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mdkehmm12:48
mdkebanshee appears to be awesome12:49
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crimsunI'm a quod libet/amarok user12:49
crimsunspeaking of which, mozilla-thunderbird's import feature failed me utterly (didn't import a 77 MB mbox file that I've used for seven years with mutt)12:50
crimsunoh well, nothing that google and mv(1) didn't resolve12:50
mdkei haven't heard of quod libet12:51
mdkedoes it sync with an ipod?12:51
crimsunthere may be a plugin for it. I'm not sure. (I don't own a portable music device.)12:53
mdkethat's how I tried banshee... my brother asked what he could use for his ipod, and I kinda only knew gtkpod so I searched, and it appeared12:54
crimsunhttp://sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Plugins/iPod   uses libgpod, apparently.12:54
mdkeah nice12:55
crimsunyou'll need a newer version of quodlibet than what's in the archives (I built it and mutagen from Debian Sid source)12:57
mdkei'm pretty happy with banshee I have to say12:59
mdkeit seems to do everything right12:59
MadpilotI use Muine for music - it's nice and simple. Not drowning in options like Rhythymbox...01:00
crimsunmdke: doing everything right is ... well, right noble. If it works, it works.01:02
BurgundaviaLaser_away, you forgot to tell the list you applied patch 7 from cbx3301:03
mdkecrimsun: well, it's subjective. It does it right, for my taste01:06
mdkein terms of simplicity and making it obvious how to do stuff01:08
crimsunmdke: yep, that's what I'm saying. If it works for you, then use it. :-)01:12
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mdkesorry, didn't quite follow you. Gotcha now01:14
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mhzhi guys01:18
crimsun'lo01:21
Madpilothi01:24
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mhzhmm, is that good?01:25
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mhzmdke: is your wiki situation now 100% ok?01:26
mdkeyes thanks01:26
mhzcol01:27
mhzcool01:27
mdkeerm01:29
mdkemhz: I sent you an email last week about the firefox homepage01:29
mdkeit contained a detailed explanation of why chilean wouldn't work01:29
mdkebut as far as i know, edubuntu isn't doing translated homepages anyhow01:30
mhzmdke: oh, sorry I missed it, I have changed HD (last one was not working ok) and I may have not read it01:31
mhzoh, i see. I'll aask ogra then01:31
mdkebut chilean can't work anyway01:31
mdkethere is no firefox localisation in that language01:31
mdkethere is only -es and -ar01:32
mhzchilean = spanish = latinamerican =colombian =argentinian01:32
mdkewell, there is an -ar translation of the firefox homepage already (for ubuntu)01:32
mdkedoes it show up for you?01:32
mhzyup, and it loads english01:32
mhz:)01:32
mdkesorry?01:33
mhzfile:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/locales/index-es_AR.html01:33
mhzit is all english text01:33
mhzhence we translated it01:33
mdkein edubuntu it is a link to index.html01:34
mdkein Ubuntu it is translated, I hope01:34
mdkemaybe if ogra includes it in edubuntu-artwork, it will work, I'm not sure01:35
mhzyeah, I'll wait til I can talk to him about it01:36
mdkelemme check the package01:36
mdkeyeah i reckon it will work01:43
mhzokis, then, it is just a matter of ogra including it?01:45
mdkeyes, I think so01:52
mdkehe can replace the link with your file01:52
mdkeprobably01:52
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mgalvinmdke: i have been doing the release notes on the wiki for now, just so you know02:05
mgalvineasier for the devs to tweak it there anyway02:05
mdkemgalvin: ok. I think we can bin the idea of translating them, unless they're ready really soon... 02:06
mdkewhat do you think?02:06
mdkewe should remove them from the help website if so, because the aim is to allow that website to be fully translated. No major thing because the releasenotes are really more suited to the proper website02:06
Burgundaviamdke, desktop guide doesn't appear to render in breezy's evince02:07
mdkeBurgundavia: yeah. you'll need acroread02:08
Burgundaviaurghh02:08
Burgundaviawhat about dapper?02:08
mdkeno, broken there too02:08
mgalvinmdke: well, i would like to see it translated, but its not a *critical* thing per say imho...02:08
mdkei'd agree mgalvin 02:08
mgalvini am just trying to find the time to get it done within a reasonable time :-/02:08
Burgundaviamdke, is that a bug we can fix?02:08
mdkeBurgundavia: I filed a bug, and there is potentially a patch, but I can't test it because I don't know how to patch evince/poppler/whatever02:09
mdkeBurgundavia: if I give you the link, feel free to poke a few people02:09
mdkehttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672802:10
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mdkeseems it might be related to freedesktop #403002:10
Burgundaviathat would be poppler02:11
mdkemaybe poke dholbach and ask if we use that patch already02:12
Burgundaviaok02:12
mdkeBurgundavia: you use banshee right?02:15
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mdkeI've got it sorting by artist, and the silly thing doesn't sort within each artist by album/track number too. Any idea how to make it do that?02:21
Burgundaviamdke, nope. muine02:24
mdkeok02:24
Burgundaviayou know, I sure my pdfs don't open with totem :)02:26
mdkehmm?02:27
Burgundaviayour latest email02:27
Burgundaviaread it again02:27
mdkeoh ffs02:27
mdkewhatever02:27
mdke:)02:27
Madpilottotem, evince, acroread, whatever... ;)02:31
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Burgundavia_Madpilot, you around? (sorry, playing with myconnection )03:06
Madpilotyes03:06
Burgundavia_can you try and ssh to   24.69.71.21103:07
MadpilotThe authenticity of host '24.69.71.211 (24.69.71.211)' can't be established.03:07
Madpilotlooks like I'm connected to something...03:08
mdkethat means it works yeah03:08
Burgundavia_ok, that is good03:08
Burgundavia_hmm, I cannot seem to test it internally03:08
Madpilottrying to set up your desktop w/ SSH?03:08
Burgundavia_no, my router03:08
Burgundavia_I already have an ssh server running03:09
Madpilotlooks like it works03:09
Burgundavia_cool03:09
Burgundavia_wierd that it doesn't let me test the port forwarding internally03:09
Burgundavia_you know, Windows does really bad things to peoples computers03:11
Burgundavia_the number of people I have met/talked to that cannot run any messaging software on their machines because they are too slow is insane03:11
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robotgeekMadpilot: i might have it arounf, not sure04:30
Laser_awayBurgundavia_: darn it, yeah. I was going to do it but I had to leave the house and forgot :/04:51
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Madpilothi all05:19
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Madpilotbusy place here... ;)07:14
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Burgundavia_Laser_away, np09:12
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cbx33afternoon all01:54
cbx33need some advice about screenshots01:54
cbx33I'm wanting to add some small screen shots to a document I'm working on in docbook format01:54
cbx33They only need to be small - I'm using the TakingScreenshots wiki page to help...01:55
cbx33once taken should I manually resize them smaller?01:55
cbx33Still new to the images in docbook thing01:55
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mdkecbx33: we are also quite inexperienced with them: we don't use screenshots in documentation really02:17
mdkebut i would have thought you can specify the size when taking them02:17
cbx33ok02:18
cbx33it's only due to the nature of the doc really :p02:18
mdkeyeah02:19
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tuxmaniacrtel.in03:52
tuxmaniacsorry typo03:52
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glatzorhi jsgotangco05:40
jsgotangcoglatzor: hi05:40
jsgotangco(im about to sleep though)05:40
glatzortoday I did some serious work on my bike accident per week ration. so I cannot finish the updated manual for update-manager and software-properties05:40
glatzorratio05:41
jsgotangcoits ok unforutnately i'll be pretty busy in the next few days and im not really confident on getting it done either05:41
glatzorjsgotangco: good night!05:42
glatzorjsgotangco: isn't it lunch time in asia?05:42
jsgotangcoglatzor: no its almost midnight here haha05:43
jsgotangcoUTC +805:43
glatzorjsgotangco: right, the earth rotates in the other direction :)05:43
jsgotangcoglatzor: we could probably do an update if we're allowed05:43
glatzorjsgotangco: perhaps i find some time tomorrow.05:43
glatzori think that it's a quite important issue.05:44
glatzorbut I cannot concentrate very well at the moment05:44
jsgotangcoi'll see what i can do tomorrow morning perhaps its not that big an update for us either05:44
jsgotangcoi just haven't read the existing one thoroughly05:44
glatzorthe whole software-properties part needs a rewrite05:44
glatzorI send you a diff of my work05:45
jsgotangcohmm the help points to u-m too05:45
jsgotangcobut in the software properties section05:45
glatzori already updated the update-manager part05:46
mdkeglatzor: btw, is it known that update-manager has a different gksu dialogue if you start it from the menu rather than clicking on the notification icon?05:46
