user8592's questions

I have added a GtkFileChooserButton to my app via Glade. It is set to folder selection mode. When the widget is clicked it shows a dropdown list of Nautilus bookmarks with an 'other' option in the end. A new file chooser dialog is launched when 'other' is clicked. The button is not connected to any other custom file chooser dialog.

The connecting signal I am using is 'file-set' and I am retrieving the fullpath of user selected folder using Gtk.FileChooser.get_current_folder ().

This setup works fine if user selects a folder from 'other' option. But if a user selects a bookmark from dropdown list, no path is returned. How to solve this?

Is there a way to disable this dropdown list and directly go to the filechooser dialog? I want to use GtkFileChooserButton only so that the user can get a preview of his selected folder.

I want to reverse the coordinate origin in Inkscape to top left corner. By default (0,0) stays at bottom left. Changing it to top left corner will help me in designing a sprite sheet for my game.

How can I participate remotely in the upcoming UDS? Someone wrote an excellent article for remote participation for UDS-N but I couldn't find any information for the coming summit.

Any information and links will be helpful. Also last time It was advised to use Gobby Notes but I totally failed to connect to any server. Is there an alternative for Gobby Notes or some other way to read logs of UDS sessions?

Thanks in advance!

I heard that panel applets will be disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 and there will be indicators only. In Maverick we can right click and add panel applets and I use them a lot. So will there be a similar repository or some other way so that we can add new indicators? Thanks!

I recently upgraded to Firefox 4. There is extension in synaptic - xul-notify that can be used in Firefox 3.x to get native notifications through notify-osd but it is not working with Firefox 4. Is there a similar separate extension for Firefox 4 or some other workaround to get native notifications?

I got a new Dell laptop and I used to login into Windows using webcam authentication. Now I have removed Windows and installed Ubuntu but I could not find any application for face authentication. How can I do this? Thanks.

While making screencasts I always end up with a file having poorly synced audio and video streams. This is not container specific as this happens with all the formats - ogg, mkv, avi, mp4 etc. I guess this has something to do with ffmpeg.

After searching on Internet, I found that this can be fixed using itsoffset switch in ffmpeg. I also tested it and it works. But the question is how do I find exact lag between audio and video streams in seconds:milliseconds?? I tried ffmpeg -i but it always shows delay to be zero.

I installed XVidcap from synaptic. There is an option in preferences to turn on audio recording but there is no audio in final output. I followed instructions on Ubuntu Forums and downgraded the package to an older version but still can't get it working.

I keep my docky dock on left side of desktop and it overlaps desktop icons and their names when intellihide mode is on. Is there a way to align desktop icons on right side always, mac style?