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LaserJockevening Edubunters01:01
stgraberhey LaserJock01:05
stgraberhas been a long time !01:05
LaserJockyeah01:06
LaserJockhow are things in Edubuntu land?01:06
LaserJockyou guys excited for Lucid? :-)01:06
stgraberLaserJock: very good, alpha3 should work quite well. After that we just need some more artwork and LTSP in the LiveCD and that should be it.01:15
LaserJockcool01:16
LaserJockI've been playing a little bit with Netbook Edition, as it's what I'm running full time these days01:16
LaserJockI was thinking this evening that the netbook-launcher with a custom educational menu would be pretty cool for younger students01:17
LaserJockbig icons, easy navigation01:17
stgraberyep, we have the packages on the DVD though we'll need some kind of script to let the user easily install it after a standard install.01:19
stgraberI was initially thinking of some custom menu after ubiquity asking if you want to get LTSP and/or the netbook interface installed01:19
stgrabernot sure we'll be able to make that for Lucid though01:20
LaserJockwell, most people will be looking for solid LTSP and a stable LTS release01:22
LaserJockI saw your announcement of the LTSP release01:23
stgrabermust have been hard to miss ;) It got published on quite a few news sites.01:24
LaserJockhow are the seeds going?01:25
LaserJockI saw something about the packages that were being tracked for bugs changed01:25
stgrabergood for now, I had quite a few issues with KDE and the langpacks01:25
LaserJockand I saw a few apps I hadn't seen before on the list01:25
LaserJockah, yeah01:26
stgraberyeah, we added a few from universe now that they fixed the DVD building script :)01:26
LaserJockcool01:26
LaserJockso how big is the DVD then?01:27
stgraber1.8G01:27
LaserJockawesome!01:27
mhall119|workhey, it's LaserJock02:04
mhall119|workhighvoltage: I resubmitted the qimo-session, and let jstrand know, here's hoping it's what he wanted02:04
LaserJockmhall119|work: hi02:09
mhall119|workwhat's up doc?02:10
mhall119|workyes, bad pun, I know.  But it's late and I'm drinking02:10
LaserJockmhall119|work: heh02:16
LaserJockmhall119|work: well, I'm workin' on research, saving the world and all ;-)02:16
LaserJocksurviving New England02:16
mhall119|workcool, whatcha saving us from?02:17
LaserJock"the enemy"02:18
LaserJockor as we call it, "the adversary"02:19
mhall119|worksatan?02:19
mhall119|workwow02:19
LaserJocksomething like that ;-)02:20
LaserJockmhall119|work: I'm actually going to be able to work on something explosive though02:22
LaserJockmhall119|work: spontaneous ignition upon contact with air .... just another day in the lab02:23
mhall119|worklike potasium?02:33
LaserJocknot exactly02:33
LaserJocka little more "boom" then that02:34
LaserJock*than02:34
mhall119|workfun03:05
mhall119|workplease tell me you're gonna package it in a can labeled "Whoop-Ass"03:05
lfaraoneHi, I want to install nvidia drivers in my LTSP PXE-served chroot, without having DKMS running the module compilation on each run. How can I accomplish that? (I'm on Ubuntu karmic)03:20
lfaraonein the past, when I've installed restricted drivers DKMS halts the client boot process while it installs the module each time a client starrts.03:20
jussi01Just a reminder to ops in this channel, if you renewed your operatorship, you are now expected to idle in #ubuntu-ops :) See you there.09:28
alkisgstgraber: I'd like to hide the restart/shutdown/ltsp-cluster-info desktop icons for fat clients, would you mind?13:09
alkisgRestart+shutdown work from the indicator-session applet, and I think cluster-info is irrelevant for fat clients?13:09
alkisgOne hackish, but convenient way to hide icons for fat clients but show them for localapps enabled items, is to put something in the "TryExec" entry, that's only there for fat clients.13:12
alkisgThat could be either /etc/ltsp_fat_chroot (if we made it a shell script), or a dynamically generated shell file in /bin13:12
alkisg(which is only generated if LTSP_FATCLIENT=True)13:12
mgariepymorning all13:12
alkisgGood morning13:13
alkisgAh, better yet, TryExec should be "ltsp-localapps" on those files13:19
alkisgHmm sorry no13:19
alkisgHmm sorry yes :)13:27
mhall119|workmake up your mind :p13:27
alkisgTryExec is "xprop" for localapps. So by putting ltsp-localapps in those .desktop files, they should be hidden for fat clients, but showing for localapps clients13:27
* alkisg is worse than a woman shopping :P13:28
stgraberalkisg: ltsp-cluster-info is relevant even for fat clients. I agree with the two others though13:42
alkisgstgraber: can I least change it's menu so that it goes into "system"?13:42
alkisgNow it's creating an "Others" menu, with only those in it...13:42
alkisgI.e. Category=System or something like that, I'll look for the exact wording13:43
stgraberalkisg: sounds good13:44
alkisgOK, thanks13:44
