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ochosimicahg: i'm pessimistic about "soonish", but we'll see..08:08
ochosibbl08:16
mr_pouitknome: I supposed someone had been working on that blueprint and could give me .desktop files =]10:25
mr_pouit indicator-application-gtk2 : Depends: indicator-application (= 0.5.0-0ubuntu1) but 12.10.0-0ubuntu2 is to be installed10:26
mr_pouit indicator-sound-gtk2 : Depends: indicator-sound (= 12.10.0-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed10:26
mr_pouitmicahg: ^ dailies fail to build, I guess that's why gilir dropped the indicators10:26
ochosiknome: i see you finished the testcase yesterday. well done11:06
knomeUnit193, can you send mr_pouit the .desktop files? :]11:51
knomegot a reply from the guy running the linux-classes with xubuntu. he says they're excited about xubuntu and will happily cooperate13:17
knomepleia2, ^13:17
knomebluesabre, hey!13:18
bluesabreHiya knome!13:18
knomebluesabre, PM ok? :)13:19
smartboyhwknome: Eventually, is there only you to test the upgrade?:)13:19
smartboyhwI mean 12.04.113:19
bluesabrePM..?13:19
knomesmartboyhw, yes, i did all the tests, and there was one test done by somebody else13:19
bluesabre(private message?)13:19
knomebluesabre, private message, /q13:19
smartboyhw:)13:20
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smartboyhwo/ genii-around13:32
knomebluesabre, motion carried :)13:33
knomehttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-August/008382.html13:33
* genii-around makes more coffee13:33
smartboyhwknome: :)13:33
bluesabreYay!13:33
smartboyhwCongrats bluesabre:)13:33
knomemr_pouit, next thing is to get him some push rights to the xubuntu-set... :)13:33
smartboyhwJust got the e-mail:)13:33
GridCubeCongrats bluesabre :D13:34
knomebluesabre, i'm suggesting you'll apply for a ubuntu membership :)13:37
knomeerr, suggesting you to13:37
smartboyhwbluesabre: Yay, give me your wiki and I'm write a testimonial for you:)13:37
knomebluesabre, that should be a trivial task now...13:37
bluesabreknome: How do I apply for ubuntu membership?13:38
knomebluesabre, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership13:38
bluesabreCool13:38
bluesabreI'll do that now :)13:38
knomebluesabre, basically, you write a wiki page of what you've done, ask for a few testimonials and go to a membership board meeting13:38
knomebluesabre, if they approve you, you get a ubuntu member IRC cloak as well as a "lpnick@ubuntu.com" email address13:39
smartboyhwbluesabre: You do have a wiki page?13:39
bluesabreDoesn't sound too painful.13:39
knomebluesabre, and, well, +1 for applying for sponsorship for UDS and all that stuff... :)13:39
bluesabreI don't have a wiki page yet.13:39
smartboyhwbluesabre: I'm not a member, and I do have one:)13:39
bluesabreOr if I do, I didn't make it :)13:39
knomebluesabre, lol :)13:40
GridCubei dont have an ubuntu membership :(13:43
knomeGridCube, go get one tiger.13:43
knome:)13:43
smartboyhwGridCube: Get one:)13:43
smartboyhwI'll wait till Dec to get one, I'm new:)13:43
GridCube:P but i havent done much to ubuntu besides bother people on -devel channels13:45
knomeGridCube, giving user support counts too13:45
GridCube:D that i do do13:45
smartboyhwGridCube: :D13:46
knomeGridCube, and testing.13:46
knomeGridCube, and bug triage-related stuff13:46
knomeGridCube, and creating a FAQ13:46
smartboyhwGridCube, and documentation13:47
GridCube:P13:47
GridCubeno, i didnt do documentation13:47
smartboyhwGridCube: That's enough to gain you a membership:)13:47
GridCube:D awesome13:47
smartboyhw:D13:47
knomeGridCube, you can now, we're rewriting ;)13:47
GridCubei already have a wiki page tho :P13:47
smartboyhwknome: Can I have your wiki page?13:47
knome"have my wiki page" ?:P13:48
knomehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PasiLallinaho/13:48
knomeand my page for running for the XPL https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PasiLallinaho/XPL13:48
