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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Israel,

On second thought, maybe it would be good to keep grub. It is good to 
have it available in 'ToriOS live' for people to repair or reinstall 
grub, when they have managed to damage the installed system.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-06-02 kl. 06:23, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> Good news, Israel,
>
> I agree that we need not supply gddrescue. If it works without grub,
> fine. I would consider screenie and ztweaks too from the live session. I
> think very few people would use ztweaks. It is enough to run
>
> setxkbmap se
>
> or similar for other languages and
>
> synclient touchpadoff=1
>
> to avoid nasty actions when the palm gets close to the touchpad.
>
> If it is OK to keep screenie, fine, it can help, when people want help
> to 'show us what they see in the live session'.
>
> If gdisk is installed, you can remove it too (mkusb wanted it, but it is
> removed from the live session now).
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2016-06-02 kl. 03:39, skrev Israel:
> > Ok Jack,
> > I removed it from the base tarball
> > The tarball was 341.7MiB nut after removing the rouge desktop file and
> > doing some cleanup we now are down to 339.7 MiB
> > So I am removing things from the ISO.
> > We do not need grub on the ISO (OBI uses grub that exists in the tarball
> > via chroot)
> > And I removed gddrescue
> > I figure users can install it IF they need.
> > I hope this brings it down a bit more
> > The tarball size will being it down 5 MiB (710ish MiB)
> > And removing grub and gddrescue may bring it down the extra 10 MiB we
> > need.
> > Worse case scenario we can try to remove the firmware and see if it
> > still downloads correctly....
> > We shall see if that is even needed.
> > I would like it to be CD sized, Lubuntu is suffering from not having a
> > CD sized ISO (at least Nio has opened a discussion about this)
> > We can also make a large ISO that has extra software in the tarball and
> > everything in the ISO at some point.
> >
> > On 06/01/2016 02:06 AM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:
> > > Hi Israel,
> > >
> > > Good news - rev. 285 of torios-desktop fixed the double icons problem
> > > I found.
> > >
> > > Extra items in the 'firstrun' script look useful reminders.
> > >
> > > /usr/share/applications/vim.desktop pictures included below:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > JackT.
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Subject: Re: VB Install testing:RE: [Torios-dev] Working ISO
> > > To: jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > CC: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx
> > > From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 17:01:42 -0500
> > >
> > > Hey Jack,
> > > The double Icons *should* be fixed if you update your system.
> > > Once the package builds.
> > > It will be torios-desktop
> > > revision 285
> > >
> > > I may remove seamonkey, since it is from sourceforge (for Debian/Ubuntu)
> > > I will look into it some, but I am rather wary of sourceforge these
> > > days :(
> > >
> > > I can fix the vim desktop app via an update, I suppose, otherwise I
> > > will rebuild and remove it.  Most new users would be quite perplexed
> > > using vim/vi
> > > Can you post
> > > cat /usr/share/applications/vim.desktop
> > > for me?
> > > It might be easy to fix, but it would also probably be better to hide
> > > it from the users.
> > > Most vi/vim users would probably use a terminal to edit things
> > > Same with nano/pico
> > >
> > > Did you like the extra items in the firstrun script??
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/31/2016 02:13 PM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi Israel,
> > >
> > >     1) Installed and updated, but noticed I'm getting 2 battery icons
> > >     and 2 volume indicators in top panel (see picture).
> > >
> > >     2) Also Apps -> Accessories -> Vim just flashed a window but
> > >     nothing resulted.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     Cheers,
> > >     JackT.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     > To: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >     <mailto:torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >     > From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >     > Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 06:34:12 -0500
> > >     > Subject: [Torios-dev] Working ISO
> > >     >
> > >     > Hi,
> > >     > I tested a few things this time prior to uploading.
> > >     > No vim
> > >     > working menu
> > >     > install pae working
> > >     >
> > >     > The ISO is 715MiB
> > >     > There is no sakura,evince or mkusb on the ISO.
> > >     >
> > >     > So, test it out, I think this one is much improved. Thanks for
> > > your
> > >     > patience!
> > >     >
> > >     > --
> > >     > Regards