[Bug 1710468] Re: XDG user directories are missing in Ubuntu 17.10

2017-08-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1708569 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1708569 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1708569 Installer on latest image fails to create a complete $HOME directory -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Deskt

Re: lightdm or gdm?

2017-04-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.04.2017, 21:52 +0500 schrieb Khurshid Alam: > > I just tried gdm Ubuntu-Gnome 17.04. I couldn't make it work with any > x11 vnc server like x11vnc. So it is safe to assume with gdm+wayland > these vnc servers will become obsolete. > thats not a gdm thing ... vnc and any

Re: Why is Eclipse so old?

2015-12-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 29.12.2015, 16:41 -0500 schrieb Paul Smith: > Anyone have any ideas why the version of Eclipse packaged with Ubuntu > is so old? Is it not recommended to use the packaged version and > instead download it directly? > > The version in Ubuntu 15.10 is 3.8.1 (Juno), released in

Re: "you can't catch me" notifications

2014-12-11 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 01:26 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Intends-to-Keep-Its-Notifications-without-User-Interaction-on-Unity-8-467206.shtml so since this seems to hit social media and will most likely trash my end of year vacation (it

Re: "you can't catch me" notifications

2014-12-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2014, 23:19 +0100 schrieb Björn Torkelsson: > > the notification behaviour is quite nice as is, i surely > wouldn't want > to have to click notifications to dismiss them (they are > definitely one > reason for me to prefe

Re: "you can't catch me" notifications

2014-12-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2014, 19:35 -0700 schrieb Cameron Whiting: > Well, if we can design it for unity8 (to behave that way), we should > fix it for trusty. > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Marc Deslauriers > wrote: > On 2014-12-09 09:25 PM, Cameron Whiting wrote: > > I

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2014, 02:50 +0200 schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad: > > On 16 April 2014 07:47, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > It's a much bigger and urgent problem to be able to provide a > phone/desktop image which can work with click apps and image >

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2014, 07:47 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Robert Ancell [2014-04-16 9:52 +1200]: > > I agree this is an enormous change but the reality of what convergence > > means. We want the same apps to run on the phone as the desktop so > > when you dock your phone the apps work in

Re: Call for testing - unity-control-center (fork of gnome-control-center so we can stay on an old version)

2014-02-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.02.2014, 20:27 +0100 schrieb Kai Mast: > > I get > > kai@Kai-Thinkpad:~$ sudo apt-get remove libhybris > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > gnome-setting

Default File Manager with Unity8 in future desktops

2014-01-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, with the planned switch to unity8 in 14.10 it is most likely that we will also start using the converged QML apps that are developed today. With all the complaints and unhappyness about Nautilus upstream ripping out things like dual pane and other beloved and helpful features I expect we can

Re: Make Ubuntu usable when 'universe' is disabled

2013-06-27 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-06-28 at 03:10 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried this on a Ubuntu 13.04 box and noted the following issues. > > 1. unity-webapps-* is in universe, the "Install" dialog still pops up > but nothing appears after clicking "Install". > 2. Large portion of the Qt stack, inc

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-23 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2013-06-13 at 07:40 -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote: > smooth). In comparison, out of the box firefox has butter smooth > scrolling that works 100% of the time. on arm desktops it is closer to a slideshow though since it makes zero use of any EGL based acceleration ... ciao oli

Re: Default Browser Follow-up

2013-06-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-06-11 at 15:16 -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 discussion are qual

Re: Make Ubuntu desktop a better platform for App Developers

2013-04-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 09.04.2013, 12:01 +0800 schrieb Ma Xiaojun: > ( Already posted in ubuntu-app-devel, I'm not sure how popular it is, > though. Sorry for people receiving duplicates. ) > > As I checked: http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/my-apps-packages/ > > Proprietary apps get packaging se

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:50 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:41 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > hi, > > On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:56 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > > > There is a related bug already: > > > > > > https://bugs.