smartboyhwWhat's XPL?13:49
knomexubuntu project lead13:49
smartboyhwAh.13:49
smartboyhwOw man, when will Ubuntu 11.10 finish install/13:50
smartboyhwknome: How long did astraljava did testing and QA for Xubuntu? Just want to know:)13:52
knomesmartboyhw, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008242.html and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008247.html officially, but he was active before that, and that's why he was made the QA lead13:56
smartboyhwWow.13:57
knomewow what13:57
smartboyhwknome: Wow on astraljava and your work:)13:57
knomethanks13:58
bluesabreHere's my wiki page now.  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanDavis14:04
smartboyhwThat's quick:)14:05
knomei'll take the first lock.14:05
smartboyhwknome: You mean look?14:06
knomeno, lock.14:06
knomei'm editing the page, and you can't. that's a lock.14:06
smartboyhwOh14:06
smartboyhwBTW, added a testimonial already:)14:06
bluesabreThanks smartboyhw14:07
knomesmartboyhw, did you know that testimonials for these kind of things are usually given by senior community members to the junior members, or those applying to be one?14:14
smartboyhw:)14:14
smartboyhwKidding: Someone write ME a testimonial:)14:15
knomesmartboyhw, continue contributing to testing as you've done now, and i will some day.14:15
smartboyhwThanks14:15
elfyanyone know what the state of the docs is at the moment - don't want to start duplicating effort14:32
knomestate? :)14:32
smartboyhwStatus.14:32
knomesmartboyhw, i know14:32
knomeelfy, in what sense?14:32
knomeelfy, i believe people working with it are constantly sending their updates to the wiki, so it should be as it looks like :)14:33
elfyknome: :) in the - which one's are in need of work - has there been any sort of record kept about what's been done 14:33
knomethe wiki serves us that14:33
elfyok - so it's still - look and fix as you see things 14:33
knomeyes, it will be that until we convert to docbook14:33
elfyokey doke14:33
knomeand we will let you know once we do14:34
knome(not planned yet)14:34
elfyI don't want to start doing things someone else is half way through basically14:34
knomeif you know about the internet stuff (how to connect/troubleshoot different ways), that would be good to get in shape14:34
knomeeg. the "Internet and Networks" section under "Quick guide to default applications"14:35
knome(which is a bit weird place, but we can fix that later)14:35
elfyyea - I am not good at that stuff - I've never really had a need - but I will look at existing and see what I can do then14:35
knomeah, in that case probably look at something else14:35
knomethis needs to be correct, since this documentation might be everything somebody has, because he can't connect to internet14:35
knomeeven i am not confident enough to go poking, yet14:36
elfyok - 2 minutes and I will have a look at the new wiki stuff and come back 14:36
knomesure14:36
elfyknome - I'll take section 8, check section 11 and make a start on section 12 14:39
knomeelfy, awesome14:40
elfynow - suspending/hibernating for instance - hibernate is disabled - so do we assume that the manual should ONLY deal with default setup 14:40
knomeelfy, if you want, you can add a short notification at the start of those pages14:40
elfyyea - that makes sense 14:40
knomeelfy, yeah. and i just looked at that page too; i don't know if it makes sense to basically say "if you have problems, file a bug or restart the computer"14:41
elfylol14:41
knomeso consider dropping that.. :P14:42
elfy:)14:42
elfyok - so I have my little list of jobs then ... I assume that waht you are aiming at is not so much information someone would just think - what? I'm new - what does that mean? and enough to get them working and able to dig further elsewhere if they want 14:43
knomeyes14:43
elfyexcellent 14:43
knomewe should link to applications' own docs as much as possible14:43
knomeno reason to duplicate information and make our maintaining burden bigger14:44
