Re: Developer Application: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 09:31 +0200, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to apply to join the desktop team. Since the last cycle (and before), I've been maintaining or contributing to a number of packages, including NetworkManager (and the related packages), evolution and related packages, gnome-system-tools, and others. Mathieu did some awesome job particularly on NM and evolution stacks, which are both not straightforward to get. When reviewing his work, he never did the same mistake twice and listen carefully to advise the sponsors are giving. He's still on a ramping learn level but I'm confident he'll continue to ask when he has some question about a case he didn't encounter yet or whenever he has a doubt, that's the reason why I'm +1 his application to join the desktop team. Keep up the good job Mathieu! Cheers, Didier -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Suggest fixing the skip-keys in Totem.
James Tatum schreef op zo 15-05-2011 om 10:15 [-0700]: Disproportionate skips are a very easy way to navigate clips. If you're trying to get to a specific thing, you skip forward until you pass it, then you have the finer grained control skipping back to get closer to the desired spot. With a proportionate 60 second skip, at best you could get within 60 seconds of the desired point without having to remember whether you want to use shift-arrow or control-arrow for the finer grained control. Many commercial DVRs are configured with disproportionate skips today for exactly this reason. Right, this is very useful (once you get used to it). The only thing that could be done better is adapting to the length of a clip; when you have 1-3 min clip, skipping forward 60 seconds by default is way too much... -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Suggestions for Ubuntu 11.10
Omal Mannapperuma schreef op ma 16-05-2011 om 13:57 [+0530]: I would like to see the following options integrated into Ubuntu 11.10 to make it more user friendly than any other versions. 1) Ability to search within a folder, just by right clicking on the folder, and select search for files and folders Would be nice. 2) Make K3B as the default CD/DVD burning application, and if possible, add Blu-Ray burning as well into it. Still the application lacks with the feature to burn bootable CD/DVDs of any kind, so I would be most delighted to see that being integrated into it as well. There are other tools than K3B, that don't require KDE, and that are more user-friendly (IMO). 3) Make available a single location to enter Proxy settings, and let that be spread throughout the system, without any interaction from the user any further. +1 on that. And it should work across working environments too (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, terminal, etc.). 4) Assign a drive letter to the partitions detected by Ubuntu, rather than 120GB partition or anything like that. If you give your partitions a label, Ubuntu will use that. Best use a meaningful label... ;) Drive letters tend to change after changes to the hardware or when you attach USB devices in a different order, so they are a bad idea for a user interface. [...] The reason is, most computer users are much familiar with Windows, and in Windows, they see a much clearer view of their data than in Linux. Because of drive letters, it is easier to remember where the data are located. That's not true. Windows always assigns C: to the boot partition, so if you boot from another partition, C: will point to another location. USB devices or other swappable devices also don't always get the same drive letter. [...] -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: change mount point of the stick usb drive or USB thumb
On 05/08/2011 09:25 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Ricardo, Ricardo Barbosa [2011-03-10 15:42 -0800]: I'm studying udev and i have a question regarding the mounting of removable devices. When I plug a USB thumb drive into my ubuntu it automatically mounts the flash drive in /media such as /media/KINGSTON. But I wish this would automatically mount in another path, i can change this behavior? You can set up an /etc/fstab entry with e. g. LABEL=KINGSTON /mymount/point auto defaults,auto 0 0 Martin Now this might very well be something to consider: an user interface that would allow for mounting an attachable storage device under a fantasy name (something like you have mounted a new storage device: we will automagically name it whatever. Do you want to change its name?). This might be a bit more complex than it looks, but there is, I think, a potential casual-user benefit... instead of /media/HUGE uuid, something that can, indeed be remembered -- and intuitively understood. Cheers, ..C.. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: change mount point of the stick usb drive or USB thumb
Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 18:17 -0500, C de-Avillez a écrit : Now this might very well be something to consider: an user interface that would allow for mounting an attachable storage device under a fantasy name (something like you have mounted a new storage device: we will automagically name it whatever. Do you want to change its name?). This might be a bit more complex than it looks, but there is, I think, a potential casual-user benefit... instead of /media/HUGE uuid, something that can, indeed be remembered -- and intuitively understood. Rather than annoying many users with a dialog when they plug their device in, a change in the Properties dialog of Nautilus for user-mounted volumes to allow setting their label would be good. Then, the volume will be mounted automatically to /media/LABEL, which is IMHO as nice as a path can be. Cheers -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
