Re: Xubuntuguide.org

2006-11-03 Thread Cody Somerville
Why don't we just use the Ubuntu wiki? Don't we already have the Xubuntu namespace? It appears that's what the other Ubuntu flavours (ie. kubuntu, etc.) do. If you compare wiki.kubuntu.org and wiki.ubuntu.com, it is (or appears to be) the same wiki but with a different style sheet. We could do the

Re: Xubuntuguide.org

2006-11-03 Thread Cody Somerville
I agree as well. I think Brian brings up some very good points that I think we need to look at. Xubuntu is an official "flavor" of Ubuntu and so our website needs to be professional or we'll damage the Ubuntu and Canonical image. Also, I don't think we need to replicate every effort Ubuntu has. Th

Xubuntu Website Development (Was: Xubuntuguide.org)

2006-11-03 Thread Cody Somerville
: we can't do so much at the programming front, it's mainly updating content. On 11/3/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree as well. I think Brian brings up some very good points that I think we need to look at. Xubuntu is an official "flavor" of Ubuntu and

Re: Xubuntu Website Development (Was: Xubuntuguide.org)

2006-11-03 Thread Cody Somerville
that. If not, set me straight because i'm lost. :P -AdamOn 11/3/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam: haha - sorry for hijacking this thread and causing confusion. I agree mediawiki for any wiki services we might launch. Vincent: I can do some drupal module hacking plus I

Re: disable one of two soundboards

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Lamanary,This mailing list isn't for support requests. However, there are several ways that you can get support for your Xubuntu install:Visit https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+addticket to fill a support request;use the ubuntu-user mailing list; orvisit the #xubuntu or #ubuntu IRC channel

Updated Xubuntu Wiki pages

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
I made some updates to the main Xubuntu wiki page (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/xubuntu) for the Xubuntu 6.10 release and the launch of the new xubuntu.org website (plus some other tweaks). If you guys could review it, that would be great.Thanks,Cody A.W. Somerville-- Firefox (www.getfirefox.com ) -- A

Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone, Jani and I were talking today and I'd like to get an Xubuntu developer meeting in before the end of the year. When would be a good time for people and what needs to be discussed?Please feel free to visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings and make an addition under "Agenda for

Re: Updated Xubuntu Wiki pages

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
look at it too closely but it looked allright. Thanks! On 11/5/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I made some updates to the main Xubuntu wiki page ( http://wiki.ubuntu.com/xubuntu) for the Xubuntu 6.10 release and the launch of the new xubuntu.org website (plus some other twe

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
om/Xubuntu/MeetingsOn 11/5/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Everyone, Jani and I were talking today and I'd like to get an Xubuntu developer meeting in before the end of the year. When would be a good time for people and what needs to be discussed?Please feel

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
ng a log of the meeting? -Adam On 11/5/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've setup the VoteOnDate page for the tentative date of November 25th, 2006. If November 25th is just completely horrible and you really feel like you need to be at this meeting then let me k

Fwd: Xubuntu IRC Channels

2006-11-05 Thread Cody Somerville
ennis Kaarsemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Nov 5, 2006 7:42 PM Subject: Re: Xubuntu IRC ChannelsTo: Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On zo, 2006-11-05 at 19:35 -0400, Cody Somerville wrote:> I was wondering if it would be possible for us to get an #xubuntu-dev> channel.Use #x

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-06 Thread Cody Somerville
... What holiday? :POn 11/6/06, Daniel T. Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Cody Somerville wrote:> I've setup the VoteOnDate page for the tentative date of November 25th,> 2006. If November 25th is just completely horrible and you really feel like > you ne

Re: Congratulations

2006-11-06 Thread Cody Somerville
Sure. That would be awesome.Thanks,CodyOn 11/6/06, daniele favara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all,first of all congrs for xubuntu-edgy ...i couldn't be active during edgy devel cicle, but i guess i can be for next one. Dunring this time i've been administering the ubuntu-it forum (xubuntusection

