to Flash 9 (after it was announced not to be a b

Re: Herd 3: Crash Report right after Booting Live or Fresh Install

2007-02-02 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 2/3/07, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm just checking if these are known bug(s): 1) Right after booting Herd 3 live or a fresh install I get a crash report (about Add/Remove Programs) in the systray area. This seems to be very reproducible. 2) I tried to use

An Entirely Different Approach on LiveCD Installer.

2007-02-12 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Since Squashfs 3.1 had been released, it now supports specifying "the filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be extracted, rather than always extracting the entire filesystem."[1] This allows the LiveCD to function in different ways rather than loading the entire deskto

Re: An Entirely Different Approach on LiveCD Installer.

2007-02-12 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 2/12/07, Jonathan Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joel > > Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > > Since Squashfs 3.1 had been released, it now supports specifying "the > > filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be > > extrac

Re: More explicit names for iso images ?

2007-02-24 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 2/23/07, Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > >Now, every iso files of feisty (for instance) are named > feisty-desktop-i386.iso. > This is the same name for Ubuntu Herd-3 and Kubuntu Herd-4. > > I think that names should be more explicit. As for example > herd3-deskt

Re: Idea: Restricted Formats in Examples?

2007-02-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
No, We don't want to advertise Microsoft codecs. On 2/24/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the examples folder (which there is a symlink to in ~/Examples), > there are some useful example files for trying stuff out, demonstrating > Ubuntu capabilities in several ways such as videos,

Re: forgotten ubuntu-calendar

2007-02-28 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 2/28/07, t u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, May be because it seems unimportant, or maybe because the artwork team is not happy that their efforts have been thrown away (I do *not* know, I'm speculating), this package is getting requests fro revival but no one is doing anything. If nothing

Gnome 2.18 will wound Microsoft badly.

2007-03-01 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
In 2006, 95% of Fortune's 100 are using PGP and 75% are in Fortune's Global 100. With Seahorse now being accepted in Gnome 2.18, I see that it will wound Microsoft badly. While Microsoft doesn't have PGP encryption applications of their own, PGP in Linux and Gnome is much easier to setup with Sea

Re: forgotten ubuntu-calendar

2007-03-01 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 3/1/07, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Farning a écrit : > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:13 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > >> >> What the hell is wrong with everyone!! Hey Wake UP!! >> Ubuntu is a ROCKIN' Distribution, can't y

OpenID and Ubuntu?

2007-03-04 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Nice new system called OpenID, at first I heard about this, I was so excited about the technology. Here's my thoughts about the advantages of OpenID + Ubuntu integration. * Launchpad - We can have people from other parties[1] to use launchpad services, like Malone, Blueprint and Rosetta. A websit

How to join Google Summer of Code 2007?

2007-03-05 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
I'm really really would like to join the Google SoC 2007, I have a lot of proposals in mind, and I have a strong confidence that I can prove them technically*. After 1 year of waiting, I can't elaborate how enthusiastically dead serious I'am. Anyone can help me how to join? Someone will donate a s

Preconfiguring Emacs.

2007-03-08 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
-- I love emacs but it's tedious to preconfigure the ~/.emacs directory everytime I install it, for example to insert a timestamp in the changelogs, I'll have to create a emacs lisp file so it'll have to do it, and it's easier in vim do to, just :r!date -R, but well, I'm an emacs user since 1996,

Re: Preconfiguring Emacs.

2007-03-09 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 3/10/07, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joel Bryan Juliano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would it be nice to have an emacs package create a preconfigured > > configurations for common tasks in programming like editing > > chang

Re: Preconfiguring Emacs.

2007-03-09 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 3/10/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/10/07, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joel Bryan Juliano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Would it be nice to have an emacs package create a preconfigured >

Fwd: Seahorse and gnupg 2

2007-03-14 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hello, I just want to forward this to Ubuntu. It's a script that makes it possible to load the .gnupg files in a storage media for use with Seahorse. So for example. students, office workers just have to save their .gnupg directory in a USB disk to use Seahorse. It's haven't been done yet*, and

Re: Google SOC, Project Proposal

2007-03-23 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 3/23/07, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please could you write down the project idea in a wiki page at wiki.ubuntu.com? Use the SpecTemplate for the page. If you didn't already apply (see [1]), then please do so before Mar 26. Evaluation and ranking of the submitted projects will s

Where are the SpecTemplate?

2007-03-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Apparently the wiki SpecTemplate is missing, does this offer a solution that helps to overcome a certain dillema? What potential sources of conflict does this move provides? I apologize for my curiosity.. where can I find it? -- MAILING-LIST SEND: boom!! I'm immortalize! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Where are the SpecTemplate?