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:41 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:56 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > > There is a related bug already: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1116791 > > > i demoted them to rec

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2013-04-04 at 09:56 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > There is a related bug already: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1116791 > i demoted them to recommends (so removing them doesn't uninstall ubuntu-desktop) in the seeds but have to wait with an upload of ubunt

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2013-04-04 at 03:10 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > you are aware that this tiny minority is the remaining bit of > > contributing developers left from the once massive dev community we used > > to have ? >

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 09:25 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > > xterm is used by many people doing development on ubuntu as a preferred > > > terminal ove

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 18:37 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > PS: would it be possible for you to use the "reply to list" feature of > > your mail client, it is pretty annoying to answer you the way you break > >

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 17:40 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > so you expect that a user that doesn't know what a terminal is to type > > "terminal" into the dash and be surprised to find a terminal ? > &

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 15:50 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > I don't understand. Are you saying that you expect end users who don't know > > what > > a terminal is to know a terminal? > > I expect end users who don't know what a terminal is n

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-02 at 16:45 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > OK, the reasons make sense, but do we need to advertise them as Apps? i think xdiagnose doesnt need to be shown in any menus (though that would be a matter of the maintainer (hey bryce !) to hop into this discussion and comment, i dont thin

Re: Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

2013-04-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2013-04-02 at 12:03 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-desktop > xdiagnose is used by apport, whoopsie and the Xorg failure mode. In case your graphics card fails it is used to do the reconfiguration to get you back on track. xterm is the default fallb

[Bug 1087295] Re: bluetooth service unable to restart when dist-upgrading from Q -> R on the Nexus 7

2013-02-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
this happened due to the fact that quantal was a demo with multiple hacks inside, upgrades based on the quantal image are neither encouraged nor supported. fixing this bug would mean add fixes to the demo image which we will not do ... closing all tasks here ** Changed in: ubuntu-nexus7 Sta

Re: Thanks desktop team

2011-11-21 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:55:38 + Iain Lane wrote: > Hello, > > In the spirit of the appreciation day, I want to thank you guys for > all of the work you do getting each release out. I may seem to be > being a bit (ahem) annoying at times, but it's only out of love. :-) > but where would

Re: Default Music Player in Ubuntu 12.04

2011-11-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:15:38 +0800 Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > * Our ARM team says that the current versions still work rather > >poorly on ARM. > > I saw one bug about that, also mentioned in my previous post, which > is being worked on, but that's about it. What other issues are there

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 06.07.2011, 19:59 +0100 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > For a guest session, I can think of two ways to solve the problem: an > interstitial dialog for the "Guest Session" command, that lets you > choose a language before entering the session (as Robert Ancell > suggested); and

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 13:43 +1000 schrieb Robert Ancell: > On 04/07/11 17:41, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > ... pretty much every environment edubuntu is used in (public desktops > > in school classrooms at universities or libraries), non personalized > > computers in m

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 04.07.2011, 11:11 +0100 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > >> I haven't heard of any standard user requirements to switch between > >> more than two languages, or two languages that do not include English > >> (please post here if you know of any). > > > > well, just some of these e

Re: Language chooser at login

2011-07-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 04.07.2011, 12:44 +1000 schrieb Robert Ancell: > I haven't heard of any standard user requirements to switch between > more than two languages, or two languages that do not include English > (please post here if you know of any). well, just some of these environments ubuntu has

[Bug 517300] Re: [armel] likewise-open needs porting to ARM

2010-03-11 Thread Oliver Grawert
assigning over to the desktop team based on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-likewise- open-migration ** Changed in: likewise-open (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) -- [armel] likewise-open needs porting to ARM https://bugs.l

[Bug 517300] Re: [armel] likewise-open needs porting to ARM

2010-03-11 Thread Oliver Grawert
it would be nice to get some instructions for testing so we can make sure the fixes work -- [armel] likewise-open needs porting to ARM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop, which is a bug assignee. -- ubuntu-desktop

Re: gdm-new always use usa keyboard layout

2009-02-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2009-02-20 at 15:20 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 20 février 2009, à 13:41 +0100, Oliver Grawert a écrit : > > hi, > > On Fr, 2009-02-20 at 12:57 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > > > but I think they aren't quite the same as your&#

Re: gdm-new always use usa keyboard layout

2009-02-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2009-02-20 at 12:57 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > but I think they aren't quite the same as your's. > gnome-settings-daemon reads $GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT, so it seems gdm sets > that wrongly. Could you please create a new bug report at > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=g

Re: Please Comment: Proposal to change the name of Applications -> Add/Remove...

2009-01-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 11:01 -0800 schrieb Rick Spencer: > On 01/15/2009 10:53 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > i doubt she would have that thorough understanding from an opaque name > > like "software library" > Interesting, so you feel that "software librar

Re: Please Comment: Proposal to change the name of Applications -> Add/Remove...

