Ask Ubuntu General Room

1:03 PM

@marco askubuntu.com/users/75049/ganesan see url. read as self promotion. note that there is no affiliation declared. consider the answer spam.

Marco Ceppi

How is it spam?

jokerdino

i'll flag it as spam 6 months from now then ;-)

wait, you mean you actually clicked on the link? o.O

Marco Ceppi

yeah, it's just a really poor answer

jokerdino

> Be careful, because the community frowns on overt self-promotion and tends to vote it down and flag it as spam.

Hmm I might have missed the overt there.

Marco Ceppi

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A: What does each flag reason mean, and when should I use them?

It is spam This flag reason is pretty straight forward, with a few caveats. Spam is pretty easy to spot. Obviously purchasing Lucky brand jeans will not answer your questions about Ubuntu, if you see one of these posts use this flag reason instead of the "not an answer" flag reason. The only ca...

jokerdino

1:11 PM

Hmm right. Thanks.

np

heya @QAdp.

BBL

@jokerdino see properly

jokerdino

aah. so that was the image after all..

Jorge Castro

1:26 PM

askubuntu.com/tags/indicator/synonyms

Vote for appindicator!

jokerdino

> You can not vote on a tag synonym you created

Oops.

Sathya

@jokerdino ;)

> You do not have the required score on this tag to vote for this tag synonym

then again, I've barely answered..

jokerdino

:/

Sathya

@jokerdino #truestory

jokerdino

well, you need 2.5k even if you do.

Jorge Castro

1:32 PM

@MarcoCeppi ^^^ vote for my symlink

or just fix it. :)

Marco Ceppi

Merged

jokerdino

want?? askubuntu.com/questions/159743/…

@marco can you close and reopen this one --^

The Interrupter

1:57 PM

Restoring my original keyboard mapping without logging on http://askubuntu.com/questions/159961/restoring-my-original-keyboard-mapping-without-logging-on?atw=1 #xmodmap

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM

jokerdino

dupe. out of close votes askubuntu.com/questions/155391/my-wireless-is-hard-blocked

user19161

@jokerdino How many did you cast?

jokerdino

24

rlemon

Mr. E.T

Mitch

2:13 PM

Nice.. :)

Sathya

When his girlfriend’s grandparents’ have wireless router problems, a young computer buff turns a lesson in how to fix wi-fi into an epic tale.

HackToHell

2:26 PM

in Root Access, 2 mins ago, by HackToHell

http://imgur.com/a/ygU0l <---- IMAX in London

Check it out :)

Eliah Kagan

Can we get a final close vote for this duplicate?

Unrelated, is there something we can dupe this to?

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Q: Universal USB Installer does not recognize the iso file

I downloaded Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS 32-bit. Used the Universal USB Installer, but it wouldnt recognize the file. It was a clean download and I'm quite sure that its not damaged. Any suggestion or any other software you'd recommend?

Anwar Shah

0

Q: Is anyone else having problems with Flash when using Chrome in Ubuntu?

Since a few days ago flash UIs are freezing and not updating for me when using Chrome in UBuntu.

flash google-chrome

What to do with this one?

lgarzo

Hi!

jokerdino

@AnwarShah dupe

Eliah Kagan

@lgarzo Hi.

@jokerdino What to dupe it to?

lgarzo

2:33 PM

@EliahKagan I was just answering that one... :P

HackToHell

@AnwarShah That happens to me to randomly .. Pepper sucks, I use FF with good old flash

Anwar Shah

@HackToHell, then answer the question that, you also have problem (since, he only wanted to know, whether there is anyone with that problem)

@HackToHell, no actually.

HackToHell

Yep me too!! Use good old flash in firefox — HackToHell 1 min ago

izx

@EliahKagan I need to edit the wiki to refer people to Unetbootin, not Universal-blah -- I don't know why that's the "official" recommendation in the first place, a lot of folks have problems with it.

Eliah Kagan

@izx I'm not sure we should be referring people to Unetbootin rather than the Universal USB Installer (unless they have a problem with the Universal USB Installer), because:

(1) The official instructions from Canonical, when you download Ubuntu, are for the Universal USB Installer.

