/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/11/05/#kubuntu-devel.txt

RiddellJontheEchidna: what did you change?00:32
RiddellI wish irssi had a wdiff for topic changes00:32
RiddellSput: ^^ top quassel idea00:32
JontheEchidnaRiddell: apachelogger said that "Kubuntu: the distro with good looking developers" was too long00:32
Riddellbeing hot is better than being good looking00:33
RiddellLex79: what progress on qt tonight?  I see you made some phonon changes to bzr00:39
ScottKConsidering apachelogger's weather reports earlier today for .at, I'm guess hot doesn't fully apply.00:43
RiddellI'm seriously considering turning on the central heating here00:47
Riddellbut I recon more cups of hot chocolate will substitute00:47
* ScottK has only two dogs, so central heat is needed.00:48
Riddellit's bonfire night today, just find a catholic to burn00:48
MsMacohahaha "we are hot"?00:48
Riddellwe will be if we find enough catholics to burn00:49
MsMacoi shouldn't be laughing. i'm a recovering catholic.00:49
Riddellpst, ScottK, need some fuel for your central heating?00:50
ScottKNo, last I looked the tank is pretty full.00:50
MsMacohey you two, is it my computer or does the "6:50pm" part of the digital clock panel plasmoids sit a few pixels below the date/city text?00:50
Riddellhere in the civilised world we use 24 hours clocks00:51
Riddelljings, I am being snobby tonight00:51
MsMacofine! the 17:50 part!00:51
ScottKLooks fine here, but I don't have TZ displayed00:51
dtchenhuh?00:51
MsMaco(have you noticed i'm heading westward?)00:51
dtchen6:50 != 5:5000:52
Riddellyes it's a few pixels below but it's also a larger point size so it's also a few pixels above00:52
MsMacodtchen: i said i was heading westward!00:53
Riddellwestward is full of hillbillies, some east for some real culture00:54
MsMacohttp://imagebin.ca/view/Cgee0kH1.html00:54
MsMacoim pretty sure the 12:52am and the London are the same font size00:54
RiddellMsMaco: it's a larger font, so it will be aligned differently00:54
ScottKRiddell's comment got me noticing I've somehow ended up with AM/PM again and I can't find the option to get back to 24 hour.00:55
MsMacothough the 7:52pm is bigger than the date or the London clock in general00:55
MsMacoScottK: regional, i think00:55
ScottKThanks00:55
Riddellhmm, you could be right on the city00:55
MsMacothe setting (totally unintuitively, IMO) is not in the plasmoid itself00:55
dtchenMsMaco: due to lag, I typed it before your westward bit had appeared00:55
Riddellif only we had the author of that applet in the channel.   sebas I think he was called00:55
MsMacoim pretty sure the v in Nov is getting cut off a big too, but meh00:55
MsMacodid he write all of plasma or what?00:56
MsMacosebas: POKE00:56
Riddelldtchen: you have lag over a 10 metre network connection?00:56
MsMacoRiddell: he's not at home ;)00:56
dtchenRiddell: err, no, this is a 56kbps dialup00:56
MsMacoyikes00:56
Riddellno what!  what country are you in?  Burkina Faso?00:57
dtchenI appear to be in Cardiff Bay00:57
Riddelloh, Wales.  say no more00:57
dtchen:-)00:57
MsMacovisiting Gwen00:57
MsMaco?00:57
dtchenJack, silly00:58
MsMaco...there's not a new DVD i should know about, is there?00:58
MsMacojack left earth!00:58
dtchenof course he didn't00:58
dtchenand shh, don't spoil00:58
MsMacosure he did, with his little wrist watch thingy00:58
dtchennot everyone has seen CoE, though arguably anyone who would care has by now00:58
MsMacothe channel's full of Whovians. if they dont know yet, they're rather behind, don't you think?00:59
MsMacothis is like the idea that you can have spoilers for the next harry potter movie...when it was out in book form 6 years ago00:59
RiddellI must admit I missed the last Torchwood week long special00:59
dtchencough.00:59
dtchenMsMaco: you lose.01:00
MsMacowait wait01:00
MsMacoRiddell: do you care?01:00
=== freeflyi1g is now known as freeflying
Riddellwell the cats knocked over the telly and I got my account to bbc redux shut off, so I have to wait for it to be repeated on bbc 3 and download it from iplayer.  so I don't care enough to have managed that in the last six months01:01
MsMacoah01:01
Riddellit's not worth the money for the licence fee anyway01:01
MsMacoim trying to figure out if i can make it to uds. if i do figure out how to get to uds, should i borrow dtchen's copy of the dvd?01:01
Riddelloh totally, we can watch it at UDS then!01:02
MsMacodtchen: cool with you?01:02
dtchendo I have a say?01:02
MsMacoof course, its your dvd01:03
Riddellwe'll watch Torchwood in the hot tub01:03
dtchenI mean, it's not like you didn't have my Firefly DVDs for months without my being aware01:03
MsMacoyou were aware!01:03
dtchennot really.01:03
MsMacoyou forgot them at my apartment!01:03
dtchen"uh, where is disc 3?" "oh, here in my DVD-ROM" does not count01:03
MsMacothough roommate did sort of wander off with them for a bit...01:03
MsMacohahaha01:04
MsMacoRiddell: what hot tub?01:04
Riddellthere's always a hot tub01:04
MsMacoand why do you think i would get in it?01:04
Riddellto watch torchwood!01:04
MsMacoi dont even remember the last time i wore a bathing suit01:05
MsMacodtchen: this is why we didnt work! youre a swimmer01:05
Riddellhttp://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-information/fitness-spa-services/dalbr-renaissance-dallas-hotel/  "Georgette Klinger (4.8 miles)"  hmm, the Dallas definition of "near" is clearly different from that to which I have been used01:06
MsMacowhat is your definition of "near"?01:07
MsMacothough i agree that 5mi isnt quite near01:07
MsMacoid say more like 2mi01:07
Riddellwalkable01:07
ScottK4.8 miles is what, a 3 minute drive?01:07
Riddellbut I get the impression walking isn't something most people in Dallas do01:07
MsMacoRiddell: um, go a little broader with that statement, please01:08
MsMaco" but I get the impression walking isn't something most people in North America do"01:08
rickspencer3ever see wali?01:08
Riddellcycleable on a brompton?01:08
dtchenwali or wall-e ?01:08
MsMacoRiddell:  people dont cycle here either...01:08
rickspencer3right wall-e01:08
ScottKThey don't apparently get shoes repaired in North America either.01:08
MsMacoRiddell: not as transportation at least... exercise, racing.....01:08
* ScottK cycled for transport in college01:09
MsMacoScottK: where can i get my shoes resoled? ive worn a whole in my black pair and i really like them!01:09
dtchenrickspencer3: yes, then01:09
RiddellScottK: to be fair they did have a shoe repair shop, it just wasn't 24 hours01:09
* ScottK even got run over by a mini van.01:09
MsMacodtchen: katie (you know katie...linuxchix, hacdc, speaks japanese) has a sound bug on identica @bokunenjin01:09
MsMacodtchen: and yes she's running the right kernel01:09
ScottKMsMaco: Let me know.  I've got two pair like that.  I hate it when it rains.01:10
dtchendude, I am not free tech support01:10
dtchenit really may seem like I am, but I ain't01:10
MsMacodtchen: you seem to help people on identi.ca...just pointing01:10
ScottKMsMaco: Just tell her to remove Pulse and I'm sure all will be well.01:11
Riddelldtchen: my speakers aren't plugged in, can you do it for me?01:11
MsMacosomeone just reminded her to check volume settings. will see how that goes01:12
MsMacothere's got to be some kde / blue equivalent to what Riddell just said01:12
MsMacolike the blue isnt blue enough01:13
RiddellMsMaco: they'll ask seele to remove some configuration options, I hear that's what usability people do01:18
seelehmm?01:18
seelewhere s the option to switch to ayatana notifications?01:19
ScottKseele: system tray settings.01:19
ScottKRight click on the tray, get to the settings, and it'll be obvious01:19
Riddellit's so well hidden, nobody can find it01:19
seeleah hah.. i was looking in system settings01:20
seelei fergot :P01:20
ScottKRiddell: Not my fault.  I didn't insist on that.01:20
MsMacoi stumbled upon it just fine once01:20
MsMacobut thats usually how i use kde: stumble upon some setting, change it, hope i like it since i wont find it again ;)01:21
Riddelltime to snooze, sweet dreams all01:23
MsMacobye bye01:23
ScottKMsMaco: I'm being told by one of the kids that Cookie Monster has been converted to Veggie Monster.  Do you know if this is true?01:44
JontheEchidnaScottK: yes :(01:56
ScottKThe horror.01:57
JontheEchidnaQuite.01:58
Lex79Riddell: I push to bzr what I have. I have the flu, I threw up right now :( someone can continue my work tomorrow or you can upload for now without Messages.sh rules. Sorry :(02:05
Lex79Go to bed...night02:05
ScottKLex79: Good night.  Hope you feel better.02:07
Lex79many thanks ScottK02:08
JontheEchidnaLex79: hope you feel better soon... throwing up is not fun02:10
jjessewhat cookie monster no longer eats cookies?02:18
ScottKNo.  Apparently not.02:19
jjessephew02:19
jjessewho was talkign to me earlier about revising kubuntudocs and adding/changing translations within kubuntu-docs?02:38
ScottKjjesse: Wasn't it dpm-afk.02:39
jjesseyeahts right thanks scott02:40
jjesseok registered a blueprint to start working on kubutnu-dcos for lucid: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/kubuntu-docs/+spec/kubuntu-docs-lucid  how do i target it for lucid?02:43
jjesseoh wait its targeted for a sprint02:44
ScottKThat's how02:45
jwisser::facepalm:: Unplanned nap fail.03:01
MsMacoScottK: that's awesome!03:15
MsMacocookies and veggies: my two favourite foods!03:15
ScottKAwesome.  No.  It's just wrong.03:16
jwisserIs there a decent KDE equivalent to Gnome Do? Or is there at least a way to get rid of the weird shading that accompanies Do?03:17
MsMacokrunner?03:24
MsMacothe built-in alt+f2 thingy03:24
jwisserMsMaco: …not quite a replacement. It can't do a lot of what I'm used to from a launcher.03:29
MsMacooh. all i know is it does more than gnome's alt+f2 thingy03:33
MsMacoso i figured it probably did some subset of the special gnomedo stuff03:35
ScottKjwisser: What specifically is it you're looking for.  Most/all of us have never used Gnome Do.03:38
ScottKRiddell, apachelogger, and JontheEchidna: Kubuntu updates policy launched at the TB, cc to kubuntu-devel.03:38
jwisserAny ex-Mac users here? I'm a Quicksilver user, so I'm looking to be able to do everything from open a document or application to post to Twitter to see my clipboard history to control my music player.03:39
ScottKI think we have most of that, but not all in one.03:40
da-baymanseems some of my widgets dont load when i reboot, in particular, the facebook widget. Any suggestions03:44
MsMacodocument and application are covered in krunner arent they?03:46
MsMaco(ive used quicksilver, but never more than just those 2 functions)03:46
jwisser::grimaces:: Yeah. But that's… not all I use Quicksilver/Do for at all.03:47
MsMacoheh i never knew how much those could do03:47
MsMaconever seemed useful :P03:47
ScottKClip board is covered by Klipper in the systray03:47
ScottKIt's feature rich.03:48
jwisser::nods:: For me, the benefit of Quicksilver/Do is that it's all in one place and I can do without thinking.03:50
JontheEchidnaapachelogger: hmmz, is it just me or did we never get to drafting a proposed release support policy the other day?03:55
JontheEchidnaMy thoughts are that we should keep the releses supported security-wise as they currently are (18 months regular, 2 years LTS), but make it abundantly clear to the users that they are not likely at all to recieve SRUs after a year, unless they fix really serious issues03:58
JontheEchidnaSince as long as ubuntu-security is doing security, we don't waste any resources.03:58
JontheEchidnaWe just need an SRU policy mainly, I think03:58
ScottKJontheEchidna: LTS is 3 years04:23
ScottKJontheEchidna: Did you see me microversion update proposal?04:23
JontheEchidnaScottK: yeah. these two would be related, to a degree04:35
ScottKJontheEchidna: I think updates for: microversions, regressions, and real RC type bugs.  That's it.04:36
JontheEchidnausually we stop with microupgrades after distro+1's development starts. Should we make this clear to the users beforehand that once distro+1 is released, current releases will not get microversions?04:36
ScottKActually we haven't.04:36
ScottKWe've done all the ones that upstream provided.04:37
JontheEchidnafor example we haven't done 4.3.3 packages for jaunty now that karmic is released and work on lucid has begun04:37
ScottKWe have 4.3.3 in PPA04:37
JontheEchidnabut for jaunty?04:37
ScottKRight.04:37
ScottK4.3 in Jaunty is just PPA.04:37
ScottKI think PPA update policy is a different issue04:38
JontheEchidnaWe don't have 4.3.3 packages for jaunty in the ppa, which is what I am saying04:38
ScottKIf suddenly KDE decided they needed to do a 4.1.5, I think we'd want it.04:38
ScottKLow chance of them doing that, but if they did, it'd probably be for a really good reason.04:38
JontheEchidnaah, OK. I see what you're saying04:39
JontheEchidna3 closely related issues: SRU support, microrelease support, PPA support04:39
ScottKWe also need a bug reporting policy for PPA04:39
ScottKWhich probably needs triagers04:39
JontheEchidnaPPA packaging bugs haven't been as big of an issue now that debian's packaging has somewhat stabilized.04:41
JontheEchidnaand now most PPA package bugs also need to be fixed in the development release04:41
ScottKRight, but if we're using them as an entry point to proposed, there has to be a way for users to signal problems04:41
JontheEchidnaah, ok. I was thinking more of pre-release KDE packages backported from ubuntu+104:42
JontheEchidnaRegressions are regressions, though. Right? They'd affect the development version of kubuntu as long as the microrelease is in kubuntu04:43
JontheEchidnaall we would need is a way to mark the bugs as potential microrelease regressions04:43
