/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/03/30/#ubuntu-desktop.txt

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pittiGood morning07:44
huatsmorning everyone07:51
pittihey huats08:07
huatshello pitti08:08
huatshow are you ?08:08
pittihuats: pretty good, thanks; you?08:08
huatssame here :)08:09
huatsthanks !08:09
seb128good morning there08:15
huatsmorning mister seb12808:15
huats;)08:15
seb128lut huats08:16
huatshow are you seb128 ?08:16
robert_ancell_seb128: good morning08:16
robert_ancell_pitti: hi also!08:16
seb128huats: good apparently, you? ;-)08:16
seb128hey robert_ancell_!08:16
seb128robert_ancell_: how was you flight back?08:17
huatsso am I !08:17
huatsrobert_ancell_: hey robert08:17
robert_ancell_huats: hey!08:17
pittihey seb12808:17
pittigood morning robert_ancell_08:17
pittimade it back in one piece?08:17
robert_ancell_flight was long and uneventful...  And I think I watched every movie in their catalogue08:18
seb128did you have the same movies on the way back?08:18
robert_ancell_seb128: yes.  So I had to watch the dregs on the way back08:19
pittirobert_ancell_: seems you need more laptop spare batteries08:22
seb128bah, time after beta is crazy for bugs activity08:24
robert_ancell_pitti: yeah no power points on economy class.  And no power points in Abu Dhabi - new airport but no facilities08:24
seb128I got almost 700 bug emails during the weekend08:25
seb128pitti, mvo: want to help on the sponsoring queue today? ;-)08:26
pittiseb128: heh, I only got 35008:26
pittiseb128: ah, yes08:26
seb128hey MacSlow08:26
MacSlowgreetings seb12808:27
pittihey MacSlow, good morning08:27
seb128MacSlow: did you get my email about notify-osd? ;-)08:27
pittiseb128: I'll start with uploading the three new DX versions, shall I?08:27
pittioh, right, I saw your reply08:27
seb128pitti: I did review notify-osd during the weekend, got my reply?08:27
pittiseb128: I'll start with the indicator stuff08:27
MacSlowseb128, email is slow today08:27
seb128pitti: if you want, thanks08:28
seb128MacSlow: I sent on saturday, let me copy that here if you didn't get it08:28
MacSlowseb128, I'm checking08:28
seb128MacSlow:08:28
seb128"I've looked at the update, the install has this change though08:28
seb128"< /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service08:28
seb128---08:28
seb128> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in"08:28
seb128which breaks the dbus autospawning and make it not run"08:28
mvoseb128: sure08:29
MacSlow*sigh*08:29
seb128mvo: want to look to the brasero update in the queue? that's a svn change robert_ancell_ did backport should be no issue08:29
mvoseb128: ok08:30
seb128thanks08:30
MacSlowgee... my evolution just doesn't come around?08:31
MacSlowwtf08:32
robert_ancell_seb128: any last requests for my end of day?08:32
seb128robert_ancell_: not really, you should try to fix your timezone, I will probably drop you an email with some tasks or assign you some bugs during my day08:33
seb128robert_ancell_: so you have something to do for tomorrow ;-)08:33
seb128robert_ancell_: did you manage to find interesting to do today? I see that you did some bug triage ;-)08:33
robert_ancell_seb128: yeah pretty much triage and admin regarding travel today.08:35
seb128ok08:36
robert_ancell_seb128: I'm planning this week to start actively triaging a new package a day.  Currently gnome-games, gcalctool, vinagre.08:36
seb128enjoy your evening there, I've nothing specific waiting today so I think there is no point for your to stay around for nothing08:36
seb128that sounds a good plan!08:36
pittirobert_ancell_: sleep well!08:36
seb128I will probably assign you some bugs or updates during the week so watch your assigned bugs too ;-)08:36
* robert_ancell_ stomach rumbles... Time for dinner!08:37
robert_ancell_seb128: ok, will do.08:37
MacSlowseb128, my evo is really dead atm.08:38
MacSlowseb128, trying to kill and restart it08:38
robert_ancell_ok, see you guys tomorrow!08:38
seb128MacSlow: I copied the email there08:39
seb128MacSlow: you just install the service.in rather than the .service08:39
pittiMacSlow: sounds like your intent is to create the .service at build time with some detected stuff? I just wonder what kind of detection you'd do during build?08:40
seb128pitti:08:40
seb128Exec=@LIBEXECDIR@/notify-osd08:40
MacSlow@LIBEXECDIR@08:40
pittiaah08:40
pittiodd, ISTR that we had that for ages already08:41
seb128service_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in08:41
seb128I guess you want to change that08:41
seb128to service_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service08:41
MacSlowseb128, I never touched the packaging branch of notify-osd before. So I'm surprised this turned up just now08:42
seb128that's not in the packaging it's in the upstream tarball08:42
seb128MacSlow: it's commit 257 which broke it08:44
seb128 servicedir=/usr/share/dbus-1/services08:44
seb128-service_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service08:44
seb128+service_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in08:44
seb128+08:44
seb128+EXTRA_DIST= $(service_DATA)08:44
seb128you want to keep _DATA to .service08:44
seb128and add the .in to EXTRA_DIST08:44
* MacSlow wishes we had automated builds after each commit to catch that earlier08:44
