Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread justin randell
Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux) students. kde's kompare is very nice for this. cheers justin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: h

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Lake
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux) students. Try tkdiff. It can create a merge file from two files. Maybe it might do what you want. I find fldiff very good as its fast and

[SLUG] Ubuntu and 5.1 surround sound

2006-06-19 Thread Chris MacKenzie
Hi All, Has onyone managed to get 5.1 surround sound working in Dapper with an SB Live card ? I just can't seem to get it right and there are no usefull hints on google ;-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/fa

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Hal Ashburner
justin randell wrote: >> Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use >> vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux) >> students. > > kde's kompare is very nice for this. Meld is very good. Don't know how it compares to kompare or kdiff3, tkdiff etc. Mel

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Lake
Hal Ashburner wrote: Meld is very good. Don't know how it compares to kompare or kdiff3, tkdiff etc. Meld is my idea of awesome software, fwiw. Poweful + easy to use. I looked it up this morning after an earlier recomendation. Yes it would be nice but... I'm not going to risk it. For my PPC it

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: > On a different topic, I had a play with meld and kdiff3. Both only seem > to allow you to merge *all* differences from one file to another, not > allowing you to choose differences line-by-line. Have a look at mgdiff (its in Debian and Ubuntu). I've added a couple of feat

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Have a look at mgdiff (its in Debian and Ubuntu). One thing, the default colours in mgdiff are truely horrid. I fix this in my .Xdefaults file using: mgdiff.Geometry:950x600+20+20 mgdiff.*Background: darkgray mgdiff.*t

[SLUG] Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-19 Thread Leslie Katz
Thanks very much, James, for your replies on the above subject. This may well induce groans all round, but my old eyes have difficulty reading text on a monitor at the maximum resolution the monitor manufacturer claims I can get with my new monitor (1280x1024). So, once I was able to get the m

[SLUG] Re: Catch 22 with monitor resolution in Fedora?

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Buxton
Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > This may well induce groans all round, but my old eyes have difficulty > reading text on a monitor at the maximum resolution the monitor > manufacturer claims I can get with my new monitor (1280x1024). So, once > I was able to get

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Phil Scarratt
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On a different topic, I had a play with meld and kdiff3. Both only seem to allow you to merge *all* differences from one file to another, not allowing you to choose differences line-by-line. (You can manually copy and paste lines, but not easily move one line of diffs from o

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:06:57PM +1000, justin randell wrote: > >Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use > >vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux) > >students. > > kde's kompare is very nice for this. * On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:21:24PM +

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Martin Visser
That looks like a packaging bug - I'd say they have far too specific dependencies in your distro (is it Debian or Ubuntu?) File a bug report when you get a chance. On 6/19/06, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hal Ashburner wrote: > Meld is very good. Don't know how it compares to kompare

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Lake
Martin Visser wrote: That looks like a packaging bug - I'd say they have far too specific dependencies in your distro (is it Debian or Ubuntu?) Debian testing. File a bug report when you get a chance. On 6/19/06, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hal Ashburner wrote: > Meld is very g