sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Hi Ubuntu Developers, I first wanted to thank you for your decent job on the distro. However, surely I would haven't fired off an email, unless there was a complaint (sorry). I'm just a little appalled at the state of audio support on Linux (I believe this issue is not Ubuntu only); I was trying

Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:13:19PM EST, Gezim Hoxha wrote: I first wanted to thank you for your decent job on the distro. However, surely I would haven't fired off an email, unless there was a complaint (sorry). Thanks for your kind words. Nothing

Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 à 17:40 +1000, Luke Yelavich a écrit : snip I'm just a little appalled at the state of audio support on Linux (I believe this issue is not Ubuntu only); I was trying to have a conversation on the google chat (from within the browser) and since the chat has audio alerts,

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Novin
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu should make it more visible for others to see what does it contribute

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything.

Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does Google Chat use? Flash? Java? Boring old Javascript. -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com -my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo --

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Luke L
A former Canonical employee is mentioned in that article as a major maintainer. I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all.

Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
Oh, if it's a Flash issue, just install libflashsupport On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Chandru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had experienced the exact same problem. When Rhythmbox is playing a song, no sound output came from Firefox (Youtube or any Flash site). Also, AFAIK GMail uses Flash

Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Cory K.
Chandru wrote: I had experienced the exact same problem. When Rhythmbox is playing a song, no sound output came from Firefox (Youtube or any Flash site). Also, AFAIK GMail uses Flash for audio alerts (not for other parts). I guess the problem is due to lack of integration of Flash Player

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu

Re: Intrepid Alpha 1 delayed

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:21:15AM -0400, Cyrus Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the published Intrepid release schedule at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule, the first Intrepid alpha is scheduled for today. I