Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-14 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:50 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: A cursory scan of the incoming ideas over the last 30 days seem just like wishlist bug reports, thoughts? We should make a wishlist bug report on launchpad to develop the missing parts which would allows wishlist bug reports to have some

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:37 -0800, Dane Mutters wrote: and have it propagate wherever it's needed without bombarding Twitter with installer traffic. One marketing idea was to put gwibber dbus bindings into ubiquity so people could post to twitter that they were installing Ubuntu. A sort of

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
to arise would be something to do only when we're confident about the architecture and test suite available for ubiquity. I just thought I'd throw in an interesting target on a 2009 blueprint which paints this relatively tame idea in a contrasting light. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: ubuntu udd update

2011-10-31 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 15:53 +1100, Martin Pool wrote: New in udd in recent weeks: Thanks for the awesome work guys. Bzr/Launchpad buildds is an awesome set of tools. Apropos. I'm hoping to put some of the work into GroundControl when I work out how the GUI would work and what functionality is

Re: libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:32 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: saned exists, it should not be used to share scanners over the network because sharing scanners is a bad idea that exposes every user of said scanners to data leak by just forgetting a sensitive document inside the scanner. Also, image

Re: libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-25 Thread Martin Owens
? If it hasn't been unsupported, then should it not work without cli powers and a deep requirement to understand ACLs? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-25 Thread Martin Owens
You seem to be saying it's not legacy, and then saying that it should be legacy? I'm confused because the documentation/enablement is so poor a systems administrator can not currently use saned whether he is informed or ill-informed about it's security implications. If it has security problems,

libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-24 Thread Martin Owens
into the rules file? Or add the saned user to the scanner group? Please advise. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/773617 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-18 Thread Martin Owens
and nothing else. But I'd also like a cycle that took everyone off coding to train a 100 new kernel hackers and 50 new xorg slaves. If wishes could be put in dishes the world would be delicious. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 09:39 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: The Fluendo plug-in is the only fully legal MP3 codec implementation there is to use. You don't know that for sure Dobey, libmad has never gone to court and it's status is a guess. Perhaps a very good guess, but a guess just the same. Of

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:17 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: Given that libmad is GPL and has not paid license fees to implement the MP3 codec, it is not legal. Whether or not you disagree with the validity of patents or not is irrelevant. It's not patents I disagree with, it's the idea that

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-11 Thread Martin Owens
package. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: shrinking the desktop DVD image to 1.5GB

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 16:55 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: As far as stuff worth adding, maybe look first at apps we've had to drop like gimp and various office tools. A few more games might be nice. I'd love to see Inkscape included. A sort of maker of things collection? Inkscape, Gimp,

Re: Uploading to multiple distros

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:20 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: For this to work I think the suite target in the changelog entry should be qualified by the distro, so you could say (picking a random example): picocom (1.4-1) debian:unstable ubuntu:oneiric; urgency=low * new upstream version:

Re: why is there no mention of the word Linux on the ubuntu.com frontpage?

2011-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:35 +0200, Igor Kolar wrote: This might not seem like a big issue, bug given Ubuntu's commitment to open source it's at least a bit strange. I would appreciate some background on when this happened, any why. Because Ubuntu isn't Linux and Linux isn't an operating

Re: Canonical's future

2011-04-30 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 15:24 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: I'm actually gonna go against the grain and say that I reckon the release of Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity is going to benefit Canonical and make them even bigger than what they are already. Bigger isn't always better. What we want is a healthy

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Martin Owens
that looks like Unity, I have to write it all in C and talk directly to OpenGL, which is messy. If I tried to use Gnome3 then I'd end up having to write in javascript, which I hate for no apparent reason. Oh woe! Won't someone let me write cool stuff in python? Yours with hugs and kisses, Martin Owens

Re: Congrats on 11.04

2011-04-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 23:03 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: Yes. python-kde4 and python-qt4 would love to let you do that. As much as I would love to show up Gnome by writing a qt4 gdm-greeter, it doesn't really work well. Gdm has issues with compositing that I can't quite get my head around.

