Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Working VNC (or no VNC)

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Alberto, Can you escalate bug #772873 with AMD in your next call? The bug has to do with the use of XDamage in a remote X context using VNC with compositing enabled. Nvidia fixed this in their driver in version 256.25, and it works fine with all the open drivers, but fglrx seems to still be a

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Working VNC (or no VNC)

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:46:10PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 12:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > > But I think as a next action, I think I have all the hardware I need to > > test it myself, so I'll try and do that today or tomorrow. I would hate > > t

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Wayland tech preview

2011-10-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:33:32PM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > It would be nice to be able to optionally run Wayland in 12.04 to try > out the technology. This will involve: > - Modifying LightDM to support Wayland > - Writing a Wayland compositor Would the demo compositor be sufficient? If no

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Working VNC (or no VNC)

2011-10-06 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 12:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > But I think as a next action, I think I have all the hardware I need to > test it myself, so I'll try and do that today or tomorrow. I would hate > to spin up a bunch of people to do testing if there really are obvious > brea

Application integration with Unity

2011-10-06 Thread Didier Roche
Hey desktoppers, We are seeing more and more people integrating on their laptop Unity and their preferred applications: - drag and drop support - custom quicklists - crazy integration patches It's proably time to get the most interesting one into the distro. Some effort were started to https

[Desktop12.04-Topic] control center cleanup

2011-10-06 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi For Oneiric we went the easy route of adding a way to run external applications for the stuff we wanted in the control center. But this looks quite bad (some panels are embedded, others run a separate application), so for P I'd like us to do a cleanup and avoid as much as possible having extern

Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Video playback?

2011-10-06 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I see no conflict between Totem and Banshee at all. I hadn't even noticed that Banshee can be used for video at all, until very recently. All labels everywhere refer to it as a music player. I like Banshee for music. I've started testing it for videos as well and it might be nice for that, eve