ScottKI did register https://launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa as a spot to report PPA bugs.04:44
JontheEchidnaoh, you can do that now?04:44
JontheEchidnaoh, a launchpad-project bug tracker. for a second there I thought they got smart and have ppa bug trackers04:45
ScottKNo, we just need to tell people to use it.04:48
ScottKAssuming that's what we want to do.04:50
ScottK[00:03:58] <cjwatson> slangasek: are any corresponding changes needed to kdm?05:10
ScottK[00:05:21] <slangasek> cjwatson: bulletproof-x only ever hooked into gdm... we could do kdm as well, but that would involve quite a bit of fiddling and is probably not a good idea for SRU05:10
ScottKRiddell: ^^^ Is that correct?  I thought KDM had bulletproof X05:19
markeyhttp://laserjock.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-myth-of-the-bad-ubuntu-release/06:49
markey^ wise words06:50
markeyapachelogger: btw, another suggestion for Timelord: Please don't just push security updates online. Why not e.g. also push KDE updates (4.3.3) without going through the whole PPA mumbo jumbo?06:51
markeyPPA might be a cool concept for packagers. for users PPA spells "PITA"06:51
Sputmarkey: not if you have a nice tool to manage such stuff08:53
jwisserSput: What tool did you have in mind?08:53
Sputmarkey: Gentoo is using the overlay concept more and more (comparable to PPAs), but users just have to say "layman -a kde-testing" if they want to add the kde-testing overlay, for example08:53
Sputso there is no need to hunt down URLs or click around in tools and enter lines by hand08:54
markeygood for you08:54
markeymy tool is: editing some config file08:54
SputI have no idea how it works in *buntu as I don't use it, but I think if you make it easy enough for users, it's a nice idea08:54
Sputso make using PPAs easy rather than getting rid of the concept :)08:54
markeyI don't see why new versions of KDE or Quassel or whatever can't be pushed as online update08:55
markeythe user could decide to disable those08:55
Sputwell, new versions maybe, but for experimental stuff it's nice if the user has an easy way to opt in08:55
markeyI would want the latest $EVERYTHING08:55
Sputimho of course :)08:55
markeye.g. Git08:55
markeyetc08:55
Sputyeah, but not many want that, so it'd be bad if it was opt-out08:55
jwissermarkey: That's fine if you're a power user willing to sacrifice stability.08:56
markeyopt-in is fine with me08:56
markeyjwisser: apparently Arch linux can do it, without sacrificing stability08:56
Sputthat's why I like the PPA/Overlay concept, you can easily opt in (at least on Gentoo)... I'm running the kde-testing, qting-edge and x11 overlays to get all that stuff from git :)08:56
Sputthey have AUR or whatever it was08:56
jwisserBut if one of the groups Kubuntu wants to start going after is small businesses, that kind of opt-out feature is a recipe for instability (or at least distrust).08:56
Sputin the end it all comes down to provide tools that make adding/removing/managing such extra repos easy08:56
markeyalso let's for example look at KDE: 4.3.3 is a minor update, providing bugfixes08:57
jwisserSput: That does sound nice. I'd go for something like that no questions asked.08:57
markeyhow does that affect stability in a negative way?08:57
markeyit enhances stability08:57
Sputmarkey: that's an entirely different case, I'd complain if point releases wouldn't go into the stable tree automatically :)08:57
markeySput: yep, but that is reality with ubuntu08:57
markeythey only push security updates08:58
apacheloggermarkey: see mail at kde-devel list :P08:58
SputPPA-like things are/should be for experimental things only, things that you don't want the user to install unconsciously08:58
apacheloggeractually I think scott pushed a mail yesterday08:58
* apachelogger fires up kmail08:58
markeyapachelogger: I only read core-devel, got a link?08:58
Sputmarkey: well, that's bad then.08:58
Sputthough there is this backport thingy you have, or?08:58
markeysure, just enable another PPA...08:58
markeyand then another one08:58
apacheloggerhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2009-November/003484.html08:59
markeythx08:59
apacheloggermore interesting than what I wrote on kde-devel anyway08:59
jwissermarkey: It enhances stability if you're only enabling pushthrough for bugfix point releases, at least in theory. But some businesses, small and large would rather learn a fixed set of minor bugs than have to relearn anything.09:00
apacheloggermarkey: anyhow, the core point is that any KDE bugfix update goes to the -updates repository, even though by definition most KDE updates would not qualify09:00
jwisserI'm not saying I agree with them, I'm just stating a reality.09:00
markeyjwisser: I think we must be more progressive if we don't want to lose a huge deal of users to Arch09:00
markeybeing too conservative here with many things09:00
amikit would be nice if kubuntu would have the simplicity of updates as in MS-update: u always have a full list of updates to everything available with no configuration necessary, and can checkbox what u want, and uncheck what u don't. security/important stuff is checked by default. I find it very easy to use. Everyone gets what they want, no configurations and URLs necessary.09:00
jwissermarkey: Well, that's something we need to be clear about as a community: who are we aiming for, and how hard do we want to work for each group?09:01
apacheloggerjwisser: from epxerience there is a lot more advantage from KDE updates than what they could technically break09:01
apacheloggeralso, it's a lot about how hard can we work for each group09:01
Mamarokwell, KDE bugfix releases should go to the regular backports, not only PPA backports IMHO, we always have to wait too long for that, in Jaunty almost nothing ended up in the backports09:01
apacheloggera matter of available time resource09:01
markeyjwisser: same with Amarok, if Kubuntu has e.g. 2.2.0, then we release 2.2.1, you can be sure that 2.2.1 is lots better09:02
markeywhy not give it to the users?09:02
Mamarokwe had 4.2.4 pushed to the backports, but never any 4.3.x09:02
apacheloggeramik: how is kubuntu different from that?09:02
jwisserapachelogger: I bow to your superior knowledge regarding all things KDE. I'm a KDE baby. :-)09:02
markeywe're not happy with users on outdated software09:02
apacheloggeruhhh, cute, a baby!09:02
* apachelogger switches to baby talk :D09:02
jwisserapachelogger: Cute. :-P09:03
amikapachelogger: because u need to hunt down PPAs, track which repositories have which backports or updates, etc. why not have it all in one place and let everyone choose what they want?09:03
Mamarokand it causes a lot of additional work, e.g. having to close bugs reported for 2.0.2 till recently09:03
apacheloggernah nah09:03
apacheloggerbackports09:03
apacheloggerwe are always talking backports here09:03
apacheloggeramik: did you ever see windows poll you for an upgrade of explorer.exe?09:04
apacheloggerso you have like vista and an explorer from seven09:04
amikapachelogger: for example, kde 4.3.3. Where will it be? what do I need to do to find it?09:04
apacheloggerbecause that essentially is what PPAs do to your system09:04
Mamarokapachelogger: well, comparision to Windows is lame, they use stuff that is almost 10 years old09:04
markeyalso if the new ShowCock stable version gets released, I'd love to have it09:04
apacheloggerMamarok: it's about reliability, doesnt matter how old the software is09:04
markeydon't want to hunt down some obscure PPA's for it09:04
amikapachelogger: no, not individual files, but I can check/uncheck any version of .net framework, internet explorer, office updates, service packs, live addons - pick and choose what I want easily.09:05
apacheloggeramik: that is what you get from *-updates09:05
Mamarokapachelogger: for reliability we have LTS releases, whihc makes sense for server ettc., but in the Linux world development is faster and even if am old IE is around and people think it is reliable it still is a huge pile of crap09:05
apacheloggerquality assured updates that is unlikely to break your system09:06
markeyLTS is a good point09:06
markeyone could keep the conservative policy for LTS09:06
apacheloggerMamarok: then canonical should not offer support for > 1 year TBH09:06
jwisser10.04 in particular needs to be incredibly stable IMO.09:07
markey90% of users probably don't want to use outdated software09:07
apacheloggermarkey: looking at the breakage we had over the last couple of releases I would say we were pretty non-conservative09:07
Mamarokapachelogger: and we are so completely out of sync with the KDE releases, I think they should end up in the regular backports after testing in PPA09:07
amikapachelogger: I have Important/Recommended/Unsupported updates enabled in Jaunty. Where do I find the latest firefox 3.5 for example?09:07
jwisserThe whole point of Timelord, as I understand it, is to fix the breakages, both in software and perception.09:07
apacheloggerMamarok: see backlog09:07
apacheloggeramik: security09:07
apacheloggerpossibly updates09:08
apacheloggerdepends on the changes per version really09:08
apacheloggerthe thing is09:08
apacheloggersec and updates are on by default09:08
apacheloggerso you would not find them at all09:08
apacheloggerthey would find you09:08
markeyI could tell some stories that would make you furious. certain software projects have at one point added "small security bugs", just to force an upgrade09:08
markeybecause that works reliably09:08
markey(not that I know any such projects personally)09:09
amikapachelogger: I'm all up to date, and only have FF 3.0 installed, am I missing something?09:09
apacheloggeramik: firefox 3.0 will not install 3.5 until 3.0 reached EOL09:10
apacheloggerubuntus policiy here only matches ustreams09:10
apachelogger3.0 will only auto-apply incremental updates 3.0.x until it reaches EOL09:10
apacheloggerand btw, when 3.0 reaches EOL the ubuntu versions that do ship it, also reach EOL09:11
amikapachelogger: but that's my point - if all versions were in the repos, I can choose to upgrade or not, rather than having to do a dist-upgrade to get updates apps, or try to hunt it down manually09:11
apacheloggerjust for good measure :P09:11
apacheloggermarkey: thus the cherry pick policy for -updates and -security09:11
markeyyep09:12
apacheloggerthe less changes the less likely is breakage09:12
markeywell09:12
apacheloggerwhich IMHO is a very wrong assumption09:12
apacheloggerbut oh well09:12
* apachelogger is not on the technical board :P09:12
amikapachelogger: same with kde 4.3.3, i guess. but maybe I don't understand the system well enough yet :-)09:12
markeyexcept that some projects have good internal testing mechanisms that make regressions unlikely09:12
markeytesting gets more and more wide spread09:12
jwissermarkey: Re: what you were saying about Arch, I see your point, but it seems to me that Arch is trying to be something different from *buntu.09:13
markeychromium dailies are more stable than any Konqueror release in history ;)09:13
jwisserSo it's good they're out there doing that, but it doesn't mean *buntu needs to do theings the same way.09:13
amikamik: anyway, don't want to hijack ur conversation... just something that was bugging me. I'll shut up now :-)09:13
jwisser*things09:13
Mamarokamik: talking to yourself?09:14
Mamarok:)09:14
amikMamarok: on occasion, though not today :-)09:14
apacheloggerhum09:14
apacheloggerjwisser: ScottK did not blog about timelord!!!!!!!09:14
apacheloggerI demand spanking for him :D09:15
jwisserapachelogger: I feel like I probably shouldn't try to hand out spankings until I've at least got around to creating my wiki page identifying me as King of Marketing. :-P09:15
jwisserBut I'll click my tongue very loudly next time I see him.09:15
apacheloggerhooray09:16
apacheloggerhooray for wiki pages09:16
jwisserBut in all seriousness, what's my best method of finding out who does what around here?09:16
Tm_Tapachelogger: public spanking?09:16
apacheloggerthat reminds me ... I think my wiki page is a stub ... and that reminds me that I do not have a wikipedia wiki page09:16
Mamarokjwisser: self appointed?09:16
jwisserMamarok: Oh no, blame this one on apachelogger and ScottK.09:16
apacheloggerTm_T: yus09:17
MamarokI be support fairy, then :)09:17
apacheloggerlol09:17
apacheloggerI like that name09:17
apacheloggersrsly09:17
markeyhaha09:17
apacheloggersuper Qt09:17
jwisserSupport fairies would be ossum.09:17
apacheloggerwe might turn that in a launchpad team :)09:17
jwisserBleeding hell, it's 4am.09:17
* apachelogger likes launchpad teams09:17
apacheloggerthey are something to show off09:17
markeycan I be Rambo? like, when we have to piss off someone, I could do that09:18
jwisserNeed to be up in 4, so I'm off. G'night, all.09:18
markeylots of swearing and stuff09:18
apacheloggerlike "oi, I am a freaking support fairy, watch your language!"09:18
Mamarokapachelogger: well, there is still a lot of people not in your fanpage :)09:18
apacheloggerwell, maybe a more positive example, but you get the idea09:18
apacheloggerMamarok: that too09:18
markey"You stupid git, you!"09:18
apachelogger503 Service Unavailable09:18
apachelogger:D09:18
apacheloggerlaunchpad rulez09:18
Mamarokmarkey: that's redundant, you say that daily when you push09:18
* Mamarok hides09:18
markeythis is true09:18
apacheloggeralways them down times09:19
apacheloggermarkey: dont push to hard it might burst09:19
apacheloggerwoah09:19
markeynext on Timelord list: put apachelogger in space09:19
* apachelogger better gets on his way for accounting lecture09:19
markeyshuttleworth has done it...09:19
apacheloggertrue09:19
apacheloggerI always wanted to make vacation pictures of space09:20
apacheloggeralso quite unique, so I can call myself superior to them flickr people09:20
