Re: Studio settings manager (was: studio and xubuntu)
On Sun, March 3, 2013 9:52 am, Len Ovens wrote: In my opinion it would be less confusing to have either a settings manager or a settings submenu and not both. As there are some settings that seem to be embedded in the settings manager, I would suggest going the same way as xubuntu with just the settings manager. Xubuntu has the settings manager as an app directly in the top level of the menu. We can do the same (possibly easier to support because it is standard) or put it either in System or Accessories submenus (or both). My opinion is the former. By the way, the idea is for people to comment on this :) -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
dual monitor support
I was thinking of seeing if the Display setup could be changed to add dual monitors. So the user could choose where the second monitor should be. The only problem with that is hot plug stuff. - unplugging a monitor during a session leaves the remaining monitor in the middle of a huge virtual desktop with no access to the desktop menu. - starting the computer with only one monitor plugged in or a second monitor off, changes the settings to either single monitor or the second monitor to an unpredictable size/resolution. It may also default to superimposed. In Ubuntu vanilla, there is no real setup for where the monitor is, but it does react nicely to hot plug events. On hot plugging a monitor it is placed to the right of the first monitor, top aligned. On unplugging the display reverts correctly to single display. The display setup in their case does allow the choice of superimposed. That is a much better setup. I would like to find out how they do it and if we can use it as is. If not we should create one (and add it to xfce) The only difference I would like to see is bottoms aligned. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Studio settings manager (was: studio and xubuntu)
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:52:16 +0100, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote: In my opinion it would be less confusing to have either a settings manager or a settings submenu and not both. As there are some settings that seem to be embedded in the settings manager, I would suggest going the same way as xubuntu with just the settings manager. Xubuntu has the settings manager as an app directly in the top level of the menu. We can do the same (possibly easier to support because it is standard) or put it either in System or Accessories submenus (or both). My opinion is the former. +1 on doing it the way Xubuntu does it -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Rolling Release metting at UDS, Tuesday
Meeting about rolling release on UDS, Tuesday http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1303/foundations-1/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
New XFCE apps
I was listening in on the Xubuntu meeting today. Mention was made of menulibre. I looked it up with synaptic and could not find it. So I asked :) and it is an in the works deal that xfce will be using to replace alacarte which both Xubuntu and Studio use as a menu editor. It is being written by the same author as catfish so I expect it to be good. It is lighter than alacarte as well... though I think we carry all the gnome libs anyway. I will be watching testing as work progresses. Perhaps it will be better than alacarte. I have been frustrated with the lack of usefulness of alacarte and the support headache I have had with it when other people try to do more than it was built for. While I was there I asked about monitor detection and when I told them why, I was told that there is a new display tool on the way as well. The background on displays is that dual monitors has been less than easy to use and once set up less than stable. Unity has a better (not as good as I would like) setup than xfce does. Unity at least defaults to side by side... though the side by side is top aligned rather than bottom. This is ok if both monitors are the same size, but with a laptop the main monitor in the laptop is likely smaller than the second and bottom alignment makes more sense (the mouse will be easier to find when moving it from one display to the other). I don't know how it deals with more than two monitors, but that is getting into specialty use and requires special X setup anyway as most video cards only have 2 outputs. Unity also does not allow setting the second monitor to left of or above the main monitor with a saved setting. That is, the second monitor can be moved, but if it is unplugged and reconnected it goes back to default to right of/top aligned. I would like to have a setup where there are two settings saved. A single setting and a dual setting and xfce dynamically switches form one setting to the other on hotplug. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
