/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/04/20/#ayatana.txt

humphreybcHey, anyone who's around, could you please mention my nick "humphreybc" in about 5 seconds?02:44
humphreybcI'm just screenshotting some stuff for Unity02:44
humphreybcI want to turn the messaging menu blue :)02:44
ajmitchhumphreybc: sure02:44
humphreybcthanks ajmitch, that did the trick!02:45
TheMuso/c/c03:16
DBOam I crazy or does Unity kinda just work now...03:18
ajmitchDBO: it does seem to be kind of working, even in virtualbox for me03:31
oSoMoNgood morning06:58
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didrocksgood morning08:03
MacSlowgood morning everybody08:13
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davidcallekamstrup, thanks for the help with zeitgeist, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRM0z9GprQg09:18
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apwis 15s from password to working desktop our expected timeing?10:58
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om26erHi! can anyone confirm bug 758026 on fresh login?12:23
ubot5Launchpad bug 758026 in unity (Ubuntu) "Left pixel of launcher is not clickable" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/75802612:23
om26er(and no 'unity --replace')12:25
om26erdidrocks, bug 754689 I don't see the fix, was something missed?12:57
ubot5Launchpad bug 754689 in unity (Ubuntu) "[FFE] Centered layout for expo plugin" [Wishlist,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/75468912:57
didrocksom26er: do you have latest compiz plugins main?12:59
om26erdidrocks, yes, it seems13:00
didrocksom26er: you should not have the launcher above the wallpaper after the update13:00
hichamdidrocks: any replacement for the old notification area ?13:02
didrockshicham: it's the indicators doing that, if you have libunity-misc, you have still a notification area btw (whitelisted)13:03
zniavregood afternoon13:09
zniavrehttp://i.imgur.com/zRSvp.png   > what is the option missing with 'nouveau' driver to get good tooltips launcher display please ?13:12
om26er_didrocks, Do you plan to disable fade on the closing of Drop-DownMenus to lessen the white flashes as in bug 687567 ?13:12
ubot5Launchpad bug 687567 in unity (Ubuntu) "Global menu causes white "flashes" when scrubbing/moving with mouse fast over menus" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/68756713:12
didrocksom26er_: no, because it will have other artifacts (and it's too late for such a change), in addition, it won't migrate existing natty user13:14
didrocksI find that shouldn't be set to high btw13:14
om26er_synced with upstream, and everyone faces it.13:15
didrocksnot everyone13:17
didrocksI don't get it on nvidia for instance13:18
didrocksanyway, it's already set to unity backlog13:18
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hichamdidrocks: thanks, any config to whitelist apps, or is it hardcoded ?13:28
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hichamdidrocks: another question, is it necessary to patch gtk to get menus on the top bar ?13:29
didrockshicham: the whitelisting is in the gsettings schema13:30
didrockshicham: and yeah, the gtk patch is needed for exporting the menu13:30
hichamdidrocks: do I need to patch both gtk2/gtk3 ?13:30
didrockshicham: you will need to. upstream didn't ack it so it's a distro-patch13:31
hichamdidrocks: any link to why upstream didn't ack ?13:32
didrockshicham: I think the bugzilla report should be in the patch header13:33
hichamdidrocks: 043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch and and 072_indicator_menu_update.patch ?13:36
didrockshicham: I think so, yeah, kenvandine should have the details on that13:37
hichamdidrocks: thanks13:38
hichamhi kenvandine13:38
didrocksom26er_: I'll look at bug #758026 later this week (for a natty SRU)13:42
ubot5Launchpad bug 758026 in unity (Ubuntu) "Left pixel of launcher is not clickable on session start" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/75802613:42