MacSlowpackage-builds that is08:44
seb128MacSlow: I can fix it in the package for this round but please fix the upstream code too08:45
pittiseb128: you're going to update notify-osd then, while you are at it?08:45
seb128pitti: I've the update ready, with bugs closed in the changelog etc, I was just waiting to sort that with MacSlow to upload08:46
* pitti hugs seb12808:46
* pitti hugs MacSlow, too08:46
* seb128 hugs pitti08:46
MacSlowchanges from David08:47
seb128davidbarth: ^ ;-)08:47
crevettehello gentlemen08:47
seb128lut crevette08:47
crevettesalut seb12808:48
MacSlowseb128, I'll ask him why he changed that on the morning-call08:48
seb128ok08:48
seb128MacSlow: I think that was to have the .service.in the make dist tarball08:49
seb128MacSlow: ie adding the service.in to EXTRA_DIST08:49
seb128but that was done incorrectly08:49
MacSlowservice_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service08:50
MacSlowEXTRA_DIST= $(service_DATA) org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in08:50
MacSlowI assume that's better08:50
seb128service_DATA=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service08:50
seb128EXTRA_DIST=org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in08:52
seb128rather08:52
seb128you don't need the .service in the tarball08:52
seb128it's built from the .in during the build08:52
MacSlowhm... yeah08:52
crevetteseb128, about the inclusion of gnome-user-share by default in ubuntu, against which component should I open a bug? ubuntu?08:53
MacSlowseb128, fix committed and pushed08:53
seb128MacSlow: thanks08:53
MacSlowseb128, thanks!08:53
seb128crevette: none08:53
seb128crevette: those things should be discussed on mailing list not on a bug tracker when nobody out of bug triagers will read it08:54
crevetteokay08:54
mvoseb128: I assume bug #344431 should be added to the brasero upload as well?08:56
ubottuLaunchpad bug 344431 in brasero "cd / dvd creator appears in the apps menu, not in places" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/34443108:56
pittiseb128: taking libunique, or do you have a lock on it?08:56
seb128mvo: please do08:56
seb128pitti: I'm doing bugs I've commented on, ie libunique and pidgin08:57
pittiseb128: ack08:57
seb128pitti: would be nice if you could look at fusa, it unbreaks translations and has a freeze exception request08:57
seb128brb, restarting session to make sure the notify-osd update works correctly08:59
seb128ok, works09:01
seb128MacSlow, pitti: new notify-osd uploaded09:01
pittiseb128: fusa> taking09:01
pittiseb128: yay you, thanks09:01
MacSlowseb128, sweeeeet!09:01
seb128MacSlow: good work on the new version, nice to see several crashers fixed there ;-)09:02
tseliotseb128: as regards bug 34696409:02
ubottuLaunchpad bug 346964 in gnome-panel "menu items selected from screen 1 open on screen 0" [Low,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/34696409:02
tseliotseb128: I have found a workaround which makes the gnome menu and the panel launch apps using the right display. I haven't found the real problem though. And nautilus keeps opening files using the wrong display. Shall we include my patch for gnome-panel anyway?09:02
MacSlowseb128, yeah... put my personal "pet hates" about notify-osd I wasn't able to fix yet... but crashers enjoy higher prio :)09:03
seb128MacSlow: good that we sat down with davidbarth at the office too, I was able to point him the fallback icon issue too ;-)09:04
pittihey tseliot, good morning09:05
tseliotseb128: I get the display name from g_app_launch_context_get_display() and set it with g_setenv(). I know it shouldn't be necessary but I can't find the actual bug in the gtk (gdk) library09:05
tseliotpitti: good morning to you ;)09:05
seb128tseliot: can you try to get vuntz's opinion on the change?09:06
tseliotseb128: I already talked to vuntz but we haven't found the real problem yet09:06
MacSlowseb128, doing in person meetings/sprints is always good09:06
seb128tseliot: would he accept the gnome-panel change upstream?09:06
tseliotseb128: no, I guess not since it's not a bug in gnome-panel but in gtk (I *think*)09:07
mvoasac: should firefox in intrepid show me a restart required notification in the browser itself? I remeber seeing that some time ago, but do not in the intrepid version. is that expected?09:08
seb128tseliot: I would prefer to wait and try to fix the real issue for now09:08
tseliotseb128: but my patch helps and unless the bug is fixed before jaunty's release, our users will have a rather frustrating experience with multiple screens09:08
tseliotok09:08
seb128tseliot: we can still include your patch in a week if we didn't find something else09:08
seb128tseliot: did you open an upstream gtk bug?09:09
tseliotseb128: sounds like a plan :-)09:09
tseliotno, but I'll do it soon09:09
seb128thanks09:10
tseliotseb128: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57727309:26
ubottuGnome bug 577273 in Panel "Gnome Panel (and menu) launches applications using the wrong $DISPLAY" [Normal,Unconfirmed]09:26
tseliotjust FYI09:26
seb128tseliot: thanks09:26
tseliotnp09:26
seb128tseliot: I though that was a GTK bug?09:26
tseliotseb128: maybe. I can't see where the bug is. In the bug report I suggested that I can be a bug in GTK09:27
