Identifying the desktop session

2011-04-27 Thread Jim Campbell
For user help purposes, we're wondering what would be the best way of identifying the user's user session. For example, under Unity, running: echo $DESKTOP_SESSION just produces the result, "gnome." running lsb_release -a just gives info about the general Ubuntu platform. What would be the bes

Re: Late-cycle UI changes and Documentation

2011-04-11 Thread Jim Campbell
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Jason Todd wrote: > What do u mean, " I noticed that you can display the Launcher just by > pressing your mouse against the far left side of the screen."? > Don't ask me, I just work here. : / My point isn't about this particular feature. It's about being not

Late-cycle UI changes and Documentation

2011-04-11 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, I'm working on system docs for 11.04, and am noticing some late UI changes. For example, with today's updates, I noticed that you can display the Launcher just by pressing your mouse against the far left side of the screen. Previously, I had to move my mouse the top corner. Other UI change

Apt-urls and PackageKit

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, Jef Spaleta from the Fedora Project commented on my recent apt-url blog post, noting the following: Just an FYI: Packagekit developers have developed a packagekit browser plugin which does something similar. If/when Ubuntu moves to Packagekit you should be aware of how the Packagekit bro

Re: Jaunty I18N/translation issues

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Hi, > > I started JauntyTranslationIssues page in the wiki a while ago to > followup the previous similar page David created for Intrepid: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/JauntyTranslationIssues > > Please help to keep i

Xubuntu on PowerPC (ports)

2008-07-10 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi all, I wanted to inquire about the state and plans of the PowerPC build of Xubuntu (and PowerPC for other Ubuntu flavors). We've been getting a daily error on the Xubuntu PPC Intrepid builds for some time [1], and I haven't heard any talk on the matter recently, so I wanted to check with the g

Xubuntu meeting summary

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Campbell
Hello Everyone, I'd first like to start off this e-mail by announcing the Xubuntu community meeting was a *huge* success. We had roughly two dozen people take part (including old, current, and new faces) and a number of other individuals who sent in e-mails or left a quick IRC message to let us kn