2007-03-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 3/26/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently the wiki SpecTemplate is missing, does this offer a solution that helps to overcome a certain dillema? What potential sources of conflict does this move provides? I apologize for my curiosity.. where can I find it? Yi

Registering a distribution to Launchpad.

2007-04-13 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Good Day, I'm on the process of finishing a project distribution for AMA Computer University that will be used throughout the 300+ AMA campuses around the Philippines. It will be advertised on TV, radio and newspaper in the coming months that will be funded by AMA. I would like to ask how do I a

xdg-user-dirs in the next ubuntu?

2007-06-14 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Hi, I'm proposing the use of xdg-user-dirs in the next Ubuntu release, while I'm not intending to copy OSX or Windows for having ~/Music or ~/Movies directory, I just think it's positive to have those in the first place to allow them to choose where to organize or put their files. -- "object-ori

What happened to the Ubuntu SoC 2006 projects that we're so excited about?

2007-08-01 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
What happened to those SoC 2006's "Ubuntu Welcome Center?" and "Panel Switcher?".. the last time I checked them out through svn around 5 months ago, is still the same files I have now. It's really disappointing that those people actually have resources to make those, and not make use of it.. I'm s

Re: Suggestion: Actively support reverse engineering projects

2007-08-09 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 8/7/07, Magnus Blomfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > I have a suggestion about how to actively support > reverse engineering projects. I think reverse engineering is important for developing a driver or any particular interface that communicates with a hardware (ie winmodems) or sof

Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 8/26/07, Chris Warburton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:26 -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > > > 2. The current default fonts look dreadfully ugly. For one thing, they > > are MASSIVE (on Gutsy at least), and they use a type of hinting which > > makes them look quite ugly when

Virtual servers management in Ubuntu

2007-09-01 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
I have a chance to implement virtual servers using Xen in our school and while looking for ways to simplify the tasks, I have found Ganeti, http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ it's a command-line based virtual server manager and within an hour, I have everything working successfully. I hope this pac

Re: Updates of http://changelogs.ubuntu.com

2007-09-08 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 9/7/07, Pär Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I often use the "view changelog" feature in aptitude to review changes before > installing updates of important packages. This downloads the changelog from > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com which unfortunately very often fails as the > chan

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-24 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 9/24/07, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael R. Head suppressingfire.org> writes: > > The obvious suggestion is to use the alternate CD, but a graphical > > installer that has lower system resources would be nice. Or even if the > > Desktop CD had a boot mode that could launch

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-10-03 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 9/24/07, Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just talking a friend through a Live CD install of feisty on an > older machine. It has 256M of RAM and no swap partition. This > configuration runs the desktop CD very poorly. I have a similarly > configured machine here, and the booti

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

2007-10-10 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 10/11/07, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today a website generated a PDF file for me automatically and firefox > popped up and asked if I wanted to download it. I hit 'OK' and it saved ' > genpdf.asp' into my downloads folder. I was surprised to find bash > wouldn't tab-compl

Re: Fwd: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-12 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On Dec 13, 2007 1:58 AM, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > F-Spot and gThumb are very similar in capabilities on local images. > > Though F-Spot's interface is a little cleaner. But the big difference > > comes in Web2.0 integration. GThumb has none, while F-Spot integrates > > with Fli

Re: Fwd: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-12 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On Dec 13, 2007 4:27 AM, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you list some example of those things that would be nice there? > > Conduit, opensync, Glipper, firefox-adblock, > rar-free, more languages, obex, gnome parition editor, audacity, > gnomebaker, vim (real vim), PGP keys manag

Will PulseAudio be in Hardy? (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-16 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
I think PulseAudio can save every user great amount of trouble regarding sound issues, and bad bad esd. I hope PulseAudio get included in Hardy as default. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2008-01-01 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On 12/31/07, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a strawman, so feel free to rip it apart. > > While I generally like the current Ubuntu release cycle, I find it has a few > problems: > > Forcing LTS users to make do with software that is 2 or 3 major versions > out-of-date is just wrong. I u

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-04 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
Will there be a chance for compose key be assigned and enabled by default? Since Ubuntu include and support many languages, I think it will be very useful to enable this feature as well, to make it easily available. Example usage are ñ (enye) for Piñata, é in Beyoncé, Café, José, Pérez and Pokémon

Re: Hardy+1 Idea: GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy?

2008-01-09 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On Jan 10, 2008 3:42 AM, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 5:15 AM, Guilherme Augusto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance > > > > What would improve by using Gobolinux filesystem hierarchy? > > A little over a year ago SABDFL blogged

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-14 Thread Joel Bryan Juliano
On Jan 6, 2008 11:16 PM, Wouter Stomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to propose including Brasero in the default Ubuntu > installation. Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD's for the Gnome > Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some > unique feat