synaptics touchpad generates clicks whilst disabled

Hello,

I'm running xserver-xorg-input-synaptics version 1.5.99.902-0ubuntu5.1 on a 
Lenovo X300 (i.e. I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 12.04) and use the TrackPoint 
with the touchpad disabled which otherwise would generate unwanted input as my 
hand brushes it.
I have tried several different ways to disable the touchpad, which I think all 
amount to 'synclient TouchpadOff=1'. Unfortunately none of these has quite 
worked, as although the touchpad seems disabled, it still generates clicks 
when the trackpoint button is held down (i.e. whilst dragging).

Thanks,
-		Peter Joanes.
<pjoanes <at> hotmail.com>

Simple thumbnailers?

Hello,

does any standard possibility exist to register simple specialised
thumbnailers that just run a program to create the thumbnail?

E.g. something like the

[Thumbnailer Entry]
Exec=...
MimeType=...

files that appear to work in Gnome3 (but that I cannot find actually
specified anywhere)?

I have looked at the only implementation of
org.freedesktop.thumbnails.SpecializedThumbnailer1 I was able to find,
maemo-video-thumbnailer.  IMO if you let people not understanding D-Bus
and thus not knowing what they are doing (such as me) implementing this
kind of stuff it can only lead to disaster...

Thanks,

Yeti

RFC: thumbnail: Modify to skip unreadable files

Hi all,

Another patch to consider for the thumbnail spec, based on a discussion 
4 years ago [1].

Basically, thumbnailers should not generated "failed" thumbnails for 
unreadable files, or they will remain un-thumbnail-able even if their 
permission are changed to make them readable.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/xdg <at> lists.freedesktop.org/msg04016.html
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49799

Comments?

- Mike

From 6c7c9aa226b57baf3d375457c041c69234936867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc <at> avtechpulse.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:37:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] do not save failed thumbnails for unreadable images

---
 thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml b/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
index cb539b6..b9c8411 100644
--- a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml

RFC: thumbnail: Modify to respect orientation tags

Hi all,

Here's another patch to consider for the thumbnail spec, requiring that 
thumbnailers respect the orientation tag in the image metadata, and 
encouraging the use of other image metadata (white balance, etc).

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49798

Comments?

- Mike

From 390d4cb4241486175e123ef19888ba1723b9afec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc <at> avtechpulse.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:22:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] specify that orientation metadata should be respected

---
 thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml b/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
index 091b5d1..cb539b6 100644
--- a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
+++ b/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
@@ -223,6 +223,15 @@
         possible quality when creating the thumbnail. The exact meaning of this
         is left to the specific program but it should consider applying

RFC: thumbnail: Modify to follow the XDG Basedir Spec

Hi,

There's a patch in [1] to change the thumbnail spec to use the xdg
basedir spec to determine where to store thumbnails. Concretely, instead
of using ~/.thumbnails, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails is used (falling back
to $HOME/.cache/thumbnails if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not set).

I'm attaching the patch here for easier review.

Opinions?

Cheers,

Vincent

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49607

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Introducing realmd

Hi there,

I'm working on making GNOME have an easy to use interface for joining a
realm [1] (or an Active Directory domain) so that you can use domain
logins on a machine. This is already doable on linux nowadays, but I'm
working on making it just take a few clicks and perhaps a password.

realmd (pronounced realm-DEE) is a DBus system service started on demand
which manages domain enrollment of the machine and setup of kerberos
logins and so on. It exposes a simple and extensible DBus interface [2]
which clients (like gnome-control-center) use.

It uses package-kit to install necessary packages, and policy-kit to
check for privileges.

It doesn't support every possible option and incantation for joining a
domain. The goal of realmd is to facilitate a really simple UI. For
example it automatically detects whether a given domain is an Active
Directory (and in the future IPA) realm, without asking the user to make
that choice. realmd tries to use intelligent defaults.

However a goal of realmd is to interoperate well with the current tools
for doing this stuff, so advanced deployments can continue to use distro
or custom tools.

realmd is designed to support more than just Kerberos realms, although
that's all it implements for now. For example in the future it could
help the user setup Google Account based logins [3].

realmd supports setup of different stacks to handle the enrollment and

suse 11.1 lxde

Hi All,

I'd got fed up with gnome-3 and tried unsuccessfully to go back to gnome-2. I elected to
install opensuse 11.4 with LXDE - that I could install whatever software I wished and to
change the boot splash - the log-on screen and the desktop background to reflect that I
was using LXDE.

Sadly with heavy branding these are quite complex issues to change (I've changed my
desktop). "Boot-splash" and "Splashy" are installed but command line only and there's no
help either at opensuse or in the help system.

What I want is an 100 per cent LXDE desktop not a hard coded opensuse. The question I have
is a simple one: How do I get to a 100 per cent LXDE environment?

David
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Fwd: PyXDG

(Accidentally replied off list, sending to the list now)

On 25 April 2012 12:27, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working for a while now on a python implementation of xdg specs,
> it works on both python2 and 3. PyXDG codebase is absolutely awful. Link
> below if anyone's interested. It's not feature-complete yet though...

Thanks, Jerome. Do you have a feel for:

- How long will it take to replace the functionality of PyXDG?
- How similar will the interface be? Will adapting code that uses it
just require renaming a few functions, or will it need other code to
be refactored?

I haven't got a particular interest in maintaining PyXDG myself, but
there are quite a few other packages that depend on it. I think it
would be pretty easy to make PyXDG Python 3 compatible, so I suggest
we make a 0.20 release with just those changes, so that existing code
can keep using it. Then we can encourage people to move to your
interface over time.

Vincent:
> We can migrate the CVS repo to git, and give you access if you're interested and nobody else steps up 

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I'll start working out what
changes are needed for Python 3.

Thomas

Thumbnail spec in git

Hi,

I had totally forgotten about this, but Jens sent me a while ago the
latest source of the thumbnail spec. I've pushed this to xdg-specs in a
branch for now:

 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/log/?h=thumbnail

I'll merge that to master (and export it on the website) later on.

Cheers,

Vincent

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Fwd: PyXDG

Hi all,

Does anyone know who has control of the repository for PyXDG? It needs
updating to work with Python 3.

The files in the latest tarball suggest that the maintainer is
Heinrich Wendel, but when I contacted him, he said that he was no
longer involved, and didn't have access. The project was in CVS, but
the web interface appears to be down.

Thanks,
Thomas

P.S. Apologies to anyone receiving this twice; I tried to post before
subscribing.

Adding to Registered OnlyShowIn Environments

Greetings,

I am writing on behalf of the members of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) project.

TDE is a continuation of the KDE 3.5 desktop.

We want to add TDE to the list of Registered OnlyShowIn Environments:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html

Please let me know how to proceed further.

Thank you!

Darrell Anderson