Re: sound from multiple apps

2008-06-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 12 juin 2008 à 17:40 +1000, Luke Yelavich a écrit : snip I'm just a little appalled at the state of audio support on Linux (I believe this issue is not Ubuntu only); I was trying to have a conversation on the google chat (from within the browser) and since the chat has audio alerts,

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 08:06 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : Aha! Sorry about the double post. Just realized that the minimum is idle time + 1 minute, which probably makes sense somewhere. (Except for the 1 minute part?!). Still, the fact that this basic setting of timers needed research to

Re: Incomplete with no response 30 days

2008-05-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 25 mai 2008 à 18:33 +1000, Sarah Hobbs a écrit : snip There seems to be an attitude of screw the developers, we are the mighty bug squad, and can do what we like here. The contrary can be true as well, but that's absolutely not the point here. ;-) But really, isn't the job of the

Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008-05-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 11:26 +0200, Thomas Novin a écrit : On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 03:02 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: Wouldn't it be interesting to take that a step further and have Ubuntu represent the best Linux apps (e.g. K3B?), regardless of widget dependency? If QGtkStyle (or such)

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 00:06 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:31, Evan wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say that if there's a bug it's in Windows. I could see a wishlist bug against Ubuntu to provide a

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 18:10 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit : Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 02:17 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 17.32 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:40 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote I wish I

Re: 1. Unabel to unmount/eject CD/DVD ? (( ``-_-?? ) -- Fernando)

2008-05-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 21:03 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : That's a much better explanation than the error message. So you're right, it's not a bug: it's two bugs. One is that the error message is unhelpful, and the other is that the CD should be ejectable if the only programs that

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime please see

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 09 mai 2008 à 17:02 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit : Martin Pitt wrote: I don't consider it a new feature, but a better UI. Firefox has always complained about invalid certificates, but until version 2 it was just the well-known 'SSL yadayada cannot be verified mumblemumble click

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made local. Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This practice mades me

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 03:44 +, Justin M. Wray a écrit : Another idea would be to not only tunnel SSH but also VNC. Allowing the newbie to watch the helper do something at times might be the goal, and will make help facilitate learning. In addition the issue might be with a GTK/GUI

Re: Four crashes, no apport actions

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 14:36 +0200, Stéphane Graber a écrit : Apport is only used during development, it's turned off in final release. Why is it disabled? I find it very useful to debug for advanced users instead of getting gdb traces. Is there a way to manually activate it? --

Re: Four crashes, no apport actions

2008-05-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 18:00 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit : Hi, Milan Bouchet-Valat [2008-05-07 17:41 +0200]: Why is it disabled? Because (1) we have our hands full with fixing the development release and want to concentrate on it (2) we should already know about the top

Re: Pulseaudio/Jack in Ubuntu Hardy

2008-04-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Please don't take my remarks so badly! I did not said I was smarter than every audio packager in Ubuntu, nor did I said this was absolutely required for Ubuntu to be something usable and that else I'd immediately go to Windows. Believe it if you want: I'm not even personally interested in getting

Re: Pulseaudio/Jack in Ubuntu Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 19:45 +0200, Gonz Hauser a écrit : My opinion is that it should be possible to provide a _default_ configuration where jackd connects to pulseaudio (this is what module-jack-source is for, right?). Let me repeat my two concerns: 1. Ardour in Ubuntu Hardy

Re: merging keyboard keyboard shortcuts capplets

2008-04-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 16:23 +1000, Jared Moore a écrit : Around a month ago I uploaded a patch to GNOME bugzilla to merge the keyboard shortcuts capplet (gnome-keybinding-properties) into the keyboard capplet (gnome-keyboard-properties) [1]. This was discussed on the gnomecc-list [2],

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 21:45 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Op zondag 20-04-2008 om 20:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Milan Bouchet-Valat: I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when

Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why.

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 15:11 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a magnifying glass (usually orange on

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

2008-04-20 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 23:11 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Do you have laptop mode enabled? My guess is that it might be the (in)famous bug 59695. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 No, it's a fresh install without any tweak. But my guess would rather be that the bug I experience

Evolution spam filter not working?

2008-04-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Has anybody managed to get the bogofilter plugin for Evolution work in Hardy? For me, Evolution reports that learning spams works fine, everything is present (plugin and binaries), spamassasin is disabled, junk filtering is enabled, but spams don't get caught. I wonder about this because I did

Re: [Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while

2008-03-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando a écrit : On Monday 24 March 2008 15:01:07 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Here we can just agree, but nobody codes directly into gedit. Cheers But isn't this a problem with PolicyKit and not Gedit? AFAIK PolicyKit already allows to do this, gedit just needs

Re: [Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while

2008-03-24 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
thibaut bethune a écrit : I think that : either the save button should not be active (at less) either the user should have the possibilty to give the password to be able to save the file (that would be perfect to me) This is a good idea, but ubuntu-devel-discuss is IMHO not the best place

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Greg K Nicholson a écrit : On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:19 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: You'd call it My Diary because you are creating it for yourself. The user doesn't label the Preferences menu for themself—the label

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: Anyway, do we validate Preferences to Your Preferences ? I'd say My preferences, as Remco argued few mails before: Those are different things. Those tool tips are like a teacher directly speaking to you. But the text in programs is about the

Re: libc borked (and I stop testing)

2008-03-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : A possible idea to improve the situation is to have a regression tag, and to mark high priority all regressions. Say what you want, but this is *exactly* the behaviour that one would expect from any software distributor: things works, you break it, I tell you as soon

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks. Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it. Naming them User Preferences and System Administration can be nice since it's not too

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote : Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks. Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it. Naming

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

2008-03-14 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) a écrit : I like the proposal. Moving from System | - Preferences ` - Administration to Configuration | - Your Preferences ` - System Administration Is every one okay with this one ? To me it's seems clearer: *Configuration* is more generic and

Re: System Presence Integration Idea

2008-03-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Chris Warburton wrote: Hi thanks for the input. I realise that such a proposal is quite open ended, thus I tried to split it into relatively clear steps to go through to try and prevent both blue sky designing and worrying about issues that end up not appearing in the implementation. I think