Re: Ubuntu Open Week

2011-04-23 Thread Martin Owens
for: Making a Poster to Spread Ubuntu Doing a bit of ink-capering and uploading to spread ubuntu. Might touch on translations too. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:51 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: nor will there be immediate upstream interest in doing so. Standards, standards, standards ;-) We have all sorts of problems now because Gnome project sets the standards for Ubuntu (or what should work in Ubuntu). It becomes apparent that

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-15 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 13:00 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: the target audience for Ubuntu. People who have never used Ubuntu before? I hope the day comes when we run out of that audience. Martin, -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Evolution in Ubuntu

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Owens
and JCastro repeated over and over: 'Unity is still gnome, just a different shell' Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: The Oracle debate. Possibly an over-reaction?

2010-12-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 11:05 +0200, pec...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/26 Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au: I know somewhere along the line Ubuntu is probably going to switch to LibreOffice by default. But does that mean that with the future inclusion of LO, it also means to future removal

Re: Compatibility between Ubuntu and GNOME developer strategies

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:35 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: We also tend to hang out in #quickly on freenode when we are discussing. This may explain why #ubuntu-app-devel is so quiet. Martin, -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Revamping the Packaging Guide

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:06 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: I had a look at sphinx and I'm quite happy with it. Not only is it used by lots of python projects already, but also is it very easy to write in ReStructured text, and the output looks great too. Consider formats which support

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:24 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. Add to ubiquity the information when it sees an existing ubuntu installation. Right now the

Re: More LiveCD space optimizations

2010-11-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 16:20 -0400, Martin Pitt wrote: One thing that currently needs it is usb-modeswitch. I'd love the usb-modeswitch-dispatcher thing to be rewritten in C, Vala, or another compiled language. Not only is it holding tcl in the default install, but it also dramatically slows

Re: More LiveCD space optimizations

2010-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 00:07 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Strangely, even running advzip -z -0 images_human.zip shrinks it by 3%, and even shrinks the corresponding images_human.zip.gz file That's not strange, that's just entropic packing principles. You've got a bunch of assumptions that

Re: XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Sebastian, On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Geiger wrote: I just wanted to bring this up, if there has already been a discussion about this, maybe someone can point me to it or let me know about the current status about this issue. XDG underuse and misuse is a pet peeve of

Re: XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:19 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote: For example you are saying that emails should go to the directory specified in user-dirs.[defaults,dirs] but that makes no sense uless we are thinking about $DOCUMENTS/.email_app/. Emails, while being documents, aren't really

Re: XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think working to promote cross desktop adoption of technologies that make it easier to interact with data in a consistent, DE independent manner, (like Akonadi) will do more to solve this class of problems than specification work. I

Re: Ubuntu packaging assistance?

2010-06-30 Thread Martin Owens
Randall, I was going to ask if you had contacted the local team, but you seem to be already in with that team. If no one in your team is a packager, it's hard to imagine there could still be packagers near Vancouver but not in your loco too. (although it could happen) Martin, On Wed,

Re: No Flash player in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Palle, This is not the place for support, this is for development discussion. Could you report the problem to one of the support channels listed here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community Martin, On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:45 +0200, Palle Hellemann wrote: I can't install a Flash

Re: Shouldn't update-manager's check for updates setting have an hourly option?

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:38 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote: A fair point, but I think that up to 24 hours without a critical security update could be undesirable in some situations. Certainly, I think the default should remain daily. For what it's worth, Fedora's default is daily but it does

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:32, David Schlesinger le...@access-company.com wrote: I disagree: these politics are part of free software, not open source software. There's nothing in the OSI Definition dictating that you remove the option to use non-open source software from users if that's their

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:59 -0500, Travis Beaty wrote: Now then. Having been involved in the Linux society and culture, I understand why closed-source software is shunned. However, I also see that, at this juncture, it is often necessary to make things work. Right now, I've got a wireless

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 18:30 -0500, Travis Beaty wrote: Hmm. This confuses me, then. Because I know it was a problem at one point, at least with SuSE. I had to get different packages from plf in order to play them. The problem is patents, i.e. people who didn't write the code, who have

Re: Proposal: DNS cache by default for ubuntu-desktop

2010-06-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:41 +0100, Mohammed Bassit wrote: This is already implemented in NetworkManager. I believe dnsmasq-base is included by default in Lucid (in Karmic too I think). You only need to select Shared to other computers when edit the IPv4 settings of a network connection [1].

