+1 for creating a (well designed!) welcome screen. On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Francesco Ferretti <skullbo...@sabayon.org> wrote:
> I think the icons issue is caused by the fact that Gnome is no longer > designed to support icons on desktop. Even if we fix that we will have some > other troubles in future. > My proposal is to completely remove the icons and place instead a welcome > window like Fedora does on its live CD, so this will make installation more > immediate and even more understandable by the users. > So I found the script shipped with anaconda that create the welcome window > and I was planning to make it compatible with calamares but, since we have > replaced it with anaconda, I think is even more easy to make it work on our > distro. > Tomorrow I will test it on a daily image crossing my fingers. > > P.S. > Excuse me for my delay in my reply but I was really busy during this days. > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:49 PM Joost Ruis <joost.r...@sabayon.org> wrote: > >> Quick tested KDE dev spin (latest build from today) in Vbox. >> Installer worked, again the mouse theme changed just like on MATE spin, >> but everything installed it seems. >> >> When trying to reboot from live KDE spin, it simply logs into a fresh KDE >> live session again. >> After a reboot I notice SDDM being my DM and Kodi is selected as the >> default session. >> I select Plasma as my default session and it seems to load up fine. >> >> I will now try testing the same spin on a baremetal machine. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Ettore Di Giacinto < >> mud...@sabayonlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> Downloaded KDE, i'll try to test it later >>> >>> Il gio 4 ago 2016, 19:48 Joost Ruis <joost.r...@sabayon.org> ha scritto: >>> >>>> Just tested MATE daily dev that was build today and it seems that >>>> everything works just fine. (Even Grub theme got installed). >>>> I'll try to find some time to test KDE spin >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Ettore Di Giacinto < >>>> mud...@sabayonlinux.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> About cycle release, soon i'll open up another thread wrt cycle >>>>> release scheduling. Then main idea is to cut a stable release every 4 >>>>> months. >>>>> >>>>> Il lun 1 ago 2016, 15:29 Ettore Di Giacinto <mud...@sabayonlinux.org> >>>>> ha scritto: >>>>> >>>>>> Indeed i blocked crons and holded monthly automatic releases, i think >>>>>> thats also the occasion to switch to a "less often" release cycle for >>>>>> monthly and cutting stable releases instead of automatic ones. >>>>>> >>>>>> Dailies will still be there of course, giving us the ability to test >>>>>> better and having a good release everytime. >>>>>> >>>>>> KDE bug showed up since the plasma 5.6.7 bump, i suggest to give sddm >>>>>> another shot now thlhat we have the occasion (we decided to not use it >>>>>> because was having major issues with ati video cards). >>>>>> >>>>>> For GNOME, Francesco was taking care of it, but he was proposing to >>>>>> remove icons at all and adding a welcome screen (like fedora/ubuntu and >>>>>> so >>>>>> on) which is more user friendly than the current boot process. Francesco, >>>>>> can you make a proposal of changes, or write few lines on what you was >>>>>> thinking of? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Il lun 1 ago 2016, 15:17 Fabio Erculiani <fabio.erculi...@gmail.com> >>>>>> ha scritto: >>>>>> >>>>>>> First of all, >>>>>>> I think I fixed all outstanding anaconda issues (including the grub >>>>>>> splash) and I am pushing anaconda-22.5 right now. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But I still see at least a couple of major issues with the images I >>>>>>> tested (GNOME and KDE): >>>>>>> - GNOME desktop icons are incorrectly positioned, they are one above >>>>>>> the other. >>>>>>> - KDE LightDM integration (after install) seems broken, X starts at >>>>>>> a very low resolution and there is no background (the background is >>>>>>> white). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I think we should fix at least these two things before cutting a new >>>>>>> release. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Fabio Erculiani >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Ettore Di Giacinto - Sabayon Project Lead >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Ettore Di Giacinto - Sabayon Project Lead >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ettore Di Giacinto - Sabayon Project Lead >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
