loklaan's questions

When using apt-get update from terminal, I can see process come to a grinding halt when the commercial PPAs are updating.

In hoping that this isn't intentional, is there a fix to get apt-get update working faster with commercial PPAs?

• I don't want to remove the commercial PPAs

I have a generic pair of smartphone earphones that have the button (along with a microphone) and I would like to use the button as a pause/play key in Ubuntu, like I would on an Android phones music player.

Is there a way to enable this headset control in Ubuntu?

If the headset controls are a hardware feature of audio jacks used in Android phones, the name of that hardware (audio jack) would be appreciated.

I use Synergy to sync mouse and keyboard between desktops.

My question is, how do I change the Synergy indicator icons in Unity?

For reference, I am using the Faenza icon theme, and this is what my indicator bar looks like in Unity: current unity panel http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/old-panel.png

I have made Faenza styled replacements for the three icon states of Synergy.
disconnected icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/synergy-disconnected.png connected icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/synergy-connected.png warning icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/warning.png
Connected example: proposed unity panel http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/new-panel.png

I have tried:

• Naming the icons synergy-connected, synergy-disconnected and warning respectively. I got these names from the icons used in Synergy's source files
• Resizing icons (to 16, 22, 24 and 32) and placing them in /usr/share/icons/Faenza/status/XX
  • replace XX with icon resolution
• Placing the svg's in /usr/share/icons/Faenza/scalable
• The above two points, but instead in the Faenza Dark folder
• Add the svg's in ~/.icons

Thoughts:
I have thought of adding the custom icons to the source, compiling said source and installing... But that would defeat the purpose of icon themes and in the future I would want to use different icons with different icon themes without the hassle of compiling source each time; I don't think it is within the scope of this problem to consider compiling from source with custom icons.

In Ubuntu 11.10, I used a unity-lens called graphicdesign from ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa.

I installed it on both 11.10 and 12.04 with:

sudo apt-get install unity-lens-graphicdesign unity-scope-colourlovers unity-scope-deviantart unity-scope-dribbble unity-scope-iconfinder

But in 12.04, trying to install it like I did, I find the following packages that were included are missing - no installation candidate found:

• unity-scope-colourlovers
• unity-scope-dribbble
• unity-scope-iconfinder

The unity-scope-deviantart scope installs just fine, but these other three scopes are crucial for the graphicdesign lense to be useful! Has anybody had any luck finding updates for these three packages?

Edit: I understand that there are no precise packages in the mentioned ppa; does anyone know where to get updates for the 3 missing packages?