didrocksom26er_: just for my curiousity, does grid works at login?13:42
didrocks(I bet it's because of the edge reveal)13:42
om26er_didrocks, nothing works on login13:43
om26er_(on the edge I meant)13:43
didrocksom26er_: grid as well?13:43
om26er_didrocks, grid works,13:44
didrocksom26er_: ok, I'll have a try with "reveal on edge" deactivated in ccsm once I'll tackle that13:44
om26er_didrocks, yeah, thanks.13:45
hichamdidrocks: no luck on finding upstream link for ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch13:50
didrockshicham: ask to kenvandine, IIRC, he's the one pushing this patch (with tedg)13:51
hichamdidrocks: when is he online usually ?13:51
didrockshicham: should be soon, he lives in the US13:51
* kenvandine is here13:51
* kenvandine reads back13:52
hichamkenvandine: any upstream gnome bugzilla link about ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch ?13:52
kenvandinei don't think it was submitted upstream13:53
kenvandineif i recall correctly, bratsche was told it wouldn't be accepted13:54
kenvandineor at least not yet13:54
hichamso it needs more work ?13:54
kenvandinei don't think it was inline with the vision from upstream13:55
kenvandinei don't really know the details13:55
kenvandinedbarth might know13:55
* kenvandine isn't opposed to having it submitted upstream13:55
hichamwhat do part do you work on in the unity stack ?13:55
kenvandinemostly the infrastructure libraries13:57
kenvandinedbusmenu, appmenu, indicator*13:57
kenvandineetc13:57
kenvandinetedg, do you recall if ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch was submitted upstream?13:57
hichamnice13:58
hichamthe vala bindings fail when using gtk2 in here13:58
kenvandinehicham, for which package?13:58
kenvandinedbusmenu?13:58
hichamkenvandine: yes13:58
kenvandineyou need the EXPORT_PACKAGES patch13:58
hichamkenvandine: when using gtk3, the bindings are generated13:58
kenvandineyeah, my  patch got merged in gtk313:59
kenvandinenot gtk2 yet13:59
hichamkenvandine: any link ?13:59
tedgkenvandine, Uhm, not sure.  I know it was discussed, but I'm not sure if we actually submitted it or not.13:59
kenvandinehttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63528713:59
ubot5Gnome bug 635287 in general "Specify packages when generating GIR" [Normal,Resolved: fixed]13:59
kenvandineit got marked resolved when it was merged for gtk314:00
kenvandinehttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gtk/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/patches/065_gir_set_packages.patch14:00
kenvandinehicham, ^^14:00
kenvandinethat is the current patch we carry in natty14:00
kenvandinetedg, i seemed to recall someone said the menu proxy patch wouldn't get accepted14:01
* kenvandine will brb14:02
hichamkenvandine: thanks a lot14:02
chrono86is there a reason when i select gtk themes that use a dark panel like orta or elementary, my unity panel stays light?14:03
hichamtedg: that patch is the only missing piece here in fedora, so far14:03
tedgkenvandine, Yeah, I think that's why we moved it to the "ubuntu" name space.14:06
tedghicham, Wow, cool!14:06
chrono86my panel displays correctly in unity2d and ubuntu classic, but never follows my gtk theme in regular unity14:07
cdbsom26er_: /move the discussion here14:14
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om26er_ok14:14
cdbsSo, is the gray workspace switcher icon intended?14:14
cdbs(question for everyone around014:15
cdbs)14:15
cdbsIn mockups it doesn't seem to be so14:15
didrockscdbs: it is, the mockups wasn't updated14:17
kenvandinehicham, well anytime you have packaging questions for our stuff... let me know14:18
kenvandinei'll be happy to help14:18
didrockscdbs: there is a bug I fixed this morning about the icon being reverted to humanity one, I'll upload that in a couple of horus with other fixes14:18
kenvandinecool to see it making it to fedora14:18
