/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/06/11/#ubuntu-desktop.txt

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djsiegelrickspencer3: http://blog.davebsd.com/2009/06/10/one-hundred-paper-cuts/ what do you think?01:49
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didrocksmorning o/07:27
pittiGood morning07:32
crevettegood morning07:43
seb128good morning everybody08:17
pittihey seb12808:18
seb128hello pitti08:18
crevetteheya seb128 & pitti08:18
seb128lut crevette davidbarth08:18
didrockshey seb12808:31
seb128lut didrocks!08:32
seb128ca va ?08:32
didrocksça va (il fait presque beau -> il ne pleut pas), et toi ?08:32
seb128un peu pareil08:33
crevette:)08:35
davidbarthsalut seb12808:45
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seb128ok, enough bug triage for this morning10:16
crevetteasac, one more new information for your bluetooth spec, obex-data-server is dropped in favor of obexd in next release of gnome-bluetooth (to be issued soon)10:37
asaccrevette: is debian on it already?10:37
crevetteand obexd is not in ubuntu10:37
crevetteand not in debian10:38
crevette(hello by the way)10:38
asachi ;)10:38
asaccrevette: you know the gnome-bt version that will need obexd?10:40
crevette2.27.610:40
asacupdated spec. thanks10:42
* seb128 kicks karmic xorg or intel driver11:29
seb128something is eating ram over time there11:30
* soren concurs with seb12811:31
seb128I knew that upgrading my laptop to karmic early in the cycle was not a good idea, next cycle I will do the usual "install GNOME unstable versions only keep everything else to stable" ;-)11:34
cassidythe intel driver is worst than Jaunty's one ?11:35
sorenReally? I feel like i upgraded late this time. I usually "upgrade" as soon as the development release opens. I like the pain.11:35
pittiseb128: what's broken now?11:36
pittioh, RAM leak?11:36
seb128pitti: xorg eating my 2Go of RAM and 3.5Go of swap after some hours11:36
pittidoes that have an upstream bug already?11:36
pittidoesn't seem to happen here11:37
seb128no, I only noticed yesterday that it was due to xorg, before I just noticed that my system was swapping so much that I had to press the power button11:37
pittiwell, I'm on xorg-edgers, though, so newer mesa/-intel might not have that11:37
pitti(ugh)11:37
seb128and I'm not sure what informations would be useful11:37
seb128I get "all RAM and swap is used after an undefined amount of time" is not really useful11:38
pitticjwatson mentioned a tool to display X.org resource usage11:38
seb128will talk to the #ubuntu-x guys about it after lunch11:38
seb128get -> guess11:38
seb128well, I guess it's xorg11:38
seb128nothing in top has very excessive ram use11:39
seb128out of compiz which was using 1G of virtual memory11:39
seb128and xorg 600meg11:39
seb128so I guess it's xorg11:39
seb128pitti: bug #312396, you did a typo in the tag and should it be set on verification-done? the user who unset the tag confirmed that the change is working11:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 312396 in gvfs "Nautilus opens files over SSH as read-only when not owner." [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/31239611:41
pittiseb128: it was -needed before, so I just restored it; if you think it's tested, feel free to flip it to -done11:41
seb128pitti: see comment #2511:41
seb128ok, will do11:42
pittimerci11:43
crevetteasac, does your bluetoothStack spec covers also file reception?12:16
crevettehmm, yeah, it is covered, so you should also talk about gnome-user-share which implement the bluetooth file reception, and gnome-user-share only relies on obex-data-server.12:19
asaccrevette: add your input to the Comments section on the wiki12:20
cassidypitti: about https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/+bug/384677 can I see build logs somewhere?12:30
ubottuLaunchpad bug 384677 in telepathy-gabble "telepathy-gabble main inclusion" [Undecided,Incomplete]12:30
cassidypitti: and I'd be interested in more info about "audio and video chat are pretty much completely broken"12:31
pitticassidy: they aren't failing to build, but waiting for libtelepathy-glib-dev (>= 0.7.31)12:34
