Re: Re: OpenGL to OpenGL ES change on arm64?

2016-07-18 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2016-06-06 5:23 GMT+03:00 张超 : > Hi All, > We have ARM64 devices used AMD Radeon Series graphics cards。So,same as x86 > we really need a full OpenGL Qt support With ARM64 。 Hi. I noticed this e-mail went unanswered. All Radeon graphics (and NVIDIA) run OpenGL ES

Re: Xenial startup disk creator and custom ISO

2016-05-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
isofs to genisofs [1]. -Timo [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/ubuntu-fi-remix/main/revision/31 -- 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: Default languages strategy for Ubuntu desktop CD

2016-04-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2016-04-21 10:59 GMT+03:00 Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com>: > though, there may be new hurdles hurdles to overcome. I did a quick > test run yesterday evening but somehow it seemed unbootable ("Failed > to load ldlinux.c32"), I'll need to look into it during the

Re: Default languages strategy for Ubuntu desktop CD

2016-04-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-12-01 10:06 GMT+02:00 Didier Roche : > Some loco team used to have respin of the default localized ubuntu image. > Yours truly used to have handle this quite regularly for the french loco > team. I know that the italian and finnish locos used to do it as well (not > sure

Re: qt5ct for Wily

2015-09-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-09-20 12:24 GMT+03:00 Ralf Mardorf : > does somebody know a link that introduces how to build qt5 applications > for Wily? The closest might be http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/packagingqtstuff.html > [weremouse@moonstudio qt5ct-0.17]$ qtchooser -qt=5

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Desktop Agnostic

2015-09-01 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-09-01 1:15 GMT+03:00 Len Ovens : > on all flavours... well maybe not Unity (actually I think I did, but > disliked it so much, I gave up), Unity is a beautiful experience and > entertaining, but does not make "work" as easy for me. It depends on the user, but for me it

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

2015-08-23 Thread Timo Jyrinki
, if it is moved off the disk, the exe file executed from the windows drive, and installer mode selected. I have no idea if that is true or not, but be sure to do any testing of this beyond the reboot greeter on an expendable install. On 8/22/2015 at 10:09 AM, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri

Re: ISO generator for LoCo teams - UEFI booting language setting

2015-08-22 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-08-22 0:10 GMT+03:00 Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com: I haven't looked in any detail at how changing the default language is done for live images, but what I can tell you is that any configuration changes that you can make via grub.cfg are allowed under SecureBoot. So if you can

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

2015-08-22 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Didn't https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2015-August/015757.html just tell wubi has had only a simple please reboot functionality for a long time, but causing confusion since it's still named wubi, and all the documentation everywhere? It's useful that there's a dialog

Re: ISO generator for LoCo teams - UEFI booting language setting

2015-08-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-11-10 8:25 GMT+02:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: The pseudo-script (really needs copy-pasting sections instead of executing) I've used to create it is at https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-fi-remix All is still working for both UEFI and Legacy boot users with the Ubuntu 14.04.3

Re: Qt 5.5.0 - bug fixing needed

2015-08-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-07-15 17:31 GMT+03:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: Qt 5.5.0 is testable on wily from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/landing-012/ - including the new Qt 3D tech preview. It's still there and now fixed to build against GCC5 so brave ones can again use

Re: pretty please can we kill the png optimizer?

2015-08-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-08-12 4:34 GMT+03:00 Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com: we don't ship cd images anymore, we are not limited to CD sizes, and as long as we don't hit some 2GB limit, we shouldn't optimize for size. This optimizer adds for some packages 100% build time, in rare occasions up to 2000%. This

Qt 5.5.0 - bug fixing needed

2015-07-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, Qt 5.5.0 is testable on wily from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/landing-012/ - including the new Qt 3D tech preview. It includes package rebuilds needed for Ubuntu phones, Unity 8 desktop and Plasma 5 desktop, but I have only tested the phone so far. On the

Qt 5.5 early look

2015-04-30 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, I've spent a bit of time with Qt 5.5 alpha since its release in March. Here's the first screenshot of Ubuntu on it: https://plus.google.com/+TimoJyrinki/posts/Jw6Tx9QhC7S - thanks to the FTBFS bug fixers of maliit-framework, qtmir, unity8. More information at