seb128tseliot: ok, I was suggesting to open in GTK in this case so you might get a reply from the GTK guys09:27
seb128tseliot: nobody out of vuntz will read this one on gnome-panel and vuntz already did know about it09:28
tseliotseb128: I looked at gdk and went up to glib but I didn't find anything suspicious09:28
seb128ok09:28
tseliotoh09:28
seb128btw the nautilus issue should be fixed in svn09:28
seb128did you try their change?09:28
tseliotseb128: are GTK bugs reported in the gnome bugzilla?09:28
seb128yes, gtk+ component there09:29
tseliotseb128: yes, I did and it doesn't seem to solve the problem09:29
seb128it should solve the places menu problem no?09:29
tseliotseb128: no, it doesn't, at least not here09:29
tseliotwhich makes sense if it's a gtk bug09:30
tseliotseb128: is it possible to reassing the bug to a different product in the gnome bugzilla?09:30
seb128tseliot: yes, the component is a combo, just pick an another component there09:30
tseliotok, let me change it09:32
tseliotseb128: shall I leave the "target milestone" empty?09:33
seb128yes09:34
tseliotok09:34
tseliotdone09:34
seb128good09:36
pittiseb128: since bug 345244 is fixed upstream, we just wait for a new tarball instead of sponsoring the fix?09:44
ubottuLaunchpad bug 345244 in totem "Plugin "Subtitels downloader" can't be activated" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/34524409:44
seb128pitti: you can sponsor the fix, new tarballs are in 3 weeks09:44
seb128pitti: we can give testing to fixes before that09:44
pittiseb128: ack, doing09:44
seb128thanks09:44
pittiseb128: I don't think that the transient unlock breakage in bug 345107 is too bad, but it seems you'd rather want to stall the upload?09:49
ubottuLaunchpad bug 345107 in gnome-screensaver "Please, sponsor gnome-screensaver 2.26.0 to jaunty" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/34510709:49
seb128pitti: well, it means that users will have no way to go back to their session09:50
seb128pitti: ie they are good to power down the box with everything they have open running09:50
pittiseb128: if all else fails, the postinst could killall gnome-screensaver?09:51
pittithat's a very big hammer, though09:51
seb128that would unlock locked sessions while the user might be not there09:51
seb128which is a security concern09:51
pittithat would leave the user without screensaver at all until reboot09:51
seb128it's not unusual to let the computer do the upgrade while being away09:52
pittitrue that09:54
seb128I would really prefer to get that bug fixed before doing the upgrade09:56
seb128I'm really not comfortable with that issue09:56
pittiseb128: ack09:56
pittiseb128: taking bug 34148709:56
ubottuLaunchpad bug 341487 in avant-window-navigator "'don't cover the bar' options doesn't work" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/34148709:56
seb128pitti: thanks ;-)09:56
seb128I'm fighting bug log and help gvfs upstream to debug some smb issue right now09:56
mvoasac: I just talked to a old friend who is pretty computer literate and tried ubuntu for the first time. for him network-manager was a bit of a challenge because under windows its the right-click that shows the available wireless networks. so he clicked right and searched and searched and did not find it. have you seen similar problems?09:59
asacmvo: hmm.10:04
asacmvo: i havent done much usability testing here ;)10:05
mvoasac: I was just curious if someone reported a bug10:05
mvoasac: probably not something we can do for jaunty, but might be worthwhile to consider for karmic10:06
asacmvo: yeah, but not sure how to best do it. I think dx plans to do some user experiments.10:08
asacmvo: but the fact that he found the wireless disconnected icon means that its not that bad ;) ... at least he got it almost right10:09
asacmvo: so one idea i could think off is to make the connection editor more powerful, so you can also connect from there10:11
asacmeaning users that dont left click find the "Edit Connections" (maybe "Manage Connections") and then can configure and directly connect in the dialog10:12
mvoasac: yeah, I was thinking the same. if edit connections would be more powerful10:25
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hyperairpitti: regarding nautilus-share, i accidentally uploaded a wrong patch. diff'd the wrong thing in git10:46
mvoasac: I reported #351487 about it (just FYI)10:57
asacmvo: cool ;)10:57
asacpasted my input there10:59
mvothanks10:59
tseliotasac: news on network-manager for hardy? (sorry to be a pain)11:08
tseliots/to be/ for being/11:08
asactseliot: what do you want? 0.7.1?11:09
tseliotasac: yep11:10
asaci think you can be happy that we didnt upload that there11:10
asacthere has been breakage now and then11:10
asaci will wait till its final ;)11:10
asachopefully soonish11:10
tseliotasac: the only reason why we need it is for this https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/chelsea/+bug/327247/11:11
ubottuError: This bug is private11:11
tseliot:-/11:11
tseliotok, let's wait for the final release11:13
asactseliot: hopefully will happen this week ;)11:16
asacif it doesnt happen you can be lucky you dont have it yet11:16
tseliotasac: ah, so very soon11:16
tseliotgood11:16
