Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

2012-09-19 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 19.09.2012 09:40, schrieb Anne Nicolas: Hi there So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for final release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we need to take some decisions. Here are some prerequisites I can see for what I can read in comments and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Hear, hear usage

2012-01-13 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 13.01.2012 09:01, schrieb Oliver Burger: Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 22:43:54 schrieb Florian Hubold: On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: As far as I understand, that is a common British thing to do when one agree with the current speaker. Well, directly translating this

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-29 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 29.11.2011 14:17, schrieb Thomas Backlund: Robert Fox skrev 29.11.2011 13:24: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:20 +0100, nicolas vigier wrote: You are free to try to help teamviewer fix their package to make it work on Mageia, you can already do it now, there's no need to have a voting system to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

2011-07-06 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 06.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Ahmad Samir: On 6 July 2011 13:58, Romain d'Alvernyrdalve...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornathmolc...@googlemail.com wrote: If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such packages which were in PLF we made a clear

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

2011-06-16 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 16.06.2011 08:46, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/6/16 Thorsten van Liltv...@gmx.de: Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011, 02:47:16 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: Btw: after latest updates I don't have the nice blue background in Gnome, it is somehow distorted (blue but with lighter blue stripes, You

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

2011-06-16 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 16.06.2011 09:27, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/6/16 Thorsten van Liltv...@gmx.de: Am 16.06.2011 08:46, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/6/16 Thorsten van Liltv...@gmx.de: Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011, 02:47:16 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: Btw: after latest updates I don't have the nice

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

2011-06-16 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011, 19:21:40 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: I'm using KDM as well, but the problem is not the restart of the x server - it is the unavailability of a shutdown/restart dialogue in the menue, task bar, systray, wherever, which is annoying. Yeah. I noticed that too. There is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

2011-06-15 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011, 10:44:23 schrieb JA Magallón: if I select System settings o launch firefox, immediately I get a fullscreen error about something went wrong, plz logout and in again Same for me two days back. Since yesterday it works relatively well. I get the mentioned error right

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

2011-06-15 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011, 02:47:16 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: Btw: after latest updates I don't have the nice blue background in Gnome, it is somehow distorted (blue but with lighter blue stripes, You mean like this? http://galleries.stefan-horning.de/d/7704-2/GNOME3-Info-o.png Greetings,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-14 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 14.06.2011 08:48, schrieb Oliver Burger: Thorsten van Lil tv...@gmx.de schrieb am 14.06.2011 An Upgrade is nearly the same, than reinstalling. The difference is only, that you can use your system in the mean time and you are not forced to install the missing packages. And you keep all

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-14 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 14.06.2011 15:43, schrieb Michael Scherer: Yes, but Backports are not officially supported and we wouldn't advice new users to backports normally. I am sorry, but I fail to follow your reasoning. What I meant is: We can't tell the user to use the backports and if he runs in trouble we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-14 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 14.06.2011 17:02, schrieb Anne nicolas: I do not understand what people are saying about backports being unsupported. IMHO we should either have backports that are supported, with fixes for security issues and important bugs, or no backports. I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-14 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2011, 19:33:00 schrieb Jehan Pagès: So basically what people call a light rolling release in this thread is a rolling release where packages are tested and integrated? And what you call a (non-light) rolling release is a development rolling release (cooker, cauldron…)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-13 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Sonntag, 12. Juni 2011, 22:46:33 schrieb Michael Scherer: Proposal 1: 6 months release cycle - 12 months life cycle ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva 2010.1 Mandriva != 2006.0 ) Proposal 2: 9 months release cycle - 18 months life cycle ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

2011-06-13 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am Montag, 13. Juni 2011, 23:28:04 schrieb Renaud MICHEL: On lundi 13 juin 2011 at 23:06, Thorsten van Lil wrote : A rolling release has following advantages: 1. the distribution is always up to date (also hardware support) 2. no re-install over and over again I don't get it why people

Re: [Mageia-dev] REBUILD REQUEST : drakx-net

2011-05-26 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.05.2011 11:02, schrieb Anne nicolas: 2011/5/24 Oliver Burgeroliver@googlemail.com: For fixing a rather strange German translation (already fixed in svn), please rebuild drakx-net before build of final ISOs. I cannot see any changes since last release... But there is one. Commit

Re: [Mageia-dev] R: Re: Live CDs needed - disperate magician

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 19.04.2011 11:10, schrieb marcello.a...@alice.it: i mean that the installation process failed to install a lot of packages so the system results unusable. i don't know how report this bug, if you have some ideas i'm ready to help you to fix this issue. Maybe the image is corrupt? Have you

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release mageia-theme-1.5.0.5-1.mga1

2011-03-31 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 31.03.2011 12:36, schrieb Donald Stewart: Which background images were updated? Donald. This should be the new plymouth theme and the modified images for gfxboot and plymouth (both without the alpha label).

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release mageia-theme-1.5.0.5-1.mga1

2011-03-31 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 31.03.2011 13:03, schrieb Colin Guthrie: I wonder if I'm the only one who just wants to see a very dark blue background with the pot in the middle of the screen in an etched out style (e.g. reverse drop shadow) with the bubbles animated above it as it boots. I think we should stay with the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-25 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 25.03.2011 09:23, schrieb Buchan Milne: Maybe for you. Maybe for me. But, the*real* question is, would this discourage some of our target market from using our distribution. IOW, we*must* get community input (after documenting some proposals). Maybe we should postpone this question. Let

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 11:53, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : What about a DVD including non-free packages but has the option to not install them? I think the majority of the users don't care that much about proprietary issues, they just need them

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub version

2011-03-21 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 21.03.2011 14:47, schrieb Stefano Negro: I am trying to install mageia on the same disk of ubuntu and I wonder why they have a different version on grub. I have seen version 1 in mageia and 2 in ubuntu. If i's the only option to configure manually the grub of ubuntu to point to the kernel of

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packages cannot be searched in MCC

2011-03-15 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 15.03.2011 17:10, schrieb Thomas Spuhler: When searching for a package in MCC none shows. https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificorder=relevance+descbug_status=__all__product=content=search You are not the first one, that discovered this bug ;) As a workaround, you can

Re: [Mageia-dev] 26/01/2011 meeting

2011-01-26 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 26.01.2011 16:35, schrieb Marcello Anni: As pointed out several times (and will be underlined in all announcements) this Alpha 1 is - NOT a stable release - NOT for the average user, it's a developper release - NOT ready for everyday use -- wobo in fact, a livecd version allow to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion-Locales management for One (or Live) Cd releases

2010-10-25 Thread Thorsten van Lil
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mageia-dev-boun...@mageia.org [mailto:mageia-dev-boun...@mageia.org] Im Auftrag von atilla ontas I propose to implement an Ubuntu like, install time or in live enviroment language packs installing. How this should work? What do you think? As I