potential totem-plugins-extra addition
Hi, I've written a plugin for Totem to scrobble played/playing tracks to Last.fm. Would this be a useful addition to the totem-plugins-extra package? Package in question is available here : http://www.16kb.co.uk/totem-plugin-lastfm Thanks Nygel -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Blocking execution of non-exec things
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:38:54AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: Kees Cook [2010-01-12 10:19 -0800]: As part of implementing the Execute-Permission Bit Required policy[1], I need to make changes to a few MIME handlers and to the nautilus .desktop file handler. The main issue is that of the error message to produce, and I'm hoping to get some input for that from the Desktop team. I actually find the current error message text quite good. Keeping it would also mean to not break all the existing translations. How about we just drop the Start anyway and Mark as trustworthy (translated from German) buttons and replace it with a Explain... button which pops up a message box with further text, or opens a web browser with a wiki page? Sure, that sounds good. For people upgrading from Hardy, I'm thinking we need to preserve the Start/Mark buttons when the .desktop has a ctime (marking a .desktop as executable doesn't change mtime) below a certain date; perhaps the release date of Karmic? For the Wiki, I've built: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/ExecutableBit Currently the mime-support patch points there, but cautious-launcher (for MIME handlers) needs to be translatable. -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: potential totem-plugins-extra addition
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Nygel Lyndley nygel.lynd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've written a plugin for Totem to scrobble played/playing tracks to Last.fm. Would this be a useful addition to the totem-plugins-extra package? Package in question is available here : http://www.16kb.co.uk/totem-plugin-lastfm Thanks Nygel Hi Nigel, If you want your plugin to be part of totem-plugins you submit to upstream totem authors (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=totem), and it will benefits to all distributions shipping totem and not only ubuntu. Bye -- Baptiste Mille-Mathias Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.com wrote: Why? I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Platform. This change will help provide these resources as well as continuing to respect our user's default search across Firefox. Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only have an effect on new installs? -- Celeste Lyn Paul KDE Usability Project KDE e.V. Board of Directors www.kde.org -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:14 -0500, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only have an effect on new installs? No, this will effect upgrades if the computer is currently set to Google. This is not because of anything special for this particular change. This is because Ubuntu always changes to new defaults for users who are on old defaults. However, if you are set to wikipedia as your search provider (for example) then that means that you are no longer using the default, so Ubuntu won't change you to the new default. HTH Cheers, Rick -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 17:36 -0500, Dan Trevino wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:14 -0500, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only have an effect on new installs? No, this will effect upgrades if the computer is currently set to Google. This is not because of anything special for this particular change. This is because Ubuntu always changes to new defaults for users who are on old defaults. However, if you are set to wikipedia as your search provider (for example) then that means that you are no longer using the default, so Ubuntu won't change you to the new default. HTH Cheers, Rick During the upgrade, are users going to be notified about this change? Outside of release notes, probably not. I don't think it will be much different than other times that defaults are changed in Ubuntu. Cheers, Rick -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:17 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote: Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you to consider keeping the current setting whatever it is (Google or not). People tend to be very passionate about such issues. Also, keep in mind that for many people, Google (still) is the official partner of the Mozilla Foundation. For those folks it MAY seem that Canonical is cutting Mozilla's revenue. While I am sure that this was not the intention, this is the way things are. I think Canonical should do a better effort to coordinate the communication of this change with the community to avoid bad rep. Well, in terms of not changing to the new default, that would be a bit of a departure for how Ubuntu handles changes to defaults, and I'm not certain why this particular change would be special cased. In terms of Mozilla, and cutting into their revenue stream, Mozilla has been a really good partner to Ubuntu, definitely firmly in the good guy camp as far as I am concerned with regard to Linux and FOSS. We would certainly want to do anything to damage this relationship. Suffice to say that Mozilla was not surprised by this change, and I am confident that we will continue to have a good relationship. Cheers, Rick -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
Reinhard Tartler [2010-01-27 7:30 +0100]: Can this default be configured on a system wide level? I imagine that sites with mass deployments of lucid would want to have the option to configure this, e.g., via debconf preseeding. I expect that could just go into /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js ? Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
