Re: use imdb-thumbnailer as movie thumbnailer
Hi again, > After that, one question of mine would be what happens when the > internet connection goes away; does it fallback to Totem's > thumbnailer, or do we get the ugly octet-stream icon? The creator of the software answered this: "the fallback system is very flexible. It should work also with Xubuntu. It does something like this: cover=$(wget etc...) If there is no connection wget should fail and if it fails there is no cover, if there is no cover the fallback system is used. The fallback system checks first for gnome-video-thumbnailer, if it doesn't exit it tries totem-video-thumbnailer (xubuntu I think), if that one neither exist it checks for mplayer-video-thumb.sh" So yes, it falls back to totem's thumbnailer. That aside, the author also asks one question and I would like to know your opinion: "Do you want this to work for all videos by default? Right now it only works for the paths specified in the config file but I can change that, it should be very easy." -- 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: use imdb-thumbnailer as movie thumbnailer
> Well step one would be getting it into Ubuntu, so you may want to > contact the MOTU team for that. Once you've done that much, we can > discuss it more seriously. Would filing a "needs-packaging" request enough? Or should I contact them via IRC? > After that, one question of mine would be what happens when the > internet connection goes away; does it fallback to Totem's > thumbnailer, or do we get the ugly octet-stream icon? I haven't actually tried that, but using Totem's thumbnailer would be the logical thing to do. I'll contact the author on that one. -- 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
use imdb-thumbnailer as movie thumbnailer
Hi, I originally sent this proposal to Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/269803 I would like Nautilus to use imdb-thumbnailer to create video thumbnails. According to this forum thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=706800), it searches imdb for covers based on the file names and if no cover is found the default thumbnailer is used. An example of the results can be seen in this screenshot: http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thumbnailfactorynf1.png I believe that the cover is more representative of a movie than a video frame. After all it's the cover (or the poster) you see when you go to the cinema to watch the movie or to the videoclub to rent it. So it's probably easier to recognize it visually through the cover, than through a video file. Files whose cover is not found still use video frames anyway, so there isn't really a downside to it. Any thoughts? PS- I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me if you reply. -- 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: How to make burning an audio CD easy again
> On Hardy or Intrepid? Its behaviour in Hardy when opened from the menu > is to always show the Audio Project, Data Project, Video Project, Disc > Copy, Burn Image options along with a list of recent projects. I'm talking about Intrepid. It seems to remember and re-open the last used project, with the added media and all. > There also isn't a File menu anywhere in Brasero that I've seen. Yeah, my fault. I meant Project → New project → New audio project. -- 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: How to make burning an audio CD easy again
> So its behaviour when a CD is inserted is different than when opened > from the menu? That doesn't seem right. In fact that's also its behaviour when opened from the menu. Don't know if it's intended, but it doesn't either seem right to me. -- 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: How to make burning an audio CD easy again
> Why not just open Brasero by default when a blank CD is inserted? It's > got a very straight-forward opening screen anyway. I see two downsides to that: -Opening a program straight away, without asking the user first, might become cumbersome. -Brasero seems to remember the last used mode, so if you were burning a data CD it will open a data project. If it's an audio CD you want to burn, you'll have to take the extra step to choose file → new project → new audio project, which some users might not know how to do anyway. -- 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
How to make burning an audio CD easy again
Hi, This was originally raised as a Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/272902 Burning an audio CD used to be so simple that my mom had no trouble doing it. When she put a blank CD in the tray a dialogue would ask her what she wanted to burn, a data CD or audio CD. Then serpentine opened and she just had to drag the files. Now she gets a dialogue asking her what program should be used to handle the blank CD, but only one is actually shown (nautilus) and she doesn't know what brasero is for anyway. Even if she remember she wants to use brasero, she might be presented the data project thingy so she has to figure out she has to open file → new project → new audio project. THEN drag the files and hit burn. This is way too complicated for newcomers, and much more difficult than it used to be. One way to make it easier can be seen in the attached image, though. It's still not as easy as the original dialogue, since the user still has to click the dropdown box to see all the available options. But al least is much more straightforward than what we have now. What do you think? Could this be applied? PS - I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me if you reply. Thanks. <>-- 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: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default
Hi again, > I should also point out (because I gave out misinformation on IRC in a > moment of inattention) that this only works when you're using the manual > partitioner and select a partition to mount as /, or equivalent. If you > use the automatic partitioner and select "use entire disk", then that's > equivalent to wiping the whole drive and starting again. I really would like to discuss this. I think this would make sense in some cases, like having several distros coexisting in the same disk for example. But what if there is just ONE partition, with Ubuntu on it? In that case, why shouldn't /home be kept? My original proposal was intended for total newbies, the kind of people who would be afraid of the manual partitioner. I think your solution should especially help that kind of people, and that keeping /home if there is only one partition would be the right way to do so. That aside, I opened a thread about the issue at ubuntuforums. The members seem a bit uneasy about it, saying that it might bring problems. I think it would be good if you guys came over and shed some light on it. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=793772 this is the link. Thanks again :) -- 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: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default
