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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-11-13 kl. 18:42, skrev Israel:
> Hi Nio,
> Honestly I have been too busy with work and family do do much of
> anything this week.  I did get a programming session in earlier this week.
> I have not had much time to test much of anything except the programs I
> work on, and that has been fairly limited as well.
> Just enough testing to find/fix the OnlyShowIn Unity issue with the
> menus (not major but still a nice fix).  And to fix some issues with
> window group configuration and fix a longstanding bug with themes.  But
> those were fairly easy fixes, and did not take much time.

Still much more than nothing :-)

> I would like to upgrade to Wily soon so I can begin testing ToriOS
> components in Wily so I can have an idea of what to focus on for Xenial.
> I have found some issues in OBI related to Trusty, that are minor, but
> still needed fixes (user-config autologin)

I'm testing Xenial now (not every day, but enough to know what is
happening). You might as well too, for example Lubuntu, that will
probably not have any big surprises. At least you can check now and then
to install the ToriOS PPAs and packages into Xenial.

> I will try to get back into things soon.  I will be rebuilding the ISO
> again to test and I hope OBI is good enough to have your stamp of approval.

Looking forward to it.

> I think mkusb really needs to be translatable in order to get into the
> Debian repos.  So If you get a chance to work on that please do, if you
> need help ask.  You know that I have had some experience with starting
> the work.  I think that should be the goal for mkusb 10.5 (or even 11.0)

I really think that I should make a new version of mkusb, where I peel
off redundant stuff, and also things, that I know very few people use.
Such a version of mkusb would be much smaller and easier to manage. I
would also make it much less verbose - so you would need to fix much
fewer text strings :-)

It would also be much easier to maintain - even if/when I won't do it
any more.

> On 11/12/2015 11:45 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> 1. Thanks or the detailed update from me too, Israel :-)
>>
>> 2. Israel, Jack and all other developers,
>>
>> I have copied mkusb 10.3 from
>>
>> ppa:mkusb/unstable to ppa:mkusb/ppa
>>
>> because I think it works well enough. Some people at the Ubuntu Forums
>> are helping me to test, but so far they have only complained about the
>> language (the text in the zenity windows). I will replace version 10.3
>> with version 10.3.1 in ppa:mkusb/unstable soon. It will be updated
>> according to the suggested changes in the text.
>>
>> Anyway I suggest that you test that it works in ToriOS, and if you have
>> issues, please tell me as soon as possible, because they have tested it
>> in newer versions (including Xenial Xerus). Only I have tested it in
>> Precise, and maybe you two(?).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
>> Den 2015-11-12 kl. 09:03, skrev Jack Trice:
>>> Thanks for the detailed update Israel, great and dedicated work.
>>>
>>> On 11 November 2015 at 22:57, Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi there guys,
>>>     A couple of quick notes on my progress.
>>>     I have worked on the settings manager a bit recently and fixed some
>>>     issues, and implemented a bit more of the features that were close to
>>>     being finished.
>>>     Window Groups can now be added/subtracted easily, with all the separate
>>>     portions of that now working correctly.
>>>     Window groups control things like what we did with OBI in the LiveCD
>>>     version not having a 'close' button.
>>>
>>>     I have also recently been trying to cut down on the 'restarting' of JWM
>>>     when saving.  It can be rather annoying to have your screen flash so
>>>     much.  So I have tried to limit more to when they click 'OK' only.
>>>
>>>     I have used the startup commands effectively in this build. I tried
>>>     gedit ~/temp (which is a real file) and it started up with my test file
>>>     just fine.
>>>     So a program with a single argument can work.  I will have to test
>>>     scripts against this to see if it works.
>>>
>>>     I have also tried to modify the version settings for recovery so I can
>>>     control/support the newer versions of JWM easily, and define what things
>>>     to show/not show depending on the JWM version.
>>>
>>>     I fixed a quirk in the themes portion that was not working correctly,
>>>     using this more refined form of version control.
>>>
>>>     I also fixed some issues I had with OnlyShowIn coupled with the [Desktop
>>>     Action ] stuff in files for unity.  Now the menu works better, it is not
>>>     as noticeable as my recent change to fully include programs in .local
>>>     but if you have programs that say OnlyShowIn=unity; (not the portions
>>>     under the Desktop Actions) they will not show up in our menu any longer.
>>>
>>>     I think that is all, sorry if I am repeating anything. :)
>>>     I will work on rebuilding the base and ISO soon.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Regards
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