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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-11-13 kl. 20:57, skrev Israel:
> Hi Nio,
> (inlines)
> On 11/13/2015 11:55 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi Israel,
>> [inline]
>> 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 :-)
> Still more to go, I am trying to track down the ztweaks issue you are
> having.
> I know I could just look in the source, (which I may) but do you run
> `ztweaks auto`
> as your command?

Yes

>>> 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.
> Indeed, but I need to figure out of to package the newer version of
> JWM.  Some things have changed in the way they use autoconf to build. 
> Certain things are no longer there, and must be generated, so I will
> have to spend some time working on getting it packaged.  There have been
> a lot of really great features and bug fixes introduced in the past few
> weeks.
> Once I get that working I will at least upgrade to Wily as not much will
> change feature-wise since the main change will be systemd.  Though, the
> Shutdown/reboot dialog is already working with systemd.  I was using
> Utopic before that computer's display started dying...
>>> 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 just tested it and the mkhelp text is fixed, and all looks about the
> same size.  I think the dark red is easier on they eyes as well.  So, I
> will work on finding the issue with jwm-settings-manager and maybe build
> a new ISO for this weekend.

OK

>>> 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.
> Indeed. You could separate functions into different files, and install
> them in /usr/share/mkusb and have redundant functions as a file to
> source.  Just a thought from the OBI adventures we've had :)
> 

I don't mind having many functions in the same file - I use the 'find'
tool (in gedit and geany). And it is better for debugging than with
functions from other files (sourced files). An alternative is to have a
preprocessor but I think that is overkill.