Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-08 Thread Adrian Roman
they don't like their users using them), they are controlling jerks. Sounds better, doesn't it? -- Support Wikipedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Holger Berndt bern...@gmx.de wrote: @Adrian Roman: what you say below about being the controlling

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-07 Thread Adrian Roman
Holger - what you say below about being the controlling jerk - I consider that an insult. If you don't want to change the way the daemon currently works because that's your project and you do as you please without regard for (at least some of) the users' satisfaction with it, fine, I can

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

2011-06-06 Thread Adrian Roman
Still, it's good to see more people arguing the merits for this bug report. It means we're not crazy. Sent from my Android powered HTC Desire smartphone. On Jun 6, 2011 7:30 PM, Hugh Morris h...@salsacardiff.com wrote: Don't forget, people, this bug has been moot for a long time, thanks to

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Roman
The bug has been fixed and the fix has been incorporated into every version of the kernel since 2.6.32. It can be closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 Title: Sluggish

Re: [Bug 453605] Re: Make default mount umasks configurable

2010-05-13 Thread Adrian Roman
I've tried the solution suggested above but when I stick the NTFS USB drive in, it says it can't mount it and point to this bit of documentation: Unprivileged block device mounts work only if all the below requirements are met: 1. ntfs-3g is compiled with integrated FUSE support 2. the

Re: [Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-15 Thread Adrian Roman
You can get the latest source of the original Rhythmbox here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.12/rhythmbox-0.12.8.tar.bz2 Unpack it somewhere, then: sudo apt-get build-dep rhythmbox and you will have all the libraries needed to build it. Go to the directory where you unpacked

[Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Roman
** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New -- Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Roman
In version 0.12.5 which was shipped with Karmic, left clicking would show / hide the main window while right clicking would show a context menu. This is consistent with the rest of the tray icons in both Karmic and Lucid; all of them show the context menu on right click, and offer some quick

[Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Roman
Here are the icons I use: - Date time applet: right click shows help about preferences menu, left click shows / hides calendar and locations; - NM applet: right click shows networking options (wired vs. wireless, edit connections, connection info, about); left click shows / hides connections

Re: [Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Roman
So for the next cycle, we can expect right click and middle click functionality to be removed for all applets! Great! I can hardly wait. I guess I'll be going back to Fedora, before Ubuntu becomes the next Apple. -- Support Wikipedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en

Re: [Bug 549962] Re: Rhythmbox tray behaviour doesn't make sense

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Roman
Yeah, I forgot all about GNOME 3 - but that makes the changes in the current (LTS) release even more pointless. Anyway - thanks for the prompt replies. I seriously appreciate it. -- Support Wikipedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en http://volunteer.wikimedia.org/ -- DRM 'manages

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-29 Thread Adrian Roman
Just as a humble request - for whoever gets to read this thread. If you came here because you were bugged by the behavior of notify-osd ignoring expire-timeouts, please post on this thread - maybe one day we'll be enough people to get the developers thinking. -- Support Wikipedia:

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-25 Thread Adrian Roman
distribution. -- Support Wikipedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en http://volunteer.wikimedia.org/ -- DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom'. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Holger Berndt bern...@gmx.de wrote: @Adrian Roman: Weird analogy. You can do the same

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-23 Thread Adrian Roman
@Holger on Ayatana That's an interesting philosophy for a linux distribution, but bear in mind that in that case, they did not delete all the other packages from the repository. If you don't like the default application shipped with the Ubuntu install CD, you can very well go ahead and install

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-23 Thread Adrian Roman
@ Krzysztof: As far as I'm concerned, that would solve my problem; but bear in mind that the issue here is not that my personal problem with notify-osd needs to be solved. Other people may want longer notifications on the screen. Same with replace and merge. The issue here is that the developers

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-19 Thread Adrian Roman
@Sebastien: You should maybe come with concrete example of things that the current design is limiting which would benefit users This thread is full of examples! That you consider them irrelevant, that's a different story, but all these people that have written on this thread have a valid (for

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-18 Thread Adrian Roman
The developers of notify-osd have spoken clearly in the bug report. They are not interested in providing this feature. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24001/ So, stop dreaming and let Ubuntu go the MS and Apple way. Do you want freedom? Fork and make your own Ubuntu derivative. Otherwise shut

