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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-06-08 14:40, Israel skrev:
> Hi Nio,
> (inlines and snipping)
> 
> On 06/08/2015 03:43 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2015-06-07 15:06, Israel skrev:> Hi everyone,
>>> ..
>> I did not see the plymouth splash in the live session.
> I will make sure to add it!
> 
>> Bugs(?)
>>
>> 1. menu://applications in pcmanfm shows nothing this time. I suggest
>> again to use
>>
>> ln -s /usr/share/applications/ $HOME/Desktop
>>
>> which should 'just work' instead of the flaky 'menu://applications'
> 
> Alright I will build the next ISO with this
>> 2. 'Shutdown now' and 'Restart Computer' from the pulldown menu in the
>> right top corner act directly without any (extra) submenu, which is
>> different from before. 'Logout' seems to do pretty much the same thing
>> as 'Reload Desktop'. Is it by intention or a bug?
> I modified the menus so the next build should work better/be more intuitive.

So by intention. OK :-)

>> 3. I did not see the plymouth splash
>>
>> 4. The screen background is not refreshed (the size change due to the
>> panel is not done properly), so there are discontinuities in the
>> background picture after closing windows. This is a cosmetic bug, yet a bug.
> This is a bug, but this would be a PCManFM issue, since it is
> controlling the desktop.

I see. Well, it does not bother me much. If you choose another default
wallpaper (plain grey, with the ToriOS calligraphic character,
attached), it will hardly be noticed until the user switches to another
wallpaper ;-)

>> 1. Implausibly old time stamp output during expansion of the tarball:
>>
>> You can touch the affected files (works in the installed system, should
>> work (I think) in chroot before making the tarball
>>
>> for i in $(find /var/lib/sudo);do touch $i;done
>>
>> This is also a cosmetic bug, but I remember that Ali complained about it.
> Ahh, thanks for reminding me, I'll but that on the TODO list!!
>> 2. Installing into a partition, I did not get the grub menu. The screen
>> was black instead of the ToriOS splash, and the 'caps locked led' is
>> flashing. A failure :-(
>>
>> Not even SysRq R E I S U B worked, only hard reset with the power
>> button. On reboot, there is a grub menu but without the other operating
>> systems, so it seems update-grub in the chroot environment is still
>> failing. And when selecting in the grub menu I get
>>
>> error: symbol not found: 'grub_video_fb_set_active_render_target'
>> (twice).
>>
>> Memory test works, but not starting ToriOS. After memory test it booted
>> differently, but failing, and after that I could actually boot into
>> ToriOS. I don't know what happened.
>>
>> sudo update-grub worked in the installed system.
> So, this is mkpxpy?  Or do you think the issue is elsewhere?  I will
> have to take a look to see.

I really don't know what happens, and why. I don't think we have changed
anything near mkpxpy ??? Maybe a freak-out of the chroot session causing
a bad clean-up before rebooting into the installed system. After several
reboots, the system seems to start working like it should.

But the 'pretty and graphical grub' makes it harder to succeed with
certain graphics hardware. Maybe this is the culprit.

And don't forget that update-grub has stopped working in chroot. It used
to work well some iso-file versions ago.

>> menu://applications in pcmanfm works here, except that there are missing
>> icons in 'Other'.
> Not sure how to address this one.

This one (missing icons in 'Other') can be given lower priority.

>>
>> Bugs(?)
>>
>> 1. ztweaks is missing (known bug).
>>
>> 2. 'Go to ToriOS website' causes the welcoming screen to disappear. Is
>> that intended?
> 
>> 3. Nothing happens when I click on 'ImageMagick (Display)' in the menu,
>> but the program works from the command line and it even struggled with a
>> pdf file via pcmanfm until I installed evince ;-)
> I will double check the ImageMagick Issue... I need to modify the
> Desktop file.

I think it works, but ImageMagick (Display) is very cumbersome to use.
It should work to switch page with the space-bar, but only one page.
Then it goes to a mini window, and you need the mouse to focus on the
main window again. The alternative via the menu takes a click - a
movement - and another click. Not convenient, but it works. So it is OK
in order to keep the tarball small and the iso file with CD size.

I suggest that you add an entry in your greeter to install evince, maybe
also LibreOffice and some other program that we can agree is useful for
many end users.

>> 4. The plymouth splash is malformed during shutdown (cosmetic bug).
> Not sure what to do with that, how is it malformed?

The calligraphic character is OK, but the text fragments 'Tori' and 'OS'
are compressed into irregular white blobs.

>>
>> *. I'm sad to say this, but this version is a step backwards. I think
>> you tried to improve too many things at the same time.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> 
>

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