Re: OneNote2007 and Project2007 equivalent in Ubuntu

2009-11-14 Thread Jonathan Jesse
Unfortnately all of those proudcts pale in comparision to OneNote.  I've
even had problems with OneNote and Crossover office to work correctly.
OneNote is one of the many programs I miss when I switch over to Ubuntu full
time.

The way OneNote groups things together works great.
Plus the right-click on a meeting and send to OneNote to take notes in
regards to the appointment I am working is missing in all of these products
when I try to use a FLOSS PIM product, like Evoutoin or Kontact

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Palle Hellemann
pallehellem...@gmail.comwrote:

 Thank You,
 I don't know any of these and I will try them.

 Best regards
 Palle

 2009/11/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com

 2009/11/14 Palle Hellemann pallehellem...@gmail.com:
  I'm missing the functions of these 2 Windows applications. Are there
  anything in Ubuntu resembling them or solving similar jobs.
 

 For OneNote you could try either Basket or Zim.

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Re: OneNote2007 and Project2007 equivalent in Ubuntu

2009-11-14 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

 2009/11/15 Jonathan Jesse jje...@gmail.com:
  Unfortnately all of those proudcts pale in comparision to OneNote.  I've
  even had problems with OneNote and Crossover office to work correctly.
  OneNote is one of the many programs I miss when I switch over to Ubuntu
 full
  time.
 
  The way OneNote groups things together works great.
  Plus the right-click on a meeting and send to OneNote to take notes in
  regards to the appointment I am working is missing in all of these
 products
  when I try to use a FLOSS PIM product, like Evoutoin or Kontact
 

 If you will make a detailed list of the features that you are missing
 from OneNote in Basket and/or Zim, I will gladly take the time to file
 the appropriate bugs. Thanks.


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Most of my experiences are with the KDE programs, however I have tried,
gjots, gjots2, and Tomboy as well...

1.  Basket and KNotes are missing bullet points as far as I can tell, same
with gjots2... Also missing outline formating ( I. a. iii., etc)

2.  Integration with Calendaring:  OneNote and Outllook integrate together,
I can do things such as right-click an appoint in the calendar and send to
OneNote.  Then in OneNote it has all the appointment information is within
the note section.

3.  Ability to create tasks within a note:  Goes back to integration with
the Personal Information Manager, in this case Outlook and OneNote.  Within
OneNote you can create a task which then populates Outlook.

Just off the top of my head what I need to replace OneNote
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Re: I hope gparted 0.4.2 or greater is included in Jaunty. Supporting ext4 installations, but not ext4 partition management reflects a severe lack of polish.

2009-02-22 Thread Jonathan Jesse
Eric Appleman wrote:
 I believe that we should toss aside our morals and break with Debian in 
 order to do this. If not, then ext4 support really doesn't belong in 
 Jaunty. Libparted is not a valid substitute unless we have a 
 Ubuntu-original GUI to accompany it.

 - Eric

   
Eric,

There was just a previous response posted to the mailing list from Colin 
Watson that this is on his list along with a feature freeze exectpion 
request as well.
The problem is that Mr. Watson has a lot on his plate and is getting 
there as quickly as possible.

Jonathan

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Re: replacement of kcontrol

2008-08-26 Thread Jonathan Jesse
System Settings is the default control panel in KDE in KDE 4.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 Quick question:
 what tool replaces Kcontrol on intrepid?
 I have no way too tell my kmail to use Firefox as default browser now.

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Re: replacement of kcontrol

2008-08-26 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:05 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 Olá Jonathan e a todos.

 On Tuesday 26 August 2008 13:46:33 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
  On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
 
   Quick question:
   what tool replaces Kcontrol on intrepid?
   I have no way too tell my kmail to use Firefox as default browser now.
  System Settings is the default control panel in KDE in KDE 4.

 Thanks. I've found out about it on IRC.
 Needed kbuildsycoca4 too.
 I dont know why kcontrol was removed, but not replaced with system-setting.
 I had to manually install it. :(
 Should I fill a bug against it? I'm using Gnome, and not KDE, but I use a
 lot of KDE progs, like dolphin, kmail, etc

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I would file a bug, I don't know exactly how it works by not having all of
the kubuntu-desktop package in or what other packages are missing by your
install.  Might want to follow up on #kubuntu-devel as they might have a
better idea there?
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Re: No run menu item?

2008-07-05 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Caroline Ford 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 2008/7/5 HggdH [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  
 
  I've never actually seen a Windows user use it.  They usually seem to
  prefer hunting through the Start Menu, except when tech support tells
  them to go to the Run thing and type cmd and hit Enter.
 
