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ochosimorning06:58
Unit193Hello.07:00
* genii-around makes a fresh pot of coffee07:01
ochosigood idea07:01
knomehai.08:57
knomeuoh08:57
ochosiwhere are all the u-studio guys? :)09:39
knomeheh, no idea09:40
knomewe should see if the proposed roadmap items are doable10:03
knomeeg. i don't think "new panel plug in (applet)" is in the scope for xubuntu developers10:04
knomeor, i don't know, but if the team is the same, it's not doable10:04
ochosihaven't looked at the roadmap lately10:08
mr_pouitespecially since there are already several "monitor" plugins, more or less unmaintained10:13
knomemmh10:13
john-guys, is there a package that contains the default xfterm4 color scheme? Xubuntu's new scheme infers with almost every application I'm trying to use. (like mc, aptitude, but even nano)10:16
mr_pouityou can edit /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/Terminal/terminalrc and drop ColorPalette*10:18
mr_pouit(well, all color options actually)10:18
john-ty10:19
ochosijohn-: we're reviewing our term-colors for the next release, would be great if you would participate (at least by giving your feedback or by testing)10:19
john-sure thing, I saw that point in the roadmap plan on the wiki10:19
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ochosiah ok10:19
ochosijust wanted to be sure to mention it10:19
ochosithere aren't that many users around here who use lots of term-apps10:20
ochosii use irssi and vim, those two look ok10:20
ochosi(and man obviously :) )10:20
john-:)10:20
ochosijohn-: i read you wanna help out with xfce?10:20
john-to me, terminal is a selling point in Linux, or even on a Mac. Okay, Windows got cmd, and powershell, but I still can't get myself to learn all the powershell applets, syntax, etc.10:21
john-yepp. I checked out the Xubuntu bugtracker first, but I figured it out if you import all the Debian packages at start anyway, helping XFCE would be better10:21
ochosiright, what areas were you thinking of?10:21
john-uhm sorting out the bugs (bugtracker), helping with bugs (bugfixing, see if I can fix some of them, propose patches that fix the problem, and won't introduce new ones)10:22
ochosisounds good10:22
john-nothing *too* big at first, but something that would help the project10:22
ochosixfce can definitely use your help10:22
ochosiand yeah, you're right, it's probably best to work with upstream10:22
knome+110:23
ochosialthough we could also use helping hands :)10:23
ochosiour maintenance load will increase with the next release (we'll have to maintain the gtk2-indicators ourselves)10:23
knomexubuntu benefits from fixing bugs in xfce, and if we didn't benefit from *all* fixed bugs, i'm still happy10:23
knome:)10:23
john-just tell me which area you need the help and I'll take a look 10:23
ochosimr_pouit: do you think it's realistic that we fix power-man to use a gtk2-indicator?10:23
john-as far as I saw, even sorting out the stupid reports would help a lot :))10:24
ochosiheh10:24
ochositrue10:24
knomejohn-, http://xubuntu.org/contribute/qa/10:24
mr_pouitochosi: nick touched a bit xfpm for 4.10, so maybe he cleaned it up (so then it might be feasible)10:24
knomejohn-, \o/10:24
knomeerr, mr_pouit ^ :D10:24
john-on it knome , ty!10:25
knomejohn-, there's other things too if you have more "appetite" for them, but otoh, that definitely is a good starting point :)10:25
knomemadnick, ?10:26
knome"a way to save a xfce4 Panel config for using it when we add a new user"10:33
knomeisn't that just backuping the panel preferences and copying to new user?10:33
knomeor using skel10:33
ochosimr_pouit: i dunno how far he really cleaned it up, i just remember him complaining about it a lot10:52
knomewell, doesn't complaining a lot eventually make the code clean itself?10:52
ochosibbl10:54
astraljavaIt's like cursing, it takes away the pain. :)10:54
knomeochosi went complaining? oh my :)10:58
madnickknome: ?11:08
knomemadnick, you still up to updating the lightdm and plymouth themes? :)11:09
madnickyes11:09
knomeok, so what about maintaining the lightdm gtk-greeter?11:09
madnickthe old one?11:10
madnickoriginal*11:10
knomeyeah, many people still use it11:10
knomei don't think it needs much updating, just keeping it in one piece :P11:11
madnickis the current maintainer giving up?11:11
knomeask mr_pouit for details :)11:11
madnickoh he is the maintainer11:12
andrzejrGuys, just wanted to let you know that xfce4-panel optionally uses some features from libwnck 2.31.0.12:46
andrzejrif you look at the second screenshot at http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-xfce-410-in-xubuntu-1204.html the workspace switcher has a distorted aspect ratio.12:47
