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nonubyon 13.04 will there be an seamless upgrade path from b1 to b2 and then to final release? or will it be a pave/format job?04:21
centrelinkhi04:29
centrelinkany unity devs around, I have a quick question04:29
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zniavregood morning07:37
cwillu_at_workis there a changelog for 13.04 sitting somewhere?07:37
cwillu_at_workthe announce email linked to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/, but that's still talking about quantal07:37
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elmargolHi I'm wondering if there is a decent nautilus alternative for 13.04 since the version in raring is only a demo version of nautilus used to be10:20
bekksdemo version?10:20
bekkselmargol: And you are on 13.04, so you might better ask in #ubuntu+110:21
smartboyhwbekks, this is #ubuntu+1 LOL10:21
bekks:D10:21
elmargollets see if nemo works...10:22
* bekks grabs some more coffee10:22
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murthyhello everyone10:34
zniavregood afternoon11:29
zniavreBT icon is not displayed that is known or i got wrong settings ?11:29
52AAAPUHUzniavre: BT means Bluetooth right ?12:11
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BluesKajHiyas all12:57
alankilahttps://bel.fi/alankila/lcd/epiphany-vs-firefox2.png13:01
alankilalinux (default) font rendering on right, notice artifacts in the section labeled Browser, corrected rendering on left (perfect).13:02
alankilaor well, it depends on what one calls perfect. I think people likely find the rendering too light and I just found out that Skia does this same technique -- I developed it independently, and they also appear to have a hack to make black-on-white text appear heavier13:02
alankilabut now I feel really stupid. I mean, I did spend one afternoon going through the formulas and developing this technique, and appear to have arrived at exactly same end result minus that hack to make black text heavier13:04
alankilabut I didn't know that Skia did this.13:04
ryealankila: what screen resolution and display size do you have?13:10
alankila1440x900 I think. It's Apple LCD screen for Macbook Air13:12
ryealankila: so it is 11", right?13:13
alankilaa 13" device13:13
alankilaiirc dpi worked out to something like 12613:14
ryealankila: what i am puzzled in your pictures is that the horizontal lines are visibly blurred across adjacent pixel rows, same thing I noticed in the OS X  rendering13:15
ryealankila: is it an expected effect?13:15
alankilaI disable all hinting in my fontconfig13:15
alankilaso yes, it works as requested.13:16
alankilaand yes, it is very similar to OS X's approach.13:16
alankilaone is not supposed to really look at the individual pixels and demand them to be correct, but rather just appreciate that the average light emitted from each pixel is correct. Still, if desired, it would be possible to turn on vertical grid snapping, aka 'slight' hinting.13:16
alankilathis would be similar to AppleFontSmoothing setting 113:17
alankilaI personally believe that pixel grid should be ignored for rendering, and DPI should be raised sufficiently that the mild blurriness would not be noticeable.13:18
ryealankila: right, re: not look at the individual pixels. In case of 1336x768 14" screen it makes these dark|light pixels extremely visible. On the other hand, it is a low-res display according to the latest screens13:19
alankilabecause, really, the fully hinted text looks very ugly and causes kerning problems because apparently the font metrics aren't usually adjusted correctly for the results of hinting. Neither is the bytecode hinting the right thing to do because it doesn't work with microsoft fonts because microsoft rasterizer is so different from freetype's.13:19
alankilaand the freetype's autohinter has no idea how to preserve glyph symmetry so the results are artifacting.13:19
alankilait's not the resolution but the DPI that is the problem13:20
* rye switched to full hinting setting, ugh13:20
ryealankila: right, but should I have higher resolution at the same screen size I might have looked at it the different way13:21
ryealankila: how does the rendering with gamma correction and added weight for black on white look if hinting is set to slight?13:25
