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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ali!
Hi Everyone!

*ISO*
I think making an Alpha release would be fine to do!
This will require quite a bit of coordinating.  Nio had made the
original pre-alpha ISO.
So, I think this may fall into his area of expertise.  I have never made
a full OS ISO before.

So my proposal is to *narrow down what we need to include on the disk*!!!!

With the current Menu system almost fully in place (I need to work out a
few packaging/installing details) we can build this up pretty soon.

  I don't fully know what all is needed to get my program onto the
disc.  We'd also need to link in the PPA to be updated... actually it
might be better to start an official ToriOS PPA, rather than mine.
  This way we can have the Stable ToriOS official PPA, and I can do my
experiments in my 'mostly stable' and 'radical changes' PPAs
We can eventually migrate the testing to a 'daily' PPA.

  We need to include some sort of background.. seriously.  If no one has
anything I will look through my photography and art to see what I have
that fits well with the default color scheme.
The default colours have been decided as a 'Dark' Theme, from the poll
we had a while back.

  I have a directory of Numix icons that have been converted.  That we
need to install somewhere (i.e. usr/share/icons/ToriOS)  I can try to
whip up a quick PPA to install the miscellaneous stuff this weekend perhaps.

  I need to modify the Icon chooser code to include all the icon
sub-directories given a certain size (like 24 or 48 or whatever)
To make it really super smart and figure out everything and look really
pretty is going to take a while... I am doing many different things at
the same time.


*NEWS*
I can post to the mailing list and to G+ occasionally... but I am
spending so much time right now programming.  I am using C++, and BASH
and I am trying to figure out what programs we need, what needs to be
preconfigured, etc..  I have been using JWM as my daily WM for quite
some time, and using my program to do most things I need... and adding
things I want, and finding things that aren't as intuitive as I'd like
them to be, finding the hard to find runtime bugs/crashes that only
happen in certain circumstances, etc...

So I can e-mail the list with an e-mail titled [News]
But, I don't even have time to fix some of the minor webpage things I
have been meaning to for a while. (though I will try to get to this this
weekend).


That is all... back to code::blocks  :D


On 08/01/2014 02:01 PM, Ali Linx wrote:
> Hi dear friends,
>
> Hope you are all fine and well :)
>
> I'm sick and tired of my excuses. I don't want to give any, but I just
> want to share some of what I have perhaps I'd feel better and charge
> myself a bit with some positive energy. It is real life again and
> everytime, it is something serious and important and above all, I have
> no power nor energy at all. I can't even read your emails.
>
> I however 100% sure you are fine without me at this stage. I see the
> subjects and some of the emails quickly from my phone and I see you
> are doing just fine :)
>
> You know me, this is not a giving up, as I just said, this is just to
> vent out a bit.
>
> For ToriOS, I finally got some idea about the NEWS section. I am still
> not happy with it and I can't do anything right now except sharing
> this thought:
>
> [idea]
> Let's forget everything we have talked about the NEWS section of ToriOS:
> http://torios.org/news/
>
> Why not each and everyone (depends what his/her part in ToriOS is) of
> us write about his/her tasks ONLY?
> It is called NEWS, correct?
> Then why would X member write about what Y member is doing?
>
> Why not X writes about what X is doing and Y writes about what Y is
> doing and so on.
>
> This means 'more' news and it is also mean a 'team work' spirit =
> positive energy.
>
> This is my simple plan to solve the puzzle of the news section :)
>
> YES. You don't have to come up with anything ... the emails you are
> sending on the mailing list, you can copy-paste that with few simple
> edits to make it easy for others to understand and follow. As simple
> as that.
>
>
> If this idea is okay (kindly vote) then we need to talk about the 2nd
> stage:
>
> We need someone who would take these news and publish that on our
> social media OR you guys need to find an automated way to do that. I'm
> not a WordPress Sensei so not really sure if such thing is already
> exist. Old is gold anyway, we can do it the manual way :)
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Okay, now about ToriOS as a system:
>
> [idea]
>
> With all this progress on the system side of the project, why we
> haven't yet release any thing whatsoever? why not we release Alpha? I
> feel and see that you guys are working and you totally forgot to
> mention that in any emails you sent. I mean, it feels like you wish to
> complete the system and then release the first Alpha? :D well, that is
> NOT part of the plan ;)
>
> Alpha Release is meant to be broken and have some bugs. From your
> emails, I can see everything is working as a stable version.
>
> So, this is for our developers to give me one good reason why we
> haven't yet released any Alpha?
>
> Why this is so important?
> Because:
> 1- ToriOS has been announced as a project long time ago.
> 2- Without something we can show to people, they will lose faith and
> trust in us and won't even follow us anymore.
> 3- Having something in hand (Alpha release) means we can ask other
> developers or people to join and help to make our system even better.
>
> I have learned that from other projects and you need to trust me in
> this one. Unless you have a very strong reason not to ;)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> That is all what I have in mind right now.
>
> If you need me, feel free to email me. You might wait sometime until I
> reply but if it is important, I will try to do my best.
>
> Must go, feel so weak and tired ...
>
> Cya and super huge thanks for all of you for everything ..
>


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Regards