Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto:
[...]
> > - evince
>
> As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pulls half
> of the Gnome.
If you just want to display PDF files then probably xpdf is a better
option, but Evince has a really nice feature: i
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto:
> [...]
> > > - evince
> >
> > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pulls half
> > of the Gnome.
>
> If you just want to display PDF files then
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:00:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto:
> > [...]
> > > > - evince
> > >
> > > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pull
[Kevin Mark]
> What about: '100-300MHZ system desktop(XFCE)'
>
> Also, based upon the cpu/mem info, display:
> you machine has a 766MHZ processor with 128MB memory.
> [x]KDE desktop environment[500mhz or greater]
> [ ]GNOME desktop evirnoenne[500mhz or greater]
> [ ]XFCE desktop enviorneme[300mhz
> I am sure this has been discussed many times, but one thing i would
> really like to see in tasksel is:
Many many times, yes..:-)
Joey often raised an argument about novice users likely to be confused
by a KDE/Gnome choice, not knowing the difference between both.
Your suggestion adds an inte
Le Vendredi 14 Avril 2006 08:28, Kevin Mark a écrit :
> Hi Linas,
> what about /proc/cpuinfo to determine MHZ and /proc/meminfo to find MB.
> does this provide some way to get this info accross all (or most) of the
> archs/subarch?
> And how about using /proc/* to guess what kind of storage is aval
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
>
> Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
> disagree. I've CC'd debian-hams for their input also.
Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) Radio"?
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On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:46 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > - file-roller
>
> Is there really no other choice without GNOME dependencies?
there is xarchiver, entered recently in unstable
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:19:20AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I would vote against too much choices if we go this way,
> though. Probably if the multiple desktop environments suggestion is
> implemented, it should be restricted to four choices:
>
> -"I dont know"
> -KDE
> -Gnome
> -Light de
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Greetings,
Please tell me if I have this right:
* You don't like .la files
* So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package
(libxcursor) with dozens of reverse-depends, breaking all of
them
* Even though they're a years-old and very well established
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please tell me if I have this right:
> * You don't like .la files
> * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package
> (libxcursor) with dozens of reverse-depends, breaking all of
> th
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* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060413 06:05]:
> >> A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch. In
> >> this case, the build generate file names which contain a colon,
> >> too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same manner (they
> >> look essentially the same b
Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
> >
> > Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
> > disagree. I've CC'd debian-hams for their input also.
>
> Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) R
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Joey often raised an argument about novice users likely to be confused
> by a KDE/Gnome choice, not knowing the difference between both.
That is undoubtedly true for novice (as in "first time") users, but we
should realize that there is a large group of users that are e
On 14 Apr 2006, Bernhard R. Link stated:
> * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060413 06:05]:
A colon is explicitly allowed if the version contains an epoch.
In this case, the build generate file names which contain a
colon, too, and I'd expect them to be rejected in the same ma
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> * Package name: rt2x00
> This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are
> currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a
> proposed rt2570 package).
Did you talk with Aurelien (maintainer of rt2
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Technically, this is not a dpkg-source but because dpkg (and APT) do
> not validate version numbers. Some ISVs rely on this and they use
> forbidden characters in version strings ('_' seems to be quite common,
> for example). And I suspect that there
On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer told this:
> Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
>>>
>>> Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
>>> disagree. I've CC'd debian-hams for their input also.
>>
>> I
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060414 14:55]:
> > Policy has (besides other things) the job of documentating current
> > practice.
>
> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is
> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable
> technical
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer told this:
>
> > Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> >> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >>> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
> >>>
> >>> Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
> >>> disagree. I've CC'd d
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:29 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Yes. Debian shouldn't be the Linux Distribution of Cryptic Acronyms.
Perhaps you missed the point earlier in the thread that Ham isn't an
acronym? Also, I don't think anyone with even a passing familiarity
with amateur radio seriously thin
Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > * Package name: rt2x00
>
> > This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are
> > currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a
> > proposed rt2570 package).
>
> Did
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) Radio"?
>> It is unnecessarily complicated.
[...]
> Since when has dumbing down debian been a goal?
It is not about "dumbing down Debian". It is about not having dumb names
for menu sections.
First of all, "Ham" is not a
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:40:03AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:29 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > What exactly was dumbed down here? Is there a non-Ham Amateur Radio
> > we would have to distinguish from?
>
> DX, perhaps? It seems to this outsider that both Ham and DX a
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 04:43:32PM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote:
> First of all, "Ham" is not a word, neither it is an acronym. It roughly
> stands for "[H]andheld [a][m]ateur". So what does that make? "Amateur
> (handheld amateur) radio". Makes no sense, does it?
What?!