  Well, I have seen it in use, a lot of times. It usually happens when an
  admin comes to an user system and, instead of wasting time digging in
  through the user's customisations, we go straight to the kill.
 
  So, if you are talking about *end* users, casual users, then yes, you
  are absolutely right. They would not understand the Run thingy even if
  it bit them. As an extension, if we are building an system for the
  naive, casual users, then we should not have such an entry in the menu.
 
  If, on the other hand, we a re building a system to be used by all, I
  see no reason *NOT* to have it.
 
  And this is not because another OS has it, its because it is useful.

 I've actually only ever seen it used in tech support instruction where
 the end user is told to open Run and then enter the following
 *exactly*.

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Just a quick comment on the windows side of the things.  In Vista there is
no longer a run command, it is search and works great.  One of the things
I use every day on my work (Vista) machine that I miss in the *buntu world.
Ctrl+Esc (to pull open the start menu) and then start typing what I'm
looking for.  Hit enter or use the arrow keys on the keyboard to find the
correct item.  I use my mouse a lot less these days to open
files/applications/emails all index by search and all accessible through the
start - Search menu
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Re: help

2008-06-21 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, shashank Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

  hi
 i am shashank
 I love Ubuntu and loved the new version 8.04
 just wanna know the best program for watching live Free TV on Ubuntu..
 Also please tell the best software for Torrent download, except Azureus..
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Shashank,

THe best place to ask is on the ubuntu-users list or on IRC at #ubuntu.
This list is for development discussion.

Thanks,

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Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
  One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from
  other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back
  anything. Ubuntu should make it more visible for others to see what does
  it contribute to upstream/floss community.
  Red Hat and Novell have websites listing their contributions to free
  software:

 I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the
 contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all.


 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=x_server_contributorsnum=1

 (go to page 3,4)

 As one of the comments on Slashdot said; I think it would be good if
 every major distribution had at least one developer helping with X.org.

 Phoronix actually offers cash awards to people fixing X.org-bugs. That's
 the least Canonical could do, IMHO.

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At one time wasn't Canonical hiring an X Maintainer?  I thought I sw it at
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/ a while ago.

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Re: making deals with MS

2008-06-08 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Nergar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear Mark Fink

 I would like you to reconsider your concept of Open Source and the
 reason why you are using Linux. You don't seem to understand the
 philosophy behind free software.

 Foss is all about choice so if you don't like it here you can very well
 use OpenBSD or anything else, but you *NEVER* talk trash about a (very
 active and productive) Linux developer who uses Windows, no matter who
 you are. You are free to hate and not use any Windows product but if you
 want to be a respected community member you must respect the likes and
 dislikes of other people.

 Now, if you could show some legal proof and remain respectful, you would
 be considered more seriously, please understand that a (very biased)
 blog is not the most acceptable source of information, and don't get me
 started with IRC conversations. AFAIK mono is just a reimplementation in
 Linux of a Microsoft technology, its not like we're using the Vista
 kernel to power Ubuntu.

 P.S. I'm not an native english speaker, so anyone please feel free to
 correct any spelling or gramatical errors.

 On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 21:53 -0400, Mark Fink wrote:

 
  just because I'm not a programmer doesn't mean my opinion isn't worth
  as much or more than yours (I'm clearly better informed about these
  issues having read boycottnovell and having discussed issues with Roy
  himself).
 
  As far as Richard Johnson being a core-dev, sounds pretty scary that
  you let someone so in love with Microvell to contaminate Ubuntu.
 


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I personally know Nixternal and know that his love of MS is a big joke.  Is
the whole bot response on IRC the problem?
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Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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.


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I would echo these thoughts.  Sorry for hijaking this thread.  By having a
low entry to something like ubuntu-docs and encouraging further growth into
the community and teh development process it has been an amazing place to
help gve back some of my not spare time.  Which is growing smaller and
smaller by the minute.

Glad to be of any servce that I can.

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual]

2008-04-26 Thread Jonathan Jesse
The last I checked the Official Ubuntu Book published by Prentice Hall is
licensed under the CC-BY-SA license which is sold for profit.  Also the
Ubuntu-Docs are licensed under the same license as well.  I agree that the
CC-BY_SA mihgt be better.

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Re: Launchpad bug retesting

2008-03-20 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Many bugs reported turn out to be hit and run reports where something
 is filed and never followed up. As such it is good that bugs are
 aggressively closed where possibly to prevent launchpad cluttering up.
 Unfortunately there are scenarios where this becomes problematic.

