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JackFrostHrm, so there's the new libxfce4ui that I either didn't or I just plain forgot to merge. \o/00:51
JackFrostHad to trim my changes to exclude intro crap: http://paste.openstack.org/show/LnbtXz5TfvGkPKAlgxyq01:06
JackFrostflocculant: Oh dang, I said it in my head but it never made it to IRC.  New libxfce4ui in experimental, please to test and ensure it doesn't break like 4.13.3 did.03:10
flocculantwhen it arrives here I will04:50
flocculantthough tbh not sure what it does and what would break :p04:50
JackFrostEg, clicking help in xfce4-terminal or whatever.  About?  Rename title and hit help perhaps?04:51
flocculantok - lp appears to be lagging - and -release topic was changed to build farm maintenance, so I assume that's why04:55
flocculantthat ^^ isn't built I don't think04:55
* JackFrost builds it and adds it to the Vanir repository, tells flocculant to add that too. :--D05:00
* JackFrost ducks.05:00
JackFrostAnd yeah, no builders is why.05:01
flocculant:)05:02
flocculantI'll see it this evening I guess05:02
ochosiJackFrost: we have two commits, one in panel one in settings that should be added as debian patches for 18.04, do you think you could help out on that or would you try to go throuhh debian?07:24
JackFrostDepends on how bad things are.07:25
ochosiboth commits are tiny, one helps the re-attaching of external displays (and is already merged to 4.12 branch of settings), the other one sorts the separator up to the launcher in the panel's add item dialog07:25
ochosii can paste the links if that helps07:26
JackFrostDoesn't sound like Debian.  There won't be releases any time soon then?07:26
ochosithere just was a panel release so it feels like overkill to do another one just for this tiny patch07:27
ochosiand regarding settings we can chat with bluesabre07:27
ochosibut i can take a look if there are more things to be backpprted and do a 4.12.3 release of the panrl at some.point07:29
JackFrostYou really think these need to get in?07:29
ochosiwould just be nice if ppl could test this a little07:29
ochosithe settings one definitely07:29
JackFrostXfce #13847, Xfce 1409607:30
ubottubugzilla.xfce.org bug 13847 in Settings Manager "Embedding can break settings window behavior" [Normal,Resolved: fixed] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384707:30
ubottubugzilla.xfce.org bug 14096 in Display Settings "Leave a monitor where it was upon re-attaching" [Enhancement,Resolved: fixed] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409607:30
ochosithe second one is the one i meant07:31
ochosithe panel fix is for knome ;)07:31
ochosiand more trivial, but still a nice to have07:32
JackFrostI mean if you want PPA stuff, sure.07:33
ochosiyup, thats what i meant07:34
JackFrostAh you said 18.04, I thought real repos.07:36
ochosisry for being unclear, i meant: 18.04 staging ppas and then later 18.04 if there are no releases upstream in time07:59
knome\o/08:46
bluesabregood morning everyone10:12
JackFrostOh crap a blue sword is killing me.10:12
bluesabreJackFrost: still no builders available?10:12
JackFrostUhh, nope!10:13
bluesabre:(10:13
JackFrostWant new libxfce4ui?  Build!10:14
bluesabrewanted to get some menulibre updates tested, but lp had other ideas https://code.launchpad.net/~menulibre-dev/+recipe/menulibre-daily10:14
JackFrostDidja see my pinging?10:14
bluesabreI've seen a few pings here and there, yes10:15
JackFrostDon't make me get the rabid wombat.10:15
bluesabrenew debian team, new libxfce4ui, ochosi wanted me to backport somethings and got tired of waiting and did it himself, what else...10:16
ochosi:)10:32
ochosibluesabre: well i guess we should simply check what we want for a new settings 4.12 release. i'd be in favor of dropping the color previews, as they dont work that well anymore (or at all) with gtk310:34
bluesabreochosi: alrighty10:35
bluesabreochosi: I don't suppose there's a new notifyd around the corner? It seems to keep crashing on me (0.4.1)10:37
ochosirly? where's the bugreport for those crashes?10:39
ochosior is it fixed already woth master..?10:39
bluesabreI'm looking at the core file right now to see if there's anything useful10:39
ochosi(i suppose not)10:39
bluesabreI just notice that anything that tries to send a notification suddenly halts and then I know it's crashed10:40
ochosii've never had a crash with it...10:40
ochosiinteresting10:40
JackFrostI don't have crashing (mine is patched, but shouldn't solve crashes.)10:41
bluesabreochosi: pretty confident with reviewing crash files? I can send it along10:47
ochosisure, better than nothing10:48
ochosia reproducer or patch would be even nicer ofc ;)10:49
ochosido you also get those crashes with 0.4.0?10:49
ochosimaybe it's worth bisecting...10:49
