[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:58:58PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | A few things I've noticed already;
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> I run Ubuntu on some of my systems and I salvishly update when a new
> version seems safe.  Thanks for being one of the testers!
> 
> | - At the command line, when you pipe something through grep, it highlights the
> | part of the string grep matched on. A small change, but soooo nice.
> 
> How could it do that without violating normal UNIX abstractions??

Only do it if output is a tty?  ls --color=auto does the same thing.
If output is a tty, colour it, and if it is a pipe or a file, then don't
touch it.

> That's been possible, I think, with a kernel parameter (i.e.
> vga=something in the kernel line in the grub config file
> /boot/grub/menu.lst).  I don't do this so I'm not sure if this has
> changed in the last decade.
> 
> I do usually scrape off the kernel parameters I don't like, splash and
> quiet.

Some X drivers have also at times been broken whenever the console
was anything other than 80x25, although I don't know if that is the
case anymore.

> | - Input method switching now is done by ctrl+space instead of shift+space.
> | This is long over due! For example, if I was trying to write a SQL query, I
> | have a habit of capitalizing command words. I'd often switch to kana input
> | when I didn't want to. That won't happen any more.
> 
> Yikes!  My fingers have been using CTRL-SPACE for NUL since 1982 (the
> EMACS set-mark command).  They are not going to be happy.

Anytime someone tries to add a short cut, they break something.  I have
seen people map alt+F# to desktop switching.  Rather annoying given alt+f2
seems rather universally to be 'run program'.  When you are used to that,
any other use is annoying.  Or mapping a function key to activate
something, when that is a key lots of applications can use for their
own needs.  Tricky business indeed.

> I'm kind of used to Pidgin for the very few times I use it.  LICQ used
> to be fine.  Is Empathy better or just different?  This is some Gnome
> issue, I guess.

I have been happy with pidgin.  I hadn't heard of Empathy before.

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Len Sorensen
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