Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Jo-Erlend Schinstad [2012-04-20 1:56 +0200]: > If this was going to be redesigned, I would rather see it as a "Hardware > manager". That's exactly what I want to avoid. If anything, the UI should become easier, not more complex. Large trees with lots of technobabble and incomprehensible hardware

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Jo-Erlend Schinstad [2012-04-20 4:01 +0200]: > Exactly. So why does "the driver application" currently not show any > open drivers? The only case when it does that right now is when there are open source printer drivers available on openprinting.org for a printer you are about to set up. But the

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-22 Thread David
Instead, we should provide an easy way of getting to the manufacturers support site. This is helpful to the user, and illustrates who is to "blame" at the same time. That's what we call a Ubu/Ubu situation. As I mentioned, the application should have a Send To function. That would enable you to

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] Application startup time (AKA "Please use my RAM!")

2012-04-22 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 22. april 2012 10:36, skrev Milan Bouchet-Valat: > > Looks like you're asking for something like suspend or hibernate to me. > What's the point in replicating features that do this perfectly? Better > spend your energy in fixing them if they don't work on your box. No, I'm not talking about su

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] Application startup time (AKA "Please use my RAM!")

2012-04-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 21 avril 2012 à 23:13 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : > Application startup time is unnecessarily slow in a large number of > instances. Can we see some improvement in that area in the Q cycle? The > price of RAM has dropped dramatically, and usage has not increased all > that much.