Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PS: Green hard disk drives

2015-08-13 Thread lukefromdc
The Green drives are considered to have buggy FIRMWARE, the 4 second spindown interval being just too short and causing huge problems is desktop use. The idle3-tools package contains a utility to allow resetting or disabling this time sudo apt-get install idle3-tools will bring this into

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Where do we get information about Ubuntu's systemd?

2015-07-29 Thread lukefromdc
This same issue also exists between Ubuntu and Debian, causing unsolvable time differences between the two on a dual booting machine. I didn't know that timedatectl was simply being ignored in Ubuntu! What I would want would be a hardware clock that the OS can't change, set to local time in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-17 Thread lukefromdc
I've played with other browsers (rekonq in particular) but never found a way to keep them from coming up unique in Panopticlick. Thus they are too easily tracked and can only be used with websites known not to contain any ads, trackers, or 3ed party analytic tools. One of the problems is that

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-17 Thread lukefromdc
I think we are looking at two different attack models here. I am looking at user tracking both by law enforcement and by commerical entities, as opposed to efforts to break root and take over a computer. The latter mode of attack, even by law enforcement, usually delivers a windows-only payload

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-16 Thread lukefromdc
Re: query.yahoo I am not sure what this is, maybe you have Yahoo set up as a search engine in Firefox? I would advise disabling either all commercial search engines or all search engines entirely. Also go into about: config and remove any Yahoo URL's you see, On 7/13/2015 at 3:02 PM, Ralf

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-16 Thread lukefromdc
Test again, make sure you do not see any Yahoo URLs come up. Given the way Firefox is going, I recommend and practice periodic cleaning of URL's from about:config. Firefox cannot connect if it knows neither IP address nor URL of something you want to keep out. More and more they are pulling in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-13 Thread lukefromdc
It works for me, will show the Hushmail keep alive when running. All it shows is the IP address, but plugging that one in brings up Hushmail. Has worked fine on both Ubuntu Vivid and current Debian Unstable. for me. On 7/13/2015 at 7:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-13 Thread lukefromdc
I look at all the packets, never realized Wireshark could resolve remote names, thus the manual plugging of all IP addresses seen into the browser. On 7/13/2015 at 3:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:02:43 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: It works

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-12 Thread lukefromdc
A weather applet itself does not spy, my concern is creating a list of all IP addresses a portable machine connects from. This is no concern on a stationary desktop, it is a serious concern on a laptop that travels to a variety of places you do not want all to appear in a list somewhere

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-12 Thread lukefromdc
Ralf and lukefromdc wants to search through the packages to establish a list of homecry software, vs. cool software? No-go: Apport, Whoopsie, all that stuff from Canonical that recommends Amazone or similar https://stallman.org/amazon.html, that spies if a user runs desktop searches etc.. Within

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-12 Thread lukefromdc
. Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:50:43 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf ...@rocketmail.com To: ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware? On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:21:34 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: Perhaps Ralf and lukefromdc

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-12 Thread lukefromdc
ANY paid VPN is not in my opinion a viable security option because it can be traced throuigh the means of payment. Tor is not paid and therefore not traceable by banking records. If you want to use a paid VPN for activity disfavored by the government where you live, I recommend using a provider

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself is to ensure that Google does not get your surfing history. If you use the safebrowsing database (phishing protection), Google gets a record of every URL you attempt to reach. This is probably a major resource used by the FBI, NSA,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
Thanks for the update about Ardour. That tells me never to install it in a network-connected machine. On 7/10/2015 at 5:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: ALL

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
The issue he reported came from safebrowsing setting a Google prefs cookie that could not be individually deleted. It can be deleted by deleting ALL cookies, returns on next use of the browser with safebrowsing enabled. The prefs cookie gets special handling, you have to delete ALL cookies to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Harvid?