andrzejrthe new libwnck version fixes it (the panel has to be rebuilt in order to make use of it)12:48
ochosiandrzejr: oh yes, i noticed that before (i mean the problem, not the solution)13:11
ochosiandrzejr: thanks for the heads-up!13:11
ochosimr_pouit: did you notice you were downgraded to a "xubuntu contributor" by webupd8? :D13:13
baizon=)13:14
ochosiahoi bluesabre 13:21
bluesabrehey, hows it going?13:22
ochosigood good, a bit busy, but generally fine13:22
ochosion your end?13:22
bluesabrepretty slow, but not too bad13:22
ochosigood13:22
bluesabredid you get some feedback on blackbird?13:23
ochosino, nothing so far :]13:24
ochosijust looking at your xfconf-query code13:25
bluesabreI think it looks pretty good.  Just a bit too dark for me (been spoiled by bluebird)13:25
ochosiguess calling the shell is rather costly13:25
ochosiah, you tried it?13:25
ochosinice13:25
bluesabreFor a little while13:25
ochosiit still has quite a few quirks, mostly treeviews etc13:26
ochosibut yeah, i wanted to try something really dark13:26
bluesabreI've been working on the vala port for the kso.  m8t pointed me in a few directions for getting the valas with xfconf in c/vala13:26
bluesabre*values13:26
ochosiright, does it look manageable?13:26
bluesabreyeah, should have something functional this week13:27
ochosicool13:27
ochosii guess some of the plugins could also serve as examples for querying xfconf13:27
bluesabreyeah13:27
ochosihave you tried adding buttons like notifyd does?13:28
bluesabreI haven't.  What kind of functionality would we use buttons for?  Go to keyboard shortcuts?13:29
ochosiyeah, i'd add an edit-button to each header that takes you directly to the corresponding settings-window13:31
bluesabreThat's a good idea13:31
ochosibecause the shortcuts are split up in different dialogs13:31
ochosiso users would have to dig to find a specific setting13:32
bluesabretrue13:32
bluesabreI'll add that in.13:32
ochositheoretically we could also let them assign keys from the overlay, but that's kinda duplicating...13:32
bluesabrethat might be more difficult.  The overlay should probably only show when holding the launcher/modifier key, right?13:33
ochosiyes, that was the original plan13:33
mr_pouitochosi: yeah, I know, but I didn't feel pedantic enough to tell them (a developer is a contributor after all :p)13:40
ochosimr_pouit: say, do you have a clue how we could call a programm when the super-key is held down for e.g. 2 seconds minimum?13:44
ochosiusually it's either you press the shortcut, or you don't13:44
bluesabreochosi: I was thinking of having the program start as a minimal mode with a timer, then if the key is still held down, show the interface.13:44
bluesabre(assuming you're talking about the kso)13:45
ochosiyup, i am :)13:45
bluesabrethough there might be a better way :D13:45
ochosiyeah, i was wondering about that13:45
ochosiwhether there is something in X or xfce we can use instead of running our own little timer13:46
bluesabreand that would be good, because I can detect press and release events, but I have no idea how to tell if something is already pressed when the program starts13:46
ochosijust imagine someone hits the super-key twice exactly in the right interval for the timer by accident :p13:46
bluesabregood point13:47
ochosiwell, you could poll for the shortcut more often than twice (beginning and end)13:47
bluesabreyeah13:47
ochosii have no clue whether that would create much overhead with people using the super key a lot13:47
bluesabrestill not sure how to tell button states.  I don't think its doable in python-gi, but probably with vala or c13:48
ochosiyeah, that's why i thought i'd start asking around 13:48
mr_pouityou can't do that with xfce4-settings afaik (it's only here for kbd shortcuts, so it only detects keypresses)13:56
mr_pouityou'll have to do like xfce4-volumed I guess, session-autostart and grab the key youself13:57
mr_pouit+r13:57
ochosiah right14:04
ochosivolumed is a good place to look14:04
ochosi(although jannis didn't really praise the code last time we talked about that)14:05
mr_pouit(yeah, simply close your eyes when you see the list of keys grabbed)14:06
bluesabreok14:06
mr_pouite.g. it grabs XF86AudioRaiseVolume plus all possible modifiers, by hand: http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-volumed/tree/src/xvd_keys.c#n8414:06
ochosiuargh14:09
ochosidid you _have to_ link directly to the ugliest section? :}14:09
bluesabrehaha14:12
GridCube:/14:59
GridCubethe "brainstorming" passed along me and i didnt even noticed it14:59
GridCubecan we really, really, really have schudeled meetings please?14:59