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Desktop Agnostic

2015-04-27 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2015-04-27 3:34 GMT+03:00 Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net: The link above gives less info than needed. after doing some more research... I think it will depend on the dev. It is still possible to lean on the system libs and not include them. I expect packages from debian will continue to do so. I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.4 QVariant change and module news

2015-02-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Bogdan Cuza bogdan.c...@hotmail.com wrote: I have just received a vivid-proposed image and noticed that U1db no longer loads the defaults (which was probably a processed QVariantMap from JS). Did this change break it/could it break even more components? Indeed

Qt 5.4 QVariant change and module news

2015-02-16 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Qt 5.4 is now in vivid, powering Ubuntu Phone starting with devel image #102, Kubuntu's Plasma 5 and also the Unity 8 desktop preview. No app changes are generally needed, but there is a change in QVariant that may be relevant to C++ using apps. == QVariant change in Qt 5.4 == QVariant has

Re: [ubuntu-release] Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business

2014-10-27 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-10-27 16:45 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org: - A switch from C to C.UTF-8 on the builders and the default locale when none is selected in the installer. - A move to glibc 2.20 or 2.21, timing dependent. - Steady progress on the systemd transition, with a goal to

Re: Patch pilot report: 2014-09-25

2014-09-29 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-09-25 19:42 GMT+03:00 Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com: I can't close the MPs. Can somebody do that, please? The MP:s lack Abandoned status option, and removing the MP would lose the discussion history over it. So I did what I've seen others do, ie set as Merged to mean nothing to do

Re: Patch pilot report: 2014-09-25

2014-09-29 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-09-29 10:27 GMT+03:00 Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com: The MP:s lack Abandoned status option, and removing the MP would lose the discussion history over it. So I did what I've seen others do, ie set as Merged to mean nothing to do anymore, even if it wouldn't be really merged. What's

Patch pilot report: 2014-09-29

2014-09-29 Thread Timo Jyrinki
73 items at beginning, 51 at the end (but also thanks to at least two other active pilots). My first pilot shift as MOTU. Needs community testing: * [SRU] lsdvd (invalid output for acidrip) http://pad.lv/1310049 - Readied an upload fro 14.04 LTS and tested the change, but was unable to get

Re: What's the right way to get qmlscene to work out of the box?

2014-08-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-06-23 17:22 GMT+03:00 Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com: I've discussed the topic a bit on IRC and the advices/replies include: - qmlscene is a dev tools and shouldn't be used by those applications - you should change the environment/export a variable to make qt5 the default (seems to be

Re: What's the right way to get qmlscene to work out of the box?

2014-08-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-08-13 9:03 GMT+03:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: We could survive a bit longer by distro patching qtchooser (another workaround), but I feel that eventually we'd like to have more control on the QML app startups For the Ubuntu specific new wrapper, discussion can continue

Re: Qt 5.3 landing update June 16

2014-06-19 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-06-18 16:46 GMT+03:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: earliest time of landing would be later today in the more western timezones, or tomorrow morning if we get a green light from the people who are waking up now and testing/fixing things. Qt 5.3.0 is now in utopic-proposed. Eight Qt

Re: Qt 5.3 landing update June 16

2014-06-18 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-06-16 17:28 GMT+03:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: The landing this week seems doable, let's do our best to fix the remaining blockers. Many bugs are being pinpointed to specific root problems, but we need to get rid of the remaining blockers. Update for today below, almost

Qt 5.3 landing update June 16

2014-06-16 Thread Timo Jyrinki
The landing this week seems doable, let's do our best to fix the remaining blockers. Many bugs are being pinpointed to specific root problems, but we need to get rid of the remaining blockers. Done: - Calendar app AP failures are also on normal images - qt5.3 tag removed - telephony-service fix

Re: Qt 5.3 landing update June 13

2014-06-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-06-13 20:20 GMT+03:00 Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com: Should I conclude from this that it will or will not get in on Monday as planned? The June 6 update mentioned several devs are at the Qt contributor summit next week, so the earliest we will land is still week of the 16th. I'd

Qt 5.3 landing update June 13

2014-06-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Good progress again. Looking at last week's actions: camera works in addition to video playback, automated autopilot testing is now functional, bugs for autopilot tests have been filed, store apps seem quite fine initially, qtbase failing unit tests have been investigated a bit, packaging and