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Louis, Sounds great and looks like a pretty good script, I have some comments: You may be able to make it a little faster by using the find results in one like like this: find / -type f -name *.svg -print0 | xargs -0 -I FILE sh -c '/tmp/scour/scour.py --enable-id-stripping --indent=none -i

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
Indeed, but what you suggest is not economically relevant although it may be interesting socially. Work on making GPG keys easier to work with and easier to trust people and packages signed by people and organisations, then you can work on getting it more distributed. Martin, On Wed, 2010-05-05

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:23 -0400, John Moser wrote: Which brings us back to trusting people. I'll ignore your over the top theatrics and merely posit that perhaps solving the problem of trust can only really be tacked once you've got a firm grasp of human dignity. Most people are not out to

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
You mean Publishing Model not Development Model There are people thinking about development models, economics, community, tools etc and this thread is not about any of it. Martin, On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:44 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: Ubuntu needs a change in direction. I propose that Ubuntu

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:22 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The problem with most open source accounting apps is that they don't support local (country-specific) requirements, or they need extensive tweaking that requires help from local accountants and a bunch of programmers to get and keep it right

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:32 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: What if you created a framework that could add support for other states and countries so that a new application isn't needed for each case? Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available and of course just as

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting program wants to be useful for more than a couple of other people it will need *a lot* of maintenance, and some changes will have rather short deadlines (the tax office won't buy

Accounting Program

2010-03-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Brett, On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote: There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of getting in touch with the local

Re: Why is UPG halfway implemented?

2010-03-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 15:05 -0500, John Moser wrote: So yeah, i tend to be the Lock it down until it's unlocked person. There should be a /home/_Shared/ folder owned by root, drwtrwxrwx, linked to as Shared Documents. Why the underscore? Just put it in some other directory and not in /home/,

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread Martin Owens
There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Because I believe that this is something we can make money doing and provide Ubuntu with something GOD DAMN AWESOME and FOSS. Martin, On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 16:44 -0800,

Re: Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Sense, Perhaps the problem is that inside the Ubuntu project there aren't a great number of development projects that new users can just dive right into. Basically anything to do with bzr, launchpad, ubiquity or the handful of other little extras that help the Ubuntu distribution. Most

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 13:58 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 26.12.2009 um 07:23 schrieb Martin Owens: The target of computing design is to make the very complex, simple to operate. Unfortunately, many software designers think that way. The more demanding, but technically superior way

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:37 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: That's what I often do. As a rule of thumb, if there's more than one way to achieve a goal, there's too much functionality. Not exactly mainstream, I know. By profession I'm a mechanical designer and there the cost of redundant

Re: Software Design

2009-12-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:57 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: To get back to the initial topic, instead of paying people to write tools for taming complexity, paying people for getting rid of unused stuff would be even better. Culling is a valid job, it's just not valid to remove functionality;

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 16:11 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: I sense a bit of laziness involved with the OP with wanting software that does all the hard work for you! Isn't laziness a good thing? If the OP is willing to pay for the development of tools to speed or make easier the setup of these

Re: artwork

2009-10-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Coz, Lets not call for people to be fired just yet, I'm sure things can be improved with some community involvement and a little unmooding of the style. Though it's totally subjective, as style usually is. A lot of people call my graphics too cartoonish and not serious. I tend to iconify

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Martin Owens
=20091020050110241). If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come across to the list. There's also this nifty activism guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide Interesting, thanks for posting Dan. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Owens
Savage2. It it's not working on a computer with 1GB of RAM, then we need to fix it. This is clearly not a case of user error. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
into the wall. What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy conservation mode). Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
might just have to suck it. I'm an optimist, if these fine kernel folks have a problem thrust upon them, they will likely solve it somehow. More resources required? Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:53 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote: P.S.: If the OP is not a troll, I don't know what is. http://redenaz.deviantart.com/art/Behind-the-Keyboard-Trolls-76598407 Do NOT feed the trolls! Hug them. Martin, -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Improve LiveCD localisation (Was: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD)

