[Bug 751114] Re: ffmpeg unresolvable dependancies

2011-04-06 Thread mb_webguy
Affecting me as well on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 10.04.2. I have the main, universe, restricted, multiverse, lucid-security, lucid-updates, and medibuntu repositories enabled, but not lucid- proposed or lucid-backports. -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-09 Thread mb_webguy
ddumont wrote: >>This is not good behavior for a company who wishes to continue to gain market share... you cannot apply this type of behavior at will to all areas of your distribution without SEVERELY pissing most of your userbase off. I'm afraid this argument, ddumont, is going to fall pretty fl

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-06-03 Thread mb_webguy
Well Toralv is probably thinking "communist" in terms of Leninism or Stalinism, which were indeed oppressive totalitarian forms of communism. And Toralv, the developers make changes like this quite often, typically after much discussion, and based on input from users. Most of these change

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-08 Thread mb_webguy
Jonathan Marsden wrote: > I'm slightly bewildered that so many here apparently feel that bothering > to read the Jaunty Release Notes and doing what they suggest, to restore > the old approach, is impossibly difficult... or something? As _dan_ said, we're all very aware of the fix. I'd say most o

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-04 Thread mb_webguy
Paulo J. S. Silva: That is indeed how the notification area is currently used, an is also, I believe, why the developers believe it to be broken. That's not what it was intended to do. My argument is that just because something is abused, it doesn't mean it's no longer appropriate for it's inten

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-04 Thread mb_webguy
Matthew Paul Thomas said: > For example, I'm at a loss to understand why you think a notification bubble > "timed to appear periodically" above everything else would be less annoying > than a window that opens once and then sits in the background until you deal > with it. For several reasons... A

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-04 Thread mb_webguy
My problems with that solution, Paulo J. S. Silva, are that A) you're essentially just replacing the notification area with the indicator applet, and B) messages in the indicator applet aren't as visible and therefore are more likely to go unnoticed than the regular notification area icon. From wh

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-01 Thread mb_webguy
Uwe Schilling wrote: > My two cents: why not use the title bar of each window for notifications. > There, they could > be a form of a permanent notification, you can have scrolling text to really > let the user > know what the notification is all about and it something is moving up there > it wi

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-01 Thread mb_webguy
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >mb_webguy: ><https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027568.html> *Nothing* in that post justified the automatic opening of applications without direct user action. *Every* example you named would best be handled by some sort of

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-04-30 Thread mb_webguy
I've refrained from the conversation thus far, because I wanted to read through all of the comments first. But as someone interested in HCI, this is an issue of particular interest to me, and I feel like I need to add my opinion. Applications should *never* open without explicit action by the use

[Bug 224276] Re: nautilus unable to open properties from context menu of an .mkv file

2008-11-17 Thread mb_webguy
As an addendum to the previous post... I haven't had this problem with any other file or file type, including the OP's mkv. -- nautilus unable to open properties from context menu of an .mkv file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224276 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 224276] Re: nautilus unable to open properties from context menu of an .mkv file

2008-11-17 Thread mb_webguy
I have the same problem in Intrepid, but with a wmv file. The file is a wmv, so it doesn't contain any subtitles (in reference to one of the previous posts), and I also don't think this is related to the thumbnailer. I wasn't getting a thumbnail for the wmv at first, and thought that might be re