(2) Unetbootin writes its own boot loader to the USB flash drive, but Ubuntu images have been hybrid CD/USB images for a while now. If Universal USB Installer writes them as they are (I think it does but I'm not sure), that may be considered preferable.

Maybe post a question about which is better to recommend people, to solicit the opinion of the AU community at large. (I don't know if that question belongs on main or meta. If you're asking specifically about the tag wiki, then it should probably be on meta. If you're asking in general for what's best to recommend, even in parts of the Ubuntu community outside AU, probably ask on main.)

jokerdino

2:54 PM

3

Q: How do I fix Flash player in Chrome 20?

I just updated to Chrome 20.0.1132.43 which includes Flash 11.3.31.109. Since that update most of the flash videos I watch online will randomly display erratic behavior (skipping like a broken CD, "fast forwarding" at twice the framerate with the audio being scrambled due to too fast playback, re...

nvidia flash google-chrome

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino, what to do with this one?

izx

@EliahKagan Agreed.But Canonical then needs to have/maintain its own tools instead of relying on a third-party. Because in the end they dump it on us "And if you get stuck… Ask Ubuntu"

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jokerdino

@AnwarShah click on the grey arrow and see what it was meant as a reply for.

and for chat sake, learn to use the reply to feature.

@izx close that q as dupe please. i am out of close votes for the day.

msPeachy

good evening guys

jokerdino

good day

Eliah Kagan

3:08 PM

@izx I agree. I'm not saying we should feel barred from recommending something different from Canonical's official instructions. I just think it's usually a good idea to seek community consensus first within AU.

@jokerdino Thx. I've voted to dupe this new question to this older question. 2 more votes needed.

jokerdino

@EliahKagan I ran out of votes. I'll vote tmrw. Thanks.

so... do i reflag all those flags or what?

dupe? askubuntu.com/questions/156541/…

aking1012

@EliahKagan done

jokerdino

it sucks to have run out of close votes. must-not-review-close-vote-queue

msPeachy

@izx and @EliahKagan have you read this askubuntu.com/questions/159954/… ? it needs revising

aking1012

@msPeachy that's a heinous question

jokerdino

3:22 PM

edited and unedited.

Whoever upvoted that should be hanged.

msPeachy

@aking1012 :P I wanted to edit it but my head hurts trying to understand what he meant to ask...

Journeyman Geek

lol

msPeachy

@jokerdino lol, maybe one of his friends upvoted it

Journeyman Geek

This is the sort of thing i do in school. Its either going to be very easy or murderously hard to recover.

aking1012

I installed another linux distro on top of my Ubuntu install(with the remove and use entire disk option). How do I recover files for my Ubuntu install?

that's how I read it

izx

3:25 PM

Re Universal USB installer, @EliahKagan, I don't see how it is different from UNB (see below). I wonder why Canonical recommends something that is not cross-platform and seems a little slapped-together:

Mitch

It seems the OP has had one to many tonics "or to recover all my data and my tonic"

Journeyman Geek

@aking1012: I'm a bit worried he has tonic in his computer

carbonated drinks and computers don't mix

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jokerdino

btw, adding problems to the list of awesome tags.

looool

@JourneymanGeek lol

3:26 PM

First shirts coming off, then tonics, what are we, a topless bar?

jokerdino

@rlemon adding your email to the spammers list.

Mitch

@izx lol

aking1012

@izx hehehe. translation issues i think

Journeyman Geek

ugh

rlemon

3:27 PM

@jokerdino you just try to beat my spam filter :P

jokerdino

@rlemon good point.

Jorge Castro

hah, problems seriously.

Journeyman Geek

That reminded me i needed to get an eyepatch. then reminded me why i didn't need one ;p

jokerdino

i am collecting a small list of fav tags. :)

msPeachy

"he broken my heart because I'm lost all my data"

jokerdino

3:29 PM

let me edit it. i need to focus.

though it sort of reminds me of soup song.

►

Enjoy!

Journeyman Geek

;p

true story, i first learnt about file recovery, after formatting a hard drive full of stuff ;p

jokerdino

sounds like fun.

izx

All you negative nellies :P

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Q: How can I recover Ubuntu after accidentally installing another distribution over it?