pitticassidy: and that one fails to build because of a test failure12:34
pittikenvandine will investigate that, I think he can reproduce it locally12:35
pitticassidy: as for the A/V, I tried that at UDS and at home (thus local wifi and DSL), and they just cause empathy to hang, and no audio12:35
pitticassidy: but these should get proper bug reports12:35
pittidoes that work for you?12:35
cassidyyes12:35
cassidywhich empathy version were you using ?12:35
pitticassidy: (don't get me wrong, I do want the entire stack in main, just figuring out requirements and who will look after the packages)12:36
pitticassidy: 2.27.2-1ubuntu1, karmic current12:36
cassidyshould be ok12:36
pitticassidy: btw, do you know whether it's possible somehow to configure the audio device to be used?12:36
pittiI'd like to use my USB headset, not the internal speaker/mic12:37
cassidyif you use pulseaudio, you can redirect the stream using pavucontrol12:38
pittiah12:39
pittiok, I'll try that once I actually get a connection with empathy12:40
andreasncan anyone help me with a screenshot of the tabs in Firefox using the Human theme?12:48
andreasnI need to kill a bug12:49
crevettehey andreasn12:57
andreasnhello crevette!12:57
andreasncrevette, my friend, I need some help from you13:03
crevetteI can hardly help you as I'm at work but shout my friend13:03
crevette:)13:03
andreasncan you use the Human theme, launch Firefox, open up a couple of tabs and screenshot that for me?13:04
seb128andreasn: what distro are you using? ;-)13:04
crevetteandreasn, sorry not before tonight, during the day I work with only windows machine13:04
andreasnseb128, Ubuntu, but I broke it13:05
andreasnso I need a screenshot of a unbroken Human-icon-theme13:05
andreasnbut apparently it's impossible on The Internet today13:05
seb128wait13:05
seb128andreasn: http://people.ubuntu.com/~seb128/firefox.png13:07
andreasnseb128, thank you!!13:08
seb128you're welcome13:08
andreasnis kwwii on vacation this week?13:12
kenvandinepitti: do you have a build log for your telepathy-gabble build failure?13:12
seb128kenvandine: he said before that it's build-waiting due to the other telepathy-glib or something not building13:13
seb128no?13:14
kenvandineoh13:14
kenvandinemaybe i missread13:14
seb128kenvandine: juin 11 13:35:31 <pitti>cassidy: they aren't failing to build, but waiting for libtelepathy-glib-dev (>= 0.7.31)13:14
kenvandinein the bug he said it doesn't build13:14
kenvandinePackage still doesn't build.13:14
seb128right13:14
seb128because it depwait13:14
kenvandineok, it doesn't say that13:15
seb128maybe I'm wrong13:15
seb128but that what he wrote on the chan half an hour ago13:15
kenvandineok13:15
kenvandinedepwait makes sense13:15
seb128juin 11 13:31:15 <cassidy>pitti: about https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/+bug/384677 can I see build logs somewhere?13:16
ubottuLaunchpad bug 384677 in telepathy-gabble "telepathy-gabble main inclusion" [Undecided,Incomplete]13:16
seb128juin 11 13:35:31 <pitti>cassidy: they aren't failing to build, but waiting for libtelepathy-glib-dev (>= 0.7.31)13:16
seb128juin 11 13:35:41 <pitti>cassidy: and that one fails to build because of a test failure13:16
seb128 13:16
seb128that was the channel discussion13:16
seb128to me it seems you should fix telepathy-glib first13:16
seb128then we can see what's going on next13:16
kenvandineyeah13:19
kenvandineworking on it13:19
kenvandinejust thought there might be more broken than i expected13:20
seb128don't worry too much, fix that and we will see what comes next13:21
pittikenvandine: right, once -glib builds, -gabble will buildl automatically13:44
kenvandinepitti: ok, good13:44
kenvandinei was worried :)13:44
pittiyeah, sorry for not being clearer13:45
kenvandinei am trying to get a telepathy guy to look at that problem13:45
kenvandineno worries13:45
Ampelbeinhi. i've been requesting sync for gnome-doc-utils, bug 385206. dholbach pointed out, that I missed a change, here the translations-template update (running intltool-update -p). But it seems to me that this change isn't necessary anymore, a diff between the (extracted) contents of the debian and ubuntu *.deb show no differences. Yet I can't find a hint in the changelog that the intltool update isn't necessary anymore. Can someone give13:47
