Re: Why Nautilus and GNOME applications use URIs?

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:36 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: Hi, when using Drag and Drop, nautilus switches from GIO/GVFS URI to local path, depending on the drop target (i.e. it will paste a local path if you drop to a gnome-terminal). I guess dropping on a gtk filechooser assumes that the

Re: Remove OO Draw from the default install

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Cheney
openoffice.org-presentation (Impress) currently depends on it. Assuming we would be keeping that on the CD it would need to be tested to see if the libraries in the draw package are needed by Impress to function, which I am pretty certain they are needed. In that case we would have to split them

Re: Remove OO Draw from the default install

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 01:05 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 18:28 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: openoffice.org-presentation (Impress) currently depends on it. Assuming we would be keeping that on the CD it would need to be tested to see if the libraries in the draw package

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:40 -0500, Tom H wrote: Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background... True, funny enough their terminal

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:23 +0100, Remco wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black background. It's ergonomically very bad. I never use such a terminal except in Windows, where I haven't

Re: karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Cheney
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 17:13 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a TomsHardware.com review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html

Re: karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:53 -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 17:13 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a TomsHardware.com review: http

Re: OpenOffice update

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:50 -0400, Tim Gelvin wrote: When can we expect to see an update to OpenOffice? What do you mean? There is 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 in Karmic already. Chris -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Oo.org Calc Pdf Export Issue

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Cheney
The issue you are talking about appears to be this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/244353 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440055 Chris On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 16:27 +0200, Stefan Kachaunov wrote: Hello! I am writing to you because I (as well as

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:57 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:13 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attackfor easyiness: 500 Gigabytes as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes transfered over the Network

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Cheney
From an email from Colin Watson: == The partitioner has done this since November 2005. partman-partitioning (37) unstable; urgency=low [...] [ Frans Pop ] * Use gpt instead of msdos disklabel for disks larger than 2TB. [...] -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:19:17 +0100 ==

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-28 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:38 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: This is likely all true, but with resolution independent rendering, it no longer applies. In the future, px is just a measurement unit, just like in or mm. Once the software gets this, it's perfectly fine for web developers to ask

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 02:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/02/26 21:12 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:08 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/02/26 19:15 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: On 26/02/09 14:31, Felix Miata wrote: Real-world DPI has been

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:28 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: Olá Mackenzie e a todos. On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:59:28 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: I have a 1280x800 13 screen, and the fonts look fine to me. Hi have a 13 at 1280x800 (DPI 112 according to xorg log) and I have to

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/02/27 10:09 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 02:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: These may not be the best around, but even if they're off by 50%, the real world still hasn't been anywhere near constant

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:15 +0100, Siegfried-Angel wrote: 2009/2/26 Chris Cheney cche...@ubuntu.com: [...] personally I think they are already fine [...] I don't agree. Having fonts as displayed in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23152448/10pt.jpg is clearly not right and would make, IMHO

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:33 -0600, Ryan Hayle wrote: On 26/02/09 14:31, Felix Miata wrote: On the contrary, preference is about the difference between acceptable and unacceptable. There are two separate issues here. You seem to be arguing that the OLD size is too small, and want

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:08 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/02/26 19:15 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: On 26/02/09 14:31, Felix Miata wrote: Real-world DPI has been steadily increasing from release to release. I don't see this to actually be the case. Even with laptops

Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-14 Thread Chris Cheney
Even if Alt+SysRq+K does work for you it will likely cause your console (eg Alt F1-F6) to not work again until reboot, because it doesn't cleanly shut down the xserver like C-A-B does. I used it once recently after C-A-B was disabled by default and it worked well enough to get X back but after

Re: Go-OO.org?

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Cheney
I maintain OOo for Ubuntu. The OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu is the go-oo.org version. go-oo takes the original sun tarballs then patches it heavily with somewhere around 500 patches. Pretty much all Linux distributions use the go-oo.org build system and patches, except for Fedora, which just takes a

Re: Go-OOO.org?

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 08:46 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 16:48 -0500, John Moser wrote: I was considering filing a bug for package request or creating a spec for Go-Ooo.org for inclusion in Ubuntu, or possibly as a replacement for OpenOffice.org vanilla. Start-up

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 28.12.2008 um 07:49 schrieb Chris Cheney: Thus it would take a very long time to download for a large percentage of the world. Although perhaps this is not as big an issue since many places have a bandwidth cap as well so

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 16:47 +, richard wrote: -snip- He knows that if he buys a copy of windows 1 CD maybe 2 -snip- Windows is a DVD now MacOS is a DVD as well Perhaps its time to move the default Ubuntu release to a DVD also. ;-) If I remember correctly the main reason it hasn't been so

Re: tracking bug for ext4

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Cheney
John, 2.6.28 will come out around January and Jaunty will probably ship with 2.6.29 but it very well might not be a good idea to use it by default for Jaunty which is what shirish seemed to be talking about. Just because it is not considered development status doesn't necessarily mean it is

Re: OpenOffice 3 and Firefox 3.1 in Intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:53 +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/9/5 Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: released on Sept 8 which puts the final release around Oct 20. That doesn't leave enough time to make it even marginally stable, since that would be only 3 days before the Intrepid release

Re: OpenOffice 3 and Firefox 3.1 in Intrepid?

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:22 -0500, Tony Yarusso wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:30 +0530, Vishal Rao wrote: What is the latest status of the possibility of including OOo 3 and FF 3.1 by default in Intrepid

Re: OpenOffice 3 and Firefox 3.1 in Intrepid?

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:30 +0530, Vishal Rao wrote: What is the latest status of the possibility of including OOo 3 and FF 3.1 by default in Intrepid? OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be in Intrepid but it is looking like it will not be as the primary version that is installed by default. The release