After deactivation of Aurora, the ugly Welcome-Bootup-Screen with all the different
languages is still coming !!
Or isn't that a part of Aurora ?
mfg dominik
Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately Egil has gone back to his studies and does not weems to
> take
> > care anymore af Aurora, at least for the moment, so I am the unlucky
> guys
> > who
> > take it as maintainer.
> >
>
> Good.
>
>
> > However, I'll try to fix most of the annoying stuff, so if you could
> > enumerate
> > all the Bad Things Aurora is doing, feel free, I'll see what I can do.
> >
>
> 1. no support for IntelliMouse (of type imps/2) at least in WsLib
> versions. Setting mouse type to ps/2 activates it in Aurora but then gpm
> goes mad.
>
> 2. No support for l10n. Currently most mesages of initscripts are
> translated but Aurora is using iso8859-1 font that makes it hard to read
> Russian messages. Aurora is supposed to use English messages in this
> case but this does not work (I do not know if it is initscripts or
> aurora bug). Of course, making it to fallback to English does really
> make aurora more useful. Those users who understand English (I mean,
> non-native English of course) probably switch aurora off anyway; and
> those who would like aurora may have problems with English (experts vs.
> newbie).
>
> 3. old update bug - link for aurora monitor is removed when updating
> aurora.
>
> 4. of course, issue with interactive programs on startup (notably
> kudzu).
>
> It's all so far, but I stopped using aurora long ago, so it is all from
> memory.
>
> -andrej
