Comments on: S04E03 – Lightning Strikes Twice

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:23:00 +0000

For a less drastic way to clear up your Gwibber history, try this:

echo “delete from messages where time < (`date +%s`-86400);vacuum;" | sqlite3 ~/.config/gwibber/gwibber.sqlite

The '86400' is the number of seconds in a day, so this gets rid of tweets that are more than a day old.

cheers

Chris

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:40:00 +0000

In discussions about Natty and the whole Unity thing it seems to me that the “average” user is portrayed as someone who does a bit of emailing, some surfing, some multimedia stuff and so on, just a general potterer. On my netbook, currently running UNR 10.10 – if I have the terminology correct – the vertical bar is good, except that I would like to be able to more easily control it. I am sure I can delve into a conf file and change it, when I get the time. At present Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a terminal window full screen and I can use the machine as I intended, a troubleshooter around the office.

Which brings me neatly to the point.

At work, here in a (fairly conservative) engineering (civil and mech-elec) office in central Switzerland, I am surrounded by much younger engineers whose knowledge of op systems extends to Windows only. Their idea of change is upgrading to Win7. As a Linux advocate (for more than 15 years) I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness, except when they need to process 2GB text files for a GIS app or something and sed and/or Perl scripts are needed. But my system here, spread across 4 monitors (great for editing) looks not too unlike what they are familiar and comfy with. Yes, I run Mint (Main not KDE). For this reason, here at work I will definitely not be moving to Natty. On my laptop/desktops at home, maybe. As far as my wife’s Thinkpad is concerned, I do not have a death wish and will remain with a Mint system for the foreseeable future.

This comment is just to try and balance up some of the hype etc surrounding the impending release of Natty. I saw a great comment the other day about UIs. If change is so great, how come the brake/clutch/accelerator pedals on a car have stayed in the same place for so many years :=)

I love the podcast, one of my two favourites.

As an Aussie, also love the new lilting accent added to the show by Laura Cz. Hope she sticks around for a bit.

kind regards from the land of cuckoo clocks and chocolate and heaps more besides
Martin

By: contrarianjerk

contrarianjerk — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:24:00 +0000

trolls… do you mean like this one from my LUG’s mailing list?

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.ale/84200

By: Terry Gardener

Terry Gardener — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:02:00 +0000

in the episode you where on about the different terminology. .
the ubuntu BFB button in the top left opens the DASH not the lens, if you click the dash and select one off the top shortcuts it opens the application lens at the required section.
there are 2 lenses by default application and file and folders that are at the bottom of the launcher.

also if you open the DASH and then search for a application it doesn’t suggest apps to download. this feature only works in the Application lens not the dash.

By: sorin7486

sorin7486 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:55:00 +0000

I imagine it does but I’m not a big fan of the global menu. I think menus are bad so just moving them isn’t good enough.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:50:00 +0000

In unity it Firefox 4 really looks great. The global menu helps a lot.

By: sorin7486

sorin7486 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:01:00 +0000

I’m only writing this because you guys asked me to

Ok so quick and to the point:
1) the properties thing, I do agree that not everybody uses it so it shouldn’t be there by default but how about offering some other (EASY !!!) way to do it for people that do need it ? Maybe put a package in that I could install or something ?
2) When I tried Natty I found the fact that default apps get the global menu and non default’s don’t really anoying. They said this from the start but is there any news about fixing it ?
3) I recently moved to Mint (it’s awesome) and I think the mint launcher is just about the best there is. I wonder if Canonical has considered using it and what do you guys think ?
4) I hate the “you should use everything in full screen anyway” argument just about as much as the “tile desktops are awesome” one. I should mention I have a 22 inch screen and I’m thinking of getting a bigger one.
5) Has anybody noticed how Firefox looks soo much better on Windows? Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. Here’s a screenshot in case you haven’t seen it: http://www.gam3play.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/firefox4-windows.png
What can I say, global menus FTW!!!

And on a totally different note, have you guys noticed how many people donate to the mint project?
http://linuxmint.com/donors.php
Doesn’t that make you wana join them ? 😀

cheers,
Sorin

ps: Wing Commander is da bomb !!!