Mamarok"apachelogger visiting the Jupiter moons"09:20
apacheloggerwhich reminds me on the master method09:21
* apachelogger leaves you to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_theorem and leaves for accounting09:21
Mamarokapachelogger: hf09:21
amikso, where do u guys most need programming help?09:22
amikor should I go straight to KDE?09:25
Mamarokamik: what proramming so you know?09:26
Mamarok+g09:26
amikwell, I've been doing mostly Java (servers) the past few years, but have experience with assembly, c/c++, and a dip of python. some web stuff I guess... dunno, whatever I find interesting at the moment :-)09:27
MamarokKDE is C++ mostly09:28
Mamarokusing Qt, of course09:28
nhnamik: IMO you should always start on what interest you the most as that is likely keep you motivated09:28
nhn:-)09:28
Mamarokoh, hay nhn :)09:28
* nhn waves09:28
nhnits alive!09:28
amikI've done a few little patches in KDE, as nhn rightfully suggests - fixing up the ktorrent and monitoring plasmoids for starters (which were full of annoying bugs)09:29
Mamaroknhn: btw, seen that reminders and bug subscriptions I send you?09:29
nhnamik: well, fixing whatever annoys you the most at any one monemt is ususally a really good place to start09:29
amikI probably wouldn't know how to start them from scratch, but felt pretty much at home just reading the code and fixing things up (with a lot of tabs open on QT/KDE API docs)09:29
nhnMamarok: yeah, I see them, I am just a bit pressed for time atm09:30
Mamaroknhn: well, there are a lot around you should fix, this is the tip of the iceberg, push back working on new features then :)09:30
nhnMamarok: next week, perhaps. As my SO is going out of town for a week09:30
nhnMamarok: I am not even doing that09:31
Mamarokgreat, so you can do bugfixes :)09:31
nhnIhave not hacked on anything amarok related for a week or so, simply been too busy09:31
Mamarokamik: bugfixes is always a good place to start :)09:31
nhnI hope so. I do have at least one regression I need to fix before monday though09:31
nhnamik: you are always welcome to come help us kill bugs in Amarok! :-)09:32
nhnthe app iself is pretty stable but there are many small issues that needs fixing09:32
amikI understand nearly everything is KDE, but was wondering if there's actually kubuntu development going on outside of kde09:32
amiknhn: I think the main problem I'd have there is that I don't use it... not as much motivation there, according to your previous guidelines :-)09:33
Mamarokamik: packaging mostly, bug triaging a lot, check out those points in the timelord paper09:34
amikhmmm... I suppose dolphin annoys me quite a bit, maybe I should check it out :-)09:34
nhnamik: good point!09:34
amikoh and the netbook gui, as you may have read (at least the first paragraph, I hope)09:35
amikI was really looking forward to the netbook edition, and was totally disappointed :-(09:35
amikbut as u say, disappointment is also a motivator for improvement!09:36
Mamarokamik: why disapointed? it is a preview09:37
Mamarokthe plasma-netbook remix you are talking about I presume09:37
amikwhy can't I be disappointed at a preview?09:38
Mamarokwell, what did you expect? Too high expectations? also one needs to specify what exactly is disapointing09:38
amikyes, kubuntu-netbook/plasma-netbook09:38
amikMamarok: I wrote it out in all too much detail already...09:39
Mamarokwhere?09:39
amikI expected it to add usability for netbooks (as compared to the desktop version). I found that it was much more cumbersome to use. Hence disappointment.09:40
Mamarokamik: well, you need to be more specific, and that would be a great place to start developing09:41
amikIn either here or the netbook channel, from which I was pointed to the mailing list, from which I was pointed to another mailing list, was then told here to post at kde bugs, which then closed some as invalid and pointed me to discuss design issue in another mailing list...09:41
amikoh, I was too specific. I doubt anyone read through the end :-)09:41
amikall in all, I visited 3 irc channels, 3 mailing lists, and 2 bug trackers, just to get someone to listen to some feedback :-/09:42
Mamarokamik: talk to notmart, he is the main developer, not sure if there are many more09:44
amikI actually gave it up a bit short of the last mailing lists09:44
Mamarokamik: you give up fast, it only came out last week :)09:44
Mamarokamik: talk to notmart, as I said, and propose your coding skills09:45
amikyeah, well I guess I got discouraged from all the 'beauracracy' and everyone pointing me elsewhere... felt like wasted time. I could have done a new j2me app in that time...09:47
amikMamarok: I'll try to catch notmart, thanks09:47
amikoh, and there's the small issue of dropped support for poulsbo, also disappointing. Though I'll probably be able to get it working from tips in the bug discussion.09:49
RiddellScottK: KDM did have bulletproof X, but I havn't looked at it in a while and it may well have broken/disappeared in the mean time10:10
=== miniMe is now known as maxiMe
=== maxiMe is now known as averageMe
apacheloggeramik: kubuntu development: software-properties-kde qt-language-selector, jockey-kde, apturl-kde, apport-kde, gdebi-kde, update-notifier-kde, update-manager-kde, ubiquity-kde10:59
apacheloggerall of which are written in either pyqt or pykde10:59
apacheloggerthough10:59
apacheloggerremarks10:59
apacheloggergdebi-kde is going to be replaced with kpackagekit once that is possible11:00
apacheloggerupdate-notifier-kde is currently being rewritten in C++ as a kded module (i.e. some kind of desktop-level service running in background11:00
apachelogger)11:00
apacheloggeroh11:01
apacheloggerthere is also install-package11:01
apacheloggerwhich is going to be replaced by kpackagekit as well (hopefully)11:01
apacheloggerand kubuntu-firefox-installer11:02
apacheloggerwhich is written in rubykde11:02
apacheloggerand usb-creator-kde11:02
apacheloggeralso pykde11:02
apacheloggeractually... we have a darn large junk of apps :S11:02
apacheloggerchunk even11:02
Tm_Tjunk apps?11:04
apacheloggersome of them indeed are junk11:08
apacheloggernamely those that depend on indention to work :P11:08
apacheloggerRiddell: re bulletproof X... I think we never ported that to KDE 411:09
apacheloggeralso, I am wondering how much use that got with the new X autoconfig stuff11:09
MelisUHey guys, do you need help wizh someting?11:16
Nightrosehi MelisU11:26
Nightrosewe always need help11:26
Nightrosewhat do you want to help with?11:26
MelisUI can do a quick test of some random package or something. I tested 4.3.3 for Riddell yesterday for example11:27
MelisUor I can try something else :)11:28
MelisUtell me11:28
* Nightrose guesses Riddell, JontheEchidna or apachelogger have something to do for you ;-)11:28
MelisUwhat do you do?11:29
Nightroseme? I make people do stuff most of the time ;-)11:30
Nightroseand i give out cookies11:31
apacheloggeroi!11:31
apacheloggercookies are m domain!11:31
apacheloggers/m/m11:31
apacheloggerhuh11:31
apacheloggermy y is buggy11:31
apacheloggerthough I don't have anything to test right now11:32
amikapachelogger: lets put the ones that will be replaced soon aside... how about usb creator? does it have any open issues? that's something I actually use, was happy to see it standard in karmic11:32
MelisU@Nightrose: Then do very important work. Everybody loves cookies.11:33
Nightrose;-)11:33
* Tm_T has no cookie11:33
averageMei dont know if this is the right time and place for this, but i wanted to thank all of you for this nice distro. i even beat a win7-guy in a bootup-race :)11:33
averageMesince he has a much newer laptop + user auto-login, he was a bit crestfallen afterwards :-P11:34
amikwhat he said ^^^ :-)11:34
MelisU@apachelogger: are there any really really simple programming jobs I can try and fail miserably?11:35
apacheloggeramik: just head over to launchpad and search for bugs which include "kde"11:36
Tm_Tjknlhjlkxdfthgs11:36
apacheloggerfor the usb-craetor package obviously :)11:36
apacheloggerMelisU: nope, you could write specifications ;)11:36
Tm_Tsorry, my daughter wanted this laptop11:36
amikapachelogger: about that, I got a q: I'm guessing most bugs are actually upstream KDE, how are bug reports handled then? dupliacate in launchpad and bugs.kde?11:37
apacheloggerMelisU: or just grab a good tutorial on programming and improve your skills, or watch some tv to relax :)11:37
Tm_TMelisU: one way to help Kubuntu is to help KDE11:38
MelisU@apachelogger: OK, I will. If you see me here you can always ask me to test something.11:39
* apachelogger leaves for his workshop on researching and stuff11:44
amikhow do I search launchpad by package? can't seem to get it11:46
Riddellright, qt will get built today11:52
RiddellLex79: it looks like the messages.sh stuff just needs turned into a dh7 target11:53
* Riddell gives it a shot11:53
Riddellamik: depends what you're searching for11:54
Riddellpackages.ubuntu.com has various searching options11:54
Riddelldantti: toma was after you the other day11:54
danttiRiddell: hmm do you know what was it about?11:55
Riddellsomething packagekity11:56
danttiRiddell: k, I'll try to poke him when i see he online, thanks11:57
amikanyone feel like helping me setting up a dev environment? I can start with software-properties-kde, which I recognize :-) (couldn't find any reported bugs for kde usb creator!)11:59
Riddellamik: bzr co lp:software-properties12:01
Riddellalthough I see there's also some more recently committedbranches at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/software-properties12:01
amikare usb-creator and usb-creator-kde the same package? they seem to be united when I search through launchpad12:02
Riddellamik: same source package yes12:03
amikwhich of the packages do u think it will be easier to start with?12:04
Riddellamik: software-properties at a guess, it doesn't interface with hardware12:05
amikis that also a single package with/without -kde?12:06
Riddellthe source is yes12:07
Riddellit gets split up for the .deb installed packages12:07
Riddellamik: so first thing I'd do is apt-get source software-properties-kde; bzr co lp:software-properties  and make sure the two match12:08
amikhow does versioning go? does it matter if I'm on jauny/karmic? is development on lucid?12:08
Riddellkarmic is fine, probably jaunty is too12:09
Riddellbut if you're on jaunty download it from launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties not with apt-get sourcec12:10
amikd/l the lucid one? (0.75.4)12:12
Riddellyes12:12
amikRiddell: bzr gives connection error. also warns about launchpad ID no set, but doesn't accept my id (even tough I'm logged in with it via web). any ideas?12:26
Riddellamik: try  bzr branch  instead of   co12:27
serenityhi12:27
serenityis there no more 'kde-core' in the repos?12:27
amikRiddell: "ERROR: Not a branch"12:27
amikRiddell: btw if there's a guide for setting all this up somewhere, I'd rather not bug u...12:28
serenitysorry, speaking of 9.1012:29
Riddellserenity: kde-standard now12:31
serenityRiddell: thanks12:31
Riddellamik: anything useful at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/software-properties/main ?12:32
amikRiddell: what am I looking for?12:35
Riddellamik: instructions for branching it?12:38
amikamik: nothing that looks like instructions, more of a changelog12:39
amika whole lot of bugfixes12:40
Riddellamik: set your launchpad login with   bzr launchpad-login <lpid>12:42
Riddellhum, but it doesn't work to do a branch right enough12:44
amikhmm... it doesn't recognize the id, even though I'm logged in on the web with it12:45
Riddellthey released launchpad 3.1 today, I wonder if that's what is broken12:45
amikwait, the link when I click on the logged in name is not to the logged in name... how does this thing work? is there separate id and nick?12:46
Riddellno12:46
Riddellwhat's your lp id?12:46
amikwhat I see near the 'logout' button in the corner is 'amichair', but the link on it is to 'amichai2'. strange.12:47
=== amik is now known as amichair
amichairI'll try to get my nicks standardized :-)12:47
Riddellyour lp id is amichai2, your human readable name it set to amichair12:48
Riddellok topic of #launchpad is "http access to code hosted on Launchpad is offline -- we're working to fix this"12:48
Riddellso that explains that12:48
amichairok, that's what I meant by separate id and nick :-)12:49
Riddellamichair: if you have an ssh key you can put that into launchpad then checkout code through ssh12:49
amichairRiddell: and if I don't?12:49
Riddellmake one :)12:50
Riddellhttps://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/CreatingAnSSHKeyPair12:50
amichairhmm... apparently I do have one... guess it's the same one used for ssh into this box12:52
amichairamichair: man the learning curve is... umm... whatever describes a tough one (steep? long? tall?)12:53
amichairRiddell: but bzr co still doesn't work12:57
Riddellwell the learning curve would be better if launchpad wasn't broken today13:01
* amichair lets out a sigh of relief... maybe he's not *that* stupid after all :-)13:02
Riddellamichair: bzr branch bzr+ssh://<amichai2>@bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/software-properties/main/13:02
Riddellit may take a while for your ssh key to sync with the bazaar server however13:02
amichairare the angled brackets supposed to be in there?13:03
Riddellno13:04
Riddellremove them13:04
amichairno go, still fails (as before, stuck at 0kb for a couple minutes, then it'll quit with a connection error)13:04
amichairthis TimeLord thing seems to be catching on. what an important-sounding and catchy name!13:06
amichairsometimes that's all it takes :-)13:06
