Ubuntu 8.10 applets not saving properties - sounds + NetManager

[Derek Broughton]

Thorny wrote:

> [...]
>>> Now what's left is the sound problem.
>> 
>> Please ask in a separate thread.  It's hard enough to keep threads on
>> topic without trying to handle two completely different problems at once.
> 
> This is an oops Derek. You made a rookie mistake and that isn't like you,

That one is _exactly_ like me.  I have a bad tendency to post before reading
the whole thread.  However...

> you are an experienced, knowledgable helper. It's recommended, and
> standard practise, to read all of a topic's threads before replying. If
> you had, you would know that all the OPs problems solved.

_That's_ a "rookie mistake".  We all get posts at different rates - just
because _you've_ seen later posts doesn't mean I have.  In my case, I get
the feed through gmane, not email, so that results in different arrival
times.  Plus I'm on a satellite internet connection, and the weather's
awful (snowing right now, raining heavily earlier), which means I'm getting
an intermittent connect.
> 
> I don't mean to be picking on you, you give good advice and there is good
> advice in this post of yours too. But this example is a way for lurkers to
> learn how to operate efficiently in the list. No offence meant.

None taken, but I'm really not sure there's a way to prevent this sort of
thing.
-- 
derek