Re: more than 128 M needed for liveCD

2006-11-06 Thread Cody Somerville
I'm getting a copy of the live cd this weekend (I don't have a burner of my own yet) and so I'll play around with it to see if I can identify some memory hogs.Thanks,Cody A.W. Somerville On 11/6/06, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunatley we have a bad regression since dapper. The liv

Re: Website

2006-11-06 Thread Cody Somerville
haha - Thanks for the kind words.I've made some modifications to the website today. What do you guys think?Modified release announcement at top of the front page to look like that of Ubuntu's;Added a warning to the top of xubuntu.org/get regarding upgrade woes;Shuffled around the ordering of the m

Re: more than 128 M needed for liveCD

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
I use Xubuntu 6.06 w/ 128 mb of Ram and 333mhz and the desktop installed works fine for me (though I'm a bit tight for ram and cpu at times - I can't have all the fancy applets and too many programs running but thats to be expected of an old PC... it is still better then being forced to run Windows

Re: Website

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
with the rest, but I added the previous colour to the edit comment so you can revert it if you really want to. On 11/6/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: haha - Thanks for the kind words.I've made some modifications to the website today. What do you guys think?Modified re

Re: Website

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
Vincent & Adam: I removed the xUbuntu notice on the download page because it was deforming the menu. I placed the markup in the comment box.Thanks,CodyOn 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: haha, it's fine with me. On 11/7/06, Adam Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Website

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
find it. On 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vincent & Adam: I removed the xUbuntu notice on the download page because it was deforming the menu. I placed the markup in the comment box.Thanks,Cody On 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: haha,

Re: more than 128 M needed for liveCD

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
ntu, but I have no problems with it.On 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Xubuntu 6.06 w/ 128 mb of Ram and 333mhz and the desktop installed works fine for me (though I'm a bit tight for ram and cpu at times - I can't have all the fancy applets and too many p

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-07 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Daniel, I'd really like it if you could attend. What would be a better date for you?Thanks,CodyOn 11/6/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:... What holiday? :P On 11/6/06, Daniel T. Chen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Cody

Re: Website

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
it's really neccessary to put it in the main navigational menu, won't it suffice in the Help & Support page? On 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds good to me.Changelog:Added "development" pageOn 11/7/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hmm.. I

Re: more than 128 M needed for liveCD

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
The alternative cd works fine. The live cd is the issue here. :)On 11/8/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Again, you are referencing the Live cd, I want to know about the Alternate installation cd and success with it under lesser memory footprints under Edgy. Precision is a fluid concept i

Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey, What do you guys think of a "Welcome Centre" for Xubuntu? I know there is a current specification for one but I'm not sure what's going on with it or if it is going in the right direction (there is a lot of debate about it). I've created a mock up of a direction we could pursue - What do you g

Re: Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
ng < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks good, nice idea. The Xfld cd has something similair to. Maybe some  more links to general howto's and forums?Cody Somerville wrote:>> Hey,>>  What do you guys think of a "Welcome Centre" for Xubuntu? I know there > is a curre

Re: xubuntu 6.06 to xubuntu 6.10 what happend!

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
I'm going to mark Edgy as unstable. That is: 6.10, codename Edgy Eft (stable release)to 6.10, codename Edgy Eft (unstable release) I think we can all agree Edgy is... Edgy (aka unstable). If anyone objects, please feel free to change it back.Thanks,Cody A.W. Somerville On 11/8/06, Vincent <[EMAIL P

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-08 Thread Cody Somerville
anytime.Thanks,Cody A.W. Somervillehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/VoteOnDateOn 11/7/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Daniel, I'd really like it if you could attend. What would be a better date for you?Thanks,Cody On

Re: Website

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
Unfortunately no.On 11/9/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK then, if that's the case I think we should have it too. But do you know if there's any way of showing that it is an external link? Perhaps an image of a globe in front of it? On 11/8/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAI

Re: Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
c? I took ages for me to find out I could use Synaptic to install stuff.On 11/8/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I just put it together last night while watching the election stuff on TV. On 11/8/06, Adam Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I like it alot, I think t

