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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ali
(inlines... ps. sorry about your number list thunderbird reformatted it)
On 02/23/2015 05:11 AM, Ali Linx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my testing report.
> Tested on Oracle VirtualBox with 1 CPU core and 256MB RAM.
>
> _*LIVE SESSION*_
>
>  1. ToriOS Live Menu has brown/dark orange highlight which makes
>     vision very hard and words less readable. Can we change that,
>     please? whatever color we shall use, let's just make sure words
>     are readable.
>
Yeah, I need to rebuild the settings manager again.  I mean to use the
same themes for the live and installed OS.
>
>  1. 46MB - 53MB[1][2] of RAM while on idle live desktop - impressive!
>     I didn't imagine we could achieve that, well done :D
>  2. Links 2, when opened, shows the old website (torios.org) and IMHO,
>     this must be changed.
>
I think you are mistaken here.  It should open the startpage.
I can modify this to be a different startpage eventually.
>
>  1. When I take a screenshot for example, save that on the Desktop to
>     check whether everything is okay or not ... I notice that there
>     will be no icon on the desktop whatsoever unless I go to the file
>     manager and then open Desktop folder. Why is that? it is reminding
>     me of Ubuntu GNOME default behavior - no icons - unless you enable
>     that from GNOME Tweak.
>
This can be done.  I will have to enable pcmanfm to start on login....
however this uses more RAM :)
>
>  1. Can't we change the default theme? it is not consistent with the
>     icons theme at all.
>
These are the colors we chose a long while back.  what do you suggest?
>
>  1. Next to the red and white ToriOS icon that represents the main
>     menu, I'd suggest to change the name from "Apps" to either "Menu"
>     or even better "ToriOS". IMHO, it is good idea to be proud of our
>     name and use it :)
>
hmmm...  I think Apps makes more sense than Menu.  ToriOS seems even
more obscure as to what that button does...
I'm willing to change the text, but this seems to obfuscate the purpose
of that button
>
>  1. Menu > Settings > Desktop Settings - after clicking on it, nothing
>     happens.
>
I will look into this...  it should, of course, open
>
>  1. Menu > Settings > Panel Settings - crashed and did odd things but
>     the Live session didn't crash. I also tried to change the label of
>     the menu from Apps to something else, it didn't work and then the
>     menu jumped from the far left to the fat right. I killed it from
>     htop but when I was trying to open it yet again, nothing happens.
>
The live session probably cannot be configured much, since it is a
READ-ONLY filesystem.
>
>  1. Menu > Settings  > Themes Settings - I changed to GNOME 2 dark and
>     as you can see:
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw-s_t-wO9m6ZVF1V2xGc0E1YlE/view?usp=sharing
>     - the menu has been divided to 2.
>
The Gnome2 menu works?  is this what you are saying?  Gnome2 had an
applications and System menu.  It is very similar to Gnome2!
>
>  1. Menu > Settings > Themes Settings - I chose the 3rd theme and the
>     whole desktop has been crashed and nothing (except networking
>     icon) was there even the panels -
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw-s_t-wO9m6WUZkZVpqemRPSWs/view?usp=sharing
>
I will look into this, thanks for reporting this!  There must be a
syntax error in the theme... sorry.
>
> 1.
>
>
>  2. Had to report as I couldn't do anything except that.
>  3. This is not the first time, by the way. With every build I test,
>     whenever I test Themes Settings, it does almost the same behavior.
>
JWM must reload the entire desktop to apply a theme.  This is expected
behavior.
>
>  1. Why contents of Menu > Settings are the same on Menu > System?
>     this is making it very long :(
>
Not sure... this is something in the freedesktop implementation, but I
will look again at the script to see if it can be improved
>
> 1.
>
>
>  2. Menu > System > htop - does nothing at all.
>
hmmm... I will look at the desktop file to see if there is a typoo
>
>  1. Why there are 3 documents for OBI? description, readme and quick
>     start?
>  2. Menu > System > Add User - does nothing.
>
This is a problem.  I need to remove that one, and install fladduser...
but not on the live system
>
>  1. Menu > System > zMKtbl - does nothing.
>
I know... the next build should have a working version
>
>  1. Why not split the documents from the system menu? these should be
>     on its own category called: Help + add a sub-entry to Help which
>     is our new website so a user can also check the website.
>
Those are the normal menu categories.   I do not have time currently to
look in the freedesktop specs to see if there is a standard for this.
>
>  1. Right click on the desktop and choosing 'change desktop wallpaper'
>     does nothing at all.
>
again same issue as the other desktop problem... there must be something
wrong in the desktop file.
>
>  1. Clicking on the time and date shows a nice calendar but there is
>     no way to change/access time!
>
we have no date/time program... maybe someone can make one, or find one
that is lightweight.
>
>  1. I played again with Themes. This time, I didn't crash the desktop
>     but the buttons on the bottom have disappeared :(
>
I will make the live build system copy the Live theme to default thanks
for finding this issue
>
>  1. I noticed that without Internet connection, I can not install
>     ToriOS. Is that normal? if this is normal and it should be like
>     that, have we documented it? it should be mentioned on OBI or
>     somewhere else as an extra reminder.
>
Not sure why that is.  OBI does not need internet.  I have not had this
problem before.
>
>  1. Installation is done in 3 mins only - WOW!
>  2. After installation is done, the system/OBI does not reboot. I
>     should do that manually. Can we change that behavior? is this
>     normal? or a bug?
>
I think it would be unexpected for the system to reboot.  we can add a
dialog to reboot if the user wants
>
>  1. OBI interface has very small font even on High Resolution. Is
>     there any way to make that bigger/lager? I'm having hard time
>     reading the words :( in fact, I can't read unless I get my face
>     next to the monitor :/
>
see my other mail
>
>  1. After rebooting manually, the virtual machine will ask you to
>     press Enter to remove the installation media .. with Ubuntu GNOME
>     for example, that never worked. With ToriOS, it does work so I'm
>     happy for that.
>
great!
>
>  1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw-s_t-wO9m6R2FKUVB5ZmhZUnM/view?usp=sharing
>     - why there are no icons? :(
>
That is one of the bugs I am working on.  I think I found the problem :)
>
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-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team