configuration utility for compiz

2009-10-29 Thread yurik 81
I as many users want to try different compiz effects (e.g. 3D desktop). Why wouldn't include configuration utility for this in Ubuntu distribution? I prefer to use compizconfig-settings-manager, but it may be something else. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: Another end-user view of showstoppers etc

2009-10-29 Thread Alex Cockell
Hi Luke, and list... On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 03:04 -0500, Luke L wrote: > I suggested at least a year ago that modifications be made to the > development and maintenance schedule for releases, such as 6 month > lifetimes for non-LTS releases, and using LTS-1 releases as the base > for LTS instead of

Herculean setup time waster

2009-10-29 Thread Felix Miata
I installed to sda12 from the kubuntu alternate karmicRC CD, installed mc, then did apt-get update;apt-get upgrade. The upgrade installed roughly 160 packages. Most of the time spent doing that upgrade, an absurd length, was displaying messages about finding other distributions on other partitions.

Is Ubuntu adapted to screen resolution 1024x768?

2009-10-29 Thread yurik 81
In this resolution icons of main menus items have sizes bigger than I want. This sizes hard coded in Human theme as gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=24,24:gtk-button=16,16". To change this behavior I must edit Human theme. Is this Ubuntu way? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@

File system has incompatible feature enabled....

2009-10-29 Thread Felix Miata
Compatible features are has_journal, dir_index, filetype, sparse_super and large_file. Use tune2fs or debugfs to remove features. I don't see in the mkfs.ext3 man page why any existing features should be incompatible. Where's the list of what's compatible? Why doesn't the installer say which featu

Re: Another end-user view of showstoppers etc

2009-10-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 07:14 +, Alex Cockell wrote: > For example - is new hardware support regularly SRU'd back into the > current LTS release, after decent QA? Yes for kernel modules: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-backports-modules-hardy I'm not sure how X.org drivers are handled

Re: Another end-user view of showstoppers etc

2009-10-29 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
As it is kinda issue I have always raised, I think biggest problem is inconsistent hardware support. Not poor, but inconsistent. Hardware section is where most regressions shows their ugly heads. But this require bigger, more coordinated effort between distros and kernel developers. It is also bad

Re: Another end-user view of showstoppers etc

2009-10-29 Thread Luke L
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Alex Cockell wrote: > Hi folks, > > First of all - I am your putative end-user.  I bought my Thinkpad R61i > from Linux Emporium with standard 8.04 Desktop preinstalled (off > Canonical's repos - not a downstream version like Mint or Dell's own), > and only use sof

Another end-user view of showstoppers etc

2009-10-29 Thread Alex Cockell
Hi folks, First of all - I am your putative end-user. I bought my Thinkpad R61i from Linux Emporium with standard 8.04 Desktop preinstalled (off Canonical's repos - not a downstream version like Mint or Dell's own), and only use software out of Canonical's official repos. I'm also going to be V