asacas it means we founda nother bad issue ;)11:16
asacwe wanted to release 0.7.1 final 3 three weeks ago11:17
asacbut there were bad regressions in some part of modem detection11:17
tseliotok, so you took some time to fix the regressions11:17
tseliotfair enough11:19
pittiseb128: hm, so I should or shouldn't upload bug 270644?11:19
ubottuLaunchpad bug 270644 in gnome-games "Sudoku crashes on startup" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/27064411:19
seb128pitti: just do it, I was going to do it because it's ready for upload I added the comment just to point that it's not worth backporting small changes11:20
pittiseb128: ok, doing then11:20
* seb128 hugs pitti11:20
* pitti hugs seb128 back11:20
seb128I'm almost done catching up with my bug emails11:20
pittinice11:21
* pitti didn't even start with them yet11:21
seb128ArneGoetje: hey, could you have a look at why current language packs in jaunty have no evolution-data-server-2.2611:32
seb128they seem to still have -2.24 for evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange11:32
seb128where current are 2.2611:33
ArneGoetjeseb128: I'll check later11:34
seb128ArneGoetje: thanks11:35
Keybukpitti: so DeviceKit is even more no-more now12:03
KeybukDeviceKit-* will talk to udev directly12:04
Keybuk(not even via dbus)12:04
pittiKeybuk: oh, not even in udev-extras?12:04
pittioh-uh12:04
Keybukno, we finally read the book on netlink12:04
Keybukand discovered that udev can, once it has processed the event, send a message *back* on the netlink socket12:04
Keybukso it does that12:05
pittiKeybuk: I don't see a new DK-power release12:05
Keybukwhich means anything can open the uevent netlink socket, switch to udev's multicast group, and receive uevents post-udev-processing12:05
pittiif there is one soon, I'd like to update that in universe and remove the devicekit package12:05
Keybukthis is all karmic stuff12:05
pittiKeybuk: you loose all the support for multiple types, argument marshalling, etc., though?12:06
Keybukwe won't have the udev that does this until then, I'm intending to not upgrade it between now and release ;)12:06
pittiah, ok12:06
pittiI just leave them like they are then12:06
Keybukpitti: DeviceKit doesn't really have multiple types now12:06
pittithey work right now, with the g-p-m in the -desktop PPA12:06
Keybuk*nods*12:06
pittiinteresting juggle12:08
Keybukindeed12:14
Keybukmvo: I realise this is the most silly of issues, but do you know if I can make it so the desktop background *also* moves when I switch viewports? :p13:07
Keybukthe whole "windows vanishing while the desktop and panel stay where they were" thing, while clever, is really freaking me out :p13:07
* Keybuk figures it out13:11
mvoKeybuk: you can get the old behaviour back if you go to ccsm and go to "wall" and remove the non slidding windows there13:18
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hggdhseb128, ping13:30
seb128hggdh: hi13:31
hggdhhi seb128, with libpst accepted, should I open a MIR for it?13:32
seb128yes please13:32
hggdhk will do13:32
seb128thanks13:33
seb128and sorry you got so much trouble getting it reviewed13:33
kenvandine_wkpitti: i see ekiga source has been uploaded, but it isn't built13:33
pittikenvandine_wk: ah, I bet it needs some NEWing, let me look13:33
seb128replacing an existant lib by an another codebase is not a common scenario ;-)13:33
hggdhheh13:33
hggdhjust my luck, very first package had to be a complex issue13:34
pittikenvandine_wk: hm, nothing in NEW; ptlib is current on all arches, and opal on all but armel13:35
pittikenvandine_wk: (did you get an FTBFS mail for opal/armel?)13:35
* kenvandine_wk looks13:35
pittikenvandine_wk: ah, it's building right now13:35
pittikenvandine_wk: seems slangasek just NEWed those some hours ago13:35
kenvandine_wkok13:36
kenvandine_wkgreat13:36
pittikenvandine_wk: ok, opal/armel is just "needs building", not ftbfs13:36
kenvandine_wkpitti: where can i look to see  build status?13:38
pittikenvandine_wk: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opal -> click on topmost version13:41
kenvandine_wkoh13:42
kenvandine_wkok13:42
kenvandine_wki see13:42
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pittiseb128: hm, for a few days now, using gpg invokes "pinentry" and it doesn't remember the passphrase for very long15:06
pittiseb128: is that an intended change?15:06
seb128not that I know15:06
seb128seahorse didn't change recently that I know15:07
seb128rickspencer3: pidgin still crashing?15:08
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phomesseb128: wrt bug 339337 I just wanted to make sure it was noticed that sudoku no longer needs numpy i 2.26. The comments suggest that you are holding back on removing numpy for sudoku. (numpy was needed up to 2.25.92)15:36
ubottuLaunchpad bug 339337 in gnome-games "gnome-sudoku uses python-numpy which is not installed by default" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33933715:36
seb128phomes: thanks for the comment we did remove the depends on numpy the comment was to raise that it created an issue there15:37
seb128phomes: we didn't add the depends back but planned to see what was required for sudoku, good that you tackled this one ;-)15:37
phomesseb128: I have removed the dependency on gnomeprint on trunk. It's a rather invasive change but since it is the only dependent app on gnomeprint it might be interesting.15:42
seb128phomes: that's already in jaunty15:42
seb128phomes: but thanks again ;-)15:42
phomesseb128: oh. You guys are quick :)15:43
seb128phomes: well it was the only thing still using libgnomeprint that's why I pinged on the upstream bug15:43
seb128robert_ancell backported the change some days ago15:43
seb128the print result is a bit less nice than the libgnomeprint one but closer of what you have on screen15:44
phomesseb128: yes. I was planning to adjust that a bit. Should I ping you guys if I make patches to make it nicer upstream?15:46
seb128that would be nice thanks15:47
jcastrodidrocks: ping16:20
seb128jcastro: hey, you should just ask your question ;-)16:22
jcastroheh16:22
seb128jcastro: do you know if uds invitations have been sent yet?16:23
jcastroI am working on it right now, just got the go ahead to proceed16:23
jcastrothey should be out in an hour or so16:23
andreasnwhen is UDS?16:23
seb128ok good16:23
jcastroseb128: sometimes people don't fill out email address in lp so I have to go hunt people down.16:24
jcastro*cough* didrocks16:24
jcastroandreasn: may 25-2916:24
andreasnjcastro, cool. I might come16:24
seb128jcastro: ok ;-)16:24
jcastroandreasn: !16:24
jcastroandreasn: I miss you man16:24
andreasnwhen was the last time we met?16:25
andreasnI was in your country in October, but I can't recall if we met then16:25
seb128vuntz: hello? ;-)16:26
andreasnjcastro, are you going to GUADEC?16:26
seb128vuntz: I see that you commited session storing changes to svn16:27
didrocksjcastro: sorry for hiding my e-mail :) you can try didrocks -at- ubuntu.com16:27
* didrocks hides ;)16:27
seb128vuntz: is that much different of the patch in bugzilla? did you fix the restart case?16:27
dobeyhey andreasn16:27
andreasnhi dobey16:28
dobeyandreasn: you *should* come to UDS16:28
jcastrodidrocks: I found it.16:28
andreasndobey, lots of stuff happening in May, but yeah, sure, I'll do my best16:29
dobeyheh16:29
andreasnbecause LGM is in May too I think16:29
dobeybah16:29
didrocksjcastro: damned, unmasked ;)16:29
dobeyLGM is in canuckland though16:29
dobeyskip LGM and just go to UDS :)16:29
dobeybarcelona > montreal16:30
vuntzseb128: it's a bit better than the patch in bugzilla, but still more or less the same16:30
vuntzseb128: restart/shutdown is not fixed yet16:30
seb128ok thanks16:30
seb128so probably not worth doing a svn snapshot yet16:30
vuntz(much harder than what I originally thought, because of ConsoleKit)16:30
vuntznope16:30
seb128let me know when you do changes which need testing16:31
seb128I can snapshot svn to jaunty16:31
andreasndobey, I hope I can do both in the end16:31
vuntzseb128: fwiw, I'll do a 2.26.0.90 tarball once the restart/shutdown thing is fixed16:31
seb128excellent thanks!16:31
dobeyandreasn: yeah16:31
andreasndobey, as LGM is at the beginning of the month anyway16:31
dobeyah16:32
andreasnwhere in Canada does Steven Garrity live?16:33
seb128pedro_: did you look upstream for bug #351347?16:36
ubottuLaunchpad bug 351347 in evolution "After renamed the Personal calendar it doesn't retain the new name" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/35134716:36
dobeyandreasn: PEI i think16:36
dobeyandreasn: yeah, in PEI16:37
pedro_seb128: I'm doing it, bugzilla is taking ages though, haven't forgot about it16:37
seb128pedro_: ok, cool, I mark the email as read then ;-)16:37
pedro_seb128: ok :-)16:38
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kenvandine_wkasac: do you know the status of the strings for bug 338389?16:44
ubottuLaunchpad bug 338389 in network-manager-applet "flip connected message and ssid in wireless device" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33838916:44
asackenvandine_wk: we flipped them, but there is an issue with missing icon16:45
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asacnot sure where this question comes from ;)16:45
kenvandine_wk:)16:45
kenvandine_wktalking to the dx guys, they are looking for status on the strings... if we are still waiting for translations, etc16:45
Bojhanmtp: png16:47
Bojhanmpt: ping16:48
* kenvandine_wk -> lunch16:56
* pitti -> Taekwondo, cu tomorrow18:33
mptdarn18:44
Bojhanmpt: hey18:51
mpthello Bojhan18:52
Bojhanmpt: Hehe, hard time catching you. How are you doing?18:52
mptBojhan, crazy busy as usual18:52
Bojhanmpt: Hehe, I know the feeling18:53
Bojhanmpt: Well if you have any time, I would love to catch up a bit on ubuntu's efforts around ux and see how Drupal is similair and diffrent.18:54
mptsure, now's good18:54
Bojhanmpt: oke great, so basicly all I know of your article, and I have been using it as ground work for a lot of improvements around our process18:55
mptneat18:57
Bojhanmpt: Could you tell me abit about what you guys are doing, working on? I have just recently tested ubuntu, with my little cousins here, and they seemed to have completely missed they transferd from a windows to ubuntu envoirment18:58
dobey(curious: which article?)19:04
Bojhandobey: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability19:05
