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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,

Nice to read about your work :-) I'm sure ToriOS will be a great distro,
when you are satisfied enough for iso testing.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-07-28 15:04, Israel skrev:
> Hi everyone!
> As you may know to shutdown the computer using 'shutdown -h now'
> you must be root.  So adding a 'shutdown' option to a menu requires
> something different.
> Most DE use dbus UPower for suspend and ConsoleKit for shutdown/restart...
> Anyhow... I added a simple shutdown dialog for ToriOS that uses these. 
> It is a simple hacky workaround (it uses system... eventually I will
> make it nice calling the actual functions, etc..)
> at this point as I am testing it.  I have uploaded it to a PPA... not
> the testing PPA... but a different PPA.
> https://launchpad.net/~israeldahl/+archive/ubuntu/muchotesting
> This is the extremely bleeding edge PPA where I will roll out changes
> first to make sure things don't go haywire :)
> 
> The other news I have is about the Numix-Circle icons...
> I have been using them in JWM (which I use some of the time... I still
> need to do a few things to get it where I can daily use it and configure
> it easily... mainly easily add another panel).
> And they look nice.  Numix icons are SVG, so I had to convert them using
> a handy-dandy Bash script that uses inkscape to convert them....
> imagemagick was not working the way I wanted it to... though it works
> fine to scale the images down to a different size.  I have scaled the
> icons to 24x24 and they work just fine for me.
> 
> Anyhow... if anyone wants to try out the new thing, feel free.
> But, you will have to switch PPAs to do it.
> Otherwise once I have tested things more, I will be pushing these
> changes to the master branch and update the PPA.
> 
> The WM (maybe you could call it a DE by now?) is getting closer to being
> ready for another ISO for testing... but there are still a few things
> that need to be addressed (the Menu is a big one)
>