2015-06-24 Thread lukefromdc
I've had to build ffmpeg from source an pack it into debs carrying fake libav versioning for well over a year to get kdenlive to work right with AVCHD files. This also requires getting mpv from a PPA because it has to be compiled for one or the other not to error out at runtime. On 6/24/2015

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wily in gedit bottom of page appears and disappears

2015-06-13 Thread lukefromdc
Gedit 3.10 as used in Ubuntu is now very old, if it has been rebuilt over gtk3.16 this may be the problem! in Gtk 3.16 the overlay scrollbars create issues with covering content and blocking editing. Blocking this requires setting the environmental variable GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 before

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wily-dvd-i386.iso

2015-06-08 Thread lukefromdc
Re: Kdenlive: The current 15.04 PPA versions work quite well, the only new bugs I have encountered is that the pending job render dialog does not display time remaining nor how long a render job too. Also, when saving a project the default .kdenlive extension name is not applied. On 6/8/2015 at

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wily-dvd-i386.iso

2015-06-08 Thread lukefromdc
This sounds like a bug in the gtk theme. My main setup is very hacked, now having migrated in place to Debian Unstable with MATE but I saw a similar issue in lightdm if my gtk theme set the default background in the wrong place. The pair of css stazas below will work, using the .background

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Missing feature desktop recording

2015-06-03 Thread lukefromdc
I've sometimes had issues with RecordMyDesktop dropping the last part of the video file. Workaround is to let it run about 1 1/2 times the amount of time you actually need to record. I was still using the Cinnamon DE when I last tested this, wonder if that was the issue? I know RecordMyDesktop

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Introduction.

2015-05-31 Thread lukefromdc
There is no root? Technically that's incorrect, there is always the root user of the system, even if the root account is disabled for terminal/console login. Root login in disabled by default in Ubuntu, though that can easily be changed. I have heard reports of people having to log in root to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Definition Discussion: Multimedia Application Categorization

2015-05-27 Thread lukefromdc
Separating non-free packages and especially those for which no source code is available is important. One reason people use Linux distros is for safety in handling sensitive data. Any FOSS multimedia is disproportionaltely likely to be chosen by activists media crew all over the world, including

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] MenuLibre

2015-05-19 Thread lukefromdc
MATE has Mozo, a fork of Alacarte but right now it seems to be broken on both Ubuntu and Debian, generating this error: File /usr/bin/mozo, line 22, in module from Mozo.MainWindow import MainWindow ImportError: No module named Mozo.MainWindow Surely this will get fixed and then there will

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Menu Layout

2015-05-19 Thread lukefromdc
The proposed new submenus https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/FeatureDefinitions/UbuntuStudioMenu are a lot clearer than the 15.04 submenus. On 5/19/2015 at 9:08 AM, Set Hallström sakrec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, First things first: Len, i think you have very good points and it's obviously

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [Blueprint ubuntustudio-video-x] ubuntustudio-video X

2015-05-12 Thread lukefromdc
Kdenlive comes with a lot of dependencies but also a hell of a lot of capability combined with a GUI not as different from the paid video editors as blender's video editing GUI. It does add a lot of dependencies, but lots of times someone ends up needing one KDE application anyway, Right now the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [Blueprint ubuntustudio-video-x] ubuntustudio-video X

2015-05-12 Thread lukefromdc
One thing about Openshot: It shares the same backend as kdenlive, but you must make sure that in a finished distro they are both depending on the same versions of melt or installing one blocks the other. I've run into this with ppa versions of kdenlive blocking openshot from installing. I was

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [Blueprint ubuntustudio-video-x] ubuntustudio-video X

2015-05-12 Thread lukefromdc
Be careful not to over-simplify, that's part of what a lot of people don't like about GNOME these days. On 5/12/2015 at 9:21 AM, ttoine tto...@ttoine.net wrote: I agree, we need more simplification. Le 12 mai 2015 12:49, Set Hallstrom sakrec...@gmail.com a écrit : While we are at it with the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [Blueprint ubuntustudio-video-x] ubuntustudio-video X

2015-05-11 Thread lukefromdc
Lightworks is not Free and not open source at this time. It also phones home for licensing just like in Windows, and without the source you do not know what it is sending. No way I'm giving a blob known to phone home access to my raw clips, given that I shoot activist news videos from places like

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Graphics Categories

2015-05-10 Thread lukefromdc
Ubuntustudio-menu 0.19 works just fine in MATE. My mate-menus package is built with gtk3 like the rest of my MATE install, but that's not one of my hacked packages so it should also work fine with regular MATE built with gtk2. No need for custom layout hackery-but that's NOT true for all DE's as

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Graphics Categories

2015-05-10 Thread lukefromdc
One fix for menu item position bugs is to manually set them up in the layout file for the MAIN menu, but this would require a package that replaces, provides, and conflicts with the normal menu package. I've done exactly this kind of editing in my own systems at need, but never bothered to pack