I had Ubuntu 10.10 with a sound card problem, and decided to install another distribution to solve it. I tried to tell the new distro to install to another partition, but I must have made a mistake because it installed over my existing Ubuntu. Is there a way to recover all my data? I'm especiall...

installation recover

Journeyman Geek

lol, testdisk does wonders

jokerdino

@izx ah saved me headache

msPeachy

3:31 PM

yes agree test disk saved my life

aking1012

@izx good call. that's what i thought it meant. i prefer debbie downer to negative nellie, but nice one

Journeyman Geek

lol

awesome bit of software :)

jokerdino

and recover should never be recovered.

izx

@aking1012 Thanks, btw great answer/effort for bob's troubles....I hope he tries it.

msPeachy

i love @izx

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Journeyman Geek

3:32 PM

lol

jokerdino

dun dun dun..

Journeyman Geek

I couldn't read it, hurt my poor dyslexic brain ;p

aking1012

@izx he said he did and gets an immediate disconnect. i think he's trying to start a remote xsession as root, which is not going to work

izx

Well, you can't help everyone...I thought that was a problem when we were on chat.

aking1012

it would amuse me if there were exactly 99 questions in problems

izx

3:34 PM

Is there a GUI for testdisk? A lot of folks may find TUI daunting...

jokerdino

@aking1012 heh

do we have a list of all tags? we can go through and kill all the awesome tags.

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izx

Time for a new RFC: "Need connect VMware XP box to internet with some reliable algorithm"

Mitch

@izx For doing the edit

jokerdino

lol fun

aking1012

wait what? the guy that installed on top of his own data also runs a tech blog... brain-freeze

Journeyman Geek

3:37 PM

lol

Well an alleged one

msPeachy

lol

Mitch

lol

Journeyman Geek

can't read it for one

jokerdino

@aking1012 hmm

izx

Title of said blog: Unlimited technical: Technology from another concept (untranslated)

Safe to say he's talking about tech in a parallel universe, where Ubuntu installations cannot be accidentally wiped.

Mitch

3:39 PM

brb

Journeyman Geek

lol

@izx: I have 4-5 backups from when i was setting up a tripleboot

which is the way to go

er, quadboot

i muck up, i just throw the backup into a drive, boot into the backup software whose name i don't remember, and restore.

clonezilla, that was ir

aking1012

I like Acronis personally (although Paragon is nice too)

Journeyman Geek

in this case i needed a simple offline copy method

izx

I used to love Clonezilla until it choked on a Xen partition (aka virtual block device) saying "not a disk"

Journeyman Geek

since i was dealing with random wierd crap

(hfs, ntfs and ext3 i think, on i donno, 5 or 6 partitions ;p)

sad thing is i'm probably going to redo that ;p

rlemon

3:44 PM

@Mitch OMG that is going on lememe NOW!

and by now I mean when I get home from work! :P

izx

We seem to have turned into Debian Packaging 101 ever since the showdown was announced

jokerdino

i can only find some 20 awesome tags

Jorge Castro

@izx on the flip side there seem to be some really awesome applications being worked on though

izx

@JorgeCastro Oh absolutely -- I didn't mean that to sound disappointing, I love those questions, good way to mint some rep ;)

msPeachy

can't get over tonic...
i think tonic = tunes + music
:P

Jorge Castro

3:48 PM

david planella was on holiday and he's been kind of keeping up with the tag, now he comes back and there's like 65 unanswered questions, ahahah

jokerdino

hehehe :p

izx

hahaha

jokerdino

got to love him though

izx

@msPeachy Get a tonic and be done with it ;)

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/tags?page=56&tab=popular okay, the tags start from here.

go back and clean them up if you are bored and want to get depressed.

askubuntu.com/questions/62936/… can we reopen this?

msPeachy

3:53 PM

@izx got fish fillet instead

Amith KK

Hello all

msPeachy

@AmithKK hey you

Amith KK

@aking1012 Do you know of any good video and audio handling modules for python?