Riddellprobably your ssh key needs to sync to the other server.  here's a checkout anyway http://people.canonical.com/~jriddell/tmp/sp.tar.gz13:07
amichairI get a 'connection timed out', not key error, but could be.13:08
amichairthanx for the copy13:08
amichairRiddell: error in the archive, unexpected end of file. Murphy's law sucks.13:11
Riddellamichair: try re-downloading, it may not all ahve uploaded by then13:14
amichairRiddell: goody!13:16
amichaircan I hack away?13:17
* apachelogger just ordered books for another 90 EUR -.-13:18
JontheEchidnamorning everyone13:22
apacheloggeryo JontheEchidna13:22
JontheEchidnaI separated the hook parsing and hook GUI into separate classes for kubuntu-notification-helper. HookEvent should be fairly clean now13:23
JontheEchidnaplus I got the quoted hook commands working nicely13:24
Riddellamichair: do you know what you want to do?13:24
amichairRiddell: first I'll figure out how things work, then I guess I'll start with simple-looking bugs13:25
=== tseliot1 is now known as tseliot
ScottKRiddell: Since Ubuntu is SRUing to fix broken bulletproof X in GDM, might be worth a look.13:29
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: I still find the hook stuff itself too complex :P13:31
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: also ... I was wondering if we really need a QMap to store the data13:32
apacheloggera low-level datatype might just as well do the job but not waste resources13:32
JontheEchidnaThere is a c++ rfc822  parser in libparser++-dev, but I never figured out how to use it13:32
apacheloggerconsidering the stored data is mostly string or bool anyway?13:32
JontheEchidnait even has a deb822 parser implementation included13:32
JontheEchidnaI just can't get it to work13:33
apacheloggeroh dear13:33
* apachelogger just noticed that tomorrow is deadline for his recursion exercise13:33
apacheloggeroh my13:33
* apachelogger starts crying13:33
* ScottK warns on the dangers of recursive crying.13:34
amichairapachelogger: what would u prefer, recursion excercise or some real excercise?13:34
apacheloggerrecursion excerise!13:34
apacheloggerwell, not really since it is quite the PITA to implement but since my grade depends on it13:35
LureRiddell: can I put kipi-plugins 0.8.0 to backports ppa for karmic?13:37
LureRiddell: and do I need to get to lucid first (no lucid dev env yet)?13:37
RiddellLure: why not in real backports?13:42
apacheloggerLure: generally a backport would indicate that it comes from something newer (thus the "back" ;))13:42
* apachelogger leaves for programming lecture13:42
ScottKRiddell: Having it lucid first is a requirement for backports.13:43
apacheloggersomeone please reply to latest mail on kde-devel :)13:43
apacheloggereh13:43
apacheloggerkubuntu-devel13:43
ScottKLure: pbuilder login --save-after-login and dist upgrade while logged in is a quick way to have a Lucid environment.13:44
bbigrassomeone knows why the Kopete's package is still 4.3.2?13:45
LureScottK: thanks for idea - will do that13:48
Lureapachelogger: I know, but for me getting it from debian for current users of released ubuntu is also backport ;-)13:49
LureRiddell: why not real backports for kde .x release?13:49
Riddelloh, gone13:51
* Lure hates irc @ work :-(13:54
ScottKLure: Working on getting tech board approval for KDE .x releases in -proposed/-updates13:55
grahlhi, concerning timelord, is there a place for the strategy/pr/branding discussion yet? i haven't found anything specific the wiki or on the mailing lists13:56
LureScottK: have seen your proposal - great work and hope it gets accepted13:56
bbigrasIs the kdenetwork 4.3.3 package's still being worked on? before I ask on the ML about it13:56
Riddellgrahl: there have been some initial discussion in here, not much14:02
Riddellbbigras: let mw look14:02
bbigrasRiddell: ok, thanks14:02
grahlRiddell: would the next kubuntu meeting be the right place to bring that up? or is posting ideas/proposals to the mailing list better?14:03
MelisU@ScottK: Would hat mean that your average Kubuntu user would just get KDE X.X.X with regular updates?14:03
ScottKMelisU: Yes.14:04
ScottKAfter testing, of course.14:04
MelisUScottK: Hmm...... actually that would be awesome :) But Gnome already get X.Y.Z releases, right?14:05
ScottKMelisU: Only for LTS releases.14:05
Riddellgrahl: probably the mailing list is better14:06
grahlRiddell: thanks!14:06
Riddellstarting in two days! https://edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/staging/+build/132012414:07
MelisUScottK: Has that always been true .. I think I got newer 2.6.22.z releases with updates when I was young and stupid and ran Gnome :)14:07
Riddellsomeone is clogging up PPAs14:07
seeleis quassel supposed to work with the indicator display?14:07
ScottKRiddell: NCommander can fix that for you.  I gather most of the PPA buildd's are off being release mirrors right now.14:07
Riddellbbigras: upstream changed the tar at the last minute, I've uploaded the new one now but based on the above I don't know when it'll build14:07
gnopakThe links to TimeLord PDF files at http://www.kubuntu.org/news/timelord are broken. Is Kubuntu web admin online?14:07
ScottKseele: Yes, but you have to enable it, not by default.14:08
Riddellgrahl: JontheEchidna published that story I think14:08
Riddellgnopak: ^^14:08
seeleScottK: so i have to enable ayatana notifications AND the indicator display?14:08
bbigrasRiddell: ok it's perfect. thanks!14:08
seeleScottK: is that per application or a global setting?14:08
JontheEchidnaapachelogger was hosting those pdfs I believe14:08
NCommanderRiddell, its due to the changes on how the PPA scheluder; it prevents a single PPA from tying up the entire build farm14:08
ScottKseele: Per application.  And yes, if you want it you have to enable it.14:09
ScottKseele: Per application was Ayatana's decision, not ours.14:09
seeleinteresting, was that for testing purposes or by design?14:10
seeleit seems like a lot of trouble to go through your applications to enable the inidcator14:10
* MelisU just found out of Quassels name auto completion! AWESOME14:10
seeleit should be a global option of the message indicator to use it, or not at all14:10
NCommanderMelisU, you mean tab?14:10
seeleand enable/disable registered apps from both places14:10
MelisUNCommander: yup14:10
NCommanderMelisU, pretty standard feature of every IRC client14:10
ScottKseele: By design.14:10
* seele will never understand them14:10
NCommanderMelisU, and bash supports it as well for command autocomplete :-)14:10
gnopakJontheEchidna: I do not regularly visit this channel. OK, I will try to tell apachelogger if we happen to be online at the same time.14:11
ScottKNCommander: Quassel's tends to be somewhat non-discoverable14:11
MelisUNCommander: I am new to IRC TBH14:11
NCommanderScottK, ?, I don't remember it working differently than in XChat14:11
NCommanderActually14:11
NCommanderWith the possible exception of early versions of collaqury on Mac OS X14:11
* ScottK never used XChat.14:11
NCommanderand pidgin14:11
NCommanderevery client recongizes it14:11
NCommanderirssi, bitchx, etc.14:12
ScottKQuassel's tab completion is different than Konversations, but for a new IRC user any of it can be a suprise14:12
NCommanderseele, is this the IM notification icon that sits there at all times in the system tray?14:12
seeleNCommander: yes14:12
NCommanderseele, hrm, I didn't realize it was in the default Kubuntu install (I have been using GNOME for the last few months)14:13
seeleNCommander: it was part of the "compromise"14:13
MelisUNCommander: As I said: New to this stuff. Just glad I figured it out fairly soon. Any other major thing a noob should know=14:13
NCommanderMelisU, :-)14:14
NCommanderMelisU, quassel is a great IRC client ... if you don't idle in 50+ channels across 50 networks14:14
NCommanderer14:14
NCommander5 networks14:14
NCommanderThe backend begins to progressively lag :-/14:15
ScottKseele and NCommander: As I understand it, the patching of Gnome apps for an indicator was rather unconditional, so if we didn't have it, the user experience in KDE when using them would be not so great.14:15
MelisUNCommander: OK, so using Quassel and using tab is all there is to it. Sweet :)14:15
ScottKNCommander: There's a postgresql backend if you want it now.14:15
NCommanderScottK, ugh, they patched individual applications to make that thing work?14:15
ScottKNCommander: Yes.14:15
NCommanderScottK, I think having a full blown RBDMS to power an IRC client is in general overkill14:15
NCommanderScottK, I thought they were hooking into some dbus ABI, which is why it worked with pidgin14:16
seeleScottK: so they break if i remove the indicator aplet from my panel?14:16
NCommanderseele, I zapped the applet in GNOME, and nothing went snap14:17
ScottKseele: Well for some definition of break.  You don't have any equivalent to an action for the notifications since those are removed.14:17
NCommanderBut the only app I ran that linked into it was pidgin14:17
NCommanderScottK, ?14:17
ScottKThey don't explode or anything14:17
NCommanderScottK, I get the normal app notifications just fine14:18
ScottKNCommander: For example, Quassel, by default, will give you a notification with an action if you get highlighted.  Pidgin won't.  You need the indicator to get the equivalent.14:18
NCommanderScottK, ?14:19
NCommanderScottK, default install, I got both pidgin and the messenger app icons14:19
ScottKNCommander: No actions though.14:19
NCommanderScottK, actions?14:19
ScottKYou can see the notification, but that's it.14:19
NCommanderScottK, its supposed to do something beside blink?14:20
ScottKFor example, see the screen shot here: http://www.kitterman.org/ScottK/2009/04/14:21
ScottKIf you click on 'view' it takes you right to the channel where you got highlighted.14:21
NCommanderScottK, right, but isn't that the stock KDE notification system?14:22
ScottKNCommander: Yes, but if you use the Ayatana system you don't get that.  You have to use the indicator.14:22
NCommanderScottK, ....14:22
NCommanderScottK, is there a way to flip that switch back?14:23
ScottKNCommander: For Kubuntu and KDE apps yes.14:23
NCommanderScottK, thats good.14:23
ScottKFor Ubuntu, I think you hve to replace packages.14:23
NCommanderScottK, possibly with empathy. Pidgin works the way it used to it seems14:23
ScottKNCommander: For Kubuntu, none of our stuff has the Ayatana stuff enabled by default.  You have to want it.14:23
=== rgreening_ is now known as rgreening
rgreeningScottK: so, in a fresh install, kopete has the ayatana enabled by default... did we intend this or miss it?14:34
rgreeninghaha14:34
rgreeningoops right.14:35
ScottKrgreening: It's a bug.14:35
rgreeningheh14:35
ulysses__It would be better, If it is a feature, I think Ayatana is more awesome than the other...(I forgot its name)14:35
ScottKThe other is KDE.14:36
ulysses__Thanks14:36
rgreeningthe ayatana stuff is definately shaping up nicely. I use it... however there are still some usability bumps for me...14:36
ghostcubegrml who made grub2 and who thought its coo14:36
ghostcubel14:36
ghostcubeit just sux14:36
ghostcube:|14:36
Mamarokghostcube: it's a double-sided sword, some people are happy with it, others have problems galore14:37
ScottKrgreening: This odd theory that having something happen if I click on an action (i.e. the system told me about something and now I want to do something about it) is a fatal flaw for me.14:37
ScottK... is bad ...14:37
ghostcubeMamarok: its too splitted up14:37
ghostcubei former edited one file and all worked14:38
ulysses__ScottK: +114:38
Mamarokyeah, the configuration is just too nerdy14:38
rgreeningScottK: I haven't had a case of that occur yet..14:38
rgreeningbut thats me...14:38
Mamarokreminds me of Lilo, one space too much and you have no bootmanager anymore *shudder*14:38
* Mamarok wonders if SuSE still uses Lilo14:39
=== vit_ is now known as troyvit
troyvithey I read the timelord announcement here: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/timelord14:45
troyvitThe link at the end of this sentence:14:46
troyvitA detailed specification of Project Timelord can be found here.14:46
troyvitleads to a 404:14:46
troyvithttp://people.ubuntu.com/~apachelogger/Timelord/Project_Timelord_Announcement.pdf14:46
Riddellpoke apachelogger14:46
troyvitthanks for making a kickass distro by the way14:46
* troyvit pokes apachelogger too14:46
rgreeningRiddell, ScottK, JontheEchidna, apachelogger, etc... I have someone who wishes to help out. His name is Jordan (aka da-bayman).14:47
ScottKWelcome da-bayman.14:47
da-baymanhello guys!14:47
jussio1Hi da-bayman14:47
rgreeningScottK: not hard to tell he's from NL :)14:47
rgreeningbayman is a term for someone from outside the city (ie around the bay) :)14:48
* ScottK is behing on doing actual work, so see you later.14:48
rgreeningda-bayman has been helping out some users with some minor issues, but wishes to help out with 10.04 going forward...14:49
rgreeningPerhaps in bug triage (JontheEchidna, apachelogger can help with that) or documentation (jjesse, nixternal can help with that)14:49
da-baymanyep, i've been messing around with kubuntu for some time now since rgreening converted me. I've read many forums and believe i can help at least a little wit the progression of kubuntu.14:51
rgreeningthat's awesome da-bayman, as we can surely use the help. We are a small team in comparison to the larger Ubuntu teams, so every little bit helps.14:52
rgreeningda-bayman: you should check out https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HelpingKubuntu14:52
da-baymanrgreening: K.14:52
rgreeningda-bayman: and see if anything there peaks your interest.14:53
JontheEchidnaI think we're recommending this one now: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/GettingInvolved14:53
