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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
I *BOLDED* the summary lines if you are busy

A quick update about the settings manager.
I have been running a version of ToriOS (well... Lubuntu + ToriOS) on a PPC.
I rebuilt the jwm-settings-manager package with my current one, and
found some crazy issues :)
So, I am updating things to be more sane :P
There are some changes I will eventually have to make..
One of those is, if the jwm -p command fails (this is the JWM command to
make sure you edited the config file without any errors) show an error
dialog and say "Hey, you can't do that!!!"
or something.

But...
what I have done is to *make adding left and right panels smarter...* 
now it decides that if the panel is "left" then it obviously is
vertical, not horizontal.

*So basically the user will be restricted (in the first stable release)
to only have 4 panels.*  This will eventually change when things get
tested more and fixed up.  But in order to eliminate errors and get a
full proper testing I want to limit the amount of possible errors to
address.
If we get complaints for users "I want 5 panels!!!" we can let them know
eventually we will implement an unlimited amount of panels... but we
need to keep error variables to a minimum.
We will not limit our users... but until we can keep their window
manager from having strange unusable configurations we will limit them
to a working setup.  I hope this makes sense.

Anyhow, there are still issues... but testing helps.

*I also moved the App shortcut finder to look in /usr/share/applications*
To me this makes more sense as it is how everyone else does it.
I will eventually try to make something more visual than a list with
.desktop on the end...
But for now it works, the change to a simple list of things should be
fairly easy... and I can add a 'custom shortcut' option... but right now
you can really just type anything in the shortcut and run it... and set
your own icon, etc...  we can also convert this to something similar to
the lxshortcut program... that would be incredibly simple to make.  It
might be fun to try to learn how to write it in C rather than C++
I still need to figure out how to use SVG in fltk... not sure if I can
yet...

I will push the changes when I am sure they work fully

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team