November 20, 2009

Jeff Fortin

Regénérer une table de partitions

Symptômes: carte SD noname (d’un ami) qui

Bon, l’idéal est de faire un backup pendant qu’elle est montée read-only et qu’en en a encore la chance, mais sinon, si on se retrouve comme dans ma situation avec des partitions intactes (vues par gparted et palimpset), ben c’est peut-être une table de partitions bousillée (du moins c’est mon hypothèse).

J’ai utilisé export LANG=C, puis fdisk pour voir ce qui se passait:

jeff@kagami:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 33.6 GB, 33553907712 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1023984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x73696420
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1   ?    30254481    97205095  2142419640+  45  Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/mmcblk0p2   ?    28955778    58172676   934940722+  65  Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/mmcblk0p3   ?    26593410    52133516   817283378   20  Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/mmcblk0p4   ?    45088769    45089595       26464    d  Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order

Houlà. Après avoir cherché “does not end on cylinder boundary.” sur Google, j’ai fini par tomber sur un commentaire dans un post obscur de forum, qui indiquait une procédure intéressante. J’ai fait comme il a suggéré, et… ça a marché.

jeff@kagami:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1023984.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): x
Expert command (m for help): f
Done.
Expert command (m for help): v
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition 1: head 113 greater than maximum 4
Partition 1: sector 111 greater than maximum 16
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition 2: head 116 greater than maximum 4
Partition 2: sector 115 greater than maximum 16
Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 2.
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition 3: head 115 greater than maximum 4
Partition 3: sector 114 greater than maximum 16
Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 3.
Warning: partition 2 overlaps partition 3.
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition 4: head 11 greater than maximum 4
Partition 4: sector 0 greater than maximum 16
Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 4.
Warning: partition 2 overlaps partition 4.
Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 4.
Total allocated sectors 3118783728 greater than the maximum 65534976
Expert command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
jeff@kagami:~$

Légende des commandes interactives:

Et bam. La carte SD s’est remise à fonctionner normalement, et à être montée en écriture lors du branchement. Bon, j’ai quand même pris soin d’indiquer à Vince que cette carte SD noname est très douteuse et qu’il faut pas trop s’y fier maintenant…

November 20, 2009 08:16 PM

November 19, 2009

Ted Gould

Kinda like Fedora

I admit it, I'm a little jealous of the Fedora feature of being able to install signed packages without a password prompt. I set out to get close on Ubuntu. The way that you edit the PolicyKit practices towards package install is to edit the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/. If you look at the action for "Install packages" you can change <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> to <allow_active>yes</allow_active>. Then software center works as expected.

November 19, 2009 05:44 PM

November 18, 2009

Jeff Fortin

L’astuce pour les conversations audio/vidéo sur MSN avec Empathy

De nature curieuse, je voulais vérifier la véracité des release notes d’Empathy 2.28.x, où on nous dit que non seulement la voix et vidéo sont disponibles pour les comptes jabber/XMPP, mais également MSN (ou Live, ou peu importe comment ce truc s’appelle ce mois-ci). J’ai donc utilisé une machine virtuelle pour faire rouler Live Messenger (version 2009 build 14.0.8089.726) et tester le tout. Y’a deux attrapes:

  1. Comme indiqué dans la FAQ, ça ne marchera pas avec la version d’Empathy fournie avec Ubuntu 9.10, il faut la version du PPA
  2. Il faut que le compte MSN ait été ajouté alors que telepathy-butterfly était installé, sinon Empathy aura utilisé telepathy-haze, qui ne supporte pas l’audio et vidéo. Si les deux sont installés, butterfly a automatiquement priorité lors de l’ajout de compte (le choix n’est pas donné à l’utilisateur)… alors si le compte a été ajouté avec haze, il faut le supprimer et l’ajouter de nouveau avec butterfly. Vous y comprenez rien? Normal, c’est insensé. J’ai ouvert un rapport de bug là-dessus.

