Re: Empty Create Document menu
On 30/10/2008, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM, A. Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally have no problem seeing Ubuntu ship a few default templates in /etc/skel/. From my GNOME point of view, I think it'd be a healthy thing to do, and I think distros have the good sense to manage what they put in there, even though it's not recommended. This is the problem right here. I think it's pretty uncontestable, for the reasons that Michael Meeks states on the Gnome mailing list thread, that having some templates in ~/Templates by default would improve enormously the user experience. So, it's a valid bug. But, it's been closed by the Ubuntu developer because we have one Gnome developer, not even the nautilus maintainers, with a loud voice on a thread on the Gnome mailing list saying it's a bad idea because he doesn't trust distributors to do a good job to maintain a healthy list of templates. It seems plain to me having read the thread that the correct approach here is for distros to take responsibility for this and ship some templates in ~/Templates by default (whether using /etc/skel or other technical means). It's only distros who have control over whether that list of templates will get cluttered or not, so it's distros who can keep it clean. I think closing the bug was the wrong decision and I really hope that it can be reconsidered as a potential feature for Ubuntu 9.04. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop +1 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Intuitive Popup Scrollbars
Has anyone got a link to a discussion on this issue with GTK? It's really time we started trying out and pushing NEW ideas, rather than sticking with the same old. Alex On 14/08/2008, Alexander Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's little chance we'll be diverging from upstream GTK on a component as important as this. I suggest you take this concept straight to GTK. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo
This is very true, but someone needs to go around writing patches for at least all applications that are installed by default that need to manually autosuspend inhibit. This has been done on Rythmbox already, but other apps which really need patches are: Synaptic, Nautilus (during copy/move), Nautilus-burner, Brasero (i think) and probably some other basic ones (i.e. maybe whatever Add/Remove Applications uses). I've found autosuspend to be pretty useless for my needs without at least these apps fixed, to the point where I've been looking into alternatives like sleepd. I wouldn't mind sitting down and trying to submit the patches to the relevant projects myself, they're prolly at the right level for a beginner, but I really don't have the time at this point, maybe next year some time. Alex On 06/08/2008, Ted Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:35 +0100, Odysseus Flappington wrote: If the inhibit sleep on CPU load was ever implemented, it never worked. While in theory this sounds nice, it is nearly impossible to implement in practice. The reality is that it's difficult to determine which things are important to block suspend based on CPU load alone. How important is the animation on your desktop? Based on CPU load? What is implemented is there is a DBUS interface that applications can call which inhibits suspend. So if the application is doing something that it knows suspend will effect negatively (playing a full screen DVD) it can block that. This interface has issues too, but it does make more sense as applications are more likely to know which actions should be blocking. --Ted -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Gnometris is still embarrassingly broken
I'm not 100% sure how gnome-games is put together on a default installation cd of ubuntu, but I think if the gnome-games package maintainer changes the default theme to the working one in the package then it'll be fixed on all new Ubuntu installs. You can use packages.ubuntu.com to find the gnome-games package. You'll be able to find the maintainer's email from there, ping him and see what he thinks. Regards, Alex (Jackflap) On 06/04/2008, Scott Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Gutsy there's been a longstanding bug against Gnometris: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138586 Simply put, the game as we ship it is unplayably slow. Our high performance operating system can't run Tetris. There is a workaround that can work though: change the default theme. Gnometris will be uglier than Gutsy, but at least it will work. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
