Re: Pidgin and Yahoo! login

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 13:52 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Martin, please could you advice a server or link some web page with a > list of server? Sure. All I had to do (unfortunately, I cannot find the original link right now) was entering cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com into the "Page Server" field ("

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 00:19 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > >From the appcenter wiki page: > > "If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows > user, it's installing new software. Be prepared to enter a new world in > which Windows Update is a model of simplicity by compariso

Re: Pidgin and Yahoo! login

2009-06-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:08 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:54:27 am Adrian Perez wrote: > > There's any chance or prospect to integrating the new Yahoo! protocol > > support present in new upstream Pidgin 2.5.7 into jaunty-updates or > > maybe jaunty-proposed-updates?

Re: Fallback plan if Empathy isn't ready for Karmic?

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Soto
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:39 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > I'm glad to hear that upstream is so active, but a usable version will > have to land very soon in order for the small band of Karmic testers to > give it enough use to clear out all the bugs that will come from a large > number of Ubuntu

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Soto
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 13:24 +0200, Remco wrote: ... > Downgrade > conversion is probably not feasible for any but the most popular > packages. I completely agree with your message. Of course, expecting every package to provide a downgrade converter is unrealistic. On the other hand, how often do p

Re: Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-24 Thread Martin Soto
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:55 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: ... > While I don't know how this _could_ be done, I agree that there are good > reasons why it _should_. My particular pet peeve are the screensaver > packages, where there are some screensavers that I want removed because > they don't act

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-19 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:56 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: ... > How can this be rare if the user is supposed to test things after the > upgrade? I didn't think about it but it's actually risky - every > application can potentially be non-forward-compatible. Users should be > adviced to use the

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Soto
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:24 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: ... > On Monday 16 March 2009 10:58:55 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: ... > > The request to change the icon came originally from various OEMs we > > cooperate with > > So OEMs now count more then Community? > Thanks, that was exactly what

Re: fast-user-switch-applet

2009-03-06 Thread Martin Soto
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:29 +, Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > > quote from the blog: > > "A couple of people have said that the menu looks “sparse” or “bare” ... > The "less is more" philosophy is neither new, nor obsolete. I personally > believe that "less" and "more" can co

Re: Are file permissions in files on external devices silly?

2008-11-24 Thread Martin Soto
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 11:47 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > To address the actual point, security of files on removable media can > > only be handled at the hardware level, by making sure bad people don't > > steal your disks. Bad guys can