ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 69, Issue 10
Alexander Wilms
alexander.wilms at live.com
Thu Mar 10 22:15:38 UTC 2011
Hi all,
I just recently found this awesome compiz-based wallpaper. Could this somehow still be included in the Natty Wallpaper Contest?
Kind regards
Alex
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> 1. Call for Natty Feedback! (Alexander Wilms)
> 2. [Bug 722491] Re: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in
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> 3. Re: Call for Natty Feedback! (Martin Pitt)
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> From: Alexander Wilms <alexander.wilms at live.com>
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> Subject: Call for Natty Feedback!
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> Hi,
> I hope it isn't too late for feedback, because I think the expose view should be optimized. The desktop views should be centered, a bit bigger and thus saving screen-space and the gradient should be changed, maybe to be completely dark or completely bright.
> Alexander Wilms
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> From: Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
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> Subject: [Bug 722491] Re: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in
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> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Status: Opinion => New
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722491
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> Title:
> evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in send_dbus_message()
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> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:37:31 +0100
> From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
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> Subject: Re: Call for Natty Feedback!
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> Jason Warner [2011-03-02 6:28 +1030]:
> > * The look and feel
>
> I really like the maximization of screen real estate. Reducing the
> "overhead" to just one panel bar and eliminating menus indeed helps
> quite a bit on smaller screens, and I also appreciate it on my 19"
> screen.
>
> > * Usability
>
> I much prefer keyboard navigation over mouse, so with the dash search
> actually working now, I'm actually faster finding a program I want to
> use than browsing through the multi-level menu. Search is pretty
> reliable and also surprisingly snappy. I do miss a quick keyboard way
> of actually launching the found program with the keyboard, something
> like "Tab, Enter" to select and launch the first hit (or cursor down,
> Enter, or just Enter to launch the first hit if you don't need to
> select). I hear that's being worked on, though. Once that works,
> I find launching apps better than ever before.
>
> I find the default contents of the dash rather uninteresting for me,
> though. I wish I could remove some of the default shortcuts there, and
> instead add my own. Is that planned?
>
> I'm still missing some panel applets which I had before, in particular
> the system monitor and the full gtimelog applet (it now has indicator
> support, but that doesn't give you the time of the current task, just
> the logo). But this is also a matter of getting used to it.
>
> I never really used zeitgeist before, but it keeps a surprisingly good
> track of the files I touched recently. I just wish the dash search
> would also actually find files instead of just applications, but I
> take it that's a bug? (It has a category "files" but "no matches
> found").
>
> > * Stability (knowing that we are entering a heavy bug fixing time!)
>
> Since Alpha-3 I have had surprisingly few crashes. Well done everyone,
> you did an amazing job at fixing stuff in the last three weeks! (Before
> that it was basically unusable for longer desktop sessions)
>
> The issues that remain annoying for me are mostly compiz related: wild
> displacement of windows (apparently in an effort to avoid overlapping
> with the launcher), the non-working edge snapping of windows, and the
> spillover of window shadows to the next workspace (leading to
> focussing that window instead of operating controls in the current
> window). Also, it still steals control (and pretty much all other)
> keys from e. g. mumble, so I'm stuck with having no push-to-talk key.
>
> On the launcher side, I still have cases were mouse-ing over the
> Ubuntu logo only gives me a semi-transparent (ghost-like)
> nonoperational launcher which sometimes even doesn't go away at all
> any more.
>
> But all those are bugs, and when looking at the current pace I'm very
> hopeful that these can get ironed out soon.
>
> In summary, I had feared a lot worse when I heard about the complete
> rewrite for natty. I'm truly optimistic now that we can deliver
> something great!
>
> > * Highlights and favorite features
>
> As I wrote above, quick search in the dash is my killer feature,
> especially when it's getting completed with file find and keyboard
> selection.
>
> My other highlight is the rather sensible handling of the Windows key.
> I never used it at all before unity, but now the Windows+Number
> shortcuts or Windows - type search string operations are very quick
> and efficient.
>
> > * Perceived shortcomings and/or "wishlist" items
>
> Already handled above.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Martin
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