2009-06-28 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 00:37 +0200, tacone wrote: I really think the best thing to do would be to offer a download option for localized CDs. That way an english+selected-language cd can be shipped without sacrificing LiveCD applications. You might be helped by binary diffs instead of full

Re: AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:39 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Or just because they take profit of the fact that they are advertised as _the_ free video card for linux, but they do not really work for fixing their drivers timely. I have nvidia, ati and intel cards. The most problematic and buggy

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Owens
depending on your arch would probably be a better bet, I bet it's also set to be i386 only too. A more clever script would prevent confusion I think. Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:19 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: IIRC, the Flash 64 bit Alpha almost made it into Intrepid

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Owens
changed on Jaunty installs when installing ubuntu-restricted-extras, does this install via the script or are we talking perhaps at cross logic? Anyway, this seems like a job for Adobe, probably make it in for 10.04. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: On apturls and repositories

2009-06-01 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 09:48 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: Sounds like the discussion at UDS about having support for adding repositories (or at least PPAs) via apturl didn't get very far. At risk of prolonging a stalemate, I get the impression blocking this idea for safety reasons is completely

Epson iscan and plugins

2009-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
that they couldn't get their Epson scanner working. Any advice would be very useful. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-21 Thread Martin Owens
-handling all of which are moving along) Although if LoCo experience is anything to go by, people are happy with their Ubuntu installations and some will ask for re-installation with a newer version. But most are happy. Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:12 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-21 Thread Martin Owens
of maturity though. thoughts? Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Usev permissions and USB scanners

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
no idea how this effects DeviceKit, I presume it's going to need some kind of similar list of devices supported. Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 16:16 +0300, kohe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, In the Brother support page: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1c.html#u9

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Owens
Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distributions to make things better. Many teams work in this way and I see no real

Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
, but not in our packaging. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

2009-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
for removing it. Ah so the important part here is not that it's unmaintained, but that it's superseded with a package that should (in theory) offer all the features. Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Hardware information applet... anyone working on it?

2009-04-09 Thread Martin Owens
Further, this could (in theory) give users a one-stop-shop for all things physically attached to their computers so they know where to look after connecting new hardware. It's sounds useful, just be aware that there is a difference between a device and hardware. The former is a representation

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-22 Thread Martin Owens
2) Create trust to this study platform within interested players - commercial OEMs, non-commercials, universies; Is Canonical not interested in brining these OEMs and other commercial entities into the community or does it find it's job is now just to shield them from the community? I hope

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-20 Thread Martin Owens
It is true that some menu items in Ubuntu have context menus (another example is Firefox's Bookmarks menu), but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea. Firefox bookmarks are a great comparison, because the bookmarks menu isn't a context menu, it's a list menu. It's a good idea to

Re: Remove app via apt-get from menu

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Owens
load the target application first and use that Open/Load functionality. This may at first look like duplication, but it's not, it's contexted functionality and it improved the ease of use of the system. Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Owens
that they are in fact sitting behind a paywall? I don't think it's as useful to equate network connectivity to online status. I think we may need two separate icons, or one of these newfangled status widgets and more robust NM APIs for giving that status to apps. Regards, Martin Owens PS, My ideal table

Re: Metacity as a compositing manager

2009-02-09 Thread Martin Owens
In the interest of feature-parity, the relevant question to my mind is: can composited Metacity do everything that the default Compiz can? I'm not talking about what can be enabled with ccsm or simple-ccsm, but what can be enabled in Appearances - Desktop Effects. If the simple transitions

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
. Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-23 Thread Martin Owens
to crop, but tend to include the quote that the test refers to. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:56:03AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: ... Somehow confident? your confident, but you don't know why? Loïc was indicating that the space filled with [somehow confident] is (in the web survey) a drop-down

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: Hi all, Ubuntu developers tend to complain about the ratio of signal to noise on this list - that is, the percentage of posts that take up their time without helping them to improve Ubuntu. Many developers have apparently unsubscribed