didrockskenvandine: hicham already managed to get the whole unity in fedora, that's nice! :-)14:18
kenvandinewoot14:18
* kenvandine has to run out for a bit14:27
dakerhello didrocks14:54
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cdbsFedoral Unity! Sounds niche :) Unity that brings Unity to the entire FOSS world, not only Ubuntu :)15:18
hichamcdbs : yes, but some pieces are missing still15:19
cdbshicham: nevertheless, good effort15:19
hichamcdbs : practically, it can be now in fedora if we update to latest compiz git15:20
hichamcdbs : you can have a look at how far I went on http://hicham.fedorapeople.org/unity-packaging/15:21
cdbshicham: thanks for the link, oh it appears you're packaging utouch and all other ayatana stuff as well!15:22
hichamcdbs : it is needed to build unity15:23
cdbshicham: well, yeah15:23
cdbshicham: okay, I won't trouble you any more, keep up the good work15:24
hichamcdbs : I filed a bug about a crashing utouch-geis, no answer so far, had to remove some code to have unity working15:24
jcastrokenvandine: did you talk to kamstrup yet about the lenses?15:29
kenvandinejcastro, not yet15:29
kenvandinekamstrup, ping15:30
jcastrokenvandine: did you see this yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRM0z9GprQg15:33
kenvandineyeah, it's sweet!15:33
MaximLevitskywhy I can't enable cube with unity in ccsm15:34
MaximLevitsky?15:34
stefano-palazzodavidcalle, are you around?15:35
davidcallestefano-palazzo, hi15:35
stefano-palazzohey :)15:35
stefano-palazzoI've just seen that video on youtube, just came to tell you15:36
stefano-palazzoyou rock!15:36
MaximLevitskyIn fact if I mess around with manual plugin loading in ccsm, it works just fine15:36
stefano-palazzothat zeitgeist integration is _awesome_!15:36
davidcallestefano-palazzo, ty! It's really buggy at the moment, but I'm working on it.15:37
jcastrodavidcalle: that's not in the PPA is it?15:38
jcastrooh ok, I will just tell people it's not ready yet15:38
stefano-palazzoAnd I shall look at the code as soon as I get a chance, and see what I can learn from it15:38
tanzanuxHi, since I don't like dark menus I use Radiance theme instead of Ambiance. How can I change the dark backgrounds e.g. in the search desktop?15:38
MaximLevitsky why I can't enable cube with unity in ccsm?15:38
jcastrostefano-palazzo: right, so it's like "man I'm stuck in evolution", summon lens, show evolution tag questions right off the bat.15:39
stefano-palazzodavidcalle, you should think about talking to the Calibre people, maybe you can integrate with Calibre too15:39
jcastroMaximLevitsky: the cube hasn't been tested much with unity so it's off15:39
davidcallejcastro, no, it's not even in a bzr branch. For now, it's sending a lot of google queries... which result in Google mailing me to say they suspect I'm doing bad things with the API... :-O15:39
jcastrodavidcalle: ok, I'll just say it's a prototype.15:39
MaximLevitskyjcastro: it can be default off, but why hard depedence?15:39
jcastroMaximLevitsky: afaik we can't commit to test coverage for it15:40
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davidcallestefano-palazzo, I'll tell you when I push it on Launchpad.15:40
jcastroand the people who want it can just mangle it to work, at that point you get to keep both pieces if it breaks. :)15:41
stefano-palazzorighto, thanks davidcalle15:41
MaximLevitskyjcastro: why again the hard depedence?15:41
jcastroI don't know15:41
MaximLevitskyits not possible to enable cube in ccsm15:42
MaximLevitskywhy?15:42
MaximLevitskysure you are allowed to leave it disabled, using the exuse of not enough test coverage, but why hard disable it?15:42
davidcallestefano-palazzo, about Calibre, yes it's a cool idea.15:43
MaximLevitskyso, really there is no reason for that15:48
MaximLevitskyI have another question15:48
MaximLevitskywhy if I switch to empty desktop and try to launch an existing app, it switches to desktop where it is located?15:48
MaximLevitskyexisting/running?15:49