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2010-03-14 Thread Adrian Roman
Submitted as http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24001/ However, This idea is awaiting moderator approval before going to the popular ideas area. Let's see if it doesn't get rejected by a moderator. -- Support Wikipedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en

Re: [Bug 394217] Re: gnome-settings-daemon does not display notification bubbles on volume changes

2009-12-02 Thread Adrian Roman
I have to admit I haven't figured out what the most appropriate way of dealing with this is, but from a usability point of view it seems natural that any change of the volume that is not caused by the volume slider should be presented in a notification bubble. As far as I am concerned, if there's

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-12-02 Thread Adrian Roman
MPT: [...] Anyway, I have already suggested that you report a bug about the man page; if you do that it's more likely to get fixed than if you complain about it (even twice) in the comments of a bug report about a different package. Initially I was going to report a bug about the man page, but in

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-11-24 Thread Adrian Roman
Tested the patch - works great here! -- Support Wikipedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/en http://volunteer.wikimedia.org/ -- DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom'. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Ankur Nayak ankur@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-11-23 Thread Adrian Roman
than the current 10, which should be much less annoying. Adrian Roman, this has little if anything to do with users' freedom to alter the environment, because the timeout parameter is for application developers, not end users. We think we can set more consistent and reliable durations

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-11-23 Thread Adrian Roman
Ankur, please post the patch here; we'll be able to validate that it works and it will serve whoever else feels encumbered by the current state of affairs. MPT: I seriously appreciate the work involved in creating a consistent framework for notifications. It's just that you went only one step too

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-10-03 Thread Adrian Roman
@Matthew Paul Thomas: I completely disagree with your arguments. As a more philosophical explanation, if I wanted somebody to tell me how the software should work for me, I could go use Windows. The spirit of free software is exactly this, to enable users' freedom to alter the environment they

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-09-22 Thread Adrian Roman
That's just my signature below, it has nothing to do with the bug report - sorry for the confusion. I'll try to remember to delete it, starting with the next message I send. I'll open a bug on libnotify as requested, but I really would prefer it if we could just specify the timeout instead of

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-09-11 Thread Adrian Roman
This may be a little dumb, but as I look at the man page for notify-send, it specifies a -t parameter, and I don't see the reason why that parameter exists without me having the possibility to use it. Is there any way that I could use that parameter? Can I choose to use notify-send with something

Re: [Bug 362203] Re: Skype high CPU use on 9.04 using pulse (and audio recording/sending delay 5sec)

2009-09-10 Thread Adrian Roman
Same here. DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom'. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Haomin Wen wen1...@gmail.com wrote: Has any one tried skype 2.1 beta. It fixed most problems with skype on my computer, including this one. On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Sergiy

Re: [Bug 362203] Re: Skype high CPU use on 9.04 using pulse (and audio recording/sending delay 5sec)

2009-07-30 Thread Adrian Roman
Does anybody know if this problem is fixed in Karmic? DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom'. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Jay Brosius zephyrgale38-g...@yahoo.comwrote: I have this very annoying problem ever since I upgraded Intrepid to Jaunty. I use Skype a

Re: [Bug 362203] Re: Skype high CPU use on 9.04 using pulse (and audio recording/sending delay 5sec)

2009-07-07 Thread Adrian Roman
nohz=off didn't do anything for me. I'm running kernel 2.6.30, built by me on my laptop. DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom'. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Sergiy Zuban s.zu...@gmail.com wrote: However 2.6.30-020630-generic + disabled tickless kernel feature

[Bug 394217] Re: gnome-settings-daemon does not display notification bubbles on volume changes

2009-07-01 Thread Adrian Roman
Per the discussion with Matthew, Mirco should be the correct assignee for this bug report. ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Mirco Müller (macslow) -- gnome-settings-daemon does not display notification bubbles on volume changes

[Bug 394217] [NEW] gnome-settings-daemon does not display notification bubbles on volume changes

2009-07-01 Thread Adrian Roman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon According to a discussion with Matthew Paul Thomas, when changing the volume from a script, gnome-settings-daemon should display the corresponding notification bubble. The script I am using relies on amixer to change the volume. It

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-06-29 Thread Adrian Roman
The manual page of the notify-send program specifies: [...] SYNOPSIS notify-send [OPTIONS] summary [body] DESCRIPTION [...] OPTIONS [...] -t, --expire-time=TIME Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification. [...] If the expiration time

Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-06-27 Thread Adrian Roman
As I understand the code, the expire_timeout variable is first initialized with a default, then the same value is used later to define an array and then to set the expiration timeout for the notification. I don't see any code that reads the notification timeout from the command line and sets the

[Bug 390508] [NEW] notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

2009-06-21 Thread Adrian Roman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libnotify-bin adyro...@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 9.04 Release:9.04 adyro...@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyro...@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-bin libnotify-bin:

[Bug 341142] Re: Contact list doesn't always come on top

2009-06-15 Thread Adrian Roman
The same problem here, with the buddy list button appearing in the panels on all workspaces (although the window only shows where I have it open). If I click the button on the panel, the workspace changes to the one where the window is open, but I have having the button there if the window is not

Re: [Bug 362203] Re: Skype high CPU use on 9.04 using pulse (and audio recording/sending delay 5sec)

2009-05-27 Thread Adrian Roman
I hate this bug just as much as anybody else, but let's not forget this is a _bug report_ for _pulse audio_. It's not a forum, not necessarily a discussion thread, and not using pulse audio is a solution, but not a workaround. Having said that, I am also very interested in find out if there's any

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2009-05-24 Thread Adrian Roman
A patch was submitted for the upstream bug report. I have tested it on 2.6.30-rc7 and it seems to work just fine. The submitter also tested it on 2.6.28 and says it works ok. See: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9637 and

[Bug 23227] Re: Laptop Special keys do not work on Sony Vaio VGN-A190

2009-04-06 Thread Adrian Roman
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-A197VP with the same keys and the same behavior as described above, using Jaunty. Didn't work with Intrepid and Hardy either. Just confirming the problem is still present in the latest Ubuntu release. -- Laptop Special keys do not work on Sony Vaio VGN-A190

Re: [Bug 270460] Re: No list of Samba shares created with Nautilus

2008-09-16 Thread Adrian Roman
I would like to insist on the merits of this incident report, in the hopes of labeling it as a (perhaps minor) bug. This is not necessarily about wishing for some new functionality; this is about not being able to remove a share from the network, which, although unlikely to happen very often,

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2008-09-14 Thread Adrian Roman
On linux kernel 2.6.27-2 shipped with Intreprid Ibex 8.10 Alpha 5 the issue remains. Same on vanilla linux kernel 2.6.26.5. It's not clear to me if I should open a new bug on this new kernel version, or if that remark was valid only for new (other) issues that I might notice on these newer

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2008-06-23 Thread Adrian Roman
As of yesterday, June 22nd 2008, with kernels 2.6.24-19-generic (shipped with Ubuntu 8.04) and 2.6.25.7 (vanilla), the problem is still present. -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 213206] Re: SoundMAX AD1988B- no digital audio

2008-05-09 Thread Adrian Roman
I have the same issue on a system with an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Any idea on when this may be fixed? Or any workarounds? Thanks. Adrian -- SoundMAX AD1988B- no digital audio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213206 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Roman
** Attachment added: version.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11069862/version.log -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Roman
** Attachment added: dmesg.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11069868/dmesg.log -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Roman
** Attachment added: lspci-vvnn.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11069899/lspci-vvnn.log -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Roman
Did everything as requested. ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #9637 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9637 ** Also affects: linux via http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9637 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote

Re: [Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-11 Thread Adrian Roman
Leann, I managed to perform the test today, and the bug can be reproduced on the latest development kernel as well. I went through the numeric keys on the remote control, a couple of times, from 1 to 9 followed by 0 (so the 10 digit keys). After each round I pressed enter on the keyboard to

Re: [Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-12-03 Thread Adrian Roman
Hi Leann, The bug is still applicable for the 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release, and also for the latest stable kernel (installed as described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311158 - Master Kernel Thread). I also tried to apply all the patches from Fedora's kernel to Ubuntu's, but

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-09-26 Thread Adrian Roman
Assigning to ubuntu-kernel-team. Can anybody take a look? Thanks. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug

[Bug 138380] Re: Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian Roman
I assume this would be a kernel source issue... ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = linux-source-2.6.22 -- Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 138380] Sluggish behaviour with cx88 remote control

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian Roman
Public bug reported: I'm using an Winfast TV2000XP Expert tuner card. I configured the remote control to work with lirc, with the dev/input driver. And although it does work, I sometimes have to press a key on the remote control 7 times before it actually does what it was supposed to do. Usually