 These days I see people romping through launchpad asking for bugs to be
 retested on pre-releases of Ubuntu (which may be months away from their
 final release). These bugs are stuffed into a Incomplete state and then
 one month later closed (due to lack of response) before the final
 release of Ubuntu is ever released. Sometimes these are bugs with very
 thorough descriptions which are reproducible all the time so there is
 nothing stopping the launchpad gardener checking the problem.

 A flip side of this is that sometimes a bug is reported and again at
 some point before the next major release a request for testing is put
 out. The reporter goes away, tries the pre-release and tests the bug and
 reports back. Then another request to test another pre-release comes up
 because maybe it's been fixed but without any firm reason for this
 other than a minor point release change. Thus the bug is turned into a
 game of how many pre-releases the reporter can keep up with.

 The problem with all these requests for retesting is that the more bugs
 someone files the more retests they will be asked to do thus punishing
 those who file real bugs that are not resolved. In order to keep
 bugs.launchpad.net manageable perhaps collateral damage is inevitable
 but if you are expecting people to be repeatedly testing things every
 month (or see their bug closed) then it would be nice if this was stated
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Good morning,

How would you suggest doing this instead?  I am one of those that is combing
launchpad for bugs that have not been reported or updated for a long time.
I try to reproduce the bugs on my own system or vm which I try to run the
development branch. If I am unable to reproduce it myself, I always ask the
user to try and reproduce it as well.
So how would you suggest dealing with those bugs instead of asking the end
user to deal with it?

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problems after upgrading to hardy

2008-02-18 Thread Jonathan Jesse
Over the week I did a Gusty - Hardy upgrade on one of my boxes at home and
am running into some problems.  Upon logging in, I receive a notification
that i am Unable to contact HAL.  I am not getting a network adress and
when I go to any of the system tools, I'm told that I am not allowed to run
the application.

What files or info do I need to provide to solve the current state my
computer is in?  Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
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Re: problems after upgrading to hardy

2008-02-18 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Feb 18, 2008 1:52 PM, Jared Schlicht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On Monday February 18 2008 11:08:42 am Jonathan Jesse wrote:
  Over the week I did a Gusty - Hardy upgrade on one of my boxes at home
 and
  am running into some problems.  Upon logging in, I receive a
 notification
  that i am Unable to contact HAL.  I am not getting a network adress
 and
  when I go to any of the system tools, I'm told that I am not allowed to
 run
  the application.
 
  What files or info do I need to provide to solve the current state my
  computer is in?  Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

 Without knowing more details, it could be the same issue I had with Gutsy.
 After each install, I've had to run the following command to make HAL
 work:

 sudo /usr/lib/hal/hald-generate-fdi-cache

 It won't make your system any worse off than it is now.  It can take a
 little
 while, even on newer hardware, so be patient.

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after running hald-generate-fid-cache should i get some prompt or return?  i
type the command in and nothing on the system changes.  upon loggin in i
still receive an error faled to initailize HAL
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Re: Too many icons in the Ubuntu menus?‏ (repost)

2008-02-11 Thread Jonathan Jesse
2008/2/11 Michael T [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


 I'm sorry, I am short of sleep at the moment and sent this without a
 subject.

 === Reposted message===
 Hello,

 I originally posted this as a wishlist item on Launchpad, but was advised
 to send it to the appropriate
 mailing list (so I hope that this is it :) ).  Something which slightly
 annoys me in Ubuntu (and more
 generally in KDE and Gnome) is the overuse of icons in menus.  Most (if
 not all) GUI style guidelines
 recommend only using icons in menus where they are instantly recognisable
 to the user, so that they can
 identify the menu entry from the icon faster than they would be able to
 read the menu text.  See for
 instance

 http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_17_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3356-TPXREF116
 .
 In other situations, the icon slows the user down, as they will
 automatically look at the icon before they
 read the text.  If you look at for example the K menu in Kubuntu, you
 will see that every menu entry,
 including every application listed, has an icon next to it, which to my
 mind makes it look somewhat
 unprofessional.
 Does anyone else have thoughts on this?  I realise of course that in many
 cases this is something that can
 only be fixed upstream, but I wanted to start a discussion somewhere :)

 Regards,

 Michael

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Michael,

I actually find it more annoying to not have an icon.  For example, in my
Gutsy build w/ KDE4 running I have Konsole showing up as kde4-konsole
withouth the icon in the Application Launcher.  To me this is more annoying
and unproffesional looking then having the icon there.  But its probablly
something I did that has changed my system that way.

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Re: Ubuntu development...

