[Trisquel-users] Re : Free gradebook software?
My university is Brazilian: the UFMG. I do not know about the emission of "tickets" but there are a lot of features in Moodle and even more in plugins: https://docs.moodle.org/30/en/Features
[Trisquel-users] Re : Taskbar is broken
I use GNOME Shell. That is why I believe the configuration of gnome-panel must be standard: $ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout object-id-list ['menu-bar', 'home', 'abrowser', 'window-list', 'notification-area', 'indicators', 'show-desktop'] I guess some of those "applets" are missing from your panel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] The Fingerprints of Abrowser
Always fun to see what the browser is pushing out. Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer - very cool add-on - one of the defaults for any of installs. Everyone should give it a try.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Taskbar is broken
Magic Banana suggested: > ~$ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout object-id-list Here's what I get with "gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout object-id-list": ['object-0-8', 'object-0-9', 'object-0-10', 'object-0-11'] Note: there actually are four objects in my panel now: [clock, Trisquel logo, earth logo, and hide all windows]. Is there a list identifying the "objects" that the terminal returns with my query ? > "Alt+Right click","Windows+Right click", ... and just "right click" on the panel All produce the same set of choices (add to panel, properties, and new panel) which I have long since exhausted, because they do not include "['menu-bar', 'home', 'abrowser', 'window-list', 'notification-area', 'indicators', 'show-desktop']" or what appears on the Peek-a-boo panel that vanishes after my password has been accepted. Sigh. As an example: I entered a URL in kate and then proceeded to another webpage; when I tried to return to kate to add another URL, the unsaved file vanished without a warning and would not return when I opened another instance of kate.
[Trisquel-users] How do I translate Trisquel?
Hello, I am thinking of making an Urdu translation of Trisquel. How would I go about doing this?
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I translate Trisquel?
I asked this just this month. It seems a lot of people are interested in translating but none of us quite know how to. There doesn't seem to be a simple platform for translation. I think Trisquel mainly pulls translations from Ubuntu, which become a problem when Trisquel modifies the original text,
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I translate Trisquel?
Regarding this subject. I think that they key to the answer is to check with the parent projects. For example, if you want to translate Trisquel's copy of LibreOffice, your best bet is to contribute translations to the LibreOffice project.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I translate Trisquel?
Yes but i think OP and I mean Trisquel itself, not its packages. Such as the installation wizard.
[Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
It's been 20 years since the 1995 revision, so most the software patents should be expired by now though the last revision was made in 1998, so the latest revision is only a few years away. I find it odd that I saw on a post that's a couple years old that you don't support MP3 because of patents, but you have a x264 repo. Now what's up with that? Is that a version of x264 that has the features that violate software patents removed? http://in.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/x/x264/ On that note of x264, the expiration of the h264 baseline patents are 8 years away, so I'm looking forward to that. (Though the latest revision of h264 won't be patent-free until the baseline h265 standard is patent-free)
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Please correct me if my memory is betraying me here, but I thought that i once listened to mp3 with a fresh trisquel default install. Or is this impossible? I know at least that it's possible to listen to mp3 with free software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Well, the software has been free, I just hear the Free Software community is scared of Software Patents. Teisquel is based on Ubuntu LTS and I'm not sure if the last LTS had patent-MP3 support. I'm not using trisquel now, but I look forward to trying it with a free bios once I save my pennies for another computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
I don't know where you got the idea that Trisquel can't play MP3 files. Trisquel has never not supported MP3 since the time I started using it, and I was using it by 2012. As far as the patents themselves go, there are still some patents on MP3 for a few years (I think they'll all be expired after 2018), and h.264 patents are staying around for much longer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
That post said nothing about Trisquel, and Trisquel definitely had support for patented formats at that time. It applies to systems like Fedora, which are sponsored by companies and therefore follow stricter rules. Also, since Trisquel has historically been developed from Spain, it's been a non-issue for this distro (I even mentioned this in that very thread!), though I don't know if that particular aspect applies anymore. And no, MP3 is not "patent-free", and wasn't "patent-free" in 2013. Many MP3-related patents have expired, but until ALL of them are expired, the format remains patent-encumbered.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
I got it from this post: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/why-dont-free-systems-support-mp3 It looks like that post was made on the year that would be the 20 year mark for the initial MP3 standard, so it might have became patent-free a few months after that post.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
According to Richard Stallman, it's a bad practice to deny the existence of a free software that allows the user to at least play/view or decode their data that is stored using a patent-encumbered file format or that is stored using a file format used by non-free software[1] (I'm not even talking about international standards here, since internationally standardized file formats can't actually prove that it'll be used my free software by default, and as a bad example we have a ISO for Office Open XML[2], which is the DOCX, PPTX, and-so-on file formats). If free software exists to open the file, then let's use it! However, and also based on Richard Stallman's talk, once you open the file, it's recommended for you to save it using a file format used by free software by default, because otherwise, distributing the same file with a file format used by non-free software will just push society's dependency on non-free software even further. Besides, you can't expect for your "favorite MP3 decoder and player" to always be reliable in situations where, for some reason, people start using a "new version of MP3". Furthermore, most free software projects that provide the capability to open/view/decode file formats used by non-free software are, actually, reverse engineering efforts, and society can't always rely on that, mainly because it'll just solve the problem after it has been created, not before. REFERENCES [1] http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/2013-01-29--rms--valencia.webm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
[Trisquel-users] Re : Taskbar is broken
Is there a list identifying the "objects" that the terminal returns with my query ? They are under org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout.objects in dconf. You can use the dconf editor that comes by default. All produce the same set of choices (add to panel, properties, and new panel) which I have long since exhausted, because they do not include "['menu-bar', 'home', 'abrowser', 'window-list', 'notification-area', 'indicators', 'show-desktop']" Well, they should be there. Maybe under other names (maybe "notification area").
[Trisquel-users] Re : Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Trisquel has never not supported MP3 since the time I started using it, and I was using it by 2012. I was using it by 2010 and I confirm: free codecs to any popular format (including MP3) have always been part of the default install.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Oh, OK, I see. Yeah, in 2018, the last patent on MP3 should expire. Even though that codec is so shitty, the best implementation is "LAME" and even that is lame. Flac is where it's at with ogg being the king of lossy audio.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
Yes, and it has for ages now. Or at least that's what happens when all gstreamer plugins available in the repos are installed
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Trisquel support MP3 now?
"ogg being the king of lossy audio." I'd like to make a few points. Ogg is only a container, not a codec. Think of it being the difference between a box that holds stuff vs. the stuff that goes into that box. You're probably thinking of Vorbis, which commonly goes into the Ogg container (but other things can too), but Vorbis not "the king" anymore. Released back in 2000, the Vorbis codec is about three-fourths of the way through its approximate intended lifetime of 20 years or so. Things have improved considerably since Vorbis's introduction 15 years ago, and Opus is the new "king" of the free audio codec hill. In fact, if you'll notice, http://vorbis.com has a banner at the top in order to steer people to Opus. (And to help point out the container vs. codec difference, Opus can also go into an Ogg container, so referring to a codec by the container's file extension can cause confusion because two files with the same container might have completely different codecs inside.) For example: Can you tell which of these files uses Vorbis and which uses Opus from their name? file1.ogg and file2.ogg Maybe they both use Vorbis. Maybe they both use Opus. Maybe one is one Vorbis and one is Opus. But which is which? And maybe they use a completely different codecs entirely (The Ogg container is flexible enough to support many codecs.)
