Re: Featured Apps for Natty
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:04:49AM -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote: Has there been any discussion on which featured apps will be showcased in the Software Center for 11.04? If not, is it too late in the release cycle to update the list of applications before the release date? I would of course like to suggest OpenShot http://www.openshot.org/ be added to the featured applications, but I'm sure there are many other great applications that could and should be featured as well. We had a very brief internal discussion about it and decided to tweak the list a little bit, but did not change much. I don't do video editing, but I would welcome suggestions, though we are pretty late for natty unfortunately. Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
software-center and remove vs. purge
Hi, I recently came accross the following brainstorm.ubuntu.com idea that discusses remove vs purge in softare-center: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24963/ and I would like to discuss it here. Let me briefly recap the difference between the two. The removal means that the content of the package gets removed from the filesystem. With purge the package content *and* the system config files (usually in /etc) will get removed as well. Some package will also do additional removal (like removing the mythtv-database content when purging mythtv-database leading to people losing data). This is not a easy problem and we need to carefully balance the needs to keep the UI simple with the needs to keep the system from accumulating cruft. There are good suggestions in the brainstorm entry. I think that while in 99(,9 probably)% of all cases a purge is fine the cost for the error in the remaining cases can be pretty high (consider someone spending a lot of time tweaking their squid.conf). So software-center errs on the safe side and defaults to remove currently. Its difficult to tell programmatically what is going to happen when the maintainer script is called with purge as this is a shell script. Our tools can estimate what amount of data the configuration file was using (and even if the user ever modified it or not) but not what additional steps the maintainer script will take (unless of course there is not maintainer script or no purge target in it :) That being said I think we should make it easy for the user to access the purge functionality both inside software-center and computer-janitor. For software-center I would like to add a option (File/Remove with configuration). A alternative solution would be to make purge the default and have a option File/Remove but preserve the configuration). What do you think about what the default should be? For most packages purge will be fine, its just the few ones where it isn't that I'm concerned about. For computer-janitor a plugin for packages that are removed but not purged sounds appropriate. Combined with some intelligence about detecting cases that a purge is harmless (like checking for purge as a target on postrm and checking if the configuration file was actually modified) we should get most packages right. With additional data like looking at what date the package was removed we can get the remaining ones right (i.e. if it was removed 3 month ago it probably is not missed by the user). Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
[Bug 477127] Re: gnome-panel menu entry for software-center is missing
** Summary changed: - menu for software-center is missing + gnome-panel menu entry for software-center is missing ** Also affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- gnome-panel menu entry for software-center is missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477127 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a bug assignee. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
[Bug 405155] Re: No prompt to install codecs in totem-mozilla
Thanks for your bugreport. I can not reproduce the issue that the totem plugin does not do a codec search. For me it does and offers the right plugin packages. ** Summary changed: - No prompt to install ubuntu-restricted-extras packages + No prompt to install codecs in totem-mozilla ** Changed in: gnome-codec-install (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- No prompt to install codecs in totem-mozilla https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405155 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
[Bug 349607] Re: Codec manager does not find bad codecs
I just tried this with some freely available xvid videos. It works ok for me, if you have links (or could the videos that fail available for me privately) I'm happy to have a second look. -- Codec manager does not find bad codecs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349607 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Turning the low disk space notifications back on
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:00:19PM +0100, David Prieto wrote: and warning when your removable disk is getting full. Any chance to add a free space button that empies .Trash, there? We discussed this at the ubuntu developer sumit and the plan is to add a tool that helps freeing up space. The current draft can be found under https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyFullDiskHandling. Some initial code is available in the system-cleanup package/bzr tree. Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Team packages maintained in bzr, one branch for the team or one for each debian directory?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:28:35PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hi, Hi, We are looking at maintaining the ubuntu-desktop packages in bzr. The idea is to store the debian directories there and to use bzr-buildpackage and some other tools making the work easier. Hoorah! [..] * One branch by package: + that's the clean way using bzr + you can checkout and look at updates for the packages you are interested in only - you need to checkout or update ~100 different branches when you work on all the packages - you need to branch for every package when gutsy+1 opens [..] I like this approach much better. One disadvantage here is that launchpad requires a upstream product for each branch but there is no mapping for every current source packages to a upstream products. So some will have to be created first with the webgui in LP. Better support from LP would be helpful here I think (either auto creating upstream product or allowing bzr branches for source package names). Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
