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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel
[see inline]
Best regards/Nio

Den 2015-01-01 21:08, Israel skrev:
> Hi Nio
> (inlines)
...
>> *nm-applet*
>>
>> I suggest that you include nm-applet (comes with the package
>> network-manager-gnome) but not autostart it because it uses RAM, and it
>> is probably not necessary in desktop computers (where many people have
>> wired network connections). There might be a quick-start for it though.
>> ---
>> paipr nm-applet
>> nm-applet  is installed as a program in system PATH
>> package: /path/name
>> network-manager-gnome: /usr/bin/nm-applet
>> ---
> Ok, once I get everything building and installing correctly I will do this.
> Maybe I could add in a zenity dialog for enabling it by running sdesk
> and including an icon.
> ethernet should work irregardless of what is running.
> I'll update the themes... fortunately I have made this much easier on
> myself by using .in files where I can change a variable in the
> CMakeLists and have all files update automatically :)

This should work well :-)

Did you notice the size of my new tarball? Only 254 MiB (265 MB), but no
web browser is installed (yet).

>> *Wallpapers*
>>
>> By the way, maybe you should supply a wide screen wallpaper too. ToriOS
>> seems not able to
>>
>> 1. use jpg files (you can discard them)
>> 2. stretch (distort) the wallpaper to fill the screen.
> This is actually a bug in the current JWM version.  I already notified
> Joe about it a month (or more) back.  I will press him about the issue
> again, and see if it is fixed.  If it is, then I will update our version
> of JWM to the current git version.  There are already some good
> fixes/features implemented in that version.
>> so along-side a 1600x1200 png, there might be a 1920x1080 png for
>> example the attached one. But if you must save space, you can also make
>> much simpler wallpapers, maybe only one-coloured (grey) with the red
>> ToriOS character near the middle.
>>
>> *New uploaded tarball and help files*
>>
>> Knowing what I know now, I made a much better (and lighter) tarball with
>> ToriOS
>>
>> precise-torios.tar.xz
>>
>> to be started with
>>
>> user:     guru
>> password: changeme
>>
>> startx
>>
>> You find it at
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/2015-01/
>>
>> There are also two more files there (plus a md5sums file)
>>
>> torios_bash_history.txt
>>
>> showing how I made it (relying heavily on the excellent work by Israel), and
>>
>> default_1920x1080.png
>>
>> which is my suggested wallpaper for wide screens.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> There is another wallpaper included in the install... it is something I
> made in inkscape... it is based on the ubuntu wallpaper guidelines (the
> size)
> you can just choose to use it by changing the background to human-bg.
> But the scaling issue makes it look wrong on most things still.
> 
> I think we can include a fair amount of wallpapers as long as we keep
> them as jpg files, since jpg are much smaller than png.  I can also
> remove the png version of 'default' so there is room for 3 or 4 more
> backgrounds.
> 
> Maybe once we are getting ready for release we can send out the call for
> wallpapers on social media.  no matter what format they send in we can
> convert whatever.ext to whatever.jpg
> 

I think it is enough to supply one wallpaper (maybe in two formats, as
long as the bug stops stretching the picture). It is really a waste of
valuable CD space to supply more wallpapers. Instead we can supply a
link where to download from a selection of ToriOS wallpapers, but I
think most people who care about wallpapers will select their own
favourites from other places or use their own pictures.