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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio,
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On 06/08/2015 11:44 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi Israel,
> [inline]
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2015-06-08 14:40, Israel skrev:
>> ....
>>> 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 :-)
Not exactly.  If the polkit rules work then having the same menu (minus
logout)
will be just fine!
>
>>> 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 ;-)
ah... yeah.  I don't seem to encounter this problem very often... but I
am not entirely sure what the issue is.  It may be that the PCManFM
wallpaper overlays the JWM wallpaper (which is the same) and this causes
minor screen glitches in PCManFM... but I do not know...
>>> 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.
Update grub worked last time I tried it.  I checked the log file.  But
this was only mkp1p2 (i.e. normal installation mode for anyone else
following... I will add some translations)
I did not test mkpxpy (manual partition mode)
Check the obi installer log in the live session when you do it.  Before
user-config runs (all the output about timezone etc....) it will say:
updated grub for $dest  (which will be /dev/sda1 or whatever)
So if this is working, then we need to do it later perhaps?
>>> 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.
consider it done :D
>>> B...
> 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 know using the GUI for ImageMagick is not the best... however it is
extremely powerful (takes screen shots, converts images quickly,
displays almost anything image related).  For a lightweight all around
tool it is very simple, and very small, and very powerful.
> 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.
Actually I have something like this already in the Beginner section of
the startpage, check it out and give me some feedback on it!

>>> 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.
That is very odd... what about the text underneath?
>>> ...
>>


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Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team