Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really really would like to see "BACKSPACE as BACK" working in > Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of > people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course). > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed Ubuntu just yesterday, and backspace not mapping to 'back > > in history' is the main annoying thing I found. It happened once or > > twice (in a year) that I went one page back when I wanted to delete > > text, because I was

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, > IMO, probably want to run Windows. "Windows does " is really an > irrelvant argument from my perspective. Should I throw away absolutely all advantages of

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > > On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like > >

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > > > > It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter > > while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The > > right solution has been

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed > that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But > synaptic seems seldom to do this. > I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/21/07, yueyu lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed > > > tha

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-10-22 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What we need is a DIGG alike system for LP. > Either by counting the number of subscribers/comments, thumbs up/down (digg > alike), or an hybrid way of all this. > What do you guys think? A digg thumb up for that idea :) -- Nicol

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

2007-11-05 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
John Richard Moser escribió: > > Anthony Bryan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an >> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file >> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery >> (checksums)

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

2007-11-06 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Phillip Susi escribió: > Anthony Bryan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an >> XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file >> (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery >> (checksums) and other

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-08 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Greg K Nicholson escribió: > Is a compatibility layer (like Wine) to run Mac OS X programs on Linux > feasible? Does one already exist? > > It seems to me, the uneducated layman, that it should be *easier* to > make a Mac compatibility layer (“Mine”?) than one for Windows since: OS > X is Unix-

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-08 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Evan escribió: > I hadn't considered the malware aspect, but running any program not in > the official repos opens that door. Running wine apps may actually be > safer since wine never needs root access (the whole win filesystem is > contained in the user's home directory). It could still do a l