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [semi off-topic] Nearly done with fine detail port of modded US circa 2008 theme to Gtk 3.14 w matching Gtk2 version

2015-04-29 Thread lukefromdc
Anyone installing this with the normal GTK2 build of MATE will essentially get back the whole interface of UbuntuStudio in 2008-2010, especially if they use one of the old wallpapers with it. This will change only slightly if Ubuntu builds MATE with gtk3 in the future, though the murrine engine

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [semi off-topic] Nearly done with fine detail port of modded US circa 2008 theme to Gtk 3.14 w matching Gtk2 version

2015-04-29 Thread lukefromdc
You all are more than welcome to use any of the files I just sent you in part or in whole, any way you can. Any credit can simply go to Luke lukefro...@hushmail.com for the porting work along with credit to whoever in the team finalizes and polishes it. I will try out any test package

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Desktop Agnostic

2015-04-26 Thread lukefromdc
In addition to the desktop issue, there is another problem on the horizon: Ubuntu is beginning to transition away from using the Debian packaging format for the snappy system. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Ubuntu-15.10-DEB-To-Snap For now that will be limited to the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] LiveFS ubuntustudio/vivid/amd64 failed to build on 20150323

2015-03-23 Thread lukefromdc
This should be easy to fix. I don't recall much of anything depending on upstart-bin anymore, I didn't have any issues removing it months ago in a general system cleanup, having used systemd since May last eyar. On 3/23/2015 at 2:20 PM, CD Image cdim...@nusakan.canonical.com wrote: RUN:

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Link to gtk3.14 port of modded version of old 2008 GTK theme

2015-03-10 Thread lukefromdc
I found out today that archive.org accepts software, so I uploaded a copy of the theme package I have been playing with to them. It depends on Gtk3.14 but if people want I can backport it to Gtk3.12 with or without also reverting the blue-green color change that I have also used since 2008. This

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Nearly done with fine detail port of modded US circa 2008 theme to Gtk 3.14 w matching Gtk2 version

2015-02-02 Thread lukefromdc
Since October I have been playing again with my longstanding UbuntuStudio-Legacy Gtk theme, driven originally by the need to make it work right in a hybrid cairo-dock/MATE desttop, then by the usual round of Gtk 3 breakage when Gtk3.14 came into Vivid. In the process I've ported a lot of fine

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [semi off-topic] Nearly done with fine detail port of modded US circa 2008 theme to Gtk 3.14 w matching Gtk2 version

2015-02-02 Thread lukefromdc
Keep in mind, Ubuntu does NOT use the Gnome 3.12/Gnome 3.14 version of Gedit, it has been held back and the Gnome 3.10 version is still used even in Vivid. On 2/3/2015 at 1:03 AM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: Both windows are backdrop in this screenshot, making either the active window

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Good Night.

2015-01-08 Thread lukefromdc
I normally record sound first and dry, then apply all effects after the fact. This is the way people were advised to do it in the analog days, as it meant an effect wasn't committed irrevocably to tape. The exception was when the effect was required for the player to perform. I use a lot of

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Good Night.

2015-01-07 Thread lukefromdc
Audacity is very good for applying effects to a single soundtrack, and it has a basic multitrack editor. It's damned good for news and video soundtrack editing I've used it for that since 2004, and versions all the way back to 1.0. Ardour is another sound editor and is almost exactly the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] dbus

2014-10-23 Thread lukefromdc
LOTS of things use dbus to talk to each other, for instance Compiz and Cairo-dock can use it to interact with each other. Before disabling it you would need to ensure your entire DE is not using dbus, something like IceWM invoked directly from Startx (running X as an ordinary user) should work

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] dbus

2014-10-23 Thread lukefromdc
I made the transition myself, since I needed to port my boot time multi encrypted disk unlocker over to it, given that Ubuntu will use it in the future. I tend to make that sort of transition well in advance if it involves porting my own software. I DO see forks of systemd developing, however, if

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] PA in audio production - was: A survey if you don't mind

2014-10-22 Thread lukefromdc
One more use of Pulseaudio: pulling sound off of monetized Youtube videos as they play, by recording output from sound on a machine whose onboard sound had that capability removed my manufacturers to please Hollywood or mainstream news copythugs. Google can block the common downloaders and serve

