Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

2011-12-06 Thread Matt Alexander
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:15:11AM -0800, Matt Alexander wrote: Sure, using find or which, etc., can be used to locate a particular app, but that's not really the point. Why not simplify things and put all binaries

Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

2011-12-05 Thread Matt Alexander
Sure, using find or which, etc., can be used to locate a particular app, but that's not really the point. Why not simplify things and put all binaries under /usr/bin? Then you don't have to teach users about silly distinctions like Oh, see, if it's an app that's meant to be used by a System

Re: Unity and Classic

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Alexander
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 01/12/2011 17:11, Matt Alexander a écrit : I don't like it because I can't find the most common apps anymore. I used to be able to navigate through the Applications menu using general categories like Graphics

Moving all binaries to /usr/bin ?

2011-11-01 Thread Matt Alexander
Interesting proposed change for the location of binaries in Fedora: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html Would Ubuntu consider doing the same? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Alexander
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'm afraid this is backwards. If you want to go and hunt down packages