Gui of slic3r

dear developer The gui of slic3r and the gui of slic3r-prusa does not work within the distribution, that you maintain. have a nice day Markus -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Upgrading Hardy Heron 8.04 Beta to Linux kernel .16 breaks it; it won't boot.

report, they will save developers to search them their selfs. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Discussion agenda for UDS-Intrepid around the integration of Elisa media center

Am 22.04.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Alessandro Decina: > > [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/elisa-integration Neither your Mail nor this blueprint has a link to what "Elisa" is. Is is public viewable / downloadable in some form a

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it's work until you clean up manually. All you can do to avoid such cases is to switch to another backup system and/or exclude specific folders/directories. Markus - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

of which are deleted after a few hours. Think about Emails from a mailing list, intermediate archives, video editing, more permanent caches of web pages, etc. At the end, the disk's free space remains about the same, but if you'd back up every intermediate step, volumes would f

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

tions appear not serious to some and maybe it even looks like I want to disencourage you, but I'd be much more concerned about standby stability as about boot times. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discus

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

se they are perfectly legal on the OS you're currently running. By what you describe, I'm not sure wether Ubuntu is to blame here. IMHO, the best one could do is to introduce some Windows- compatibility mode. Prohibiting feature X here because it's

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

rovides whatever the served file system contains. This is fine, as it can be used to copy files from one Linux machine to another Linux box. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-di

Ars Technica discusses Ubuntu's release strategy

ases at all. For me, releases are just a bundle of changes in fashion. Prefer Gnome 2.2 over Gnome 2.0, prefer ext3 over ext2 and so on. Nevertheless, any set of installed packages should work, dependencies take care of impossible combinations. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

reason, germans don't scream is, characters are almost the same on the german vs. the english keyboard. Punctuation ()<>"§$ is totally different, though and then, there are umlauts ... many people can't type their name on a english layout

Re: New motherboard not supported by Ubuntu

roblem yourself. Try with different options of the Install-CD's F6 menu, locate the point of trouble, recompile the corresponding piece of software, debug it ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss ma

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

head, dive into the source and fix actual problems. Wether and how the package's development group picks up such patches is another question, but having a patch and perhaps a few lines of comments should be a real booster for upstream's code quality. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: making deals with M$

culprit yet another user has installed a questionable codec. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

The non-evil graphics card

(or stay with the G31) in order to support proper open source graphics drivers? Is there a contraindication if I want to use CUDA-like technologies (I'm doing FEA, CFD) ? Thanks, MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubu

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

n't think that it means that simply enabling laptop-mode should > indicate that the user has given permission to the OS to trash his > hard drive. Exactly. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: No "run" menu item?

there's something to fix. > Bad solution: run it from terminal - you have to keep it open > because when you close it you'll close metacity/compiz/whatever > you've run in it Adding a "nohup" in front of the command will allow you to close the Termin

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

involved" do but to install the next beta or RC? I'd even go as far as putting betas and release candidates right on the standard download page, right below the current stable release. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

Am 07.07.2008 um 13:42 schrieb (``-_-´´) -- Fernando: > On Monday 07 July 2008 12:18:27 Markus Hitter wrote: >> Right now I tried to find downloads and/or upgrade instructions for >> the next release, but it's almost impossible to find them beginning >> at the

Cloned virtual test machines (was: Did we really release 8.04?)

please point me to the appropriate place. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

Am 07.07.2008 um 16:59 schrieb Felix Miata: > On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: > >> Then you can clone your OS to this spare partition, unmount it in >> Ubuntu and launch your preferred virtual machine off it. > > I'm well past my 15

Re: Call for testing empathy

mpathy on the public schedule for Intrepid+1 (+2?) and add a note there: "If you want to test or use this app now, apt-get it into your current Ubuntu." This likely helps to settle Empathy's integration and getting it a lot more testing before it's meant to give those import

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

bug database is at least honest. Especially if I run into issues with the software on an almost daily basis. Ubuntu is of great design, it gets more work done, but I could use all day fixing things as well. So yes, please stop this marking-as-invalid-mania. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

mediately. As seen with the recent Empathy discussion, new packages don't go straight from the developer's alpha release into the distribution CD anyways. my $ o.o2 MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-deve

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

o.o2 to the Ubuntu discussion: the drag-from-anywhere feature isn't always useful, but as well never gets into the way. I'd drop the requirement to hold down the Alt key. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-disc

