[Bug 555549] Re: About Ubuntu and Help take a very long time to start

2010-04-26 Thread Greg Merchan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 294182 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294182 Duplicate status is wrong. One of the problems here, and in some other bugs marked as duplicates, is that Yelp is being used for About Ubuntu, not that Yelp is slow. These need to be marked as WONTFIX if the

[Bug 555549] Re: About Ubuntu and Help take a very long time to start

2010-04-26 Thread Greg Merchan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 294182 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294182 I'm sorry. It seems there's just one other bug #474923 that has been marked as a duplicate but shouldn't be. I thought I'd seen more. -- About Ubuntu and Help take a very long time to start https://bugs.laun

[Bug 294182] Re: GNOME's Help Slow to Load

2010-04-26 Thread Greg Merchan
Two of the bugs marked as duplicates of this bug should be reopened and reassigned to the package responsible for the System menu which contains the item About Ubuntu, because that item does not need to open the help browser. It could instead open an About dialog - like every other About menu item.

[Bug 474923] Re: help/about ubuntu applet takes too long to load

2010-03-02 Thread Greg Merchan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 294182 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294182 I think this bug should be reopened and reassigned, perhaps to the package responsible for the System menu. The problem initially reported is not that Yelp is slow, but that the "About Ubuntu" action is slow.

[Bug 70951] Re: double click in file from my desktop folder open the application, but focus is not in new application.

2010-04-02 Thread Greg Merchan
I have this problem with at least GIMP, Metacity or Mutter, and Nautilus or Nautilus Elementary. When I first double-click an XCF file and GIMP is not running, then GIMP starts and its windows are raised and focused. If I then go to a folder and open another XCF file - with GIMP still running - th

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-30 Thread Greg Merchan
Thank you, Ludwik, for recognizing that students are supposed to be learning new things. This is too often forgotten and in fact there are university classes in the US devoted to slavish memorization of Microsoft applications. I would say that teachers and administrators should be even more adaptab

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-23 Thread Greg Merchan
I've noticed only one mention of the disappearance of the system menu, also called the window menu or the application menu. It's the one that shows when you click the application icon in the frame, right-click the frame, or press Alt+Space. To maximize a window, I usually use Alt+Space-X. That may

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-26 Thread Greg Merchan
@Pako Until 2005, I ran Debian GNOME or jhbuild GNOME (on Debian) with only 96MB RAM. That was a Toshiba Portege 3010, you can look up the rest of the specs. -- [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-03-20 Thread Greg Merchan
Mark, I think I know what you're going after with this change, but reading your comment freaked me out. I think you left too much unsaid. Isn't the idea to make the indicator icons themselves more indicative of the information that has thus far been clear only through tooltips? Aren't you trying

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-22 Thread Greg Merchan
I've made comments on blogs about this and I hope it will be helpful to add them here. The layout I've seen in screenshots has already shown flaws, because whatever draws the window frames hasn't been made to adjust rounded outlines when buttons are missing. That's an "easy" fix, barely worth noti

[Bug 811921] Re: Clicking on icons in Nautilus changes focus

2012-04-05 Thread Greg Merchan
Then please mark this as a duplicate of that report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811921 Title: Clicking on icons in Nautilus changes focus To manage notifications about this bug g

[Bug 811921] Re: Clicking on icons in Nautilus changes focus

2012-04-06 Thread Greg Merchan
Looking for the duplicate which doesn't exist, I've seen your actions related to this bug and concluded I was wasting my time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811921 Title: Clicking on

[Bug 811921] Re: Clicking on icons in Nautilus changes focus

2012-04-07 Thread Greg Merchan
Guess there's no way to withdraw a comment. This is an old bug present in perhaps every X toolkit and window manager. Fixing it requires fixing both of those and perhaps the applications, depending on how the toolkit is fixed. There is at present either not the knowledge or not the will to make th

[Bug 987619] [NEW] Can't tell if script will open for editing or be run

2012-04-23 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: When I see recent files in the dash, I can't tell if clicking on scripts will open them for editing or run them. So far it seems to open them for editing, but the uncertainty is cause for hesitation every time. I usually decide not to chance it and instead open the file throug

[Bug 691186] Re: Keyboard combos in menus don't look very keyboardy

2012-04-29 Thread Greg Merchan
U+20E3 for combining enclosing keycap U+21E7 for Shift U+2387 for Alt U+2388 for Control (This is now feature on many keyboards since MS adopted it.) So, Shift+Ctrl+S could look like ⇧⎈S or ⇧⃣⎈⃣S⃣ (I wonder how that will look on launchpad once I post the comment.) Home, Escape, function keys, et

[Bug 940603] Re: white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking applications from using stuff under it

2012-04-10 Thread Greg Merchan
>From what I've read in the comments, it looks like this is similar to a problem that arose years ago with the "system tray" as it was called. (The name "system tray" came from the "systray.exe" process on MS Windows which provided some icons for what was officially known as the notification area.)