mysteriouxwould like to know if edubuntu and ubuntu shares the same look,feel and functionality?14:23
=== mysterioux is now known as smartnaija
mhall119|workthey both use Gnome, so they'll be more or less the same16:06
mhall119|workdifferent artwork and themes though16:06
sbalneavmhall119|work: he's gone gone gone :)16:07
mhall119|workoh16:07
* mhall119|work doesn't have the nick list up at all times16:08
* mhall119|work also doesn't check timestamps like he should16:08
* sbalneav uses irssi16:08
mhall119|workme too16:08
mhall119|workI have timestamps, but not the nick list16:09
sbalneavHave you got the login/out messages supressed?16:09
mhall119|workin most channels, yes16:09
sbalneavahhh16:09
sbalneavok16:09
mhall119|workalso part of my problem16:09
sbalneavNot a problem, you tried to help16:09
sbalneavtheir problem for not hanging around for a bit.16:09
mhall119|works/a bit/almost 2 hours/16:10
sbalneavheck, my rule of thumb is, if the channel's got less than 50 people, you need AT LEAST 24 hours in the channel.16:10
sbalneavI've asked a question in a channel once, got an answer 3 days later :)16:10
sbalneavProblem is, everybody's used to things like #ubuntu, where if you ask a question, if you don't get an answer in 10 seconds you're screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!1111oneone"16:12
sbalneavIt's our instant gratification culture.16:12
sbalneavI blame the invention of the fax machine, personally.16:12
sbalneavI'm always getting calls like:16:13
sbalneav"I sent my email 30 seconds ago, and the other end hasn't got it yet!!! Why is our email system broken!!!"16:13
sbalneav:)16:13
* sbalneav waves his cane over his head16:14
sbalneavGet off my lawn, you kids!!!16:14
sbalneav:)16:14
sbalneavSooooo.... what does everyone think of the "No Icons in menus and no UI to change it" fiasco? :)16:16
ograsbalneav, thats was last release16:16
ograyoure a bit late16:16
sbalneavNo, in karmic the ui option's still there to turn it on.16:17
ograah16:17
sbalneavfor Lucid, the UI's disappeared.16:17
ograwell, the change of the default was upstream ... and during karmic16:17
sbalneavright16:17
sbalneavit's a GNOME thing.16:17
sbalneavbut for us, I'm thinking it's an issue.16:18
sbalneavlittle fingers on the mouse may want the icons turned on.16:18
ograjust change the default ?16:19
ograor did anyone drop the edubuntu gconf files i created ?16:19
sbalneavDid you create some gconf stuff?!? What's the package name?16:21
sbalneavI was just going to suggest a "edubuntu-ui-tweak" package where we just set some gconf keys the way we like16:21
sbalneavIf you've already done this, then lets just revive/review it16:22
ograit used to live (wrongly) in the edubuntu-artwork package16:22
alkisgsbalneav: those gconf files could just be part of the edubuntu-artwork package...16:23
alkisgHeh16:23
alkisgwrongly? why so?16:23
ograshould have been moved into an edubuntu-default-settings package imho16:23
alkisgomg many packages...16:23
ograalkisg, its not artwork :=16:23
ogra:)16:23
alkisgSure, icons are artwork16:23
alkisgHeh16:23
sbalneavyeah, I'd agree.  I wouldn't think to look for gconf settings in an artwork package.16:23
ograwell, -defult-settings is a common sheme in ubuntu16:23
sbalneavogra++16:24
sbalneavit would be more "orthoganal" for us.16:24
ograits used by many flavours ... i.e. netbook, studio etc16:24
sbalneavNow that we're past FF, would it be too late to do that?16:24
ograi dont think so16:24
ograbut talk to slangasek16:24
sbalneavalkisg: that seem reasonable to you?16:25
ograi really thought Laser did that spilt long ago16:25
alkisgsbalneav: sure, if they're willing to accept a new edubuntu-default-settings package past FF, it certainly is fine for me16:25
sbalneavNope, the gconf settings are still in the package.16:26
sbalneavok, I'll have a look-see and see what we'd need to do to separate 'em.16:26
highvoltagesbalneav: I think the no icons in the menus thing is totally stupid18:55
highvoltagesbalneav: I saw someone use a system in a language he doesn't understand briefly to give some support18:56
highvoltagesbalneav: and he wanted to make some changes but couldn't identify the menu entries as easily before because the icons weren't there anymore18:56
highvoltagesbalneav: but your gnome upstream now so you can change it for us right? :)18:57
sbalneavhighvoltage: HAH20:21
sbalneavI just got my foundation membership, don't get me kicked out.20:22
highvoltageoops s/your/you're/20:23
sbalneavBest bet's just going to be to add the gconf key to the artwork pack20:24
sbalneavI thought the one fellow on planet had a good point.  No icons makes it much harder for dyslexics20:25
highvoltageMartin Owens20:26
highvoltageyes I agree with him20:26
highvoltagebesides the usability issues- it just looks broken20:27
alkisgWell they could at least make it *easy* to change...20:28

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