Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-24 Thread Alvin Thompson
On 04/23/2010 02:55 AM, Chandru wrote: > If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, > http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will > applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by > Ubuntu developers work? I've had this quest

Re: artwork

2009-10-27 Thread Alvin Thompson
On 10/25/2009 10:19 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > First, before sending an email criticizing aesthetics, I would pass my > own text through a spell checker and carefully examine the format of > the composition. Questioning the messenger instead of the message is a logical fallacy. :P -- Ubuntu-

[thanks!]Re: Apache Maven to be removed from Karmic?

2009-10-27 Thread Alvin Thompson
5/2009 11:09 AM, Alvin Thompson wrote: > Currently, the Apache Maven package doesn't work due to the libplexus > packages (a Maven dependency) being synced from Debian but not Maven > itself. According to the bug reports [1][2], this isn't going to be > fixed for Karmic and th

Re: Apache Maven to be removed from Karmic?

2009-10-15 Thread Alvin Thompson
gt; On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:53 AM, John Moser wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alvin Thompson >>> wrote: >>>> First, as a Java developer I hope this doesn't happen as Maven is pret

Re: Apache Maven to be removed from Karmic?

2009-10-15 Thread Alvin Thompson
You *do* understand that Maven is Apache's replacement for Ant, don't you? -Alvin On 10/15/2009 12:53 PM, John Moser wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alvin Thompson > wrote: >> First, as a Java developer I hope this doesn't happen as Maven is prett

Apache Maven to be removed from Karmic?

2009-10-15 Thread Alvin Thompson
Currently, the Apache Maven package doesn't work due to the libplexus packages (a Maven dependency) being synced from Debian but not Maven itself. According to the bug reports [1][2], this isn't going to be fixed for Karmic and the Maven package will most likely just be dropped. First, as a Ja

Re: Icons in Place and System

2009-10-13 Thread Alvin Thompson
Yup, that's what I meant by a bug. Since the option is unchecked there probably should be no icons at all in the menus, but instead most are still there except the ones mentioned which makes things seem inconsistent. When the option is checked all the icons are indeed present, which addresses

Re: Icons in Place and System

2009-10-13 Thread Alvin Thompson
I think they *are* missing by accident. If you select System-->Preferences-->Appearance-->'Interface' tab-->Show Icons in menus the icons come back. The fact that only a few menu items respect this setting is a bug, IMO. -Alvin On 10/13/2009 01:24 PM, Matthew East wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2