2007-08-25 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:57:21 Tim Hull wrote:
  The fact that you submit bug reports and do not follow up / patch them
  yourself
  shows a severe disinterest in *really* helping ubuntu and (like most
  new devel's in all projects) just want to focus on the hot-dog stuff.

 I do follow up - in fact, I've often posted additional info on my bug
 reports as to the origin of the issue/suggestions as to what could be done.
  I may not have the solution to everything, but that doesn't mean that I'm
 just being lazy or just focusing on the hot-dog stuff.  Maybe it means
 that for you, but I've submitted bugs/ideas to other projects (including
 *Debian*, of all distributions) and have received plenty of response.

  2) RTFM. Please. Coming onto the mailing list and asking for manual
  locations makes me want to knife myself. Yes it could be clearer, but
  you are not asking for help or clarifying a point, your just being
  lazy.

 I'm not asking for something trivial - I'm asking how to provide
 input/ideas regarding key components of the system.  It's perfectly clear
 how to do MOTU/Bug Squad/etc - it's NOT clear how to go about suggesting
 changes to the main desktop setup.  I've looked countless times on
 Launchpad and have remained stumped - RTFM really doesn't help one bit.


 3) Before you start working on MAJOR new features, why not help fix

  bugs and other common problems first? Wouldn't these be more benficial
  and a better learning process than Making the default system look
  better?. BTW the way it renders fonts is entirely appropriate: Most
  people get used to MS's crappy way of sub-sampling fonts to make them
  look sharper.

 In many of the cases I've discussed, I'm not necessarily talking about
 coding a major new project from scratch - I'm talking about integrating
 already existing code into the system, investigating changes in default
 settings, etc.  Yes, I certainly would work on the smaller bugs/issues as
 well - and I already know where to go for that (Bug Squad, MOTU, etc etc).
  However, it's unclear where to go with basic desktop issues/ideas, other
 than to file a bug in Launchpad, provide all the info you can, and wait.



 Do any Ubuntu developers care to comment?  I'd like to contribute, but I'm
 beginning to feel like I can't do so in any meaningful way outside the
 universe and Launchpad bug reports (which, even when I provide extensive
 info and narrow the problem to something fairly specific, don't tend to get
 much response).



 Tim

Not a Ubuntu-Core developer or in fact someone who packages or anything but 
I'm suprised by the rudeness of the person who responded to Tim.  WHy would 
he then want to still work for a community that treats him such.

Im sorry you were dealt such a low blow via email

Jonathan

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Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

2007-06-20 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:41:13 Scott Kitterman wrote:
 On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:34, Micah Cowan wrote:
  I _might_ not be opposed to the restriction, if we added a new, fairly
  open but still moderated group, to include MOTU Acolytes, capable of
  setting these states, just to prevent *total* non-developers from
  setting to/away from them.

 That would  be better, but still imposes an administrative burden both on
 unofficial developers and on whoever would have to administer the team.

 Ironically, virtually all of the bugmail I get dumped on me because a team
 was incorrectly assigned the bug is because of ubuntu-qa.  Personally, I
 have yet to see in progress misused.

 Scott K

From the converstation, membership in ubuntu-qa grants you access to these 
items as well correct?  Simply join ubuntu-qa and that should solve the 
problem if I'm correct.

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Re: ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

2007-05-21 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Monday 21 May 2007 13:32:46 Florian Zeitz wrote:
 Oystein Viggen wrote:
  * [Florian Zeitz]
 
  Linux has been able to do this for ages, but it has been considered a
  bad idea, because it wears the memory sticks flash.
  In theory all it takes is:
  1. # mkswap /dev/sdX (where sdX is your memory stick)
  2. Edit your fstab to say:
  /dev/sdX none swap sw,pri=2 0 0
  UUID=stuff none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
  instead of
  UUID=stuff none swap sw 0 0
  3. # swapon -a
 
  Then again, this is nothing at all like ReadyBoost.

 I'll have to admit that I now know that I know nothing.
 Back when I wrote the message you quoted all articles I had read about
 ReadyBoost said it was just swapping on flash drives.
 Right now after doing some research I'm a bit confused, because most
 sites contradict each other.
 It seems that ReadyBoost is actually a cache for about everything from
 swap file over system data to often read user data.
 I think it might be worth implementing if done properly (it seems using
 ReadyBoost in it's current form in Vista can actually slow down the
 system sometimes).


I've been suprised about how little even people who work w/ MS products every 
day really understand ReadyBoost.  In one of the recent issues of Microsoft 
Technet magazine, I don't have it in front of me, but Mark from SysInternals 
fame has written a really good article about it.  

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