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio controls

2014-06-13 Thread lukefromdc
Cutting off hyperthreading/AMD dual core per module will harm video editing/rendering, so that needs to be an option. Yes, I've tested this and found a significant favorable difference in video rendering time from enabling all 8 threads on the AMD FX-8120. On 6/13/2014 at 10:24 PM, Len Ovens

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Introduce New Netinstall ISO

2014-06-10 Thread lukefromdc
Most desktops don't require pulseaudio to work. Years ago it was someone on this list who recommended I use Volti for a desktop mixer. Dealing with a dependency in a desktop package on pulseaudio can be done by making an empty package thatprovides pulseaudio and seeing what breaks. In my

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] DEs and how they relate to media production use

2014-05-28 Thread lukefromdc
The new DE's are all more popular than the old ones with folks who did NOT start using computers on desktops. That means both elders using them for the first time, and younger folks whose introduction to computing was phones or tablets. When what the Windows team called NewShell was under

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] DEs and how they relate to media production use

2014-05-27 Thread lukefromdc
I have found that for video editing and news audio use nothing seems to beat the basic Win95 taskbar concept extended by multiple workspaces. GNOME2, MATE, Cinnamon LXDE, XFCE, and even IceWM all support this concept and thus are essentially used the same way once set up. Honestly,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ferature Spec Discussion: Testing

2014-05-21 Thread lukefromdc
Are package uploaders properly testing their own packages? When I wrote a one passphrase/multi volume cryptsetup interface simply to use it myself in systemd and dracut, I had to set up a dummy partition with a keyfile so I could test that option, as otherwise I could not write it into the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] kernel vs DE WAS:Re: Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

2014-05-19 Thread lukefromdc
That's exactly what I am saying. It was a pre-release version of US I was playing with, but with the move from a Raring based to a Saucy development version the rt kernel had a broken video driver (radeon r600). If that driver is working in current rt kernels that issue may have come and gone,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] kernel vs DE WAS:Re: Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

2014-05-19 Thread lukefromdc
The kernel used was the default in a pre-release Saucy DVD installer dated August 2, 2013 On 5/19/2014 at 5:16 PM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014, at 07:23 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: That's exactly what I am saying. It was a pre-release version of US I was

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Naming the metas, WAS:Re: Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

2014-05-18 Thread lukefromdc
Watch out for rt-kernel issues with 3d desktops. When I was trying to develop a metapackage for Cinnamon against Saucy, I had issues with some rt kernel versions being unable to run the 3d desktop. I would expect similar issues both with Unity and with Gnome. The work I was doing was seriously

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

2014-05-18 Thread lukefromdc
Might be best off by having US itself as a meta installable over any DE, assuming the rt-kernel used supports 3d for those DE's requiring it. That would drop into any flavor of Ubuntu, into Mint with a little hacking, maybe even could be ported to Debian if anyone really wants to go there. On

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audacity Bug

2014-02-27 Thread lukefromdc
Because of this, I have pinned Audacity at 2.0.1-1 so to block upgrades that disable ffmpeg import of audio from video or disable my plugins. I use plugins like declipper and lowpass filters a lot and cannot use any version of Audacity that disables them On 02/27/2014 at 7:44 AM, ttoine

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-13 Thread lukefromdc
Writers of applications should be discouraged from using patented anything that they could reasonably have avoided, and doubly discouraged from using non-free licenses. I agree with distros refusing to distribute software that voluntariliy uses patented algorithms or non-free licenses. After

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-13 Thread lukefromdc
I don't know of any video codec which can be played on a default install of Windows XP, a default install of say, Ubuntu Dapper, and gives any reasonable degree of compression. At any event, the whole point of free software is that I decide what to do with my computers, nobody else does. On

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-13 Thread lukefromdc
A straight PCM file for audio can be 50MB for a few minutes, many websites refuse them because of their size and on a mobile connection people can't spare the bandwidth. There are also uncompressed video files, in 1080p they are so big they cannot be played back from a single hard drive in some

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-12 Thread lukefromdc
Kdenlive assuming no issue comes along to prevent it from building. It may not get new development for a while as the developer had to take a break and next up is a huge refactoring program, but at version 0.9.6 right now it performs very well and is regarded by many as simply the best video

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-12 Thread lukefromdc
I have used Cinelerra, it has two problems: One is a clunky, harder to learn GUI. That's not too bad as many pro video editors have similar issues. The other is this: it has not kept up with changing formats produced by common cameras. I still have the version I got during Precise (2012) so I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-12 Thread lukefromdc
If web server software is included by default, that opens to door to security issues on non-webhosting machines. If I hosted my videos locally, I certainly would not use the same box on which I handle raw video clips (not all of which can be released!) to run the server. On 02/12/2014 at 6:44

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] What should be included by default in Trusty?