Re: Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
TheSheep has put together an alternative mock-up that I think looks very nice myself.http://sheep.art.pl/welcome.pngOn 11/9/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been doing a lot of research today and I agree that the welcome centre should have a big focus on how to insta

Re: Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
It says Xubuntu. On 11/9/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think so too, if it uses the default GTK theme from Xubuntu, says "About Xubuntu" instead of "About Ubuntu" and again, an "Install Software" button ;) On 11/9/06, Cody Somerville <[EMA

Xubuntu Wiki Pages

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
I'd like to thank Joshua Gardner for going through the wiki looking for outdated wiki pages. He has compiled a list (which I've attached and will created a wiki todo page here in a second) of pages that need updating that we can work through. At this time, I'd like to propose that all Xubuntu relat

Re: Xubuntu Wiki Pages

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
know who'd be able to apply this?On 11/9/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to thank Joshua Gardner for going through the wiki looking for outdated wiki pages. He has compiled a list (which I've attached and will created a wiki todo page here in a second)

Re: Xubuntu Welcome Centre

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
any word of voting on a layout or are we still in the "pre-alpha" stage of planning. :) -AdamOn 11/9/06, Harold Aling < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cody Somerville wrote:> TheSheep has put together an alternative mock-up that I think looks> very nice myself.>> http://s

Re: Xubuntu Wiki Pages

2006-11-09 Thread Cody Somerville
r < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Jani might be able to get the wiki style changed as well. -AdamOn 11/9/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:John would be the contact.Also, you can specify your own stylesheet in the user preferences so you can test it out before submitting it. Th

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-10 Thread Cody Somerville
t but, as always, feel free to make additions. The current agenda should take us about 2 hours to work through. Thanks, Cody A.W. SomervilleOn 11/8/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a friendly reminder to everyone that the poll for the date & time for the meeting ends

Re: Xubuntu wiki skin progress

2006-11-10 Thread Cody Somerville
Doesn't work for me in Firefox 1.0.7. Will try in 1.5 and 2.0 later tonight. Thanks, Cody A.W. SomervilleOn 11/10/06, Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's how it looks on IE6  (see the link):  http://j1m.net/images/xubuntuwiki_ie6.JPG Perhaps it is the common stylesheet interference.  A

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-10 Thread Cody Somerville
ar but itshouldn't be to integrate it in xfce-panel On 11/10/06, daniele favara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 11/10/06, Daniele Favara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:43:40AM +, Cody Somerville wrote:> > > Hey Everyone,> > >> &

Re: Call for developer meeting agenda

2006-11-11 Thread Cody Somerville
.>  >>  > Wouldn't you like an menu item on abiword like : >  >>  >  - save documente at doc.google.com <http://doc.google.com>>  >>  > ?>  > >  >>  >>  >> On 11/10/06, daniele favara &

Fwd: Efficient Coding Strategy for Desktop Environment Development

2006-11-11 Thread Cody Somerville
For those of you not on the primary devel mailing list, I thought you might like to read the following:-- Forwarded message --From: Elias Humbolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Nov 11, 2006 1:56 PMSubject: Efficient Coding Strategy for Desktop Environment DevelopmentTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Xubuntu Meeting Announcement

2006-11-15 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone, I just thought I'd let you know that the meeting for November 25th, 2006 is a go and I'm looking forward to chatting with all of you then. I think this meeting will really give us a chance to get orientated and make Feisty the best Xubuntu release yet. Few notes: - Some people h

Re: Xubuntu Meeting Announcement

2006-11-16 Thread Cody Somerville
I agree completly. By packaging party, I meant a "get together to learn how to package". I've already taught myself via documentation but it'd be nice to some mebers of Xubuntu (and whoever else wants to join) with some members from MOTU to learn how to package (and get some tips, and tricks along

Re: Xubuntu wiki skin

2006-11-16 Thread Cody Somerville
Few issues: 1. It breaks indentation of lists 2. Could we have it span the entire page instead? 3. Could we get rid of a bit more brown? 4. On the top and bottom of the page, there is a blue band that goes straight across the page. Besides those 4 points, it looks really good. Thanks,