bluesabreHard to reproduce... I'll have notifications working for a while... until they don't :D10:51
bluesabreI'm guessing it probably crashes before displaying the offending one10:51
bluesabreochosi: sent to your gmail10:55
ochosibluesabre: wait, is gmail the new bugtracker..? :)10:57
ali1234is it reasonable/useful if i install 18.04 now?10:57
JackFrostI have it.10:57
ali1234i mean, on my main machine - currently 16.04. i don't mind if it crashes, i'll be able to send bug reports :)10:58
JackFrostochosi: Wait it is?  I have two to send you then!10:58
ochosi:)10:58
bluesabreochosi: I imagine there could be some personal thing in there, and bugzilla doesn't have private bugs (I think)10:59
JackFrostPretty sure one is silently ignored though, the "Decode html entities" one.10:59
bluesabrealso, just crashed again apparently, with no dump10:59
bluesabremoved to chrome since it has non-native notifications11:00
ochosibluesabre: would be interesting to know if there are specific apps that trigger this more often11:01
ochosiali1234: i guess flocculant would be the one who can tell you how stble 18.04 already is11:01
ochosibluesabre: the crash report is fairly useless, more than 90% are just binary (which i don't read well)11:01
bluesabreseems like it crashed with rambox when you sent me your gmail bugtracker complaint11:01
bluesabreI'll see what I can do to get a better trace11:02
ochosiyou can start it through gdb11:02
ali1234do you have an apport crash?11:02
bluesabreali1234: yeah, that's what I sent along to ochosi11:02
JackFrostInstall the dbgsym package.11:04
ali1234apport-retrace -s -S system /var/crash/_usr_bin_gedit.1000.crash11:04
ali1234will get all the debug symbols for you and dump the stacktrace on stdout11:04
ali1234https://piware.de/2011/08/apport-retrace-made-useful/11:04
bluesabreJackFrost: E: Unable to locate package xfce4-notifyd-dbgsym11:06
ochosiali1234: cool, didn't know about that11:06
JackFrost(Are they enabled for the PPAs?  I had for extras IIRC.)11:07
ochosilunchtime, bbabl11:10
ochosibluesabre: if you get a better trace lemme know!11:10
ochosibluesabre: plus think about the settings backport release, i think it'd be nice to do (and i can do it myself, i just don't want to do it without you being on board)11:10
bluesabreochosi: sure thing, will see if there's anything else I want to include there11:11
bluesabreali1234: thanks. Looks like that particular crash had nothing useful11:16
bluesabreJackFrost: send me a ping :)11:32
JackFrostbluesabre: I'm not here.11:33
bluesabredarn, not enough to crash it11:33
JackFrostbluesabre: ⛇ ⛇ ⛇ ⛇11:33
bluesabreneat, emoji in a notification11:33
bluesabrewell, it's running in gdb with dbgsym, now it should hopefully be a matter of time11:34
ochosibluesabre: ping, i'm killing your notifyd!11:43
ochosi:)11:43
* JackFrost should blow up the PM...11:43
ochosijust paste you /var/log in there ;)11:44
JackFrostDue to unthrottled messages, I think I could cover his screen.11:48
ali1234"/msg alis help" does that to me11:51
ali1234cos it PMs you like 10 times in a row11:51
JackFrostNotices don't hit notifyd for me.11:53
ali1234i use pidgin - and alis behaves like just another user sending a PM11:56
ali1234from pidgin's PoV that is11:56
ochosiseems we fail to crash bluesabres notifyd...12:03
knomeawful12:03
knomeeven if you try your best, you can't mess up with bluesabre 12:04
knome:(12:04
knomei'm disappointed i you12:04
knomein too12:04
ochosimaybe 0.4.1 is more stable than bluesabre insinuates12:08
bluesabreWe'll see12:11
bluesabre;)12:11
bluesabreznc's help is 139 lines :D12:12
flocculantali1234: all pretty stable here - though that doesn't mean you won't get issues, also I might not use what you 'use'16:50
flocculantin addition I've got all our ppa's 16:50
ali1234at the moment mostly build and distro tools - proot, multistrap etc - and i'm hitting problems due to the age of the versions in 16.0416:52
flocculantright - I don't use any of that :)16:53
ali1234as long as it boots i should be okay :)16:54
flocculant:)16:55
flocculantyou might find it takes a while to boot the iso ...16:55
flocculantother than that only issues I've seen have been self-made for the most part ...16:56
flocculantor I have blamed ochosi, bluesabre or systemd - not necessarily in that order :p16:56
flocculantslickymaster knome - thoughts on adding pavucontrol to the help docs17:26
slickymasterWorkflocculant we already have a brief description of it in the guide-default-apps chapter17:35
slickymasterWorkdo you mean extend it a bit?17:35
flocculantnot if you can easily worj out what people are likely to actually want from here https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/17:36
flocculanttbh I wasn't looking for a throwaway line just now - hence not seeing that in the docs :)17:37