2014-02-12 Thread lukefromdc
Kdenlive is capable of recording from webcams, I don't have plug-in realtime cameras but if offer Firewire, ffmpeg(via /dev/vdideo0 and video4Linux2), Screen Grab, and Blackmagic recording options On 02/12/2014 at 6:49 PM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Weekly Reminder of Ubuntu Studio ToMerge packages

2014-01-18 Thread lukefromdc
Kdenlive is currently version 0.9.6-5 in Debian Unstable and at version 0.9.6-2ubuntu2 in Trusty. Since the last version common to Debian and Ubuntu in May 2013, the changes in Debian were as follows: kdenlive (0.9.6-5) unstable; urgency=low * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no changes

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Anoying/confusing things in our DE

2013-11-16 Thread lukefromdc
Panel location goes to personal taste. A lot of people have slagged Unity over the fact that the launcher bar cannot be moved to top or bottom. I like my panel on the bottom, someone who started out on Macs will probably prefer it on the top. No one location can please everyone. Shutting off

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-14 Thread lukefromdc
SImple-scan gives color scans on my machine with a networked Kodak esp5250, a notoriously difficult device to set up but for which cheap ink is easily found. I also have Xsane installed, in fact its what I usually use simply because I have always used it. I just tested simple-scan right now

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
Right now I Startpage cannot find a link to that symbol. My search skills, though, leave much to be desired. I've seen this KKK circle in bathroom graffiti, heard it discussed in person, but never seen it online. It is different, though only by a little, from the KKK's official symbol which

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
Any mistaken association with the Golden Dawn would be enough to make a LOT of enemies, most of my friends included. I've met people from Greece who have fought in street battles against the Golden Dawn at considerable risk of personal harm, even death. I have marched against the Golden Dawn

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
The S is on the far left, just right of the the vertical Ubuntu letters On 09/18/2013 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 19:06 +0100, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: The part of the image that could most easily be mistaken for the Golden Dawn

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
The part of the image that could most easily be mistaken for the Golden Dawn modified Swastika is the S in Studio. Most likely someone would not notice this until it was partially covered by an open window, then they might be furious. My advice is to change the font of the large text to remove

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
All this just means we need to exercise due caution On 09/18/2013 at 3:16 PM, Jimmy Sjölund ji...@sjolund.se wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:10 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: It's not I who made this connection, I don't easily spot subtle things. I went looking when someone else brought

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-18 Thread lukefromdc
It's not I who made this connection, I don't easily spot subtle things. I went looking when someone else brought it up. The 2007 COF issue was brought to by an African-American activist On 09/18/2013 at 3:07 PM, Jimmy Sjölund ji...@sjolund.se wrote: Hi, I think it's a bit far fetched. If you

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Default search engine

2013-09-14 Thread lukefromdc
That's a great idea! In today's world, for any distro to set Google as a default search engine places their users in danger. This is because of accidental searches when such functionality is not explicitly disabled, and Google's NSA connections. On 09/14/2013 at 2:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 - Default wallpaper proposition RC1

2013-09-09 Thread lukefromdc
USC strikes me as a replacement for GNOME app-install, it and Synaptic do two different jobs. I agree with keeping both USC or one of its competitors plus Synaptic in default installations. For an end user, Synaptic would be pretty opaque. For a hacker needing fine-grained control, USC becomes

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New for saucy

2013-08-28 Thread lukefromdc
No, I have been experimenting with an attempt to build a Cinnamon meta for US as an alternate desktop, springing from discussions in the early summer about other DE's with UbuntuStudio. I use Cinnamon myself in a personalized OS that descended from what was originally US Hardy, following rolling

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New for saucy

2013-08-28 Thread lukefromdc
I've done direct tests comparing compositing to noncompositing desktops of otherwises similar weight on machines barely able to play 720P video. Both my netbook, which uses the Intel video driver, and a Pentium 4 2GHZ with Radeon 1650 (r500 driver) will play a 720p/30fps/H264 video without