Final Reminder: Xubuntu Meeting November 25th

2006-11-23 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Everyone, I just wanted to give everyone one last reminder of the meeting this weekend. It would really be awesome if John and J Mak could show up to represent the documentation and artwork effort respectively. For more information about the upcoming meeting, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubu

Re: Final Reminder: Xubuntu Meeting November 25th

2006-11-24 Thread Cody Somerville
Awesome. Sounds good to me. Hope to see everyone there tomorrow... on the 25th... at 1800 UTC! Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 11/24/06, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/23/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I just wan

Re: Final Reminder: Xubuntu Meeting November 25th

2006-11-25 Thread Cody Somerville
I was hoping you would be able to make it. :( Welp, Hopefully you can attend the next meeting! :) Thanks for letting us know, Cody A.W. Somerville On 11/25/06, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/24/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Awesome.

Xubuntu Meeting Summary

2006-11-25 Thread Cody Somerville
I'd like to report that the Xubuntu meeting that occured today was a BIG success. We had a lot of fun tackling differnet Xubuntu issues and figuring out how we, as a team, can help make Xubuntu better. A majority of topics on the agenda were reviewed (with a few being deferred until we have a more

Re: Xubuntu Meeting Summary

2006-11-26 Thread Cody Somerville
perhaps we should add it to that page and state the date of the following meeting. On 11/25/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to report that the Xubuntu meeting that occured today was a BIG > success. We had a lot of fun tackling differnet Xubuntu issues a

UOW Xubuntu Session

2006-11-28 Thread Cody Somerville
The Xubuntu UOW Session is tomorrow at 2100 UTC led by myself. I'd love for it if Jani and the other devs could come out! :) Thanks, Cody -- Firefox (www.getfirefox.com) -- A browser you can trust -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Biweekly Xubuntu Meetings Discussion

2006-11-29 Thread Cody Somerville
At the last meeting, we agreed to biweekly meetings. To make the most of these biweekly meetings, we'll need to have a time where the maximum number of participants can attend and that key individuals can attend on a regular basis. I understand that Jani would like the meetings to occur during the

Xubuntu Documentation Effort

2006-11-29 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone, I was just wondering who was interested in assisting with the documentation effort. I spoke with the Ubuntu docs team and they said they'd be happy to help us out if we could get a few people together. So if you are interested in helping out with Xubuntu documentation (either direct

Re: Biweekly Xubuntu Meetings Discussion

2006-11-29 Thread Cody Somerville
rection so that we can be prepared for the meeting? :) Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 11/29/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At the last meeting, we agreed to biweekly meetings. To make the most of these biweekly meetings, we'll need to have a time where the maximum numbe

Re: Xubuntu Documentation Effort

2006-12-01 Thread Cody Somerville
x27;t there a way to collaboratively work on it like a wiki or something? > > On 11/30/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > I'm in > > > > -Adam > > > > On 11/29/06, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2006-12-02 Thread Cody Somerville
Lets take a walk through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Edgy/Ideas and see what we can take from there and implement in Feisty: New printer configuration (either adding this to xfprint or making gnome-cups-manager gtk-only) Implemented in Edgy. Browse Windows network (Thunar

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2006-12-03 Thread Cody Somerville
An aspiring MOTU who uses xubuntu should package that first :) Alrighty, I've packaged it and it is currently in REVU awaiting approval. > Browse Windows network (Thunar) > > > We might not be able to get something integrated with Thunar for Feisty > but we could include a stand-alone

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2006-12-03 Thread Cody Somerville
On 12/3/06, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cody Somerville wrote: > An aspiring MOTU who uses xubuntu should package that first :) > > Haven't looked at it, did you make it use python-central or python-support to work well with more tha one version of pyth

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2006-12-05 Thread Cody Somerville
Good ideas guys. Maybe you could take the game discussion to a new mailing list thread? On 12/5/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tuxracer is now PlanetPenguin-racer ;) Anyway, as for 3D games, I'm not exactly sure if we should be including them, but if we do, Warzone 2100 is a great RTS

