Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:24:07AM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: > [...] > I don't know the percentage of ubuntu users who have modified the CapsLock > mapping. What's your guess? No idea. Probably half of the Emacs users. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:34:11PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: > Am 19.11.2014 um 10:07 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: > > > > I'm happily touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (Thinkpad X230 user here) at > > 120WPM. I don't really have much of a problem hitting backspac

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: > [...] > I have seen such keyboards before, but I don't want to leave my concave > lenovo trackpoint. > This way the switch between keyboard is very small. > > I have not seen ergonomic keyboards with a trackpoint yet. > > But even

Re: Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

2014-11-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:23:36AM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote: > > I think the usability of the keyboard/mouse input could be improved a lot. > > touch typing the letters A-Z blind is quite easy to learn. > > But still you need to do yoga with you fingers for keys like Backspace or Del. > Event

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:11:30PM +0200, ab...@email.it wrote: > I don't understand. Why Firefox should use Ubuntu One and instead Chromium > can use its own sync service? > > > > You made me remember another point in favor of Firefox: its sync service is > much more privacy-friendly. Firefox

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:51:19AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > [...] > in the light of our convergence plans which surely include a lot of ARM > based devices i would push for chromium despite the fact that it feels a > lot less integrated with the UI and desktop (file open dialogs, theming > et

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:16:01PM -0700, Jason Warner wrote: > [...] > What is important, and ultimately should be the deciding factor, is the > common end user experience. Which browser, in the common case, will be the > best for the general end user? Things I consider relevant to this > discussi

Re: Yet another long overdue bug

2013-04-14 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 15/04/2013 11:58, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Hang on, I just noticed that crimsun's uploaded it already, and an FFe has >> been >> granted. ScottK mentioned that you'll need to find an archive-admin to ac

Re: Yet another long overdue bug

2013-04-14 Thread Chow Loong Jin
(Resent from @ubuntu.com address; Got stuck in moderation queue.) On 15/04/2013 09:40, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 15/04/2013 02:54, Ma Xiaojun wrote: >> Ping? > > We're in Feature Freeze right now, so I don't believe any new packages will > enter the archive. You mig

Re: Yet another long overdue bug

2013-04-14 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 15/04/2013 02:54, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > Ping? We're in Feature Freeze right now, so I don't believe any new packages will enter the archive. You might want to revisit this when the next cycle begins. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-d

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/04/2013 13:21, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> Install alacarte and then just uncheck the apps you don't want to see >> in the menus. > > So I can expect end users do not know what a terminal is to know this > software? I don't understand. Are y

Re: [Desktop13.04-Topic] Integrate a Paper Cuts toolbelt into ubuntu-dev-tools

2012-10-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 25/10/2012 21:00, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > Now that does sound like a good idea. Do you if there's anything in GTK that > can > extract meta data from a window simply by clicking on it, or anything along > those lines? I don't think there's anything specifically in Gtk, but there's xprop wh

Re: auto enter

2012-01-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/01/2012 16:33, Tobia Tesan wrote: > Il 30/01/2012 01:08, Pedro Bessa ha scritto: >> summary >> not every keyboard has Super - gotcha > > Wait, seriously? > Has *anybody* manufactured a Super-less (read: Windows-less) keyboard during > the > last 20 years? I'm pretty sure my old Logitech ke

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 27/01/2012 06:16, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> I definitely will miss it, and I'm sure I won't be the only one. If CCSM was >> removed from Ubuntu, it'll most probably make it into a PPA. Then the >> s

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 27/01/2012 04:19, Chris Coulson wrote: > On 26/01/12 18:24, Micah Gersten wrote: >> >> On 01/26/2012 11:55 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Micah Gersten wrote: Because novices are using a power user tool does not mean we should remove a power user tool

Re: Default music player

2011-12-14 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 14/12/2011 21:13, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hey, > > Has a decision been reached yet on what app will be the default music > player in 12.04? I'd heard that after UDS had wrapped up the decision > was still under discussion, and I was wondering if a consensus had > finally been reached. -- $ a

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 22/11/2011 05:23, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Most importantly, we need to be having more constant and constructive >> dialogs with upstreams throughout the whole cycle and not just at >> application selection time (actually in this case there has been very >> poor communcation with upstream even

Re: [Keyboard improvements] Make better use of the Menu key.

2011-11-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 20/11/2011 20:48, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Considering last nights thread about keyboard use, I thought I'd start a topic > with ideas for keyboard improvements. > > This thread is about ideas for improving the utilization of the Menu key. > That's > the one on the keyboard between Alt Gr

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 21/11/2011 14:44, Jason Warner wrote: > Hi Everyone - > > Thank you all for sending feedback[1][2][3] on the default music player for > 12.04. It is clear the right decision for 12.04 is to make Rhythmbox the > default > music player. Thank you, above all else, for keeping the conversation cor

Re: Inter-bugtracker Comment Forwarding [was: Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04]

2011-11-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 10/11/2011 14:51, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I used to do that as well, I just found that I was often slow at doing > this, and that resulted in actually delaying when the bug got fixed. I > still do the initial bug forwarding (which I think is the trickiest > part), and I monitor the discussion

Inter-bugtracker Comment Forwarding [was: Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04]

2011-11-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
[Sorry to those who receive this twice. I accidentally sent it out from the wrong e-mail.] On 09/11/2011 02:42, Bryce Harrington wrote: > The launchpad guys say that GNOME had been on the todo list but they > didn't get it completed, and offhand didn't remember what the specific > blocker was in g

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 23:45, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > [...] > I've talked about several people in different Ubuntu teams and some users > about > banshee at UDS, things which came often about the oneiric version: > - it hangs often > - it claims to handle videos but the video supports is not working well

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 21:45, Owas Lone wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 21:19, Owas Lone wrote: >>> I really like banshee UI more than Rhytmbox but the lining stops >>> there. It crashes after every 3 songs, takes a lifetime to loa

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 21:19, Owas Lone wrote: > I really like banshee UI more than Rhytmbox but the lining stops > there. It crashes after every 3 songs, takes a lifetime to load and > eats up resources. Having rhythmbox as default would be nice. http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/ -- Kind regards,

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 19:00, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > One other discussion points during the session was to have to support the mono > bindings in a LTS version which will be supported for 5 years, the cost > benefit > seems high seeing the small number of applications keeping mono on the CD. So we're b

Re: Tomboy Notes and Ubuntu One note integration in Precise Pangolin

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 17:08, Robert Nordan wrote: > Since the news came out of UDS that Tomboy Notes was probably being > dropped from the default install, I'd like to ask what this means for > the U1 integration? U1 Notes has been designed around using Tomboy Notes > a the local editor, and it seems a bit

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 15:30, Martin Pitt wrote: > No, it doesn't, you'd need to reimport your library if you want to > switch (you aren't forced to, as the upgrade wouldn't remove Banshee). I think this should be an area of concern for switching back to Rhythmbox. I recall the Pidgin → Empathy, F-Spot → S

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/11/2011 14:21, Martin Pitt wrote: > [...] > The problem that was raised is that the package doesn't get well > maintained in Ubuntu (but is maintained well upstream). It did get > quite a lot of uploads in oneiric, though. I'd like to hear more about this, actually. It would be nice to know

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi All, I know this is going to sound defensive, but I would like to clear up some issues with the areas of concern in Banshee. Please raise any issues you have with the points I am making below, or anything I've missed out. On -9/01/-28163 03:29, Jason Warner wrote: > Hi All - > > During the re