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New for saucy

2013-08-28 Thread lukefromdc
I've had great results using Cinnamon in video production, with multiple workspaces , with Kdenlive, Audacity, and Gimp all running at the same time. No idea if it will last, or if gnome-shell's classic mode (now not very customizable) will replace it, or what. One thing's for sure, I'm not going

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New for saucy

2013-08-27 Thread lukefromdc
I do not have the bandwidth available to experiment with miniisos and installing lots of packages at home unless I am already in posession of them from the laptop's cache, fetched on the road by wifi. My only experimental partition is at home, but I am on a cellular connection there, as it is

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New for saucy

2013-08-25 Thread lukefromdc
Meanwhile a lot of packages are not in Saucy's repos. A couple weeks ago, I used a then-current DVD installer to put a new version of US on my test partition, then ran it through my ongoing Cinnamon DE experiments. In order to install it from a PPA specified for Saucy, I had to install a whole

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Sources List Generator

2013-08-14 Thread lukefromdc
One things for sure: no way I'm ever letting Amazon into my /etc/apt/sources.list On 08/14/2013 at 2:41 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Instead of adding links to Amazon, IMO the substandard working conditions don't fit to Ubuntu (/uːˈbʊntuː/ oo-BUUN-too; Zulu/Xhosa

Re: Disabling pulseaudio

2013-07-29 Thread lukefromdc
Depends on hardware and purpose. I run bare alsa in my machines for utter maximum performance, no issues on desktops but laptop has to start JACK to play any mono audio, as there is no mono channel on its soundcard. If I were to send a copy of that netbook to an ordinary user, I would install

Re: new default theme

2013-07-22 Thread lukefromdc
The authors of that theme are asking users to puchase it instead of downloading it free from github. That's usually enough to keep something out of my machines. On 07/22/2013 at 8:49 AM, * w...@nwgat.net wrote: i would like to nominate Numix GTK3 Theme as the new default theme, it has alot of

Cinnamon meta update

2013-07-21 Thread lukefromdc
Cinnamon is changing a lot, will be much easier to work with by the 2.0 (saucy+ 1 month) version. As of now, backgrounds can finally be set properly in Cinnamon, removing the worst headache from my earlier experiment. The 1.9 version was not installable in my Raring image (and Saucy remains a

Re: Disabling pulseaudio

2013-07-08 Thread lukefromdc
In some cases Totem and some other GNOME applications require afirmatively setting Gstreamer preferences to use ALSA. I have forgotten exactly how that's done (did it so long ago) and suspect it has changed since the days of Lucid. On 07/08/2013 at 12:21 PM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me

Re: New icons Screen shot

2013-07-06 Thread lukefromdc
If a really large number of icons use monochrome themes, distinguishing them could get difficult in small sizes. For the Studio menu section icons this is a plus, as it can distinguish them from all the other icons in the menu. For every icon in all the menus might be another matter, however.

Re: New icons Screen shot

2013-07-04 Thread lukefromdc
The menu icons are gorgeous in Cinnamon. I dropped them into my UbuntuStudio-Legacy icon theme to properly support the new menus. The .deb will be installed into the US Raring image I have been playing with for the Meta. They go very nicely with the black GNOME menu background theme and will

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread lukefromdc
How wide a range of systems do you think that can be made to work in? There are a lot of external derivatives of Ubuntu these days (not just Mint), plus there is Debian, which Ubuntu and everything downstream from it is based. At some point I will want to try this on a Mint install, as the

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread lukefromdc
Each version of Mint (except the Debian version) uses repos from the version of Ubuntu that released about a month before it. Mint 15 Olivia get almost all its packages from Raring, Mint 14 from Quantal, etc. Mint is in effect a distro-level PPA on top of Ubuntu, from which a very few packages

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
I haven't dumped Ubuntu over Shuttleworth's capitalism, but I have dumped Unity, Software-Center and Ubuntu One and do not distribute them to my friends. This is where the focus seems to be on monetized software, CLA agreements, etc. I distribute older GNOME 2 Ubuntu, Ubuntu with gnome-shell

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
Yeah-they also reported a bunch of hardware data back to a server controlled by the owners of the project On 06/22/2013 at 2:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There has in fact been an outright malicious

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
The fact that paid services are offered, and the fact that I prefer to limit all network activity to the browser, apt-get, and wget for security reasons. I like the old model: no support for anything paid, no support for DRM of any kind, and no background network activity. On 06/22/2013 at

Re: First results from Cinnamon meta work using UbuntuStudio 13.04

2013-06-19 Thread lukefromdc
I've copied this information down and will be experimenting with it shortly On 06/19/2013 at 8:42 PM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote: On Mon, June 3, 2013 10:13 pm, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: Cinnamon and Nemo install easily from Ubuntu's own repos in 13.04, but are NOT in Saucy's

Re: Ubuntu Studio Phone !