Re: Qt 5.3 landing update June 4

2014-06-04 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-06-04 17:52 GMT+03:00 Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com: The major thing this misses is merging from Debian. There are quite good Qt5 5.3.0 packages in Debian Experimental and what is uploaded to the archive should be based on that work. The main modules qtbase and qtdeclarative were

Re: Point of reviews

2014-05-23 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-05-23 14:41 GMT+02:00 Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com: If you look at this merge proposal, it was disapproved with a suggestion that it was premature. Despite that, it got released and into the archive anyway. So what's the point of review? I'm not sure if you noticed the timeline,

Re: Upgrade iso image

2014-04-29 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-04-29 3:56 GMT+03:00 Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com: With the removal of the dvd iso, I feel a void has been left in the upgrade process. I understand the desire to avoid the burden of testing the bootable install dvd image, but wouldn't it be nice to replace it with an upgrade image

Patch pilot report [2014-04-10]

2014-04-10 Thread Timo Jyrinki
This was quite on-and-off piloting turn, but I'd like to hilight LMMS needing someone to look at it so it's worth sending this e-mail (Ubuntu Studio folks would like to have it in very much): https://bugs.launchpad.net/lmms/+bug/1291675 - LMMS 1.0, fixed various packaging issues, checked upstream

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Updated pitivi 0.93 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

2014-04-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, The release team asked me to ask for Ubuntu Studio's comment to the question of whether to upgrade pitivi for 14.04 LTS, at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pitivi/+bug/1253009 Could someone comment there? I'm not Ubuntu Studio developer, but my personal experience is that 0.15 is

Re: Qt 5.2.1 final push

2014-03-14 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014-02-27 8:32 GMT+02:00 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@canonical.com: Qt 5.2.1 should be soon ready for landing to Ubuntu 14.04, the target being March 6th if the FFe is accepted. The previous update two weeks ago was at https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg06396.html We didn't hit

Qt 5.2.1 final push

2014-02-26 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi all Qt lovers, Qt 5.2.1 should be soon ready for landing to Ubuntu 14.04, the target being March 6th if the FFe is accepted. The previous update two weeks ago was at https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg06396.html The FFe is open at http://pad.lv/1278329. It has the latest status

Patch pilot report 2014-02-13

2014-02-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
My first Patch Pilot report! I read docs and thought about how I'll approach it. Done: * metacity http://pad.lv/907640 alt-grave fix. Commented, built, tested and did a packaging merge proposal out of the debdiff. Uploaded by didrocks, thanks! * xubuntu-docs http://pad.lv/1251332 14.04.0 release.

Re: Qt5 plans for trusty

2014-01-22 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2014/1/22 Aeron Farax aeron2...@yahoo.ee: QT 5.0 is like beta in 5 series, apps that use QT5 and most of them move to v5.2 It would be wise to include 5.2 for sake of LTS In progress! Everyone hopes to move to Qt 5.2 as quickly as possible. Incidentally I just posted an update from Ubuntu

Re: qreal change in Qt 5.2

2013-12-04 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/12/4 Dmitry Shachnev mity...@ubuntu.com: Also, IIRC, nothing was decided about the SONAME stuff (and I would really want if we got synchronized with Debian on (not)doing the bump). I'd go for not bumping SONAME and doing all rebuilds at once. Debian should lead the way, and since they

Re: On cross-compiling qml extensions, qt packaging needs changing

2013-09-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: Even a more simple case of: $ apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev:armhf Doesn't install because of GL somewhere down the stack: qtbase5-dev : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or

Re: Call for Testing: Mir multi-monitor

2013-08-27 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/8/27 Robert Park robert.p...@canonical.com: I also had libhybris installed, and removing it fixed xmir. Yep, I hit that as well 2.5 weeks ago when I started using xmir: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-system-compositor/+bug/1210798 Aside from the lack of proper multi-monitor support and

Re: Side-by-side installation of Qt5 and Qt4

2013-05-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, Yes, Qt4 and Qt5 are fully co-installable in Ubuntu 13.04 (and 12.04 LTS + 12.10 with the help of the PPA). You should install either qt4-default or qt5-default package to select which tools are given you by default, ie. when you type eg. qmake without any parameters. You can then switch

Re: This missing kernel headers on our latest stable release madness...

