Re: Terrible response time when using Synergy on client side on Hardy
I too upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy, and the mouse in the synergy client became very unresponsive. After sudo-ing to start the client, and then renicing the client to increasingly higher priorities, performance improved some, but nothing like it was under Gutsy. The mouse simply jumps around almost randomly. It seems to 'catch-up' at random intervals. -- 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: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible
On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer and you want to spend less time fighting your distro and more time doing actual productive coding, then Ubuntu is one of the better choices. +1 As an IT consultant I've been able to contribute more to Ubuntu than any distribution or project before. I can submit bugs, create patches, provide user help and participate with a very low entry point. I can become a member of a team Over the years I've contributed to other projects, but never felt that it was noticed - I'm not talking about a thank-you, just that when you made a contribution, it was picked up, looked at, critiqued and used where appropriate. Ubuntu does this better than any other group of people I know. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible
On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer and you want to spend less time fighting your distro and more time doing actual productive coding, then Ubuntu is one of the better choices. +1 As an IT consultant I've been able to contribute more to Ubuntu than any distribution or project before. I can submit bugs, create patches, provide user help and participate with a very low entry point. I can become a member of a team Over the years I've contributed to other projects, but never felt that it was noticed - I'm not talking about a thank-you, just that when you made a contribution, it was picked up, looked at, critiqued and used where appropriate. Ubuntu does this better than any other group of people I know. Hmm, seems I got distracted when hitting send here :| What I meant the first paragraph to say was this: As an IT consultant I've been able to contribute more to Ubuntu than any distribution or project before. I can submit bugs, create patches, provide user help and participate with a very low entry point. I can become a member of a team where I can contribute to a specific aspect of the project on a code and policy level. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Should default keyboard be based on location?
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:57:48AM -0400, Yannick Gingras wrote: I just installed Kubuntu Hardy. I selected my location, Montreal, and only a few clicks later I had to pick a keyboard which defaulted to US. Since it knows where I live at this point, shouldn't the installer default to Canadian layout? I think that this is related to ticked 37138 but I'm not sure because it seem to focus on locales while the keymap is mostly locale independent. The keymap *is* selected based on location. However, a compatriot of yours requested that we should select a US keyboard by default for English-speaking Canadians, and a Canadian keyboard by default for French-speaking Canadians. That's what the installer implements. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/64418 That is a really interesting point of view. However, allow me to develop since language identity is really important for our little group of francophones lost on a continent of English speakers. Simon Law, the bug reporter whom happen to live in Montréal not too far from my place, pointed out that in here, English speakers use the US layout while French speakers use the French Canadian one. Simon is primarily an English speaker and I suspect that he doesn't write a lot of French. My primary language on the other hand is French and even though I decided to install my distribution in English, a US layout would be completely unusable for me since roughly I write as much French as I write English. Part of the problem is that Canadian Layout doesn't mean anything to most people. In Montréal, we refer to this layout as Clavier Québécois and most English speakers would instantly associate this name with the layout with funky diacritics; Canadian doesn't make it clear that you get a keyboard optimized to input French. I am not too familiar with the history of layouts but I think that there used to be a layout called Canadian International that was promoted by the federal government. It uses direct keys for almost all accented characters. The keyboard used in Québec on the other hand uses dead keys (you type the accent then the letter you want to compose with) which people seem to prefer, probably because that leaves a few spare keys for stuff like brackets and curly braces. Presently, I think that most Canadian French speakers outside of Québec use the Clavier Québecois and this is why it shows up on your list as Canadian. As Simon Law suggested, renaming the layouts to make it clear which layout is which would probably do the trick. Further more, I think that the US layout should show up on the list of keyboards that you get when you click Canada because that's definitely the dominant layout around. I'll do a small informal informal survey around here to see which solution would please all our opinionated local language groups. -- Yannick Gingras -- 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
