Hello Parabola hackers, I've recently tested parabola-mate-2016.07.27-dual.iso and I like that it's cutting-edge, simple and gets the job done.
I've also noted down few negative points I would like to contribute as feedback: 1. LightDM is not polished (especially the menus of NetworkManager applet, main and right-click menus in applications such as AbiWord, right-click menu in IceWeasel: missing padding and hover highlighting of menu items, different font sizes in the same menu etc.) I assume MATE/LightDM is preferred because it's light, but I suggest Parabola also offers an ISO with better looks DE/DM (and also popular applications such as LibreOffice) 2. there is a typo in the CLI installer, "Repite root password" instead of "Repeat root password". I'm not sure if "Repite" can be found in some other places as well, I recommend checking. 3. although I've installed the optional "Live DVD Desktop Applications" IceWeasel can't display correctly monospaced sections of a web page (such as <pre> blocks of code, mailing list archives or web directory index) because the system lacks the DejaVu Sans Mono font. I fixed this by installing ttf-dejavu package. I suggest including it by default. 4. I was happy the free firmware for ath9k_htc was installed by default (I could simply plug Tehnoetic WiFi N150/N300 USB adapters and connect to Internet on my desktop), but I couldn't find the package for carl9170 free firmware needed by the recently added dual-band Tehnoetic WiFi adapater, as one customer reported in the Reviews tab of the product page: Quoting: "As of this writing, the GPLv2 carl9170 firmware is not included in Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, so you will have to manually download the free firmware before it can be used." - https://tehnoetic.com/tet-n300db Isn't the carl9170 free firmware packaged in Arch? Could you include it in Parabola? I believe Parabola has the potential to be as user-friendly as Trisquel and the project could really use the popularity that this could bring. Thank GNU, Tiberiu -- https://ceata.org https://tehnoetic.com _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
