Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-10 Thread alan c

On 09/05/12 21:34, Barry Titterton wrote:




 I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is
 'gently' taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous
 'hit'. Even when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I
 am simply not feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen,
 although I can guess that if I was a dev I might  a lot more :-)

 If a bug is registered  give me a heads up I will contribute
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Hi Alan,

I have turned the sensitivity up full but it still needs to be pushed
quite hard into the left side to get a reveal. I've also tried it in
Unity 3D with same result. I shall add myself to Neil's bug report
(982954).
Barry T


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Barry Titterton

> 
> I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 
> 'gently' taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 
> 'hit'. Even when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I 
> am simply not feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen, 
> although I can guess that if I was a dev I might  a lot more :-)
> 
> If a bug is registered  give me a heads up I will contribute
> -- 
> alan cocks

Hi Alan,

I have turned the sensitivity up full but it still needs to be pushed
quite hard into the left side to get a reveal. I've also tried it in
Unity 3D with same result. I shall add myself to Neil's bug report
(982954).

Barry T


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 May 2012 21:27, Barry Titterton  wrote:
>
>>
>> The bug mentioned just says that there is no way back if you forget
>> the correct key to use.  I don't use rhythmbox so don't know what the
>> key is, but presumably someone does.  It is a pity that the bug does
>> not mention which key it is.
>>
>> Colin
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Yesterday nothing worked, today F11 works to cancel the Party Mode.
> Perhaps it needed a re-boot? Anyway I'm happy now.

Perhaps you could add a comment to the bug to say that F11 is the key
to cancel it, so that if others find the bug at least they will know
that.

Colin

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Barry Titterton

> 
> The bug mentioned just says that there is no way back if you forget
> the correct key to use.  I don't use rhythmbox so don't know what the
> key is, but presumably someone does.  It is a pity that the bug does
> not mention which key it is.
> 
> Colin

Hi Colin,

Yesterday nothing worked, today F11 works to cancel the Party Mode.
Perhaps it needed a re-boot? Anyway I'm happy now.

Barry T


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Neil Greenwood
I've raised bug 982954 about the intermittent failure to show the launcher,
even when the sensitivity is set to high. I'm using Unity 3D though.

Neil.

P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone.
On May 9, 2012 9:34 AM, "Colin Law"  wrote:

> On 9 May 2012 09:05, alan c  wrote:
> > On 09/05/12 07:56, Colin Law wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >  2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such
> as
> >>> >  Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
> >>> >  windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this
> >>> >  problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a
> >>> > bug
> >>> >  or normal behaviour for 2D Unity?
> >>
> >> That is a bug, even with maximised windows the launcher should reveal
> >> if you push the mouse against the left hand side.  On the appearance
> >> settings have you got Reveal Location set to Left Side or Top Left
> >> Corner?  I have it on Left Side on a Satellite A100 using 2D and it
> >> reveals ok.
> >
> >
> > I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 'gently'
> > taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 'hit'. Even
> > when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I am simply not
> > feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen, although I can guess
> that
> > if I was a dev I might  a lot more :-)
>
> On the Appearance > Behaviour app there is a Reveal Sensitivity
> setting which I think is supposed to adjust this, though I have not
> tried it.
>
> Colin
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 May 2012 09:05, alan c  wrote:
> On 09/05/12 07:56, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> >  2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as
>>> >  Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
>>> >  windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this
>>> >  problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a
>>> > bug
>>> >  or normal behaviour for 2D Unity?
>>
>> That is a bug, even with maximised windows the launcher should reveal
>> if you push the mouse against the left hand side.  On the appearance
>> settings have you got Reveal Location set to Left Side or Top Left
>> Corner?  I have it on Left Side on a Satellite A100 using 2D and it
>> reveals ok.
>
>
> I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 'gently'
> taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 'hit'. Even
> when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I am simply not
> feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen, although I can guess that
> if I was a dev I might  a lot more :-)

On the Appearance > Behaviour app there is a Reveal Sensitivity
setting which I think is supposed to adjust this, though I have not
tried it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread alan c

On 09/05/12 07:56, Colin Law wrote:

>  2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as
>  Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
>  windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this
>  problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a bug
>  or normal behaviour for 2D Unity?

That is a bug, even with maximised windows the launcher should reveal
if you push the mouse against the left hand side.  On the appearance
settings have you got Reveal Location set to Left Side or Top Left
Corner?  I have it on Left Side on a Satellite A100 using 2D and it
reveals ok.


I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 
'gently' taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 
'hit'. Even when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I 
am simply not feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen, 
although I can guess that if I was a dev I might  a lot more :-)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 May 2012 22:58, Barry Titterton  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Last weekend I decided to upgrade my spare laptop. It is an elderly
> Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 running 32 bit 11.10 and Unity in 2D mode.
> The upgrade went smoothly and here are the problems that I have found so
> far:-

> [snip]

> 2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as
> Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
> windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this
> problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a bug
> or normal behaviour for 2D Unity?

That is a bug, even with maximised windows the launcher should reveal
if you push the mouse against the left hand side.  On the appearance
settings have you got Reveal Location set to Left Side or Top Left
Corner?  I have it on Left Side on a Satellite A100 using 2D and it
reveals ok.

>
> 3. Rhythmbox is the default music player for 12.04. It has a feature
> called Party Mode, this expands the window to full screen covering all
> other windows, menus etc. The problem is that the only way to get out of
> this mode is by the power button, or by using a terminal to kill the
> process. This is a know bug 785631 which has been confirmed since
> September 2011. I'm not impressed that an LTS has been released with
> this bug still intact.

The bug mentioned just says that there is no way back if you forget
the correct key to use.  I don't use rhythmbox so don't know what the
key is, but presumably someone does.  It is a pity that the bug does
not mention which key it is.

Colin

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[ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-08 Thread Barry Titterton
Hi All,

Last weekend I decided to upgrade my spare laptop. It is an elderly
Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 running 32 bit 11.10 and Unity in 2D mode.
The upgrade went smoothly and here are the problems that I have found so
far:-

1. The desktop back ground went plain black. Under 11.10 I had the
default photographs set to change on a regular basis. It was no problem
to select the 12.04 default photo background, however this may be
disconcerting for a novice. May I make an enhancement suggestion that it
would have been nice if the upgrade software could have realised that I
was using the default profile and offered to set up the default
background as part of the upgrade process.

2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as
Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this
problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a bug
or normal behaviour for 2D Unity?

3. Rhythmbox is the default music player for 12.04. It has a feature
called Party Mode, this expands the window to full screen covering all
other windows, menus etc. The problem is that the only way to get out of
this mode is by the power button, or by using a terminal to kill the
process. This is a know bug 785631 which has been confirmed since
September 2011. I'm not impressed that an LTS has been released with
this bug still intact.

I have only had one crash so far but this is one more than I had with
11.10.

Barry T




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