rgreeningda-bayman: see what JontheEchidna posted as an alternate link to review....14:54
JontheEchidnaor at least want to make it an alternative eventually :D14:54
JontheEchidnastill has some empty pages so I guess we're not recommending it now14:54
jwisserJontheEchidna: Eventually we're going to need to add something about marketing/promotion.14:54
rgreeningJontheEchidna: do you have any good advice or docs for da-bayman wrt bug triaging? He can probably hit the ground running on that...14:55
JontheEchidnahmmz14:56
bmungerhi guys.. why is kde 4.3.3 in backports?  I asked here last time and I was told it was going to be part of the regular upgrade in karmic14:56
JontheEchidnaFor bug triage... a bit Ubuntu-centric perhaps, but: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HelpingWithBugs14:59
JontheEchidnaalso of interest: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/DebuggingKDE14:59
JontheEchidnargreening, da-bayman^14:59
rgreeningthanks JontheEchidna15:00
da-baymanjontheechidna: ok thanks, got some reading material now anyway!15:00
rgreeningda-bayman: feel free to review the above suggestions and ping me or JontheEchidna if you get stuck or want some advice. great to have you on board to help.15:00
rgreening:)15:01
da-baymangreat to be a part of it!15:01
rgreening10.04 will be a rocking release for us... it's should be LTS (long term supported release) for us15:01
rgreeningand KDE 4.4, Qt 4.6... all with great improvements...15:02
da-baymangreat! hope i can help15:05
rgreeningim sure you will do fine. we have a great bunch of people here... most anyone will be able to help point you in the right direction. feel free to ask questions.15:08
ghostcubeMamarok: yeah lilo was cool :D15:09
ghostcubeand suse is on grub now15:09
ghostcube:)15:09
Mamaroknah, lilo was a pita, horrible to tweak15:10
ghostcubehmm i loved mi lilola15:10
ghostcube:D15:10
ghostcubemaybe i love grub2 sometimes too but at the moment i want my menu.lst15:10
jwisserEveryone: Who do you personally think Kubuntu is aimed at?15:13
jwisser…anyone? Bueller?15:18
ScottKbmunger: We need tech board approval to get it into the regular updates.  PPA is for testing and while we wait for approval.15:20
ScottKjwisser: I already gave you my list.15:20
jwisserScottK: I guess what I'm trying to get a sense of is whether that's the community list, and what groups we already have and to what extent.15:25
ScottKCertainly.  I just didn't want you to feel ignored entirely.15:25
jwisserDo we already have the KDE diehards? Or do we need to work for them? If we need to work for them, how does focusing on them detract from our ability to focus on small businesses.15:26
jwisser*?15:26
jwisserAppreciated. :-)15:26
seelei didnt realise small businesses was a target15:26
ScottKseele: That was my suggestion as a stretch goal for the future.15:26
seelehmm15:26
jwisserOkay; I wasn't clear that that was a stretch goal.15:26
ScottKSorry15:27
seelemaybe after akonadi matures15:27
ScottKAnd we have good Samba integration15:27
ScottKA web browser that doesn't suck15:27
seelelinux desktop in general isnt going to succeed in business until there is a seamless exchange integration or replacement15:27
ScottKYep15:27
seeleexchange is probably the #1 linux business problem15:27
* ScottK was about to type that or Kolab suddenly gets wonderful.15:27
seeleeverything else can be compromised in some qay. samba can work with some massaging, firefox is already used by the general public, etc.15:28
ScottKopenchange gives us the basis for solving the Exchange problem, but it will take a while.15:28
jwisserBeing called away by actual work.15:30
* Tonio_ is really impressed testing rekonq-daily package....15:31
Tonio_the 0.3 version has a completly new UI à la chrome15:31
bmungerScottK, is tech board approval ever going to happen for monthly kde updates?15:33
ScottKbmunger: I just finished getting the proposal together and submitted yesterday, so they haven't had a lot of time yet.15:33
Tonio_ScottK: http://www.planetemu.net/temp/rekonq.png15:33
Tonio_ScottK: isn't this nice ?15:33
ScottKTonio_: All web browsers suck.  They just suck in slightly different and unpredictable ways.15:34
Tonio_ScottK: hum, you're rude this time :)15:34
ScottKTonio_: Sorry.  Didn't mean to be rude.  Just in a bit of a negative mood this morning.15:35
Tonio_ScottK: the thing is that if it gets adblock support and kwallet integration, it would be a good replacement for konq as this is a kde app basically :)15:35
Tonio_ScottK: testing it I went to the conclusion arora might not be the only way to go15:35
ScottKWell I think we should have another what's our browser going to be discussion.15:35
Riddellthey're working on both of those15:36
Riddell"We'll probably have kdewebkit + kwallet + adblock features ready before15:36
RiddellChristmas. So a rekonq 0.3.70 based on Qt 4.6 and KDE 4.4."15:36
Riddellis what he said to me15:36
jussio1hhrrr. Tonio_Ive the latest one and it crashes on gmail :(15:37
Riddellit leaks memory like a seive on gmail, but maybe qt 4.6 will help with that15:37
* jussio1 prays and hopes...15:37
jussio1anyway, off to make dinner...15:38
skreechQuick Question Who is in charge of the releases server?15:40
Riddellcanonical sysadmin15:40
=== skreech is now known as Daskreech
DaskreechRiddell: Should the verbage for KNR read as it does at http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/9.10/ ?15:40
Tonio_Riddell: yeah, that's great really15:40
bmungerScottK: ok cool, thanks.  hope all goes well then.15:41
Tonio_Riddell: the UI is very IE like anyway... but that's not bas for our new users I think15:42
ScottKDaskreech: What's wrong with it?15:42
RiddellDaskreech: what's wrong with it?15:42
=== MsMaco is now known as maco
DaskreechConcerned about the choose this one if you are unsure15:44
DaskreechShouldn't it more explictly state this is a preview and caution is needed?15:44
Riddellmaybe but the text is automatically generated and changes need patches to code.  I don't want it saying it's a CD either but I couldn't get a patch done in time15:46
jwisserRekonq looks nice indeed.15:46
amichairRiddell: say I fixed a bug, now what? (working off your tarball)15:53
Riddellamichair: bzr commit --local16:06
amichairRiddell: ERROR: Unknown working tree format: 'Bazaar Working Tree Format 6 (bzr 1.14)\n'16:07
Quintasanhurr durr, in which repo we have 4.3.3 packages?16:08
amichairRiddell: (it's a 2-line fix, so I don't mind doing this over if it's quicker)16:08
Riddellamichair: well you can attach the diff to a bug alternatively16:15
* Riddell doesn't know if he should reply to the posts on harald's "asking for input" thread16:15
ScottKRiddell: I think someone should.  You're a calm enough sort to do it well.16:16
ScottKRiddell: The main point I'd suggest making on the Ayatana stuff (I drafted a reply, but it wasn't very good) is that they are trying to collaborate, even if it's painful, they're new and we (Kubuntu and KDE) need to help them get better at it.16:17
RiddellI really don't get that, what do they object to?  the message indicator is the most invasive thing and it's 100 times better than what kde 4.3 ships with16:19
neversfeldewill we remove koffice 1.6 in lucid?16:24
QuintasanRiddell: urgh, debian has 4.3.2 in repos, serious, I think I'm missing something16:25
RiddellQuintasan: how do you mean?16:26
RiddellQuintasan: we want to use our 4.3.3 and merge with debian's 4.3.216:26
Quintasanargh, okay16:26
Riddellneversfelde: yes it's dead16:26
Riddellneversfelde: did you ever get the RC packaged?16:26
* Quintasan finds reading debdiffs confusing16:26
neversfeldeRiddell: currently working on it16:27
RiddellQuintasan: our 4.3.3 is in the PPA or the packaging is in bzr16:27
RiddellQuintasan: yes debdiffs are confusing, they're often diffs of diffs so you need to be careful16:27
neversfeldethere is a version in the experimental ppa, but it still has some problems16:27
neversfeldeand builders are busy, next build will start 07/11 :)16:27
* ScottK thought we'd be merging into Lucid, not the PPA for Karmic?16:27
Riddellyeah I know :(16:27
RiddellScottK: we're merging into lucid from debian and karmic ppa16:28
ScottKOK16:28
RiddellI wonder if qt has done linking yet, it's only been doing it for the last hour16:28
txwikingerHey guys.. want some snow?16:31
Riddellnot only had it not done linking but my computer had spontaniously rebooted.  I think I need more than a gig of memory to compile Qt16:32
txwikingerRiddell: and more than 1G to run it ;)16:32
Riddelltxwikinger: is there snow in Texas?16:32
txwikingerRiddell: No.. not in Texas16:33
txwikingerwell.. it could, if it comes don't from the Rockies16:33
txwikingerbut it would still be odd around that time (I guess you mean UDS)16:33
Daskreechoh I like the old Krita16:42
Daskreech it works really nicely16:42
DaskreechIt's the only KDE3 app I still use16:42
Riddellnew Krita is nice too16:43
Riddellit has issues you need to work around but nothing major16:43
neversfeldekoffice isn't nice :D16:43
neversfeldebut I like it too16:43
Riddellit could do with the source being split up, same for qt16:44
ScottKUntil it has MS Office format compatibility on par with OOo, it's not of much interest to me.16:51
Riddellalas with that argument MS wins by default16:53
QuintasanRiddell: just to be sure whether I'm doing it right or not (changelog merging) -> http://pastebin.com/f6c50a16f16:55
ScottKRiddell: 100% of my consulting customers us MS Office, so it's essential for me.  Since they are the customer and I'm the consultant, I really can't tell them to go download something that uses ODF.16:57
RiddellQuintasan: seems fine.  you may want to keep the 4.3.3 ~ppa1 changelog entry in there16:58
Quintasanhmm I just removed ~ppa1 form there, so I'd better add it back16:59
QuintasanRiddell: my entry after merge should be 4:4.3.3-0-ubuntu1 lucid, right?17:02
RiddellQuintasan: yes17:03
RiddellQuintasan: you have an extra dash in there17:03
Riddell4:4.3.3-0ubuntu1 lucid17:03
Quintasanoh right17:03
Daskreechhow many Shipit Cds are you restricted to now?17:04
Riddell1 I think17:05
Riddellpossibly 1 for ever more as well, no future releases (I'm not sure)17:05
DaskreechCan I request more as an OEM?17:05
Daskreechor buy to be more specific17:06
RiddellOEMs can jolly well pay for them17:06
Riddellyes you should be able to buy them from the ubuntu shop17:06
DaskreechRight Ok great17:06
ScottKThere's also a special request option where you can ask for whatever you want17:07
QuintasanRiddell: I found reviewing debian/* files by hand much faster than debdiff :P17:08
RiddellQuintasan: hmm, you're likely to miss stuff if it's only by hand, I tend to run diff manually on stuff like debian/rules and debian/control17:10
DaskreechFunny how it's quoted in pounds afor a Euro audience17:11
Daskreech Also you cannot buy any Kubuntu items anymore17:11
Riddellhttp://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=538&osCsid=a343fea178f61a1c4f3d55b1101dc5f2 is the CDs17:12
Quintasanhurr, 4.3.3 packages aint in Lucid and Ninjas PPA is missing lucid files, what to do Riddell?17:13
DaskreechYeah I found them. Listed in pounds for Euro using audience :)17:15
DaskreechI was just commenting on that and the lack of Kubuntu items in the store17:17
Quintasanit's certainly not mine day, everything goes wrong -_-17:17
RiddellDaskreech: well the shop is for everyone !US, and it's based in England so they use the obsolete currency that English insists on sticking with17:19
EagleScreenFirefox has an Add-on to use Plasma notification system, you may want to package it for Lucid, and also the packages which make Firefox to have KDE dialog to save and open files17:19
Quintasangod dammit17:20
RiddellEagleScreen: got a link?17:21
EagleScreenyes, one momment17:22
EagleScreenRiddell: here there is a PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~debfx/+archive/firefox-kde17:23
EagleScreenit seems the work was made by OpenSuse, there is a link to it in PPA page17:24
Riddellok, part of those, I'll make a session at UDS to discuss that with asac17:24
EagleScreenRiddell: here is the page of PlasmaNotify firefox Add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/search?q=plasmanotify17:25
EagleScreeni am using both tools sucessfully17:25
EagleScreenwith these packages + kcmgtk, Firefox might become a good web browser for Kubuntu17:28
ScottKDaskreech: They do have some Kubuntu stuff, so progress17:29
DaskreechScottK:17:30
DaskreechScottK: http://shop.canonical.com ?17:30
ScottKDaskreech: Hmmm.  US shop does: http://usshop.ubuntu.com/category.php?catid=717:32
RiddellScottK: I think we're using <category>-<track>-name for specs17:34
ScottKOhh.17:34
RiddellScottK: so kubuntu-lucid-ayatana-integratin17:34
ScottKOK.17:35
RiddellScottK: please add to https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuLucidSpecs17:35
RiddellScottK: and have you asked agateau about that?17:35
ScottKagateau: How about that ^^^17:35
ScottKYes17:35
* agateau reads, but has to go real soon now17:36
ScottKagateau: Basically the same spec a last time17:36
agateau:)17:36
agateauok time to go17:39
agateaubye17:39
EagleScreeni am currently using Ayatana notifications in karmic, the only issue i have seen is that available updates notification hasn't icon to start review and update, therefor, there must be to find a solution to this17:39
ScottKThe solution is either don't use Ayatana notification or go start the update manually via the menu.17:40
ScottKAyatana believes that you being able to do something with a notification is a bad idea.17:41
EagleScreenor adopt the Ubuntu policy17:41
ScottKNo.17:41
EagleScreento your orders, sir ,lol17:42
ScottKWell if Kubuntu does that, I doubt I'll care because I'll be using some other distro.17:42
seeledoes anyone use ubuntu one?17:42
ScottKOutside Ubuntu?17:42
RiddellI tried to once but it didn't run, that was yonks ago17:43
ScottKI think foresight uses it.17:43
Riddelloh why is the wiki broken just as I want to sort out our specs17:43
txwikingerI played a little around with Ubuntu One17:44
QuintasanRiddell: http://hs.quintasan.pl/debdiff.tar.gz -> fixed now (propably)17:44
seeleScottK: yeah.. i just installed it but it doesnt seem to work17:44
seelei can't connect or whatever that means17:44
EagleScreeni also think that no actions in notification bubbles is a bad idea, but ayatana style is more.... beautiful, clean?17:44
txwikingerseele: delete the gnome keyring17:44
ScottKThe Kubuntu Ayatana stuff works (at least for notifications, kmail, and quassel) when enabled.  I did test that.17:45
ScottKEagleScreen: The problem is that as long as Ayatana insists on no actions, there is no chance upstream KDE will listen to them about any notification stuff.17:45
EagleScreenyes, and I understand it, I think actions are a good idea, may be a mix of both would be perfect, but no much effort will be done by anyone17:47
ScottKI think that there are some nice points.17:48
RiddellTonio_: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kubuntu-file-sharing can you rename that to kubuntu-lucid-file-sharing and mark me as approver17:49
ScottKFor example, I like the way Ayatana notifications fade in better, but the way the KDE ones fade out.17:49
Riddellthe main problem I have with the KDE ones is they aren't visually related to the "i"17:50
ScottKI think the interaction between jobs and notifications is poor.17:51
ScottKI particularly dislike the way recently complete jobs also maximize when a new notification comes in.17:52
ScottKI'd like it if agateau would work on that.17:52
ScottKI think making that stuff work together better would improve the user experience and be upstreamable17:52
Riddellrgreening: for https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/touchpad-config-kde/ please rename to kubuntu-lucid-touchpad-config and mark me as approver17:53
rgreeningok.17:55
ScottKRiddell: I added mine to the wiki page (did one for netbook stuff too)17:55
* Riddell feels a wiki edit conflict coming17:56
* JontheEchidna just edited the merge chart17:56
EagleScreenwhy do not keep upstream names for packages, as like as kcmtouchpad in place of touchpad-config-kde?17:56
ScottKWhen I added mine it tole me you were expired.17:56
ScottKtole/told17:56
JontheEchidnaEagleScreen: that's just the specification name17:56
JontheEchidnathe goal is to get some form of touchpad config in kubuntu, and it was made before kcm_touchpad was made17:57
JontheEchidnathe package will most likely be called kcm-touchpad17:57
Riddell"Internal Server Error" that's what we get for editing the same wiki page at the same time17:57
EagleScreenokay okay, I understand, thanks17:57
JontheEchidnaRiddell: I got that too just trying to load the wiki page17:57
JontheEchidnaEagleScreen: no prob :)17:57
JontheEchidnaactually the spec wiki page is outdated, I can see why you'd think we would name the package touchpad-config-kde17:58
ScottKJontheEchidna and Riddell: I got that for w.k.o, but w.u.c worked17:59
JontheEchidnareloading fixed it for me17:59
JontheEchidnaRiddell: so we're merging 4.3.3, right?18:01
RiddellJontheEchidna: right.  our 4.3.3 packages with debian's 4.3.2 packages18:01
JontheEchidnaok18:02
Riddellor whatever they have uploaded most recently18:02
JontheEchidnaI hate the new Launchpad PPA UI18:05
JontheEchidnaby the way, I thought we were using the main kubuntu-ppa for microreleases to the latest release?18:06
JontheEchidnabackports is for KDE 4.x+1 to the most recent release18:06
RiddellJontheEchidna: hmm, they should be in updates rather than backports right enough18:09
Riddellfooey18:10
JontheEchidnathere's always next time18:10
txwikingerwe seem to have several kubuntu filesharing blueprints18:10
Riddellwe do one every UDS :(18:12
txwikingerDo they get closed when not current anymore?18:12
Riddellsometimes, it has to be done manually18:13
Riddellhttps://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuLucidSpecs all done for now18:14
txwikingerThe current parts  from https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kubuntu-filesharing could be moved to the new one and this one be closed18:15
RiddellJontheEchidna: is your phonon package somewhere I can get?  this qt compile might be done sometime today18:15
Riddelltxwikinger: poke Tonio_ with that18:15
JontheEchidnaRiddell: will a diff from the current debian package do?18:15
Riddelltxwikinger: and specs you're wanting this UDS?18:15
RiddellJontheEchidna: sure18:15
txwikingerTonio_: The current parts  from https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kubuntu-filesharing could be moved to the new one and this one be closed18:16
ScottKRiddell: We need some kind of web browser cage deathmatch spec too.18:16
txwikingerRiddell: Not sure.. I am still looking through what is already theere18:17
MamarokI wonder what I need to isntall or tweak to be able to run Strigi...18:17
Riddellan apps review spec maybe?18:17
JontheEchidnahttp://paste.ubuntu.com/310795/18:17
=== dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk
=== dendro-afk is now known as dendrobates
rmrfslashcan I add the karmic backports repo to my jaunty sources.list and upgrade to 4.3.3 or will this almost certainly have the potential to break things?18:38
JontheEchidnait would probably be a bad idea18:38
rmrfslashI did add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu karmic main to my sources list and ran apt-get update, afterwards this did show all the 4.3.3 stuff it was ready to apply but I thought, ehhh I should check on this before just blindly hitting "yes"18:39
rmrfslashsounds good18:48
rmrfslashthanks for leaving jaunty out in the cold18:49
rmrfslashforce people to upgrade to 9.10 that has a 10% upgrade success rate18:49
rmrfslashl8er18:49
Nightrose10% upgrade success rate?18:56
NightroseOo18:56
* Nightrose loves pulling numbers out of her behind too18:56
JontheEchidnadid you know that 45.3% of statistics are made up on the spot?18:56
Nightroseno and i actually think it's more like 45.4%18:57
Nightrosesmall but significant difference18:57
JontheEchidnaobviously the upgrade did not work for him18:59
JontheEchidnaand he is 90% of our userbase18:59
Nightroseyou and me being the other 10%? :D18:59
JontheEchidna:D19:00
MelisUHi guys and gals, I have a problem with playing .FLV in dolphin and VLC. Any1 know which package has the audio codec for FLV?19:04
MelisUsorry wrong channel ..19:05
MelisUBTW: will dragon player get automatic codec download ?19:09
=== maco__ is now known as maco
txwikingerwell.. 10% success rate in 100% of the cases with problems is quite good I would say ;)19:13
ScottKMelisU: Yes.  It has it.19:15
ScottKI've had 100% success with upgrades here.19:15
MelisUScottK: Not working for the second part of that lugradio docu from blip .. but that file is strange. Other FLV seem to run fine. I just download the big 2GB .. wth I don't have to pay for bandwidth ;)19:16
txwikingerI had far better upgrades than in the past too19:17
seeleit's funny that people are having so much trouble with upgrades19:17
seelethis is the first upgrade in YEARS that has worked without screweing up19:17
seeleupgrades never work for me so i was pretty happy it actually worked this time, heh19:18
JontheEchidnaanybody know what the kubuntu-kmenu-<size>.png.uu files are for?19:23
JontheEchidnain the kde4libs packaging19:23
JontheEchidnaoh the branded kmenu19:25
JontheEchidnawhich we aren't using. Should I remove it?19:26
yuriyjust upgraded my jaunty32 vm, no crashes this time19:27
claydohmy jaunty-karmic *and* my hardy-karmic went swimmingly19:30
claydohi installed hardy just to test the upgrade, it was rather boring and uneventful19:31
Nightroseyea since hardy my upgrades went without problems too19:32
claydohhttp://laserjock.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-myth-of-the-bad-ubuntu-release/19:33
claydohsums it ut I guess19:33
claydohsums it up19:33
claydohevery new  release finds a number of "wordt release ever' threads in kubuntuforums19:34
claydohsorry can't type today19:34
claydohtho I see some of the new threads are from authors of previous "worst-ever" posts :(19:35
ScottKMost of the netbook feedback Google finds for me seems to be pretty good.19:35
MelisUmaybe it is the proliferation of PPA or people install stuff from source or something that breaks those upgrades19:35
claydohMelisU: the upgrade disables those ppas19:36
claydohbut I am sure that is a little bit of it19:37
=== neverendingo__ is now known as neverendingo
ScottKclaydoh: It disables the PPAs, but doesn't remove stuff already installed from thost PPAs19:42
amichairthe browse file dialog in software-properties for adding keys shows only *.pgp files, whereas mostly (only) gpg ones are used... is this a software properties bug (use *.gpg instead) or kde bug (show both *.pgp and *.gpg for the application/pgp-keys mime type)?19:45
JontheEchidnaamichair: what version of Kubuntu?19:50
=== dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk
amichairI took from bzr19:51
amichairoh wait, but working on jaunty19:51
JontheEchidnahmm, I thought something to address a similar issue was in for 9.1019:51
amichairsorry, could be that19:51
amichairI'll check19:52
JontheEchidnain 9.10 it is: KFileDialog.getOpenFileName(url, '*.asc *.pkr *.skr *.gpg *.gpgkey| PGP keys', self.userinterface, utf8(_("Import key")))19:53
JontheEchidnaah, no pgp though19:53
JontheEchidnawait, but your issue was that it only took pgp19:53
amichairJontheEchidna: I just posted a patch for something else in system-properties, and noticed this bug... but looking at the code I don't see the line above19:55
amichairJontheEchidna: am I looking in the wrong place? (this is my first time working on kubuntu code)19:55
amichairJontheEchidna: the dialog in karmic still shows only "PGP keys" in the filter19:58
rgreeningRiddell: updated launchpad entry for touchpad config19:58
JontheEchidnaamichair: it should show all those file types in the file browser, but only say PGP keys in the filter box (I think)19:59
amichairJontheEchidna: yep, I see gpg and pgp both shown20:01
apacheloggerJontheEchidna, Riddell: the unavailability of the pdfs was apparently caused by canonical :P20:01
JontheEchidnathat's good20:01
amichairJontheEchidna: oops no - no pgp20:01
apacheloggerthat is why I wanted to use google docs :P20:01
=== dendro-afk is now known as dendrobates
JontheEchidnaamichair: ah, yeah. it's not in the filter20:01
amichairJontheEchidna: where is that snippet taken from?20:02
JontheEchidnaSoftwarePropertiesKDE.py20:02
amichairdamn, I must be looking at old code. I did "bzr co lp:software-properties" as Riddell advised, is that not the latest code? I'm confused :-/20:04
amichairhe was even kind enough to send me a tarball before I got bzr to work, and it's the same20:05
amichairJontheEchidna: can u please point me to the latest and greatest version?20:10
JontheEchidnathat should be the right one20:11
neversfeldeI am a little bit confused, why is 4.3.3 for karmic in the backports ppa, don't we use the updates ppa for bug fix releases?20:13
JontheEchidnaneversfelde: yes, it was a mistake that it was put in backports20:14
neversfeldeah ok :)20:14
amichairJontheEchidna: I see: KFileDialog.getOpenFileName(url, 'application/pgp-keys', self.userinterface, utf8(_("Import key")))20:15
JontheEchidnastrange20:15
amichairJontheEchidna: indeed :(20:22
markeyhmmm20:26
markey21:22 < jarle> So what is the trick to get amarok working in kubuntu 9.10? If I have the phonon-xine-backend installed it crashes upon startup, and if I use the phonon-gstreamer-backend I get no sound... (I get(<unknown>:22916): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_make_from_uri: assertion `gst_uri_is_valid (uri)' failed)20:26
markeygstreamer is not default, right?20:26
markeyso I'm wondering what happened there with that guy20:26
ScottKWeird.  Good sound here on 4 systems.20:27
ScottKI had to remove pulseaudio on one20:27
ScottKIt crawled in somewhere due to recommends20:27
JontheEchidnamarkey: gstreamer is not default for kubuntu, no. But if gstreamer is installed on an ubuntu system then then phonon-gstreamer will be installed because it brings in less depends20:28
markeyafaik Phonon-xine is default on Kubuntu, is why I'm confused20:28
markeyJontheEchidna: ah20:28
markeywell that is bad. the gstreamer backend is so buggy, it's not funny20:29
markeywho came up with that idea?20:29
JontheEchidnathe gstreamer backend? Qt I think20:29
markeyyeah, true20:29
JontheEchidnathen they dropped it like the flaming pile of s**t it is20:29
markeyNokia messed this up for good20:29
markeyyep20:29
markeywe're not too happy with them in that regard20:30
markeyoh btw, on that topic: we will have a Phonon Bugday on the 8th this month20:30
markeyif you want to join and got some time :)20:30
markeyeveryone welcome :)20:30
JontheEchidnathough I heard its maintainer did leave for valid reasons20:31
JontheEchidnathey just never took any effort to replace him20:31
JontheEchidnaor something to that degree20:31
JontheEchidnawhoa, really laggy20:31
amichairwell, there's no point fixing bugs on outdated code. I'll go make some food :-)20:34
markeynot sure what he's getting at here20:36
markeybut enjoy your food20:37
JontheEchidnaoh, for some reason his checkout of software-properties is outdated20:38
JontheEchidnaand we don't know why20:38
JontheEchidnadtchen: ping20:46
nookie^JontheEchidna: let's start by looking at this screene21:10
nookie^http://imagebin.ca/view/Fd8lH1ZP.html21:10
nookie^look ath the desktop21:11
