Re: Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi

2010-03-06 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/3/6 Francesco Fumanti : > Could anybody please confirm that pkexec is intended to start > GUI-applications like synaptic and if possible point to some documentation > about how to do it (or could anybody explain it to me)? >From http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pkexec.1.html: "The en

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-05 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/2/5 Markus Hitter : > Perhaps he's talking about not to introduce a different photo viewer > or instant messenger application every other release. I'm not sure what you mean with this in relation to Ben's message. That's the point why there are releases, and it doesn't necessarily need to be

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/1/29 Rene Veerman : > one can shift-alt-tab to move back 1 spot in the list of > apps you're alt-tabbing through.. > > can ubuntu do the same? by default, please? It does. (At least with Metacity, not sure about Compiz as I haven't used that for ages). -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (Ra

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/1/28 Amahdy : > What the problem really? when the quoted-text is collapsed and the replies > are organized together and simple navigation ... yes I can follow threads at > google-groups even if it's with hundred replies, but here my thread with > about 10 replies, I opened 10 tabs to see them

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-25 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
You are free to create such a GUI tool, or hire someone to create it, and (if it has sufficient quality and is secure) get it into Ubuntu. 2009/10/25 Steven Susbauer : > Should they be forced to hire a full time IT staff to run oldtownrootbeer.com Why would someone get a server just to host a web

Re: Karmic Alpha 6/Beta

2009-10-02 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2009/10/2 David Curtis : > If it is true that there are packages/sets of packages that will not > get installed through 'apt-get dist-upgrade' during the development > cycle GRUB 2 is a special case. It is only (automatically) installed on a clean install, and not on upgrades, given the risk of th