mdkeit says /usr/bin/update-manager rather than update-manager05:46
jsgotangcoreally/05:47
glatzorthe difference should be a minor one.05:47
glatzorI changed the gksu calls in update-notifier to use the --desktop option of gksu05:47
glatzorto avoid this ugly pathes in the dialog05:48
mdkeso, is it known or should I file a bug?05:48
glatzormdke: it is actually a feature and not a bug :)05:48
mdkeit's a feature that it uses /usr/bin?05:49
mdkethat's a pretty bad feature05:49
mdkeit's much nicer without the absolute path05:49
glatzormdke: it used /usr/bin/bla for years :)05:49
glatzormdke: I know that is why I polished the gksu dialogs.05:49
glatzormdke: furthermore there is already a bug about this.05:49
mdkeglatzor: right, so is it known that in one case, it still uses the absolute paths?05:50
glatzorone moment05:50
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glatzormdke: the gksu calls are hard coded in the exec lines of the corresponding desktop file that is used by gnome-panel in the menu05:51
glatzore.g. "Exec=gksu /usr/bin/synaptic"05:51
mdkeah, so --desktop needs to be added to that?05:51
glatzorSo we have to change the desktop file of each application and add the desktop option.05:52
glatzoryes.05:52
mdkeok, and you have a bug about it already?05:52
glatzora second approach could be to make use of the KDESetUid option, that is included in every administrative application's desktop file05:52
jsgotangcoyuck05:53
glatzorgnome-panel could be patched to automatically call the gksu wrapper for administrative applications05:53
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glatzorso we would only need "Exec=synatpic" and "KDESetUID=True"05:53
jsgotangcohey at least you got a good lesson :)05:54
glatzormdke: one moment...05:54
glatzorhttps://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/4307605:55
glatzormdke: but currently it''s a gksu bug. it should be rather a bug for all admin apps or a wishlist item for gnome-panel05:56
glatzorbut that is a design issue05:56
glatzorI think that he will hate me for this, but perhaps you should nag mvo about this.05:57
jsgotangcolol05:58
glatzormdke: I attached a list of all apps using gksu in their desktop files.06:01
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mdkeglatzor: cool, thanks for the info06:25
glatzormdke: you are welcome06:25
glatzorjsgotangco: I will do the manual now as far as I can.06:29
glatzormdke: by the way do you know how to make a cross file reference in a docbook manual?06:47
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mdkeglatzor: in the same manual?07:11
mdkeglatzor: you can use <xref linkend="id-of-target-section"/>07:11
glatzormdke: no, to another file07:12
mdkeglatzor: what sort of file?07:17
mdkeanother gnome manual?07:17
glatzorright, i would like to patch the synaptic manual and replace the preference dialog section by a link to the software-properties manual07:19
mdkeah ok07:19
mdkeyeah, there is a way to do that07:19
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glatzorwe use the software-properties dialogs instead of the synaptic ones in Ubuntu07:19
glatzormdke: but I don't know if this is an issue for dapper 07:20
mdkeit has something to do with a "ghelp" link, but we don't use those, so I'm not sure how it works07:20
mdkegrep another manual for "ghelp"?07:20
glatzorgood idea. i will investigate this.07:20
glatzorhttp://www.mailarchives.org/list/gnome-doc-list/msg/2002/0025007:21
glatzor<ulink href="ghelp://gedit">gedit manual</ulink>07:22
glatzorthanks mdke07:22
mdkeok!07:22
glatzorhm. but the xubuntu and kde people will perhaps hate me for this :)07:29
mdkeglatzor: yeah, that will only work in yelp07:30
glatzormdke: do you know of another tool except pngcrush to do batch compression of png files? using pngcrush I get a libpng link time error here.07:48
mdkeglatzor: yeah me too, it's a bug in pngcrush i think. I don't know anything else, sorry07:48
glatzorhm. ok. that's a pity 07:49
mdkebut someone else might07:51
mdkeI know nothing about images07:51
glatzorhttp://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/pngcrush07:55
glatzormdke: debian testing contains a working version07:55
glatzorand saved additional 4 mbyte on the installation cdrom :)07:56
mdkeglatzor: maybe you can fix it in dapper too :)07:59
glatzormdke: if you approve my motu membership and ufv exception before tomorrow :)08:01
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glatzorperhaps we should integrate pncrush in dh_scrollkeeper08:05
