21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
1:28 p.m.
If only it were so easy. Maybe it is.
I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty. Some rough edges, but definitely
usable.
One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
Is that even doable? If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
/etc/printcap ... :-)
Peter
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21 Oct
21 Oct
1:34 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
On 10/21/11 08:28, Peter Laws wrote:
If only it were so easy. Maybe it is.
I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty. Some rough edges, but definitely
usable.
One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
Is that even doable? If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
/etc/printcap ... :-)
Holy carp - there is an /etc/printcap! Should have grepped before joking!
Comments therein indicate that it's generated from entries in
/etc/cups/printers.conf ... If I copy this file, will it all just work?
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University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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4:33 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
If only it were so easy. Maybe it is.
I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty. Some rough edges, but definitely
usable.
One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
Is that even doable? If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
/etc/printcap ... :-)
Peter
This is definitely a bug and needs to be fixed before release. It would
probably have been better for you to file a bug report when you first
noticed it; that way we could have isolated the issue more quickly.
Also, what rough edges are you referring to? We would like to fix as many
of those as possible prior to release.
Thanks!
Tim
4:40 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
If only it
were so easy. Maybe it is.
I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty. Some rough edges, but definitely
usable.
One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
Is that even doable? If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
/etc/printcap ... :-)
Peter
This is definitely a bug and needs to be fixed before release. It would
probably have been better for you to file a bug report when you first
noticed it; that way we could have isolated the issue more quickly.
Also, what rough edges are you referring to? We would like to fix as many
of those as possible prior to release.
Thanks!
Tim
10 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
On 10/21/11 11:40, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> This is definitely a bug and needs to be fixed
before release. It would
> probably have been better for you to file a bug report when you first
> noticed it; that way we could have isolated the issue more quickly.
#541. Put it in a few days ago.
>
> Also, what rough edges are you referring to? We would like to fix as many
> of those as possible prior to release.
Little, hard-to-quantify-for-a-bug-report things. Parts of the display
blank out when using drop down boxes in Firefox, for example.
This morning, I had to restart because the Gnome desktop started to win its
little fight with TDE and changed the background to the default image and
all the icons to the Gnome style. Even the typeface in Thunderbird changed!
I didn't *have* to reboot, but I needed to change some stuff in the BIOS
anyway.
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University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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22 Oct
22 Oct
1:30 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
On 10/21/11 11:40, Timothy Pearson wrote:
OK, sorry I didn't see that bug originally. I put a couple of suggestions
on the bug report.
> This is definitely a bug and needs to be
fixed before release. It
> would
> probably have been better for you to file a bug report when you first
> noticed it; that way we could have isolated the issue more quickly.
#541. Put it in a few days ago. >
> Also, what rough edges are you referring to? We would like to fix as
> many
> of those as possible prior to release.
Little, hard-to-quantify-for-a-bug-report things. Parts of the display
blank out when using drop down boxes in Firefox, for example.
This morning, I had to restart because the Gnome desktop started to win
its
little fight with TDE and changed the background to the default image and
all the icons to the Gnome style. Even the typeface in Thunderbird
changed!
I didn't *have* to reboot, but I needed to change some stuff in the BIOS
anyway.
Wow, I never heard of a desktop (Gnome in this case) behaving that badly
towards another before! KDE4 does try to launch Plasma if it isn't forced
into submission via dpkg-redirects, but I have no idea why Gnome thinks it
has the right to seize full desktop control. :-/
Thanks for letting us know about these problems, and if you run into any
more little issues please let us know here.
Tim
24 Oct
24 Oct
10:02 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] printcap?
On 10/21/11 20:30, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I tried to use Gnome back in the day (RH 7.3 or 9 or something - and no, I
don't mean Fedora) but started with KDE under SuSE and have stuck with it.
Still don't like it even though I'd sure save me a lot of trouble if I'd
just go along with the crowd.
Not.
Are there pkgs I can safely remove that might prevent this in the future
(only seen it the one time)?
Peter
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> On 10/21/11 11:40, Timothy Pearson wrote:
This morning, I had to restart because the Gnome desktop started to win
its
little fight with TDE and changed the background to the default image and
all the icons to the Gnome style. Even the typeface in Thunderbird
changed!
I didn't *have* to reboot, but I needed to change some stuff in the BIOS
anyway.
Wow, I never heard of a desktop (Gnome in this case) behaving that badly
towards another before! KDE4 does try to launch Plasma if it isn't forced
into submission via dpkg-redirects, but I have no idea why Gnome thinks it
has the right to seize full desktop control. :-/
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