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qensedjsiegel1: bug #458376 grumble, grumble09:45
ubot5Error: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: list.index(x): x not in list (https://launchpad.net/bugs/458376)09:45
qenseBug #458376 in One Hundred Paper Cuts: “Indicate the active keyboard layout in 'Keyboard Preferences'->Layouts”09:45
ubot5Error: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: list.index(x): x not in list (https://launchpad.net/bugs/458376)09:45
qenseWas marked as Won't Fix by upstream because the user has to learn to understand the connection between the indicator and the keyboard layout settings.09:45
qenseivanka: You're atteding GUADEC too! It seems quite a bunch of people from Canonical are coming to The Hague this summer.10:35
ivankaqense: yes! Will you be there?10:39
qenseivanka: You're a person I can test something on! Would you find a link to <http://www.ietf78.nl/practicalities.html> useful?10:39
qenseivanka: Yes! I'm working on the website and will probably be a volunteer during the conference.10:40
ivankaqense: that looks useful - shall I read it properly this afternoon and let you know?10:40
qenseivanka: That'd be fine.10:41
qensethanks :)10:41
ivankaqense: a pleasure10:43
andreasnivanka, looking forward to see you there!10:46
ivankaandreasn: yes! I am looking forward to having the time to talk about UX advocates and heuristics without interference!10:47
andreasntotally, will you be there mon-fri?10:48
qenseMonday is The GNOME Open Desktop Day.10:50
andreasnand BOFs10:54
qenseyes10:55
thorwilmpt: hi! seems a little odd to me that an important widget fades into the background and isn't even clearly outlined on http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/ubuntu1010installer-large_002.jpg10:55
mptthorwil, the grippy?10:55
thorwilmpt: yes10:55
mptgood point10:56
mptev and I are just trying the implementation in a VM to see how much the problem has survived10:57
mptthorwil, it's not quite as bad in the current implementation, because the splitter grippy is short grey lines rather than black dots. However, they are still faint so it's difficult to tell that it's draggable. Perhaps you could report a bug on the themes to make the grippy more visible?11:03
thorwilmpt: the partition blocks to the sides of the divider are no active areas right? if so, the best solution might be to make the whole area active, use a thin line as visual diver, with an arrow pointing down on top as clear mark. as soon as the pointer enters the area, highlight the arrow11:06
* thorwil -> lunch11:06
mptthorwil, maybe, though that might be forwards-/sideways-incompatible with a partitioning tool that let you do interesting things by clicking/dragging the blocks (e.g. to rearrange the partitions on disk)11:08
mptIt would greatly increase the target area, though.11:09
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thorwilmpt: in that case, you could switch to a 2 row approach. upper row entirely for resizing, lower for arranging12:10
thorwilmpt: have you considered to add a button/link to a everything-you-need-to-know-about-partitioning doc?12:13
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mptthorwil, no, I'm not working on installer design at the moment, michaelforrest is.12:24
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djsiegel1vish: ping12:41
vishdjsiegel1: pong12:44
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djsiegel1vish: back from lunch14:03
djsiegel1you there?14:04
qensedjsiegel1: What do you think of bug #458376 ?14:21
ubot5Error: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: list.index(x): x not in list (https://launchpad.net/bugs/458376)14:21
djsiegel1qense: I wanted to let you and vish know14:21
qenseok14:22
djsiegel1in addition to accepting paper cuts for bad software descriptions, maybe also accept paper cuts for bad screenshots?14:22
djsiegel1(in Software Center)14:22
qensedjsiegel1: The problem that could be caused by that (and to a lesser extend is already being caused by the description paper cuts) is that there are quite a lot of those kind of problems.14:22
qensedjsiegel1: We could easily find more than 100 of those bugs.14:23
djsiegel1qense: you should ask mpt about that buig14:23
djsiegel1qense: so? that's good!14:23
djsiegel1you want it to be hard to find paper cuts?14:23
djsiegel1:)14:23
qensedjsiegel1: The problem with te screenshots is that we don't run the screenshot repository.14:23
djsiegel1yes, that;s a problem14:23
qensedjsiegel1: Not hard, we should just make sure there remains space for the usability problems14:23
djsiegel1I discovered something today14:23
qensedjsiegel1: E.g. a requirement for browsers is that they have to have the Debian home page loaded.14:23
djsiegel1SOFTWARE CENTER SHOWS YOU THE ***OLDEST*** SCREENSHOT AVAILABLE FOR ANY GIVEN PACKAGE14:24
qenseWe also don't have consistent themes on the screenshots.14:24
vishdjsiegel1: hi14:24
qensedjsiegel1: The oldest???!?!?!? :S14:24
djsiegel1That was me screaming14:24
djsiegel1yes14:24
vishdjsiegel1: anyone can upload screenshots.. and it needs to be accepted by the debian admins14:24
qense1997 is preferred over 2010? OMG14:24
djsiegel1yes14:24
djsiegel1I was wondering why the screenshot for GNOME Do is 2 years old14:24
djsiegel1when an updated one is uploaded to the database14:24
vishdjsiegel1: many dont know about it , http://screenshots.debian.net/14:25
djsiegel1so I checked out the source of software center14:25
vishthats where the screenshots are pulled from14:25
djsiegel1it gets the oldest image available14:25
djsiegel1yes I know where they are from14:25
qensedjsiegel1: But what I mean is that improving the descriptions and screenshots is a massive task, but it only improves the Software Centre. That's very important, but we shouldn't lose focus on the paper cuts.14:25
qensedjsiegel1: Is there a bug for that?14:25
djsiegel1qense: agreed14:26
djsiegel1qense: I emailed the database maintainer14:26
qensedjsiegel1: it is a bug in the screenshots database?14:27
djsiegel1about returning the newest shot available by default instead of the oldest14:27
qenseok14:27
djsiegel1qense: it can be considered a bug in both14:27
qense<djsiegel1> qense: it can be considered a bug in both14:27
qensewhoops14:27
qensePlaying witht he keyboard.14:27