Résultat:

empathy msn 1

empathy msn 2

P.s.: je maintiens toujours que “msn ça pue c’est pas libre” et que vous devriez utiliser Jabber ;)

November 18, 2009 01:57 AM

November 17, 2009

Jeff Fortin

GStreamer tutorials for PiTiVi contributors

Brandon started publishing some of his PyGST tutorials/notes today. If you have been looking for some documentation to get you started on understanding/contributing to PiTiVi, this should probably be of interest to you :)

November 17, 2009 11:11 PM

Create Project Wiki

User:TimD

New user account

New page

November 17, 2009 07:32 PM

Alexandre Prokoudine

History of one semi- feature request in Scribus

Friday

[14:42] >mrscribe revision 14288 by fschmid in trunk on 2009-11-13 at 03:57:44 - Xara Importer:: some more types of transparent fills supporter, for correct display we need gradient masks though.
[14:53] <prokoudine> yes! yes! masks! :)
[15:35] -fschmid- prokoudine: i'll try to implement them, but thats not so easy
[15:36] >fschmid i need to do some hacking to get them working on Qt's Arthur paint engine, with cairo they're easy
[15:49] <prokoudine> I thought it would easy be with Arthur since it supports SVG fairly well
[16:07] >fschmid no, sadly not, masks are a rarely used feature in SVG and Qt does only implement a subset of the SVG specs
[17:30] -fschmid- prokoudine: you're lucky, i've found a way doing gradient masks in Qt
[17:32] >fschmid will try to implement this properly next week i hope

Monday

[17:07] >mrscribe revision 14297 by fschmid in trunk on 2009-11-16 at 05:54:20 - Gradient Masks Part 1: Framework (load, save etc...)
[22:18] >mrscribe revision 14298 by fschmid in trunk on 2009-11-16 at 11:05:20 - Gradient Masks Part 1: Framework fixes and Cairo based drawing + Xara Importer adapted.

Tuesday

[13:21] >mrscribe revision 14299 by fschmid in trunk on 2009-11-17 at 02:00:17 - Gradient Masks Part 3: Qt based drawing (sadly much slower than Cairo)
[18:33] >mrscribe revision 14300 by fschmid in trunk on 2009-11-17 at 07:12:04 - Gradient Masks Part 4: GUI to edit that stuff.

As we say here in matushka Rossiya, мужик сказал — мужик сделал* :)

In fact, pattern fill in strokes was added by Franz a couple of weeks ago the very same way.

*The real man always does what he promises

November 17, 2009 04:26 PM

November 15, 2009

Jeff Fortin

PiTiVi on Windows

A little while back, Andoni Morales (author of Longomatch) had managed to run PiTiVi on Windows “just for the sake of testing gstreamer python bindings”. His efforts have resumed and been posted to a new bug report as a serie of patches, and here is how it looks like:

This is also part of his efforts to package GStreamer for Windows. Although I don’t use Windows myself (actually, I can’t stand it), I see this as a good thing. If Andoni indeeds wants to maintain a port to Windows, it might help more users and raise awareness about PiTiVi.

And I guess I could use that to poke fun at the “other FOSS NLEs that promised ports to Windows and never actually ended up doing it” (if any dared to make such promises… well, unless you count Blender among video editors ;). I kid, I kid.

Pitfalls: in Andoni’s own words, “it’s not working very well, and there is a nasty bug in the timescale which makes it almost unusable, but the rendering is working!”

If you are interested in tinkering with it, go take a look at his bug report, or perhaps chat with “ylatuya” (on the IRC channel). Take note that the Windows executable provided in Andoni’s bug report is entirely self contained (you don’t need to install GTK+ and GStreamer dependencies yourself), so it should “just work”. See also the wiki page for PiTiVi on Windows (not yet updated).