Ampelbeinme a hint on where to look?13:47
ubottuLaunchpad bug 385206 in gnome-doc-utils "Sync gnome-doc-utils 0.16.1-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)." [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/38520613:47
chrisccoulsonAmpelbein - did you figure out the answer to your question?14:46
Ampelbeinchrisccoulson: yeah, i did. daniel answered in the bugreport. it's about creating pot-file used for translations in rosetta. didn't know that before, now i do ;-)14:47
chrisccoulsonyeah, that's what i was going to say. you wouldn't have noticed a difference in the binary packages you built, but if you build with pkgbinarymangler installed in your pbuilder you would notice that there is no template in the extracted package14:50
chrisccoulsonyou can pass "--extrapackages pkgbinarymangler" to pbuilder to extract the template14:50
pedro_does anybody knows why we're using wodim instead of cdrecord in brasero?14:51
Ampelbeinchrisccoulson: oh, ok. thanks, I think this is useful for future merges I do. I get it that this represents the buildd-environment more exactly?14:52
seb128pedro_: because cdrecord is not opensource and wodim is a free cdrecord version made by debian14:52
chrisccoulsonAmpelbein - yeah, i think it does. you can also install pkg-create-dbgsym in your pbuilder to build the *-dbgsym packages too14:53
pittirickspencer3: hello14:53
rickspencer3hi pitti14:53
pittirickspencer3: can you give me a pointer to your pychart script?14:53
seb128pedro_: or rather the cdrecord license makes it not suitable for debian and ubuntu14:53
rickspencer3pitti: sure14:53
pedro_seb128: eek, ok good to know, thanks14:53
rickspencer3let me add it as a branch to lp, and I'll paste you a link14:53
pittirickspencer3: I wrote the data gathering script yesterday (not sure whether you saw my mail)14:53
seb128pedro_: you're welcome14:54
pittirickspencer3: depending on how complex it is, I could either integrate it into workitems.py or call it14:54
rickspencer3pitti: yes, I saw the email, but haven't had a chance to read it14:54
seb128pedro_: but wodim is basically a modified cdrecord ... any issue due to it?14:54
rickspencer3I think it would be a simple matter to modify the pychart script to take a couple of arguments14:54
pittirickspencer3: i. e. create text output from sql commands, or just call pychart directly14:54
rickspencer3I think it would be handy to call it, so that we can get consistency, but either way I'm fine14:55
pedro_seb128: well it seems that most of the issues on brasero not being able to burn or giving issues after burn are due to it, but the problems are resolved using cdrecord , that's why i was asking14:56
seb128where did you get that?14:57
chrisccoulsonmpt - i implemented your spec at http://live.gnome.org/LowDiskSpaceWarning now. Do you feel like trying it out at all?14:57
rickspencer3pitti: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~rick-rickspencer3/+junk/py-burndown-chart15:08
hyperairseb128: re bug #385801, if you don't mind, may i shorten "other people" to "others"? the string looks pretty long =\15:22
ubottuLaunchpad bug 385801 in nautilus-share ""Write in this folder" is confusing terminology" [Wishlist,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/38580115:22
seb128hyperair: the question was rather for the design team if they decide that's a hundredpapercut issue15:23
seb128which I think it's not15:23
hyperairhmm it's not?15:23
hyperairseb128: i think the write in this folder isn't exactly confusing terminology, but on the other hand, the other half of the bug (Comments being in the middle of nowhere) is confusing.15:24
hyperairs/Comments/Comment15:24
seb128I've not even read this half, one bug should describe one issue and clearly ;-)15:25
hyperairseb128: tell that to the bug reporter =)15:36
seb128I don't care enough about the issue to reopen the bug in my webbrowser, feel free to comment if you want15:36
hyperairheh15:36
hyperairlaunchpad's email interface ftw =p15:36
