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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/03/2015 03:22 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2015-08-03 21:19, Israel skrev:
>> On 08/03/2015 11:39 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Den 2015-08-03 18:33, Israel skrev:
>>>> On 08/03/2015 10:20 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>> Den 2015-08-02 23:48, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>>>>>> Den 2015-08-02 23:00, Israel skrev:
>>>>>>> Hi Nio,
>>>>>>> I trust your judgement!
>>>>>>> I just wanted to give my 2 (small unit of money).
>>>>>>> :D
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/01/2015 06:25 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Israel,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have made a built-in tool to configure the background colours of the
>>>>>>>> final checkpoints (separate for standard installations and iso-testing).
>>>>>>>> The background for iso-testing should be nicer for the eyes, because it
>>>>>>>> is intended to be used often and by experienced users. It is described
>>>>>>>> with screenshots at the following link
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13331409#post13331409
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can download the bleeding edge version from Phill's server directly
>>>>>>>> or with help of *mkusb-installer* and wget. See this link
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9#from_phillw.net
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>> Nio
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Israel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Those 'two cents', or should we say 'två öre' helped me get started and
>>>>>> make a built-in tool to configure the background colours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I hope everybody can be happy now :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Nio
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I understand now - you were telling me so gently, that I did not
>>>>> understand at once. Now I understand that the background colours that
>>>>> you edit via the help menu should be saved in a separate file instead of
>>>>> in-line in the shellscript file. It makes the custom colours survive
>>>>> updates of mkusb.
>>>>>
>>>>> See the following link
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13332255#post13332255
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Nio
>>>> awesome!!
>>>>
>>>> Yes exactly!!
>>>> A more standard configuration way to save the file would be
>>>> ~/.config/.mkusb
>>>> using $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>>>>
>>>> look forward to testing it when I have a chance!!
>>>>
>>> I'm discussing that topic in the link. I'm not quite happy to save the
>>> configuration file to the home directory, because it is owned by root,
>>> because you run mkusb as root
>>>
>>> sudo -H mkusb [image-file]
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>> Hi again,
>> Yes, I fully understand this rationale... but couldn't that file be
>> chmod +rwa
>> There are plenty of good reasons to do this in my opinion.  Using the
>> XDG variables makes it very portable also
>>
>> [[ -d "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}" ]] && mkusbfile="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/.mkusb}"
>> [[ -z "${mkusbfile}" ]] && mkusbfile=/root/.mkusb
>> [[ ! -f "$mkusbfile" ]] && sudo touch "$mkusbfile" && sudo chmod +rwa
>> "$mkusbfile"
>>
>> This would mean the user could edit the file easily, as long as mkusb
>> automatically creates and
>>  echo "$file_content" | sudo tee "$mkusbfile"
>>
>> Multiuser setup would allow everyone to customize mkusb with the
>> per-user variables... 
>> But it is not that big of an issue.  I probably wont change the color
>> much, except to just do it once and a while.  are you configuring the
>> xterm colors as well? :D
>>
>>
>>  P.S.
>> Sorry, that should have been:
>>
>> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
>>
>> in the first e-mail.
>>
>> Just for anyone following this :)
>>
> Hi Israel,
>
> Thanks for the detailed tips about the config file! I'm sure it would
> work well :-)
>
> But I really don't think it is such a big issue. I think that there will
> be a low percentage of users, when more than one person will use mkusb
> in the same computer, and a low percentage of those that will bother to
> change the background colour.
>
> And no, I have not considered configuring the xterm colours (if you mean
> those used by mkusb). I think they are good enough, at least until
> someone complains loudly ;-)
>
> It would be nice if you have the time to test the current version from
> the unstable PPA, mkusb 9.2.3
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi Nio,
I need to try it out soon, I am busy plugging away at finishing the
settings manager to support the current state of JWM, so that we can
have all the right click menu options on the buttons in the panel.  I
think it is such a big improvement I have devoted my time to testing
things pretty extensively on my production machine... it is kinda cool
that my program is stable enough now to where I can test it on a machine
while running JWM knowing that a hard crash is not very likely with it.

We shall keep the xterm talk out of the forums then :)  I will add the
unstable PPA to my system and test it out when I finish updating and
testing the new improvements to the settings manager!


-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team