Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Wagner
I'm probably way out of my element, here, but wouldn't the ideal solution be to load services based on what hardware is present. And by "what hardware is present", I don't mean at install or boot-up; I mean it in general (i.e., if someone plugs in an HP printer, then the HP printer service(s) will

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > (As a side thought, I'm not sure what constitutes "common" hardware, but > I for one don't know a single person who owns a Palm device.) I can see two or three Treos from here. Whether they work with gnome-pilot is another story, but i

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Alex Jones
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:10 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > On 4/4/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This comes about as more and more people question why their computer > > starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or > > why I have a HP printer driver control pan

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Alex Jones
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:58 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > > This comes about as more and more people question why their computer > > starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or > > why I have a HP printer drive

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/4/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This comes about as more and more people question why their computer > starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or > why I have a HP printer driver control panel applet, or a Palm Pilot > sync applet, or PCMCIA services, e

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > This comes about as more and more people question why their computer > starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or > why I have a HP printer driver control panel applet, or a Palm Pilot > sync applet, or PCMCIA

[Fwd: Re: Network Manager as part of default install]

2007-04-05 Thread Gianmarco Leone
--- Messaggio inoltrato --- Da: Gianmarco Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rispondi-a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oggetto: Re: Network Manager as part of default install Data: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:12:37 +0200 Il giorno gio, 05/04/2007 alle 16.23 +0100, Matt Zimmerman h

Re: feisty + GUI performance in VMware player

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:15:23AM +0200, Petr Hrdlička wrote: > Hello Team, > > since last updates from this morning, yesterday and last Partial Update I'm > experiencing very low performance of GUI. This drives me little bit crazy. > Even the mouse cursor isn't moving smoothly. I'm running fei

Where to post feature request for Kernel patches

2007-04-05 Thread Hendrik Baecker
Hi List, I just want to know where I can post a feature request for a kernel patch to get IBMs Ultrabay into "supported" state. I know that there is a way to get the bay to work with actual kernel + some small additional patches. Would be very nice to see them in Ubuntu Kernel to get a hotplugab

Re: Looking for mentor for Google SoC idea - application start prefetching

2007-04-05 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a): > Matthias Klose napisał(a): >>> Full text of application: >>> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~lichota/soc2007-prefetch/application.html >> Please could you write down the project idea in a wiki page at >> wiki.ubuntu.com? >> Use the SpecTemplate for the page. If you didn't