Hi everybody, hopefully I am back online now. My congratulations with 9.2 (sorry if it comes late) and best wishes. As we all hope - it should be successful.
I did not look into mailbox for a month - so much was surprise when I found mail about mandrake club ... thank you, I really appreciate it (I guess I have to express my thanks to fred lepied in the first place) ... Update to 9.2 went mostly smoothly, some glitches below (Pablo, I Cc to you as they mostly are i18n issues - surprise surprise :) I updated from 9.1 with most updates. - initscripts l10n glitch, it becomes routine job :) See separate mail for patch - update again screwed up my system by changing locale to UTF8. Because it was already discussed I am forced to use emphasis here - DO NOT CHANGE SYSTEM SETTINGS ON UPDATE. That is even more annoying as I explicitly deselected "use UTF8" during installer run ... - printerdrake assumes ISO-8859-1 when reading system files. The effect - it creates printer with name "Printer" in Russian and writes it into CUPS file. Then it reads it but displays using Western charset. With obvious effect. This concerns ALL tools. Any tool should assume that local files have encoding determined by current locale. It was discussed with gc already re. rpmdrake (.rpmnew merge). - for some reason kdeutils was not updated. I suspect it is due to new package being virtual and some weird dependency resolution problems. - kdepim was removed but replacement packages have not been installed (with effect that address book call from kmail did not work) - there are problems in some MCC tools when embedded, they do not fit in parent window (apparently due to different size of translated strings) but no scrollbars are available so some controls (buttons et al) cannot be reached. More or less the same as always, it happens in every release. I can send screenshots if anyone is interested. Apart from that funny thing is that KDE does not start non-KDE programs in saved session. I had saved session with two konsole and gkrellm - gkrellm never appears. Even when I saved session again. I just start it out of Autostart now (fortunately new version supports all WM hints that eliminates need to use kstart or other dirty tricks). Of course lack of kernel sources was very bad surprise ... I suspect that most people who use downloaded version would miss it actually, to me it makes more sense in some stripped down boxed version. Which means I did not even run mandrake kernel yet because I have nvidia and cannot compile drivers :) Not a big deal as I run 2.6 anyway but still I was curious. Some sugar. The overall look is really more polished and professional. MCC looks very nice, do I understand right that draksec now takes care of grsecurity settings? Some options smell like it. Translations were also mostly good so far. 2all - what do you think of translating contributors list? I mean, using native names in native locale. I do not know how many non-ISO8859-1 contributors are there though ...