MaximLevitskyI always open firefox on several desktops, so that is annoying15:49
davidcallejcastro, thanks for the cool blog post! :)15:51
jcastro\o/15:51
jcastroMaximLevitsky: clicking on the icon takes you to the running app, to do a new one on a new desktop middle click15:52
zniavre_hello do i need to add this " Option "ShadowFB" to my xorg.conf to display tooltips launcher with translucidy ?15:53
MaximLevitskyjcastro: ok, my mouse has no middle button... I use touchpad....15:53
MaximLevitskywhy not to add a menuitem in right meny15:54
MaximLevitskymenu15:54
jcastrofirefox has one15:55
jcastroit  has an open new window one15:55
MaximLevitskyjcastro: on the same desktop...15:55
MaximLevitskyjcastro: I want to open new empty desktop and start new applications there15:56
jcastrothat opens it on a new desktop for me15:56
MaximLevitskyit doesn't here, and besides that is not good ether15:56
MaximLevitskyI want just to open a new empty desktop and while I am on it, open all applications I want15:57
MaximLevitskyI don't want unity to send me to other desktops15:58
MaximLevitskyLIke I usually have a desktop for the university homework, a desktop for web browsing, etc...15:58
MaximLevitskyPlease understand that this behavior is not intuitive, no interface did that before15:59
pcgodwin 7 does ;)15:59
MaximLevitskyand it has virtual desktops?16:00
MaximLevitskysure without desktops unity is ok16:00
MaximLevitskysince yep, it copies win7 or whatever16:00
pcgod(but shift+left click also opens a new instance for those without a middle mouse button... maybe unity should do the same thing)16:00
MaximLevitskyalso, why there is no way to add a custom launcher to unity?16:01
MaximLevitskyI have the 'gtku nautilus' launcher on my gnome-panel16:02
MaximLevitskyif I just lauch that, nautilus icon appears active16:03
MaximLevitskyso I can't pin it16:03
MaximLevitskyalso top toolbar wastes a lot of space since you can't add anything to it16:04
hichamthe menus are put there16:04
hichamwhich saves some vertical space16:04
MaximLevitskyI know16:04
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MaximLevitskybut I disable that feature because its very unusable16:05
MaximLevitskybesides, why menu bar is hidden by default?16:05
hichamto show it on the panel16:05
MaximLevitskyI mean hidden in the panel16:05
MaximLevitskyunless you mouse over it16:05
MaximLevitskyto make it less intuitive?16:06
hichamno, because the window title is shown over there16:06
MaximLevitskyyes, but why I need that title?16:06
MaximLevitskyI have window title on the window16:07
hichamnot when it is miximized16:07
MaximLevitskybesides both title and munubar can be shown16:07
MaximLevitskynow pretty much using menu bars is very hard16:07
jcastroMaximLevitsky: if you create a launcher like on your desktop, you can just drag it onto the launcher16:12
MaximLevitskyjcastro: I tried that16:13
MaximLevitskyhowever, then if I remove it from desktop, it disappears from unity16:13
MaximLevitskybesides that is cumbersome16:13
hichamyou need to put it somewhere16:14
jcastrooh I didn't know that removing it from the desktop removed it from the launcher16:15
jcastromaybe just copy it into .local/share/applications or something16:15
MaximLevitskyjcastro: oh yeah, it would even be better to create an xml file in .local/share/app8f34/....16:16
MaximLevitskybut anyway, my major gripes about unity are:16:17
jcastroI don't know why you're being cynical towards me, I'm just trying to help you16:17
MaximLevitsky1. hard block of cube -  that is just nasty16:17
MaximLevitsky2. switch to desktop when you try to open a running app16:18
* hicham can use the cube with unity without issues16:18
MaximLevitskysure you can16:18
MaximLevitskybut you can't enable it in ccsm16:18
hichamwhy ? crash ?16:18
MaximLevitskyunless you use dangerous manual pluging selection16:18
MaximLevitskybecause unity depends on wall16:19
MaximLevitskyand wall conflicts with cube16:19
