Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 16:01 -0700 schrieb Martin Pitt: Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]: The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Awesome! Thanks for your

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-04 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein: The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. I just uploaded packages which fix a PolicyKit issue. Cheers signature.asc

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 23:50 -0500 schrieb Luke L: It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'. Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It was a bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not resize-able. It doesn't seem as full featured as Synaptic,

PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-02 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Highlights of the 0.3.x series are: * Search for codecs and mime type handlers * Local file installation * Change log for updates *

Re: nm-applet : Notification Area or Panel Applet ?

2008-03-23 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Zitat von thibaut bethune [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Therefore i wander if network manager should not be an applet instead of cluttering the notification area : actually network manager icon doesn't notify anything (it acts in a manner quite similar to Tomboy which is an applet. Besides it is called

Re: Fwd: Mono (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2007, 05:06 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer: Mono by default takes 48MB of space on the CD. The ISO download is 690+ MB. Therefore, it is taking up valuable space that could be used for a whole host of other things. Also, for that 48MB, there are just two applications which

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-11-20 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 20.11.2007, 04:11 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer: On Nov 14, 2007 3:19 AM, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're at the formative stages of Hardy I thought I'd start a thread about apps which might be good for inclusion in the default Ubuntu setup. I was

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-19 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 18.11.2007, 08:34 -0500 schrieb Patrick: I see it now. I never noticed it there. Is there any reason it cannot also be placed under the right click too?-Patrick I don't think that this is a very often needed feature. We want to keep the menu short. signature.asc Description:

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-18 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 11:36 +0900 schrieb Onno Benschop: All of what you write exists: * To reconfigure a package: sudo dpkg-reconfigure foobar, perhaps it would be useful to add this functionality to Synaptic. This feature exists already for years. Select a corresponding

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-18 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 06:47 -0500 schrieb Patrick: #!/bin/bash echo we need to do such and such, here are some options to try, blah, blah, blah etc sudo gedit /etc/exports echo okay now we need to do this because blah blah sudo exportfs -ra sudo /etc/init.d/portmap

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 00:29 +0100 schrieb Jan Claeys: Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 05:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sebastian Heinlein: AFAIK you are not allowed to virtualize MacOS. Which is not enforceable in how many countries...? :) Nevertheless you should respect the authors

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:58 -0700 schrieb Scott (angrykeyboarder): None that would interest [some Ubuntu] developers, I suppose You should get used to talk about facts. To support your request you could for example write to the GIMP authors or contact them on IRC and ask if they

Re: Windows Program Support

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 02:24 +0100 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein: Lots of your ideas have been discussed at the UDS last week. Furthermore you should consider that running Windows apps also opens the door to viruses and worms. Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan before running a Windows

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 11:12 +0900 schrieb Emmet Hikory: If you have a powerpc machine, the MacOnLinux (1) virtual layer may be useful for many applications (although using alternate virtual machines may be as convenient). If you have an x86 machine, there are a number of virtual

Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 17:42 -0400 schrieb Tim Hull: Hi, Hello Tim, I have been generally lurking around Ubuntu development for several months now (since about the Feisty release), and previously had done the same around the Warty/Hoary time period. Though I have found Ubuntu to be

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 19:11 -0400 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:58 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: ... I know about hiding menu entries, but is there any example of related admin/non-admin settings going into one configuration panel, and the admin settings being hidden

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-11-03 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Samstag, den 03.11.2007, 21:10 -0400 schrieb Evan: I'd also like to take this opportunity to unofficially request the ability to change a monitor's colour depth from the Screen tab of Screens and Graphics. I know that most people won't need this, but there are a few possibilities where it

Re: Fonts installation

2007-08-30 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 29.08.2007, 12:06 +0530 schrieb shirish: Hi all, I tried installing a truetype font by using the instructions in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FontInstallHowto I tried all the ways but dunno if the font got installed or not. I also did a sudo fc-cache -f -v and

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 07.08.2007, 01:04 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Lichota: Chris Wagner napisaƂ(a): Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi was

Re: Feedback Request for Prototype Package Tool

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Take a look at these similar projects: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/APTonCD https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt Furthermore the transportable repositories do not seem to address your basic problem: the not availability of a package for a specific piece of software. And always keep in mind that

Re: issues with xorg-xvideo-intel driver

2007-06-01 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Freitag, den 01.06.2007, 23:46 +0530 schrieb shirish: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have reported this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/107380 long time back I'm still facing the issue but nobody has ever

Re: Putting security-based applications as a separate menu entry rather than in Accessories

2007-05-17 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2007, 00:49 +0530 schrieb shirish: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager, GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based softwares in a separate menu entry titled

Re: Tablet PC and Summer of Code

2007-03-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2007, 20:43 -0700 schrieb Corey Burger: On 3/21/07, Charlotte Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Corey forwarded my previous message about a Tablet PC related project for Summer of Code (thanks Corey), but I thought I would try to rephrase my request a little

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-08 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Sonntag, den 07.01.2007, 11:39 +0100 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker: On za, 2007-01-06 at 17:30 -0800, Constantine Evans wrote: Perhaps it would be better to allow repositories to add an extra file that would contain a title and description, and then use that information? Such a method

Re: Gramps Filter navigation improvement

2007-01-07 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Sa, 2007-01-06 at 17:34 -0800, John Bartlett wrote: I don't know if this is the right forum for a suggestion but if it isn't, I'm sorry ... When entering a search (Filter) term e.g. a name or ID, one has to leave the keyboard and grab the mouse. 1. How hard would it be to make the

Re: Default font settings in Ubuntu

2006-12-30 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Sa, 2006-12-30 at 00:22 +, Alex Jones wrote: I still have the impression that none of the options for font rendering currently available comes even near to Windows defaults (That may be a matter of taste though). It's really not that complicated! Windows uses bytecode-hinted RGB

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-26 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
On Mo, 2006-12-25 at 20:53 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: The popularity system is really broken. :-) Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. Take Inkscape for