November 15, 2009 07:24 PM

November 14, 2009

Jon Phillips - Inkscape + Open Clip Art Library

Cost of War

What if, invested that in education for the more than 60% youth under 20 years old in the arab world…

#costOfWarTotal { text-align: center; width: 270px; font-weight: bold; } #costOfWarTotal_Total { font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #990000; } #costOfWarTotal_Link { font-size: .7em; }

November 14, 2009 01:36 PM

November 13, 2009

Alexandre Prokoudine

Qtpfsgui needs help

Heya, our little project that quite mattered in the libre graphics community for last couple of years is in danger. Giuseppe doesn’t have any time now, Daniel also lack time, and the brilliant Franco who joined us half a year ago disappeared a couple of months ago.

That leaves us an unfinished 2.0 release under a new name (yes, we’re saying goodbye to Qtpfsgui). If you have some spare time in your hands and can do Qt programming, the project would do with your help to at least have v2.0 finished and released.

Most important things that demand attention:

There is bunch of ideas how to make Qtpfsgui easier to use (make it not expect PhD from users, for instance :)), so anyone who would like to go even further than just bugfixing is surely welcome :) Please contact me for details.

November 13, 2009 04:45 PM

Create Project Wiki

Main Page

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November 13, 2009 03:35 AM

User:Ascott23

New user account

New page

November 13, 2009 03:11 AM

November 11, 2009

Boudewijn Rempt - Krita

Krita has got a new website!

After two years and various attempts, Krita finally has a website of its own. And a really nice one, too. Thanks to Krita forum user Kubuntiac who did all the hard work and heavy lifting! Take a sneak peek at krita2d.org -- soon we'll point krita.org to the new location!

It's well integrated within the wider world of KDE websites: we have our forums at forums.kde.org, our tutorials go to userbase, developer information will go to techbase and the developer wiki. We've got a nice showcase with the most impressive images from the forum gallery. Also, the historical screenshots are back, rescued from the old koffice.org website.

I promise -- faithfully! -- that I'll try to make it a tradition to write a weekly "Last Week in Krita" entry for the frontpage. It always surprises me how much we get done in a week. More than seventy commits by seven people is not to be sneezed at! For now, there's some nice and uplifting content for you to read!

And... Watch krita.org for something really exciting later this week!

November 11, 2009 11:23 AM

Tired...

I'm sometimes tired of hard and software, too... When my Vista laptop boots and refuses to connect to my wifi network -- the little wifi light is on, but no network, or when after coming back from suspending it won't recognize my password (the same that I can login with when freshly booted), or because the fingerprint reader isn't supported. Or when the screen goes black for three seconds before it asks me for the admin password. And when the Photoshop CS3 demo complains it cannot install until I close firefox, I get tired. I despair when OSX gives me an update and suddenly the whole machine won't boot anymore and I have to reinstall Leopard. Or when a friend upgraded to Snow Leopard and discovered he cannot play wma files anymore after the update. I have to admit that OSX's kernel panic screen is nice and multilingual, but I wish I didn't have to see it every month or so. And what's with the vertical green and blue lines the screen on my top-of-the-line Macbook Pro 17" shows? It's not pretty. And when KDE's plasma's task manager keeps crashing or moving all the tabs to the right-hand side, instead of left aligning them, I sigh. Like I did when I find out I have to reboot my N900 every week otherwise the memory gets filled up by the microblogging service that Mauku runs.

Basically, no hardware and no software ever works correctly. All software and hardware sucks, and most of it sucks equally bad. I make an exception for vim, of course, but the only reason other software seems to be less sucky is because I haven't discovered what makes it suck yet. Well, back to doing something about it and getting Krita under 40 known bugs now.

(And now the Photoshop CS3 demo complains it wants at least a Pentium4, Celeron, Core Duo or Core2 processor, on a Core2 laptop...)

November 11, 2009 10:26 AM

November 10, 2009

Robert Martinez

Watch UsNow

"Us Now" is a documentary illustrating the remarkable development of todays culture: people help each other. If you have an hour to spend - watch it and see how people can run football clubs, record music or even run a bank.