Re: Artwork update

2006-12-05 Thread Cody Somerville
What about the options, language, login, etc. buttons for the gdm theme? Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 12/5/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The login looks awesome! ... in fact, so does everything else. Zero complaints here. -Adam On 12/5/06, Oblio < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: htop

2006-12-06 Thread Cody Somerville
Maybe we could create a specification on the wiki so that we can keep track of all these wonderful suggestions. :) Thanks, Cody On 12/6/06, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: htop is awesome. I say "aye" to this proposal. -CelloFellow On 12/6/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrot

Re: Replacements for ThunderBird and FireFox

2006-12-06 Thread Cody Somerville
I run a 333mhz w/ 128mb of ram and Firefox 2.0 works fine for me. :) - Cody On 12/6/06, Wesley Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:13:34 -0500 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/6/06, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Article

2006-12-09 Thread Cody Somerville
Very interesting article! :) - Cody On 12/9/06, Michael Killian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great article! Thanks. I stand behind you. On 12/10/06, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've written an article about the problems of creating high quality > artworks in a collaborative

Re: Xubuntu Developer Team Meeting

2006-12-14 Thread Cody Somerville
). Sorry for not being clear the first time. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 12/13/06, Daniel Robitaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/13/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please add two reoccurring monthly events on the fridge calendar: &

Re: Marketing

2006-12-14 Thread Cody Somerville
The Ubuntu wiki is actually a good idea. If Josh falls off the side of the Earth, then we'll still have all his hard work! :) Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 12/14/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I actually spoke with him about this and what we plan to do is get the marketing infor

Re: regular bug triaging

2006-12-14 Thread Cody Somerville
You bring up some excellent points Jani. I'll think about this over the weekend - I'm sure I could volunteer to help look after some of the packages. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 12/14/06, Wesley Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Dec

xubuntu-users

2006-12-14 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone, I was thinking of getting in touch with Elmo to setup an xubuntu-users mailing list as we currently do not have one. With the growing user base, I think this could become an effective tool for users as well as allow us to track common issues and complaints. If no one has any objecti

Re: xubuntu-users

2006-12-15 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone, If I understand correctly, the main concern is lack of interest and that questions would end up going un-answered. I don't think this is the case because: 1. There are 80-90 people on #xubuntu at all times (ie. This new ml will appeal to them) 2. There are a handful of people

Re: xubuntuguide.org Update

2006-12-15 Thread Cody Somerville
I completely agree with Adam. Before we start fooling around with more wikis, websites, etc. we should focus on getting _actual_ work done. In terms of documentation, we should be focusing on the official documentation (getting involved is easy too!). Documentation for 6.10 is almost at an unaccep

Re: lightening xubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Cody Somerville
A few tips/ideas for improving performance: 1. You might want to look for an alternative to Amarok as it is very heavy and requires kde libs. 2. If you aren't going to be using the desktop (ie. icons on the desktop), you could disable xfdesktop. 3. Try changing your theme to a more ligh

Re: art for feisty

2006-12-18 Thread Cody Somerville
jmak is already leading the artwork direction. - Cody On 12/18/06, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi jmak, do you have time during feisty to take control of the artwork direction and have it implemented by beta? (March, 2007) I do not follow ubuntu-artwork so maybe there is planning

January Meeting Reminders

2006-12-22 Thread Cody Somerville
Hello Developers and Users, I'd just like to take the opportunity to remind everyone of the upcoming Xubuntu Team Meetings in January: - Wednesday, January 2nd @ 2200 - Saturday, January 20th @ 1500 - Wednesday, January 31st @ 2200 All times are in UTC and all meetings are open to the gen

Re: Courtesy Reminder - Meeting

2007-01-03 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey Everyone There was enough people there but things just didn't get rolling as it seemed people felt that I had to be at the meeting for it to proceed (which is unfortunate because we had a good turn out). Unfortunately, I was unable to attend due to an unexpected family emergency. Here is what

Re: recommended irc client for xubuntu

2007-01-03 Thread Cody Somerville
Hey John, I really enjoy xchat - it is very powerful. I'm going to try to convince Jani and/or Gauvian to add xchat back into the seeds . - Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/3/07, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: irssi - my personal favorite for a long time, probably not the best for a newcome

