Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread randall
Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: >> Aaron C. de Bruyn: >> >>> It boils down to this: If users aren't running into bugs, why repackage? >>> >> Because having “Release Conadidate” on the splash screen and “rc” in the >> About box gives users the impression that this is not a trustworthy, >> fi

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
> Aaron C. de Bruyn: > > It boils down to this: If users aren't running into bugs, why repackage? > > Because having “Release Conadidate” on the splash screen and “rc” in the > About box gives users the impression that this is not a trustworthy, > final version of GIMP. Kinda like how hundreds

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Peter wrote: > It's not as simple is that, you need a sponsor for your patches to be > approved. And currently there are 45 "bugs" in the sponsorship queue, > 5 are committed, 4 in progress, 3 triaged, 16 confirmed (one as late as > 2006-03-03) and 17 new the oldest dating back to 2006-12-14. > >

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Phillip Susi
Dean Sas wrote: >> So we're actually getting 2.4.1 (or something very much like it), but >> labelled “2.4.0rc3”? > > Precisely. Often Ubuntu packages might include patches from upstream > that haven't yet been made part of a release. See Emmet's review for the > exact details in this case. If th

Re: Benefit of Compiz to audio work?

2007-11-12 Thread Emmet Hikory
On Nov 13, 2007 12:25 AM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Ubuntu Studio team is considering shipping Compiz (with a minimal > config) in Ubuntu Studio-Hardy 8.08. > > Some have said that moving the drawing of windows off the the GFX card > would help the load on the CPU and thus keep xruns

Re: Password-protect grub interactive commands

2007-11-12 Thread Milan
OK, just forget the GRUB password idea, I've understood how it can become a complete mess. Sorry for the idea... But what about that? unggnu wrote: > > > I like the way Ubuntu handles root that always sudo is needed so why we > don't make it with Recovery mode too? Just don't autologin root like

Re: Password-protect grub interactive commands (was: rationale of root access from boot)

2007-11-12 Thread Thilo Six
Nicolas Deschildre wrote the following on 12.11.2007 11:04 <<-snip->> > This is EOT for me. > > Nicolas Nicolas if i sound rude in my last mail i apologize for that. bye -- Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Password-protect grub interactive commands

2007-11-12 Thread unggnu
Chris Warburton wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 17:41 +0100, Thilo Six wrote: >> Milan wrote the following on 10.11.2007 16:56 >> >> <<-snip->> >> >>> All in all, I'd rather suggest to activate password-locked GRUB, but I >>> understand this question is hard to decide. Does anybody see other >>> agr

Re: Benefit of Compiz to audio work?

2007-11-12 Thread Chris Warburton
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:25 -0500, Cory K. wrote: > The Ubuntu Studio team is considering shipping Compiz (with a minimal > config) in Ubuntu Studio-Hardy 8.08. > > Some have said that moving the drawing of windows off the the GFX card > would help the load on the CPU and thus keep xruns to a min

Benefit of Compiz to audio work?

2007-11-12 Thread Cory K.
The Ubuntu Studio team is considering shipping Compiz (with a minimal config) in Ubuntu Studio-Hardy 8.08. Some have said that moving the drawing of windows off the the GFX card would help the load on the CPU and thus keep xruns to a minimum. Any thoughts/ideas on this one? -Cory \m/ -- Ubuntu

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Greg K Nicholson
I think we're only *surprised* that this isn't being done already because the Ubuntu team are usually so unreservedly awesome, and have usually figured out a way to make stuff happen and have actually made the stuff happen, before we were even aware that we *wanted* said stuff to happen. Genera

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Peter
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:52:29 +1100 Christopher James Halse Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But you don't need to be a MOTU to do the work, and since gimp is in > main, it doesn't much help being a MOTU either. The uploading to the > archives part is by far the quickest and simplest part o

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:13 -0500, Peter wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:47:34 +1100 > Sarah Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greg K Nicholson wrote: > > > We'd only have to do this *once* for each package of which a > > > non-final version was released in Ubuntu final. Once the final > > >

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Peter
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:47:34 +1100 Sarah Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg K Nicholson wrote: > > We'd only have to do this *once* for each package of which a > > non-final version was released in Ubuntu final. Once the final > > version of the package is available, there need be no more upd

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Greg K Nicholson wrote: > We'd only have to do this *once* for each package of which a non-final > version was released in Ubuntu final. Once the final version of the > package is available, there need be no more updates (beyond what are > already done). > > Hopefully a commitment to doing this

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 00:21 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 02:24 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sebastian > Heinlein: > > Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan before running a Windows > > application? > > Does that need to have a clamav daemon running (IME, it isn't ver

Laptop touchpad configuration

2007-11-12 Thread Matthias Andersson
Hi! Is there a simple way of configuring Ubuntu to disable the touchpad on the laptop in case it detects a usb-mouse connected to the computer? It's a nuisance to go through the preferences to disable the touchpad. I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L 1300. //Matthias Andersson -- Ubuntu-devel-d

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 00:29 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: > Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 05:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sebastian > Heinlein: > > AFAIK you are not allowed to virtualize MacOS. > > Which is not enforceable in how many countries...? :) Nevertheless you should respect the author

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Greg K Nicholson: > no more updates (beyond what are > already done). By this I meant “no more updates (other than the current normal update processes)”. I certainly didn't mean freeze all updates on that package forever. That would be silly :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

Re: Password-protect grub interactive commands (was: rationale of root access from boot)

2007-11-12 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
On Nov 12, 2007 2:15 PM, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:06 +0800, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: [...] > > For the simplest installations, GRUB could perhaps read /etc/shadow and > accept any user's password -- but that would be error-prone, open to > exploit

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Aaron C. de Bruyn: > It boils down to this: If users aren't running into bugs, why repackage? Because having “Release Conadidate” on the splash screen and “rc” in the About box gives users the impression that this is not a trustworthy, final version of GIMP. And because the version number the

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-12 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Aaron C. de Bruyn: > So you are saying that we should react to new versions by packaging the up on > the basis that there are probably users that could maybe be having bugs but > haven't reported them. We should react on that basis only to new, stable versions of packages where the current vers