Use of apt-url in the documentation wiki

2009-01-08 Thread Matthew East
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2009/1/7 Richard Tattersall tatter_s...@msn.com: Perhaps this suggests a problem with how ubuntu is documented for new users? It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of apt-get install with click apt://

Re: too complicated

2009-01-08 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 07/01/2009 alle 23.39 +0100, Remco ha scritto: Another way that is even easier is to choose to Create new logins in nested windows by right-clicking the User Switcher applet, choosing Preferences and ticking the appropriate box. That will open new logins in a new window in

Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development questions about Plymouth

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:07:27PM -0800, Dean Loros wrote: I am active at ubuntuforums in the testing/development support area there has been a fair amount of talk in the following thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=965879 As EXT4 has just been termed stable, is there a

Re: too complicated

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 18:09 +0100, Remco wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of apt-get install with click apt:// :) (note for the humour impaired, this is not a serious suggestion, but you

Re: too complicated

2009-01-08 Thread Nils Kassube
Remco wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Nils Kassube kass...@gmx.net wrote: Yes, I know about that possibility. I do use that approach sometimes if there is only a GUI way. But I really don't want to do that every time I can help because IMHO it is a real PITA. If it would be a

Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development questions about Plymouth

2009-01-08 Thread Aaron Toponce
Colin Watson wrote: ext4 will be available as a partitioning option as of tomorrow's daily builds. I'm looking forward to this. I've been looking forward to ext4 for years. I could do an install from scratch, but I'm hoping that I can upgrade my existing ext3 to ext4 as you can going from ext2

Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-08 Thread Markus Hitter
Hello all, in an attempt to get some insight about https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/245981 I tried to build the packages myself. However, the results are totally different from what I see in the build logs attached to the bug. I can't reproduce the bug as the

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-08 Thread James Westby
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 01:26 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Hello all, in an attempt to get some insight about https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/245981 I tried to build the packages myself. However, the results are totally different from what I see in the build

Re: Call for testing empathy

2009-01-08 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Intrepid+1 approaches-- is it too late to reconsider Empathy for inclusion? I just tried the newest version of Empathy and things look a lot better! File transfers now work and it picks up my webcam/mic! On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN