Re: Who wants to share their ppas?

2008-03-19 Thread Ted Gould 
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:33 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> After taking a look at Pau Garcia (pgquiles) ppa I felt the need 
> to take a look at a few more ppas.
>
> Who here has PPA with post Hardy packages that wouldn't mind 
> letting me try them on test Ubuntu Hardy?

Please, come join my PPA:

http://launchpad.net/~botnet-project/+archive

You can help deliver important messages to people all over the world
unaware of how my helpful products can make their lives easier!  You
need to do nothing!  Just add the PPA and update your system, I'll take
care of everything from there.

Seriously though, it should be noted that you should only add PPAs from
people you seriously trust.  All you need to create one is an e-mail
address, and from there on they can upload any package they want, which
would then appear as an update to your system.  While PPAs are useful
tools (which I use a lot) it's important to note the security risks and
probably an e-mail to a public list with "install software on my system"
is not a good idea.

--Ted



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RE: Interfacing nvidia graphics cards and acpi brightness

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Newman 
(Answering my own question)
 
Clues are found here:
http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/README/index.ht
ml
 
 
Nvidia say that ACPI and hotkeys hasn't been implemented for all cards
yet but might be in the future for more recent ones.
 
A couple of XConfig options to play around with were: 
 
 Option "ConnectToAcpid" "boolean"
 Option "EnableACPIHotkeys" "boolean"
 
No luck for the Quadro FX 570M as far as I could tell
 
I still think that it should be possible to implement ACPI compatibility
through an some sort of abstraction layer by linking ACPI events to
nvidia-settings so that there would be no need to wait for nvidia.
 
Alternatively one could play with the open source Nouveau drivers
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
 
 



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Peter Newman
Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:52 PM
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Interfacing nvidia graphics cards and acpi brightness



Hi

I started out tonight with the aim of adding a bug because my compaq
8510w brightness function keys have never worked under Ubuntu Gutsy and
now not under Hardy Heron alpha 6 either.

However what I have found is that there is no bug to report :)

The gnome-power-manager works okay but doesn't change screen brightness.
I.e. hitting the function key does change the current value here:

 $ cat /proc/acpi/video/C14B/C15F/brightness

 levels:  100 51 30 37 44 51 58 65 72 79 86 93 100
 current: 65

Also adjusting the nvidia-settings brightness values actually changes
the screen brightness (and the nvidia card registers) but nothing for
the acpi video brightness value.

I've also found that I can adjust the screen brightness by using the
nvidia commandline interface:

 $ nvidia-settings --assign RedBrightness=x --assign GreenBrightness=x
--assign BlueBrightness=x

where x is a value between -1 and 1.

So where now - there is no bug?

I've looked at smartdimmer and nvclock.  These packages don't work for
all nvidia cards and seem to be risky to use.  Especially when there is
a nvidia-settings package available which can already do this.

So I think that acpi should be linked to nvidia-settings somehow (I
suppose this should be the responsibility of nvidia).  Would a
acpi-nvidia package work (where acpi and nvidia-settings are
prerequistes and also an active nvidia kernel/xserver) that matches acpi
video and xserver screens and sychronises registry settings?

Cheers
Pete


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Thank you for XULRunner in Hardy!

2008-03-19 Thread Scott (angrykeyboarder) 

This has been long overdue. It's *wonderful* not to have Gecko-based apps 
depending on Firefox.

Now if one chooses (not that I do) they can uninstall Firefox without 
taking other apps with it (and essntially "breaking" ubuntu-deskop).

I'm thrilled. :)

So to those involved, thanks again. 


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Re: Remaining i18n/localization issues in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, please fix your packages and use non-English yourself

2008-03-19 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando 
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 16:47:56 Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> Hi, some i18n nagging from me again, yay!
> 
> First of all, I'd hope that developers that are non-native English
> speakers or otherwise handle other languages fluently, would use that
> language in their desktop environment eg. for the rest of hardy cycle
> at least occasionally. Most non-developers use their own language
> anyway, but I think a large percentage of developers tend to use
> English because of their long computer usage background. Having
> developers using non-English would contribute to testing i18n in
> hardy, and help translation volunteers like me. Most translators are
> not software developers, so they don't understand what's causing
> problems, so developers should take care of proper i18n (translators
> should also file more bugs though!).
> 
> If you see English in your default installation of Ubuntu in a
> well-translated language, it's always a i18n bug in the package or
> some translations being not fetched from Rosetta or not available at
> all in Rosetta. Ubuntu-specific changes often render packages not
> completely translated.
> 
> Packages below are the ones causing problems for people not using
> English at the moment in hardy, to my knowledge. Please add if you
> know more highly visible i18n problems.
> 
> - hwtest-gtk: not translatable in Rosetta, lacks .desktop entry's
> Ubuntu tag for its translation too.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwtest/+bug/202447
> 
> - firefox: menu entry translations lost since firefox 3.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/192333
> 
> - firefox: completely untranslated also otherwise, though on a
> positive note ubufox translations are finally accepted in and no doubt
> language support packages are being made for the final release.
> 
> - brasero: lacks Ubuntu tag in .desktop file preventing menu item
> translation. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brasero/+bug/200532
> 
> - gnome-control-center: patch not yet landed that makes the new
> randr-1.2 resolution tool translatable - until it has, I'm not certain
> if it fixes all the issues or only some. discussed on ubuntu-x mailing
> list, I provided a patch that should be a good start at least (the
> strings in .glade file still need additional tweaking to not add new
> strings, though new strings can also be translated if the new version
> of control-center is uploaded fast enough)
> 
> - network-manager-applet: does not use X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain like
> also some others.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/201328
> (also solved if the both, duplicate menu items are removed...)
> 
> - transmission: not translatable in Rosetta, even though in main.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/201334
> 
> - ubiquity: partitioning window still lacks i18n love.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/144741
> 
> - ubiquity: language support installation silently fails if no network
> connection (should guide a person to enable network and maybe
> otherwise increase information available).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/81683
> 
> - example-content: Examples directory / link does not have a
> translation solution. https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/45489
> 
> (in default installation in earlier Ubuntus, so relatively important
> too for many people: - serpentine: lost .desktop translations.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/serpentine/+bug/200539)
> 
> - help & support main page is not translated. fix committed, thanks!
> 
> Anyway, thanks for contributions so far to make Ubuntu 8.04 the best
> localized Ubuntu so far! Each release has been getting better, though
> each release always seems to have its own problems, too.
> 
> -Timo
> 

I've seen a few string lacking translation after the CD boot (I think its named 
casper, right?).
Seen it first in Portuguese while trying out Alpha 6, but since then, I've seen 
many more for other languages.


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