2013-03-01 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/2/22 Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com: I've been absolutely flooded with informal reports over a period of several months now of 12.10 being still broken with regards to proprietary drivers. Reports like this are typical, especially after the influx of steam users: Installed ubuntu

Re: This missing kernel headers on our latest stable release madness...

2013-03-01 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/2/22 Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com: I'm not sure what the underlying fix should be, but it is making me question if there's some sort of larger process issue here because we've managed to drop this on the floor for so long. A good question. It might be that the proprietary drivers

Re: This missing kernel headers on our latest stable release madness...

2013-02-28 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/2/22 Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com: I've been absolutely flooded with informal reports over a period of several months now of 12.10 being still broken with regards to proprietary drivers. Reports like this are typical, especially after the influx of steam users: Installed ubuntu

Re: This missing kernel headers on our latest stable release madness...

2013-02-28 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2013/2/22 Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com: I'm not sure what the underlying fix should be, but it is making me question if there's some sort of larger process issue here because we've managed to drop this on the floor for so long. A good question. It might be that the proprietary drivers

Re: [Idea] PhoneGap support for Ubuntu

2012-11-08 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/11/6 James Haigh james.r.ha...@gmail.com: What? Could you please provide a link? http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1195 - look at the core of Ubuntu and review it through a mobile lens. I think PhoneGap would fit in the core by being essentially also a sort of build/packaging tool,

Re: [Idea] PhoneGap support for Ubuntu

2012-11-05 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/11/6 Ma Xiaojun damage3...@gmail.com: This is inspired by the following post: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg6.html Since Ubuntu is heading towards Tablets and mobile phones now. It would be very nice if we also join the PhoneGap camp. This

Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/4/11 Dane Mutters dmutt...@gmail.com: There's somewhat more to it than that.  The major issue (among many other issues) is that the new GUIs don't do the things that used to be available on the old one (Gnome 2).  Example: I can't add a good system monitor to Gnome 3 because the old

Re: Drop Gwibber from default install

2012-03-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/3/14 Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com: Can you please clarify what you mean by laggy here? And are there bugs open for what you mean by your use of the term? The smooth scroll bug covers it mostly, but some specifics might use separate bug reports. At least the following come to

Re: Drop Gwibber from default install

2012-03-14 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/3/12 Ken VanDine ken.vand...@canonical.com: For those that haven't tried the latest version, I really suggest getting 3.3.91 and taking that for a spin.  Most of the effort we've put into it recently have been quality, so no stunning changes but more reliability.  Duplicate detection and

Re: MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-08 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/2/7 Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com: So what should we, the Debian and Ubuntu MySQL maintainers and users, do about this? This is really more for the heavy users to answer, but I haven't seen any indication that MariaDB wouldn't be an LTS worthy replacement. It has the majority of former

Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/10/19 Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@ubuntu.com: The 12.04.1 (the first of the dot releases) is scheduled for 23 August 2012, which is about 4 months after the 12.04 release (26 April 2012).  The dot release is, in fact, a bug-fix and hardware-enablement only release cycle.  Realistically, some

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-11 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/4/8 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: There are a lot of bugs and lack of features (and many have been fixed already as well) and the performance is quite bad in parts, but those are not as serious as a) crashers and potentially b) accessibility and lack of any help. Just reflecting

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/4/8 Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com: I couldn't have believed it even two months ago still, but today I feel the same. When I switch back to classic GNOME it feels inferior now; I'm particularly missing the super-fast keyboard shortcuts/search/navigation and bigger screen real estate.

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/4/8 Neil Jagdish Patel neil.pa...@canonical.com: 3.8.4 should be much, much more stable, especially if you're on a 64-bit system. The entire team is concentrated on crashers and I think we'll have a very stable Unity by hard-freeze. Sounds good, and yes I've 64-bit which explains a bit.