[Bug 667323] Re: "open with" missing in files lens

2012-04-26 Thread Greg Merchan
My report about there being no indication of how a file will open (e.g., if it's a script, will it open for reading or be run?) got duped to this. Looking through the comments, I don't see anything about that here, so I mention it now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 891648] Re: Dash - update Dash keyboard shortcuts so the 'CTRL + TAB' switches between Lenses and 'TAB' by itself moves the focus between categories

2012-02-18 Thread Greg Merchan
I've been frustrated a number of times expecting tab completion to work in the search field. The CUA-inspired scheme we once discussed for GNOME was that there was a sort of hierarchy of modifier key bindings. I forget to what extent we went with it. Here are a few examples: Session level - Ctrl+

[Bug 1071937] [NEW] Documentation did not build correctly

2012-10-26 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: Something went wrong in the build of the documentation for libxt in at least Quantal. Many of the function prototypes (maybe all) in /usr/share/doc/libxt-dev/intrinsics.html have a prefix "fsfunc" on their names. I don't see that string anywhere in the source, so perhaps the b

[Bug 912702] Re: [MASTER] Endlessly many "Wireless Network Authentication Required" dialogs put up

2012-10-28 Thread Greg Merchan
The code for showing this dialog is rather ugly. It even has a function show_ignore_focus_stealing_prevention() which is bad X11 citizenship. A patch to get rid of such things, use gtk_window_set_urgency_hint() instead, and keep track of the dialogs would allow whatever problem is causing multipl

[Bug 682788] Re: Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens

2011-12-08 Thread Greg Merchan
Apple sells iMacs with screen sizes 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, and the Thunderbolt display at 2560x1440. It is not the case that a global menu bar is not ergonomic on large screens. It is the case that it is not well implemented in Ubuntu, for a few reasons already mentioned: 1) The menu is not vis

[Bug 682788] Re: Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens

2011-12-09 Thread Greg Merchan
I remembered another one. 5) The default mouse or trackpad acceleration settings may be bad. @Romano: Click to focus is the only supported focus model in 11.10 (and older releases?). In the same sense as having a global menu bar isn't an option anymore, click to focus isn't an option either. You

[Bug 803872] Re: Focus change at drag and drop

2011-12-10 Thread Greg Merchan
This problem has some history: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133047 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #133047 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133047 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 592842] Re: appmenu doesn't work with apps run as sudo root

2012-01-09 Thread Greg Merchan
I thought synaptic was just a poorly written app because it somehow prevented the menu from going global, until I ran it without privileges from the command line a moment ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 917217] [NEW] Text selection in selected row in Nautilus is misleading.

2012-01-16 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: With a row selected in Nautilus, press F2 to edit the filename. The row remains selected, the area of the filename changes to an editable widget, and the part before the last period in the file name is selected to be quickly over-written. In the Ambiance theme, and maybe other

[Bug 917217] Re: Text selection in selected row in Nautilus is misleading.

2012-01-16 Thread Greg Merchan
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of the problem." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917217/+attachment/2677421/+files/themoops.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917217 Title: Text

[Bug 920186] Re: Layout of GTK Debconf prompt is ugly

2012-01-23 Thread Greg Merchan
There's also a check box asking a question. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/920186 Title: Layout of GTK Debconf prompt is ugly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 880962] Re: dnd pointer lock when dragging tab between two gedit instances

2012-02-04 Thread Greg Merchan
I added comments on GNOME bugzilla, but I have more comments relevant to just Ubuntu. When this locks up, there is almost no way out for me. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace hasn't worked in a long time, so that's not an option. Ctrl+Alt+1 (or 2-6) works, but because of some other bug (NVIDIA, perhaps) the VT i

[Bug 811921] Re: Clicking on icons in Nautilus changes focus

2012-03-10 Thread Greg Merchan
This bug is not a duplicate of a similar bug in either compiz or metacity. This is a bug in Nautilus. The solution of the problem the user sees requires changes to both regular applications and window managers. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 29560 drag & drop improvement: delay br

[Bug 388247] Re: Nautilus windows don't steal focus when files are dragged into them

2012-03-10 Thread Greg Merchan
Zach is correct; this is not a duplicate of bug #29560. That bug is a filed against metacity, which is only one of the components contributing to the failure of Ubuntu to provide a smooth DnD experience. As written, the summary and report do not describe the commonly desired behavior for DnD. What

[Bug 803872] Re: Focus change at drag and drop

2012-03-10 Thread Greg Merchan
This compiz bug is not a duplicate of that metacity bug. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 29560 drag & drop improvement: delay bringing window to front until mouse released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 882856] [NEW] Text is misleading in Universal Access settings panel

2011-10-27 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: On the Pointing and Clicking page of the Universal Access settings panel there is a toggle for a "Simulated Secondary Click". By conventional American English, a "secondary" click would perhaps be the second click of a double-click, but really it just doesn't make any sense. W

[Bug 721554] [NEW] EOG does not render SVG elements from other files at 100% zoom.

2011-02-18 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog When an SVG 'use' tag links to an element in another file and the zoom is 100%, EOG does not render that element. Change the zoom higher or lower and the element is rendered. Go back to 100% and the element goes away. Also, if a gradient is defined in

[Bug 721554] Re: EOG does not render SVG elements from other files at 100% zoom.

2011-02-18 Thread Greg Merchan
** Attachment added: "Demonstration of the bug." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721554/+attachment/1858767/+files/bugfiles.zip -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721554 Title: EOG do

[Bug 783207] [NEW] Fonts tab crashes app

2011-05-15 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: acroread Open the Document Properties panel with File->Properties... and click on the Fonts tab. Acroread crashes. I tried running from the terminal to see if an error message was given, but none was given at the crash. (Plenty of Gtk+, Gdk, Glib, etc. CR

[Bug 784734] [NEW] Unreadable dialog appears when plugin is activated

2011-05-18 Thread Greg Merchan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit-latex-plugin An unreadable dialog appears when the plugin is activated. See the attached screenshot. Assuming the title is "Select Master Document", the meaning of that is not apparent. This dialog appears when the plugin is activated, so it would

[Bug 784734] Re: Unreadable dialog appears when plugin is activated

2011-05-18 Thread Greg Merchan
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of dialog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784734/+attachment/2133901/+files/Screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784734 Title: Unreadabl

[Bug 784734] Re: Unreadable dialog appears when plugin is activated

2011-05-18 Thread Greg Merchan
The same dialog appears when I open a LaTeX file. I won't be using this plugin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784734 Title: Unreadable dialog appears when plugin is activated -- ub