2013-06-19 Thread lukefromdc
That may actually be a usable device in the field for radio news reporters. Assuming a good microphone or a phone having a microphone jack or even the ability to use a USB mike, that would mean a reporter has an audio recorder that can also edit audio right there in the field, and since it is

Re: Saucy a mess right now with packages being removed from repos

2013-06-15 Thread lukefromdc
The incompatable packages issue is getting so bad that Mint is apparently about to fork all of the GNOME core, all the way down to GTK3, for Cinnamon 2.0 (THIS cycle!), while installing GTK3 for applications to use. GTK3 is changing so much anything else leaves them roped to a now unpredictable

Saucy a mess right now with packages being removed from repos

2013-06-14 Thread lukefromdc
Some development work is not possible right now on Saucy. Cinnamon (which I work with) is not in repo, GTK3 just got updates that remove many DE's, even Kdenlive is not in repo right now. My main systems are Saucy with a lot of pinned packages, GTK3 among them, and my development partition for

Re: Status of new DE agnostic menu tests

2013-06-11 Thread lukefromdc
GNOME 3.6 does not seem to give ANY standard menu anymore, instead giving a search box only that will then pull up menu options. I don't see any way to put US menus in that unless it was an extension that added a true menu like Frippery does. That would be hell to mantain, given the constant

Re: Ubuntu Studio Phone !

2013-06-11 Thread lukefromdc
That may actually be a usable device in the field for radio news reporters. Assuming a good microphone or a phone having a microphone jack or even the ability to use a USB mike, that would mean a reporter has an audio recorder that can also edit audio right there in the field, and since it is

Re: ? Cinnamon ?

2013-06-10 Thread lukefromdc
There is an effort underway to make US usable with alternate desktops. I use Cinnamon and am working on that part of the project, hoping to ultimately create a metapackage that would allow Cinnamon to be installed into an existing US install by any user. Similar efforts for KDE, GNOME, Unity,

Status of new DE agnostic menu tests

2013-06-10 Thread lukefromdc
I've now tested the new menu package with cairo-dock and with the Frippery menus in gnome-shell 3.6. In both cases, the US menus were mixed alphabetically with the others, which was NOT the case in Cinnamon. On 06/09/2013 at 9:29 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: The new menu package works fine

Re: Cinnamon DE

2013-06-09 Thread lukefromdc
I just downloaded the package and saved the PPA details. I will try it shortly, and if it works it will go in my main OS as well as the test one I am working on with the intention of developing a metapackage for cinnamon. In fact, this is the first big step if it works. The other is the theme

Re: Cinnamon DE

2013-06-09 Thread lukefromdc
The new menu package works fine in Cinnamon. I tested it both with the main Cinnamon menu applet and with a better-performing alternate menu applet I normally use. The UbuntuStudio menus come up fine either way. Your menu package now goes into all my production machines as well as the partition I

Re: Youtube channel created for Ubuntu Studio - contributors needed to submit tutorials

2013-06-05 Thread lukefromdc
About backing music: Google scans all videos uploaded to Youtube for backing music for the RIAA and publishers. They then offer the copythugs the options to silence soundtracks, put ads on the videos, track users, or do nothing. There is no legal requirement for them to do this, as the safe harbor

Re: Video players

2013-06-02 Thread lukefromdc
One more thing about Xine: In a default install of Ubuntustudio, I was able to play H264/mp4 video in Xine without installing extra codecs, thanks to the ffmpeg version used. If there is a policy that gstreamer-ffmpeg can't be shipped by default but the underlying ffmpeg can be, that's

Re: Multiple DE project

2013-05-28 Thread lukefromdc
I have submitted a request to joint this-but any emails will go to my old, deactivated Hotmail account and bounce. On 05/28/2013 at 4:20 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: I set up a new temporary project for multiple DEs https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-multiple-de. It's owned by

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