seb128I would have to find the email corresponding to the bug, slower than clicking on the url there ;-)15:37
hyperairhahah right15:38
hyperair=p15:38
alex-weejseb128: is the new gnome-volume control stuff planned for karmic?15:41
alex-weeji've been using it in jaunty and it's been absolutely fine. maybe we should add a button that opens the hardware mixer though?15:41
seb128alex-weej: the new one is fine if pulseaudio works for you ;-)15:42
seb128alex-weej: which is still not the case on all hardwares15:42
seb128alex-weej: it doesn't start on non pulse configs15:42
alex-weejwell given that we install pulseaudio by default (no?)15:43
alex-weejshouldn't the non-pulse case be the exception?15:43
alex-weeji.e. uninstall pulse, install old-volume-control15:43
seb128what old volume control?15:43
alex-weejthe non-pulse one15:43
seb128there is no non pulse set15:44
alex-weejmsry wat?15:44
seb128?15:44
alex-weeji don't understand15:44
seb128GNOME supports pulseaudio only in 2.2615:44
seb128if you do that you can use multimedia keys in gnome-settings-daemon when not running pulseaudio for example15:44
seb128there is not a second gnome-settings-daemon-alsa version15:45
asacArneGoetje: what was the nick/name of the romanian translator at UDS (was quite actively contributing)15:45
seb128so going pulse only meant "screw you people if pulse don't work on your config"15:45
seb128we might do that in karmic ;-)15:45
seb128but I'm still not sure that's a clever move15:45
alex-weejseb128: it's probably about time.15:45
alex-weejseb128: we can't let legacy stuff hold us back, but you are right to be cautious15:46
seb128you probably say that because pulse works fine on your hardware15:46
alex-weejthe reality is it will have been 18 month since we introduced PA as default15:46
ArneGoetjeasac: Adi Roiban15:46
alex-weejand anything that hasn't caught up has had enough of a chance15:46
seb128there is a difference between pulse by default15:46
seb128and not letting people use alsa15:46
seb128not to mention that the new GNOME capplet cut some feature that worked in the gstreamer version of the capplet15:47
seb128ie the ability to configure ac3 and that sort of things15:47
alex-weejseb128: exactly -- that stuff is for the "hardware mixer" or whatever you want to call it15:47
seb128that's catching up, but running on new interface the cycle they are designed is not always optimal15:47
alex-weeji've been resorting to alsamixer -c0 to turn on and off my obscure hardware options15:47
alex-weejwe just need a button in the sound prefs that launches the hardware controls15:48
mib_dg74kw7pi have not been on linux in a long time, but how do i set uid or permissions to devices or view them too :/15:48
seb128well, so what do you win in the new world compared to the mixer using gstreamer having those option and working with pulse and alsa?15:48
alex-weejmib_dg74kw7p: #ubuntu15:48
seb128and where is this hardware control dialog in GNOME?15:48
mib_dg74kw7pthanks alex-weej15:48
alex-weejseb128: you gain per app controls!15:48
alex-weeji can turn flash down!15:48
asacArneGoetje: do you know if he has a nick?15:49
asacor email?15:49
alex-weejanyway i didn't come here to defend its case15:49
alex-weejwas just wondering15:49
alex-weej'cause i used to be a pulse-hater but lately it's been really, really good to me15:49
seb128we might do the switch for karmic since that's a new technologies cycle15:49
alex-weejwas wondering if that was the consensus yet15:49
seb128but that's going to make users unhappy15:49
alex-weejfedora do it, no?15:50
seb128those for who alsa is working better than pulse and that will have to go to debian or something to get sound working again15:50
seb128fedora doesn't care about lusers15:50
seb128they want to be a technology reference15:50
alex-weejseb128: the g-s-d stuff... hotkeys work fine for me on my setup15:50
alex-weejwhether i'm using pulse or alsa...15:50
seb128and if you own something which doesn't work in their world suck to be you15:50
seb128alex-weej: that's because we did distro patch it to still use gstreamer and not pulse directly as upstream does ;-)15:51
