Re: Cosmic mutter version and budgie desktop

2018-08-10 Thread David Mohammed
Jeremy agreed. Adam has pulled together a quick patch to resolve which I have included and uploaded. David On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 21:25, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:47 PM David Mohammed > wrote: > > This includes a bunch of upstream changes. The debian

Re: Cosmic mutter version and budgie desktop

2018-08-08 Thread David Mohammed
nsure "caffeine" users coming from 18.04 don't crash and burn during the upgrade since the new budgie installs the same icons into the same folder locations. David On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 17:42, Iain Lane wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 12:27:15PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > &g

Re: Cosmic mutter version and budgie desktop

2018-08-06 Thread David Mohammed
Hi Iain, I've have raised it here - https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/pull/1519 i.e. the PR is current publishable progress to-date. David On 6 August 2018 at 12:27, Iain Lane wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 02:30:49PM +0100, David Mohammed wrote: >> So Ubunt

Cosmic mutter version and budgie desktop

2018-08-05 Thread David Mohammed
the 18.04 mutter libraries specifically for budgie with gnome shell using the gnome 3.30 mutter version at the same time in the repo. Kludge I know. David (Ubuntu budgie project lead) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-18 Thread David Barth
first, and confined webapps (read clicks and snaps). Once we reach this point, we should be in a better position to propose a new Firefox extension. Long story short: we are going to drop the old webapps extensions for Firefox. David On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Bryan Quigley wrote: >

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
-container. Still the main one makes sense to keep around. On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Hi David, > > Are those extensions still needed for our Unity vision or does the new > Ubuntu browser make them obsolete? Already the Chromium part of those > extensio

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Barth wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Coulson > wrote: > >> On 10/08/15 22:21, Xavier Guillot wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I can't answer to this specific question, but as an user with Firefox as &g

Re: Firefox Extensions still needed?

2015-08-11 Thread David Barth
review, and > future Firefox versions disable side-loaded addons that haven't had a full > review. > > I'm not sure about the status of the other addons (cc'ing dbarth). > Yup, we've started submitting webapps extensions as well, starting with the main xul-ext-we

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-13 Thread David Klasinc
r 'regular user'. So, why would my aunt be happier with Chromium/Firefox? In the end we come to integration. Which one is better integrated with Ubuntu? Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Do we need a sound recorder in the default install?

2013-01-17 Thread David Henningsson
unmaintained). Both are, IIRC, connecting either directly to alsa, or using the alsa-plugin layer to connect to PulseAudio. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Low bug triage activity all around

2013-01-05 Thread David
unnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2013-01-05 20:54, Omer Akram wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailto:gunna...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: On 2013-01-01 19:04, Omer Akram wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: Most of the irc seems to have been

Re: New "Additional Drivers" location not discoverable

2012-11-21 Thread David Klasinc
user and I had to ask on IRC where did the drivers go. :) There's still the bigger question of whether configuring drivers should be in "Software Sources". For me it was mindbogglingly how it got there. :) Rgrds, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@li

Re: [Desktop13.04-Topic] Reduce patch burden

2012-11-15 Thread David L Conner
eed to submit a workflow bug request as well? Thanks, David On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Iain Lane wrote: > Hi, > > A lot of our packages are patched over upstream. Each of these comes > with a maintenance cost and is also a source of bugs and frustration > (quilt patches ar

Re: [Desktop13.04-Topic] - Speed up USC, and fix minor stuff

2012-09-28 Thread David Henningsson
e, i e, improve quality. * I doubt I'll ever get someone to implement this, but I'm still missing the good old taskbar (a la Windows XP) in Unity...it was so easy to see what applications were running and to switch between them... -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launch

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: What do we do with the file manager?

