[Bug 283316] Re: CD-ROM tray closes automatically after eject

2022-03-04 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Upgrading from Kubuntu 16.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS introduced this bug into my system, so I've gotten in the habit of pressing the physical Open button just as the tray starts to close again, after which it doesn't try a second time. My hypothesis is that it's trying to read the drive after it opens, w

[Bug 1949291] [NEW] LibreOffice has started displaying a donation nag

2021-10-31 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: I just opened up a spreadsheet (technically a CSV file, but who's counting), to discover LibreOffice displaying an eye-catching blue "Your donations support our worldwide community." banner just below the toolbars and about a toolbar and a half tall. This irritating nag is ap

[Bug 1946920] Re: Default Applications > Web Browser is non-functional

2021-10-13 Thread Stephan Sokolow
I haven't managed to fix the GUI, but I did manage to fix the rest of the dysfunction by manually editing `mimeapps.list` and running `kbuildsycoca5`. My best guess is that, when the value in lines like `x-scheme- handler/http=firefox.desktop;` doesn't exist, KDE synthesizes a fallback chain, and

[Bug 1946920] [NEW] Default Applications > Web Browser is non-functional

2021-10-13 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Release:20.04 plasma-desktop: Installed: 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages

[Bug 1943998] [NEW] `unar` and `lsar -t` sometimes segfault on certain files

2021-09-17 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: While trying to unpack some .ARC files from a 1980s "shareware of the month"-style 5.25" floppy disk, I got `lsar -t` to segfault and then `unar`. I was unable to trigger it in a brand new build made from a fresh download of the upstream TheUnarchiverSource.zip archive, which

[Bug 418242] Re: Incorrect call to output plugins (with persistent error message) on copy

2017-04-04 Thread Stephan Sokolow
JDownloader was just updated to use the content type negotiation properly, so it shouldn't be affected anymore. (Before, it would use a dumb "fetch all" approach to clipboard monitoring but a recent update switched to properly querying available content types, and then only requesting the ones it

[Bug 1497516] [NEW] LIRC causes hard kernel freezes every ~26 hours

2015-09-19 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: After installing LIRC for my Streamzap IR remote, I began to experience a hard kernel freeze (no blinking keyboard LEDs and kdump wouldn't trigger) roughly every 24 to 26 hours. Removing LIRC restored system stability. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: lir

[Bug 1240957] Re: Scrolling behaviour and window focus has changed and is inconsistent

2015-07-25 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Still affecting KDE users on 14.04 LTS. Here's a workaround I found on the KDE bug tracker: cat > ~/.kde/env/fix_gtk3.sh << EOF #!/bin/sh export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 EOF chmod +x ~/.kde/env/fix_gtk3.sh Source: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348270#c26 ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Track

[Bug 1464507] [NEW] Up/Down arrows discard cursor position in Leadpad 0.8.18.1

2015-06-11 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document large enough to be scrollable 2. Click to place the cursor 3. Scroll away 4. Tap ↑↓ Expected behaviour: The window should snap back to a scroll position containing the place which the cursor was left at Actual behaviour: The cursor app

[Bug 1452204] [NEW] evdev device for retro-bit NES controller adapter isn't set up as a joystick

2015-05-06 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: Games which rely on SDL2 (and tools like antimicro) can't see the retro- bit NES controller adapter by default because SDL2 has dropped support for the old /dev/input/jsX API and udev lacks a rule to permission the /dev/input/eventX node appropriately and set the ID_INPUT_JOYS

[Bug 635400] Re: vte widget allows window to expand but not shrink

2015-04-25 Thread Stephan Sokolow
This is still a problem on 14.04 LTS in 2015. Can we get the status changed back to New? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635400 Title: vte widget allows window to expand but not shrink

[Bug 1378752] Re: Crackling in PulseAudio when using src-linear or src-sinc-fastest resamplers with 22050Hz audio

2014-10-08 Thread Stephan Sokolow
** Description changed: - On my system, I had problems with both excess CPU usage and tried to - resolve them by using a simpler resampling algorithm. However, that - resulted in crackling audio from DOSBox and Windows 3.1 games running - under Wine 1.2.x. + On my system, I had problems with exces

[Bug 1378752] [NEW] Crackling in PulseAudio when using src-linear or src-sinc-fastest resamplers with 22050Hz audio

2014-10-08 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: On my system, I had problems with both excess CPU usage and tried to resolve them by using a simpler resampling algorithm. However, that resulted in crackling audio from DOSBox and Windows 3.1 games running under Wine 1.2.x. (Both are configured to output audio at 22050Hz, wi

[Bug 1378679] [NEW] pavucontrol forces pulseaudio process to consume 10% CPU at minimum

2014-10-08 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Public bug reported: Normally, the pulseaudio process consumes 0% CPU when no audio is playing and, by selecting a more lightweight resampling algorithm, can be configured to consume any of these amounts of CPU on my AthlonII X2 270: * 0% (no audio playing) * 2% (one audio stream) * 3% (one audio