2009-01-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 10:29 -0800 schrieb Rick Spencer: > All - > > A proposal has been put forward to change the name of the > "Add/Remove..." menu item. > can you elaborate what the reason for this is ? imho this feature (and its naming as well as its design) is one of the most

Re: gnome-control-center

2008-08-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2008-08-29 at 08:38 +0100, Matthew East wrote: > Hi, > > I recall that a couple of releases back gnome-control-center was > considered for inclusion by default in Ubuntu. Has it been > reconsidered for Intrepid? it is included since gutsy ... just enable the menu entry for it in your me

Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Do, 2008-08-07 at 11:15 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Olá Oliver e a todos. > > On Thursday 07 August 2008 10:45:20 Oliver Grawert wrote: > > powertop might help ;) > > Powertop is a mess. powertop is a tool from intel which is supposed to find out the powe

Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-08-06 at 16:45 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > I'm not quite sure how to measure (removing all the variables like HD > access and such) but I'd have to say that I'm a huge skeptic of the > gains here. powertop might help ;) ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo

2008-08-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2008-08-06 at 08:52 -0400, Brett Alton wrote: > Isn't there a way we can display a small .jpg that moves around the > screen every 5 seconds? It is what Windows XP does, and I think one of > the point to this argument, which I agree with, is that it is free > advertising. thats exactly w

Re: Change the default screensaver from black to ubuntu logo

2008-07-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 29.07.2008, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Mads Rosendahl: > Hi > I'm contacting you (the desktop team) because I hope you can help me. > I have suggested that the default black screensaver should be changed > to "Floating Ubuntu". Please read more here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthre

Re: Debian Screensaver

2007-11-28 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mi, 2007-11-28 at 10:50 -0800, Ted Gould wrote: > Hello, > > Currently in gnome-screensaver we're replacing the Debian logo > screensaver with an Ubuntu Logo one. I'm thinking we should change that > so that we're just adding the Ubuntu one instead of replacing it. I > don't think it'll c

Re: An Ubuntu Firewall

2007-03-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Di, 2007-03-13 at 19:42 +0200, Daniel Koskinen wrote: > Many non-technical users might want to share eg. a web page or open a > port for ssh (for administration by someone else). whgats a port, whats ssh ? wou7ld your mother know that ? if i'd need to ssh into my mothers computer i'D tell h

Re: Feedback from What New Users Want BoF at ubucon

2006-08-19 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2006-08-18 at 16:52 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > The other issue was that of the LiveCd. Once you get into the desktop, > it is not apparently clear that you are running a LiveCD. Thus I > propose we put a notification bubble (this was mdz's idea) up a live > desktop to tell people. how

Re: adding X to server

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Mo, 2006-07-31 at 14:25 -0400, JoE wrote: > This is really only partially appropriate to us, but a friend of mine > recently tried to add X to his server install of ubuntu. In the end, > after much frustration, he added ubuntu-desktop because it was all > that would work. using x-window-sys

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: (Yet another) new logout dialog

2006-04-04 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 04.04.2006, 22:02 +0100 schrieb Henrik Nilsen Omma: > Well, some users want both options, but those who don't know the > difference (which we have established is most people) don't. If > Hibernate tends to fail, then it might be wise to leave that one hidden > by default and

Re: Some icons are making me sad

2006-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 06.03.2006, 21:40 -0500 schrieb Lukas Sabota: > Does anyone know what this icon is supposed to be? its the original old nautilus icon, which is a nautilus shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Na

Re: For those who care about the notification-daemon

2006-01-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi,# Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2006, 02:16 +1300 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > Given that, the whole bubble needs to look clickable, which means > having bevelled edges. The current appearance has too fat an outline. > I also like the idea of using the same color as tooltips normally do. why do we

Re: For those who care about the notification-daemon

2006-01-25 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi,# Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2006, 02:16 +1300 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > Given that, the whole bubble needs to look clickable, which means > having bevelled edges. The current appearance has too fat an outline. > I also like the idea of using the same color as tooltips normally do. why do we

Re: Questions related to the new logout dialog

2005-12-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 17.12.2005, 14:36 +0100 schrieb Sebastien Bacher: > > And what about the xscreensaver lock dialog, it has a switch user > > function: shouldn't this dialog have the same look and feel as the new > > logout dialog? > > They don't do the same things, I'm not sure they should be t

Re: A new (nearly finished) logout dialog

2005-12-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 05.12.2005, 02:00 +0100 schrieb Manu Cornet: > My work is not finished, but the design is (at least for this > preliminary version). Since I don't know how to do a screenshot while > this dialog is active (if you know, tell me ! ^^), I can only provide a > unfinished patch for yo