2012-08-09 Thread David Klasinc
fits in with Unity for at least a couple of cycles. Then some other solution will be needed. It appears that Gnome will be going in a completely different direction than Unity and maintaining things just to keep it integrated will become more and more of a pain. Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop

Keybinder in Quantal / Global shortcut keys

2012-06-11 Thread David Klasinc
p old functionality and get GIR support. This should really be considered because right now there is no way to implement global shortcuts in python if using Gtk3. Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: {Desktop 12.10 Topic] Holistic approach to Ubuntu documentation

2012-05-24 Thread David
d may not be accurate" - Dark gray - David On 2012-04-24 22:17, Chris Wilson wrote: Perhaps some mechanism to archive obsolete yet relevant wiki pages would be useful here. I'm not sure if the current wiki engine has such a feature, or what sort of effort would be required to hack one

[Desktop UDS topic] Regional/national applications

2012-05-02 Thread David Henningsson
ticular country? - Reach out to the developers of that application? - Help them out with integrating their apps into Ubuntu? - Get them into Ubuntu Software Center, the partner archive, or something similar? The LoCo teams could be a valuable resource here, I assume. -- David Henningsson

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

2012-04-22 Thread David
written email asking the manufacturer to support the hardware that is without a linux driver. That'd get a few hits. - David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] Quality, testability for the desktop components

2012-04-19 Thread David Klasinc
.com/linux/made-for-ubuntu-certificate-proposal/ Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Closing lid on a laptop with nvidia proprietary drivers

2012-03-27 Thread David Klasinc
will prevent this and this in some cases could be harmful for the computer. I know that this is a problem with nvidia proprietary drivers and that nvidia should fix this, but this is a rather serious issue and if someone provides a patch, is there a hope to get it in 12.04? Regards, David -- ubuntu-de

Re: lots of things

2012-03-17 Thread David James
rd of alphas and betas + virtualbox? - David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread David Klasinc
uot;I don't like Ubuntu." Nobody, without a crystal ball or a pack of fortune tellers cards, can't really tell what is bothering you. I do apologize for the rant, but this thread isn't upsetting just my mailbox, it reached my bowels. :/ Regards, David [1] - addressed to the origina

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread David Klasinc
. Keeping CCSM in LTS is a terrible idea from quality perspective. What happens in LTS, stays in LTS. Someone will make a PPA and those who want will still use it. Myself probably included. Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Scope of Kazam Screencaster (and screen recorders in general)

2012-01-13 Thread David Klasinc
were not too happy about it. I'd like to hear some opinions about this so I can decided on it. :) Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Screen recorder - Kazam

2012-01-02 Thread David Klasinc
7;m quite fluent in python so it would be my first choice. Vala, however, is becoming a defacto standard for Gnome development and that's why I am considering it. > I'm allquixotic on freenode, so feel free to ping me. We can even > create a new channel for Kazam! Not a

Re: Screen recorder - Kazam

2012-01-01 Thread David Klasinc
is becoming obsolete fast and I'll have to do a rewrite sooner or later. I am still deciding if I should do a rewrite in Vala or keep python and use PyGobject. I am equally unfamiliar with PyGObject and Vala. :) Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Screen recorder - Kazam

2011-12-31 Thread David Klasinc
n the right direction. :) (more detailed explanation on my changes and future plans are posted on my blog: http://www.twm-kd.com/linux/kazam-screencaster-0-12/ ) So much for now and a Happy 2021 to everyone! Regards, David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

default applications for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2011-12-09 Thread David HILL
default applications for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS default applications that will work long term ...for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Long Term Support Firefox LibreOffice Gimp Xfburn

gnome-media - is it still on the CD?

2011-11-25 Thread David Henningsson
pplet is very rarely used. Not that it's that many bytes, but I guess every byte counts, right? :-) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: "Sound settings" changes for Precise

2011-10-19 Thread David Henningsson
On 10/18/2011 05:37 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 à 16:29 +0200, David Henningsson a écrit : Also, there is no reason as I see it to not trying to upstream it into GNOME. Of course, that would probably be welcome! I don't know exactly how to do that or w

Re: "Sound settings" changes for Precise

2011-10-18 Thread David Henningsson
On 10/18/2011 04:29 PM, David Henningsson wrote: (Sorry if you get this message twice; it was suggested to bring this to the ubuntu-desktop mailinglist) Hi! The jack detection stuff I've been working with [1] during the Oneiric cycle is currently somewhat half-baked. What's missing

Re: "Sound settings" changes for Precise

2011-10-18 Thread David Henningsson
On 10/18/2011 05:23 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Henningsson wrote on 18/10/11 15:29: ... The jack detection stuff I've been working with [1] during the Oneiric cycle is currently somewhat half-baked. What's missing is some UI

"Sound settings" changes for Precise

2011-10-18 Thread David Henningsson
) is the better driver here. So this is mostly an outreach to - hopefully! - relevant people to help me out to finish off jack detection and make it a success in Precise! -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic [1] http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/20

Unity in Ubuntu 11.10 - Thank You!