alex-weejseb128: same could be said of a piece of hardware that only has drivers for Linux 2.415:51
seb128alex-weej: you live in your own little world apparently, have a look to https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bugs15:51
alex-weejmy little world rocks15:51
alex-weejeveryone should come join15:51
seb128alex-weej: there is lot of cases where pulse create a not so good user experience15:51
seb128latency in playing15:52
seb128sound skipping15:52
seb128anyway i'm not interested to debate that for hours15:53
seb128we will probably follow upstream this cycle15:53
seb128but it was judged not ready for karmic15:53
seb128jaunty15:53
ArneGoetjeasac: adi@roiban.ro15:53
seb128I our users appreciated to have the option15:53
asacthx15:53
ArneGoetjeasac: he is also a memeber of the Ubuntu Translation Coordinators team.15:54
mclasenseb128: I think thats a bit of an unfair characterization15:54
seb128mclasen: which one?15:54
mclasenthat we don't care about users15:54
seb128let's say we don't have the same userbase then15:54
seb128we have lot of users unhappy about pulse and we have to listen to them15:55
asacArneGoetje: right. i am trying to get him connected with the mozilla translation coordinators because of the unique situation that RO translators face in GNOME vs. KDE/Windows15:56
ArneGoetjeasac: uh yeah... tricky problem...15:56
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pittiasac: \o/  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=c9067d8fedf6f6f2d530fd68bbfca7ce68638d3817:03
pittiwhat a hell of a commit17:03
james_whey pitti17:04
james_wwould it make sense to have a devicekit test day or similar?17:05
pittijames_w: in which context, sprint or hug day or so?17:07
pittijames_w: in general, people should report regressions as bugs, but if you have some ideas how to channel that, I'm all ears17:07
james_wone of the test days that the QA team have been running17:08
james_wwhere you can ask people to test a specific thing, with documentation and help in filing good bugs17:08
james_wto try and look for regressions and quickly get them fixed17:09
seb128I think it's still a bit early in the cycle for that17:09
seb128pitti: what is david's (translations, community) irc nickname again?17:11
seb128or somebody else who knows? ;-)17:12
pittiseb128: spm17:12
pittisorry17:12
seb128thanks17:12
pittiseb128: dpm17:12
seb128hum, no there17:12
james_wseb128: oh, I agree it's too early, I just wondered if it would be a good thing to have later17:18
seb128could be17:18
seb128we have lot of things changing this cycle17:18
seb128default application selections for example too17:18
james_wtrue17:18
pittijames_w: I guess before that happens I'd need to write some good debugging instructions17:20
james_wyeah, that would be great17:20
pittijames_w: I sort of hoped to get symptom based apport reporting working for that first17:20
james_weven nicer17:21
james_wI suppose "ask pitti" aren't good enough debugging instructions?17:21
pittijames_w: doesn't scale so well :)17:22
pittibesides, I'm quite new in that DK-{disks,power} business myself17:22
pittiand I need to build up some knowledge there17:22
pittior convince Keybuk to take over DK-* maintenance :-P17:23
pittibut for now it's on my plate17:23
pmatulishow does one remove all packages associated with the ubuntu-desktop meta-package?17:58
pittipmatulis: something like18:06
pittisudo dpkg -P `apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop|egrep '^(Depends|Recommends):'|sed 's/,//g'18:06
pitti?18:06
pmatulispitti: ha ha, you serious?18:06
pittipmatulis: if you want transitive dependencies as well, try sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ... instead18:06
pittipmatulis: well, are you? :-)18:07
pmatulispitti: very!18:07
pitti(first time I hear that request)18:07
pmatulispitti: will try, do you think there should be a built-in option?  i sure do18:08
pittipmatulis: ubuntu --self-destruct?18:08
pmatulispitti: i had a server install, then a desktop, now i want my server back18:08
pittipmatulis: --auto-remove normally removes dependencies, but we deliberately mark all packages as "not auto-installed", since many people just want to remove one or two18:08
