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[matthew byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>]

Per the post on the foums that i just read is all this questioning the need
of a official forum for lubuntu?

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   I may have done a bit of a bad job explaining myself. I'm not too
> concerned ATM about the bugs I encountered, I'm just testing the waters in
> order to be as useful to the Lubuntu project as possible. Since time is
> limited please look at my "test" bug report and also this forum thread (no
> need to comment at the forums):
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/792850
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10901610&postcount=10
>
> I did have one other thought however. Do you suppose the Ubuntu Forum mods
> might grant us permission to start a sub-forum here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=46
>
> All thoughts are welcome. My ideas may stink and I don't mind being told
> so.
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/3/11, Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] The need to improve Lubuntu bug filing
> To: "Phill Whiteside" <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>, "lubuntu-desktop" <
> lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 8:38 PM
>
>
> Hello Lance,
>
> I haven't run oneiric yet, but I think the missing of shutdown/restart
> buttons is due to not having GTK3 icons for that. We're hard at work in
> creating the new themes for oneiric, which should be GTK3 ready. And just
> pressing enter/return didn't do the trick on getting along with the
> installer (bug 3)?
>
> Welcome to the crew by the way.
>
> With metta,
>
> Chris Druif
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 00:22, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx<http://mc/compose?to=phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
>  hiyas kansasnoob,
>
> firstly, great to see you - I don't get onto the forum areas as much as I
> used to (or should do). The A1 is still built the 'old way' and is, afaik,
> just a toe stretching session for the new kernel to be included. There has
> been some work the apps done, along with deciding which applications we
> include by default. Pcman has a new pcmanfm out in the wild for us to break.
> Hooks for apport are on the TODO list and are being added, but the 1,000
> dedicated developers we have ..... err, well, I may have over estimated by
> 998 are awaiting getting their teeth into the 'official' iso building
> system. This should be done for a2.
>
> The general page for 11.10 is at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers
>
> Progress on the apport hooks can be found at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers/TODO
>
> If you, or any of the testers on the main area would like to keep abreast
> of what Lubuntu is up to, please doe feel free to add the mailing list to
> your cluttered boxes (We don't send that many out!)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/GettingInvolved has the one click link to
> get the lubuntu discussions.
>
> Please give my regards to Ranch Hand, I must pop on and find out what
> better name he has for 11.10 - I will make a point of letting the testing
> area know when A2 comes out, but the a1 had little in the way of changes.
>
> Apart from anything else, it will be nice to 'touch base' with all you
> great people again.
> For A2, I will try to get a set of notes together so you good people know
> where Lubuntu is headed for 11.10, as it is the precursor for 12.04 (LTS) we
> need to get as many bugs ironed out as possible during the 11.10 cycle
> (errr, you may recall Grub2 coming out in 9.10 :P ).
> Lubuntu is also now popping it's toe into the water for accessibility, but
> realistically this is a couple of cycles away - we simply do not have enough
> devs. Accessibility could do themselves a favour, but we do have a meeting
> coming up under Jono Bacon to allow us to ask questions. It is times like
> this I miss Ranch Hand's 'say it as it is' attitude, although JM one of our
> devs is no shrinking violet. I'm sure he and Ranch Hand would get on great
> :P
>
> My kindest regards to you and the rest of the testers,
>
> Phill.
> P.S. - Now go and dig me up a spare developer or two :D
> @ Julien and JM - if there is any thing factually incorrect, please correct
> me.
>
>
>
>   On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx<http://mc/compose?to=lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
>    First a brief intro. I'm Erick Brunzell at Launchpad, Lance at
> iso-testing (in which I've participated for over 3 years), and "kansasnoob"
> at Ubuntu forums.
>
> I'm quite glad to see that Lubuntu will soon become an official member of
> the Ubuntu family. I particularly look forward to the day that Lubuntu's
> images are included in Ubuntu's iso-testing.
>
> Anyway I obtained the Lubuntu Oneiric Alpha1 image here:
>
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/
>
> And naturally I encountered a few minor bugs. To expect any less this early
> in a dev cycle is insane, but I still felt they should be reported. The
> specific bugs are:
>
> 1) The Lubuntu Alpha1 Live CD boots to a tty, so you have to type *startx*to get the DE.
>
> 2) The default DE lacks restart or shutdown buttons.
>
> 3) Upon completing the installation I was asked whether to restart or keep
> using the Live DE as usual. I chose to restart and the CD ejected as
> expected but the screen was just blank. So I removed the CD, closed the tray
> and hit enter, but nothing happened. I tried some common key combos but
> finally had to use the reset button on my box to complete the restart.
>
> Of course none of these are serious or unexpected this early in a dev
> cycle, but I wanted to get my feet wet checking out bug filing against
> Lubuntu anyway, and I'm a bit puzzled.
>
> I'm used to iso-testing pure Ubuntu so all of the above bugs would be filed
> against 'casper' but I know these bugs were not present when I tested Ubuntu
> so I thought I should possibly file them against the meta-package
> 'lubuntu-desktop' but that's a no-go.
>
> I'm just wondering if the meta-package 'lubuntu-desktop' should be added to
> launchpad as a bug filing option?
>
> I'm very impressed with the Lubuntu project and I hope my iso-testing
> skills may be helpful at some point, but I have no development skills. I'm
> just a tester.
>
> Apologies in advance if I was wrong posting in this manner.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lance
>
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