elfyyep14:44
knomei'm hoping it is realistically possible to update the docs every release after this rewrite14:45
elfyyea - I would suggest that if that is the plan - then a doc somewhere with the index - so people can put name against things 14:46
knomewell14:46
knomeupdating the docs every release after the rewrite should be such an easy thing that one person is able to do that14:46
elfyknome: if this set of docs is well written then 6 month release should be a piece of cake14:46
elfyyea - just got there :)14:47
knomeexactly14:47
knomebeing relatively short helps too14:47
elfyyep14:47
knomedoesn't look too big task either14:47
smartboyhwunless you got a big change:)14:47
knomesmartboyhw, yes, but even then there isn't much to rewrite.14:48
elfyyea - big pile makes it easier to think - tomorrow perhaps, don't have the time now14:48
elfytalking of which - at some point one of the xubuntu.org pages could do with a little fiddle - who's best person to talk to about that?14:48
knomesmartboyhw, think about rewriting one page of the changed feature versus rewriting 10 pages of the changed feature14:49
knomeelfy, tell me which page14:49
knomeelfy, i am, or pleia2 14:49
elfyhttp://xubuntu.org/help/14:49
smartboyhwknome: :)14:49
knomeelfy, yeah, do you mean just to include the offline docs, or something else too?14:49
elfyonline forums etc the forum bit knome - at the moment says "mention in your post that you are using Xubuntu." can be amended 14:50
elfytell them to use the Tag system - there are xfce and Xubuntu tags available 14:50
knomeelfy, would you be willing to do the rewrite part? if yes, just send me email with the new text and i'll update14:51
elfyok - I will do that and e-maill you it 14:51
elfyright - I shall get on with something now then 14:52
knomee thanks :)14:52
knome+lfy,14:52
elfywelcome k14:52
elfynome14:52
knome;)14:52
elfy:)14:52
knomemeh, i promised my wife to get out of the house today14:53
elfybest get a move on then lol 14:53
knomehaha14:53
knomesoon...14:54
knomeshe's at work, so no schedule :P just promised to go out... ;)14:54
elfy:) I have just delivered little one to her mum - have whole weekend of peace 14:54
knomecould take the garbage out and go for a walk14:54
knomecongrats14:54
* knome slept almost until 1514:55
knomehave been awake for about three hours now :P14:55
elfyblimey - I've had a mad couple of days tbh - not sure where I was at all14:55
knomehaha14:55
smartboyhwknome: Is astraljava on holiday these days?15:13
knomesmartboyhw, no, i'm sure he's working like a mad15:14
smartboyhwknome: OK, wanted to ask him about a upgrade testcase in 12.10 for Ubuntu Studio:)15:14
knomegood luck in getting a hold of him15:14
smartboyhwknome: Am I wrong, or are you a Testcase Admin?15:14
knomei am15:14
smartboyhwI am just two days ago:)15:15
knomebluesabre, you probably want to mention menulibre and any postponed projects for Q too in your wiki page15:19
sjHi, I just joined the xubuntu-devel mailing list and had a quick look through the launchpad bug list, I was wondering if there's a wiki page to get started fixing bugs15:21
sjOr if anyone would like to mentor me15:22
smartboyhwYou mean http://xubuntu.org/contribute/development/?15:22
knomesj, you might want to hang around at this channel for a while to get a grasp how the community works :)15:22
knomesj, there's no specific list of bugs the xubuntu team works on, but any package with xubuntu or xfce in their name are a good start15:23
sjknome yeah certainly. smartboyhw, I've read all the related pages from there.15:23
sjknome: ok, thanks15:23
smartboyhwknome: Been looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Leaders I thought of one thing: Isn't elfy the doc lead?15:23
knomesmartboyhw, nope, the page is current15:24
smartboyhwBut there's no doc lead there...15:24
knomesmartboyhw, that's true15:24
smartboyhwNow I'm confused??15:25
knomethe whole community just takes care of that15:25
