Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Denis Washington wrote: Greetings Dennis, Given that this Ubuntu cycle is all about precision with little Who do you think? (Is that something to file a bug about?) I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you perhaps try to mock up before/after

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:15:42PM -0500, Jeff Lane wrote: One question would be whether Twitter would be happy with us or not for adding who knows how many new clients at once (thinking of number of installs done within the first 2 weeks of a release) that's a huge hit to Twitter's service

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote: I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you perhaps try to mock up before/after screenshots, so that it's clear each change that you'd like to make? As the Ubuntu GRUB maintainer I'd prefer text. Since we

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Denis Washington
Am 18.01.2012 12:43, schrieb Colin Watson: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:32:35AM +, Paul Sladen wrote: I think it's an excellent idea to streamline the Grub menu. Could you perhaps try to mock up before/after screenshots, so that it's clear each change that you'd like to make? As the Ubuntu

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Denis Washington writes: - The Ubuntu entries as the kernel version (Ubuntu, with kernel 3.2.0-9...) that do not relate to anything that we usually present the user. It would be much nicer if we had the actual Ubuntu version stand there instead, so that the entry just becomes Ubuntu 12.04.

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Dane Mutters
Also, on my system (as well as many others), I end up with 2 lines for Windows 7 (or Vista, when I was using that)--only one of which boots. One is the system partition; one is the main partition. Fixing this by hand wouldn't be such a big deal if one didn't have to write part of a shell script

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Dane Mutters
I share this concern; our sysadmins had some visualisations of 11.10 installs hitting the Ubuntu geoip service around release time, and although I forget the numbers the spike was pretty huge. Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu installs to only touch

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:37:20PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu installs to only touch Ubuntu network resources. However, that isn't to say that an Ubuntu service couldn't deal with fetching a set of

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:37 -0800, Dane Mutters wrote: and have it propagate wherever it's needed without bombarding Twitter with installer traffic. One marketing idea was to put gwibber dbus bindings into ubiquity so people could post to twitter that they were installing Ubuntu. A sort of

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:16:32PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: One marketing idea was to put gwibber dbus bindings into ubiquity so people could post to twitter that they were installing Ubuntu. A sort of Hey tell you friends type idea. It didn't happen I thinkf or technical reasons. I'd

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 01:28 +, Colin Watson wrote: Fetching something from the network and rendering it as part of the slideshow is much easier Yes, technical problems. Pulling in the gwibber stack itself isn't really required, it's a matter of loading the service (dbus) and then hijacking