[xubuntu-docs patch] First patch for Feisty

2007-01-04 Thread Cody Somerville
Hello Everyone, I've decided to try my hand at some documentation and here is my first patch. Changelog: - Change 6.06 to 7.04 in the about html document - Updated contributor list in bookinfo.xml - Updated printer configuration section to use new gui config tool Small changes but import

Re: [xubuntu-docs patch] First patch for Feisty

2007-01-04 Thread Cody Somerville
Oops! Made a mistake when generating the patch. Attached updated patch. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/4/07, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Everyone, I've decided to try my hand at some documentation and here is my first patch. Changelog: - Change 6.06

Re: xubuntu-users

2007-01-07 Thread Cody Somerville
07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cody Somerville wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > > > I was thinking of getting in touch with Elmo to setup an > xubuntu-users > > mailing list as we currently do not have one. With the growing user > > base, I t

Re: Desktop

2007-01-08 Thread Cody Somerville
Personally, I like whatever Feisty is using currently - this includes the blue tango icons. It looks clean and glossy (with the new look for window decorations). As for the GDM theme, I'm not sure I like how it is boxed like that - it feels like we aren't using the rest of the screen real-estate

Re: Menu button

2007-01-08 Thread Cody Somerville
I'm in favor of keeping the current menu button unless you can come up with something REALLY nice looking. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/9/07, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good idea. I've never liked the default menu button icon for Xubuntu. -CelloFellow On 1/8/07, jmak <[E

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Cody Somerville
pyNeighborhood is now uploaded to Feisty and is pending Archive admin approval (since it is a new package). On a side note, I ended up using python-support in the end. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 12/3/06, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/3/06, Jani Monoses &

Re: Desktop

2007-01-09 Thread Cody Somerville
Unfortunately I don't have the background required to articulate what I do and don't like about the artwork beyond that. Telling you what I like and would like to see is all that I can provide. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/9/07, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/9/07,

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Cody Somerville
7;t work. Even setuid-ing the pyNeighborhood executable didn't work. -Josh On 1/9/07, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pyNeighborhood is now uploaded to Feisty and is pending Archive admin > approval (since it is a new package). On a side note, I ended up usin

Re: Menu button

2007-01-10 Thread Cody Somerville
See comments below: On 1/10/07, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:28:52 -0600 "Adam Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats a completely different Desktop Environment and I don't see any menu > icon that would be remotely relevant to what we are talking about. >

Xubuntu Feisty Doc Specification

2007-01-10 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Everyone, I've started working on a specification for Xubuntu documentation. It can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Feisty/DesktopGuide-feisty It is still in early development and comments/suggestions and most welcomed :) Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville -- xubuntu-d

Re: ISO images testing

2007-01-10 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Jani, I've started to work on a testing page that is similar to the others at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Xubuntu/Current Currently I link to the Ubuntu/Long and Ubuntu/Short for part of it (which works ok - I skimmed it and the majority of it is applicable to us/just needs small tweaks)

New Mailing List: xubuntu-users

2007-01-10 Thread Cody Somerville
Hello Everyone, As you may or may not know, we've recently been discussing setting up an xubuntu-users mailing list. As of today, this mailing list exists and is ready for consumption! This mailing list is for help and support with a bit of user discussion on the side. To subscribe, please visit:

Re: pinot

2007-01-10 Thread Cody Somerville
I think there is a user in #xubuntu that developed a gui frontend for locate, slocate, tracker, etc. It seemed to work rather well. I think the name of the individual was kalikiana (sp). Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/10/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gonna test tracker dire

Status of Xubuntu Support

2007-01-11 Thread Cody Somerville
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1997631#post1997631 Henrik [image: Henrik is offline] Ubuntu Developer Join Date: Oct 2004 Beans: 166 * * *Re: Testing Herd 2 Now!* -- Yes, of course feel free to test

Re: ISO images testing

2007-01-11 Thread Cody Somerville
Apparently testers need to register on the forums (or are requested to indicate), what they can test: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=335481 On 1/10/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cody Somerville wrote: > Hi Jani, > > I've started to work on a

