Re: Onscreen keyboard and dwelling in LightDM

2011-06-11 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, Sorry for the late reply; I was afk for a week. On 31.05.2011 08:25, Robert Ancell wrote: On 05/27/2011 07:18 AM, Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hello Robert, You might remember that I already opened a thread about onscreen keyboards, dwelling and display manager shortly before UDS-O. LightDM

Onscreen keyboard and dwelling in LightDM

2011-05-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello Robert, You might remember that I already opened a thread about onscreen keyboards, dwelling and display manager shortly before UDS-O. LightDM being the default display manager for Ubuntu 11.10, I would like to ask whether there is already a plan about integrating accessibility

Re: Dash and onscreen keyboard

2011-03-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, On 2011-03-21 20:32, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:14:05 +0100 Francesco Fumantifrancesco.fuma...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, If I got it right, dash is the window that appears, if a user clicks on the applications icon in the launcher in Unity. This window offers a search

Dash and onscreen keyboard

2011-03-21 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, If I got it right, dash is the window that appears, if a user clicks on the applications icon in the launcher in Unity. This window offers a search field for the user to type a word. Moreover, the window disappears as soon as the user types outside of the window. My questions: - How

Cannot type with onscreen keyboard in Application search field of Unity

2011-03-06 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, Could you please help me with the following problem: I am controlling the Ubuntu Desktop only with the pointer and an onscreen keyboard. When using the Unity desktop, there is an Applications Icon that opens some kind of window showing a few applications and that has a search field at the

Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3

2010-08-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, I am looking at preparing a new release of the python-virtkey package and wanted to use that opportunity to update its license from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3. However, some files of the package did not change since the last release of the package. Thus I wonder whether it is allowed to also update

Re: Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3

2010-08-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, I was indeed aware that by raising the license of files that did not change, there would later be two different license versions for a same file; that was also what made me wonder whether it is allowed to raise it. As the LGPL 2 license included the or later and the copyright holder agrees

Re: Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3

2010-08-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, On 08/07/2010 04:56 PM, Remco wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:57, John Moserjohn.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Are you a maintainer of the package or an actual code contributor for the project? I do not think that I can qualify myself as a real code contributer, but I am the one who will

Re: sunbird

2010-07-10 Thread Francesco Fumanti
/09/2010 09:29 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hi, I also prefer sunbird to lightning: indeed, I am still using the sunbird version that shipped with karmic on the development version of Maverick. If I remember correctly

Re: sunbird

2010-07-08 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, I also prefer sunbird to lightning: indeed, I am still using the sunbird version that shipped with karmic on the development version of Maverick. If I remember correctly, it is possible to install Sunbird on Lucid and Maverick by going to the following page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/ On

Re: Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi

2010-03-06 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi Martin, First of all, thanks for your reply. On 03/04/2010 10:48 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: Francesco Fumanti [2010-03-04 21:49 +0100]: Consequently, I wonder whether it can be possible to create an Ubuntu 10.10 goal (for Ubuntu 10.04 it might be to late) that aims to completely remove gksu

Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi

2010-03-04 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, As you might probably know, gksu is not compatible to at-spi. [1] Consequently, I wonder whether it can be possible to create an Ubuntu 10.10 goal (for Ubuntu 10.04 it might be to late) that aims to completely remove gksu from Ubuntu and replacing it by something else. GNOME has decided

Need advice on versioning scheme for project in Ubuntu

2009-05-08 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Could anybody please give me any advice about how to handle the versioning of a project hosted on launchpad with the aim to match the Ubuntu release schedule? The help pages of launchpad suggest to keep the front of developing in trunk. On the other hand, I suppose that it is advisable

Re: Looking for guide about using launchpad

2008-12-11 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Milo Casagrande wrote: Ciao, Il giorno mer, 10/12/2008 alle 18.32 +0100, Francesco Fumanti ha scritto: Could anybody please point me to a guide/tutorial about using launchpad to create tarballs of a python project hosted on launchpad, manage series, use its translation facilities

Looking for guide about using launchpad

2008-12-10 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Could anybody please point me to a guide/tutorial about using launchpad to create tarballs of a python project hosted on launchpad, manage series, use its translation facilities... Many thanks in advance. Francesco -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Could anybody please tell me when the updates of Ubuntu 8.10 will be released? I am not able to find them on the schedules on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks in advance. Francesco -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:07:09 + Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Francesco, 2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could anybody please tell me when the updates of Ubuntu 8.10 will be released? What makes you think 8.10 _will_ have a respin

Re: What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Siegfried-Angel wrote: 2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I assumed that every Ubuntu release had stable version updates like GNOME. Thanks for telling me that it is only the case for the LTS releases. They have, but they are downloaded and installed when you update your

Re: What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 16:36 +0100, Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hello, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:07:09 + Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Francesco, 2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could anybody please tell me when

gconf-schemas --unregister bug?

2008-11-25 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, I have a file called mytesting.schemas with the following content: gconfschemafile schemalist schema key/schemas/apps/my_app/my_key/key applyto/apps/my_app/my_key/applyto ownermy_app/owner typeint/type default42/default locale name=C

help: pythonpackage: gconf-schemas --unregister does not delete everything

2008-11-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, I am trying to add gconf schemas to the python package named onboard. The package uses cdbs and python-distutils.mk. The call to gh_gconf in debian/rules generates the corresponding gconf-schemas --register and gconf-schemas --unregister calls in the postinst and prerm scripts. After

Re: fsck on boot is major usability issue

2007-12-31 Thread Francesco Fumanti
At 7:22 AM -0600 12/31/07, HggdH wrote: - for people with several disks: when a fsck is needed for a disk, add the option to run the fsck on all the disks, even if it is not needed yet; this would minimize how often the user will be prompted for a fsck, as all the disks would be

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco Fumanti
mouse driver in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/144277 Martin Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hello, Thanks for this interesting piece of information. Could you please paste the relevant section of the xorg.conf in a reply to this email, to show what has to be changed? In fact, I

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Thanks for this interesting piece of information. Could you please paste the relevant section of the xorg.conf in a reply to this email, to show what has to be changed? In fact, I tried to do the change, but the X server did not startup correctly anymore. (I am back to the previous

Re: Tablet PC and Summer of Code

2007-03-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Would be cool to have at least the virtual keyboard, working nicely, and popping up when some text box etc. gets the focus. The handwriting recognition is so complicated thing that it might be better to concentrate on the virtual keyboard, which is pretty much lacking currently. Actually I

Re: Tablet PC and Summer of Code

2007-03-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Here are a few urls about onboard: https://launchpad.net/onboard https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/SOK (sok was its original name) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=267051highlight=onboard+login -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Tablet PC and Summer of Code

2007-03-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, I have used onboard, and it seems to work quite well. In addition to the features you have mentioned (popping up as necessary and word prediction) I can think of a few other additions, such as a number pad, additional language/keyboard configurations, and maybe shortcut keys for

Re: More explicit names for iso images ?

2007-02-27 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Incidentally, Canonical provide 4 distro-flavours of the isos: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, as mentioned above, but also Edubuntu and Xubuntu All are named feisty-desktop/alternate/etc, and all should be easily distinguishable from one another. I agree with the points raised above; it would

Re: Notifying end-users when support is no more

2007-01-02 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Pop-up windows just bring back bad memories from MS Windows ;-) The bubble: - would be familiar to Ubuntu users - need not be tiny - should produce a new bubble each reboot (or every certain time unit, say once per day) thus being annoying enough to eventually get the user to upgrade

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
The popularity system is really broken. :-) Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. Take Inkscape for example, 17:th best rated on GnomeFiles with a score of 9.05,