2011-10-14 Thread David Barth
your help and contributions to the Unity project. It is very important for us to continue making Unity the best Shell for the Ubuntu Desktop. Thank You All! David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread David Barth
Le 12/10/2011 19:36, Jeremy Bicha a écrit : On 12 October 2011 13:18, David Barth wrote: Which I think, under further guidance of the Design team, we could turn into a mode whereby results are only retrieved if the user unfolds the section containing suggestions. At the moment, search queries

Re: Does Ubuntu upload personal information by default and without permission now?

2011-10-12 Thread David Barth
into the Music lens itself. I hope this clarifies. David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: invitation to participate in developer.ubuntu.com project

2011-01-18 Thread David Nelson
Hi Rick, :-) Thanks for the info. I'll be following this with great interest. :-) David Nelson -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: invitation to participate in developer.ubuntu.com project

2011-01-18 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) After reading this, I headed on over to the website and immediately installed Quickly. I'm really keen to see this properly working. Any idea of a roll-out date? And is the Ubuntu Developer’s Manual completely unwritten, or is there a draft available somewhere? David Nelson -- u

Re: LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread David Nelson
.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice LibreOffice dedicated IRC channel: #libreoffice at irc.freenode.net HTH. :-) David Nelson -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread David Nelson
e address from which this mail was sent, or via this mailing list. Thank you for your time reading this message. Thank you, also, for your own valuable work in bringing the world Open Source software. David Nelson -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-02-08 Thread David A. Cobb
On 02/05/2010 01:16 PM, petr bug wrote: On 5 February 2010 16:53, David A. Cobb wrote: Above all, never never compromise the principle that the user is the one to say what her experience should look like -- no matter what marketing choices Canonical gets involved in. In principle, user is in

Re: Desktop annoyance #3: Desktop Applets frequently break during login

2010-02-08 Thread David A. Cobb
short of resources you might want to try installing a lighter desktop such as OpenBox Or just turn off Visual Effects in System> Preferences> Appearance I just checked, and I already have Visual Effects == "None." On 5 February 2010 16:13, David A. Cobb wrote: ?If I don&#x

Re: Desktop annoyance #2: Everything is very very slow after any package upgrade

2010-02-08 Thread David A. Cobb
On 02/05/2010 01:34 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: On 5 February 2010 17:07, David A. Cobb wrote: Again, recall I have "only" 256MiB real memory. Because of another problem, I can only do software upgrades from "Recovery Mode" -- single user console. If I try it wh

Desktop annoyance #2: Everything is very very slow after any package upgrade

2010-02-05 Thread David A. Cobb
iB memory) We are, supposedly, maturing to the point that Linux is a viable desktop for average users, not just 'puter-geeks like me. -- David A. Cobb -- computing t-rex <>-- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-02-05 Thread David A. Cobb
never compromise the principle that the user is the one to say what her experience should look like -- no matter what marketing choices Canonical gets involved in. -- David A. Cobb -- computing t-rex <>-- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

Desktop annoyances #1: gray display, extremely slow web

2010-02-05 Thread David A. Cobb
ut to various articles. But that is opposed to the trend in web pages, so I just sound like the dinosaur I am. -- David A. Cobb -- computing t-rex <>-- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Desktop annoyance #3: Desktop Applets frequently break during login

2010-02-05 Thread David A. Cobb
y consistently, if I immediately log OUT, then log back in, the same things will load without problems. The other "annoyances" are plausibly "just" resource shortages. This one smells more like a race condition when gnome-panel is trying to start its applets. -- David