Get inspired or just > watch.

November 10, 2009 02:10 AM

November 09, 2009

Jeff Fortin

Le format DjVu

DjVu Plug-in by NetSpider Je viens de découvrir par hasard (en cherchant un manuel de réfrigérateur!) le format DjVu. Intrigué, j’ai demandé à Wikipédia (anglais et français), au site officiel et au site de DjVu libre. Il semble que c’est bien un format libre, donc c’est aussi bien (sinon mieux) que PDF d’un point de vue licence et d’un point de vue technique (si j’ai tort, hésitez pas).

Réflexe de Linuxien, j’ai cliqué sur le fichier sans même me poser la question s’il fallait que je télécharge un logiciel particulier pour l’ouvrir… et effectivement, Evince l’a ouvert immédiatement.

Points positifs immédiatement perceptibles:

Mais bon, y’a quand même une bonne petite poignée de bugs reliés à DjVu dans Evince (non, pas envie d’avoir plus d’un logiciel pour visionner des documents).

Pour convertir des PDFs existants et voir si vous pouvez économiser de l’espace avec ces manuels énormes, vous pouvez installer pdf2djvu (facilement accessible dans les depôts de votre distribution Linux) ou même utiliser le service de conversion en ligne (qui semble avoir mieux fonctionné que pdf2djvu dans mon cas). Maintenant… pourquoi diable a-t-on une icône d’image au lieu d’une icône de document dans GNOME?

November 09, 2009 05:24 PM

November 07, 2009

Jeff Fortin

Installer Ubuntu 9.10 en version LPIA

Tel que promis, voici un petit guide/récit de mon expérience dans l’installation d’Ubuntu LPIA, en anglais. Ça m’a pris un certain temps/délai, je suis plutôt occupé ces temps-ci (je vais probablement pouvoir rester tranquille pour un moment maintenant :)

November 07, 2009 04:03 PM

Installing Ubuntu 9.10 LPIA the hard way

This is an attempt at making a “howto” based on my personal experience installing Ubuntu “Karmic Koala” 9.10 in its LPIA port (optimized for Atom processors). Remember, the normal Ubuntu desktop ISOs and the “Ubuntu netbook remix” ISOs are not tuned for the LPIA architecture, they are generic images. They will work with your Atom processor, but you will have less performance and less energy savings. Phoronix reported on this a while back, differences are in the range of 10% for each.

The Good

kagami LPIAMy experience going from Ubuntu 8.10 generic to Ubuntu 9.10 LPIA is that my CPU is generally 10°C cooler. Instead of hovering at 46-50°C idle, it nows hovers at 38-43°C. My Dell Mini 9 being passively cooled, it is now noticeably less warm to the touch, and more comfortable to use.
In this guide, I will take for granted that:

The Bad

  1. First step is to grab the LPIA cd image. This one took me a while, because Canonical seems to have fun changing the folders in which they put their ISO images (it’s not just considered an “alternate image” anymore). The new place is: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/
  2. Then, use unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive with that ISO
  3. Boot your netbook on that USB drive, and before you start the installer, press Tab (or e, or whatever) to edit the boot line, and add the following: “cdrom-detect/try-usb=true” (put it after “–quiet” at the end of the line)
  4. Launch the installer. Ideally, have a network cable plugged in, otherwise you can probably skip the DHCP process.
  5. Set up your partitions as you see fit (I’m assuming you know what the hell you’re doing here :)

And now… the f*cked up part. It’s so batshit insane that I can’t conclude to anything else but a huge bug and little QA testing. Grab onto something.

The Ugly

After a while in the install process, the base system will be installed (”ubuntu-base”, I can presume), and you will be prompted whether or not you want to install additional packages (useful stuff like, you know, an actual desktop). I chose to install Ubuntu desktop, and that’s when things went very, very wrong.

