assorted natty errata

[buguldey]

all the following applies to natty's ui "classic ubuntu".

DEFECTS:

* natty doesn't import from previous Ubuntu instance (in this case, it was lucid):
** transmission bittorrent client settings, list of torrents, and files of complete&incomplete downloads;
** pidgin settings;
** mc settings;
** list of installed repository packages;
** topbar-'about me' avatar visual;
** thunderbird settings aren's automatically imported into evolution.

* empathy doesn't allow for neither "/nickname" nor "/quote" IRC commands: it shows "unknown command".
* empathy doesn't join jabber conferences when selected to join a conference (displays a question-icon status aka '<question-icon> Unknown').
* empathy doesn't import pidgin list of rooms.
* empathy (might be a bug of translation to russian): new chatroom: 1) new beseda (approx. "talk") --- why a conference room which is often a persisten room is called 'beseda' ("talk") ??? 2) at "new beseda" dialog the id of chatroom is called "identifikator sobesednika" ("id of talking human") --- why id of chatroom is called 'id of talkin human'???.
* empathy doesn't reflect irc networks/irc servers at irc account shortcuts (labels) at user account lists (user chat accounts dialog, and other places with user account lists).
* empathy doesn't allow to specify irc charset encoding for russian-charset irc network accounts - therefore, sometimes all cyrillic text is displayed as question marks in chat dialog windows --- and sometimes it is displayed in a correct encoding --- and the following is unknown to me: why the display changes from ?????'s to a text with a correct charset.
* sometimes, in a list of chat events at topbar/envelope_with_light menu, when an irc notice event is selected, no event details window is shown and the event is deleted from the menu - i.e. the event data (communicated to local user) is lost (this occurred before i updated natty --- this might or might not be fixed by latest updates).
* all topbar-username-userstatus choices are disabled after when ubuntu started, all of the chat accounts don't automatically go online --- the internet is connected OK automatically right after ubuntu startup.
* when i toggle one of chat accounts, all user status entries in topbar-username were enabled. When i select userstatus 'available', all chat accounts successfully go online and connect to everything successfully, but the userstatus entry with radiobutton isn't marked as current userstatus: all userstatus entries have 'off' radiobutton visual appearance (empty radiobutton circle).

* a visual entertainment for eyes: visual colourful garbage on a starless and bible black screen immediately after grub entry selection event before graphical ubuntu login prompt.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
$

[buguldey (buguldey)]

more of assorted natty errata

my pc is 64bit. my lucid is 32-bit (works ok), and my natty is 64-bit (full of bugs).

all the people below program and complete products written in asm (as a hobby)...

(04:57:06) buguldey: I tried ubuntu natty with classic interface. It is not better than lucid - same bugs in evolution and empathy. So installed all apps I usually use - for example, Pidgin. Pidgin on natty often shows 70% CPU usage. On lucid, pidgin doesn't use such amounts.
(04:57:21) buguldey: That was with natty updated to the latest.
(04:57:33) user2: evolution sucks
(04:57:54) user3: evolution will be replaced by thunderbird in 11.10
(04:58:04) user1: finally
(04:58:30) user2: I replaced it the first time I installed it ;-)
(04:58:35) user3: me too :)
(04:59:15) user3: but the thunderbird default is nice because they will integrate Thunderbird Lightning with the calendar function of the date/time toolbar
(04:59:22) user2: true
(04:59:33) user1: I even tried unstalling evolution, but apparently I did a bit too much cleaning as the whole GUI was inaccessible the next login
(05:00:02) buguldey: And natty is even worse than lucid: 1) mouse cursor often moves highly jumpy and freezes for seconds or fractions of second, 2) stupid thin 3...4-pixel-wide scrollbars that I have difficulty to notice and point with mouse cursor - and such scrollbars cannot be disabled in guis - I tried to disable them at various appearance places, searched all of them several times all the way around the System menu - no luck.
(05:00:24) buguldey: user2: evolution sucks because it is highly underdeveloped.
(05:01:24) buguldey: thunderbird 3.1.(latest) sometimes irreversibly loses (deletes) parts of text in emails when sending. data lost bug.
(05:03:00) buguldey: such thin invisible scrollbars must definitely be replaced by normal gnomish wide scrollbars.
(05:03:47) buguldey: user3: specifying wide scrollbars requires developing a new theme. Scrollbars' width isn't editable by normal theming GUI / by appearance editor.
(05:03:59) buguldey: you need to hack a new theme or like that.
(05:03:59) user3: just pick an existing theme
(05:04:03) user3: such as THE OLD "human" theme
(05:04:08) user3: same as previous ubuntu versions
(05:04:09) user3: it's still there
(05:04:11) user3: just click it
(05:04:32) buguldey: user2: thunderbird data loss is extremely rare, but I've seen it yesterday.
(05:04:35) user2: Indeed. Settings->Appearance
(05:05:44) buguldey: user3: TB saved it to sent with part of text already deleted. When I opened web-gmail to look at the message source - same there - text partially lost.

TBD. buguldey: i will try memcheck. And also fsck for all filesystems

(05:06:50) buguldey: user2: i always use pop3
(05:08:07) user2: I didn't even consider ISPs that didn't provide imap
(05:08:23) buguldey: user3: i've tried a lot of themes - but not sure that i tried human. I need to try all default themes - though i think most of them are visually awful and misleading at their pictograms/icon types
(05:09:09) user3: IIRC you can pick separate icon themes and window decoration themes
(05:09:50) buguldey: user3: i tried to find TB bug report place - failed - asked at co...

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

buguldey, thanks for reporting these issues that you see. But for them to be addressed appropriately by the developers, each one should be filed separately providing the right information on your system.

To appropriately doing this please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.