Hi
I have booked the #ubuntu-meeting irc channel for a meeting of the
Screencast Team (and any other interested parties) for this coming
Monday, 12th Feb, at 20:00-22:00 UTC/GMT. Depending on the (as yet not
finalised) agenda it may not actually take that long.
Once agreed, the agenda will be
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 12:09:42PM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
On 2/5/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:44:02AM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
Useless to me, a beginner. Concepts are too advanced and gappy in
presentation. Nevertheless a well-intentioned try
On 06/02/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Is there an OS programme that can be used to animate still images-
something similar to Flash? - I have been asked by a local secondary
school. They have one computer with Linux installed. Caroline lsp
On 06/02/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Is there an OS programme that can be used to animate still images-
something similar to Flash? - I have been asked by a local secondary
school. They have one computer with Linux installed. Caroline lsp
On 06/02/07, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/02/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Is there an OS programme that can be used to animate still images-
something similar to Flash? - I have been asked by a local secondary
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, London School of Puppetry wrote:
On 06/02/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Is there an OS programme that can be used to animate still images
I've just been playing with add/remove... in the applications menu,
and noticed
On 2/6/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 12:09:42PM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
On 2/5/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:44:02AM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
Useless to me, a beginner. Concepts are too advanced and gappy in
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Robin Menneer wrote:
We use all the facilities in iphoto. I've had a good look at f-spot
and, although very friendly, it falls far short of iphoto. Can I
use KDE derived digikam if I am in ubuntu which I see from this site
is Gnome based ?
Like many others, I enjoy processing digital photos. In the old days I
played in the darkroom, now I like to think that my computer, plus
software, is my digital darkroom. So, what do I want to do? I want to be
able to selectively crop whilst maintaining a fixed aspect, usually
7 x 5 because I
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:46:03PM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
We use all the facilities in iphoto. I've had a good look at f-spot and,
although very friendly, it falls far short of iphoto. Can I use KDE
derived
digikam if I am in ubuntu which I see from this site is Gnome based ?
Yes,
On 06/02/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like many others, I enjoy processing digital photos. In the old days I
played in the darkroom, now I like to think that my computer, plus
software, is my digital darkroom. So, what do I want to do? I want to be
able to selectively crop whilst
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:51 +, norman wrote:
The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection, a relatively few key
presses, plus patience. gives me my end
On 06/02/07, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone help? I am in Ubuntu 6.10. The numbering function has gone
erratic producing numbers of different sizes and defaulting back to
Times New Roman- but not for all the numbers in the list- very odd. I
am trying to produce
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:51 +, norman wrote:
The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection, a relatively few key
presses, plus patience. gives me my
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norman wrote:
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Perhaps it could make a useful
subject for a video or perhaps there is a piece of software other than
Gimp to give the same end result.
You could find your local (G)LUG and offer to give a tutorial on the GIMP...
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:36:52PM +, baza wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:51 +, norman wrote:
The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection,
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:51:31PM +, norman wrote:
The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection, a relatively few key
presses, plus patience. gives me
Like many others, I enjoy processing digital photos. In the old days I
played in the darkroom, now I like to think that my computer, plus
software, is my digital darkroom. So, what do I want to do? I want to be
able to selectively crop whilst maintaining a fixed aspect, usually
7 x 5 because I
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I'm sure I've seen an e-book on the Gimp? Might be worth hitting search
engine of choice.
There is Grokking the Gimp which is very helpful and also several
websites such as:-
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/
http://gimpguru.org/AskTheGuru/G20050312/
Norman
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Happy birthday for next week wish my old Dad would switch to Ubuntu.
Thank you Caroline. Tell your Dad that Ubuntu is the best thing since
sliced bread.
Norman
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On 05/02/07, Caroline Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benjamin Webb wrote:
What about my UK-Linux question. Is there any official overal site
for Linux in the UK?
There is nothing official and UK only that I know of. There is
http://www.fsfeurope.org/ and some interesting resources such as
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, London School of Puppetry wrote:
Can anyone help? I am in Ubuntu 6.10. The numbering function has gone
erratic producing numbers of different sizes
Can you try to narrow down which numbering function is this. If the
computer is completely turned off, which steps (such as
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Benjamin Webb wrote:
We need to try to get an official UK page for Linux, which will
include, amongst other things the list of people and their MPs that
was suggested, so that we can all lobby simultaneously. The way that I
see it, the Ubuntu UK
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Benjamin Webb wrote:
On 05/02/07, Caroline Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Benjamin Webb wrote:
Is there any official overal site for Linux in the UK?
I have found http://linux.co.uk/ and http://www.linux.org.uk/,
Perhaps the best place to start, or to coordinate any
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
mailman's post to new subscribers.
