Re: White-on-black terminal should be default
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Martin Pitt wrote: Chris Jones [2010-03-06 9:52 +1000]: Although I'm an avid fan of a white-on-black terminal theme and agree that it should be the default, I'm not going to add to the argument even more than what's necessary. It's not necessary indeed -- the new default theme in Lucid for terminals is white-on-black (well, some slightly different colors, but in principle). But oh well, easy enough to fix that to an ergonomically sane black-on-white again. :-) White is way too bright for me. Gray-on-black ftw! :) -- Timo Aaltonen Systems Specialist IT Services, Aalto University School of Science and Technology -- 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: Indie Software Dev
There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of getting in touch with the local university, see if we could get some of the comp sci kids interested. I am an accountant, so while the FOSS stuff already out may be fine for point-of-sale or home use, it does not really cut it when compared to Quickbooks, MYOB, etc. Anyone else into this idea (accounting software for linux), let me know! -- 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: Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi
Hi Martin, First of all, thanks for your reply. On 03/04/2010 10:48 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: Francesco Fumanti [2010-03-04 21:49 +0100]: Consequently, I wonder whether it can be possible to create an Ubuntu 10.10 goal (for Ubuntu 10.04 it might be to late) that aims to completely remove gksu from Ubuntu and replacing it by something else. Another option than gksu-polkit would be pkexec which comes with polkit directly. It has the big advantage of sharing the UI with all the other polkit dialogs, so that we finally stop having multiple different authentication dialogs. Would that work? I don't know; I am trying to figure out how to use pkexec to start synaptic; but did not have success with it so far. Could anybody please confirm that pkexec is intended to start GUI-applications like synaptic and if possible point to some documentation about how to do it (or could anybody explain it to me)? (According to the following documentation, pkexec might not be intended for it.) Moreover, is there any smart way to find all the applications or components that use gksu on a default Ubuntu desktop? Cheers, Francesco. -- 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: Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi
2010/3/6 Francesco Fumanti francesco.fuma...@gmx.net: Could anybody please confirm that pkexec is intended to start GUI-applications like synaptic and if possible point to some documentation about how to do it (or could anybody explain it to me)? From http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pkexec.1.html: The environment that PROGRAM will run in, will be set to a minimal known and safe environment in order to avoid injecting code through LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar mechanisms. In addition the PKEXEC_UID environment variable is set to the user id of the process invoking pkexec. As a result, pkexec will not allow you to run e.g. X11 applications as another user since the $DISPLAY environment variable is not set. So, it doesn't look like it is. -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- 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
Accounting Program
Hi Brett, On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote: There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of getting in touch with the local university, see if we could get some of the comp sci kids interested. I am an accountant, so while the FOSS stuff already out may be fine for point-of-sale or home use, it does not really cut it when compared to Quickbooks, MYOB, etc. Anyone else into this idea (accounting software for linux), let me know! For me this is going to be a personal project, I plan to go to Vermont for a few weeks to spent time with my inlaws. Quickbooks is being used to manage a small org and is the only package that's requiring VirtualBox at the moment and I want to replace it. But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than QuickBooks. Much better. Can I put you down as an accountant to call on for advice? Maybe there is something you already know you dislike in existing packages, missing features or just bad positioning. Martin, -- 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: White-on-black terminal should be default
On 3 March 2010 17:40, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background... Sun Microsystems SPARC-based workstations' console had a black text on a light grey background. I liked it because it was much easier on the eyes than white text on black background. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki = Azrael Nightwalker ## # Jabber/XMPP/Gtalk/Tlen ID: azrael[na]jabster.pl # # (Co to jest? Zobacz na: http://jabberfaq.info ) # ## www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ # -- 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: Accounting Program
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:19 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than QuickBooks. Much better. You'd be doing everyone a great service if you did. In my experience, QuickBooks has the worst user interface of any consumer-oriented application I've ever encountered. And as far as I know, not only is there no native Linux equivalent, there's no proprietary OS equivalent either. So, users are stuck with an awful application. 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: Why is UPG halfway implemented?
The thing I wanted to know was, why was it decided to set up Ubuntu this way? 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