ochosidid you have any ideas you would've wanted to put in the roadmap?15:02
knomeGridCube, feel free to add your ideas to the brainstorming now, but do it ASAP15:05
knomeGridCube, i'm going to run votes at the end of this week (or start of next)15:05
knomeGridCube, and i've already called for assignees too, so people are probably looking already15:06
GridCubeyes i know thats why i said it15:06
GridCube:(15:06
GridCubei wanted to propose use of arandr and cheese as pre-installed programs15:07
knomeplease do it now – technically, the roadmap has been open for submissions since i created that page, so longer than it was officially on15:07
GridCubecan i add it as a late entry box and leave it there to be considered with a maybe?15:08
knomenah, just add it to the regular table15:08
ochosi+115:08
GridCubei know is that the mail got lost 15:08
knomewe haven't started "considering" yet15:08
knomethat's what we reserved this week for15:08
* knome is investigating how the launchpad polls work15:09
ochosiah, polls15:09
ochosigood idea15:09
ochosiwas wondering how we'd do it15:09
knomehehe15:09
knomeyeah, you know, that's why i set the test poll today for ~sp :P15:09
knomeso we can see how that looks like15:09
ochosiknome: stuff like "re-think panels", would you put that as a separate work-item? i didn't yet because it's something we _should_ do every cycle anyway...15:10
knomeno, that doesn't really need a blueprint15:10
knomeyou got to remember the items on the list are blueprints, which can contain a lot of work items and bugs that are attached15:10
knomeso it doesn't make sense to add every little thing to the list, just add those little things as work items15:11
ochosiyeah15:11
ochosii saw you haven't merged the "appearance-improvements" yet15:11
knomeno, not yet15:11
ochosisorry, i also didn't get round to it15:11
GridCubedone15:11
knomeGridCube, thanks :)15:11
knomeso...15:12
knomewho's going to volunteer as an assignee for the application blueprints?15:12
ochosipff :)15:12
* ochosi hides15:13
knomethe monitor management item (as well as the apt-offline item) is merely a decision-thing15:13
knomeno need for huge comparisons, or even assignees15:13
ochosiyou mean whether we throw one of the monitor-plugins into the panel by default?15:14
ochosiwhat's "Add optimum partitioning option to install options" ?15:14
knomeno, i mean seeding arandr/grandr15:14
knomei've no idea15:14
knomei'm thinking it might mean that somebody wants the installation to calculate something15:14
knomeor just propose 10GB / and rest as /home, if HDD space >40GB15:14
ochosiyeah, but that's completely out of our hands anyway15:14
knomeor sth...15:14
knomewell, i suppose we could affect that, but i'm not sure how useful that is15:15
ochosidvd support is an interesting proposal15:15
knomefor majority of people, installing to one partition is completely fine, even makes sense15:15
knomearen't we seeding *something* with the package already?15:15
knomeand libdvdcss...15:15
ochosiare we?15:16
ochosii'm not sure15:16
knomei thought there was going to be something like the flashplugin-nonfree-installer15:16
ochosiif we are, then we can delete that item15:16
knomeso libdvdcss would be downloaded automatically15:16
knome(currently you need to run a bash script from /etc/docs or sth)15:16
ochosianyway, i think that we should make it easier to install the restricted extras via ubiquity15:16
ochosicurrently people can only decide to install mp3 codecs15:16
knomeyeah. i'm wondering why the mp3 -codecs appear there, but not the -extras15:17
knomemm-hmm15:17
ochosiinstead they should be able to install restricted extras15:17
ochosithat's what most want anyway15:17
knomeyup, that makes sense15:17
ochosiquestion is: do we have anyone who can take on this task15:17
ochosiastraljava maybe?15:17
knomewell, astraljava worked with ubiquity the last cycle15:17
knomeand i'm sure we'd get help from stgraber most probably anyway15:17
ochosiwow, lubuntu-software center is really light15:18
ochosi~1mb15:18
knomemmh, btw, i realized one day15:19
knomei want to keep synaptic, because i *really* prefer it to any other package manager i've seen15:19
knomebut i don't use it pretty much at all anyway, i'm just using apt-get15:19
knome(and apt-cache)15:19
ochosii'm not sure keeping synaptic is a consistent choice15:20
ochosii mean with the general direction of the distro15:20
knomeno, probably not15:20
ochosipersonally i think it's overly complicated for newbies15:20
ochosiand i use it only sometimes15:20
knomeimo it's really simple...15:20
ochosibut it's not hard for me to install it15:20
knomejust type your search, then install15:20
