Keyboard mapping selection comes to late during install
Bonjour, Keyboard mapping selection comes too late during installation. When one wants to manually partition the drives on, for example, a French-Canadian keyboard, the key mapping selection window hasn't been presented yet (it will be after the time zone selection) thus obliging the user to manually call for that change which is not even possible if Ubiquity as been started directly during the boot process without selecting the Try Ubuntu option. This is not a bug but a choice made by the developper that needs to be adresssed and corrected since it affects all international users. Regards, Alain-Olivier Breysse -- 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
Getting a package into Ubuntu
Dear Sir/Madam, How do I get my PPA package into the Ubuntu archive? I want to add my compiler package into Ubuntu once it is fully stable. If anyone might need it, the address of my PPA(test packages) is ppa:borgdylan/ppa Dylan -- 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: Getting a package into Ubuntu
Am 27.04.2011 15:47, schrieb Dylan Borg: How do I get my PPA package into the Ubuntu archive? I want to add my compiler package into Ubuntu once it is fully stable. If anyone might need it, the address of my PPA(test packages) is ppa:borgdylan/ppa https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages should have all the information on the topic. Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved with Ubuntu Development: http://identi.ca/ubuntudev http://twitter.com/ubuntudev http://facebook.com/ubuntudev -- 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
Identifying the desktop session
For user help purposes, we're wondering what would be the best way of identifying the user's user session. For example, under Unity, running: echo $DESKTOP_SESSION just produces the result, gnome. running lsb_release -a just gives info about the general Ubuntu platform. What would be the best way of identifying what session a user is running? For starters, we'd need to know Xfce, Unity, Unity-2d, Gnome-Shell, etc. Jim -- 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
Data Analysis: Socialization of New Users
Hi all, I apologize in advance if maybe this isn't quite the correct mailing list for this topic but it seemed to be the most appropriate. I'm a PhD graduate student interested in examining the socialization of new users into existing communities, specifically, communities that are Open Source. There is a wealth of information available from mailing list communication, IRC chat, bug reports, version control commits, etc. all of which can be datamined. Far too often, developers want to join an Open Source community but they either approach the community the wrong way or have difficulty knowing where to start. If someone wants to join a project and they send off an email saying they want to change many things about the software, they're probably just going to be ignored because it doesn't fit in with what the overall community is trying to accomplish. Some of this can be alleviated by lurking and watching the mailing list to get a feel for who has power in the community, what are the topics at hand, and who is working on what sections. Unfortunately, this can take significant amounts of time and some people lose interest. As part of my research, I would like to do data collection and analysis on not only existing community members but also new users who want to be part of the community. This would involve questionnaires and gather quantitative and qualitative data. This is to see if there is a disconnect between new users and the existing community. Based on this data, I would like to create a tool that would help in the socialization process. At this point, I'm still brainstorming what the tool would look like but ideally it would be something that would aggregate information as well as help new users understand their position in the community through graphs and information visualization. The final step would be a final user study that looks at a comparison between new users who used the tool versus those who did not to see if it actually helped. This is the broad plan at the moment and obviously there are many details that need to be worked out but essentially, I need an Open Source project that is both large enough and has a steady influx of new users who would be wiling to participate. Is this something that Ubuntu/Canonical would be interested in? Or perhaps a subsection/subcommunity? Perhaps this email is better suited to someone who works at Canonical? Maybe Mr. Bacon could chime in? (huge fan btw, LugRadio was great...) Thank you. -Patrick Carlson -- 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
Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great
Hey ho, I've been having serious performance issues with the stock Natty kernel System: - Intel core2 Duo (dual core) - 4 GB RAM - Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT Symptoms: - Programs that hit the disk a lot are stalling regularly for multiple seconds (compiz dimmed) then coming back - Very choppy (slideshow) Hi-def video - General sluggishness of UI Compiled Linux 2.6.39-rc5, just to test and all these issues are gone Just to be clear, this is a vanilla kernel from kernel.org Using the natty .38 config, and all new kernel options set to their default values I'm thinking, either a) some Ubuntu specific change in the Natty kernel is off b) something in .39 has improved dramatically I'm posting this here (as opposed to filing a bug) as I'm not sure exactly what the issue is Tomorrow, I'm going to be compiling a vanilla .38 kernel, to try and narrow down exactly where the issue with the natty kernel is, but thought I'd post here first, prior to filing a bug, just to make sure this is not a known issue Thanks -- Tony Atkinson Email: tatkinson...@googlemail.com PGP: F2B9184B 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: Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great
On 4/27/2011 3:53 PM, Tony Atkinson wrote: I'm posting this here (as opposed to filing a bug) as I'm not sure exactly what the issue is Tomorrow, I'm going to be compiling a vanilla .38 kernel, to try and narrow down exactly where the issue with the natty kernel is, but thought I'd post here first, prior to filing a bug, just to make sure this is not a known issue You are going to want to file a bug report, and it sounds like you are on the right track to narrowing down the problem, which will help a lot. Keep up the testing! -- 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: Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Tony Atkinson tatkinson...@googlemail.com wrote: Tomorrow, I'm going to be compiling a vanilla .38 kernel, to try and narrow down exactly where the issue with the natty kernel is, but thought I'd post here first, prior to filing a bug, just to make sure this is not a known issue To note, vanilla mainline builds are available, too, for precisely this sort of regression narrowing; see http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/. -Dan -- 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
