Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-08-14 Thread Kevin Hunter Kesling
At 7:37am -0400 Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Nik Th wrote: Sorry but I cannot understand why a default application is such a big matter. It is a big deal because defaults matter. Even though a product might be "superior", if it has a weak default template and chosen options, it does not provide a good

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Call for Topics

2012-04-23 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 9:55pm -0400 Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Jason Warner wrote: Even so, we need those topics for 12.10 so when everyone gets a chance, write them up and send them to the list so 1. we can get UDS organized 2. wecan discuss the topic in the M

Re: Ubuntu usability is significantly decreased with Unity

2011-12-31 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 6:01am -0500 Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Where did you get the idea that I had suggested to remove anything? Something about the flow of this thread's conversation made me think it. Rereading it now, I can't say specifically what; you never said it specifically, so mea cu

Re: Ubuntu usability is significantly decreased with Unity

2011-12-30 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 7:04am -0500 Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Jo-erlend Schinstad wrote: That is a very good reason to keep configuration options at a minimum, at least temporarily. Currently, most configuration tools require a lot of knowledge about the system. It is not immediately obvious that enabling focus follows mous

Re: Downgrade GNOME 3 method

2011-07-06 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 10:10am -0400 Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 20:04 -0600, Joel Leclerc wrote: Here is a simple way to downgrade GNOME 3 to GNOME 2: http://lkubuntu.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/downgrading-from-gnome-3-to-gnome-2/ just curious, but why do you want to do that? My b

Re: Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

2011-01-31 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:40pm -0500 Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought it might be worth discussing the pros and co