How about the following:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
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On 2/6/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:46:03PM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
We use all the facilities in iphoto. I've had a good look at f-spot
and,
although very friendly, it falls far short of iphoto. Can I use KDE
derived
digikam if I am in ubuntu which
On 2/6/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like many others, I enjoy processing digital photos. In the old days I
played in the darkroom, now I like to think that my computer, plus
software, is my digital darkroom. So, what do I want to do? I want to be
able to selectively crop whilst
On 06/02/07, Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Benjamin Webb wrote:
We need to try to get an official UK page for Linux, which will
include, amongst other things the list of people and their MPs that
was suggested, so that we can all
David Morley wrote:
Like many others, I enjoy processing digital photos. In the old days I
played in the darkroom, now I like to think that my computer, plus
software, is my digital darkroom. So, what do I want to do? I want to be
able to selectively crop whilst maintaining a fixed aspect,
On 2/6/07, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
mailman's post to new subscribers.
How about the following:
There was a letter in the IN Gear supplement of last Sunday's edition
of Sunday Times where the correspondent was adopting Linux and wanted
some tips, Ubuntu was recommended. This was totally unexpected, I've
emailed the journalist concerned many times saying that he never
encouraged the use of
Matthew,
Matthew East wrote:
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
mailman's post to new subscribers.
How about the following:
! Oh, and some articles about DVDs not working with Vista!
I'll let people know about this one as I've just got a copy of Windows Vista
Home Premium.
Cheers
Paul
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:26 +, Caroline Ford wrote:
If you are running with kde libraries installed I'd recommend krita the
kde bitmap editor as well.
I really think the gimp is being oversold by the community in general.
It is very badly designed and doesn't do 32 bit colour. The lack
Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew,
Matthew East wrote:
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
mailman's post to new subscribers.
How about the
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 19:38 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
There was a letter in the IN Gear supplement of last Sunday's edition
of Sunday Times where the correspondent was adopting Linux and wanted
some tips, Ubuntu was recommended. This was totally unexpected, I've
emailed the journalist
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:51 +, Robin Menneer wrote:
This is news indeed. Having read the wranglings between the
protagonists of the various versions of Linux, I had gained the
impression that software was exclusive to the basis sprecification.
It's true to say that often a package
Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:26 +, Caroline Ford wrote:
If you are running with kde libraries installed I'd recommend krita the
kde bitmap editor as well.
I really think the gimp is being oversold by the community in general.
It is very badly designed and doesn't do 32
Alan Pope wrote:
Yes. I run GNOME here, see what happens when I try to install digikam (a
KDE app):-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install digikam
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were
Doog,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*/Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:
Looks good, although I'd like to see a bit more about quoting. It should
suggest users intersperse their replies with the original message, so
that responses to points follow the points raised in the
On 06/02/07, Caroline Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We seem to spend far to much discussing this. I've seen horrors like top
posting done by core developers on other lists are really no-one cares ;)
Good point . Discussions about how to hold discussions.
Meta-discussions? giggle
Where
On 2/6/07, Caroline Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Yes. I run GNOME here, see what happens when I try to install digikam
(a
KDE app):-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install digikam
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state
norman wrote:
results achieved by Alana Pope, I am not sure that I could meet the
Is that your weekend alter-ego??
James
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:31:29 +
Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm the more confused. You both seem to say that I can use KDE
software on Gnome (ubuntu) if I go to a lot of trouble (and
knowledge that I lack) to make it work. Or am I just not
understanding the issues. What
Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Apologies, it wasn't meant to be
patronising! Although I can see how it
comes across that way.
I was just thinking that if this is an etiquette that users new to
mailing lists are to have thrown at them, we don't want to make the
rules so complicated or
Pat wrote:
On 06/02/07, *Caroline Ford* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We seem to spend far to much discussing this. I've seen horrors like top
posting done by core developers on other lists are really no-one
cares ;)
Good point . Discussions about
Doog,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No offence taken, I realise I am inept when using this facility, I will
not feel humiliated by any guidance offered. I will try to do better!
Oh, you seem fairly ept (is that the opposite of inept?) to me.
As others have pointed out, it's more important that
I've just run aptitude in full screen mode for the first time on my
Dapper system and in the third line down it tells me:
#Broken: 235 Will free 915MB of disk space DL: 5576kB
and at the bottom of the screen with a red background is says:
Suggest 5 installs, 32 removals, 133 keeps.
I've run
Tony Arnold wrote:
I've just run aptitude in full screen mode for the first time on my
Dapper system and in the third line down it tells me:
#Broken: 235 Will free 915MB of disk space DL: 5576kB
[...]
Hello, Tony.
Try running aptitude in command-line mode:
aptitude -f install
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Benjamin Webb wrote:
Perhaps we should create a site that is for people who already use
Linux, for co-ordinating the lobbying of the UK government.
I would suggest that before you go to all the bother of creating this
website and the accompanying
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Tony Arnold wrote:
Oh, you seem fairly ept (is that the opposite of inept?) to me.
Adept?
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