nookie^why having uBlog by default?21:11
JontheEchidnathat's only a problem for small screens such as virtual machines21:12
nookie^yeah21:12
nookie^but why have it there?21:12
nookie^what useful information it's giving to normal users21:12
JontheEchidnaIt's a social desktop feature, to introduce social features by default21:12
nookie^we need to have in mind of users who never used linux before21:13
nookie^and i don't really belive it's presenting very useful information21:13
JontheEchidnahmm, maybe not21:13
apachelogger+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000021:13
JontheEchidnathe patches used to get that also have caused numerous problems21:13
nookie^that everyuser should see when they install kubuntu21:13
nookie^yeah i really vote for removing it21:14
JontheEchidnajust clutter that looks bad on small screens21:14
nookie^exactly21:14
amichair+1 (for what it's worth)21:14
nookie^but also it's not presenting very  useful information =)21:15
nookie^it's just taking alot of very important place21:15
JontheEchidnaalso, maybe we could get rid of the date since it really doesn't go to well with the smaller panel21:16
nookie^shall we continue? or can something be decided about that widget?21:16
JontheEchidnanothing will probably be decided now, I would imagine. at the least it'd take discussion on a mailing list or IRC before changes could be made21:16
nookie^okej21:17
apacheloggeror you could just change it :P21:17
JontheEchidnabut to get developers thinking in the right direction, you're doing a good job so far21:17
nookie^hehe thanks =)21:17
nookie^we just need to think as end users21:17
nookie^not what fits me instead of what fits for noobs, geeks all people21:17
amichairnookie^: amen to that :-)21:17
nookie^okej let's continue =)21:18
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HelpingKubuntu21:18
yuriyadd such things as talking points to the kubuntu default settings uds session21:18
nookie^can we look at the panel now and how it's organized21:18
nookie^and how it could be improved21:18
JontheEchidnaSo, having two lines in the clock applet right now makes the clock too wide. Any opinions on whether dropping the second line would be worth the missing information?21:18
nookie^what we can add and remove and place om some other places21:18
apacheloggeryuriy: how is that uds stuff?21:19
* apachelogger always thought uds was about innovation and new stuff and all21:19
nookie^JontheEchidna: i will also come to the clock21:19
apacheloggerotherwise I find it rather doubtful to not have every single contributor there21:19
JontheEchidnaok :)21:19
nookie^i will reorganize now the panel how i would like o see it21:19
nookie^and then you can compare it to the current screene you look at21:19
nookie^just give me a minute21:19
JontheEchidnanookie^: I did a similar proposal for intrepid, let me see if I can find the wiki page21:19
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: btw, any feedback on the gettinginvolved/development page?21:20
JontheEchidnanookie^: you may want to do something similar for your proposal in the end21:20
yuriyapachelogger: if every contributor could come, noone is stopping them. i think there was always a session to discuss default settings changes for the next release21:20
nookie^JontheEchidna: sure21:21
* nookie^ managed to crash plasma when moving the widgets around =(21:21
yuriyJontheEchidna: fwiw adding teh date to the clock is one of the first things i do if it's not there21:21
JontheEchidnanookie^: :(21:21
JontheEchidnaapachelogger: when I looked at it last I thought it was pretty good. I'll probably do a more in-depth reading in a bit21:21
JontheEchidnaaha! https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuIntrepidDesktopDefaults21:22
apacheloggeryuriy: well, of course, not that it would be anything but a waste of time, but sure there must be some session of that kind21:22
apacheloggerwe talked about that in my research workshop today ... limitation of scope in projects essentially causes waste of resources of any kind21:22
apacheloggerand UDS is the ultimate limitation of scope ... for IRC there is at least backlog and irclogs.ubuntu.com21:23
nookie^okej guys21:24
nookie^and girls if there are any21:24
nookie^here is how i would like to have it default instead to save space21:24
nookie^http://imagebin.ca/view/kdNa2R51.html21:24
nookie^now let me explain21:24
nookie^1) i have removed klipper from system tray. How often is that used by normal user? Everybody does ctrl+c ctrl+v21:25
nookie^that icon is just to HUGE to have in systemtray and it's taking place21:26
* amichair removes klipper from every new installation21:26
nookie^=)21:26
* nookie^ too21:26
JontheEchidnayou will remove my klipper over my cold dead body :D21:26
JontheEchidna<3 klipper21:26
nookie^hehe21:26
JontheEchidnawithout a clipboard there are bugs21:27
JontheEchidnalike if you close a text source before pasting, the text will be gone21:27
JontheEchidnaand you cannot paste it21:27
apacheloggerMamarok, claydoh: pling21:27
amichairJontheEchidna: but do we need to see the icon for it to work?21:27
nookie^JontheEchidna: but you are expirienced user21:27
nookie^think of my grandma21:27
nookie^who should use linux21:27
nookie^she would just see icon and numbers =))21:28
yuriyyou can have it in the hidden section of the tray by default maybe21:28
JontheEchidnayes, I was about to suggest having it in the hidden part21:28
nookie^+121:28
amichairwhy should standard clipboard functionality be coupled to a gui element?21:28
* apachelogger notes that the hidden icon still uses space though21:28
nookie^exactly21:29
yuriyi have about 10 icons in the tray and only two ever actually showing: kxkb and pidgin21:29
JontheEchidnaamichair: because xorg sucks :(21:29
nookie^yeah it does21:29
Tm_Tamichair: standard functionality doesn't save history21:29
* nookie^ votes for removing it by default21:29
nookie^hehe21:29
amichairTm_T: true, but very few ppl use history. most don't know it exists...21:29
nookie^exactly21:30
nookie^not many people are using it21:30
nookie^i think it's just taking place in systemtray21:30
JontheEchidnaI doubt that it'll be removed. Being hidden is the best bet21:30
Tm_Tnookie^: which could be hidden by default21:30
nookie^im fine with that =)21:31
nookie^let's move on21:31
amichairI agree with what nookie^ said before - there are a bunch of gui decisions that seem to be made by and for devs, not users21:31
Tm_Tthough, awareness of it should be spread more21:31
nookie^amichair: i really agree with you there21:31
amichairnookie^: nono, I agreed with u first!21:31
apacheloggeramichair: there is no decision taken at all21:31
Tm_Tapachelogger: not in Kubuntu, you mean?21:32
amichairapachelogger: if it ships, it is decided...21:32
apacheloggeramichair: that thing is there because of limitations in the graphics stack21:32
apacheloggerTm_T: not at all21:32
Tm_Tapachelogger: uh, I see21:32
apacheloggerwithout klipper copynpaste works in like 30% of the cases21:32
nookie^ohh LOL21:32
JontheEchidnaeven non-geek users use copy/paste21:32
apacheloggerthere are a bazillion bug reports in kde and all them distributions about that kind of crap21:32
apacheloggeropenoffice being all fancy and implementing their own technology21:33
Tm_Tah, that21:33
nookie^shall i continue?21:33
apacheloggergnome and kde reimplemnting what X does because X does it in a crappy way21:33
apacheloggeretc. etc.21:33
apacheloggerklipper is essential, so we can just make its presence less sucky21:33
Tm_Tapachelogger: totally forgot this clipboard jungle, I blame my age21:34
nookie^apachelogger: then we shoud hide it per default21:34
amichaircan we make it 1x1 pixel, transparent?21:34
apacheloggernookie^: that can be arranged but doesnt make sense if we dont have a second to hide21:34
apacheloggerthe hidden arrow still uses as much space as an entry21:34
apacheloggerand is as meaningless to the average user as the klippboardy icon21:34
JontheEchidnawe could start krandrtray by default so that screen resolution as set in KDE applies on startup21:34
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: mind the startup time21:35
nookie^i hope something will be decided there about it =)21:35
nookie^let's go on =)21:35
nookie^i've noticed that the clock takes alot of space in panel when date is there21:36
apacheloggerclaydoh, Mamarok: pretty pretty please fill https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/GettingInvolved/Support with information21:36
* JontheEchidna noticed too21:36
nookie^remove the date..21:36
apacheloggerI am all written out from implementing recursion the manual way21:36
nookie^and change the color21:36
nookie^black and gray doesnt fit well21:36
nookie^ther should be contrast21:36
JontheEchidnawhite would be awful for when destop effects are on21:36
nookie^hmm21:37
amichairI like the color, but miss the date. I'm forgetful :-)21:37
nookie^haven't tried them on21:37
JontheEchidnapoor contrast is better than invisible, in my opinion21:37
apacheloggerlol21:37
nookie^click on clock to retrive the date21:37
Tm_TJontheEchidna: #FEFEFE21:37
nookie^we need to have in mind is to have as MUCH space left for task manager21:38
amichairit's actually one of the things I first enjoyed when moving from windows... u can see the date!21:38
* apachelogger finds it funny that a docs dude implemented the GettingInvolved page and yet https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/GettingInvolved/Documentation goes to void :D21:38
nookie^clock widget is wasting space in panel when date enabled21:38
amichairnookie^: in the 'before' image, there's lots of blank space around it - how much space does the date actually add?21:39
* nookie^ votes to remove the date to save the space in the panel21:39
nookie^it add ALOT of space21:40
nookie^between systemtray and clock it adds all that space21:40
amichairnookie^: from comparing the images, it looks like it can fit with just a few pixels more (or, in ddmmyy format, maybe not at all)21:40
nookie^and it adds space both to the left and to the right21:40
amichairnookie^: maybe the extra space is just a bug?21:41
nookie^amichair: it's might be that21:41
nookie^it*21:41
apacheloggeramichair: mind localization21:41
JontheEchidnalocalized dates could be quite long21:41
apacheloggerin german the default date format for the clock is like Tue, 5 Nov21:41
nookie^yeah21:41
apacheloggerwhich adds a lotta pixels21:42
nookie^i mean not other operating system has date per default21:42
nookie^they all want to save space in the panel21:42
apacheloggerubuntu does, doesn't it? :P21:42
apacheloggerthen again they can waste space as much as they want21:42
amichairapachelogger: do macs?21:42
apacheloggerI wouldn't know21:43
apacheloggerneither do I care what others do21:43
apacheloggerif we would all stick to what is established the word innovation were unkown to the wider public :P21:43
nookie^yeah we need to make it what looks good here21:43
jrdnyquistone thing that I miss about gnome is the simple little performance dock thing that you can track processor, disk io, memory, etc in real time. I can't find anything quite like it for KDE, "system load viewer" is kinda close but doesn't do disk io21:43
RiddellI find it very useful21:43
Riddell(the date)21:43
nookie^Riddell: what?21:43
nookie^ahh21:43
amichairapachelogger: true, but too many times ppl make radically bad choices in the name of innovation :-)21:43
apacheloggerjrdnyquist: bubble monitor21:44
jrdnyquistyeah don't like it much21:44
nookie^Riddell: but currently it's taking TOOO much space in the panel21:44
amichairhow about a smaller date? would that still be helpful?21:44
apacheloggerjrdnyquist: so what is the point of your statement?21:44
nookie^it just doesnt look organized in the panel currently21:44
Riddelltime on top of date might be better21:44
Riddellbut I don't think it's a problem currently21:44
jrdnyquistapachelogger, I just think something similar would be cool in KDE is all21:45
JontheEchidnalooking at the default desktop, it is wasting quite a bit of space: http://imagebin.ca/view/Fd8lH1ZP.html21:45
nookie^JontheEchidna: =))21:45
apacheloggerhm21:46
nookie^i know =)21:46
apacheloggerjrdnyquist: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/First_program have fun :P21:46
nookie^the default panel organisation is not organized =)21:46
nookie^just a buntch of icons here and there21:46
nookie^=)21:46
apacheloggerfolderview should go :P21:46
* JontheEchidna was still talking about the clock, not the desktop in general21:47
nookie^yeah21:47
nookie^we are on the clock21:47
nookie^so what do u think JontheEchidna?21:47
JontheEchidnaok, just making sure I'm on the same page as everyone else21:47
nookie^don't u agree it's taking too much space21:47
JontheEchidnaI believe I've expressed that a few minutes ago, yes21:48
JontheEchidnathough the decision isn't up to me personally21:48
nookie^great =)21:48
Tm_Tnookie^: JontheEchidna: I'm pretty sure clock taking that much space is bug21:48
apacheloggeryeah21:48
nookie^Tm_T: might be that21:48
apacheloggerthat is too much21:48
JontheEchidnayeah, one would think. but while the bug exists we shouldn't expose the buggy behavior by default21:48
Tm_Tnookie^: no, it is, not just might21:48
apacheloggermight be caused because of initial plasma rendering21:48
Tm_Tapachelogger: indeed21:48
Tm_TJontheEchidna: does switching date off and on make any difference?21:49
nookie^Tm_T: yes it does21:49
JontheEchidnamakes it look like this: http://imagebin.ca/view/kdNa2R51.html21:49
nookie^it removes that wasty space21:49
Tm_Taye, initialisation bug (:21:49
apacheloggerthere are quite a few of those in plasma21:50
apacheloggeresp when started from the CD21:50
nookie^well21:50