hichamin don't have such dependency in here16:19
MaximLevitskyhicham: what version?16:19
MaximLevitskyyou probably use older version that didn't have that unnesesary depedency16:20
hichamMaximLevitsky: unity-3.8.4-1.fc15.i68616:20
MaximLevitskyhicham: aha16:20
MaximLevitskythe fedora probably patches that sorry for expression stupid depedency16:20
MaximLevitskypatched16:20
MaximLevitskybut in ubuntu cube is forced off16:21
MaximLevitskyit just insults me. It like somebody on purpose without any reasonable reason tries to force me to stop using it16:22
MaximLevitsky"lack of testing" isn't such reason16:22
jcastrohttps://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/71156116:22
ubot5Ubuntu bug 711561 in unity (Ubuntu) "Compiz won't allow Desktop Cube plugin to load with unity" [Wishlist,Fix released]16:22
jcastrothe bug shows up as fix released16:22
jcastroif it doesn't work reopen it16:22
MaximLevitskyOH!16:23
MaximLevitskyI updated my VM with ubuntu 11.04 today. probably didn't hit repostries yey16:23
MaximLevitskyyet16:23
MaximLevitskyThats sure deserves the 'suddenoutbreakofcommonsense' tag :-)16:24
jcastroMaximLevitsky: right, sorry, didn't mean to topple your upcoming flame16:24
jcastrothough it doesn't seem to enable for me and that release is old16:24
jcastroso you should probably reopen the bug16:24
kamstrupjcastro, kenvandine: sorry, i'm sprinting in millbank so it's hard to find a free chunk of time16:25
jcastrokamstrup: I would settle for someone just mentioning to the rest of the team that python lenses don't work on login. :)16:26
kenvandinekamstrup, ah, did you see the bug report?16:26
hichamwhere can I find lenses ?16:26
kamstrupyeah, saw it - but no good idea off the top of my head ...16:26
kenvandinekamstrup, afaict the situation got worse yesterday16:27
kenvandinebut that could just be a coincidence :)16:27
jcastrohttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses16:27
kamstrupdoes the sample python lens work?16:27
kenvandinekamstrup, after i posted that comment on the bug, i actually did have a login where the reddit lens failed16:27
kenvandinekamstrup, i'll test16:27
kenvandinekamstrup, they all work if i reload unity without logging out/in16:28
kamstrupkenvandine: probably some io-dependent race16:28
hichamjcastro: so no lenses are made yet ? still in design ?16:28
kenvandinelast week i was seeing assertions that the sections_model wasn't a Dee.Model16:28
kenvandinehicham, there are some... not sure if they are linked to from a central place16:28
kenvandinekamstrup, last week the gwibber lens was working reliably, and last night it started failing too with no code changes16:29
jcastrohicham: the few that exist are linked on that page16:29
* kenvandine tests the python example lens16:29
jcastrohicham: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/?s=lenses16:29
kamstrupkenvandine: well, the one thing that has been in unity is the lazy loading of lenses, but it would be surprising if that was impacting this16:29
kenvandinekamstrup, didn't that land last week?16:30
zniavrehello im using the new 173.14-30 nvidia driver and im unable to start unity16:30
kamstrupkenvandine: s/been/changed/16:30
kenvandinei could test reverting that16:30
kamstrupkenvandine: I think so16:30
didrockskenvandine: 3.8.1016:30
didrocksoupss16:30
didrocks3.8.8 rather16:30
didrocksbut it was buggy, so -0ubuntu2 has an additional fix16:31
kenvandineyeah, with that release the AU one started working for me16:31
didrockscalled it double "French fix" :-)16:31
kenvandinebut now they all fail :/16:31
kenvandinehehe16:31
davidcallekamstrup, on a related note, is there a signal when a lens is opened/closed?16:32
kenvandineyes16:32
kenvandinedavidcalle, i use it in the gwibber lens16:32
kenvandinewhat the active property i think16:32
davidcallekenvandine, "active" yes, but I've seen it appear if you stop typing, then typing again.16:34
kenvandinethat doesn't sound right..16:34
