Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-08 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Did anybody looked at how those other software handle exporting to > flick, picasa or other web services? > For Shotwell uploading to Flickr and Facebook is planned for 0.4 which is to be released in December. Picasa is planned for a lat

Re: Keyboard layout change visual feedback. Thoughts?

2009-03-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Dylan McCall wrote: > Here is a cute little bug (and patch) I filed upstream... > > Is it on the right track? Suggestions, etc. would be great :) > > It looks good, but I think it should also say how you can change it back, because if you accidentily hit those key

Re: Reasons Why Jaunty Will Not Ship With 2.6.29

2009-02-11 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Null Ack wrote: > Can I please be advised of why Jaunty will not ship with 2.6.29, and > that the kernel team has elected to ship on .28? > Here is a (short) explanation: http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2009/02/jaunty-kernel-bits.html Pretty much the same as what has

Re: Data loss with trash in intrepid?

2008-10-02 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must have pressed DEL by mistake on my keyboard with the desktop > focused, and deleted the directory. Such a thing should not be possible to happen unnoticed. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+

Landscape-common installed by default in intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, I was wondering why landscape-common is recommended by ubuntu-desktop in intrepid? It seems only useful to Canonical clients and even then I guess they also need to install the landscape-client package? It seems to include one useful command, landscape-sysinfo, but 918kb seems a lot for the

Re: F-spot 0.5.0.1 for Intrepid?

2008-09-27 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current version of F-spot in Intrepid was released back in May. A new > version was released in the middle of September. > > Is there any hope of seeing this in Intrepid? Should I bother filing a > freeze exception request for i

Boot sequence profiling on first boot

2008-09-07 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, I just tried the effect of profiling the boot sequence by adding profile to the kernel line in grub, and the effects were amazing! From 1:21 (average of 3 boots) to 58 seconds (again average of 3). That is a reduction of about 25%! And this was on a system that was just installed a few days

Re: Bugs for NM 0.7

2008-09-07 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Btw, a slight offtopic from this message, but does it mean that there >> will be no network-admin from g-s-t in Ibex? >> >> Would be very sad if

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-01 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, afaik automatic-expiration is not enabled for Ubuntu. It tracks > when bugs will expire but doesn't close them without human action. > Ok, so what does expiring mean then? > So... I think this isn't a problem.

Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-01 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, Bugs that are marked incomplete and subsequently get a reply from the original reporter often stay in the incomplete status. This means they automatically get closed even though the needed info was provided. I think it would be a good idea to automatically change the status to new once a ne

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-11 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Sam Tygier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Intrepid seems to me like a good time to include the prefetching work that > was done in 2007 summer of code. and maybe preload as well (more for > application load time than boot time), if the two can work together. > Q

Re: hardy release freeze, coming soon to an archive near you

2008-04-09 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The list of release-critical bugs is tracked here: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04 > > Additional bugs that are considered "targets of opportunity" for the release > are found at: > > https:

Re: [Policykit] No possibilty to unlock the save option in Gedit while trying to modify xorg.conf

2008-03-26 Thread Wouter Stomp
Gedit should notice you when you open a file with it that you can't write to. Preferably in a nonintrusive way, like those yellow bars that are shown for some other messages at top of the window. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM, thibaut bethune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Policykit is there to a

Re: Open Movie Editor vs. Kdenlive.

2008-01-21 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 21, 2008 8:22 PM, Jonathan Musther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KDEnlive is great, but it has two problems (for us). Firstly, it's a KDE > app, and so doesn't integrate as well as it could into Gnome (having said > that, neither does Open Movie Editor). Secondly, it tends to crash quite a

Re: Automatically sync new packages until feature freeze

2008-01-19 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 19, 2008 9:13 PM, Wouter Stomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the automatic import of new packages from debian stops at > the debianimportfreeze, A small clarification: by new I mean new as in not previously in the archives, not newer versions. Wouter. -- Ubuntu-d

Automatically sync new packages until feature freeze

2008-01-19 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, Currently the automatic import of new packages from debian stops at the debianimportfreeze, which is very early in the release schedule. After that, sync requests have to be filed and acknowledged, which is a lot of unneccessary work I think and causes packages for which no requests are fil

Main inclusion for transmission, vinagre and cheese

2008-01-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, After it was decided that ubuntu would ship transmission and vinagre in hardy, these were directly moved from universe to main. Cheese is also new in main. I couldn't find main inclusion reports for these packages. Even though it is already decided to go with these programs, shouldn't these

Re: gThumb

2008-01-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 15, 2008 5:59 AM, Bryan Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what the reasoning was to get rid of gThumb in the default > install (ubuntu desktop package). Is their an application that has been > added to help people organize home movies that I missed? To reduce duplication

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 15, 2008 12:39 PM, Sebastien Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And next time you find a bug in brasero not fixed yet you will advice > switching to yet another software? No of course not. This is only one of the many issues mentioned earlier. Have you read my first email? Besides that, d

