BROTHER drivers in Ubuntu

2008-02-05 Thread Piotr Zaryk
Hello, Would it be difficult to include drivers for Brother printers and scanners? They are quite common and users have problems with them. If not by default in Ubuntu install, why not to include them in the universe repository? user requests on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour

Re: Transmission as default bittorrent client

2008-02-05 Thread Murat Gunes
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 20:20 -0500, Vadim Peretokin wrote: > If I remember right, Transmission was chosen over Deluge because the > devs thought both had similar features, but Deluge had an option to > password-protect the tray in some tab under preferences, which someone > didn't like. So.. For

Re: Transmission as default bittorrent client

2008-02-05 Thread Bryan Quigley
My initial reaction was similar. However, in transmissions favor *Memory usage* (quick test) Deluge at 23 Mb Transmission at 7 Mb The interface also seems more transitional from the previous integrated client. I think one of the big factors is that deluge has a wizard to get you setup while tran

Re: Transmission as default bittorrent client

2008-02-05 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Deluge is more popular, checking with the sample given from popcon.ubuntu.com. If I remember right, Transmission was chosen over Deluge because the devs thought both had similar features, but Deluge had an option to password-protect the tray in some tab under preferences, which someone didn't like

Transmission as default bittorrent client

2008-02-05 Thread Remco
Hello, I'm new here, I would like to comment on the decision to make Transmission the default bittorrent client in Hardy. Why was this program chosen? It seems to me (though, as a fan, I'm biased) that Deluge is more popular and more familiar (looks like µTorrent & Azureus). Transmission has a bit

"Make sense" keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

2008-02-05 Thread Cory K.
Ubuntu Studio has decided to add a keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor. Most windows users see this as a equivalent to Ctrl+Alt+Del. That is of course already mapped and launches the logout dialog. So we decided to use the keys KDE uses to launch their monitor. Ctrl+Esc. This works out great in

Re: Alpha 4 freeze ahead

2008-02-05 Thread Conrad Knauer
On Feb 4, 2008 5:34 PM, Bryan Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > why not include [Firefox 3 Beta] by default early on to get more > > > > testing? > > > > > > Indeed +1 > > > > Or not > > Many addons are still not compatible > > > So? This would help bring the ones included in Ub