bluesabreknome, Yeah, I'm going to add MenuLibre and the other things :)15:26
smartboyhwOh15:26
knomebluesabre, is the music on the menulibre video yours?15:27
bluesabreknome, no, it's using YouTube's audio swap with CC-A music I believe15:27
knomebluesabre, mmhmm :) nice choice though15:28
bluesabreUsually I find CC-SA music on my own and add it, but I was lazy that day :D15:28
bluesabreThanks15:28
elfysmartboyhw: I am nothing to do with xubuntu - other than hanging about and helping where and when I can 15:41
smartboyhw:)15:41
knomejjfrv8, read your comments on the strategy document yesterday and most of them are applied as is to strategydoc.knome.fi15:52
knomejjfrv8, they were really helpful, thanks!15:52
jjfrv8Great.  Glad I could contribute something.  Thanks.15:53
knomeof course. looking forward to your contributions to the docs if you are still up to it :)15:54
jjfrv8Yup.  I'm still plugging away as we speak.15:54
knomegreat15:55
micahgmr_pouit: re dailies, yeah, lubuntu had the same issue, seems to me that those dependencies should be >= rather than = or something's fishy there15:58
micahg\o/ alternates not oversized and desktop images down to 717/73316:12
knomeyay16:12
knomebut they are wondering if it's a bug :P16:12
Unit193knome: Sure I could, anything other than the plain Xfce tag?  I haven't seen categories in the settings manager. >_>18:41
Unit193Oh, and I'm going to be "social" this evening, so won't be on.18:41
knomeUnit193, can you elaborate with mr_pouit? he'll let you know what he needs, if anything. :)18:50
Unit193He's scary. :3  But alrighty.  When is that needed in at the latest?18:51
knomeUIF18:55
knomewait, ubuntu is going to drop alternative?19:11
holsteininteresting...19:12
knomeor alternate19:12
knome:P19:12
knomeyeah.19:12
Unit193What? Well that's not good.19:17
holsteinseems like there would be community support for one.. maybe just one minimal "netinstall" kind of alternate iso19:22
knomewell there is the minimal cd already!19:24
knome!minimal19:24
ubottuThe Minimal CD image is very small in size, and it downloads most packages from the Internet during installation, allowing you to select only those you want (the installer is like the one on the !Alternate CD). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD19:24
* pleia2 frowns at the wiki19:48
pleia2no worky19:48
knomemeh19:48
knomehow's the about page?19:48
pleia2http://princessleia.com/temp/about-xubuntu.txt19:49
pleia2that's what I would have put in the wiki ;)19:50
pleia2it merges the three, I think I got all the main points19:50
knomewhy wiki?19:50
knomewhy not the website19:50
knomeand remove the wikipage19:50
knomewasn't that our idea anyway19:50
knomesilly girl19:50
pleia2I am putting it on the wiki for review and edits19:50
pleia2eventually the canonical one will be xubuntu.org/about19:50
pleia2still drafting though :)19:50
knomeoh, the *canonical* one19:51
* knome giggles19:51
pleia2littlt c19:51
pleia2little too19:51
knomei didn't know they were writing their own version too19:51
knomeyeah yeah19:51
knome:P19:51
knomei'm a bit against listing the application "categories"19:53
pleia2where?19:53
knome"...desktop offering that includes a variety of useful applications for every day use."19:53
knomelast paragraph, second sentence19:53
pleia2ah19:53
pleia2ok, can refresh19:54
knomeanother one i'm thinking is if we want to mention Unity19:54
pleia2also need to sort out pronouns, I think sometimes it's written as if we-the-project-members are writing it, and sometimes it's a bit more removed19:54
pleia2"Xubuntu is" "We provide"19:55
pleia2I'm leaning toward "Xubuntu is" "Xubuntu provides"19:55
knome"...operating system. Xubuntu uses the Xfce DE and comes with a defaul set of..."19:55
knome-typos19:55
knomemeh19:56
knomehttp://www.typewith.me/p/x_about19:56
pleia2:)19:56
knomemarking links with _link text_ for better readability19:57
pleia2k19:57
knomeare we repeating ourselves?19:58
pleia2in the last paragraph?19:58