Re: fehlermeldung

nfo/ubuntu-users > vor kurzem erschien auf meinem laptop die mitteilung des > kostenlosen downladens > von morzilla firefox 3. Are you sure you're actually using Ubuntu? With Ubuntu, Update Manager should take care of installing new versions. Have fun, MarKus - - - - - - - - -

Re: feedback on new wiki theme

ess, many people use fullscreen windows, screen sizes vary widely, and the most democratic solution is to avoid the insistence and use variable width rendering for web pages. Helps PDA users a lot as well. my o.o2 MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http:/

Re: Boot sequence profiling on first boot

opefully) remains stable and it's a gain on each of millions of computers. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Boot-time improvements

to make more services launch on demand. That is, move apache and similars into xinetd. For any real enhancement, you'd have to rip stuff out. Like avoiding gdm when using automatic login. Like avoiding to run startup scripts just to find out the service isn't even request

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

've Apport-reported the later bug, stack traces came out of (apparently) nowhere and within a day, a fix was posted. Short of self-healing applications, this is about as good as one can imagine. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/

Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

are and the GPL, how click-through requirements affect the user experience and about wether Firefox should be replaced with a differently branded equivalent: <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13200/> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu

Re: Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

re you have to agree to such an agreement. Not even when buying high-level items like cars. This perception of trademark enforcement you describe ist really unique to some parts of the software industry. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-

Re: Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

cial interests are everywhere), leading to a legal nightmare much worse than what we are used to from Microsoft, Apple, or similars. That said, I think Mark Shuttleworth should have learned now the Ubuntu community doesn't take such issues lightly and will proceed accordingly. MarK

Re: pain in the butt

of the problems at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ and start working on them. Your help is appreciated. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setti

Re: IDEA: Commercial Subscription Repositiory

llation on a different partition or the rescue disks most computers ship with. It's not so much wether other OSs have better fonts, it's more because you want to look at your older documents with the fonts they were made with. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. I

Re: Tablet PC under ubuntu - a call to xorg and ubuntu developers

ailing list as a heads-up to the interested folks and to discuss the broader topic. Ideally, you add a bug link to the latter. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists

Re: Package removals from archive should have email notifications

s case. plus 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

ces.list file. Then, the adjustment of this switch would go to the package sources selector accordingly. What would you think about a global switch, without making a hijack- package? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubun

Re: Boot times,services and packages

luetooth arena would probably to initialize the mechanism, but to move the search for an actual device to the background. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: Boot times,services and packages

Am 27.10.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: >> Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: >> >>> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>>There

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > ... > snip > ... >> Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's >> preferences. While this switch isn't ill-

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

eading through those man pages I can't see any options that > pop out as useless. The existence of aptitude duplicates a lot of what apt-get can do already. I've yet to find a case where aptitude is actually needed. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hi

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

Am 28.10.2008 um 18:36 schrieb Chris Coulson: > So, it's been running all night waiting for me to respond to a dialog! Yet another reason to use standby or suspend instead of shutdown. ;-) MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jum

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

Am 29.10.2008 um 09:16 schrieb (``-_-´´) -- Fernando: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:44:03 Markus Hitter wrote: >> Am 28.10.2008 um 18:36 schrieb Chris Coulson: >>> So, it's been running all night waiting for me to respond to a >>> dialog! >> Yet an

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

tuation is to add a Ubuntu derivate, composed for DOS fans. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubunt

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

Am 29.10.2008 um 20:52 schrieb Phillip Susi: > Markus Hitter wrote: >> Glad to see standby and suspend getting more attention. >> For the records, I'm even dual-booting two suspended states on >> the same computer. Using Grub, I can choose wether to resume the

Re: Version Control

es on the fly, as needed. A significant advantage over some of it's competitors is in your case, it works with a single private (.git) directory. Git works here for controlling binary files just fine. Binaries disallow merging, of course. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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

ckage until {Synaptic, apt-get,...} wants to remove the ubuntu-desktop meta-package, but this is tedious, very tedious. Perhaps this exists already, but I didn't notice yet. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-de

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

Am 03.11.2008 um 13:35 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > ma, 2008-11-03 kello 12:49 +0100, Markus Hitter kirjoitti: > >> To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic >> feature which tells me about the differences between a standard >> install and

Re: Jaunty open for development

or server, what exactly doesn't work? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

Am 06.11.2008 um 20:21 schrieb Dan Colish: > They're using very different gcc versions between the os's. Well, newer gcc's are meant to produce faster code, aren't they? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

test cases are run automatically for each commited patch and pretty well avoid introducing a bug a second time. to add my $o.o2, MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists

Re: Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

ort is automatically switched off at some point in time. If a user is enthusiastic enough to run alpha and beta releases (s)he already agrees to Apport's doing, so it would be reasonable to maintain this state beyond the update to the stable release. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Proposal for restricted drivers policy adjustment

time? The later should give high download numbers in a place where the vendor would notice. A vendor should really notice how much demand there actually is, perhaps making him think twice about his lock-in. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www

Re: [strawman] partual support of apps for policykit for Jaunty

Differentiating between user and root has two reasons: - prevent him from accidently shooting into his foot - protect against possibly insecure software by running it with user privileges. I hope neither of both gets lost when gedit becomes PolicyKit-aware. MarKus - - - - - - - - - -

How to push bugs upstream

irtualbox-ose/+bug/282379> Thanks, Markus / Traumflug - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

mage in the first place? You propose to intentionally get rid of a significant number of users? Hmm. For me, the limited size of the CD is one of the great features of Ubuntu as it not only allows a reasonable quick download, but obviously stops Ubuntu from bloating

Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

bug as the build works fine outside a chrooted environment. So my question is: how would I best mimick Ubuntu's build machinery? Probably a virtual machine, to allow building i386 on an AMD64 host, but which type of installation, what else? Thanks, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

Am 09.01.2009 um 02:22 schrieb James Westby: > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> in an attempt to get some insight about >> >> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/245981> >> >&

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

Am 09.01.2009 um 17:39 schrieb James Westby: > You can [...] > > You can [...] > > You can [...] Wow, there are plenty of options. Thanks a lot. I didn't recognize a PPA has a build machinery, yet, and will try that path. Thanks James, Markus - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

body runs in a similar, but different direction. A nightmare. As the others mentioned, having a single (git-)interface for different repos whould be a big leap in the right direction. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu

Re: QuitAppletPlus is ready for your feedback!

walk away to find your Mac turned off later. That's all Mac OS X 10.4, I don't know about 10.5. Confirmation of potential data loss is a good idea, IMHO. Offering a selection dialog after the user has (pre-)selected his choice in the menu, isn't. MarKus - - - - - - - - -

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

morrow - there's still time to make changes if you have ideas. You ask how likely it is for the participant to post to the -devel list. Isn't the -devel list closed to non-developers, making it not a choice for most people? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Mark

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

se they know volunteers won't. This is a good idea. One of the most fundamental ideas of free open source software is to _avoid_ artifical barriers, after all. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

s idea on this list before. Perhaps you can find this spot and start working out something like a concept or even mockup code. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubu

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

-0ubuntu1 is currently installed > -0ubuntu3 is available to install > > Do they need to install -0ubuntu2 and THEN -0ubuntu3? I don't know how Fedora does, but you always have the fallback option to download the full package. The server always has to provide full packages

Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea?

e to time that's unfortunate for you, but a good thing for Ubuntu as you get the chance to report and track down a bug. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

to roll back to or keep the previous technology. Perhaps you want to have a look at other distros to get an idea on how they deal with this challenge: <http://www.nabble.com/HEADSUP-usb2-usb4bsd-to-become-default-in- GENERIC-td21866690.html> MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

Am 10.02.2009 um 16:35 schrieb Scott James Remnant: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:31 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > >> Undoubtly, efforts to avoid regressions are a very good thing. One >> possible solution is to offer the possibility to roll back to or keep >> the previous

Re: Default font size in gnome

sons so difficult. My personal hope is, this dust settles once people get used to set their screen dpi just right: it is a measurable fact. Then, they will start complaining a 12 px font is waaay to big for phone screens ;-) MarKus P.S.: There's no real need for an additional measure

Re: Default font size in gnome

e a screen with 1200 dpi ... > However, in cases where the image has DPI/size information a > publishing program should take that into account. Sure it should. The DPI of the image as well as the DPI of the displaying device. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. In

Re: Default font size in gnome

Am 28.02.2009 um 19:52 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > On Saturday 28 February 2009 6:38:04 am Markus Hitter wrote: >> I can understand this is difficult to get swallowed. For 40 (or more) >> years now, the rule was 1 pixel = 1 dot on the screen. A picture, >> 100px x 100p