qensedjsiegel1: Did you receive a response already>14:28
qense?14:28
qensevish: What do you think about accepting bad screenshots as paper cuts?14:28
vishqense: then every package has an old screenshot.. + we cant fix it from our end , the debian admins from http://screenshots.debian.net/  are in charge14:29
vishonly they can14:29
qensevish: true14:29
qensedjsiegel1: Obviously we'd get the best result for Ubuntu if we'd manage our own screenshot repository and would fall back to Debian's once a screenshot couldn't be found. But it might anger some of the Debian Developers and it would mean we'd split our powers.14:29
vishqense: what it needs is more exposure.. we need to scream "upload new screenshots"14:29
qenseYeah, and an official Improvement Empowerment project could help a lot with that. But I'm just not so sure we should put it all in the Paper Cuts project. We might consider creating a separate project, but then I would include the descriptions in that as well and focus it completely on the improvement of the presentation of applications in the Software Centre.14:31
vishand probably fix whatever is going on with the old screenshot being uploaded14:31
vishrather being pulled14:31
qenseThat would leave interface problems to the paper cuts.14:31
qensevish: yeah, that is important to do14:31
qenseThe bugs reported in the Paper Cuts project are of a different kind than the description and screenshot bugs. You can help with the descriptions and the screenshots even if you can't program.14:32
vishqense: worse , a lot of packages in the feature apps themselves have crappy descriptions14:32
qensebut the paper cuts project does mainly attract people who fix bugs by coding and if you'd present them with the description and screenshots bugs they'd get bored.14:33
qensevish: That should be our top priority for the Software Centre descriptions.14:33
qensedjsiegel1: But I'm not sure if we can manage to create a whole new project in the midst of a release cycle.14:34
qenseOf course launching the project would be doable, but it would be harder to get _everyone_ aligned.14:34
vishqense: maybe someone should write a blog.. "did you know?"14:34
qensevish: Planet Ubuntu can be of great help of course.14:35
qensedjsiegel1: What do you think of the things mentioned above?14:37
djsiegel1qense: yeah I suppose that's out of scope14:41
mptqense, I just commented on bug 45837614:42
ubot5Error: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: list.index(x): x not in list (https://launchpad.net/bugs/458376)14:42
qenseWhat's wrong with ubot today?14:42
mptqense, maybe report a bug on ubot5 that it doesn't understand bug summaries with ">" in them?14:42
mpt(I assume that's what it is)14:42
qensempt: seems plausible, I'll take a look14:43
mptor maybe it's the ''14:43
qensempt: Thanks for the comment!14:43
qensedjsiegel1: So, what to do with the screenshots? Accept bugs for it in the paper cuts project? Would you consider a bad screenshot a valid bug report against an Ubuntu package? I'm not so sure about that since it isn't anything Ubuntu controls, not our infrastructure.14:44
djsiegel1qense: mvo says he's going to see it resolved on the server side14:45
qensedjsiegel1: So the bug will be fixed.14:45
qensegood14:45
vishqense: that bug would be a papercut ;)14:46
vishdjsiegel1: got the bug# mvo is working on?14:46
djsiegel1vish: no I don't have it14:46
vishdjsiegel1: also , i dont think we might hear anytime soon from iTorrey :(14:53
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vishkenvandine: hi , re: the adium theme patches, you had asked for djsiegel1's review , well he referred to iTorrey the author and he has commented/approved on two bugs Bug 542806  and Bug 53181118:00
ubot5Launchpad bug 542806 in adium-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) "In chat rooms, empathy should not scroll to the bottom whenever a new message is received. (affected: 21, heat: 130)" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/54280618:00
ubot5Launchpad bug 531811 in adium-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) "History shown in Empathy chat window should be different from new messages (affected: 3, heat: 47)" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53181118:00
vishcould you commit them ..18:01
kenvandinevish, sure18:46
vishkenvandine: thanks , for Bug #595007 they dont know how to fix it..[comment #14] , if you have any ideas..18:48
ubot5Launchpad bug 595007 in adium-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) "Timestamp in Ubuntu Empathy theme doesn't show the date (affected: 3, heat: 18)" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59500718:48
vishthe "secs" is an unnecessary extra item being displayed there..18:48
kenvandineok18:48
kenvandinevish, for bug 531811, what about the icon?19:35
ubot5Launchpad bug 531811 in adium-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) "History shown in Empathy chat window should be different from new messages (affected: 3, heat: 47)" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53181119:36
vishof we can use the icon from recent documents..19:37
vishjust a sec , let me get the icon-name19:38
kenvandineok19:38
kenvandinealthough, the adium theme doesn't use icons from the icon theme19:39
kenvandinethey are bundled in the theme19:39
vishkenvandine: "document-open-recent" , thats the one already used for View > Previous Conversations19:40
vishah , what size does it require?19:40
vishwe can export the existing ones to png and add it to adium theme19:41
kenvandineone sec19:41
kenvandine32x32 i think19:45
vishhmm , that seems too big19:49
vishkenvandine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1325768/document-open-recent-32.png19:49
vishhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/1325768/document-open-recent-24.png19:49
vishor  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1325768/document-open-recent-22.png19:50
kenvandinevish, ok, 24px20:00
kenvandinevish, but i am not sure where to put it... it isn't loading it for me :/20:00
* kenvandine tries one more place :)20:00
vish:)20:01
kenvandinethe bug report says in the Resources dir20:03
kenvandinebut i am not seeing it... and i think it should be appearing on the right hand side20:03
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