After a while, some stupid error will come up, “blah blah blah something went wrong blah blah blah”. It’s basically telling you “Sorry Dave, I can’t install those packages”. I didn’t really bother searching for a bug report about this. After one more failed attempt, I decided to reboot and see if the system was somewhat usable.

It boots! And then I’m left with a base system and thrown into a root terminal after two seconds of boot. Nice. Well, I’ll just install the ubuntu-desktop myself then! Ha ha. Not so fast. First, you probably don’t have an active network connection, second, your sources.list is messed up, and third, unless you like pain or are a vi user, you can’t fix it and keep your sanity at the same time. After cursing the Editor of the Beast many times, I just copied the “/bin/nano” binary (from another computer, even if it was running Ubuntu generic) onto a USB key, and used that to edit the sources.list. Yeah, I’m that cool.

So here’s what I did:

sudo -i # become root because I'm lazy
dhclient eth0 # get a working network connection
mkdir /tmp/foo # mount the usb key to get nano from there
fdisk -l # list the partitions to figure out which one is the USB drive
mount /dev/sdbsomething /tmp/foo # sdbsomething is the device name obtained with fdisk -l
cd /etc/apt/
cp sources.list.apt-setup sources.list
/tmp/foo/nano /etc/apt/sources.list # edit the sources list with a decent text editor

Now, just comment out (add a # at the start of the line) the two lines regarding cdrom entries (there may be more than two; inspiration taken from here). Then, ideally, we now have entries that point to ports.ubuntu.com instead of archive.ubuntu.com. These are the correct repositories for architecture ports such as the LPIA port. Now we can finally refresh our apt sources and install the desktop. Be prepared for at least 800-1000 packages to download and install… yes, what a freaking waste, considering we have a USB key that was supposed to install them for us (but crapped out in the process). This guide is actually more like an experience report than a howto, in the sense that it certainly is not the “perfect method” (at that point, I seriously did not care anymore if it took me one more hour to download and install, if it worked).

apt-get update # update the packages lists
apt-get install ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop
reboot

And it worked! It only took 3 hours instead of 15 minutes ;) … when will Canonical give us a live CD installer for the LPIA version so we don’t have to put up with this crap?

November 07, 2009 03:57 PM

November 06, 2009

Robert Martinez

Fontastic!

Want to see a deluxe, modern, quality font? Don't hesitate and watch how Titillium applies to your workflow! This is really an amazing font under an amazing licence - the OFL. I'm looking forward to find more fonts like this on the new openfontlibrary project page.

Oh, and don't forget to check once in a while - Titillium will soon have an extra-black version...

November 06, 2009 03:58 PM

November 05, 2009

Dave Neary

The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu?

Reading this blog entry on Linux Magazine, the thought occurred to me that Ubuntu is making its way nicely along the path that new projects have travelled for many years. It is around the same place that Red Hat used to be around the time of Red Hat 7.

The Hype Cycle describes the way that new technologies and projects are perceived over time, if they do a good job of handling themselves, going from a technology trigger, inflated expectations, disillusionment, enlightenment, before arriving at “the plateau of productivity” – a state where there is no more hype and the new technology is simply a normal part of our lives.

Ubuntu arrived with a bang, and certainly has had inflated expectations over the past couple of years. And yet due to quality issues, it has recently been failing to meet those expectations, especially around upgrading from previous versions (by no means an easy problem to get right, don’t get me wrong). Many long-time Ubuntu users appear to be getting upset.

But then, you don’t get upset about things you don’t care about.

This disillusionment, if it doesn’t turn into resignation, could be a sign of health in the Ubuntu project and community – on condition that the lessons of quality are learned and put into practice. Certainly this is a drum that Mark Shuttleworth has been beating for some time now – but unfortunately it’s not as easy as asking upstream to get their act together in a Tom Sawyer community model. QA seems like an ideal opportunity for collaboration between distributions and upstream projects, as well as being the core activity of each individual distribution. Supplying quality is, after all, the market opportunity which Linux distributions base their business models on.