(A tentative list of) One Hundred Paper Cuts

2009-06-25 Thread David Siegel
://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+milestone/round-1 for Friday and we're making great progress! David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Urgency-display-bar in notify-osd

2009-05-12 Thread David Barth
ady a debug mode, switched on by an environment variable (DEBUG= /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd). Mirco: can you reuse that to activate the urgency markers? Thanks David -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo

2008-07-30 Thread David Prieto
I second your idea. I was slightly annoyed too when I realized floating ubuntu was not default anymore. El mar, 29-07-2008 a las 13:45 +0200, Mads Rosendahl escribió: > Hi > I'm contacting you (the desktop team) because I hope you can help me. > I have suggested that the default black screensaver

Re: I hope people are paying attention...

2008-02-11 Thread David Prieto
> This is necessary to manage Network Manager keys, though arguably it > should be under Preferences. I think the right thing to do here would be to remove "seahorse preferences" from system → preferences and THEN moving seahorse from accessories to system → preferences. After all, preferences fo

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-16 Thread David Prieto Ucha
are time- say if there is anything else you find unacceptable? And in case those issues are solved for, say, Hardy+1, would it be OK to move Brasero to places → cd creator, and ditch NCB altogether? Regards, David. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-15 Thread David Prieto Ucha
> > Removing nautilus-cd-burner wouldn't fix the problem you describe: > unnecessary UI inconsistency would still exist with Brasero vs. Nautilus > itself. Why is creating a new folder done one way in Nautilus, and > another way in Brasero? Why is removing files from a folder done way in > Nautilus

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-15 Thread David Prieto
> I would also like to argue for this: Brasero does everything n-c-b > does, and more. One of the goals/specs set for hardy is reducing > duplication within Ubuntu. If we would add brasero but keep n-c-b as > well we will be increasing the amount of duplicate functionality. > > What is even more i

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-15 Thread David Prieto
Hi Sebastien, > That has already been discussed to the desktop team meeting some days > ago and we decided to give it a try Have you thought of the possibility (since Brasero does everything Nautilus-cd-burner does, and more) to have the places → cd creator menu item launch Brasero? It would be

Re: Gnome-Bt should be removed from applications menu

2007-12-30 Thread David Prieto
I fully agree. On dom, 2007-12-30 at 04:26 -0500, Nanley Chery wrote: > We already have five items in the Internet section of the Applications > menu, and I do not believe there is any point in increasing the > clutter by adding the gnome bittorrent client as an entry. All it does > is allow a us

Re: Turning the low disk space notifications back on

2007-11-10 Thread David Prieto
> and warning when your removable disk is getting full. Any chance to add a "free space" button that empies .Trash, there? -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Suggestions for fixing a hosed system?

2006-10-03 Thread David Kastrup
occasional crashing applet because of that. I would like to avoid reinstalling the whole system, so does anybody have good candidate packages to reinstall, or other measures to take? Thanks, -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus

Re: Nautilus should use a background by default

2006-09-30 Thread David Prieto
Beveled backgrounds look terrible and dated to my taste. What do you think about the "gnome" one from the standard list? -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Nautilus should use a background by default

2006-09-23 Thread David Prieto
I think that using a patterned background could potentially reduce the readability of text, whether you have poor eyesight or not. It might be a good idea to ask about this on ubuntu-accessibility list before applying any changes. I'm no expert on this, but I never noticed having a hard ti

Re: Nautilus should use a background by default

2006-09-23 Thread David Prieto
The snow white background is terrible for people with poor eyesight. Really? Why is that? Any background needs to be an awful lot subtler than that, and an awful lot more pale. I find snow white quite pale, but it was just an example anyway. What if we had a subtler BG? Would it be

Nautilus should use a background by default

2006-09-23 Thread David Prieto
Taken from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/61992 : A nautilus window looks sad an empty without a background, yet many people don't even know that a background can be added. Setting a simple, unobstrusive background as default would make nautilus windows look much

6.06 on iBook install crashing

2006-07-06 Thread David Cheung
I get a chance to recreate the problem.   Can anyone help me with this?  Is there anything I can do differently to prevent the installer from crashing?     David 07/06-- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop