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BUGabundoienorand: I made 4 alias, just in case00:05
BUGabundoeheh00:05
slipttees_hi guys03:45
slipttees_ubuntu develop very fast and unstable versions :S03:46
slipttees_please relesead newest version in 1 year later03:46
slipttees_:S03:46
ienorandslipttees_: This decision is very much up to Mr Shuttleworth, and he seems to want to stick with 6-months, also, if you want stable, use LTS.03:50
slipttees_8.04 sucks :-S03:51
slipttees_6.06 the best03:51
slipttees_after this, only crap versions :S03:51
slipttees_ubuntu 9.12, 10.12, 11.12,03:53
slipttees_:-)03:53
bazhang!ot > slipttees_03:54
ubottuslipttees_, please see my private message03:54
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yoasifhows karmic so far, any big changes? planning on installing soon04:02
ienorandyoasif: some breakage here and there... I keep hearing bad things about kde and ati, so far a pretty smooth ride for me on nvidia, gnome, and a bit of caution when it comes to new updates...04:06
joetheoddDoes anyone know when restricted modules will be available for the 2.6.30 kernels?04:52
joetheoddI'm stuck using 2.6.28 right now because my wifi card uses a restricted driver (broadcom)04:52
Sarvattjoetheodd: just sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source for broadcom's drivers on karmic if b43 doesnt work for some reason06:22
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lazka2.6.30-rc doesn't work with the nvidia driver (180-51 from PPA) for me. Do I need a patch?10:57
lazkaDKMS is building fine.. but it doesn't come up10:58
lazka:/10:58
idorocklazka: u mean like a nicotine patch?10:59
lazkaidorock, I just wnated to know if there are known problems with this combination.. if not I will investigate further myself.11:00
lazkabut the source seems to have proper 2.6.30 ifdefs..11:01
lazkaok11:01
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shadeslayerwill hal be completely removed in karmic or just a part of it will be removed?11:57
Persihi guys, wanna try something special, will Koala run on par with say debian testing?12:52
acicularun on par?12:52
Persiand how to upgrade seamlessly? just add Koala repos?12:53
Persiin terms of stability12:53
rskiPersi: you can't compare then12:53
PersiI don`t use special features12:53
aciculaupgrade from debian to ubuntu?12:53
rskiunles you test both on same hardware12:53
aciculaerr12:53
Persinono12:53
Persiim on jaunty12:53
aciculaupdate-manager -d12:53
Persithx12:53
Persihow do I roll it back if it goes awry?12:54
aciculayou cant12:54
Persi:D12:54
Persicool12:54
aciculaalso no seamless upgrade12:54
aciculawell it will upgrade12:54
aciculabut stuff will break ;)12:54
dns53they have not had upgrades from debian since breezy12:54
Persi:)) which stuff usually breaks first?12:54
PersiIm not on debian!12:55
PersiI`m on jaunty12:55
Persiran debian testing once and it never broke12:55
dns53the kernel and x never work12:55
Persiand I was on intrepid very early12:55
PersiI have .30rc5 kernel and it works12:55
Persior you messed up with kernel for koala and its not ready yet?12:56
Persiwell seems to be poor reward for a lot of risk then anyways12:56
Persiis there anything special besides cloud capabilities?12:56
aciculanewer kernel/x/gcc/intel driver12:57
aciculaas far as risk, it's alpha12:58
dns53eucalyptus is in jaunty12:58
PersiI have them from swap squad - not crack pushers but the related bunch12:58
Persiand xfce doesnt even have notifications so I guess not that much to expect12:58
Persinot even new color12:58
aciculaaafaik alpha 1 is just a package refresh12:59
aciculamostly anyway12:59
PersiI see, thanks12:59
Persiby x you mean xorg?13:00
aciculaoff course13:00
Persiit comes with a driver I think, right?13:00
aciculaoff course13:00
Persi:) thanks13:00
Persiso I have them from daily builds anyway13:00
aciculaif you want to try karmic, grab the live cd, use a virtual machine or make an usb stick, that way you can experiment easy enough13:00
aciculai have an external usb disk with a few different installations too, very practical and nearly as fast as my laptop hd13:01
Persiyeah you`re right, having unetbootin I shouldnt have even asked in the 1st place13:01
Persibut you listed the key changes and I`m not using gcc so with drivers, kernel, and firefox up to date I feel like I am upgraded enough :D13:02
Persithank you13:02
aciculawell i'm sure my list is not exaustive13:02
aciculaexhaustive?13:02
Persiyeah with h13:03
Persiit`s just that I became obsessed with updates after seeing Minefield literally kicking ass13:03
Persiwhile being stable and working with adblocker13:03
Persiand also latest drivers improving performance, although I think it got back to usiing 50% of CPU with latest update13:04
Persibtw are you guys among the koala devs?13:06
Persiwhat will you do with intel video problems?13:06
aciculai'm not a dev13:06
Persithen why hang out here? dedicated tester?13:07
aciculathough it seems with the newer intel driver things are improving13:07
Persiit really is, cpu usage has dropped to 5% with some update13:07
Persibut then got back to 50 for some reason :(13:08
aciculait's a support channel for people running karmic13:08
PersiI know but you gotta have some reasons to run alpha and not being a dev13:08
Persibut you seem to run it from flash so you are probably just curious13:08
aciculano main install for me13:09
aciculabecause of driver support13:09
Persiisnt it all in kernel?13:10
* Twigathy is running alpha and not a dev because he wants to check NFS root doesn't break :)13:10
Persiand I didnt even notice the update to rc5 in terms of problems13:10
PersiI don`t even know what is NFS :)13:10
aciculaNo it's not all in the kernel13:11
Persiand what you have? cutting edge wifi? g4 maybe?13:11
aciculaintel gma450013:11
Persii.e. wimax, although I think it is supported already13:11
aciculaso not so cutting edge13:12
TwigathyPersi: networked file system. Basically this machines root is actually on another machine and it gets all its files over the network :)13:12
Persicant see any advantage, Ive tried ssh and it looked way cooler13:14
Persiwith I think root capabilities on remote pc as well13:14
Persiok I wanted to have some fun anyways so I guess Ill just try crack pushers13:16
Persithanks for the info guys, goodbye13:16
aciculayw13:17
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blueyedAnybody using RAID with Karmic? (preferably +cryptsetup+LVM)14:45
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dazjorzholy sh***18:23
* BUGabundo lends a trap hole to dazjorz18:23
dazjorzmy sound just stopped, when it restored, I had a few hundred popups pop up, all KMess new message sounds play, of a few hours18:24
dazjorzKNotify is catching up on the sounds it had to play, the notifications it had to display18:24
dazjorzjust when sound started working again :')18:24
blueyedyay, found the fix for bug 377395 - in case somebody gets bitten by it, too.18:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 377395 in util-linux "Karmic: encrypted root device (RAID+cryptsetup+LVM) gets not found; might fail for RAID in general" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/37739518:43
eagles0513875hey guys hows karmic starting to look19:28
thiebaudeeagles0513875: fairly good for me19:28
eagles0513875how can one get it granted its not released yet19:29
eagles0513875i need to see if this one nasty issue i am having after a clean install resurfaces in karmic19:29
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: either upgrading with UM19:29
BUGabundo1or livecd from dailies19:30
BUGabundo1!daily19:30
ubottuDaily builds of the CD images of the current development version of Ubuntu are available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ and http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/19:30
thiebaudeor change your sources.list19:30
eagles0513875BUGabundo1: i have had bad experiences with that so im rather apprehensive but i guess for right nwo i would rather use the upgrade manager19:30
BUGabundo1thiebaude: NEVER CHANGE YOUR SOURCES19:30
thiebaudethat's what i did19:30
eagles0513875BUGabundo1: how can i do it with the upgrade manager19:30
BUGabundo1thiebaude: me too.... but just because UM was not updated yet19:30
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: what trouble did you had?19:31
thiebaudeBUGabundo1: yea, thats true19:31
eagles0513875i would be guessing though by doing that you have no way of checking what packages have changed from one release to the next19:31
thiebaudeeveything just gets updated19:31
eagles0513875i always seem to end up with some pita problems that a clean install wouldnt have but i guess in this case since im on a clean install i can give it a shot19:31
eagles0513875man i had one hella time trying to get this machine online with a wired connectino19:32
eagles0513875tion19:32
BUGabundo1this system has came from devel cycle from hardy19:32
eagles0513875the default widget is borked up the backside hat to do it the old fashioned way with /etc/network/interfaces and resolv.conf it wasnt even pullingn an ip via dhcp19:32
eagles0513875ive been on kubuntu since edgy19:33
thiebaudeBUGabundo1: eventually ,i will do a fresh install with the 9.10 live cd19:33
eagles0513875its come a long way19:33
eagles0513875thiebaude: dont19:33
eagles0513875i have been having one hella time with it19:33
thiebaudeeagles0513875: just keep updating it until final?19:34
eagles0513875yes19:34
eagles0513875im an update fanatic19:34
eagles0513875always checking for updates as soon as i get on the pc and maybe 2 three times more19:34
BUGabundo1that's all?19:34
BUGabundo1I UM 5x a day19:34
thiebaudeim having no problems at all, like 8.10 with intel, but xorg.conf is customized anyway19:34
eagles0513875how can i upgrade to karmic19:34
thiebaudesveral ways19:35
eagles0513875apachlogger mentioned earlier today they making the 8.10 x stack available in a ppa19:35
thiebaudeseveral19:35
eagles0513875im gonna do online upgrade dont wanna waste a cd19:35
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: $ update-manager -d19:37
eagles0513875thanks19:37
BUGabundo1the usual way19:37
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: do you have an USB stick?19:37
eagles0513875says command not found O_O19:37
eagles0513875ya but has data on it atm19:37
BUGabundo1you can just get the iso and use usbcreator19:37
eagles0513875i normally use unetbootn19:38
eagles0513875bootin19:38
BUGabundo1naaa19:38
BUGabundo1usbc is better19:38
thiebaudethe pidgin tabs in chat look orange now19:38
eagles0513875never really tried19:38
eagles0513875well i have another project i wanna use it for19:38
eagles0513875make a persistent install of kubuntu on it19:38
eagles0513875is the command $ update-manager -d19:39
eagles0513875cuz im getting command not found O_O19:39
BUGabundo1thiebaude: not here19:39
eagles0513875found the answer19:39
thiebaudeits back to normal now, BUGabundo119:39
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: stupid idea: don't write the '$'19:39
eagles0513875sry19:40
eagles0513875:my bad19:40
eagles0513875been studying all day for my last exam on tuesday im brain dead19:40
eagles0513875once i finish school i gotta study my ass off for my linux cert exams19:40
thiebaudeeagles0513875: your good,:)19:40
eagles0513875there few things i wanna see if they occur in karmic19:41
eagles0513875for starters with the nvidia 180 driver been getting nasty freezes19:41
eagles0513875have to do a hard reset19:41
eagles0513875as well as the cursed network manager widget19:41
thiebaudeeagles0513875: like x freezing?19:41
eagles0513875dunno19:41
BUGabundo1I have to prepare for LPI too19:41
eagles0513875not sure if its the nvidia driver that is in the repos or what19:41
BUGabundo1will need it to get my next job19:42
eagles0513875BUGabundo1: what level im doing 101 10219:42
BUGabundo1101 for now19:42
eagles0513875im getting a jump on my certs19:42
BUGabundo11st time I went for it, I went without even studing19:42
eagles0513875you are lukcy when i did it thsi time last yr the syllabus was alot harder19:42
eagles0513875they took out x19:42
BUGabundo1not the best result19:42
BUGabundo1:(19:42
eagles0513875me neither commands raped me lol19:42
eagles0513875i did really good on apt-get and yum commands and everything else19:42
eagles0513875i have actually a rather nice book called a practical guide to commands editors and shell programming for linux19:43
eagles0513875upgrade on the way19:45
eagles0513875question19:45
eagles0513875is it ok to mix karmic repos lets say with jaunty repos19:45
thiebauderepos should be the same19:46
eagles0513875lets say there is an older version of somethign i want19:46
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: bad idea19:46
eagles0513875ok19:46
BUGabundo1but UM should take care of that19:46
BUGabundo1thiebaude: actually no... many differences by now19:46
eagles0513875one thing i would really like to see chage has to do with drivers19:46
Volkodavчто за глюк не работает на клаве стрелки влево вправо19:46
eagles0513875O_O19:47
thiebaude!ru19:47
ubottuПожалуйста посетите #ubuntu-ru для получения помощи на русском языке  / Pozhalujsta posetite #ubuntu-ru dlya polucheniya pomoshi na russkom yazyke19:47
Volkodavвверх стрелка почему скриншот делает19:47
eagles0513875seeing some interesting characters in russian19:47
Volkodavкак второй монитор добавил началась такая байда19:47
eagles0513875it would be nice to have the update manager poll the websites of intel nvidia and ati and have the user install them manually that way19:48
BUGabundo1!ru | Volkodav19:49
ubottuVolkodav: Пожалуйста посетите #ubuntu-ru для получения помощи на русском языке  / Pozhalujsta posetite #ubuntu-ru dlya polucheniya pomoshi na russkom yazyke19:49
Volkodavsorry wrong window lol19:50
thiebaudelol19:50
Volkodavкак второй монитор добавил началась такая байда - точнее компиз на втором19:51
Volkodavdarn it19:51
BUGabundo1eheh19:51
eagles0513875it download the driver to the local machine then let the user know where the driver is and steps to install it19:51
eagles0513875thiebaude: i think the issue with the nasty freezing i have been having was the driver and being on 4.2.3 even i had with desktop effects random plasma and kwin crashes19:52
eagles0513875omfg think  i need to change the name server im using19:52
eagles0513875:(19:52
BUGabundo1driver?19:52
BUGabundo1what did I loose?19:53
eagles0513875180.4419:53
eagles0513875nvidia website has 180.5119:53
BUGabundo1DON'T19:53
eagles0513875what19:53
eagles0513875i havent install either driver yet19:53
BUGabundo1don't use drivers from outside the archive19:53
eagles0513875y is that19:53
eagles0513875well that what happened before borked my x all together had to reinstall19:53
thiebaudeBUGabundo1: they will break?19:53
BUGabundo1thiebaude: can for sure19:54
BUGabundo1and its very hard to get the system working again after it19:54
eagles0513875heheh19:54
eagles0513875i totally agree19:54
eagles0513875but now that i have all my data off there im kool19:54
thiebaudeBUGabundo1: i'll stick with my xorg.conf19:54
eagles0513875180.51 was complaining bout modules earlier and it having modules for 180.44 and not .5119:55
eagles0513875BUGabundo1: check out the new revised syllabi for 101 and 10219:55
eagles0513875they made 101 easier and took out the x stuff from it19:56
BUGabundo1syllabi!?!?!?19:57
BUGabundo1my prob with the 101 is that my exam was really old...19:57
BUGabundo1from 200519:57
BUGabundo1all about Redhat19:57
eagles0513875BUGabundo1: ahhh19:59
eagles0513875syllabi = syllabus plural form19:59
eagles0513875well i have a place you can get these exams and a program that is like an exam simulator and you can stay practicing these questions its free19:59
eagles0513875and what not19:59
DanaGIf you want newer nvidia, there's a PPA for them.20:00
DanaGhttp://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=109986620:00
DanaGer20:00
thiebaudeeagles0513875: you got a link?20:00
eagles0513875i dont get whats wrong with the ones from nvidia20:00
eagles0513875lpi.org is the site20:00
DanaGthat was a feeling-lucky link... lemme dig up the actual one.20:00
thiebaudekewl20:00
thiebaudethanks20:00
eagles0513875thats for the linux certification20:00
eagles0513875for those exmas not limited to linux but also msft exams etc its www.examcollections.com20:00
thiebaudei need to learn all i can, eagles051387520:01
DanaGhttps://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates20:01
eagles0513875thiebaude: i hear ya20:01
eagles0513875im dying to finish college20:01
eagles051387522 this past wednesday and have at least another 2 yrs20:01
thiebaudeeagles0513875: you studying linux admin?20:02
eagles0513875bsc computing informatino systems20:02
eagles0513875getting a jump on certifications20:02
eagles0513875at least linux stuff20:02
thiebaudewow, i wish i had the money to do that20:02
eagles0513875im spoiled20:02
eagles0513875parents20:02
eagles0513875and the governemnt here spoil students20:02
thiebaudei heard that,lol20:02
eagles0513875get paid to study20:02
eagles0513875and20:02
eagles0513875they give tax refunds up to 75% of tuition fees even cert exam fees20:03
eagles0513875there is such a high demand for IT20:03
eagles0513875is karmic gonna have 4.2.320:03
thiebaudebbl ppl20:04
eagles0513875later20:04
thiebaudeok20:04
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: you are lucky20:04
BUGabundo1here its expensive20:04
BUGabundo1400€20:04
eagles0513875im originally from usa20:04
eagles0513875used to pay bout 17k usd yearly20:05
eagles0513875im in central europe now20:05
eagles0513875parents migrated there over 30 yrs ago sis and i born there but coming back to our roots to study here and be with relatives20:05
BUGabundo1I meant the LPIs20:05
eagles0513875ya they are20:05
eagles0513875but worth it20:05
eagles0513875think bout this20:06
eagles0513875anyone know a list that has all the ppa's and whats in them20:07
eagles0513875or list with links to their pages on launchpad20:07
BUGabundo1yep20:08
BUGabundo1its called google20:08
eagles0513875i know but someone who doesnt know the name of particular ppa20:08
eagles0513875what they supposed to do20:08
eagles0513875i tried just to google kubuntu ppas didnt bring any of htem up only a link to what ppas were20:08
blueyedeagles0513875: IIRC there has been some post about it on some ML, somebody having setup something like that.20:09
eagles0513875well ill keep looking20:09
eagles0513875ill come across it at some point in time20:09
|eagles0513875|sry bout that20:11
|eagles0513875|dunno y the name karmic koala i picture a tie die colored psychadelic koala20:12
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eagles0513875can someone clarify why its nto good to use the nvidia video card drivers over the ones int he repo20:47
BUGabundo1eagles0513875: humm taste?20:47
BUGabundo1basicly because it can mess your system20:47
BUGabundo1and then devs can't provide you with support20:48
eagles0513875cant it do that if you install it ontop of the one thats in the repos cuz that what happened to me earlier20:48
BUGabundo1since you used 3rd parties20:48
eagles0513875humm20:48
eagles0513875you know if there is a newer x version in karmic or is it the same version as in jaunty20:49
rskix um20:49
eagles0513875here goes nothing with the reboot20:49
eagles0513875im trying to pin down an issue of random nasty freeses where i have to hard reboot my machine rski20:51
eagles0513875humm thats a nice way to start with all the icons jumbled lol20:51
BUGabundo1intel??20:51
eagles0513875no20:51
eagles0513875nvidia20:51
eagles0513875motherboard has an nforce chipset20:51
eagles0513875and video is an 8800gt20:52
eagles0513875now this is getting annoying i have half the icons smashed up near the left side of the bottom panel like the cclock and other icons20:54
eagles0513875and i cant remove any spacers20:54
BluesKajuhoh20:54
eagles0513875well im impressed that i can stil boot onto my machine lol20:55
* BluesKaj stares at the Update manager and wonders20:55
eagles0513875BluesKaj: do you have your data backed up20:55
eagles0513875BluesKaj:  Karmic is NOT RELEASED and may break your system if you use it20:56
BluesKajyeah , it's all on W7 :)20:56
eagles0513875on the same machine lol20:56
eagles0513875you are kinda playing with fire that way20:56
eagles0513875if you fudge up grub you have a mission control we have a problem style problem20:56
BluesKajnot really , I also use wife's pc for the real essential media stuff20:57
eagles0513875im seeming to make this even worse20:57
eagles0513875lol20:57
BluesKajI have grub disks and gparted , between them i can setup and reinstall mostly anything20:58
BluesKajthis like atoy in some ways but i do get frustrated if stuff  freezes20:58
eagles0513875nice21:00
eagles0513875and i fixed the panel issue21:00
DanaGgrr, stupid hal... doesn't realize eSATA is hotpluggable.21:04
eagles0513875whats the name of the widget to switch between multiple desktops21:12
robin0800eagles0513875: workspace switcher?21:13
eagles0513875ty rob21:14
eagles0513875interesting im trying to add that widget and its not in the list21:14
eagles0513875robin0800: its called pager which is rather a confusing name to use to be honest21:14
robin0800eagles0513875: not in ubuntu its not21:15
eagles0513875im on kubuntu21:18
eagles0513875now im still having issues movign stuff to the other side of the panel21:18
BluesKajyeah , it's sort of hit and miss on jaunty , one never knows if moving icons will work ...using the widgets panel seems to make things work better21:20
robin0800eagles0513875: perhaps perhaps ask in #kubuntu21:21
eagles0513875robin0800: this is karmic that im on i think we are all in one room21:21
* BluesKaj gets adventurous and installs Karmic ...always thought that jaunty name was lame anyway :)21:22
robin0800eagles0513875: Yes but what your asking is kde21:22
eagles0513875robin0800: they will send me back in here21:22
eagles0513875ill figure it out21:23
eagles0513875i think its a sign i need to hit the sack21:23
sliptteesnews about 10.04 Leaky Leopard ?21:23
BUGabundo1yay for BluesKaj21:23
BluesKajBUGabundo1, howdy :)21:23
BluesKajupgrades coming down the pipe as we speak21:24
sliptteeschannel ubuntu+221:24
slipttees?21:24
BUGabundo1slipttees: rofl21:24
sliptteesi hope21:25
robin0800BluesKaj: on this laptop kubuntu karmic installed but the update to kde 4.3 beta 1 completly stopped it back on ubuntu now21:26
eagles0513875what repo is 4.321:27
eagles0513875in21:27
eagles0513875ya upgrade to upgraded packages taht i updated  are coming down my pipe line21:27
eagles0513875night21:32
BluesKajnite eagles051387521:33
BluesKajwell, karmic installed ok, but the wifi needs some help , prolly ndiswrapper again22:02
BUGabundo1BluesKaj: what card?22:02
BUGabundo1ndis project seems to be close to dead!22:03
BluesKajBelkin USB adapter , we ran out of router ports so i use this on my pc when kids are visiting22:04
BluesKajuses the rt2870 driver I think22:05
BUGabundo1I used one of those and it worked out of the boz22:05
BUGabundo1ahhhh22:05
BUGabundo1rt22:05
BUGabundo1wonderfull22:05
BUGabundo1gents: start your engines: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-karmic22:17
* ienorand is opening 26 new tabs22:22
BUGabundo1ienorand: I filed a bug on LP to improve the way we can subsc to blueprints and bugs22:23
BUGabundo1without getting carpic syndrom22:23
yoasifwoo hoo, on karmic now! :)22:23
ienorandyoasif: Good so far?22:23
BUGabundo1yoasif: welcome22:23
yoasifienorand: seems the same as jaunty so far, except that my wifi light on my laptop works now :)22:24
BUGabundo1hheh22:24
BUGabundo1I love the one for kernel-karmic-android22:24
BUGabundo1what the heck is package-license-tracking ?22:26
BUGabundo1apw: you been busy22:28
DanaGhmm, karmic on ARM... I want to see what sort of device that'd be for.22:29
BUGabundo1oh great there goes Xorg for good https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-xorg22:35
DanaGI hope they'll fix grub2 to do efi and non-efi in one package.22:36
DanaGLike Fedora does.22:36
BUGabundo1you mean rip/steal/borrow the Fedora code22:37
DanaGWell, I still prefer the Ubuntu/Debian "automagic" comment stuff over the Fedora thing... where I honestly don't know what it does.22:40
DanaGI think it just copies and pastes the old options, and that's it.22:40
yoasifanyone have a page with the karmic proposals? or are they all just blueprints right now?22:43
BUGabundo1yoasif: I pasted a bit ago22:44
BUGabundo1yoasif:  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-karmic22:44
BUGabundo1this one is nice https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/KarmicKernelFlavours22:46
yoasifBUGabundo1: ty22:47
DanaGINTERESTING: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/ARMSoftbootLoader22:50
DanaGER22:50
DanaGsorry, caps.22:50
DanaGMy input: they should check out the Angström project's kexecboot loader menu thingy.22:51
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ienorandUnfortunate naming collision: The Angstrom Project is a high cadence pixel microlensing survey of the bulge of the Andromeda Galaxy?22:55
ienorandBlaah! Ants in my keyboard!22:55
DanaGhttp://images.google.com/images?q=angstrom%20kexecboot22:56
DanaGoh, and I wish they'd unbreak this:23:00
DanaGhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/28327823:00
ubottuUbuntu bug 283278 in gnome-panel "When FUSA applet has shutdown/logout items are duplicated in "System" menu" [Wishlist,Fix released]23:00
DanaGer, the other way:23:01
DanaGI want to KEEP my system menu items.23:01
BUGabundoeheh23:03
DanaGhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fast-user-switch-applet/+bug/34321923:03
BUGabundotheirs is a gconf key for it23:03
ubottuUbuntu bug 343219 in gnome-panel "Adding Fast User Switcher applet causes shut down options to disappear from System menu" [Wishlist,Invalid]23:03
DanaGInvalid?  INVALID?23:04
DanaGgrr.23:04
DanaGIt's not invalid.... it happens.23:04
cwilluyou would prefer wontfix?23:05
DanaGIt would be more correct, at the very least.23:05
cwilluor is it just invalid because of the gconf option?23:05
DanaGI've removed my FUSA, because I want to have shutdown and logout in my system menu.23:05
DanaGBut that also means I can't use guest sessions.23:06
cwilluBUGabundo said there's a gconf key though23:06
cwilluand BUGabundo wouldn't lie to me :p23:06
yoasifFUSA should really be integrated into the system menu and the shutdown dialog as well... instead of being locked into a panel applet23:06
yoasifnot everyone wants to have a dual panel layout23:06
yoasifand a single panel gets crowded fast23:07
yoasifit's really messy the way it is currently -- doesn't feel very integrated at all23:07
yoasifwhere do you report *that* bug to though :p not to the applet, since those aren't parts of the applet.23:08
cwilluthe desktop team23:09
cwilluBUGabundo, you lied to me, there's no gconf option :p23:09
ienorandyoasif: Hmm, I don't think having idgin staus in the system menu would be a good idea...23:09
ienorands/idgin/pidgin23:09
yoasifcwillu: linkme if you could, i'll write something up23:09
yoasifienorand: yeah, which is why the pidgin status shouldn't be in there...23:10
DanaGoh yeah, and the LAG on volume changing -- where the change itself waits for the notification to be displayed first! -- really sucks.23:10
yoasifwhats up with that envelope icon anyway, the notification applet? how useless is that thing?23:10
DanaGSame with skipping multiple tracks in quodlibet -- you end up with a huge backlog of un-expire-able notification bubbles.23:11
ienorandyoasif: Very true, I've bought back the pidgin icon since at least, that one is _usable_23:11
BUGabundo1cwillu: everything can be an option on gconf23:12
DanaGAnd I'll spare the rant on update-notifier supposedly "abusing" the "notification" area.23:12
yoasifDanaG: yeah, what a joke23:12
cwilluyes, but not everything _is_ _already_ an option on gconf23:12
BUGabundo1cwillu: FOSS is your friend.. make it be23:13
* BUGabundo1 offers an hammer to cwillu23:13
yoasifienorand: sadly, none of this is going to be fixed, since canonical is behind those changes, even though they are poorly thought out23:13
DanaGyeah.23:13
cwilluBUGabundo, I've be spelunking through gnome-panel's source, I've done everything possible to repress the memories of that rats nest :p23:13
cwilluamazing it works at all, in all honesty :p23:14
ienorandAlso, why is the indicator applet near enough invisible per default? That is confusing indeed when you try to arrange the icons...23:14
yoasifthis still needs fixing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/22307523:14
ubottuUbuntu bug 223075 in gnome-panel "gnome main menu applet makes panel size to large" [Low,Triaged]23:14
BUGabundo1I would be glad to have sound without the need to rebot23:14
yoasiflooks horribly unprofessional23:14
DanaGOh yeah, and not all panel applets have consistent size.23:16
DanaGhttp://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~dgoyette/Screenshot-pidgin.png23:16
cwilluDanaG, really?  you mean the taskbar can be wider than the clock? :p23:16
DanaGyeah, pidgin is rather broken there, too.23:16
DanaGer, I mean, tray icons, rather.23:17
joaopintoBUGabundo, the need to develop code for an option for a "feature" that was removed is not really the best part of FOSS23:17
DanaG... and the cpufreq thingy, too.23:17
DanaGGotta' love the topic bar there.23:18
yoasifDanaG: play with dejavu sans... those fonts look awfully chunky to me ;)23:20
DanaGWell, I have a 147 DPI display, and have set Gnome to match.23:21
DanaGMakes the fonts wonderfully smooth on screen.  But, you get some apps like Pidgin that make bad assumptions about sizes.23:21
ienorandHave there been any talks about what's happening with the u-m notification :p ?23:21
cwilluienorand, in what sense?23:22
cwilluthere's already an option to turn on the old icon23:22
ienorandSo they're plnning on making current default stay?23:23
cwilludear god I hope so23:23
yoasifthe update manager change seems to be modeled after mac os x -- it works there, and it's not such a horrible change, imo. it annoys the crazy update fiends, but for "normal" people, it's probably a good change23:23
DanaGTo me, ANYTHING auto-opening provokes an instant, very strong KILL reflex.23:24
cwilluand as I said before, the option to restore the old behaviour is there :p23:24
DanaGThey should at least make the GUI have sanctioned ways to revert to the old behavior.23:24
yoasifDanaG: i agree, is there a bug report about that?23:24
DanaGWell, not a formal one for just that point; it's just mentioned among that huge "auto-opening is wrong!" thread.23:25
yoasifmaybe an option in software sources/update manager23:25
joaopintothere is a formal bug report about that23:25
DanaGHere's another odd thing: it doesn't update package cache first.23:25
DanaGI booted a drive I hadn't booted in 5 weeks..... and update-manager autolaunched.... to show me 5-week-old updates that probably didn't even exist on the servers anymore.23:26
yoasifwhere are all these bugs, i want to hit "affects me too"!23:26
yoasifDanaG: yes, but do you want it to autodownload too? :p23:26
* BUGabundo1 manually runs UM23:26
yoasifDanaG: and how often?23:26
cwilluDanaG, odd, I'd expect anacron to run the apt job when it booted23:27
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cwilluyoasif, there's already gui for autodownload and download period23:27
yoasifcwillu: yeah, looking at that now23:27
DanaGI love that quote about "throwing out the baby and keeping the bathwater" (re: abusing notification area).23:28
* ienorand shudders at the very though of the new u-m behaviour, I'd rather have autimatic updates, that way it would actually increase update-frequency...23:28
DanaGThe OS X update thingy is annoying, too.  BOING!  BOING!  BOING!  BOING!  BOING!  BOUNCE!  Hey, look at me!23:28
DanaGI like to wait until there are changelogs first -- and it annoys me that packages often don't show changelogs.23:29
BUGabundo1I rather have UM not ask my password23:30
DanaGIf the problem was the icon not being discoverable enough... they should have the bubble show the star-like icon itself, as a way to say "click THAT one" -- and if the problem was "non-intuitive icons"... fix the icon designs.23:31
BUGabundo1DanaG: but know bubles are not clickable23:32
cwilluhmm23:32
ienorandDanaG: That's a very good point "click the update icon" doesn't really give much for new users23:32
cwillunow that I think about it, what about auto-opening (wait for it), but opening _minimized_?23:32
yoasifi can't find the request to patch software properties to reenable the update icon23:32
DanaGIf it had big orange icon in bubble, and same (smaller) icon in tray, that'd help.23:32
cwilluthen you still get the benefits of a text description, the slowly throbbing attention requested indicator in the panel, etc23:33
ienorandI still haven't gotten used to not instinctively going for the bubble to try to interact with it... I even wonder if that decision was right after all...23:33
DanaGoh yeah, the big thing for me is that the notifications are laggy if you do too much too quickly -- like skipping 5 tracks in quodlibet, or changing volume rapidly.23:34
DanaGIf you overshoot and go too loud... it stays stuck too loud until it finishes the notification, and starts going down.23:35
DanaGVolume change waiting on the visual indication itself... bad.23:35
ienorandcwillu: It's still a non-intuitive behaviour in my opinion, updates do not open full blown "applications" and everyone who has ever used a computer _knows_ that.23:36
BUGabundo1and now volume is logaritmic not linear23:36
DanaGoh, and PulseAudio 0.9.15 + Blueman finally gives working bluetooth audio -- the first time ever for me.23:36
BUGabundo1YAY23:36
DanaGbut "flat volumes" are odd, too -- move a stream to the device, and the volume you've set for that stream.... is forgotten.23:36
ienorandDanaG: ah, so that's why the volume control is so bothersome...23:36
BUGabundo1have to test that23:36
BUGabundo1for me less then 65% volume is MUTE23:37
DanaGoh, and the *BLINK* I'M AT FULL VOLUME! *BLINK* -- should just do nothing.23:37
BUGabundo1what blink?23:37
DanaGTry holding volume-up or volume-down once it's already at max or min.23:38
DanaG... respectively.23:38
BUGabundo1oh and the 3 click policy on the volume applet? crazy, bag UI23:38
BUGabundo1left click, right click, double click23:38
BUGabundo1DanaG: you mean NotOSD ?23:38
DanaGnotify-osd, yeah.23:38
DanaGIt sits there blinking at you, and eating CPU.  And then double-flashing on window close, due to double animation.23:39
yoasifguys, please add your thoughts and vote for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/37777023:40
ubottuUbuntu bug 377770 in software-properties "Option should be added to allow how user wants to be notified about updates" [Undecided,New]23:40
BUGabundo1https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-karmic-audio23:41
DanaGMy USB sound card reports volumes to alsamixer as going from 0.0db to 0.0db.23:42
DanaG0 to 100%, respectively.  =þ23:42
yoasifDanaG: you were complaining about those update manager changes, please comment on that bug :)23:43
ienorandTrue, both n-m and vol are very odd interaction-wise at the moment, no to mention the abominable indicator-applet, in my opinion the u-m icon was the most straigtforward one, really...23:45
DanaGMight be nice to have PA use the volume buttons on a USB audio device... to control only that audio device.23:47
yoasifindicator applet doesn't seem to do anything useful -- what the hell is it for exactly23:47
ienorandyoasif: for things like pidgin and evolution, new messages and similar... They've removed the pidgin status icon as of it...23:48
DanaGhttps://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-February/001277.html23:48
yoasifienorand: yeah, but it never seemed to do anything when i interacted with it23:50
DanaGIt's odd to see an "e-mail" icon (i.e. an envelope) just for notification of a buddy signing on or off.23:50
thiebaude1DanaG: i changed that envelope icon in pidgin23:51
ienorandDo you think it would be a good idea to somehow autohide the network and volume icons when idle? Those are not used very much, and give no useful information whatsoever when they are "inactive" (oh, maybe signal strength...), something that could be delay-hidden?23:54
yoasifienorand: windows xp has something like that, the windows 7 version is even better, since there is a ui for choosing which ones will be auto hidden23:55
DanaGI found that it always kept forgetting the settings, every time an icon changed description.23:56
DanaGExample: temperature sensor.  Each time the tooltip changes, it's a "new" applet!23:56
ienorandHmm, yea, I've always hated the auto-hide things in windows though... But if they reliably expanded when hoovering over the notification area maybe... (Reliably is key here I think, one of the reasons I don't use autohiding panels is that it's always pure luck if the expand when you hoover over them...)23:58
cwilluienorand, hiding them would remove their utility almost completely23:59
cwilluienorand, for the volume applet for sure23:59
DanaGFor me, no Windows version has EVER remembered those settings.23:59
DanaGI just show all, always.23:59
yoasifDanaG: fixed in 723:59
DanaGWasn't in beta.23:59
DanaGAt least, not for apps that change tooltip.23:59

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