Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1

Fri Dec 2 02:27:10 UTC 2011

Ubuntu Developers,

Have you noticed the MASSIVE exodus from Ubuntu once the unity desktop was
shoved down our throats?  What is wrong with Gnome?  I wound up going back
to Xubuntu just to have a workable interface.

Just my two cents,

Tony Weitekamp

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On Thu, December 1, 2011 4:07 am,
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>    1. Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering (Colin Watson)
>    2. Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering (Alessio Treglia)
>    3. Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj... (Badoo)
>    4. An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" menu
>       into Unity (Ray Perigo)
>    5. Re: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic"
>       menu into	Unity (Mayank Rungta)
>    6. Re2: An idea about unity and classic stuff (David Gao)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:56:07 +0000
> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering
> Message-ID: <20111130125607.GC19661 at riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk>
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 07:34:01PM +0100, OrazioPirataDelloSpazio
> (Lorenzo) wrote:
>> However UCK works great with 11.04 but stops working with Ubuntu 11.10
>> alternate. Something is changed from 11.04 to 11.10 and the developers
>> of UCK don't figure out what it is.
>>
>> Every remastered iso give an error: "Debootstrap-Warnining". On the
>> error console we see these errors [2].
>
> Please post a complete syslog, not just a screenshot of one page of it.
> It's impossible to tell what's wrong from a single page.  You can
> extract it using "Save debug logs" from the installer main menu.
>
> If I had to guess, I'd say that something broke the Priority fields when
> regenerating the Packages file.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:03:53 +0100
> From: Alessio Treglia <quadrispro at ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering
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> Hi,
>
> few hours ago I uploaded the new upstream release 2.4.5 to Precise,
> which should fix that.
> I'll ask a backport for Oneiric as soon as possibile.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:40 +0000
> From: Badoo <noreply at badoo.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj...
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> Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj...
>
> Con?inut mesajului ?i expeditorul s?u nu sunt vizibili dec?t pentru tine
> ?i ?i po?i ?terge oric?nd dore?ti. Po?i s? r?spunzi imediat la mesaj prin
> sistemul nostru de mesagerie. Ca s? afli ce ?i-a scris, urmeaz? acest
> link:
> http://eu1.badoo.com/0262448974/in/0ZP5c3kfJxo/?lang_id=62&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3
>
> Te mai a?teapt? ?i alt? lume
> Yusuf (Male, Maldive)
> Papiu (Turda, Rom?nia)
> Laptes (Turda, Rom?nia)
>
> http://eu1.badoo.com/0262448974/in/0ZP5c3kfJxo/?lang_id=62&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3
>
> Dac? linkul din acest mesaj nu se deschide direct, copiaz?-l ?i lipe?te-l
> ?ntr-o fereastr? nou?.
>
> Acest email face parte din procedura de trimitere a unui mesaj trimis de
> Horea. Dac? ai primit acest email din gre?eal? te rug?m s?-l ignori.
> Mesajul va fi ?ters din sistemul nostru ?n scurt timp.
>
> Distrac?ie pl?cut?!
> Echipa Badoo
>
>
> Acest email ?i-a fost trimis pentru c? un utilizator Badoo  ?i-a l?sat un
> mesaj pe Badoo. Acest email este generat automat. R?spunsurile la acest
> mesaj nu vor fi monitorizate ?i nu for primi niciun alt r?spuns. Dac? nu
> vrei s? mai prime?ti alte mesaje de la Badoo, te rug?m notific?-ne:
> http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=62&mail_code=21&email=ubuntu-devel-discuss%40lists.ubuntu.com&secret=&block_code=badb85&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3
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> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:02:26 -0500
> From: Ray Perigo <immerohnegott at gmail.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" menu
> 	into Unity
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> There seems to be much griping going about regarding Unity, in particular
> the lack of a "classic" menu - admittedly, I'm one of those gripers. I see
> no reason why a simple applications (a-la GNOME 2.x) menu can't be added
> as
> a right-click function on the Dash button. This sort of menu is a
> must-have
> for a lot of users, and this sort of implementation would allow it to
> coexist peacefully with the Dash/Lenses.
>
> Cheers,
> Ray Perigo
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:44:40 +0530
> From: Mayank Rungta <mr.mynk at gmail.com>
> To: Ray Perigo <immerohnegott at gmail.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic"
> 	menu into	Unity
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> I am not sure if this is the right forum but since this topic has been
> touched I wanted to know how well the unity interface has been received.
> I see a lot of posts on returning to the classic gnome. It appears that
> there are just too many people out there missing the classic features.
>
> Basic things like Alt Tab behave very differently killing the purpose of
> virtual desktops (grouping as you roll through all the windows) and
> grouping of similar windows again is a problem as I would have a
> particular type of application (say Thunderbird) on the same Desktop. I
> can't wait for Alt Tab expand - the older method was so much simpler and
> faster. Any particular reason to change it? I can't customize any of the
> panels - can't add shortcuts to panels, resize them, add panels, etc.
> The worst part is a lot of these things I am not even able to revert
> back to. Why is the new interface so rigid?
>
> I am myself moving to StumpWM now to make things easier for myself - at
> least predictable at a much better performance. A colleague is even
> contemplating creating a light weight desktop based on StumpWM with
> basic things in place as it is so much faster. Haven't tried xmonad yet.
> At least StumpWM gives a good mix of using mouse and keyboard. But for
> my newbie friends I was hoping the current interface was simpler or
> behaved like the conventional desktop.
>
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> On 12/01/2011 08:32 AM, Ray Perigo wrote:
>> There seems to be much griping going about regarding Unity, in
>> particular the lack of a "classic" menu - admittedly, I'm one of those
>> gripers. I see no reason why a simple applications (a-la GNOME 2.x)
>> menu can't be added as a right-click function on the Dash button. This
>> sort of menu is a must-have for a lot of users, and this sort of
>> implementation would allow it to coexist peacefully with the
>> Dash/Lenses.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ray Perigo
>>
>>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2011 18:08:06 +0800
> From: "David Gao" <davidgao1001 at 163.com>
> To: Ubuntu <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re2: An idea about unity and classic stuff
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> Well, I like unity, but I still think it good to add some classic
> elements. I think we at least need a classic menu, and some panels. Unity
> has a great launcher, which reduces my clicks a lot. The lens just mix
> everything together, and can be a great problem when I have plenty of
> music and applications stored on my computer. I have to always search. I
> wonder if we could have something like folders in our lens, and do not
> have to always show everything in the category.
> I hope you can understand what I say because I am not a native English
> speaker.
>
> Best wishes for ubuntu, unity and everyone.
> David Gao
>
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