knomebut...15:20
astraljavaochosi: knome: I'm sorry, what exactly? I haven't looked at the blueprints at all, yet.15:20
knomeastraljava, hehe, well, please do look at them this week, and set yourself as assignee to a few ;)15:21
ochosiastraljava: just the "random" idea of throwing an option to install xubuntu-restricted-extras into ubiquity-installer15:21
knomeastraljava, we were discussing the option to offer installing -restricted-extras instead of just the mp3 codecs15:21
knomeastraljava, -> Analyze and optimize boot times 15:21
knomeastraljava, i'm waiting for you to pick that up15:22
knome:)15:22
astraljavaochosi: Ahh... yes, I should be able to take that. I need to work on the ubiquity tasks anyway.15:22
bluesabre+1 for lubuntu-software-center15:22
ochosiknome: take a look at lubuntu-software center please. it's not too bad. if we get a chance to work on it with them, it might be ok instead of USC15:22
bluesabrenever used it before you guys just mentioned it, but its nice15:22
astraljavaknome: Well, sure, I'm interested about that as well.15:22
knomeastraljava, yeah, me too, but i'm not setting me as an assignee before somebody with technical skills is on it.15:23
ochosibluesabre: it does seem to have some flaws, like not really showing all results...15:24
knomeochosi, the preferences -dialog is a bit confusing, with no descriptions15:24
knomeochosi, and is that a custom widget??15:24
ochosiknome: which one?15:25
knomeochosi, the on/off15:25
knomeochosi, in preferences15:25
ochosiknome: no, that's the gtk-switch. it's not themed correctly with greybird as it is in 12.04, patch has been in git for a while already15:25
knomeok15:25
ochosiit's a new gtk3 widget15:25
knomeastraljava, well i just removed you from the "app sets" ;)15:26
astraljavaI noticed. Why?15:26
knomewell, i'm not sure if we will run that.15:26
knomebut yeah, feel free to be the assignee15:26
astraljavaYep.15:26
knomejust be ready for the situation where you have less work than expected15:26
knomeOMG!!15:26
ochosiwhy?15:26
ochosii mean why wouldn't we want the app-sets?15:26
knomeochosi, well, what's the status of the a11y set?15:27
bluesabreochosi: yeah, it also has some issues with hovering certain results15:27
knomeochosi, orca is not working? we don't have anybody to test the a11y?15:27
ochosiyeah, but "pure" xfce is a valid app-set as well and good enough to test whether we can get a11y together15:28
knomeochosi, there are a few things that make me uncertain if we are ready to ship the a11y set15:28
ochosimaybe not yet, but i think it's ok to test app sets one by one15:28
knomewell yeah, but i'm not sure if i want to introduce yet an another screen to the installer just for the xfce-only set15:28
knomei mean, i'm afraid many people will select that15:29
knome*especially* if we say it's only for advanced users15:29
knomepeople then think "YAAAAAHHH i'm up for it!"15:29
knomethen they join #xubuntu because the system is borked15:29
knomeand the xubuntu default theme isn't installed15:29
knomeand everything looks bad15:29
ochosiwell, how prominent we make that choice is totally up to us15:29
bluesabreknome, you are very familiar with the 'advanced' users it seems15:30
bluesabre:D15:30
knomebluesabre, well, i'm familiar with *people*15:30
knomethat's how people are15:30
bluesabretrue15:30
knome"ooh, that's for experts only - if i use that, i'm better than the others"15:30
knomeand with this kind of options, they are completely in problems15:31
knomeis installing "xfce-only" possible with alternative already?15:31
knomeor should we enable it there only?15:31
GridCubeooh, it just came to me, the thunar bug should be fixed on 12.10 because of 4.1015:31
GridCubeand thats why we are going to keep having it on all the LTS for over 2 years :D15:32
knomemm-hmm.15:32
knomegenerally, i tend to tell people the normal xubuntu releases are quite stable too, so installing them shouldn't be any problem15:32
ochosiGridCube: what thunar-bug?15:32
knomeochosi, slow startup?15:32
GridCubeyes15:33
knomeis there any other bugs worth mentioning?15:33
GridCubethat are anoying and always happening?15:33
knomewell, any bugs15:33
GridCubejust that one and the plugin indicator not respawining properly one15:34
GridCubethose happens all the time15:34
knomeplugin indicator? :)15:34
GridCubeyes, the one that has the conectivity/sound/mail icons15:34
GridCubeif you close it, it will restart, but only with the network icon15:35
GridCubeno sound or mail15:35
knomeah15:35
knomei was referring to thunar bugs ;)15:35
ochosiGridCube: close == remove from panel?15:35
GridCubeochosi: yes15:35
ochosiGridCube: if yes, then that's expected. sound and mail don't have systray fallbacks15:36