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Martin Owens
I'm [somehow confident] that other people would consider these examples of noise. Good point - I've now changed it to ... consider these to be examples of noise. Is that alright? Somehow confident? your confident, but you don't know why? My brain must have auto replaced it when I

Re: possibility of opening hardware stats ? Smolts

2009-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
the project you tried Martin Owens. Sure: https://launchpad.net/dohickey the python based client implements some very rough filtering and sorting logic to pick through the erroneous information. I was working against 530 computer profiles, sent to me by the community. So some things are fairly good

Re: too complicated

2009-01-07 Thread Martin Owens
Oh it is, i just meant don't go doing a global replace on the wiki with that because formatting and special conditions would break pages. But yes, in a carefully considered editing exercise, one could edit many pages on the wiki and make them more usable/friendly. The problem with the

Alpha Test 2008-12-16

2008-12-16 Thread Martin Owens
Alpha Test conducted by Martin Owens, on Tue 26 Dec 2008 09:17:20 -0500 Notes: Lots of things couldn't be tested, we need some more information in the test suite about how to execute some things. Other things are blocked because it's impossible to reset the account we use for testing. I'll

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Owens
This list was created to give users a way to discuss Ubuntu development with developers. Comments like I was just joking about you having to know anything make the decision to unsubscribe easy. I'm seriously considering it myself. It should remain, developers should remain. Developers

Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

2008-11-09 Thread Martin Owens
Anyway, thanks for the good work in areas different from hardware support. Intrepid is lovely, every time I try it I really would like to be able to start using it. I hope to be in time for jaunty :) Have you tried reinstalling Ubuntu 8.10 from scratch? I have the same wifi as you and I

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Owens
Anyway, it does look like linux wins in the end. I do not believe that is a good thing; Just because Gnu/Linux can be faster than windows vista doesn't automatically mean we are serving our users well. The good news always comes from the users directly who never complain about slowness. When

Re: Inclusion of a mobile management tool

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Owens
What does the mobile manager do? what does is manage? There has been a lot of discussion and debate about Hardware Management vs Device Capability. Should the manager provide functional access then it might work via hal capabilities, if it's configuration or some other kind of hardware management

Re: Inclusion of a mobile management tool

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:56 +0530, Chandru wrote: One very common use of a mobile management app is backup of contacts. Apart from that if need be (not exactly too common), back up text messages. But beyond that Wammu provides capabilities to manage mobile's calendar, To Do, etc, etc which

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 released but...

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Owens
Firefox is a special case. Because of Mozilla Corp's trademark policy Ubuntu cannot ship Firefox and call it Firefox unless Mozilla has approved all the changes in the package. If you have a problem with Firefox, I think you really need to look upstream. Doesn't this tie our hands with

Re: support

2008-10-09 Thread Martin Owens
with some odd cups problem, encoding into postscript twice or what have you; although I haven't seen that kind of error for many years. Failing all else, ask on the foomatic/gutenprint mailing list. Some good experts with printers there. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 13:44 +0200

Re: tablet-support in Ubuntu

2008-10-05 Thread Martin Owens
Someone needs to kick^H^H^H^Hask upstream :) If we want to forward the bugs upstream, do we do this on xorg (wherever it might be), evdev or linuxwacom bug tracker? Not sure to be honest, months and months ago (so long ago I forget) I sent Bryce a wacom table to work with. I'd hold off on bug

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
and most people end up creating a backgrounds folder anyway. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
: ssh from your laptop to your computer, your looking for a contact in your evolution account. You have the command line. P.S. I've taken cheese mailing list off the reply, don't want to flood their list. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
application? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-17 Thread Martin Owens
not permanent and is more of a state of the application. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Configuration Validation

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
works. I propose python as a language of choice to build such a system. I assume much of these ideas to have been discussed at length before, but my searches aren't picking up useful results. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Configuration Validation

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
2008/9/12 Andrew Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you spell out some specific issues that this would solve? For example, are you looking to avoid two packages overwriting each other's files in ~/? If so, can you give an example of that happening? Examples: 1) I manually edit a config file

Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
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Re: Configuration Validation

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
to join the session. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

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