Fwd: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly

2006-02-15 Thread Sebastien Estienne
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sebastien Estienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 15, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly To: Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/15/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, February 14, 2006 21:14, Sebastien

Re: Fwd: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly

2006-02-15 Thread Vincent Untz
On Wed, February 15, 2006 10:36, Sebastien Estienne wrote: I don't know why we would need to remove the wifi part of network-admin, though... not only removing the wifi part, but also the dynamic ip part. the reason is that network-manager handle these 2 tasks better than network-admin does.

Logout dialog

2006-02-15 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! People seem to like the logout dialog (the one you get by clicking, in dapper, on the top-right panel applet), and I had some good feedback about it. Very recently, the screen fading was restored. Moreover, some seem to suggest that we add the Lock screen button into this dialog. My

Large high-contrast mouse cursors

2006-02-15 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
With the high-visibility boot option on the Live CD we should include a large cursor theme (as well as the high contrast theme). So I've tried the 'big-cursor' package, which doesn't seem to do anything (no new cursors appear in Mouse Preferences - Pointers (it installs a cursor font -- is

Re: Logout dialog

2006-02-15 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Manu Cornet wrote: What do you guys think about the current dialog ? About adding lock screen to it ? About my layout suggestion ? OK, so I'm among those who think 6 options is already too many :) I do like your nice icons (though there are perhaps too many different and large icons to fit

RE: Large high-contrast mouse cursors

2006-02-15 Thread Jason Grieves
Big cursors tested and worked in Dapper, I guess I didn't get this on a wiki. They have been replaced as the old cursors in X were not dynamic and required a restart of X to appear. Big-cursor package creates the new cursor but must be specified in the font files, etc. I have the link you

Re: Logout dialog

2006-02-15 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! [About logging out and switching user not corresponding to shut down] I was thinking we may rename this unique menu entry as Exit (no Log out or Shut down). Cheers, Manu -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Logout dialog

2006-02-15 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! Its redundant IMO. We now have two different ways of (graphically) executing Lock, Log Out, Shutdown, Restart, Suspend (Hibernate), and Switch User. Why? Hmm, you're right, and I think I made a mistake here. I guess what is is planned is actually to remove all these items from the

Re: Fwd: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly

2006-02-15 Thread Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum)
So, I will try to describe major issues I have with network-admin (or I have seen.)To answer Sebastion, my bash script usually does this simple thing : mv /etc/network/interfaces.home /etc/network/interfaces /etc/init.d/networking restart1) It doesn't work most of the time !Usecase : Lionel has a

Re: Logout dialog

2006-02-15 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 15:19 +0100 schrieb Manu Cornet: People seem to like the logout dialog (the one you get by clicking, in dapper, on the top-right panel applet), and I had some good feedback about it. Is there still a need for this dialog? The thousand radio buttons logout dialog

Re: Fwd: Issue : wireless networking on-the-fly

2006-02-15 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Hello Lionel, First of all I'll add a disclaimer here that I am not an experienced Linux hacker, but I have set up NM a few times and really like it. Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) wrote: If I understand, the goal seems to switch to NetworkManager, sooner or later. Interesting, I was not aware of