Hi Colin, > I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old > /home partition? (If you did, then why?) Actually yes, and I never realised how dumb it was until I read your message. I just was used to formatting before installing, so I guess I never gave it any thought. So, what is supposed to happen if you do NOT check the format box? Is everything but your /home destroyed, or is anything else kept? Probably a dumb question, but I've never done it so I can't 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: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default
Hi again, > > Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home > > directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories. Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some spare gigs to try Intrepid. This morning I reinstalled Ubuntu in that partition and it destroyed the previous /home folder. > This is indeed exactly the reason we haven't offered a prominent option > of a separate /home; our partition management tools just aren't smooth > enough to cope when (not if) people make the wrong choice for relative > sizes. Actually, the user won't have to make a choice at all. Do you think a good choice for an average user could be made automatically depending on the disk's size and free space? Because that's what I'm proposing. If you have lots of free space (enough to ensure that it'll be very difficult to fill / up, and that /home will be big enough that these few missing gigs will be negligible), the installer will recommend you to make a separate partition. If space is tighter, it won't. -- 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
Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default
Some time ago, I posted this idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm, about the possibility to use a separate /home folder by default on systems where, depending on free disk space, it is considered advisable. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5390/ It has grown very popular, to the point of ranking #10 in popularity -there are over 8,000 ideas in the page-. I really do think it's a good idea so I'm bringing it here for discussion. Here are some mockups of how the Ubiquity dialogue should look. As you see, it does not even add an additional step to the installer, nor does it require any interaction or decision taking from the user, although it still allows him to. http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png What do devs think of it? Would it be possible to see something like this in Intrepid? Regards, David Prieto. PS I'm not subscribed to the list, so if you reply to this message please CC me. Thanks in advance. -- 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: Allowing passwordless login via GDM
> This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program > already offers the option of automatic login But that would only be useful in his case: -if he actually wants his parents to automatically log in every time the computer is booted, which might not be the case. -if his parents have a single user account. In any other scenario, what he demanded COULD be necessary -or at least it would be convenient-. -- 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: gaim-libnotify by default
> What is the relation of this to gaim-guifications, and why one over > the other? Well, they accomplish the same task actually. I think gaim-libnotify should be chosen over guifications for integration purposes: most other apps are using libnotify to display their notifications, so using it would feel just natural while guifications could stand out a bit - look out of place, if you will. Also, guifications takes 10x disk space but I wouldn't consider that too important, as it's only a 150k difference. -- 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
gaim-libnotify by default
Hi, I already sent this message once but I'm not sure it got actually posted on the list: > This is a proposal to include the gaim-libnotify package in default > ubuntu installs. > > People coming from windows are used to their IM apps showing a > notification window when something noteworthy happens. Gaim plays a > sound but shows nothing, which can be confusing to some users -where > did > that beep come from?- and leave the feeling that it's an inferior > product compared with their previous IM client. > > I think that gaim-libnotify should be installed and active by default > in > fresh ubuntu installs. Gaim-libnotify is a Gaim plugin that shows > events > -buddies logging in or out, new messages...- using libnotify. It takes > barely 14k and offers information that is familiar to newcomers and > useful for everyday users, and perfectly fits Gaim sounds, in a > fashion > that is integrated with gnome because it resembles the way that many > other gnome apps show their important info - that is, through > libnotify. Any opinions? <> -- 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: New feature: zeroconf networking by default, please test
> > Yesterday, the remaining bits of the "Zero-configuration networking" > > specification made their way to the archive and await hordes of fans, > > happy users, and of course, bug reports. I believe that this has caused a very weird bug in my computer, where NM was telling me that I was connected to the net, but then it was not really working: the browser couldn't open pages, evo couldn't fetch my mails... please, find the details and how I solved it in this thread in Ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=317904 It's two pages long, but it's enough if you read the first and last posts. Also, if you have further questions I'll try to answer them. I could also file a bug if I'm required too, but I'm not sure where the right place would be. -- 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