pmatulispitti: what is a transitive dependency?18:10
pittipmatulis: if a depends on b, and b depends on c, then c is a transitive dependency of a18:11
pmatulispitti: ok18:13
SiDihi18:15
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asacpitti: guess that means we should get packages up from latest asap ;) to see how bad the regressions are ;)18:17
pittiasac: hehe18:18
pittiasac: btw, kay says that connman doesn't use hal18:21
asacpitti: yeah. i think we need libgudev in archive soonish18:21
pittiasac: like this?18:21
pittilibgudev-1.0-dev | 20090606+1-1 |        karmic | amd64, i38618:21
asacthats great18:22
asacperfect18:22
* pitti keeps udev-extras pretty much at git head these days18:22
pittiI just commit stuff there and merge, instead of fiddling with patches18:22
asachmm was lumped into udev-extras18:23
asacthought it was a standalone upstream project18:23
pittiasac: will be merged into udev soon, but that's a detail18:23
pittigood night everyone, have to go18:23
asacpitti: cu tomorrow18:23
Keybukpitti: I thought it was only on your plate because you wanted it there ;)18:27
mapleHELLO19:22
maplehello everybody19:23
SiDihm, hello19:28
maple?19:33
pittiKeybuk: I do (just kidding)19:55
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* kenvandine1 is very unhappy... thinkpad just spontaneously turned off21:34
johanbrkenvandine1: karmic?21:34
kenvandine1yes21:34
kenvandine1but not software21:34
kenvandine1it won't turn on...21:34
johanbroh... :(21:34
kenvandine1and no indicator that the power is even plugged in :/21:34
johanbrI've had some problems with the new gnome-power-manager turning off my machine.21:35
johanbrI thought you had the same thing.21:35
kenvandine1oh... i haven't had that21:35
kenvandine1i am glad i have a warranty21:35
* kenvandine1 digs up lenovo's contact info21:35
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joaopintokenvandine, have you tried to remove the battery for some minutes ?21:44
kenvandineyup21:44
joaopinto:|21:44
joaopintomy problems with thinkpads are usually solved with that :\21:44
davmor2kenvandine: feel under the fan if it's hot I found the the pad of heatsink gel had died and was acting as an insulator.  I removed the heatsink cleaned of the cpu and put on some fresh gel fixed :)21:48
kenvandinei am on the phone with lenovo... they got it back up, but need to run hardware diagnostics, something is bad21:52
kenvandinehad to discharge the compacitors to get it on21:52
kenvandinethis is not what i wanted to do this afternoon :/21:53
djsiegel3Ok guys23:08
djsiegel3what do you think of changing Appearance > Interface > Toolbar button labels to Icons only by default?23:08
SiDiim for icons + text23:09
djsiegel3What about just for nautilus?23:11
djsiegel3The nautilus toolbar is almost identical to firefox, safari, chrome and other web browsers23:12
djsiegel3and that default nautilus window is out of control23:12
djsiegel3it's so complicated, with so many controls23:12
* SiDi uses Thunar23:12
djsiegel3haha, ok, you don't count, smartypants23:12
SiDi:)23:12
SiDiactually youre right, ive got only icons in Thunar23:13
SiDibut nautilus has far more icons, you have to make sure the icon set will look consistent enough for the user to guess what its for23:13
SiDiwhich the text is a convenient way for23:13
djsiegel3yeah, an icon designer friend just explained that so many toolbar icons are too vague23:14
djsiegel3they need text23:14
djsiegel3hmm, why do we have stop and refresh buttons in nautilus?23:14
djsiegel3I have used refresh maybe once or twice23:14
djsiegel3but it seems like a power user thing, to understand that your file browser is out of sync and to need to refresh23:15
SiDirefresh can be practical on remote folders browsing23:15
SiDias for stop.. no idea23:15
Nafallokenvandine: https://code.launchpad.net/~nafallo/gajim/sru if you want to play with your patch before I try and get an SRU for it.23:30
Nafallokenvandine: actually. 0.12.2 apparently have 2 critical bugs, so a 0.12.3 is pending delivery from upstream ;-)23:30

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