Re: Removal of the system tray (partly a notification area)

2010-06-10 Thread C. Gatzemeier
I was thinking how forcing annoying changes while failing to fix severe bugs reported since years could speak for a distro. But mostly everything relevant about system tray has already been raised in comments to http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area (There is no real problem that

Re: Why Nautilus and GNOME applications use URIs?

2010-06-04 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:20:02 -0300 schrieb Damián Nohales : > Is there any advantage to using URI instead of the > local address? I guess, just as the name says, they are universal accross different machines, while local paths are generally different. Nonetheless a standard implementation agnost

Re: Prevent people from updates with critical components

2010-05-30 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi Joachim, let me just assure you that IMHO appropriate warnings before critical updates could prevent a lot of headaches. As the release notes are tracked/composed from launchpad entries, maybe the system could be made generic enough to work on top of bug trackers' tagging facilities (debian BT

Browser's and Distro's (was: SWR Iron: Chromium without the data-mining)

2010-05-25 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Tue, 18 May 2010 22:36:56 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer : > Hi. > > AFAIK, even Chrome has disabled most tracking stuff per default > (except those things which FF/etc. do too). You may be raising a good point. As it is now: the first thing firefox seems to do when it's run, is to c

Re: Windows controls: new button layout

2010-05-08 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Sat, 08 May 2010 10:38:12 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert : > hi, > Am Samstag, den 08.05.2010, 08:50 +0200 schrieb Davyd McColl: > > still would have been great if the post-install script could have > > asked me before just letting it be. > > the problem here is that you very likely didnt have a

Re: Window controls: minimise and maximise icons are confusing?

2010-05-07 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Fri, 7 May 2010 10:04:21 +1000 schrieb Chris Jones : > Just as a general note, I'm still struggling a little with the new > window control buttons location to the left. I am persevering with it > though Me too. > as I am accepting that it's a good location for them being > right next to the F

ecryptfs creates ~/Private directories instead of something like ~/Encrypted

2010-05-06 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi, please comment to recognize the issue. ecryptfs started to create ~/Private directories by default, but * ~/priv, ~/private or ~/Private are in use for directories with private filesystem permissions, (Managing access permissions among users in an easy directory based manner with

fixing support for user collaboration / running apps as separate user

2009-12-01 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hello list, looking for an answer why sharing files between users on the same system is so hard, I have stumbled accross wiki enties and blog posts about how (im)possible it is to collaborate for users on ubuntu systems. The possibility of sharing access to files amoung users is a fundamental fea

external mirror disks with ubuntu laptops

2008-09-11 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi, those of you that do much of their work on laptops might be interested in this. A SATA/Firewire/USB Disk can be plugged in whenever you are at home or on AC for example, and the raid mirror will conveniently sync. I found a community wiki page for this, it is possible to set this up worki