> The correct term would
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:49:31AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
> > >
> > > Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateur Radio", but some may
> > > disagree. I've CC'd debian-ham
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Not only too long but completely wrong.
Yeah, I seem to be confusing things. Sorry for that.
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On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer outgrape:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer told this:
>>
>>> Ognyan Kulev wrote:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more
> appropriate.
>
> Even better (IMHO) is the full term "Amateu
On 14 Apr 2006, Linas Žvirblis stated:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) Radio"?
>>> It is unnecessarily complicated.
>
> [...]
>
>> Since when has dumbing down debian been a goal?
>
> It is not about "dumbing down Debian". It is about not having dumb
>
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:58:05PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:09:55PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > *Think* for a moment about the consequences. This is not a simple
> > rebuild, this is a serious problem.
>
> I agree and I take full responsibility for the issue
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:12 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:12:06AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Please tell me if I have this right:
> > * You don't like .la files
>
> Yes.
>
> > * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package
> > (lib
* Manoj Srivastava:
> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is
> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable
> technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary
> purpose of policy is to ensure that diverse packages under dif
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Amateur radio is the dumb name, for people who are confused by
> what the practioners call it -- HAM radio.
It is translated as "amateur radio" to some languages. Others translate
it entirely to something specific to that language. And some use HAM.
Can you cla
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:58 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:09:55PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > *Think* for a moment about the consequences. This is not a simple
> > rebuild, this is a serious problem.
>
> I agree and I take full responsibility for the issue. I'm s
"André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Any particular reason for not just using xpdf?
>
> Evince have more resources and combine with the Xfce interface.
> In the reality I would like to keep the applications with the same
> appearance. Possibly gtk2.
Er, that's nice, but a
hey, i was searching for arabic translator and came upon your email, could you take the time to translate this one small peice of arabic into english for me, it should probably be less than a word or so...
thanks for your time- blake
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:29:45 +0100, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2006, Thiemo Seufer told this:
>>
>> > Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>> >> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> >>> "HAM" is not an acronym, so "Ham Radio" would be more appropriate.
>> >>>
>> >>> Even bet
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Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pulls half
>> of the Gnome.
>
> If you just want to display PDF files then probably xpdf is a better
> option, but Evince has a really nice feature: it show TIFF multipage.
> This is the *onl
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:17:50AM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Any particular reason for not just using xpdf?
> >
> > Evince have more resources and combine with the Xfce interface.
> > In the reality I would like
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* Ron Johnson [Fri, Apr 14 2006, 03:00:44AM]:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > If you just want to display PDF files then probably xpdf is a better
> > option, but Evince has a really nice feature: it show TIFF multipage.
> > This is the *only* free software
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> #include
> * André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira [Tue, Apr 11 2006, 01:44:57PM]:
>> Hi !
>>
>> I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old
>> machines with poor hardware.
>> I would like to receive opinions about my
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:25:55PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:58 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:09:55PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > *Think* for a moment about the consequences. This is not a simple
> > > rebuild, this is a serious
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The "renders documents much more nicely" is absolutely wrong
No it's not. Perhaps you haven't used xpdf recently.
In particular, xpdf seems to do a _much_ better job of anti-aliasing
fonts than evince: xpdf's antialiasing generally manages to be both
sm
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:57:14AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2006, Linas ??virblis stated:
>
> > Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >
> Is there a problem with using "Amateur (Ham) Radio"?
> >>> It is unnecessarily complicated.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Since when has dumbing down debian
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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Torsten Marek wrote:
> >> - eog
> >
> > As said, Gnome bloat. Use gqview or pornview.
>
> Well, don't take pornview or you'll soon have a bug report about
> politically incorrect package names;-)
Try feh. Much, much more powerful, and much, much nicer.
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> "Amateur Radio", as fuzzy as it may be, is at least literally
> translatable, and HAM is not. Please realize that English menu is not
> targeted at English speaking world only. It is also a default for
> situations where translation is not available.
Rebounding on that mail, but actually more
> Therefore I suggest doing this...
>
> - I don't know (both of them)
> - KDE desktop environment
> - Gnome desktop environment
>
> ...and leaving the specialized tasks for CDDs, because that is what they
> are for, right?
Well, I haven't followed the rest of the thread (the part where peop
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>>> The problem is the : in your .changes name. The match is:
>>> re_taint_free = re.compile(r"^[-+~/\.\w]+$");
>>> Y
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:08 -0300, André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote:
> 2006/4/11, Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > * Andr Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060411 18:45]:
> > > - x-window-system-core
> > > - xfce4 (beautiful!)
> > > - gdm
> > [...]
> > > - gnome-ppp
> > > - g
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