Re: Hardware support, Benchmark DAC1 USB

2008-09-18 Thread Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:21:33PM EST, August Karlstrom wrote: > OK, so I opened "System -> Preferences -> Sound" and changed sound > playback for music and movies to "USB Audio" (without running the test). > Then I opened totem and rhythmbox from a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Gilles, > first, let me tell you I perfectly agree with you that user data should > be easily accessible to users. It's their data after all. It's not just abut accessibility in your currently working computer at this point in time. It's also about visibility, compatibility with alternative an

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]: > The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently > in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Awesome! Thanks for your work on that. I tested your current PPA. At first the upgrade failed

Re: ISO Testing, before 1700 UTC Thursday

2008-09-18 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:23 +1000, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Hey all, > > If you have any spare time, and feel like testing Ubuntu, the Ubuntu > Release Team would appreciate more testers for the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 > ISOs. The standard warnings about how it might kill your hard drive, > etc, might

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:53 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > - Evolution Email Application > * Configuration - which services to connect to, which plugins to use, > syncing rates, display preferences. > * Data - Email messages recieved, contact data, calendar event, note > text, text typed in, fi

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Felix Kaser
> > Examples: > - Pidgin > * Configuration - Settings for which services to connect to, what > skins to use and what plugins to use. > * Data - Text entered at the keyboard, text received over the > service, files received or sent over the service, chat logs. > > - Gnome Background Settings >

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Felix Kaser
Martin Owens schrieb: > Dear Felix, > > >> Ahhh wait! It's nice you separated data and configuration, but to be >> honest: I really don't want my home directory to be flooded with data I >> don't even want do see outside the application! >> > > Calm down dear, it's only a discussion. >

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Felix, > Now I think your idea is not bad at all, because we have a quite nice > folder structure already (Documents, Pictures, Videos and so on). But > they must be used! Correct me if I'm wrong, but FSpot makes its own > directory ("/home/foo/Photos") for the pictures you want to "copy to > p

Re: Hardware support, Benchmark DAC1 USB

2008-09-18 Thread August Karlstrom
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:40 +0200, August Karlstrom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a Benchmark DAC1 USB (high-end) digital to analogue converter >> which does not seem to work with Ubuntu 8.04. The DAC is detected by the >> sound preferences program (gnome-sound-properties)

Re: Hardware support, Benchmark DAC1 USB

2008-09-18 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:40 +0200, August Karlstrom wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Benchmark DAC1 USB (high-end) digital to analogue converter > which does not seem to work with Ubuntu 8.04. The DAC is detected by the > sound preferences program (gnome-sound-properties) as "USB Audio". > However, wh

E-mail file formats [was Re: Configuration masquerading Data]

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew Sayers
This is a bit OT, but you can get e-mails out of just about anything by apt-getting an IMAP server and uploading your old mail from your client of anti-choice. It's not exactly a newbie-friendly solution, but it's how I rescued my e-mails from Outlook back in the day. - Andrew -- Ubuntu

Hardware support, Benchmark DAC1 USB

2008-09-18 Thread August Karlstrom
Hi, I have a Benchmark DAC1 USB (high-end) digital to analogue converter which does not seem to work with Ubuntu 8.04. The DAC is detected by the sound preferences program (gnome-sound-properties) as "USB Audio". However, when I select it and run a sound test the application terminates due to

Re: Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Owens
Dear Felix, > Ahhh wait! It's nice you separated data and configuration, but to be > honest: I really don't want my home directory to be flooded with data I > don't even want do see outside the application! Calm down dear, it's only a discussion. > I don't want to have a > folder "background