In any case, I for one am looking forward to the deflated expectations being met and exceeded in future releases, allowing us Ubuntu users to make it to the Plateau of Productivity as soon as possible.

November 05, 2009 01:52 PM

November 03, 2009

The Open Clip Art Library

Nicu Buculei: This is a small world

This morning when going to work I somehow noticed (I usually don't look for such things) this small poster glued on the wall of a building close to my office (less than 50 meters away):

poster

Noting out of the extraordinary, some small firm advertising for pet services, but what drew my attention was the drawing in the top-right corner with a dog head. It was looking familiar, as it is one of my drawings published at the Open Clip Art Library and it made my day!

I made it years ago, exercising original drawing made with the mouse, so the result is not great, but I submitted it to the library anyway, as I do with all my drawings which are not made for a specific project. And I found awesome how a little graphic contributed to an international project found its way back to a few meters away of me. Either the world is very small or what we are doing is really useful for the people.

Now to be honest, I can't say for sure if the image is taken from openclipart.org, from my own website, where the images are also available, or from one of the many other websites redistributing, grace to the PD dedication, the openclipart.org content. But this is irrelevant, the goal was achieved.

PS: is not wise to base your company logo on Public Domain clipart, but for very small companies this is not a real problem, they don't have real branding.

November 03, 2009 12:28 PM

November 02, 2009

Jon Phillips - Inkscape + Open Clip Art Library

StatusNet FollowUp Press

What a hyperactive last few weeks! Life keeps accelerating it seems. If you missed this press, a couple of great posts about community advising I’m doing with Status.Net. ReadWriteWeb wrote:

The news is significant as it reflects the interest in open-source alternatives to the proprietary microblogging services that currently dominate the market in the consumer and enterprise communities.

Also, please read the big news about Status.Net closing another round of investment which allows for myself, Brion, Evan and more all work on such a great project.

November 02, 2009 07:24 PM

The Open Clip Art Library

Worldlabel: Clip Art of the Month: Holiday images

November 2009 Clip Art of the Month salutes the Holiday Season!

Businesses shut down. Productivity slows to a halt. Shopping malls are so full of people they’re bursting at the seems. These are just some of the ideas brought to mind as the end of the year approaches and a new Holiday Season is upon us.

A source of stress, at times, the Holidays can also be a time of togetherness and unity for people. Clip art images by liftarn (above) and bloodsong (below) beautifully demonstrate how simple and effective imagery can articulate these same feelings.

Vector graphics have also been stylistically implemented by mcol’s Christmas tree in the spirit of the Holiday Season.

The Open Clip Art Library is always evolving and welcomes contributions from everyone around the world.

Clip Art of the month is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional label manufacturer.

November 02, 2009 02:28 PM

Robert Martinez

PlayDeb.net beta

What a nice surprise! Along with the new release of Ubuntu I discovered the game project PlayDeb.net that aims to extend the official repositories with recent versions of great games. Not only does it provide really good games with nice meta information in a well structured and clean website, but also eases the process of installing them: just install their package and get any game with a simple click on their homepage. Any? - not really, some don't seem to work yet. (I guess that's why they still call it beta 2 :P) Look for availability of 9.10 - unfortunately not all games have support for the latest Ubuntu.

Anyway a great project!

November 02, 2009 12:33 AM

November 01, 2009

Robert Martinez

Ubuntu 9.10 is here

As you have probably heard already, the new Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) is now available. I use this operating system not only because it is the most usable GNU/Linux distribution out there, but because it is a really good operating system in general. If you don't know it - try it! Because it has more to offer than just a few features or a nice price: freedom.

Maybe one day I'll finally switch to some OS that offers even more freedom than Ubuntu does today, but until then I certainly recommend Ubuntu to anyone.

(For all you windows people out there: you can even install this complete operating system inside Windows just like you install/uninstall other applications - try that if you're too cautious!)