Re: Status of Xubuntu Support

2007-01-11 Thread Cody Somerville
Jani: Is it a goal of ours to become "officially supported" like the other two derivatives? On 1/11/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The term supported is vague and this leads to misunderstandings. The dev quoted by Cody, heno (Henrik Nilssen Omma) was right: xubuntu is supported by

Re: Desktop wiki

2007-01-11 Thread Cody Somerville
For the gtk themes, I don't see an example of what Feisty is using now. It looks like #2 "Customized Murrina aqua with Murrina_sky blue" but the widgets (ie. minimize, maximize, and close) are different. With the current Feisty setup, there is no "box" around them and when you click them a little

Re: feisty herd 2 test install

2007-01-12 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Robert, Please file your report on the Ubuntu forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=201and a member of the Xubuntu team (ie. me) will copy the results over to the wiki. By posting on the forums, you let people know that Xubuntu is active! So if any other users are interested in

Xubuntu Developer Meeting 20012007 Reminder

2007-01-17 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi! It is my pleasure to remind you that there will be another development team meeting on Saturday, 20 January 2007 at 15:00 UTC. It'll be in the usual place: the #ubuntu-meeting IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. For summaries of previous meetings, check out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/

Re: Thunar default configuration

2007-01-17 Thread Cody Somerville
When the new 4.4 stable release is released and uploaded, we can then test. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/17/07, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gauvain Pocentek wrote: > > > 2007/1/17, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >: > > > People that develop

Re: Thunar default configuration

2007-01-17 Thread Cody Somerville
On 1/17/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gauvain Pocentek wrote: > Hi, > > Thunar has been really improved in the past days/weeks and now offers > some features like: > - popup windows warning the user that a media has been unmounted/ejected > - automatic and configurable behaviours

Re: Icons

2007-01-19 Thread Cody Somerville
+1. Looks good. However, I have a request to make. It is really hard to get the "big picture" when we only see small bits and pieces here and there. I think it would be helpful for everyone if you created your "image" and then we could critique it all at once instead of bits and pieces. Sometime

Re: System Tools tell me "The configuration could not be loaded..."

2007-01-29 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Stefan, Unfortunately, I don't see the correlation between xubuntu system tools and why it would cause you to be unable to boot. However, I'd still ask that you please file a bug, put "[regression]" in the bug name, put the package as xubuntu-system-tools, and include as much information as y

Meeting Reminder: January 31st, 2007

2007-01-29 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Everyone, Just a friendly reminder that there is a meting on January 31st, 2007 at 2200 UTC. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it but I'm sure it'll be a successful meeting regardless - discussion is always good. A few highlights at the upcoming meeting will be: - Herd 3 testing - D

Re: Herd3 testing

2007-02-02 Thread Cody Somerville
I'll poke Mithrandir. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 2/2/07, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam Miller wrote: > I just changed the status of the announcement to "unpublish" because > Cody pointed out to me that these are Herd 3 candidates, not Herd 3 > releases. I will publish the

Re: Xubuntu meeting on IRC

2007-02-16 Thread Cody Somerville
I'll be there. Thanks, Cody On 2/16/07, Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the Xubuntu IRC meeting for tomorrow (2/16/07) still on? I was standing around the fridge, and noticed this: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/678 Thanks, all. :-) Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- xubuntu-devel mail

Introducing the new Xubuntu Testing Team

2007-02-17 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Everyone, At the last Xubuntu meeting, we decided that we needed a dedicated team working on ensuring that Xubuntu and the Xubuntu ISOs are well tested. As such, I'd like to introduce everyone to Jim Campbellwho will be leading this new team. If you are int

Fwd: String Freeze

2007-03-03 Thread Cody Somerville
Hi Xubuntu Documentation Contributors, As mentioned below, the string freeze will soon be upon us. I encourage you all to put an extra effort in before March 8th (the string freeze) to submit patches for the Xubuntu documentation in the Ubuntu doc svn (which will become the Xubuntu documentation

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