[Bug 207135] Re: pulseaudio uses too much CPU

2014-10-03 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Lubuntu 14.04. Despite using src-linear, it consumes 6% when mixing Audacious and Wine but shoots up to 10-12% CPU when padevchooser is open. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207135 Titl

[Bug 30378] Re: Joystick activity does not stop the screensaver

2014-02-19 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@10: It shouldn't. Expecting every game, past present and future (including closed-source ones where the developers bundled a copy of everything except libc and libGL to avoid having to maintain them) to special-case joysticks on Linux is insanity. This disagreement over approach reminds me of a B

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-10-18 Thread Stephan Sokolow
It's possible I misinterpreted things. I have no problem with experimental prototypes being kept secret when there's no guarantee that they'll ever make it into a release and more options for community collaboration are always good. My only problem with it is that I got the impression Shuttlewort

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-10-18 Thread Stephan Sokolow
I get the impression Shuttleworth might have seen our response to this ill-designed feature as the last straw: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/138200-key-parts-of-ubuntu-13-04 -will-be-developed-in-secret-to-escape-the-critics-ire -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-10-12 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Ugh. Correction: "as opt-out rather than opt-in" I really need to stop checking my e-mail just before I go to bed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054776 Title: Don't include remote

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-10-12 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Mario, that doesn't address a lot of the concerns. If the commenters on the Mozilla bug I previously mentioned are to be believed, you're on legally shaky ground in Germany just sending the Home lens searches over the web as opt-in rather than opt-out, regardless of how you encrypt them and whethe

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-25 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Apparently Amazon DOES get your IP address and enough data to statistically infer your query when a search is performed. http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/09/25/technical-diagram-of-how-unity- shopping-lens-likely-works -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-24 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Oh, I forgot to mention. The reason I trust the "other apps you might want to install" portion of the home lens is that I trusted it to be too resource-intensive and pointless to send every query on every user's computer to a remote server when each of them had a perfectly good APT package cache.

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-24 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Here's a cross-post of my comment on Jono Bacon's blog, for convenience and in case it fails moderation: I have several questions that have yet to be answered: One, why did the shopping lens get an "executive decision" rush pass on the feature freeze process with apparently no thought put into th

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@blackwool: The installer isn't as polished, but you could always try Debian in VirtualBox to see if it meets your needs. They're what Ubuntu's based on and they have a long history of erring on the side of freedom and respect for the user, even if that means a more manual process for installing no

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@Thomas Mashos: I mean that they mismanaged the announcement from the beginning. They should have taken some time to consider how different sections of their user base might react to their initial announcement and, obviously, they either didn't or did a poor job of it. Also, Shuttleworth has alrea

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@Thomas Mashos: I never claimed heat was an indicator of anything but interest. I was simply pointing out that, when not being hidden from the listing by "Status: Invalid" this went from brand new to the top 100 in under 24 hours, which means that, whether or not it's a bad design choice, the PR wa

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
It occurs to me that this is turning out to be like when Google Chrome ditched "http://"; in the address bar. They even opened a bug to "solicit feedback" but, when people came out of the woodwork to give good reasons for keeping it and kept asking them to give their own rationale for removing it o

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@Jim: Marking it invalid doesn't change the fact that, were it not marked invalid, it'd now be on the second page of results for all Ubuntu bugs sorted from most to least heat. All that in only 22 hours generally implies that, if nothing else, you need to rethink your PR strategy for a feature.

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
@18: Perhaps more impressive, it's already result number 316 of 99550 (and climbing) when sorting the bug list for the entire Ubuntu launchpad project by heat. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-23 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Despite being a Canadian, I have no familiarity with PIPEDA, but I remember seeing comments on a Firefox bug that suggests German privacy law may be even more strict. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1054776] Re: Don't include remote searches in the home lens

2012-09-22 Thread Stephan Sokolow
I don't know who marked this as a duplicate of bug 1054741 but it's not. The reverse may be true, but "sending local searches to a remote server should be opt-in" is definitely not a subordinate duplicate of "you forgot to update the privacy policy to mention it" -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 931387] Re: Elementary prevents pidgin from showing status in the tray

2012-03-05 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Hmm. I was pulling an accidental all-nighter when I read that so I'm not sure whether I missed those or just somehow confused the Ubuntu-specific "-panel" with the icons names as a whole. Either way, thanks for correcting me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 931387] Re: Elementary prevents pidgin from showing status in the tray

2012-03-05 Thread Stephan Sokolow
Here's the Pidgin bug. If you and the Pidgin devs can't come to an agreement on how to move forward, on your heads be it. http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14981 ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #14981 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14981 -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 931387] Re: Elementary prevents pidgin from showing status in the tray

2012-03-04 Thread Stephan Sokolow
I can try, but I really don't want to end up caught between you guys if they decide to take issue with standardizing icon names from an Ubuntu- specific technology that doesn't even run in non-mainline DEs like LXDE. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 931387] Re: Elementary prevents pidgin from showing status in the tray

2012-02-13 Thread Stephan Sokolow
** Attachment added: "A local copy of the linked script in case something happens to it" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931387/+attachment/2735641/+files/fix_pidgin_elementary.py ** Also affects: elementary-icon-theme (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received thi