Re: Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/3/24 Evan eapa...@gmail.com: For security we definitely want users to enter their passwords by default. However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead should be optimized for this option, not for auto-login. Note though that Ubuntu Netbook defaults to auto-login, and

Re: String break in ubuntone-client without freeze exception

2010-03-19 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/3/15 Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com: which there are translations, and doesn't really explain which strings you feel broke this freeze. Can you list them please, so we can determine which ones exactly you think broke the freeze? I'll leave you in the capable hands of Elliot if

String break in ubuntone-client without freeze exception

2010-03-11 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi Rodney, You recently uploaded a new version of ubuntuone-client source package. Please note that Ubuntu has been in UserInterfaceFreeze since March 4th, requiring freeze exception including a bug report and a note to relevant mailing lists. See more information at

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-25 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/2/25 Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com: By the way, reading all materials, I just thought - usb-modeswitch now has nice udev wrapper - why not ship it by default? Why it isn't in main? Is there any objections to this? Patents, legal issues (I can't think of any, but still)? I think this

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/2/24 Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com: I fully agree with you Scott, however I am not sure which one of us should start discussion there. Would be nice for you Ubuntu guys to start pushing this idea, because you have some backing. Anyway, I'm subscribing to that list and if no one will

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/2/13 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: I think the main interesting thing would be that what are the usb-modeswitch developers' motivations and could they with some help from the kernel guys be directed to contribute more to the kernel. In addition to previous concerns in this thread

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-13 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/2/9 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com: If I read those correctly, they work neither with or without usb-modeswitch, hence adding it would not decrease any usability? I poked around on IRC and summarized with my non-existent journalistic skills the situation in my blog: http

Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, a) Is anyone aware of some earlier discussions on the topic wrt Ubuntu and b) Would everyone agree that it would make a lot of sense? 3G broadband usage is incredibly popular nowadays at least around here, and usb-modeswitch is a must have for a majority (?) of new 3G modems these days. It's

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-09-22

2009-09-23 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/9/22 Jordan Mantha laserj...@ubuntu.com:   * Based on feedback all around, it was agreed that it is still early     for sun-java6 to be dropped.  However, it was not yet clear if     responsibility for the package should be changed.   * ACTION: kees to drive sun-java6 email thread and get

Regression in getting fully translated Ubuntu installation - what to do for karmic?

2009-09-22 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, CC:ing ubuntu-translators just to get interested people on-board, no need to continue CC:ing. Please look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/language-selector/+bug/434173 - do you think I'm missing something, can the report be refined? The new way of handling supporting translations, writing aids

Thanks to you all, 9.04 will be a great release in all languages

2009-04-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, This is just a small ”thank you” and also ”just look at that” kind of post. The thing that should be looked at is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/JauntyTranslationIssues Virtually all I18N issues that were a) never fixed in eg. intrepid (or earlier) b) found out as new (having

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-25 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/3/25 Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt: I'm wondering why readahead doesn't load all those thousands of small files needed for desktop startup during boot, before I try to log in. I'm guessing that it just doesn't know the particular ones that I need - everyone's GNOME settings are different,

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/3/23 Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt: Personally, for me the desktop startup is (or feels) I/O-bound, with the panel applets showing up one by one with agonizing pauses in between and the disk running at full throttle. Yes, it is. In jaunty, the current warm start (everything in cache, ie.

Re: translating the categories in the totem BBC plugin or not?

2009-03-06 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/3/6 Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com: The change add the list of categories to the translatable strings and I would gather some opinion on whether people think that's a good idea or not knowing that the media content available is in english. I'd think it's enough that the actual titles

Re: Go-OOO.org?

2008-12-30 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/12/30 Joe Terranova joeterran...@gmail.com: a) Open Office (and its derivatives I assume) is a bear to package. Transition packages between releases open up more points of failure. Will Go-Ooo.org last, or die in 2 months? Is anyone btw familiar how much of go-oo.org is Novell's business

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
I wonder how this discussion is able to drift so much away from the actual subject on both ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-devel-discuss. Many people do not want to believe results or just point out one or two of them are meaningless (like NVIDIA graphics performance with closed drivers is not that

Re: OpenOffice 3 and Firefox 3.1 in Intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/5 Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: released on Sept 8 which puts the final release around Oct 20. That doesn't leave enough time to make it even marginally stable, since that would be only 3 days before the Intrepid release candidate. Note that there are also dependencies like

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/11 Krzysztof Lichota [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As an author of Prefetch, I cannot agree that it would not fix seeks ;) Part of my implementation, not enabled by default as it is highly experimental, is ext3 defragmenter which puts all files for prefetch in one place on disk, so the requests to