November 01, 2009 05:04 PM

Create Project Wiki

Libre Graphics Day/CFP

libre graphics day:

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Not only will this serve the developers working on graphical applications, drivers and technology who make up a portion of the core linux.conf.au audience, but it will also bring in many users, artists, graphic designers and potential open source users. Developers of different projects will be able to learn from and collaborate with other projects, while also gaining insight on some of the uses artistic end users discover. Users will have a chance to gain insight into the open source development process while at the same time giving them an opportunity to provide feedback and input directly to the developers of projects they might use.
Not only will this serve the developers working on graphical applications, drivers and technology who make up a portion of the core linux.conf.au audience, but it will also bring in many users, artists, graphic designers and potential open source users. Developers of different projects will be able to learn from and collaborate with other projects, while also gaining insight on some of the uses artistic end users discover. Users will have a chance to gain insight into the open source development process while at the same time giving them an opportunity to provide feedback and input directly to the developers of projects they might use.
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Miniconfs at linux.conf.au are unable to accept sponsorship. However, if you wish to support linux.conf.au, the conference sponsorship team would love to hear from you. For more info see http://www.lca2010.org.nz/sponsors/why_sponsor
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Conference 2009

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*[http://digg.com/linux_unix/Support_the_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2008 '''Digg''']  
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*[http://www.linux.com/feature/132193 '''linux.com'''] [http://www.customwritings.com essay] [http://www.linux.com/feature/132193 on LGM by Nathan Willis]  
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* [[Teaching]] - a draft for the Libre Graphics Teaching project
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* [[Academic]] - academic track for Libre Graphics, scientific papers etc.
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October 31, 2009

Jeff Fortin

Quelques agréables nouveautés de GNOME 2.28 et Ubuntu 9.10

Y’a un dossier de captures d’écran qui me supplie d’être publié depuis des semaines, alors voici un petit tour rapide d’améliorations «visibles» dans la nouvelle release d’Ubuntu. Le «comment installer Ubuntu 9.10 en version LPIA en souffrant atrocement» sera pour un autre billet (j’hésite à le faire en français ou en anglais). Ici, je me concentre sur des petits détails qui sont généralement peu mentionnés dans les release notes.

Tout d’abord, la calculatrice affiche maintenant les symboles des opérations de division et multiplication comme elles sont courramment utilisées dans le monde réel et les salles de classe:

calculatrice

Ensuite, les avertissements d’espace disque faible sont (enfin!) de retour. Je suis content, parce que je remplis mon /home de manière récurrente. Cette fenêtre de dialogue est d’autant plus intéressante pour les utilisateurs lambda, parce qu’elle apporte deux solutions concrètes au problème:

Espace disque faible

J’ai également constaté que le dialogue de déconnexion de session a légèrement changé. Il me dit maintenant que «oh, en passant, t’as encore des mises à jour qui nécessiteront plus qu’un logout, pourquoi pas redémarrer?»:

Fermer la session

Evolution 2.28 apporte un tas de petites améliorations subtiles, mais dévoile aussi un bug assez affreux dans GTK+. Si la vue en icônes est activée, attacher un fichier à un message va rapidement remplir votre mémoire vive. J’ai brièvement fouillé sur launchpad pour trouver un rapport de bug qui ressemble assez à ma description, pour signaler aux devs d’Ubuntu qu’il faudrait appliquer le patch qui a été ajouté à GTK+.