ochosiGridCube: so if you remove the indicator plugin, the indicators aren't there anymore (sounds logical, doesn't it? :) )15:36
GridCubewelp then the plugin indicator should come back for no reason15:36
ochosiwhy should something come back when you remove it?15:36
GridCubei dont know15:37
GridCubeit does15:37
ochosiit's only nm-applet that "returns"15:37
ochosibecause it also has a systray-mode15:37
GridCubewell yes15:37
ochosiso if you remove the indicator, it respawns as a systray15:37
ochosiend of story15:37
GridCubewell, thats wrong, 15:37
GridCubebecause its not called "nm-applet", in the panle15:37
ochosiwhy would a fallback mode be wrong?15:37
GridCubeis called Plugin Indicator15:38
ochosioh man...15:38
knomeochosi, the fallback mode sounds wrong15:38
GridCubeand people want their soundcontrol back15:38
ochosithe indicator-plugin currently holds _all_ indicators you have installed on your system15:38
ochosiit's a single plugin15:38
GridCubeand they dont have it15:38
ochosiknome: why?15:38
GridCubewell, is not working as it should15:38
knomeochosi, i mean, if you have javascript, you see the enhanced page -> if you disable, you have the regular page -> if you re-enable, you still have regular ??15:39
knomeochosi, i mean, re-enabling the indicator area should have a "hook" or system call or anything that tells the apps that it is available again15:39
ochosiknome: i have no clue what you're talking about cause it works exactly like that (and like you said you would expect it should work) here15:40
ochosiknome: indicators > disable > systray > enable > indicators15:40
knomeochosi, do you realize that doesn't work for GridCube then? ;)15:41
GridCubeochosi: some programs open indicators on the plugin indicator, most others dont, so in other to close the program you do right clic>close, but on the plugin indicator that means killing the plugin indicator, you do that unnoticing,then the Plugin indicator respawns, but theres only a network icon on it, no sound no mail, how is that correct?15:41
GridCubeor expected?15:41
GridCubei think is wrong and annoying15:41
ochosiGridCube: well there are the two concepts of systray and indicators. if you only want one of them, remove the other one from the panel15:42
ochosiknome: i don't think you understood GridCube's problem ;)15:42
knomeochosi, that's possible too ;)15:43
ochosihehe15:43
ochosiGridCube: i agree that they're inconsistent, but there's not much we can do about that (other than patch all panel-plugins or not use indicators)15:43
GridCubeok15:43
ochosiwe decided to have the indicators for good reasons though15:43
GridCubeyes and i like them15:44
GridCubebut they need to be consistent15:44
ochosithere are upstream (xfce) plans to rework that plugin15:44
ochosibut i think that'll take more time15:44
GridCubeif it closes it: 1) should not come back, or 2) everything should come bacl15:44
ochosiyou haven't understood 1) it seems15:45
ochosiit's not the indicator-plugin that comes back. it's nm-applet15:45
ochosithat's why it comes back "incomplete"15:45
ochosiall your indicators are gone when you remove the plugin15:45
ochosiok, i gotta go15:45
ochosiseeya15:45
knomehehe15:45
knomesee you...15:45
GridCubeyes, but you dont seem to understand that it doesnt come back as nm-applet, it comes back as indicator plugin15:46
GridCube:) good luck ochosi 15:46
knomewb micahg :)15:46
knomemicahg, have any insight on apt-offline?15:47
micahgknome: hi, and no15:51
knomeok :)15:51
micahgFTR, I haven't looked at any of the Xubuntu blueprints yet16:44
knomemicahg, time to do that then! :)17:08
micahgknome: not this week probably17:09
knomemicahg, we're going to approve at the end of week or beginning of next, so...17:09
knomeanyway, i'm off for a few hours at least. see you later!17:10
micahgknome: meh, I have to catch up on work this week17:10
bluesabreknome: I noticed that "Add DVD support" is on the blueprint as a possibility, as well as possibly moving to a different media player.  Wouldn't VLC solve both problems?17:29
bluesabreknome: nvm, I misread that it is "add dvd support to xubuntu-restricted-extras"17:33
knomebluesabre, vlc is pretty much ruled out anyway, as it uses Qt19:45
bluesabreThat's true.  Audience seems pretty promising (from the limited testing I've done of it)19:46
Unit193http://ubottu.com/ljl/apt/?repo=Oneiric&arch=i386&package=vlc&have=xubuntu-desktop  I don't even remember installing all that.19:49
bluesabrewowza19:50
Unit193It's about 35M all in all.19:55
knomethat's bad, that's not the worst thing19:58
ochosihi everyone22:15

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