@msPeachy Heya

aking1012

@AmithKK there's a python gstreamer wrapper. it's not cross-platform though.

jokerdino

time to get off and start mugging. bbt

Roland Taylor

4:09 PM

Hi

izx

"you even get 3D acceloration for graphics. Alternitivly you could look in to a dule boot" .... sigh

Hi @RolandTaylor!

Roland Taylor

Don't come too close my throat issue might be infectious and I have a strange appetite for @AmithKK's hand

@izx hi

:D

aking1012

people.freedesktop.org/~tpm/code/playbin-gst-1.0-pygi.py

@AmithKK --^

izx

Off-topic alert!

0

Q: What is IBM PowerLinux?

I know my question has no real relation with Ubuntu, but I know there is some people here who could help me. So what is "IBM PowerLinux" ? Thanks,

info

Roland Taylor

-1

A: How to connect WinXP box on VMware to internet?

Try Virtualbox instead its free and the internet is connected through your Ubuntu host so no messing I found this by far the best VM you even get 3D acceleration for graphics. Alternatively you could look in to a dual boot then you can have windows and Ubuntu on the same machine and both run at ...

Fixed.

jrg is offline? :(

aking1012

4:13 PM

he has been lurking less and only in room when he's actually at the keyboard

izx

Thanks @RolandTaylor :)

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 oh

@izx np

Eliah Kagan

It seems to me there must be an older question, to which this should be duped:

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Q: Tried to boot Ubuntu, but the GRUB rescue shows up instead

Tried to boot Ubuntu, but something like this shows up instead:

12.04 grub2 error

Jorge Castro

ahhh boot issues

always fun

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor He's at work

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:27 PM

0

Q: Evince fails to start because it cannot read .Xauthority

I'm logged in remotely over SSH with X forwarding to a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Most X11 applications (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal) work fine. But Evince does not start. It seems unable to read ~/.Xauthority, even though the file exists, and is evidently readable (it has the right per...

ubuntu permissions x11 evince xauth

Amith KK

-2

Q: What is IBM PowerLinux?

I know my question has no real relation with Ubuntu, but I know there is some people here who could help me. So what is "IBM PowerLinux" ? Thanks,

closed as offtopic

@AmithKK oh ici

@RolandTaylor ici?

btw, I'm eating salt

and I'm close to the bath...

:>

izx

ICI (programming language)

ICI is a general purpose interpreted, computer programming language originally developed by Tim Long in the late 1980s. It has dynamic typing and flexible data types, with the basic syntax, flow control constructs and operators of C. It can be considered broadly similar to Perl, with which it is roughly contemporary. Like Perl, it also has tight integration with regular expressions. ICI is not an acronym. Primitive data types in ICI include integers, reals, strings, files, safe pointers, and regular expressions. Aggregate data types are arrays, sets, and associative tables. Sets can be h...

Roland Taylor

4:30 PM

@izx similar to perl eh?

So \/|///|*([]{}|\^*\#/ is a valid application?

izx

You tell me, you're the one who introduced it into our conversation :P

aking1012

@izx I'll take esoteric programming languages for $400 Alex

Roland Taylor

Lol well, ici is a phonetic equivalent to I see.

izx

lol @aking1012; i thought the phonetic equivalent was "ic", without the i?

Roland Taylor

Since I'm typing with one hand right now, that was faster than I see.

@izx that would be i c

izx

4:33 PM

oici

Roland Taylor

Also, ici is french for "here" IIRC.

aking1012

@RolandTaylor that's correct

Roland Taylor

come ici, I have bath salts :>

jk

(clearly no one here got the reference)

aking1012

Got it, I just gave out my humor star at like 1 am this morning

Roland Taylor

ahh

I really am eating salt irl though...

throat was infected after some kind of injury from over working my voice :/

and the room goes silent

aking1012

4:41 PM

I find gargling 3% or less hydrogen peroxide really helps with oral region infections

Roland Taylor

I don't have any fresh H2O2

aking1012

Roland Taylor

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Amith KK

@aking1012 Ah!

Nice joke

Mahesh

o/

Roland Taylor

4:52 PM

@Mahesh \o

Amith KK

@Mahesh Hey

Mahesh

OMG I got two replies!!!!! :D

ok, so waazzup?