En plus de divers correctifs, de peaufinements dans l’interface (à mort Bonobo!), je viens de constater qu’Evolution affiche enfin correctement les images de nos contacts (ça n’avait jamais fonctionné pour moi avant):

mugshots dans evolution - pixellisé

La fenêtre de statistiques de GNOME Power Manager est franchement mieux. Plus flexible, utile, professionnelle, etc. Faut dire que jusqu’à hier, mon netbook roulait encore sous Ubuntu 8.10 + GNOME 2.24.

stats gpm 1

stats gpm 2

Je me réjouis également d’avoir enfin le nouveau contrôleur de volume de GNOME, qui est conçu pour s’intégrer à Pulseaudio. Maintenant, paramétrer le son en surround n’est que deux clics de souris (avec une carte son bien supportée comme mon chip intégré Intel ICH9), les thèmes sonores sont bien pris en charge, et les (dé)branchements de périphériques à chaud (ex: micro USB, webcam, casque micro USB, cartes son USB, etc.) deviennent enfin possibles:

Préférences du son

Un nouvel utilitaire a également fait son apparition («Palimpset»). Il permet de gérer ses périphériques de stockage (disques durs, disques optiques, lecteurs de cartes, etc.) et leurs partitions, intègre la surveillance SMART, et permet même… de se fabriquer un RAID facilement!

Utilitaire de disque Palimpsest

Oh ouais. J’ai oublié de mentionner le plus traumatisant. Totem lit maintenant les DVDs correctement (avec les menus et tout)! Eh ouais. Ça fait seulement cinq ans que j’attendais ça pour que mes amis fans de VLC/mplayer arrêtent de se moquer de moi :)

Ce n’est pas tout. Ça, c’était la liste des petits trucs sympa que je peux montrer avec des captures d’écran. Il y a aussi, dans ma liste de «petits problèmes chiants réglés avec 9.10»:

  • tearing lorsque composite est activé sur GPUs intel (LP #278318)
  • couleurs tordues:  [i945] totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST/XV_SATURATION to wrong default value (Xv movies on i810/i945 have horrible colour/gamma/contrast) (LP #32963)
  • instabilité générale des drivers intel (LP #359392)
  • conversations audio/vidéo dans empathy
  • evolution qui respecte les proxy socks (du moins en théorie… pas encore pu tester, pour une raison que j’ignore, les proxy socks ne sont plus aucunement pris en compte sous gnome on dirait)
  • liferea webkit, série 1.6, qui est bien plus performant que la série 1.4
  • webcam du mini 9 qui ne flicker plus
  • openoffice ne foire plus l’affichage des caractères lorsque le lissage sous-pixel est activé dans GNOME
  • …firefox non plus
  • gedit peut être mis en mode plein écran, plus besoin d’un greffon pour ça
  • surround qui ne fonctionne pas dans totem si les visualisations sont activées (LP #323298)
  • [Bug 350007] evolution busy-waits on GPG signing operations
  • Bug 334806 – Nautilus should inhibit gnome-power-manager when copying files
  • [Bug 340212] Using Ctrl+Backspace copies to clipboard (dans evolution)
  • problèmes avec les dégradés dans les PDFs avec Evince (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22985), mais pas confondre avec http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553880 ; le problème n’est pas complètement réglé, ouvert http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24447 à ce sujet
  • Bug 583851 – accents / unicode stuff not recognize (dans hamster)
  • [Bug 478239] attachment icon is shown for messages that contain no attachment (dans evolution)
  • [Bug 565309] Srt subtitle badly detected
  • [OpenOffice.org Issue 28526] Allow anti-aliasing of drawing objects
  • [LP #354620] Recording from microphone stutters when pulseaudio is running
  • le curseur qui clignote et le texte inutile lors de la mise en veille/reprise de mon Mini 9 (thanks, Kernel Mode Setting!)
  • [LP #323859] Speakers do not mute when starting an audio program with headsets jack inserted
  • Les vidéos Flash qui n’étaient pas fluides et avaient du tearing (ex: Youtube en SD) sur mon Mini 9

Prochain billet (si j’en ai le courage et qu’il y a un intérêt pour la chose): un guide tiré de mon expérience pour installer la version LPIA d’Ubuntu 9.10 sur mon Mini 9. C’était tout sauf user-friendly, mais je suppose que ça valait la peine (mon processeur reste autour de 39-43°C au lieu de 48-51°C au repos!).

October 31, 2009 09:33 PM