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mdkeglatzor: well, if you have a patch, maybe someone else can upload it08:13
glatzormdke: no sorry, i only recompiled the debian package08:13
glatzorbut since the current dapper version cannot even be built an uvf exception would make sense.08:14
mdkeyeah 08:14
glatzormdke: do you know anyone who we could entrust with this issue?08:19
mdkeglatzor: rent-an-MOTU08:21
mdkeLaser_away!08:21
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mdkeglatzor: another quite annoying bug is the whole screen flashing after the gksu dialogue is finished - is the screen darkening going to be disactivated before release, or is there a fix for this somewhere?08:59
glatzormdke: personally i would like to not see the darkening at all in dapper. But perhaps it is already to late.09:01
mdkewe can't release with that, it's really unprofessional09:01
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glatzori am on a quite oldish hardware and the darkening doesn't perform very well.09:01
glatzormdke: furthermore i am no core dev :)09:02
mdkeit's bug #597009:06
glatzorwhoa, a bug id with four digits09:12
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mdkemgalvin: i see that the release notes appear in update-manager when dist-upgrading, are these the same as the ones you are working on?09:55
Laser_awaymdke: what!10:10
glatzormdke: AFAIK mvo creates the tarball that contains the upgrade tool and the release notes manually10:11
glatzorLaser_away: you are the man :)10:11
Laser_awayglatzor: I am?10:13
Laser_awayglatzor: pngcrush needs a UVFe?10:14
glatzorpngcrush needs a uvf exception urgently.10:14
glatzoryes.10:14
glatzorLaser_away: could you still do this in the dapper time frame?10:15
Laser_awayglatzor: perhaps, it is getting pretty late10:16
Laser_awaybut I see it has a new release in Debian that has many bug fixes10:17
glatzorLaser_away: but nothing could be damaged and pngcrush is really a great tool to save space in the documentation10:17
glatzorLaser_away: I recently reduced the size of the update-manager documentation from 5mb to 700kb using pngcrush.10:18
mgalvinmdke: it does not seem to be the notes i am working on... i guess i should talk to mvo and dholbach about it (they may not be aware of our notes)10:18
Laser_awayglatzor: let me see what I can do. I'll make sure it builds on dapper and then file a UVFe10:19
Burgundaviamdke, you were a busy person10:19
glatzorLaser_away: I can confirm that it builds on powerpc dapper10:19
Laser_awayglatzor: what is the current shape of pngcrush on dapper? it works, just not very well? or is is completely broken?10:19
glatzorLaser_away: thanks a lot.10:19
glatzorcompletely broken. you cannot even build from source10:20
Laser_awayglatzor: ok10:20
glatzorthe current binary segfaults on every use10:20
Burgundaviamdke, ESA is not showing up on the sidebar at doc.ubuntu10:21
mdkeBurgundavia: did you add it?10:22
Burgundaviamdke, nope. Why would I take the pleasure away from you :)10:22
mdkebecause you don't want me to miss out on my ironing10:23
Burgundaviabut never is the question asked: Is it extreme ironing?10:23
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glatzornight all10:24
mdkeBurgundavia: the relevant file is in trunk/teamstuff/doc.ubuntu.com, just add the right link11:22
Burgundaviawill do11:25
Burgundaviamdke, how often does the web side build again?11:29
mdketwice a day11:29
mdkeyou didn't change the link text11:29
Burgundaviaah, oops11:29
mdkelink's wrong too11:30
mdke>_<11:30
Burgundaviabugger11:30
mdkethe doc is entitled "Release Notes" too11:31
Burgundaviawhich doc?11:31
Burgundaviathe link?11:31
mdkethe Edubuntu School Advocacy doc11:32
Burgundaviaoh, I see that11:32
BurgundaviaI refuse to accept responsibility for that11:32
Burgundaviabut I will fix it11:32
mdke:)11:32
mdkeyeah, Jordan must have used the releasenotes as a template11:32
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Burgundaviasalut Madpilot 11:34
Madpilothi11:34
Burgundaviawow, that BenM has done some amazing work with performance11:35
Burgundaviamdke, how do I get pdf building, on ESA11:35
Burgundavia?11:36
mdkeBurgundavia: see libs/pdf11:44
mdkebranches/dapper/libs/pdf11:44
mdkeit's quite difficult though11:44
Burgundaviaugh11:45
mdkei spoke to pete about it, he said he had some plans for making pdfs by inserting the material into scribus or something11:48
mdkeit sounded a bit painful11:48
Burgundaviaouch11:48
mdkei think fop is likely to be a better idea11:49
mdkedepending on how much bling you're looking for11:50
Burgundaviait depends11:50
BurgundaviaI am not a toolchain guru11:50

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