Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Upstream vs packaged texlive

2013-06-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 14 June 2013 00:24, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > Oh, nice :) Have you started down the path to getting them into the > precise-backports repository, following the info at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports That's not possible. First, backported packages still can't depend on other bac

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Upstream vs packaged texlive

2013-06-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 12 June 2013 12:32, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > Correct. Well, 12.04 users could try backporting the 13.04 texlive > source packages instead. It could work, but seems more effort than it > is worth at this point :) Already done: https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ppa It shouldn

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Quickshot 2.0 - Creating a PPA

2013-06-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 June 2013 23:30, Thomas Corwin wrote: > As I said at the meeting, I am trying to remake and revive the old Quickshot > application. I have renamed it to Quickshot 2.0, and the license will be CC > BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike). I haven't finished creating > an Alpha version,

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Gwibber/Friends

2013-04-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 15 April 2013 17:09, Patrick Dickey wrote: > Hopefully they'll get the friends-app installed by default either in > 13.10 or as an update to the 13.04 installer. How much additional work > would it be to include some brief instructions on installing Gwibber (or > friends-app) in the Instant Mes

[Ubuntu-manual] Fwd: [UIFe] Updated icons for the messaging menu

2012-10-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Here's *another* UIFe. I'm learning towards accepting this one. Does this create any problems for the Manual? Jeremy -- Forwarded message -- From: Sebastien Bacher Date: 2 October 2012 15:08 Subject: [UIFe] Updated icons for the messaging menu To: ubuntu-...@lists.ubuntu.com, Ubu

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Editing deadline - 1 Oct

2012-10-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 1 October 2012 17:26, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > Yes, sure. I subscribed some days ago this list. But it’s difficult to > keep the overview. So I was wondering if there is a table where you > can see all UIFE’s with one view. :-) The two UIFE's I'm watching that still haven't landed yet (!) are

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 Released with New Features

2012-09-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 September 2012 20:18, Patrick Dickey wrote: > How about dividing the list of "lenses" into two categories -- Offline > and Online (with an explanation that offline only searches your > computer, while online gets it's results from the Internet). And list > the actual names for each lens afte

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] 12.10 Ubuntu Desktop edits done

2012-09-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 25 September 2012 12:44, Jim Connett wrote: > In my release, when I put a search term at the top of the Dash, I get > "local" results as I expect, but at the bottom of the window, I also have > amazon.com results. Assuming this "feature" doesn't get yanked in the final > release, I think a scre

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Authoring and Screenshots

2012-09-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 24 September 2012 12:46, Carsten Gerlach wrote: > Am 24.09.2012 18:33, schrieb Jeremy Bicha: >> There's one major UI change that just landed in quantal-proposed: >> the addition of Amazon & Ubuntu One Music Store items in the >> launcher by default. It seems very

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Authoring and Screenshots

2012-09-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
likely that will get pushed to the normal quantal archives soon. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More he

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

2012-07-10 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 10 July 2012 04:49, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: > As a member of the ubuntu manual team I started a discussion on how we > should call this "thing" at the top of our screen. > As a translator of the official Ubuntu documentation (yelp) I noticed that > the word "panel" had been changed to "menu bar"

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Reflection and review

2012-07-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 2 July 2012 07:37, Philip Stubbs wrote: > Ok, I was intending to get involved. However, I did not like having to > use TeX Live from outside of the repositories. It seems to me that it > would be easier to be involved if the software requirements can be > satisfied with what is available to a s

[Ubuntu-manual] texlive PPA

2012-05-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Hi, texlive 2012 pre-release is now available for Debian wheezy and Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha "Quantal Quetzal". I have backported texlive from quantal to a PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users. I don't want to upset your workflow especially as you have a deadline soon, but this is probably worth someone check

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Ubuntu Manual Meeting Announcement

2011-05-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ar/embed?src=ubuntu-manual.org_8efp9nqem6l67cbph8aqfoe3qo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC> May I also suggest you add your meeting times to the Ubuntu Fridge Calendar: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/fridge/ This allows for the wider Ubuntu community to have an easy wa

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] This might be helpful for the Unity section of the manual

2011-04-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
your footer. Also, it's probably a good idea to hyperlink the footer license to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.

[Ubuntu-manual] Project Mallard Online Editor

2010-05-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
gotten in implementing your own documentation editing portal but it may be convenient to piggyback off this other project. Unfortunately, that project is probably too late to help much with the Maverick release. http://neosergio.net/2010/05/20/details-of-my-gsoc-project-gnome-project-mallard-online/ Je

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Final draft of the US English manual

2010-04-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
The index looks pretty bad. There are nearly-duplicate entries like: Apt, 123 apt, 123 Apt-get, 123 Apt-get, 123-125, 137 F-Spot, 27 F-Spot Photo Manager, 83 gedit, 123 gedit Text Editor, 27 Nautilus, 29-32, 34, 130 Nautilus File Manager, 121 Others include (Ubuntu) Software Center, Pidgin, Rhyth

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Ubuntu Manual in English ?

2010-04-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Try http://ubuntu-manual.org/ubuntu-manual-beta.pdf Jeremy Bicha On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: > > Hi, > > Would it be possible to obtain a link to download the Ubuntu Manual "Getting > started with Ubuntu 10.04", English version, after the writi

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] p18: Specifying partitions manually

2010-03-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Yann, that is amazing. I knew that previously Linux wouldn't let me install without repartitioning the hard drive. I'll have to try this out. Thanks! Google Translate does a good job of converting the article to English; too bad it's blocked in my country (but Google Chrome manages to get around t