knomesee the blue dots19:58
pleia2there19:59
knomeyeah bot19:59
knomebut19:59
pleia2oh that19:59
knomeread the first <p>19:59
pleia2yeah19:59
knomefamiliar/conservative?20:04
pleia2familiar is too vague (familar to what?)20:04
knomeheh20:05
knomeconservative isn't without problems either20:05
pleia2yeah20:05
pleia2I think what we're trying to communicate easy, not hard to learn20:06
knomeeh, tautology20:06
knome"immediately ready to use"20:06
knomewait, what?20:07
knome:D20:07
pleia2ready to use20:07
pleia2that's good20:07
knomethat's meh20:07
knome:D20:07
knomewe use that in the sentence before20:07
pleia2wait, we say ready to use just before that20:07
knomeyeah20:07
knomewe said "immediately ready to use"20:07
knome:P20:07
pleia2there20:07
knomei'd say elegant, but20:08
knome;)20:08
pleia2hehe20:08
knomewhat about simple/straightforward?20:08
pleia2oh right, what do we say in strat doc20:08
pleia2yeah, straightforward20:08
knomewe need to change that too20:08
Sysiput intuitive somewhere so we can start telling people how we're not copying os x because of unity20:08
knome:P20:08
knomei'm not sure if that belongs to the about page :P20:09
pleia2i hate inuitive20:09
pleia2if you read the unity list, you quickly learn that it means nothing :)20:09
pleia2(also, don't read the unity list if you have better things to do, like watching tv)20:10
GridCubeor picking your nose20:11
knomepleia2, ha! it just struck me20:11
knomepleia2, read the mission statement and the target page at strategy document20:11
knomewhenever you hit "elegant", think "straightforward"20:12
pleia2straightforward and ease of use are very similar20:12
knomeyes20:12
knomebut by straightforward, i mean: keeps out of the way20:13
pleia2I think by elegant we were meaning we think it's pretty20:13
pleia2or similarly nice20:13
knomethat too, partly20:13
knomebut polished is there too20:13
pleia2yeah20:13
knomei'll fix that20:13
pleia2like, we're saying it's easy and not yucky to look at20:13
pleia2(not 2nd choice for refugees :))20:14
knome" This is why Xubuntu should be easy to use and have an elegant appearance that doesn't get in the way. "20:14
knomein that, just remove 'elegant'20:14
knomeworks?20:14
pleia2I dunno, I'm in the "I like elegant" camp :)20:15
pleia2I think it communicates what I want it to say20:15
knomethat's under " Focus 1: Usability "20:15
knomemaybe we can remove it there20:15
pleia2fair enough20:15
knomei like elegance too20:15
knomethe several nuances its telling are the reason why i picked it20:16
pleia2yeah20:16
knomehttp://strategydoc.knome.fi/target/20:18
pleia2good20:19
knome" It is important for us to provide a polished and unified product that is ready for our users. "20:19
knomedoes that sentence suck a bit?20:19
pleia2nah20:19
knomeok.20:19
knome...ready for end-users ?20:20
knomedunno.20:20
knomewe say so in the mission statement20:20
knomeXubuntu delivers a polished and unified product ready for end-users.20:20
knome^MS20:20
pleia2sure20:20
knomewith these changes, i'm ready to go public.20:21
pleia2\o/20:21
mr_pouitUnit193: xfce4-settings-manager 4.10 has categories20:38
mr_pouitPersonal/Hw/System, like you wrote on the wiki page20:39
mr_pouitUnit193: just add the .desktop filename for each item, that's good enough for me :P20:40
mr_pouitknome: anyway, that's related to the topic "do we want to drop the submenu and put everything in xfce4-settings-manager?" :)20:42
knome:)20:42
Unit193mr_pouit: I'll remove the compiz one and add all the ones I have in info, sound cool?  (I don't have compiz, or a couple others as they were ideas, but I may find them)20:43
knomemr_pouit, the new SD is public ;)20:44
mr_pouityep, thanks (I only need the filename to add it to the settings manager, e.g. users.desktop :>)20:44
mr_pouitknome: SD, as in Steve Dodier? :P20:44
* mr_pouit runs20:44
knomehaha20:44
knomei wish i could make new steves20:45
knome;)20:45
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