alankilawell the horizontal line blurriness is gone, but otherwise it's more or less the same.13:26
alankilabecause these lines will generally become adjusted to coincide with the pixel grid13:26
* rye actually reads the page13:28
ryealankila: wow13:34
alankilahm, like what you read?13:36
ryealankila: i do, now I understand what it is about13:37
alankilaI guess my communication skills are effective enough to describe the problem at sufficient detail13:38
alankilalet me say that this is an uphill battle.13:39
alankilait's a pity that alpha correction as I have implemented it -- despite I can see it in practically all applications on my desktop right now -- is basically unshippable in its current form.13:39
alankilaadditionally the guys at cairo have a plan for implementing it that is somewhat disruptive.13:40
alankilabecause they want to add SRGB surface into cairo, and then ask applications to construct SRGB surfaces and then some bunch of magic happens which makes it all work.13:42
alankilabut there's details -- once you mix multiple colorspaces in, you need to be careful about interpreting say image data read from files correctly in sRGB sense. Because these things are also in sRGB space.13:43
alankilastill, stuff like that can be fixed and if you get it wrong it's pretty noticeable because the images will probably appear either too dark or completely washed out, so it's hard to not notice.13:44
alankilaalso if you read a color from a file, that color is probably 24-bit sRGB color triplet, or 32-bit ARGB value with RGB in sRGB and A linear.13:45
alankiladetails, details.13:45
ryeI can't help thinking that this is somehow related to cairo drawing on a transparent background causing artifacts... such as infamous https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/723167 but I may be completely off the track13:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 723167 in unity (Ubuntu) "Fuzzy fonts caused by Cairo antialiasing artifacts with Radiance theme." [Medium,Triaged]13:45
alankilait's probably result of component-alpha masking13:46
alankilaif you end up with a texture, you lose the component-alpha behavior because 3 alphas must be joined into 1.13:46
alankilaand then you need to make a theory about what values must be picked for the color components that were actually transparent in component-alpha mode.13:46
alankilaoh that's not it.13:48
ryealankila: aha, this explains why drawing on existing background worked... thank you!13:48
alankilaI have no idea what the person is talking about. Or it might be it. I don't know, sorry.13:48
ryealankila: your explanation fits perfectly13:48
alankilabut yeah anyway component-alpha is required for correct LCD rendering.13:48
alankilait's a stupid name but I guess it's derived from the notion that the alpha channel -- or mask, as it's often called -- is itself ARGB texture, and when in CA mode the A component is ignored.13:50
alankilaso the alpha comes from the color components, hence component-alpha.13:50
alankilawe'd really benefit from AAARGB textures, I guess. :-/13:51
alankilaand to add to this, there are the physical modeling loonies who think they should be allowed to model the 400-800 nm light intensity spectrum in their textures, because this allows perfect modeling of transmission through multicolored glass and so on13:52
BluesKajyup. lots of visible UV in that spectrum , not good for you depending on the intensity of course14:05
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dholbachhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSDKDays Day 2 kicked off half an hour ago - hope to see you all there!15:37
fak3rbooting yesterday's daily-live iso amd64-mac on my MBP booted to a grub> command only16:03
Sonikkso, is the 13.04 stable enough for daily use? and is it a nightmare to install Catalyst 13.1 to it?16:04
fak3rwhat is the diff between amd64 and the amd64-mac builds? drivers for Macs spec or ?16:05
Sonikkfak3r: sounds like that16:05
fak3rSonikk: so should I try a amd64 bulid on the MBP instead, or can I boot from the grub> command on the amd64-mac?16:07
Sonikkfak3r: im sorry i can not help you. im very new with ubuntu16:08
fak3rSonikk: np16:08
fak3rSonikk: I'm planning on using 13.04 as my desk, with release a few weeks ago, I'm sure it'll be fine. Unsure about Catalyst.16:09
fak3rSonikk: s/few weeks ago/few weeks TO GO/16:10
