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Re: Contents of /etc/skel from C4C 13.10 ReSpin

 

Incredible. Wow. Fantastic. Great. I'll think of more adjectives soon.
I'm very excited. Seriously. Very excited.

Eric

On 09/22/2015 02:56 PM, Israel wrote:
> Hi all,
> I think I got most things figured out for the skel directory, as well as
> where everything goes.
> I have been moving things into the right place, and working through some
> issues when related to making things work in situations where we are not
> using Lubuntu as the base.
> For example, I made some changes to the desktop files (you use pcmanfm
> and firefox, which not all users might use) and created 2 little
> scripts, one for opening directories and one for opening web pages.
> I currently only support nautilus and pcmanfm in those scripts, but they
> open windows differently (the -n option will not work in nautilus for
> example), and I also made the web handler script to be able to handle
> firefox, chromium-browser, and google-chrome to start with.
> the chrome browsers open the web app in app mode, and firefox opens it
> in a new window (as before).
>
> I also changed the icon lines of the desktop file to be relative names,
> and installed all the icons in the correct forlders (the freedesktop
> spec says to install at least 1 icon in
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps (if it is png file) and
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps (if it is svg file)
>
> however for the time being there is still a /usr/share/christian/icons
> folder until I am sure I got it working.
>
> I have also separated different items out.
> c4c-artwork (installs backgrounds and requires c4c-plymouth themes)
> c4c-audiobibles
> c4c-desktop
>
> and then we can add things like
> c4c-lxde
> c4c-xfce
> etc...
>
> So far c4c-desktop requires:
>
> c4c-audiobibles,
>  c4c-artwork,
>  create-resources,
>  diatheke,
>  diodon,
>  diodon-plugins,
>  filezilla,
>  geany,
>  gimp,
>  gimp-data-extras,
>  gimp-help-en,
>  gimp-help-common,
>  gimp-plugin-registry,
>  gnash,
>  gufw,
>  icc-profiles,
>  inkscape,
>  libreoffice,
>  lubuntu-desktop | gnome-desktop-environment | xubuntu-desktop |
> mate-desktop | torios-desktop,
>  openjdk-7-jre,
>  p7zip-full,
>  pulseaudio,
>  pavucontrol,
>  scribus,
>  scribus-template,
>  scribus-doc,
>  thunderbird,
>  verse,
>  vlc,
>  widemargin,
>  xiphos,
>  xpdf
>
> The package is not fully finished (might not even build yet), but I am
> making great headway into it.
>
>
> @Greg,
> I have not done anything to work on the installation of protect music
> content.  I liked your idea, so if you can make a basic version of the
> installer (using zenity or dialog or pygtk or whatever you want) that
> would be great!
> I still have a way to go on the packaging before it is ready for
> testing.  But it should be fairly complete soon.
>
> On 09/21/2015 09:06 AM, KI7MT wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Apologies, but I've not been able to put in much effort on the project
>> of late but I will make a concerted effort work through a few scenarios
>>
>> Personally, I think we should be testing on 14.04.x and then after the
>> release 15.10, start focusing on 16.04.
>>
>> For simplicity sake, using the Meta-Package for standard application
>> inclusion "on-top" of the base installation seems to make the most sense.
>>
>> From there, the C4C PPA would come into play, insofar as, any
>> modifications / additions etc, should have a package.
>>
>> Has there been any progress made on how to manage restricted use
>> content?  DropBox is OK for inner group support, but a Server really
>> should be used to deliver this content.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Greg.
>>
>>
>> ...
>



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