mptBojhan, for #1, companies that support Ubuntu (including Canonical, obviously), and companies that ship Ubuntu on their hardware (such as Dell and HP) have a financial interest in making it more usable. And Canonical is pushing distributed version control generally, though that hasn't produced noticable branch competition yet.19:05
kenvandine_wkholy crap... my laptop won't boot19:06
mptBojhan, for #2 we haven't done anything in particular yet (though we're hiring:-)19:06
dobeyhaha, "15 pixels of fame"19:07
mptBojhan, for #3, we have comments pages on wiki.ubuntu.com and (lots of) mailing list discussions, and we've implemented quite a few changes in response to those discussions (though not as many as some people would have liked)19:09
dobeylots of people get to see the result of what i did in webkit, but it's hard to point at safari and say 'i did that'19:09
mptunless you're in "Help" > "Acknowledgments"19:10
Bojhanmpt: But from the community, is there no reconizements?19:10
mpt(and I guess most WebKit developers aren't)19:10
mptBojhan, I'm not sure. What's a reconizement?19:10
Bojhanmpt: Well at our confrences, core contributors and such are starting to state how active certain designers are in making drupal easier to use, that is a massive effort ect.19:11
mptah, right19:11
mptNothing like that yet19:11
mptthough sabdfl does have a habit of sponsoring people with excellent ideas to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summits :-)19:12
mptFor #4, in Canonical's new Design team we're working out a process for user testing by computer science classes and other organizations that want to contribute in a fairly reliable way19:14
mptwhich will hopefully make us less reliant on "well, for *me* it works fine"19:15
Bojhanmpt: So you havn't done any slightly formal usability testing?19:16
mptFor #5 it's mainly a matter of leading by example. E.g. Ubuntu's new notification system had a design spec that was about 60% written before coding began.19:16
mptBojhan, we have on Launchpad, but not on Ubuntu yet19:16
mptFor #6, using the notification system as an example again, the design spec is extremely detailed so there's little room for whim (though the flip side of that is that it becomes hard for programmers to find the particular text they should be implementing right now)19:18
BojhanWow,19:19
mptFor #7, nothing yet19:19
BojhanThats quite something, I have yet to be able to pin a spec as leading for any patch yet19:20
mpthttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD is the spec in question19:20
Bojhanmpt: for #7 we are now in a trend of people asking for interface pattrens, to solve all of their issues19:23
mptyes, there's a bit of that19:23
mptlike the Yahoo Web interface patterns19:23
Bojhanmpt: yhea, I am quite unsure how that is going to work out.19:24
mptFor #8, Gnome already has a culture of simplicity (and so do some individual projects, like Pidgin for example), and companies that make money from Ubuntu are starting to get interested in working on the stuff that's less sexy for volunteers19:24
mpt(with notable exceptions, e.g. Evan Dandrea worked on Windows-to-Ubuntu migration well before being hired by Canonical, and the Wubi guys are volunteers too)19:25
mpt#9 is a problem we haven't tackled yet. For example, one of my colleagues reported a bug a couple of weeks ago about a horribly-presented error message, and was fobbed off by a well-meaning QA volunteer who basically said "you should suggest this on brainstorm.ubuntu.com instead"19:27
Bojhanaww19:27
mptShe had to pull out a reference to the Gnome interface guidelines before the bug report was accepted :-)19:27
Bojhanmpt: I am going around just marking stuff as Critical bug, which need to be fixed for a release19:28
Bojhanaww :(19:28
mptGood for you, if you have the authority19:29
mpt#10 is just an ongoing struggle, nothing much to say there19:30
Bojhanmpt: Well your culture is probally still 2x drupal's size, so we just have visability that makes it possible.19:30
mptsame with #1119:30
mpttrue19:30
mptFor #12, Canonical's UX design team is 90% working from the same office in London. That doesn't much help the rest of the community, though.19:32
mptFor #13, see #5 above19:32
Bojhanso for #12 is Canonical the largest contributor to the UX of Ubuntu?19:33
mptNo, the largest contributor is the Gnome project19:33
mptGnome has regular meetings and hackfests, but is mostly distributed19:34
BojhanAhh19:34
mptFor #14 and #15, watch this space19:34
Bojhanmpt: I think that #14 is one of our biggest problems,19:35
mptyeah, I guess that would be tricky for Web frameworks19:36
Bojhanmpt: basicly everything in Drupal is modulair, so everything has to be consistent for abstraction purposes.19:36
mptin general19:36
Bojhanmpt: I must say there is so much overlap with our situation, the sole diffrence is probally that recently we had these "outside" UX people contracted to fix the usability or UX of Drupal.19:37
mptah, fun19:38
Bojhanmpt: Well I think you know them leisa reichelt and mark bolton19:38
mptBojhan, I met Leisa very briefly last week. I don't think I've met Mark.19:39
Bojhanmpt: ahh, yhea so basicly they got hired by Acquia to work on stuff, a pretty wierd construction to begin with - but basicly the upcomming 2 months they will make radical proposals we need to give feedback on and at the end Acquia engineers will code it up19:40
mptThat could be good in that they come at the task without being sullied by knowledge about why things are the way they are19:40
mptIt could be risky in that they just dump some changes and run, without permanent developers changing their thinking19:41
Bojhanmpt: defintly, I think there is great value in having an outside consultant, though I am constantly trying to battle the fundamental issues we are trying to solve they only see the symptons of19:42
Bojhanmpt: So, do you see your team doing some kind of usability testing in the near future? I would assume, that such a large communtiy has the funds to sponsor such a thing, as it could greatly impact the momentum and focus on the interface? Or is that all run trough the Gnome project?19:43
mptBojhan, a bit of both19:44
mptWe're planning our own testing of Ubuntu-specific stuff, and the Gnome Foundation is also looking at running tests19:44
Bojhanmpt: I must say running tests on opensource projects, is far more pleasing then any pay-able work. Since the people in the observation room and the participants have a very diffrent motivation19:46
Bojhanmpt: We setup http://drupalusability.org/ after a test we did 2 months ago19:47
mptcool19:48
Bojhanmpt: If you ever need help setting up something similair, give me a ping - since we bassicly have all the stuff laying around for any other opensource project to use19:48
mptBojhan, thanks, I'll keep that in mind19:48
Bojhanmpt: So have you been able to involve usability experts into the game, or is it still hard to attract any?19:49
mptBojhan, but, er, what do you mean by "stuff" specifically? :-)19:49
Bojhanmpt: Well as in the setup of the site, so clean, without content.19:50
Bojhanmpt: and a lot of problems, we solved along the way in getting this out the community and intergrated part of the workflow19:51
mptok19:51
Bojhanmpt: basicly, we approached this kind of steve-krugy, saying19:51
Bojhanthese are the bunch of small issues, and those are the larger problems19:52
BojhanFor 2# have you been able to pull from existing communities such as ixda?19:54
dobeyhrmm20:15
Nafallojesus christ compiz!20:16
Nafallo666m RES now20:17
dobeyi think you mean ANTI-jesus christ20:17
Nafallo;-)20:18
dobeycompiz is ok here20:18
dobeywhich is surprising, given the resolution i'm running it at20:18
Nafallodobey: architecture? :-)20:18
dobeyfirefox on the other hand, is 192M20:18
dobey32bit20:18
dobeybut my screen is 2048x1152 :)20:18
Nafalloyeah. I've only heard this reported on 64-bit ;-)20:18
dobeyah20:18
dobeycould be20:18
dobeyin which case i'm glad i'm not using 64-bit20:18
Nafallofirefox is 400m RES and thunderbird 394m RES20:18
dobeyyeah, gecko sucks20:19
dobeyand webkit isn't really any better20:19
NafalloI'd say compiz suck currently ;-)20:19
dobeywell20:19
dobeyfirefox also sucks on 32bit20:19
dobeycompiz is 29M RES for me20:19
dobeyso maybe you should install 32-bit :)20:20
Nafallo  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND20:20
crdlbcompiz doesn't leak memory (at least not significantly)20:20
Nafallo 3413 nafallo   20   0 1999m 667m 3672 S    0 17.5  15:01.75 compiz.real20:20
crdlbit's the nviida  driver that causes that20:20
dobeynvidia on 64-bit only i guess?20:20
johanbr58 meg res for me (on nvidia 64-bit)20:20
Nafallocrdlb: dude... the nvidia driver wouldn't work on my intel chipset :-)20:20
Nafallomaking assumptions isn't helping ;-)20:21
mptBojhan, not yet.20:21
dobeyNafallo: i assume you need to install 32-bit instead :)20:21
crdlbNafallo: ok, then mesa is doing it :>20:21
Nafallodobey:20:21
NafalloMem:   3914164k total,  3870588k used,    43576k free,     4628k buffers20:21
NafalloSwap:  4000144k total,   905416k used,  3094728k free,  1621460k cached20:21
crdlbbut that's the first time I've heard of it on !nvidia20:22
Nafalloso no 32-bit either. I'd rather have the bug fixed personally :-)20:22
Nafallohehe. still ballooning :-P20:22
Nafallo2002m 669m 366820:23
NafalloI wonder if this could be UXA...20:23
NafalloNg: around? :-)20:23
NafalloNg: so anyway. seen any issues with compiz using UXA rendering? I use it with extras if you could help me re-produce :-)20:24
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Nafallooooh.20:27
Nafallored herring :-/20:28
NgNafallo: what kinda issues?20:37
NafalloNg: 20   0 2035m 679m 3664 S    0 17.8  15:11.76 compiz.real20:37
NafalloNg: the memory leaking kind ;-)20:38
dobeyhi glatzor20:40
NgNafallo: I definitely don't see that. Do you get it with default compiz settings?20:46
NafalloNg: running w/ extra.20:47
NafalloNg: hmm. you /are/ running x86_64, right?20:47
Ngnope20:48
Nafallothat's the culprit then :-P20:49
NafalloNg: oh well. thanks anyway. feel free to run from a usbstick or whatever... ;-)20:49
glatzorhello dobey20:55
dobeyi really should rewrite the check mode for distutils-extra21:00
kenvandine_wkok... so that is no fun21:46
kenvandine_wksomehow my disk got whacked...21:47
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seb128chrisccoulson: hello, there?22:47
seb128hey robert_ancell22:55
robert_ancellseb128: hey seb, still here?22:56
seb128robert_ancell: yes ;-) I tend to be around in the evening for one hour or two22:56
