Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:33, Andrew SB wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Danny Piccirillo > wrote: >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:50, Alin-Andrei wrote: >>> As far as I know, Solang was even removed from Debian due to it being highly >>> unstable. >> >> I don't believe it was removed, b

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Ricflomag
Le 20/05/2010 20:19, Danny Piccirillo a écrit : >> - depending on tracker is a blocker, we had tracker activated by default >> in previous ubuntu version but had to stop doing that due to the impact >> it's having on system performances and io load. We will likely look at >> the new tracker and eva

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew SB
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:50, Alin-Andrei wrote: >> As far as I know, Solang was even removed from Debian due to it being highly >> unstable. > > I don't believe it was removed, but simply wasn't packaged in time? http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:50, Alin-Andrei wrote: > As far as I know, Solang was even removed from Debian due to it being highly > unstable. I don't believe it was removed, but simply wasn't packaged in time? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:29, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 20 mai 2010 à 03:38

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > IMHO, the correct stance on this would be: change if it turns out new > apps are really better than the current one. If not, better be > conservative. Adopting an app which is still in progress won't help > making it better. No

Re: WebM in Maverick?

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Hazard
VP8 (libvpx) landed in the Chromium daily PPA this morning if anyone wants to try it https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa You can search for videos to play on YouTube with http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=web&webm=1 2010/5/20 Shane Fagan : > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:20

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 20 mai 2010 à 11:29 +0200, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : > - we can revisit our choice next cycle, we try to ship the best of what > is available in the opensource world in Ubuntu, if it turns that solang > is much better we will consider it next cycle Are we really in a hurry? Switching twic

Re: WebM in Maverick?

2010-05-20 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:20 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 01:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume > > there would be lots of interest coming for this and integration in the > > desktop and the

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 20 mai 2010 à 03:38 -0400, Danny Piccirillo a écrit : > If Solang > proved itself in time for Maverick +1 i'm afraid it would be left out > simply because we've already changed the default once recently. Hi, Do you work on solang? You seem to be pushing a lot for it. Robert did a good s

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:04, Robert Ancell wrote: > Some points that were in favour of Shotwell: > - Already packaged in Ubuntu Universe (i.e. it has good user exposure) I don't really consider this to make it a better application at all. > - Full-time developer resource (Yorba) Shotwell has

Re: Replace Shotwell (was F-Spot) with Solang?

2010-05-20 Thread Robert Ancell
Some points that were in favour of Shotwell: - Already packaged in Ubuntu Universe (i.e. it has good user exposure) - Full-time developer resource (Yorba) - Very fast load and browsing speed Shotwell does not have all the functionality we want before it will replace F-Spot, but we are tracking t