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

e down - drag to submenu item - mouse up). Way too much finger acrobatics to handle a right click at the same time. > -- there *are* context menu's on almost everything else in Ubuntu Yes, almost everything. Everything exept menus them selfs. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: High CPU usage applet

makes actually use of the available processing power: Doing scientific calculations, rendering videos, playing games, serving. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubun

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

ill have a different perference on how the box should work. So: There is no common case. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

ch bug affects only one percent of the users, there likely won't be any users left with a smooth experience, after all. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

drops, > momentum stalls, and then - fubar. As popularity increases, more vendors will attempt to provide drivers at launch dates of new hardware. For now it's a reasonable strategy to buy hardware which is at least half a year old or which is binary compatible with suc

Re: [rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

ou recognize AMD64 to be faster than i386 and take this argument to turn away some of the i386 users? If you are so keen on performance, by all means, install AMD64. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

lly- need-the-latest-version/1242843704> In my opinion, this is disappointing. Very disappointing. What is wrong with Ubuntu's release/fix/backport strategy for such a thing to happen? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- U

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

can tell, Ubuntu disencourages using versions other than the distribution provided ones. Is this in fear of the dependency hell? Obviously, switching versions works well for many people. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

s to _existing installations_, especially with LTS. Obviously, they trust them selves to reliably avoid regressions and trust their customers not to complain about new features. We'll see. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ --

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

l. They sell the machine now and promise to deliver the updates over the next year. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsub

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

te broke foo?" -> Report a bug and switch foo back to the previous version -> Damage gone, user happy. Programmers do something similar with their source code already, why not with binary packages? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://w

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

know how apt-get & friends work, of course. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

ource into the Microsoft world in the very same piece of software. Shall the freedom win ! Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscr

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

Am 09.06.2009 um 00:45 schrieb André Pirard: > Similarly, the swap partition should be a Linux file. > This frees the user from swap considerations and opens Linux to > dynamic swap size. + 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.ju

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

on and the kernel from the other partition. Kernel install scripts can't deal with such a situation, you end up sync'ing those two /boots manually after each update of one of the kernels. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

Am 11.06.2009 um 10:35 schrieb Felix Miata: > On 2009/06/11 09:20 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter composed: > >> Additionally, if you have more than one installation of Ubuntu on the >> same platter, you really want to share /boot with both installations. > > That's asking

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

Am 11.06.2009 um 21:41 schrieb Derek Broughton: > Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> Am 11.06.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: >> >>> [wrong citation snipped] > > I definitely didn't write that - or if I did, I'm suffering > delusions - >

Re: Flash, and 32 vs. 64

this solved? For now I'm back to swfdec. I prefer it for the minor, but very convenient feature to load flash after a click on a placeholder, only. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubun

Re: Examining our release cycle: stricter instead of longer?

mulator Wine. To be honest, I don't see the advantage of a strong emphasis on "releases" either, as open source software is always a living thing. Is it a matter of matching company policy checklists? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http:/

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

package. > Is the package maintainer for this package in a coma? ... if there is a maintainer at all ... More friendly words likely result in a more friendly answer. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss m

Re: Guessing environment variables set origin

> script > parser, i guess. As you can start another shell in a shell, use bash it's self to interpret it's environment: $ bash env Bash does distinguish a few modes it can run in: "login shell", "ksh emulation", etc. See the man page for more. M

Re: Guessing environment variables set origin

the options. > Using this GUI, the user could define its own > variables and the system variables (since it has root access, of > course) Typical GUI users don't even know environment variables exist ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hit

$HOME/.xsessionrc ignored

I fix that? Thanks, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Testing karmic currently impossible?

ea on how to get back on track? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Testing karmic currently impossible?

Am 16.09.2009 um 00:52 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:14:52 +0200 Markus Hitter > wrote: >> >> It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run >> desktop- >> amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track? >> > Wait

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

Am 30.09.2009 um 06:09 schrieb Randy Appleton: > Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? Yes, this can happen. Regarding boot times ... I'm not sure why this is interesting. The best goal would be to make it unneccessary to boot/reboot a machine at all. My $0.0

Re: Icons in Place and System

ons shown. With Icons off, the menu entries shouls shrink accordingly. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.u

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

can assist an admin with Popups, colors and graphs. Menus give a much better overview than an invisible list of options, and so on ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@li

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

Am 22.10.2009 um 10:02 schrieb Christopher Chan: > Mapping system? I guess that means no shared filesystems. SMBFS, sshfs and to some extent NFS support mapping already. It works just fine here and today, mapping volumes of a Mac OS X server onto an Ubuntu box. Mar

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