davidcallekenvandine, that's what I've been hitting my head on since two days. :)16:35
kenvandinekamstrup, the python place fails too16:37
kenvandinenot every time, but it failed 2 out of 4 logins16:37
kenvandinehowever the gwibber lens just worked 4 out of those same 4 logins16:37
kenvandineand the AU lens failed 4 out of those same 4 logins16:38
kenvandineand the reddit lens failed 3 out of those 4 logins16:38
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kenvandinekamstrup, i added some logging to the gwibber lens, and it looks like it is all functioning16:38
kenvandineit refreshes data, says it updates the model, etc16:38
kenvandinebut unity never sees it16:38
kenvandineand it never sees the sections16:39
kenvandinewhen it fails that is16:39
kenvandineif i "setsid unity" after login, they all work fine16:39
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jcastrodavidcalle: on an unrelated note, what's with the new icon? the old one was awesome16:55
\shkenvandine, ping appindicator pygobject...is there any realworld example for python which subclasses AppIndicator.Indicator? because I'm getting some strange errors here :)16:56
kenvandine\sh, no... and i tried working on creating an overrides to make subclassing work and it causes segfaults16:56
kenvandine\sh, but it does work with gi if you don't subclass it16:56
seiflotfy_guys16:57
seiflotfy_whats up with python bindings for unity16:57
seiflotfy_they are crashing all of my unity16:57
kenvandine?16:57
\shkenvandine, so something like this: http://paste.ubuntu.com/596599/ should not work right now at all16:57
kenvandineseiflotfy_, how so?16:57
seiflotfy_dunno16:57
seiflotfy_kenvandine, care to test my youtube-place16:57
kenvandine\sh, right... not sure why16:58
davidcallejcastro, it's a placeholder as I didn't have the time to port the old one to the new lenses icon look.16:58
\shkenvandine, well it thinks it's a gobject alone and doesn't like any other arguments then self ;-)16:58
seiflotfy_kenvandine, https://code.launchpad.net/~seif/+junk/youtube-place16:58
seiflotfy_try it16:58
kenvandine\sh, this does work though http://paste.ubuntu.com/596600/16:58
kenvandineseiflotfy_, i will after lunch16:58
kenvandinei gotta run out in a few minutes16:59
\shanyways, if there is another way, it's not a problem...16:59
\shkenvandine, yes, this works :)16:59
kenvandine\sh, well it is annoying ...  actually it mostly annoys me because i couldn't fix it :)16:59
kenvandinei need to spend more time on it16:59
hichamseiflotfy_: a place for youtube ?16:59
kenvandinebut shouldn't be a blocker, there is another way16:59
kenvandineseiflotfy_, is this different than the youtube place njpatel had?16:59
seiflotfy_yeah17:00
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seiflotfy_kenvandine, its in python17:00
seiflotfy_hicham, yeah17:00
\shkenvandine, btw..without         set_icon_theme_path("/usr/share/icons") the indicators (without gi) don't work as described in the examples...it doesn't show the messages-new icon in the panel17:00
kenvandineok17:00
kenvandineseiflotfy_, we are having some problems right now getting python lenses loading at login time17:00
kenvandinei am debugging that now17:00
kenvandine\sh, weird, file a bug please17:00
\shkenvandine, ok17:00
kenvandineseiflotfy_, but if you "setsid unity" after login it works17:01
seiflotfy_kenvandine, while mine crashes unity17:01
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seiflotfy_i dont have a provlem getting it running17:01
seiflotfy_i have issues clikcing on stuff without making it crash all of unity17:01
and471seiflotfy_, just don't click anything then17:02
and471;P17:02
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kenvandinejcastro, ok... reverting the lazy loading in unity fixes it18:54
jcastrokenvandine: yeah but the AU lens didn't work for me pre-lazy loading18:55
jcastrokenvandine: if if all 4 of them work for you and you've tested it ...18:55