nookie^im just bringing things up, i know that desicions can not be taken now =)21:51
Tm_Tnookie^: correct solution here is to report bug (:21:51
nookie^but just keep them in mind or if someone can present them somewhere where desicions are beeing taken21:51
nookie^Tm_T: true =)21:51
Riddellit's not a bug, it's a matter for debate and reasoning21:52
JontheEchidnahow is 20 px of padding when the date is enabled not a bug? just saying21:52
Tm_TRiddell: oh, clock applet taking huge space initially?21:52
RiddellI don't see the 20 px of padding21:52
Riddellindeed that could be a bug21:52
nookie^are u looking on this screene http://imagebin.ca/view/Fd8lH1ZP.html21:53
apacheloggernookie^: if you are done bringing up things... it would be very nice if you could add some fancy words to https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/GettingInvolved/Design so that people get a starting point for design/artwork and stuff21:53
nookie^apachelogger: i will write a document =)21:53
amichair+1 for leaving date, reporting bug, eliminating blank space21:53
apacheloggerthx21:53
Tm_TRiddell: the question if having date visible at all is another matter indeed (:)21:53
apacheloggerah21:53
apacheloggerdarn21:53
* apachelogger forgot to order a book -.-21:53
nookie^okej let me move on21:53
nookie^i have moved device notifier and show desktop to the left21:54
nookie^reason for that since they are standalone icons and very often used as is Kmenu21:54
JontheEchidnawe will be able to add the device notifier to the sytemtray in 4.4 by the way21:54
Tm_Tnookie^: next to kickoff?21:54
nookie^JontheEchidna: that GREAT news =)21:54
nookie^well not next to it21:55
nookie^but on same side21:55
nookie^i have organized the panel in 2 sides21:55
nookie^in this way it get's more structured21:55
JontheEchidnaputting the device notifier in the systray would also make sense since the average user would only see it while it was notifying21:56
nookie^as you can see on those 2 different screenes it's more easier to know what to do21:57
nookie^in my opinion atleast21:57
nookie^on the second one21:57
JontheEchidnait would also be possible to put the Message Indicator in the tray by default21:57
nookie^what does message indicator do?21:57
ScottKNCommander: When are you back with your DD key?  ryanakca is in desperate need of some sponsoring.21:57
yuriydon't know what the big deal is with the date, on mine it takes up LESS space than the time does21:57
amichairI feel the device notifier is out of place near all the 'action' buttons21:58
JontheEchidnaby default, date causes the bug here: http://imagebin.ca/view/Fd8lH1ZP.html21:58
nookie^is anyone agree on that second screen is more organized or is it just me?21:59
apacheloggernookie^: message indicator does waste space21:59
JontheEchidnanookie^: some gnome apps need it to work. Optionally some KDE apps can use it (such as quassel, kopete, kmail, kontact)21:59
apacheloggerthat is the ratinale for the better part :P21:59
nookie^oki doki21:59
apacheloggeroh right, the rationale was supporting broken implementation21:59
nookie^but can it be implemented inside the system tray?21:59
JontheEchidnathe plasmoid could be placed in the systemtray in KDE 4.422:00
nookie^SWEET!22:00
nookie^okej22:00
* apachelogger is wondering whether to blog about them boring timelord details22:00
nookie^another thing now22:00
Mamarokapachelogger: I will have a look tomorrow, got an empty head tonight (or rather too full a head)22:01
amichairI like the idea of user folders on the desktop. haven't seen that around... seems useful!22:01
JontheEchidnatbh I'd rather get rid of folderview altogether, especially since we are no longer putting anything in it by default22:02
nookie^JontheEchidna: i did noticed that it was empty but i thought it was a bug22:02
JontheEchidnanope, intentional22:02
nookie^i vote aswell to get rid of folderview22:02
nookie^and show normal icons by default22:02
JontheEchidnawe're also trying to get away from the "desktop is an icon dumping ground" thing, so I doubt we'll be seeing icons on the desktop22:03
JontheEchidnaKDE is trying to do this too22:03
nookie^what is that?22:03
JontheEchidnanot having the desktop be a place for icons, which is the point behind folderview22:03
nookie^i think this behavior will be very hard to change22:04
nookie^since kde is only desktop out there which is trying to acheve this as far as i know22:04
JontheEchidnait does make for a much cleaner desktop :)22:05
nookie^indeed22:05
dtchenJontheEchidna: pong22:05
JontheEchidnaand since we have no icons by default, it shouldn't be too hard to just remove the folderview now22:05
nookie^hmm22:05
JontheEchidnadtchen: hi, I think I have a sound bug and was wondering where it should go.22:05
nookie^why not load anything there by default22:05
nookie^like homefolder?22:05
Tm_Tnoooo22:05
JontheEchidnadtchen: well, not me personally22:05
dtchenJontheEchidna: #?22:05
amichairwhat fills in the gap for why ppl do clutter the desktop? 1-click access to their most used apps/docs?22:05
JontheEchidnabug 46957522:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 469575 in kde4libs "HP dv9700 Mute Button Turn Off when no sound is playing in an application" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/46957522:06
nookie^i have one more22:06
nookie^pager? is it really necessery?22:06
Tm_Tnookie^: is22:06
nookie^why?22:06
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: I think we should get started on the support policy :P22:06
* apachelogger wants to get rid of them darn policy work22:07
nookie^for normal user?22:07
JontheEchidnaapachelogger: did you see my lines about that from last night?22:07
apacheloggerno22:07
nookie^he will just see something switch back and forward22:07
Tm_Tnookie^: we cannot hide functionality from new users, or they never realise there is one22:07
dtchenJontheEchidna: done22:07
nookie^i agree on that one22:07
JontheEchidnathe pager doesn't take too much room anyways22:08
nookie^but.. maybe we should present what every user knows per default22:08
nookie^then they can notice that they have extra functionality22:08
nookie^why overload them by that22:08
JontheEchidnaon computers such as netbook where space is an issue it's off by default with plasma-netbook22:08
Tm_Tnookie^: no, how do they know there is such thing like virtual desktops if that isn't visible for them22:08
apacheloggerJontheEchidna: your suggestions sounds sensible22:09
Tm_Tnookie^: we could hide whole KDE if we should show only what "everybody knows" (;)22:09
JontheEchidnaapachelogger: for support?22:09
apacheloggeraye22:09
nookie^Tm_T: neeeh22:09
nookie^in one way i agree with you really22:09
nookie^alot22:09
Tm_Tnookie^: but really, there's nothing to gain in hiding pager22:09
nookie^well its not taking place22:10
nookie^i can agree on that22:10
JontheEchidnawhen I first started using linux, I just ignored the pager until I found out what it did22:10
nookie^im just thinking of clean panel22:10
Tm_Tnookie^: we have plenty of space for pager (:22:10
nookie^Tm_T: true22:10
Tm_Tnookie^: I would understand if there would be need for space22:10
nookie^agree22:11
JontheEchidnadtchen: thanks22:11
nookie^questions is how often is it used?22:11
nookie^is it neccessery there by default22:12
nookie^i think its just sometimes confusing to have different apps on different pages22:12
nookie^but it's just suggestion =)22:12
Tm_Tnookie^: how can we know how many uses it? (:22:12
nookie^well: i can do something22:13
Tm_Thide it from everyone with some package upgrade and wait #kubuntu to grow rage? (;)22:13
nookie^i work in huge it company and i can take my kubuntu desktop and ask users to try it "normal users" and if they would use it in the future hehe =)22:13
nookie^i think more expirienced users use it... but not many normal users22:14
Tm_Tdefine normal22:14
Tm_Tand would the ones who uses it used it if it weren't there already?22:15
yuriyremoving folderview by default sounds like a very bad idea22:15
nookie^normal users. some users who have maybe some expirience of linux "kde". you have to think aswell that many "windows" users are trying linux nowdays22:16
yuriyI think it should be changed to display the home folder though22:16
nookie^and when they try it and something is switching back and forward on pages they will just ask them selves what happened22:16
nookie^i think we should present simple desktop per default where it can be modified to do more powerful stuff when configured22:17
Tm_Tnookie^: not too simple, though22:17
JontheEchidnaI just don't see the pager as being overly complex22:17
JontheEchidnaa bigger issue would be scrollwheel on the desktop making the desktop switch by default22:17
Tm_TJontheEchidna: me neither, it really doesn't hurt in any way22:17
Tm_TJontheEchidna: agreed on that too (:22:18
JontheEchidnawhich I believe will be configurable in 4.422:18
amichairJontheEchidna: exactly. a lot of ppl in #kubuntu were asking how to disable the scrollwheel... I hate it too.22:18
Riddellqt and phonon working well, uploading now22:18
JontheEchidna\o/22:18
nookie^well22:19
nookie^ i have now explained alot of stuff22:19
nookie^how and why22:19
nookie^i really hope that someone will atleast discuss some of the things further22:19
nookie^because i really think we could improve alot of things to make it more easier for endusers and make kubuntu to a better distro22:20
JontheEchidnaI'm sure they will. Thanks for the input22:20
nookie^U're welcome22:20
nookie^and yeah 1 more thing22:20
JontheEchidnaapachelogger: so, do we want to go as far as to make a spec for support policy?22:20
nookie^i would have doubleclick enabled by default instead of singleclick22:20
amichairsay guys, is there some way we could gather statistics on desktop usage? the biggest problem is that we (and others) each 'thinks' what other ppl might or might not want... if we had some data, we could make wiser choices22:21
JontheEchidnanookie^: heh, that's a whole other flamewar waiting to happen :D22:21
nookie^hehehehe i've see22:21
nookie^well that what i found just by installing kubuntu today but i will search thru the distro nowdays and make some sort of document on what more could be improved =)22:22
Riddellweird e-mail of the day ... "do u know how to get finish ksokoban microban  EASY step 133 can get22:23
Riddellthrow it"22:23
JontheEchidnawas the sender "Knowingest J. Drawbridges"?22:24
Riddellno, rdholmes22:24
* JontheEchidna was just coming up with equally incomprehensible names :P22:24
amichairdoes anyone have a couple minutes to spare to help me figure out where the karmic software-properties code came from?22:26
amichairlol... *now* everyone's quiet :))22:27
Riddellamichair: the karmic source doesn't match the trunk bzr checkout I take it?22:27
amichairapparently not22:27
amichairI fixed a bug there, only to find out it's outdated code22:28
Riddellamichair: have you checked the other branches at code.launchpad.net/software-properties ?22:28
amichairnope22:29
amichairI'll check now. doesn't the shipped code come from the main branch? (what's trunk called here?)22:30
Riddellit should22:32
Riddellbut sometimes things get mixed up22:32
Riddellmaybe it wasn't committed to bzr at all22:32
Riddellin which case you can commit it to a branch and I can merge it and you'll have made your first fix :)22:32
amichaircommit what?22:35
Riddellthe current version from karmic22:39
amichairbut I can't find it :(22:39
amichairJontheEchidna seemed to have a newer copy, maybe he knows where it came from?22:40
JontheEchidnaI was looking at the installed file in karmic22:40
JontheEchidnaunless I had an old version installed from bzr...22:41
amichairJontheEchidna: maybe u have a future version not yet in bzr?22:42
JontheEchidnaI don't think so, because I believe apachelogger made the fix for the gpg dialog and I got it from bzr22:43
JontheEchidnayep, what's in the archive differs from bzr22:43
JontheEchidna*sigh*22:43
JontheEchidnabbl, dinner22:44
amichairis this standard here, or is it a dose of beginners luck? :-P22:44
Riddellbad lucjk I thinkbad luck I tjhinkbad luck I think22:49
amichairwow22:49
amichairthat is bad luck22:49
Riddellhmm, how did that happen22:49
amichairbad luck comes in triples22:49
Simekpackagekit updater crash (again), which is more than what it normal does.. ;-)22:52
=== dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk
seeleScottK: were you the one who mentioned how the ayatana notification display is out of sync with the ping?23:27
neversfeldekoffice-data-kde4 tries to overwrite an icon which is also in krita-kde4 1:2.0.2-2ubuntu3. So I make koffice-data-kde4 replace krita-kde4 (< 1:2.0.2-2ubuntu3). Isn't that right?23:37
Riddellneversfelde: << new version23:38
neversfeldeRiddell: what is the difference to < ?23:39
Riddellstrictly less than23:39
Riddellit's like less than, but better23:39
=== yofel_ is now known as yofel
neversfeldeRiddell: thank you23:42
Riddellphew, I got away with a really poor explanation :)23:43
neversfeldehehe23:43
neversfeldeI hope it helps :)23:44
JontheEchidnahrm, this source format 3.0 stuff is.. intruiging23:49
* claydoh need to get irc piped directly into hi brain in order to keep up wit it all 23:50
JontheEchidnadh7 is also sweet23:51
=== dendro-afk is now known as dendrobates
Riddellsource format 3.0 seems quite sensible23:51
JontheEchidnaall that is needed for a simple kde app for debian/rules: http://paste.ubuntu.com/311028/23:52
Riddellwhat does the --with kde do?23:52
JontheEchidnatell it to use the kde bits from pkg-kde-tools I think23:52
JontheEchidnabut apparently including kde.mk from pkg-kde-tools and doing dh $@ is depreciated23:53
JontheEchidnait doesn't seem to do the rosetta stuff though23:56

Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!