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Great stuff Israel, thanks for all your efforts and updates.

> To: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:25:06 -0600
> Subject: [Torios-dev] Testing Debian ISO
> 
> Hey everyone!
> I tested the ISO (finally) on real hardware.
> So far I am extremely impressed.  The Debian version is actually more
> responsive on the 'dumpster' computer.  I also verified that installing
> the 'restricted extras' item from firstrun works perfectly.
> I was able to rip/listen to CDs, watch html5 drm video on Amazon, and
> watch a DVD.  To be honest I only watched the menu screen on the DVD,
> but I will test it with a full movie at some point soon.
> 
> I also noticed something wonderful.  Debian has dunst!  For those of you
> who do not know, dunst is a notification display program.  It is
> extremely light and fast!  So I am going to upload my dunst
> configuration in the ToriOS /etc/skel that way our users will have a
> more complete dunst out of the box.  I have been using dunst on my
> computer for a few months now and I like it.  It is similar to the xfce
> notification program, though it also can show a list of the previous
> notifications.
> 
> It is also extremely small and lightweight.  It provides all the
> functionality we require, and I have spent enough time with it to create
> a nice enough configuration that most users will be satisfied out of the
> box.  The default is rather clunky, with odd colors, and would go
> directly over the Apps button.  So whether or not we decide to add it,
> we can possibly add a menu item in firstrun to give the users a good choice.
> 
> I am going to rework the firstrun program to use the dialog chooser
> program.  For those who missed the last e-mail, dialog-chooser is a
> script I wrote to do all the work to pick the right dialog program(s)
> for our scripts.  It will also create dialog/whiptail dialogs if X is
> not running (i.e. [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] )
> I am quite excited about it, as we will not have to update our programs
> to use yad, if Debian includes it at any point in stable.  We can simply
> advise users to install it.  we could potentially run a dialog after an
> update to advise users of information, as we can control the ability to
> modify their .jwmrc from a post install script and so the next time they
> log in a dialog will pop up (and then remove itself from the autostart)
> OR we can simply add an item into the nice-start program we use to
> autostart things in the xdg_autostart directory
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> 
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