Anwar Shah

@EliahKagan this and this is dupe of this question. (Though there was an answer from me, but wasn't aware before)

Mahesh

/me sleepingall day everyday

izx

So Raja is now calling himself "I'm wrong" :/

Mahesh

4:55 PM

??

Anwar Shah

close vote needed

Jorge Castro

your answer has a nice picture though

/me flags for merge

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: version check mistake in apt

I'm trying to install Wireshark 1.6 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx from PPA (n-muench/programs-ppa2). The libwsutil1 version is named 1.6.0-1~ppa1 so it should satisfy libwiretap1 dependency that needs version 1.6.9-1 ; But it doesn't !! I tried this: sudo apt-get install libwiretap1 And this: sudo a...

ubuntu apt dependencies version

The Interrupter

Bounty offered: How can I know if my an application on my desktop environment is loading o... http://askubuntu.com/questions/158776/how-can-i-know-if-my-an-application-on-my-desktop-environment-is-loading-other-d?atw=1 #desktopenvironments

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM

Anwar Shah

@JorgeCastro @JorgeCastro, thanks. I found The picture accidentally.

Eliah Kagan

4:58 PM

@AnwarShah Thx, close-votes cast.

Anwar Shah

thx

izx

@JorgeCastro: I think this should be duped or merged with this, with "OEM install" explained a little in the latter question. Thoughts?

Jorge Castro

sounds good to me

izx

@mateo_salta: awesome edit, man!

Jorge Castro

yours is much better though

I can remove my answer if you want

izx

5:11 PM

OK, will flag to merge then? I just have more screenshots -- your call :) I don't mind editing it into your answer either -- may be a pain to get a new one re-accepted.

To all: I want to blow ~200 rep on one or more bounties. Looking for worthy suggestions...

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Unbuntu 12.04 install problems - where/how to ask a question

I have a few questions. Please help. I am trying to install Unbutu 12.04. I have installed it on two machines, and had to give up on third. (I was able to simply install 11.10 on the third) I need to get some help, and I want to give enough context that what I'm saying makes sense. Where can ...

support

George Edison

1

Q: To make python-nautilus a dependency or not to make python-nautilus a dependency?

That is the question! Okay, all silliness aside, I really am forced to make a difficult decision here. My application is written in C++ and allows other scripts to invoke methods via XML-RPC. One of these scripts is a Nautilus extension written in Python. The extension is packaged with the res...

nautilus application-development python dependencies

Whew... that took a while to type.

izx

@GeorgeEdison "Cleaned up" to: To make or not to make...python-nautilus a dependency? (revert if you really want to :p)

George Edison

No, that's fine.

izx

On the merits, prompt wins hands down, assuming you can invoke apt-get with the -y flag but with a graphical sudo dialog...

George Edison

5:23 PM

There is gksu for that.

izx

or debconf at install time:

aking1012

@GeorgeEdison I think that needs 4 CW answers one for each.

George Edison

Yeah, that's a possibility.

Amith KK

Prompt time.

izx

@GeorgeEdison Ok, it hasn't worked with Alt-F2 for me though (gksudo apt-get...)

George Edison

5:25 PM

It's gksu not gksudo.

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Both of them are the same

aking1012

they're softlinks now

izx

@GeorgeEdison Both eventually prompt me for the password, but don't open a terminal (unless invoked from one to begin with.) I suppose it can be done launcher-style though...

aking1012

Amith KK

Oh I never knew that running gksu or gksudo alone gives/creates a program and user select prompt

BBT

Good Night

George Edison

5:39 PM

Oh, okay.

I hadn't realized that.

Eliah Kagan

gksu and gksudo are not the same. They are the same executable (gksudo symlinks gksu), but which one you use to invoke it affects its behavior. gksu can be configured to use su or sudo mode. (On systems like Ubuntu where sudo is used to run commands as root, the default configuration is to use sudo mode; on OSes where root login is enabled and su works to become root, su mode is sometimes the default.)

From the manpage: "...the library will decide if it should use su or sudo as backend using the /apps/gksu/sudo-mode gconf key, if you call the gksu command. You can force the backend by using the gksudo command, or by using the --sudo-mode and --su-mode options."

