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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2014-12-20 16:30, Israel skrev:
> Hi everyone,
> I am just sending an update to let you know about my progress here.
> I have been spending a lot of time trying to get the settings manager
> closer to being finished enough for our final release.
> 
> Here are the most notable things I have done/am working on.
> 
> Huge code refactoring to make common functions use a base function for
> easy maintenance.
> 
> Almost everything has been refactored to be ready for multiple panel
> support.
> Begun working on successful multiple panel editing, though there are a
> few UI issues I need to address.
> 
> Created a configuration file for the program which keeps track  of the
> current panel.
> getting ready to add more items to the configuration, such as the
> default clock/calendar app.
> 
> I haven't commited the changes yet, as there are still some instability
> issues, but I am getting very close to having this program ready for the
> release or ToriOS 1.0.  I would like to implement a few more things, but
> my goal is to have full functionality before ToriOS 1.0, though there
> are some things I will leave in their not-perfect-but-perfectly-usable
> state, such as the font chooser, and keyboard shortcut manager.  Those
> are usable and stable, but not quite to the caliber of use that I
> ultimately want.  I would like the font chooser to be alphabetized and
> show previews of the actual font, but this is much easier than editing
> an xml file by hand :)  And I would like the keyboard setup utility to
> have a 'key grabber' where you simply press keys and it knows what you
> press and assign that as the shortcut, but still the current form works
> and is easier/less dangerous than hand editing XML.
> Basically I want to be able to fully edit multiple panels and configure
> them easily.  This is the main goal I have before we can release the
> full ToriOS 1.0 , though Beta can be usable without multpile panel
> support (our default setup is only one panel), I personally always use
> multiple panels in all DE I use, so it is a feature I know others will
> require.
> 
> That about sums up this week's work... just a lot of programming.
> 
> Oh, I also have a fairly stable sdesk and I updated it with a man page,
> and have tested it a little, but not enough to know whether we can use
> sdesk and a script to replace a network monitoring program.
> 

Hi Israel,

Thanks for the update :-)

Best regards
Nio