kenvandineit was working for me then and is working for me now18:55
kenvandinethe books one isn't working, but it seems like a different problem18:55
kenvandinethe daemon is crashing18:55
kenvandinebut the others worked 5 of 5 logins18:55
kenvandinethe really puzzling thing with this is why it only seems to be affecting the python lenses18:56
kenvandinemaybe the python ones are just the slowest...18:56
* kenvandine looks through the diff to see try to narrow it down18:57
chrono86is there a reason my gdm screen resolution is so low? after i boot into unity it fixes itself19:57
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zniavrehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/76761321:19
ubot5Ubuntu bug 767613 in unity (Ubuntu) "unity does not start with nvidia173.14.30" [Undecided,New]21:20
LouisDKHi. I have some problems with Unity on my netbook. It has been updated to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.10 when 11.04 was in alpha. Some settings seems locked also with a newly created user. Is the the right channel to ask?21:37
AlanBellhi, we have been having some discussion in our loco about the unity default settings for compiz and I was wondering if there was a document or something relating to some of the decisions behind the settings21:42
AlanBellfor example shift-switcher is off by default, so super+tab does nothing, however by turning that plugin on by default it would do a pretty window switcher. Super+tab is apparently the key binding on windows for something called Aero flip which looks the same but not as pretty.21:43
AlanBellenhanced zoom is great, but for some reason it is off by default and does not have the mouse bindings set so you can't do super+mousewheel to zoom in and out21:45
popeyi can see why zoom isnt disabled21:47
popeyat a guess21:47
popeypeople get stuck in effects they cant get out of21:47
AlanBellthat would be a plausible reason for not enabling it by default, but why remove the bindings?21:48
popeydo they do something else?21:49
AlanBellnope21:49
AlanBellright now you have to install ccsm, enable the plugin, edit the mouse binding for zoom in and zoom out, and know that button 4 means mouse scroll wheel forward and button 5 is mouse scroll wheel back21:50
vishAlanBell: was shiftswitcher previously ON by default?21:50
AlanBellvish: I don't think so21:50
AlanBellI can't see any reason for it not to be on by default though, especially as some people may already be familiar with the keybinding21:52
vishprobably something to do with not having too many plugins unnecessarily ON, memory or whatever; but better to ask when didrocks or smspillaz are online..21:53
vishor we can poke DBO ;p21:54
DBOouch21:54
AlanBellI can see some plugins have a performance hit and are pointless bling (water, fire, wobbly windows)21:55
AlanBellbut shift switcher has no performance impact when not actually shifting in a switchy way21:55
DBOactually it does21:55
DBOall plugins have a performance impact when activated21:55
DBO(they get suck into the processing chain)21:56
AlanBellhmm, it is not asking the GPU to animate anything though21:56
vishsladen: Bug 760656 is for Natty? or postponed?22:00
ubot5Launchpad bug 760656 in unity (Ubuntu) "Launcher: Background lighting and border is displayed for Workspaces, Apps, Files, Trash (should be turned off)" [Undecided,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/76065622:00
AlanBellDBO: so is that why shift switcher is off by default?22:01
DBOnot to my knowledge22:01
* AlanBell wonders what the best way forward is22:06
AlanBellI *could* go through the preferences and file a bug for every setting that doesn't meet my preference :)22:08
AlanBellhowever I am not sure that is the best way to have a discussion of default preference settings22:09
sladenvish: SRU.  Answer on the bug22:10
vishoh! seems a bit of a larger UI change there for an SRU22:11
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