Pablo's questions

I noticed that, at least in the tablet version of Unity 8, the search bar is on the right side of the screen. However, people keep telling that the desktop version will come afterwards, so I don't know if that's the intended place for it to be across versions. I hope not, because it's a major UI problem.

This is the way Windows 8 does it, and it's terrible, because as you type on it (on the right side), the results appear on the left side, so your eyes have to move across the screen all the time, especially if your screen is a large one.

I know one can ask "but isn't that where search bars have been all along? Firefox and Windows Explorer etc.

Well, not quite. On these programs, it's intended that you finish your search key and then type Enter and only so look for the results. Unity's search bar, however, shows results dynamically, so you always want to look at the results, so you know if you can press Enter without having to write the whole sentence, and you also want to look at what you're typing, so you know there are no typos.

That being said, I wanted to know if this is really where the search bar will be and if it will not spread across the top part of the screen (that would be a good solution, since "Home Scope" and other scope titles don't need to be showing when you're typing). If that's final, then I will fill a bug.

I noticed today, while trying to develop an application for Ubuntu, that Online Accounts does not provide access to Gmail (I mean access to messages, like IMAP and SMTP), even though it clearly says in the description of the Gmail provider that it does.

Bug reported, but does anyone know of some way I can do that myself? A way to extend the Google provider to also allow access to Gmail?

If there's no way to extend it like that, can someone point me to clear directions on how to add my own service provider for that, because the official documentation looks different from the real thing (no such thing as .service-type files, for example).

Thanks.

I have a very basic Python script I wrote mostly for learning purposes.

It opens a terminal in the current folder. However, I can't get it to work in folders with accented characters in the URI (e.g.: /home/pablo/Vídeos or /home/pablo/Área de Trabalho), because it looks like Nautilus URIs are encoded to those %{number} values. Is there a way to convert these URIs to normalized URIs without having to translate every possible accented value by hand?

I have an little app I wrote in Python and it used to work... until yesterday, when it suddenly started giving me an error in a HTTPS connection. I don't remember if there was an update, but both Python 2.7.3rc2 and Python 3.2 are failing just the same.

I googled it and found out that this happens when people are behind a proxy, but I'm not (and nothing have changed in my network since the last time it worked). My syster's computer running windows and Python 2.7.2 has no problems (in the same network).

>>> url = 'https://www.mediafire.com/api/user/get_session_token.php'
>>> response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1215, in https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

What's wrong? Any help is appreciated.

PS.: Older python versions don't work either, not in my system and not in a live session from USB, but DO work in a Ubuntu 11.10 live session.

I remember that I could do this by messing with input devices at the sound configuration menus, but it doesn't work anymore. I want to make the default input be a virtual mic that's the sound that's coming out of the speakers, while still being able to listen to it.

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If shutdown asks for password (and so does every program which has the option to turn off after finishing something), how does the shutdown button work if it does not ask for it?

I'm reinstalling Ubuntu, and I see that there's this "upgrade" option that lets me reinstall Ubuntu while keeping files and software when possible, but says that "system wide settings" will be cleared. Are the config files and folders in my home folder ".something" go away with this or only things like sources.list? Thanks.