chrisccoulsonhi seb12822:59
huatshey seb12822:59
james_whi everyone23:00
chrisccoulsonhi james_w23:00
james_whuats: get any interesting mail today?23:00
huatshey james_w !23:00
huatsYES !23:00
seb128lut huats23:01
james_w:-)23:01
seb128everybody joining now ;-)23:01
huatsjames_w: how are you ? it has been so long ?23:01
huatsjames_w: already answered :)23:01
james_w\o/23:01
james_whuats: I'm good thanks, how are you?23:01
seb128chrisccoulson: did you get any update about this vino-server being respawned in loop bug? do you think it's jaunty milestone material or not?23:02
huatsI am fine too :)23:02
huatsjames_w: thanks23:02
james_wglad to hear it23:02
huatsI am in Paris to attend Solutions Linux23:02
huatsa Linux event23:02
james_woh, cool23:02
james_woui, je connais23:02
chrisccoulsonseb128 - no update at the moment. the only trigger case i can think of seems quite unlikely, but the reporter of that bug seems to be sure he did not trigger it that way so I'm not sure if it should be milestoned or not really23:03
huatsjames_w: c'est vrai... un francophone comme toi :)23:03
james_wheh23:03
chrisccoulsonmy trigger case was to manually start vino-server, then change the gconf key so gnome-session spawns a second instance, which immediately exits and starts this cycle23:03
chrisccoulsonbut the reporter is saying he never manually started the first vino-server23:03
chrisccoulsonso i'm not sure really23:04
seb128chrisccoulson: ok, I'm going through the milestoned bug, seems a medium priority, annoying case but not happening often apparently23:04
chrisccoulsonyeah, i think you're right23:04
seb128chrisccoulson: maybe he got vino registered in the session or something ... but that's weird since we don't have session storing right now23:04
chrisccoulsonyeah, it's a bit strange23:04
seb128chrisccoulson: otherwise are you looking for bugs to investigate or you are busy enough with other things right now?23:05
chrisccoulsoni can investigate some other bugs, but perhaps not this evening23:05
seb128ok23:05
chrisccoulsonjust looking at the vino source - it still uses GnomeClient, so it should be possible to make the respawning work correctly23:06
chrisccoulsonunliek with nautilus ;)23:06
seb128chrisccoulson: I just crossed bug #233913 if you are interested by having a look this week23:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 233913 in nautilus "Gnome launcher drops http ? parameters (query strings) in URLs" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23391323:06
chrisccoulsoni can take a look at that hopefully tomorrow23:07
seb128chrisccoulson: oh and sorry for not really replying to those comments about the media icon in the new pulse capplet the other day23:07
seb128chrisccoulson: I had to run to catch a plane23:07
seb128thanks23:07
chrisccoulsonthat's ok23:07
seb128chrisccoulson: I think the issue is a minor one since the capplet is not installed by default anyway23:08
chrisccoulsonyeah, it is quite a minor issue23:08
seb128changing the theme seems to be the easiest way23:08
seb128but if that's not done for jaunty that no big deal23:09
chrisccoulsoni'm not sure why i couldn't get it to display the application icon though. maybe that's a limitation with pulseaudio23:09
chrisccoulsonchanging the theme sounds good23:09
chrisccoulsonit's only a handful of icons23:09
seb128right23:10
Ampelbeinseb128: could you give an example of a "non standard case" package update? so i can see what you mean and perhaps ask some questions.23:27
seb128Ampelbein: I've no specific example but you mostly did update23:28
seb128Ampelbein: that was to write something there ;-)23:28
Ampelbeinah, ok. ;-)23:28
Ampelbeinbtw, thanks for the testimonial23:29
seb128Ampelbein: did you do library updates and checked if the shlibs need to be updated for example? did you do python packaging and check it's conform to the python policy?23:29
seb128Ampelbein: did you do new packages or binary splits?23:29
Ampelbeinseb128: ok, thats something i will have a look for.23:29
Ampelbeini tried a split of binary and -dev package. bug #32689923:30
ubottuLaunchpad bug 326899 in lighttpd "provide lighttpd-dev package" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/32689923:30
Ampelbeini don't mind if it doesn't get accepted, was a good excercise to learn more about how packaging work23:31
seb128good ;-)23:32
seb128as said that was rather to write something there, most of the desktop updates are usually easy and I was not sure if you did non standard update changes23:32
seb128ie do you now how to check that the symbols of a library changed?23:32
Ampelbeinbut i think i need some guidance for library updates. and i'm sure there are people here to help.23:33
Ampelbeinno23:33
seb128ok23:33
seb128next time we have a lib to update I will think to you ;-)23:33
Ampelbeincool.23:35
Ampelbeini think i'll check the bugs tagged "packaging" and see if i can do some more ;-)23:36
seb128good23:38
huatsseb128: I'll take care of the new anjuta23:43
seb128huats: thanks23:43
dobeyseb128: can you sync the new tango-icon-theme from debian?23:46
seb128dobey: what is your launchpad-id?23:47
dobeyseb128: dobey23:47
seb128dobey: synced23:48
dobeythanks23:50

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