George Edison

Doesn't KDE have alternatives to both commands?

Eliah Kagan

I suppose someone (I?) should really fix the community documentation wiki on this topic.

@GeorgeEdison I believe so, though I'm not sure if kdesu is usable and in the path, in a default Kubuntu install. Let me check on an Ubuntu 12.04 system on which I have installed kubuntu-desktop.

George Edison

I really should install that myself.

Eliah Kagan

I have kdesudo in the path, and I do not have kdesu in the path. But /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu does exist.

George Edison

5:47 PM

I'm installing KDE / Plasma now, so I'll give it a try in a few minutes once the packages download.

rlemon

I don't want to live on this planet any longer

Eliah Kagan

@rlemon Oh man...

George Edison

I take it you saw the W3Schools books at Chapters too?

(I take it that is Chapters, right?)

Eliah Kagan

That looks like a Barnes & Noble to me, but I could be wrong.

@GeorgeEdison I just tried running /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu xclock. It works, same as kdesudo xclock. I put in my password (not root's, root is disabled), and it runs it.

aking1012

@rlemon Dummies series pays for that placement. I used to work a bookstore. It's not a choice, they pay for it

Mitch

5:58 PM

How is everybody today?

aking1012

There's no place like ::1

@Mitch well enough. you?

George Edison

WHOAH! KDE is... different.

mateo_salta

192.168.1.1 ?

izx

@GeorgeEdison So say we all.

mateo_salta

oh, that is usually your router address right?

aking1012

6:00 PM

@mateo_salta the implication is home, not default gateway

George Edison

@mateo_salta That's localhost.

mateo_salta

ah, ok

@GeorgeEdison , did they change kde recently, or did you just try out the plasma desktop

izx

The latter, I suspect, from my similar reaction a little while back :)

Mitch

@aking1012 I'll be OK after coffee :)

mateo_salta

It actually runs better than unity on my box, with a couple of tweaks

George Edison

6:02 PM

@mateo_salta Yup, I tried Plasma.

mateo_salta

try alt+f2 they have a new thing that is cool

Mitch

brb

aking1012

@Mitch --^

izx

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat taught me to forget everything and point nose down when your plane stalls, and Air France pilots don't know that?

mateo_salta

@izx Combat Flight Simulator taught how to fly a plane sideways with a broken rudder, because the twist control was stuck sideways on my joystick.

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aking1012

6:13 PM

I know some guys that were flying a C130 with the aeronautical equivalent of the ebrake stuck in the on position (they didn't realize it for a long time and missed an air-show when they found out)

Mitch

@aking1012 You hit the jackpot

rlemon

izx

It's only funny when you're su already...anyone who types in sudo rm -rf /* without knowing exactly what will happen deserves a Darwin award.

aking1012

anyone who types sudo without understanding what's behind it deserves a darwin award...regardless of what's behind it

rlemon

my first day on debian a friend got me to run that.
I knew no commands at all. I was all "umm ok"

day 1 so nothing lost... cept some pride.

aking1012

6:17 PM

yeah...there is that. it's just mean to do it to first day users. there should be a warning about sudo/su family of commands in the installer

rlemon

totally :P however punching him hard was also just as satisfying

George Edison

That won't work anymore.

--preserve-root is the default.

mateo_salta

hmm the plane is going slow today...

aking1012

yeah. i think a guidewire broke or something in the case i was referring to

mateo_salta

well, nothing you can do about that

George Edison

6:25 PM

^--- NitroShare in KDE.

mateo_salta

looks great!

izx

Sexy!

aking1012

it skeksi and he knows it

George Edison

Well, the icon is a bit... ugly. But other than that.

aking1012

why not an icon from one of the CC icon sets that has a neato rocket on it or something?

George Edison

6:28 PM

Well, I kind of want the icon to be unique.

izx

@aking1012 Surely you mean skdeski ;)

mateo_salta

@GeorgeEdison looks like kde cut right to the boundary of the image, can you specify an image based on the desktop. you could give it some blank space and make it look better

aking1012