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/12 Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the mailing list here. So, as a test, I timed my own system how long it takes to boot. From GRUB boot to login screen, it was 36.72 secs. And that is on a Celeron D with 512MB DDR RAM and booting from an old IDE hard drive. I'd imagine that a more

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/12 Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have 25-35 seconds from GRUB till desktop appearing (using autologin)? i have managed 22 already with a not to drastic set of modifications (19 after grub [1] plus the three second grub timeout) with the ten seconds my BIOS takes that even stays

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-11 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/10 Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe we could achieve it using Prefetch? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Prefetch https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticBootAndApplicationPrefetchingSpec Prefetch would be nice, and definitely would improve the user experience. In the

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/9/9 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. Remove the flashes and brown screens when starting Gnome Personally, my biggest annoyance as a user is the brown screen that flashes between GDM and when Gnome starts. It would be much nicer if gdm displayed the greeter for half a

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-15 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/7/11 Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That doesn't require a script. For example, bugs targeted to intrepid-alpha-2, sorted by number of duplicates: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?orderby=-number_of_duplicatesfield.milestone%3Alist=1320 Cool, didn't know that! Added to

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-08 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/7/7 Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the single most needed feature in Launchpad regarding this would be the possibility for voting, as done in bugzilla. I don't know if I necessarily agree with this. Voting may feel good from a user perspective and certainly couldn't hurt,

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/7/7 Emmet Hikory [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While we all tend to be busy much of the time, perhaps there are ways that we can improve the view of bugs in need of attention, or otherwise help understand which bugs are likely to be perceived as painful to users at release time. I think the single

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-09 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/6/9 Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was a Banshee user for about 9 months or so. That ended a year ago. Unless it's changed, Banshee only recognizes songs you have imported. It does not monitor directories for new songs, and especially not recursively. Yep, and for this very

Re: i18n in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - great work! ( current status)

2008-04-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/4/20 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll have to look for our bug number and report back, but as you can see, this is a major showstopper, because any Portuguese Ubuntu User will be presented with and English GUI of OOo. Is this a question of CD space? Hi. Unfortunately the

Re: i18n in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - great work! ( current status)

2008-04-21 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/4/21 Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In cases where that's not possible, I think the current approach of having the language selector install the missing pieces is better. Yes, without any Internet connection available during install, post-install should have enough guiding for the

Re: Unneeded System Tools menu

2008-03-31 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/3/31, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A better solution in my opinion would be to move the Applications - System Tools submenu to a System - Tools submenu. I agree that the current setup is very poor, for the reasons already presented. If the System - Tools is unfeasible at this point,

Re: What happened to IcedTea in Hardy?

2008-03-24 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/3/23, Thilo Six [EMAIL PROTECTED]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-java7/+bug/203636 I don't think that answers the last question, since the current openjdk-6-* packages do not include Java browser plugin. So is there a specific openjdk-6 browser plugin coming, or is there

Remaining i18n/localization issues in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, please fix your packages and use non-English yourself

2008-03-18 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hi, some i18n nagging from me again, yay! First of all, I'd hope that developers that are non-native English speakers or otherwise handle other languages fluently, would use that language in their desktop environment eg. for the rest of hardy cycle at least occasionally. Most non-developers use

Re: Reminders: 1. UI freeze == string freeze, notifications needed for translators. 2. please remember i18n.

2008-03-10 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2008/3/8, Scott Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does string freeze include changes to package descriptions? Not sure if I'm the correct person to answer this, but I'd say no. Package description translations is not what Ubuntu translators do every day, or at least Ubuntu doesn't offer a framework

Re: Deprecating slocate for desktop users?

2008-01-03 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Chris Jones kirjoitti: Speaking for myself, I regularly use slocate to find things that are outside my home directory (not that I use tracker for things that are in my home directory - I put them where they are, so I know where they are ;) I also use slocate sometimes, and I don't use tracker

Raising i18n awareness among developers

2007-08-30 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Hello, I'd like to raise some internationalization issues Ubuntu has faced and is facing currently. As a translator and user of Ubuntu in my native language I've sometimes felt that it would be useful to have better awareness of i18n issues among the developers in general. I hope this will help