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Shuttleworth Proposes Overhaul of Desktop Notifications
Thelasko writes "Mark Shuttleworth is considering a controversial overhaul to the way Ubuntu manages notifications." I'm not thrilled with all of the changes proposed, which would mostly value simplicity over confusion at the expense of flexibility and permanence. But anything that would make more people read over and specifically approve the wording of error messages and other notifications is a good thing.
Why?
They consume debian, not fedora.
It might be good for cross-distro relations but it seems a bit much to force them onto another, fairly well separated distro just for that.
Umm, what are you having trouble with? Which bit is missing for you? (genuine question)
Gnome on Ubuntu has a whole load of stuff accessible from the System menu. The only time I touch the text files at the back is when I'm experimenting with them. For ordinary users there already are a set of admin guis that are pretty consistent and powerful.
That's not Ubuntu's job, it's Gnome's. Try KDE if you want more configuration tools.
Maybe you haven't used the latest version of Ubuntu, but Intrepid has got a very nice set up for configuring monitors. There's a rotation drop-down menu that lets you chose any orientation, and each monitor is labeled and freely positionable. It also gives you the option to mirror the screens if you want.
Except with Growl the user can dismiss the notification, and (if specified) use the notification to go to the program/document that issued it.
I use emacs you insensitive clod! We've had that feature for years!
Join the Free Software Foundation
Turns out the closest Ubuntu project is http://www.mumbles-project.org/
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
xrandr --output LVDS --right-of VGA --mode 1280x960 --rotation left or some such; you work out a handful of these for your typical configurations, and toss them in an FVWM menu. At least that's what I do with my Eee 701, which gets used 3 ways: alone, with an external monitor, and with an external monitor (here the Eee is below the monitor), keyboard, and mouse (here the Eee is rotated on its side, next to the monitor).
Gnome users. Linux users who use KDE already have this and had it before OSX did.
HOPEfully, Shuttleworth recognizes that this is *not* new and can make it play nice with KDE instead of having his guys create a completely different standard.
In the article, Shuttleworth says they're working with KDE.
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You had to read them twice? You must be a fucking idiot, or English is your 4th language.
Unfortunately, when the original poster said "Nvidia card" I went "uh, yep."
Nvidia is responsible for, what, 50% of blue screens on Windows? And anyone expects the Linux drivers to be better?
Intel's drivers are fantastic, which is just a little to do with employing Keith Packard to do nothing but hack on X all day long. AMD/ATI will get there in due course as they negotiate the tricky straits between open source expectations and the lawyers. Nvidia will only respond to market pressure and Nouveau ever making it out of alpha.
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