Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-21 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 17:54, Mark F wrote: > > Gmail is interesting because when I hit "reply" it puts two blank lines above > the quoted text -- almost seducing the respondent to type above. Adult life is all about learning not to accept every temptation life throws at you. Gmail is a clever

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-20 Thread Mark F
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:57 AM Liam Proven wrote: > Since you have not even got the basic manners to bottom-post yourself > -- and yes Gmail does it fine; Gmail is interesting because when I hit "reply" it puts two blank lines above the quoted text -- almost seducing the respondent to type abo

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-20 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 16:39, Mark F wrote: > > Not to pull your chain. But... (I'm pulling your chain now...) how do you see > forums being impossible to top post? How would a forum prevent me from doing > what I'm doing in this reply to you? > > I.e., if the mailing list bridge were active, wo

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-20 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 06:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 19 May 2019 13:44:21 -0700, Mark F wrote: > >I like it. I just replied to someone (I top posted too! Maybe that > >will get Liam to join. wink). > > IIRC as one drawback of forums Liam mentioned markup language. If you > want to post co

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-20 Thread Mark F
Not to pull your chain. But... (I'm pulling your chain now...) how do you see forums being impossible to top post? How would a forum prevent me from doing what I'm doing in this reply to you? I.e., if the mailing list bridge were active, wouldn't this email (a top post) convert into a forum post e

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-20 Thread Mark F
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 9:37 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What I hate very much are forums with (intended) broken email > notification and a system of rewards. > I think "likes" can help keep the noise down. Instead of one-liner "thanks!" replies, or someone posting month later "I found your post an

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 19 May 2019 13:44:21 -0700, Mark F wrote: >I like it. I just replied to someone (I top posted too! Maybe that >will get Liam to join. wink). IIRC as one drawback of forums Liam mentioned markup language. If you want to post code, one forum requires ~~~ some code ~~~ and another [code] s

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-19 Thread Mark F
> > That said, we now have a forum, so if you want to prove how useful it > is, go use it! :) > I like it. I just replied to someone (I top posted too! Maybe that will get Liam to join. wink). I don't know if I'll be active. I can't offer much help because I would always have to say "I'm using a

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 09:10:58AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > Do you think a forum environment might engender more participation, > collaboration, passion, interest, etc? I prefer mailing lists, but if I'm excited about something, I participate in whatever communication option it has available. Case i

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 02 May 2019 14:19:42 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1782984 Hi Walter, when running Polyphone from command line this issue happens, too, _but_ the app neither does crash nor freeze, it continues to work without a noticeable issue.

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-06 Thread Mark F
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:20 AM Liam Proven wrote: > > They don't have curb appeal? > > I don't know what "curb appeal" means. > Curb appeal in the sense of people driving by and stopping to participate. Compared to this mailing list, those forums have *huge* participation. (HUGE!). The only thi

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-06 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, 5 May 2019 at 18:11, Mark F wrote: > > Do you think a forum environment might engender more participation, > collaboration, passion, interest, etc? I don't know, but I can tell you that I won't participate. I loathe web fora with a passion. Aside from the universally terrible UI, the lac

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-05 Thread Mark F
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:06 PM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > it would be certainly easier if we had more help… > Most of what the Lubuntu Team is > doing is providing support, creating documentation, reporting and > triaging bugs, testing images and fixes, creating graphics, and > packaging.

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 3 May 2019 21:05:42 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:48:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> That xcb multi-threaded client crab is no issue at all for my Ubuntu >> 16.04 install, but a PITA for my Arch Linux install. Since I never >> used pcmanfm, it's Claws that s

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-03 Thread Johanes Hutapea
may I ask something out of this topic? about xmr-stak? On Walter Lapchynski , May 4, 2019 11:06 AM wrote:On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:48:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > That xcb multi-threaded client crab is no issue at all for my Ubuntu > 16.04 install, but a PITA for my Arch Linux install. S

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:48:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > That xcb multi-threaded client crab is no issue at all for my Ubuntu > 16.04 install, but a PITA for my Arch Linux install. Since I never used > pcmanfm, it's Claws that suffers from this issue on my Arch install. Are there any relate

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 14:19 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1782984 On Arch and Ubuntu 16.04 I'm using SpaceFM, resp. most of the times no file manager at all. On Arch Linux I migrated from the SpaceFM GTK2 to the GTK3 version. I prefer the

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-05-02 20:46, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > n Thu, 02 May 2019 13:04:08 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >>On 2019-05-02 20:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I've got deep respect regarding your effort >> it would be certainly easier if we had >>more help… so if you're looking for something to do, Ralf… ☺