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 15, 2008 12:33 AM, Sebastien Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would not consider features like inhibiting Gnome Power Manager from > > suspending while burning niche, that is something that should just > > work. > > That's rather a small bug and likely easy to fix, the software just n

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-14 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 14, 2008 7:07 PM, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If burning files is much concerned, using Nautilus CD Burner is the > easiest way for both advanced > and new users. Brasero is just as easy, did you try it (especially the latest version, 0.7)? Anyway, n-c-b is still inclu

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-14 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 6, 2008 4:16 PM, Wouter Stomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to propose including Brasero in the default Ubuntu > installation. For anyone interested: the desktop team has decided to include brasero, replacing serpentine, in the default instal

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-10 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 10, 2008 12:20 PM, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it integrate well with Rhythmbox, Nautilus and GNOME Volume > Manager? > Rhythmbox has its own cd burning functionality built in, neither brasero or serpentine integrate with it. Regarding nautilus and GVM: brasero can

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-09 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 6, 2008 4:16 PM, Wouter Stomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to propose including Brasero in the default Ubuntu > installation. Who takes the final decision on things like this? Or should this be posted elsewhere? Wouter. -- Ubuntu-devel-di

Re: Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-07 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Jan 7, 2008 5:50 PM, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAICT from the Brasero GUI, it does not create Video DVDs that any > standalone-player can play, just data DVDs (DeVeDe or similar is needed > for Video DVDs) > No, but it is on the developers todo list: http://live.gnome.org/Br

Proposal: include Brasero by default

2008-01-06 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello all, I would like to propose including Brasero in the default Ubuntu installation. Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD's for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. Brasero is ac

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-12-14 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Dec 13, 2007 4:52 PM, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One idea that Debian has had for years, that I am surprised that Ubuntu > did not follow -- especially with servers -- was the idea of the minimal > install CD ( < 50MB to fit on a mini-cd or flash stick) that was little > more than

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-11-18 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Nov 14, 2007 10:19 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. > Miro is a very nice program to include, although still pretty buggy in my e

Re: Bug(s) that should be fixed for release

2007-10-05 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 10/4/07, Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bugs that have a milestone for the development release can be found at: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-7.10-rc > Is it possible to nominate bugs for that list somehow? Wouter. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-27 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 9/26/07, Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 05:13 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > > > > > > On 9/24/07, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Same here, I think there's a need for a console-based Ubiquity > > installer, and a need for it to be accessible

Re: Apturl (security) issues and inclusion in Gutsy

2007-09-25 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 9/18/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:15PM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: > > 1. It's possible to run arbitrary scripts in the preinst/postrm phase > > of dpkg installation or the installed program itself could be >

Apturl (security) issues and inclusion in Gutsy

2007-09-17 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, I would like to discuss the recent inclusion of apturl in the Gutsy default installation. The idea of apturl is great but the current implementation has a lot of issues, some of which I will list here: 1. It's possible to run arbitrary scripts in the preinst/postrm phase of dpkg installati

Re: python-cjson is on Debian but not on Ubuntu

2007-09-17 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 9/17/07, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It wasn't in Sid when the auto-sync was turned off. It'll be automatically > sync'ed for Hardy. > > Scott K For Hardy, could there be made a distinction between autosyncing new versions and autosyncing new packages? Autosyncing new package

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 9/15/07, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We can also think (and this is my opinion ;-) ) that the locate command > is only used by advanced users that now how to install slocate in two > minutes, and thus that we don't need to install it by default. Newbies > don't use locate in a terminal,

Development decisions and user feedback

2007-09-12 Thread Wouter Stomp
Hello, I was a bit surprised when I read this part of the log of the last technical board meeting: 10:15 mdz_mjg59: do you think there is any quantitative way we can assess whether it works well for most of our current users? 10:15 mjg59 mdz_: Not really, no 10:15 mdz_I feel a bi

Re: Main Frozen for Tribe 5

2007-08-21 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 8/21/07, Jonathan Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have frozen the archive for Tribe 5, scheduled for Thursday. > Uploads will be held in the unapproved queue, if you have an upload > for main which should be in the Tribe please let me know. Uploads to > universe can be let through wit

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 8/6/07, Greg K Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The apt protocol ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptFirefoxFileHandler ) will > fix this. > > Can anyone tell if this will be implemented in time for Gutsy? Wouter. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com M

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-31 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 7/31/07, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:14 +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: > > On 7/30/07, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Actually, what would be ideal in the corporate or business environments > &g

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-31 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 7/30/07, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, what would be ideal in the corporate or business environments > would be a very minimal install with all updates coming from a central > repository (i.e. not from the CD). Something similar to the old Debian > or RedHat FTP based ins

Re: "Software Sources" design (Re: An update repository for a custom distro?)

2007-01-06 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 1/6/07, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the configuration part works already. All I still need to > implement is the inconsistent state and the revert action. But these are > low hanging fruits. > > Oh, and since everybody loves screenshots: > > http://files.glatzor.de