Transmission - better choice for BitTorrent client?

2006-08-22 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
BitTorrent and gnome-btdownload are perhaps outdated now. In term of usability, Transmission has a better offer for customers : - It has a few options (if people wishs to configure it) ; - It's simple ; - It remembers downloaded torrents and can resume them. For those which would try this client

Logout icon and menu

2006-05-22 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
Damn...that's always a subject of discussion...Since last update logout icon in the corner explains cleanly for that it is,but the menu is always a problem...If the "logout" icon means "shutdown", why the "shutdown" icon in the menu doesn't look as it? It's a visual association's problem, because p

"Log Out" menu has too many items

2006-03-22 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
Hi everybody,"Log Out" for Dapper is really cool, but it is in the same time too heavy to be effective.1- Why the lock screen has been put in the "Log Out" menu?To be honest I don't understand... Lock screen is an important feature in company: you get out of your computer, you lock it.To be effecti

Re: New theme: Battery/Trash

2006-03-13 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
>> One other thing I just noticed is the network applet for wireless>> networks. The signal strenght indicator is a little unintuitive. First>> of all its horizonatal, which by itself wouldnt be too bad (but not >> great) but it marks signal strength in one of four positions instead>> of including

Re: no more irc chat client

2006-03-04 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
Damn...the problem doesn't come ffrom here for IRC chat client...even it's xchat or xchat-gnome...Dapper Drake is a 'beta' release (and now people screams).Until Ubuntu becomes available as an OEM OS, in replacement of commercial one, xchat can be included as default application in Ubuntu. I th

When will we think about tomorrow, and not continue to take a look on the past?

2006-02-22 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
With time, things evolve. Sometimes we can have the feeling that things don't evolve enough quickly. This is more a think after taking a general look on GUI (or whatever you wish to call it). Why things don't evolve? Why do we hear always, as 5 years ago, the same debates? Why can we see today wh

example-content - is it really a solution?

2006-02-22 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
>This is at least useful on a Live CD.>When I demonstrate Ubuntu with a live CD, I've nothing to do and I must>always say : "If you had a picture, you could edit it with the gimp, there.>If you had a word document, you could..." >Some videos, sounds and pictures samples could turn a boring demonstr

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
To change its practices requires an effort. To propose softwares for Windows on CD is a means of reassuring people. When you listen people around you, you realize that they don't know what is free softwares, even less than they can have a free office suite, and even less than any software does not

example-content - is it really a solution?

2006-02-21 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
Sometimes I don't understand choices that are done... By putting examples files in Ubuntu, will it really help people? If you look at how people apprehend the software, you note that they don't read documentation. If you look at how people consider the examples files on others OS, you note that