Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-26 Thread Milosz Derezynski
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. Our only difference of opinion is whether or not a concerned user should take a bit of responsibility himself. Yes, but saying We could offer you the option, but simply won't, so instead you have to pull the

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-25 Thread Milosz Derezynski
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:35 AM, nergar ner...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Hawkins wrote: Connecting and transferring data online during an offline media install is not an expected activity, No? why not? Its just getting updates! It doesn't really matter what it *is* just doing, what (only)

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-25 Thread Milosz Derezynski
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:43 AM, nergar ner...@gmail.com wrote: YES, we should disable OS updates by default for n00bs just because a paranoid user made a comment. Very intelligent. Now you're being paranoid. No one said something about disabling it by default, it's merely about bringing it

Re: Python 3?

2008-12-04 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Looks to me like a matter of upstream, since Python3k is not compatible with previous versions of Python 2.x. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Python 3 was released, how is Ubuntu going to transition it's PyGTK apps to 3.0? Most GNOME (and Ubuntu-centric)

Re: Gtk+ problems with recent API change of GtkAdjustment

2008-09-23 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Thanks Colin. Regards, M. 2008/9/23 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:35:29PM +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote: Thanks for the replies, i actually wasn't aware there is a separate list for development; now I understand what ubuntu-devel-DISCUSS means. Here's

Gtk+ problems with recent API change of GtkAdjustment

2008-09-19 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Hello, I wanted to bring the GtkAdjustment regression bug to the attention of Ubuntu developers. The problem is described very well by the commenters in this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551740 Please take the time to read all of the bug comments, this is important. In short:

Re: Gtk+ problems with recent API change of GtkAdjustment

2008-09-19 Thread Milosz Derezynski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 17:42 +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote: I've attached a patch against Gtk+ 2.14.1 which reverts the GtkAdjustment behaviour to how it has been in Gtk+ 2.12 and prior. Check the changelog for libgtk+2 It's been reverted already. -- Mackenzie Morgan

Re: .recently-used : provide a way to disable the logging

2008-09-14 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Even if it not neccessarily useless, cases are certainly imaginable where this logging is not desired from a privacy point of view. ((R)om, sorry for the double-post) 2008/9/13 (R)om [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every action taken is logged in ~/.recently-used and ~/.recently-used.xbel. It should be

Re: No run menu item?

2008-07-05 Thread Milosz Derezynski
I also don't understand the reasoning behind this. If anything then it feels like adding another layer of obscurity. Binaries HAVE names. There's just no way around it. The fact that MOST of the time, a user doesn't need it (the menu item) shouldn't be used as justification that for the few cases

Re: Overlap in installing packages

2008-06-21 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Specify both packages at the command line at the same time, e.g. with apt: apt-get install libstdc++6-4.2-dev g++-4.2.deb 2008/6/21 Nguyễn Hồng Quân [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In order to install g++-4.2.deb, I have to have already had libstdc++6-4.2-dev. But to install libstdc++6-4.2-dev.deb, the

Re: making deals with M$

2008-06-09 Thread Milosz Derezynski
. 2008/6/10 Christopher James Halse Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 19:54 +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote: Sorry for dropping in. Has there been any mention of Microsoft that they will never, ever sue anyone who uses Mono nor the Mono developers themselves, or is this all

Re: making deals with M$

2008-06-08 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Sorry for dropping in. Has there been any mention of Microsoft that they will never, ever sue anyone who uses Mono nor the Mono developers themselves, or is this all under the Novell/Microsoft convenant? If they never made such a statement, on what else than pure hope that they will never

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-16 Thread Milosz Derezynski
But clearly this issue can be seen as a limitation of the FAT filesystem, just not yet imposed at the highest level of the filesystem driver (kernel or userland)? Surely ext3 *would* allow a slash in a filename (i guess?), if the userland tools would just let the filesystem driver ever receive

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-06 Thread Milosz Derezynski
is an evident sign of a problem, then being able to skip this item within update-manager or synaptic would be great I think. 2008/5/6 Andrew Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Milosz Derezynski wrote: It could work if after the package is skipped apt recreates the dependency list; this might be bad to oversee

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-05 Thread Milosz Derezynski
It could work if after the package is skipped apt recreates the dependency list; this might be bad to oversee though (especially without a GUI), however adding a printout a la These packages were originally meant to be installed: $PACKAGES Since package $PACKAGE was removed after the update began,

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-30 Thread Milosz Derezynski
OK i was able to fix it; the fix is that i've deinstall samba and libpam-smbpass altogether, now adding a printer and printing works again. However i was already compiling samba from source to give it a try with gdb, i think i'll just continue and see what this will come up with. 2008/4/30

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-30 Thread Milosz Derezynski
OK great seems it's a heisenbug or the samba source for Ubuntu/Debian is different from the vanilla samba source; using samba installed from source with identical configure options (version 3.0.28a) doesn't crash cupsd. 2008/4/30 Milosz Derezynski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK i was able to fix

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-28 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Yes same for me, on the Live CD the printer was basically immediately usable. I've been running this system as Gutsy before, and updated to Hardy in a very early phase (4 Months before the release i think), could some gradual updates caused a misconfiguration of the system? If yes, what in

Re: Compiz default Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) is difficult to use

2008-04-28 Thread Milosz Derezynski
I agree, but it should be no big problem to write a new one. It should be pretty cleat to see looking from the outside that a small window sliding the windows through with at best 3 of them visible at a given time is not a very usable window switcher when you have more than 2 or 3 windows opened

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-27 Thread Milosz Derezynski
I can confirm this problem, morphology is identical to your problem's, the printer is a HP LaserJet 2100 (if matters). 2008/4/26 Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I have a problem with printing in Hardy. My bug has not been processed yet but I reported it two weeks ago.

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-27 Thread Milosz Derezynski
Now i've removed the printer and trying to reinstall it causes cupsd to crash everytime, i can't print at all which is a medium-sized problem atm.. is there anything we can do? 2008/4/27 Milosz Derezynski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can confirm this problem, morphology is identical to your problem's

Re: Printing does not work in 8.04

2008-04-27 Thread Milosz Derezynski
OK ISO download is underway 2008/4/27 Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Milosz Derezynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm this problem, morphology is identical to your problem's, the printer is a HP LaserJet 2100 (if matters). FWIW, I just tested

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-27 Thread Milosz Derezynski
I second that, it's quite non-intrusive and can be seen (or rather is) a one-time installation option per new user. On 9/27/07, Dominik Wagenfuehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, most users welcome the decision to activate Compiz by default. But others are a little bit unhappy with it [1][2].