Paid A Full-Time Job's Salary To Play Video Games

2008-09-04 Thread catherine miles
If you buy a new MMORPG that crashes every time your character jumps while running, chances are you will not like the game and tell all of your friends not to buy it. This is a serious setback for the game company. The customers that bought their product will not buy it again and neither will thei

Re: Desktop team meeting, 2008-09-04

2008-09-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Scott James Remnant [2008-09-04 14:45 +0100]: > * pitti to ask ArneGoetje about hunspell dictionary dependencies Done, new language-support-* are uploaded. > == XDG_SESSION_COOKIE problems == > > MacSlow has been having problems with $XDG_SESSION_COOKIE not being > set in the new gdm, which pit

Desktop team meeting, 2008-09-04

2008-09-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting. == Present == * Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - chair * Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) * Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) * Martin Pitt (pitti) * Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) * Michael Vogt (mvo) * Mirco Müller (MacSlow) * Sebastien Bacher (s

Re: New Theme every LTS release

2008-09-04 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 07:46 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but i've been trying > to think of ways to get new, better themes into Ubuntu. What i mean > is, every release, we see beautiful mockups, but nothing ever comes of > it. I think something n

Re: New Theme every LTS release

2008-09-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 04 September 2008 13:46:13 Danny Piccirillo wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but i've been trying to > think of ways to get new, better themes into Ubuntu. What i mean is, every > release, we see beautiful mockups, but nothing ever comes of it. I think > somethin

New Theme every LTS release

2008-09-04 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but i've been trying to think of ways to get new, better themes into Ubuntu. What i mean is, every release, we see beautiful mockups, but nothing ever comes of it. I think something needs to change so that these mockups have a chance of getting worked

re: New system sounds.

2008-09-04 Thread Mads Rosendahl
Hi I'm the one who created the system sound this thread is discussing. Ubuntu certainly needs new sounds and I will do my best to create a new set. The sounds previous mentioned has a few problems to them and that is why I would ask you not to use them as default sound. Also I would like the chance

Re: New system sounds.

2008-09-04 Thread Didier Roche
A definite +1 too. Since the new system sounds appeared, I switch back to the old one extracting them from the old package (and no, I am usually not refractoty to changes ;)). Even if the old welcoming one is too long, it enables me, taking a train for instance, to put the volume lower when I forg

Re: New system sounds.

2008-09-04 Thread Matthew East
Hi, I'll add my +1 to this suggestion. I'm afraid to say that I've never liked the current system sounds - I thought the old ones sounded a more professional and distinctive, and I agree with others that we need to find an unobtrusive but distinctive sound which can become part of Ubuntu's image a