slickymasterWorktheir documentation is a bit of a follow the trail type :P17:38
slickymasterWorkhttps://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/17:38
flocculantso not really very helpful to have in our help docs then17:38
slickymasterWorkwell, it's not something right in the users face17:38
slickymasterWorkand the problem is to condensed so it 'would' fit the -docs policy17:39
slickymasterWorkand being helpful at the same time17:39
flocculantthat pa page is all command line17:39
slickymasterWorkyes17:40
flocculantso not actually anything to do with pacontrol at all then17:40
slickymasterWorkyou mean its GUI?17:40
flocculantyea17:41
flocculantyou know it is :p17:41
flocculantoic what you're saying17:41
flocculantyea - the gui17:41
slickymasterWorkjust asking to gain some time while I think :P17:41
flocculantwhich is what people are more likely to look for 17:41
flocculantit's people like me who want to know command line stuff ;)17:41
slickymasterWorkthing is are we wanting to start some sort of wiki, even if a tiny small one, of some package in the -docs?17:42
slickymasterWorkwhich is what I think you're trying to get to17:42
flocculantno17:42
* slickymasterWork agrees17:42
flocculantI'm saying why doesn't the help file cover pavucontrol - in an actually helpful way :)17:43
slickymasterWorklol17:43
flocculantif it's because we've not done it - then I'll do it ...17:43
flocculants/just because17:43
slickymasterWorkdon't think it's just that17:43
flocculantmmm17:44
slickymasterWorkfor coherence sake wouldn't we have to the same with other packages as well? 17:44
flocculantok - well not getting into a protracted discussion about it tbh17:44
flocculantI don't use the help file17:44
flocculantup to docs team17:45
slickymasterWorkI know you're not :)17:45
slickymasterWorkI only think if it's dome to one, it would have to be done to the others17:45
flocculantthis is something that regularly comes up in #x 17:45
slickymasterWorkand the -docs would grow exponentially ~17:45
flocculantright - well - I made the point - you do what you want with it17:46
slickymasterWorkbut of course I'm open to a consensus 17:46
flocculantnext time I see someone looking for help with it I will ping you ;)17:46
slickymasterWorkno love for me then ;)17:46
flocculantconsensus is extremely unlikely to get anything done this side of release ;)17:46
slickymasterWorkahhahaha17:46
flocculantI always love you :D17:46
flocculantish17:47
slickymasterWorklmao17:47
slickymasterWorkwell, me too17:47
flocculant:)17:47
flocculantmy position on this - and probably other things if I put my mind to it is "if people regularly pitch up with similar issues - then our help file should cover it somehow'17:48
flocculantpointing to an external entity is fine - if it actually helps :)17:49
slickymasterWorkI agree with that principle but my fear is if that wouldn't completely blow the -docs17:50
slickymasterWorkwhat I mean is that if we're going to start to add more meaningful info about some packages the -docs soon will became a colossus in size17:51
slickymasterWorkand readability for that matter 17:51
slickymasterWorknot speaking about the maintenance that it would bring with17:52
flocculantthis from the debian wiki " Pavucontrol, an optional package for pulseaudio, allows you to make volume adjustments (entire system or per application). It also allows you to change "mixer" settings like headphone output, mic level, input device, and stereo versus surround sound profiles. "17:52
flocculantwhich is a whole lot more helpful than pointing to the pulseaudio site :p17:53
slickymasterWorkbut that follows what I was suggesting/asking in the beginning17:53
flocculantthat's likely all we need do17:53
flocculantby extend it a bit? 17:53
slickymasterWorkyep17:53
flocculantyea - that's fine - we ended up discussing where we pointed people :D17:54
flocculantI'll do an mp for it - faff about with wording and some bolding etc17:54
slickymasterWorkok17:54
slickymasterWorkI was going to say that I was going to draft something17:55
flocculantyea it's ok - I'll do that17:55
slickymasterWorkbut bieng so17:55
slickymasterWorks/bieng/being17:55
flocculantdone :)18:08
flocculantbbl18:08
slickymasterWorkthanks flocculant 18:19
slickymasterWorkwill review it after dinner18:19
-SwissBot:#xubuntu-devel- ::xubuntu-docs:: [pavucontrol] r643 Pavucontrol addition (by Kev Bowring)18:57
flocculantslickymaster: np :)19:32
knomeflocculant, good idea and i see you already did something :)20:20
flocculantheh20:20
-SwissBot:#xubuntu-devel- ::xubuntu-docs:: [bionic] r643 Merge flocculant's rewrite of the pavucontrol section in gui... (by David Pires)22:01

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