RE : New feature: mount local file systems in Gnome, please test
Hi martin, > gksu verifies that you are an admin and gets the necessary root > privilege for the mounting. If you are not in the 'admin' group, then > you cannot mount local hard disks. I tested this new feature on my fresh feisty install and it works great. Nevertheless, when i tried to mount a fat32 volume, it acted strangely. The volume icon disappear from computer:/ and it seamed like it fails. In fact it succeed, but since vfat volume default settings are uid=,umask=077 , and since the volume get mount by root, it was mount with the option uid=0,umask=077 making it unreadable. Other things : In the first attempt, the settings are set by looking at the gconf tree of the users. But in the second attempt (with gksu), the settings are set by looking at the gconf tree of root, and so all user defined settings (the ones you can set in the volume tab of nautilus ) that are stored in /system/storage/drives/UDI_OF_DRIVE/ are lost. You can't set for exemple a mount point, which could be really useful. I make a bug report here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/78314 and i also propose a way to deal with it, with a patch i currently use. Basically, i propose to use the same settings set during the first attempt (the one launch without gksu) for the second attempt (the one launch with gksu) Thanks, Flo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
forum-ambassadors to improve communication between forum users and developers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Several forum users have brainstormed about creating a forum ambassador team. This team is intended to improve communication between the forum users and ubuntu developers in way that is manageable for the developers. We have already incorporated some dev feedback during UDS-mtv. Currently we are at a phase were we can't improve the document much more by discussing about it among ourselves. We think this forum team can potentially be very helpful to Ubuntu. But for it to work we need your cooperation. The first thing we need is your (developer) feedback on this document. Please read the entire document. All feedback is welcome. Especially feedback regarding communication between us forum ambassadors and you developers. For example in what way should we report to you about interesting trends and wishes ? The document lives at : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumAmbassadors Please add any comments you have in the comments section of the document. Discussion can also take place in ubuntu-devel-discuss in response to this email (please use reply-all). Regards, Roald (ubuntu_demon) on behalf of all who contributed to the forum-ambassadors idea. Now follows the summary of the current document : This document specifies how to improve communication (bugs, ideas, forum users feedback) between the forums and the developers. The idea is to elect Forum Ambassadors and/or have a special forum for this to help to improve communication. We will create a forum section on ubuntuforums.org where people can request help of the Forum Ambassadors or convey their opinions in a constructive, concise and useful way (see design). A team of Forum Ambassadors will connect to the developers to facilitate communication. We will use ambassadors to collect ideas, bugs and feedback from users. This team would probably connect to developers via a mailing list, with possibly some irc contact. This idea originated on the forums. This idea was originally by Aysiu but many people have contributed to this spec. The current forum discussion is here : [WWW] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278375 Our intended target is that the Forum Ambassadors become a team like : [WWW] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=289810 (If this doesn't happen we will become a 3rd party section) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFoYV0adqpfxv/6LsRAsUGAJ9xMf8AQY7TpQ+R116dY4/LSatGWwCeOhUs qLPNj4r+IKx3kUwlpkaUiYY= =3pb7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Scripting favour for the docteam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Matthew East: > The docteam needs a favour with some scripts for moving some stuff in > our repo... I'd be very appreciative if anyone can help out!! Many thanks to Soren Hansen, who grabbed me on irc and sent me this script, which was perfect. http://warma.dk/magic.py-source I love this community. - -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFoXqetSaF0w5rBv8RAiYgAJ0ULSHjmuyIoeBXPXtlPIyGItcLcgCeJ5M7 Kq8i4jtiyzM0nqmzGLTRFAQ= =H+ly -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Scripting favour for the docteam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, The docteam needs a favour with some scripts for moving some stuff in our repo... I'd be very appreciative if anyone can help out!! I'll walk you through what needs to be done. 1. "svn checkout https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/ubuntu sometmpdir" - gets the relevant part of the repo needed. 2. cd sometmpdir/libs 3. The file that needs the magic is gnome-menus-C.ent. That file basically refers to a number of other files, which are in sometmpdir/menus/C/*xml. In order to fix an irritating bug, we need to move the content of the xml files directly into the relevant line of gnome-menus-C.ent. But: (a) In each line in gnome-menus-C.ent, the word "SYSTEM" has to be removed. (b) The first line of each xml file should be ignored (the xml declaration). (c) The end of lines and whitespace in between tags in the xml should be removed. As an example, I've done the first few manually. I *hope* that there is a corresponding line in gnome-menus-C.ent for each xml file, but I have not checked. If anyone has the skills necessary to accomplish this, I'd be really grateful if they could help out, and then either send a patch (svn diff) or the script... Thanks for reading, and please ask if anything is unclear. - -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFoXL+tSaF0w5rBv8RAr1bAKCE0cvZOcC4dDhmPhZLX2HtGM6quwCfSrND CMgdo/9K+08j72JFt4RbtnM= =Tmdw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Which third party repository do you use?
Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On za, 2007-01-06 at 17:30 -0800, Constantine Evans wrote: >> Perhaps it would be better to allow repositories to add an extra file >> that would contain a title and description, and then use that >> information? Such a method would require that repositories do extra >> work >> to support it, but I expect that most safe repositories would do so. > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/software-channels > I had read that spec in the past, but I had totally forgotten about it. This makes much more sense if it is implemented. I added a suggestion that I thought of while reading through it, and subscribed myself so I won't forget it in the future. -- -Matt -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Gramps Filter navigation improvement
On Sa, 2007-01-06 at 17:34 -0800, John Bartlett wrote: > I don't know if this is the right forum for a suggestion but if it > isn't, I'm sorry ... > > When entering a search (Filter) term e.g. a name or ID, one has to leave > the keyboard and grab the mouse. > > 1. How hard would it be to make the 'Enter' key complete the input > instead (or as well as)? > > 2. Is it really necessary to make the Filter input case sensitive? You should write to the developers of Gramps directly. Choose Help > Info from the menu to get a contact address. Cheers, Sebastian -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Which third party repository do you use?
On za, 2007-01-06 at 17:30 -0800, Constantine Evans wrote: > > Perhaps it would be better to allow repositories to add an extra file > that would contain a title and description, and then use that > information? Such a method would require that repositories do extra > work > to support it, but I expect that most safe repositories would do so. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/software-channels -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Gramps Filter navigation improvement
John Bartlett wrote: > I don't know if this is the right forum for a suggestion but if it > isn't, I'm sorry ... I'm not sure that anyone knows exactly what this (rather new) list is for, but I suppose that it is for discussion about issues specific to Ubuntu development rather than coordination and notices that go to devel. In practice, it seems that devel has little new activity and devel-discuss is flooded with more inappropriate and out of place threads than devel had before the split that was implemented. In your case, you would be much better served by posting your suggestions in the appropriate place within the GRAMPS project at http://gramps-project.org/, if that is the GRAMPS that you are referring to. However, it would be helpful for us to know how you came to find this list. Sincerely, Constantine Evans -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
