On 15/03/12 01:23, Liam Proven wrote:
Moving windows from screen to screen is easier than on
I see that in Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 updated (3D) it is possible to drag
windows between workspaces as favourite Dad tried to do. It also has a
method of changing size of launcher icons.
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On 15 March 2012 14:49, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 15/03/12 01:23, Liam Proven wrote:
Moving windows from screen to screen is easier than on
I see that in Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 updated (3D) it is possible to drag
windows between workspaces as favourite Dad tried to do.
Er, you
On 12/03/12 14:51, Alan Bell wrote:
yeah, I suggested it. The best way is not to petition it or anything,
but to implement it as a python based lens and submit it as an extra.
I will do that at some stage, but it would be great if someone beat me
to it.
I can't imagine I'll be immersing
On 13/03/12 20:46, alan c wrote:
A tangential one here.
Someone made a video of his dad trying Win8 for the first time. Worth
a serious watch. There but for the grace of God go I. (But not to
Windows for me though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nUfeature=youtu.be
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A tangential one here.
Someone made a video of his dad trying Win8 for the first time. Worth
a serious watch. There but for the grace of God go I. (But not to
Windows for me though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nUfeature=youtu.be
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On 15 March 2012 00:42, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote:
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A tangential one here.
Someone made a video of his dad trying Win8 for the first time. Worth
a serious watch. There but for the grace of God go I. (But not to
Windows for me though)
I've been using freenx which used to do the job perfectly but doesn't work with
unity. Waiting to see if it'll work on 12.04
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Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell
A tangential one here.
Someone made a video of his dad trying Win8 for the first time. Worth
a serious watch. There but for the grace of God go I. (But not to
Windows for me though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nUfeature=youtu.be
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On 11/03/12 21:42, Barry Drake wrote:
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote:
Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them - maybe 5 to
10 minutes - you don't want to spend all day boring them and you don't
want to eat up your/their family/work time.
Among the other things
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
In firefox we set up his webmail and pinned that as an application tab
as a separate item, I am not sure how that is done, can we have a
short separate thread on that, alan please?
thx
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On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
I noticed that Dad was peering at the screen a bit (I got him a new 17
screen to replace the 14 screen so there is more room on it, but
similar dot size) so I used ccsm to set the mouse bindings for the
enhanced zoom plugin to super+button4 and button5
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
I set up a show Alan button on the desktop which makes a keys based
ssh session to my home server on a static IP address and forwards his
port 22 to a port here. I can then ssh back to him and log in as a user
I created on his machine, I can also forward
On 12/03/12 08:38, alan c wrote:
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
In firefox we set up his webmail and pinned that as an application tab
as a separate item, I am not sure how that is done, can we have a
short separate thread on that, alan please?
thx
right click a tab and pin as application
On 11/03/12 22:41, Barry Drake wrote:
Alan, don't agree at all with this ah, maybe you aren't talking
about 12.04? On Precise, it just works intuitively (once you've got
used to lack of menus etc.)
Regards,Barry.
yes, this is all 12.04. The apps lens is nasty, if you have a
On 12/03/12 10:31, Alan Bell wrote:
it could look like this:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png
but it isn't designed that way.
Oh yes, that's really nice. I suppose you've suggested it? And the
nice Canonical folk are not interested? Where can we petition to get
On 12/03/12 14:35, Barry Drake wrote:
On 12/03/12 10:31, Alan Bell wrote:
it could look like this:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png
but it isn't designed that way.
Oh yes, that's really nice. I suppose you've suggested it? And the
nice Canonical folk are not interested?
- Mensaje original -
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
I set up a show Alan button on the desktop which makes a keys based
ssh session to my home server on a static IP address and forwards his
port 22 to a port here. I can then ssh back to him and log in as a
user I created
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Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?.
Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 12:44 +, Alan Pope wrote:
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Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote:
Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?.
Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:44:56 +
Alan Pope wrote:
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Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 12:44 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?.
Assume you only have a short while to
I would ask them what their field of expertise was, and then search
for applications in the software centre arround that subject
The other thing I would show is my current time since boot. Usually a
couple of weeks, and the suspend resume time (and perhaps the boot
time)
Next I would start to
On Mar 11, 2012 12:45 PM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
What about you? What would you show and tell?
5 years ago it would have been wobbly windows.
Dan
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On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote:
Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business
maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you
know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?.
Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote:
Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them - maybe 5 to
10 minutes - you don't want to spend all day boring them and you don't
want to eat up your/their family/work time.
Among the other things suggested, I'd open a couple of apps in different
did this today with my Dad. I built a bigger faster computer to replace
an aging XP desktop.
First question was so does it have iTunes and I explained how
rhythmbox worked and could put stuff on Mums iPod, we downloaded some
songs from the Rock Choir she is part of and imported quite a lot of
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote
We went through the launcher and the dash, I didn't list all the
programs I had installed. We pinned Rhythmbox and Shotwell to the
launcher. I think the apps lens is a confusing pile of fail, and
should be categorised by category and ditch the recommended
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