Sonikkfak3r: yeah i think also it should be stable. but the catalyst-thing is a big question mark :)16:10
Sonikki think i will wait until 13.04 is ready16:11
djjeff|bt5if I do nvidia-xconfig17:36
djjeff|bt5/usr/bin/X will seg fault17:36
djjeff|bt5if I do nvidia-xconfig --no-allow-glx-with-composite17:37
djjeff|bt5/usr/bin/X will start17:37
djjeff|bt5BUT all my OpenGL applications WONT WORK!!!!!17:37
djjeff|bt5im sorry but for NVIDIA users 13.04 is FAR from ready17:38
bazhangdjjeff|bt5, its not final, you should plan on there being issues17:40
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djjeff|bt5so I need to wait for final before I can use OpenGL based apps ?17:42
BluesKajdjjeff|bt5, I beg to differ , dump that xorg.conf file and try again , my level entry nvidia card works fine on OpenGL , DR and 3D17:48
djjeff|bt5I have done rm -rfv /etc/X11/xorg.conf17:50
djjeff|bt5several times17:50
djjeff|bt5I have tried nvidia 304,310,31617:51
djjeff|bt5all seg fault when starting X17:51
BluesKajdjjeff|bt5, look for nvidia.xconf17:51
djjeff|bt5even glxinfo seg faults17:51
BluesKajwhat about nouveau ?17:52
djjeff|bt5I keep seeing this crap http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=y4rL8Z9h17:53
djjeff|bt5I have a gdb and backtrace from glxinfo http://pastie.org/pastes/6512486/text17:57
djjeff|bt50x00007ffff7ddb68a in _dl_start_user () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.217:58
djjeff|bt5looks fishy17:58
djjeff|bt5lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb  8 23:25 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.17.so17:59
djjeff|bt5glxinfo does not seg fault on my laptop running 10.1018:02
djjeff|bt5but does on my desktop running Xubuntu 13.0418:02
djjeff|bt5how do I set mesa as the OpenGL in xorg.conf18:15
djjeff|bt5/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.118:16
BluesKajdjjeff|bt5, xorg.conf isn't required on most setups and the default nouveau driver usually works fine on most apps18:50
BluesKajincluding OpenGL requirements18:51
djjeff|bt5this is really pissing me off now......18:51
djjeff|bt5I uninstall nvidia completely from my system18:51
djjeff|bt5using apt-get purge nvidia-*18:51
djjeff|bt5rm -rfv /etc/X11/xorg.conf18:52
djjeff|bt5rebooted18:52
djjeff|bt5X wont start18:52
djjeff|bt5because I have no xorg.conf18:52
djjeff|bt5lucky me I can ssh from my laptop18:53
djjeff|bt5cause all my desktop has is a black screen with a blinky cursor18:53
djjeff|bt5oooooooooooooo pretty cursor18:53
bazhangdjjeff|bt5, lay off the enter key18:53
* djjeff|bt5 pets the cursor with his hand18:53
djjeff|bt5ohhhhhhh facepalm I blacklisted nouveau18:56
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BluesKajthen look in /etc/modprobe,d/blacklist .conf , comment out the blacklist and install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau19:01
BluesKajif it needs to be19:01
djjeff|bt5I dont think the driver is the issue19:24
djjeff|bt5cause i've tried several drivers19:24
djjeff|bt5304,310,31319:24
djjeff|bt5it was working 2 days ago19:24
djjeff|bt5something updated19:24
djjeff|bt5and since then Xorg seg faults19:24
bjsniderdjjeff|bt5, the nvidia packages blacklist nouveau for you19:41
bjsniderand then remove the blacklist if they're removed19:41
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djjeff|bt5time to fall asleep waiting for21:24
djjeff|bt5linux-headers-3.8.0-13_3.8.0-13.22_all.deb21:24
bazhangdjjeff|bt5, are you asking about 13.04 in #ubuntu ?22:07
djjeff|bt5meh22:08
bazhang?22:08
MoPacHello all.  I would very much appreciate some help with diagnosing a hibernation problem I'm having in Raring.  System does black on hibernate command, does not appear to write much of anything to disk, and then enters what looks like a kernel panic mode, with two lock lights blinking in sync as they do during a panic.  Not sure where to start in terms of pinning down the issue.22:23
testyofel: online?23:34
yofeltest: yes, but half asleep?23:34
testyofel: I had to reinstall kubuntu raring and KDE / xserver keeps crashing again after login23:35
testwell, it loads the desktpp fine... I can see pics and stuff but then crashes.... kde-workspace-randr is installed23:35
yofelhm, ~/.xsession-errors might tell something23:35
yofelbut I'm off to bed and can't help right now, sorry23:36
testok23:36

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