Comments on the 03/11 daily build in line: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folk/wxl: > > As previously mentioned, downloaded the "daily/current" Lu 18.04 amd64 iso > yesterday, burned it to DVD . . . no time to do the whole LP testing > process, but providing short report on using the live DVD on my '12 Mac Pro > 3.2 Ghz Quadcore with 16GB RAM . . . radeon card I believe. > > Just like the ubuntu 18.04 live DVD the Lu version takes a couple minutes > to get to the GUI system, but then mounts the GUI just fine. All seems > pretty "zippy" as far as using FF goes . . . took a few minutes to figure > out how to select the "location" so that the system clock time would set > properly . . . in "manual." One complaint about that clock is that many of > the other OSs now offer the "12/24" hour toggle switch in the GUI, rather > than still having to re-set the "%M" method . . . from the olde days . . . > that should prolly be included in Lu 18.04 to bring it up to the present > day. > This version of "try Lubuntu booted up a tad faster than before, clock set quickly, still the beef about the gui "12/24" toggle would remain as a "complaint." Nice default desktop image. > > Several times I got an error on "The application Notifications has closed > unexpectedly" and then when I clicked on the "send report" toggle . . . the > window "disappeared"?? Don't know if that is how the report gets sent . . > . there was no "drop down" window showing the details of the report, etc . > . . it was just gone. > No error boxes have opened in the time I have rifled through the various apps . . . . > > In both the "Volume Control" app and the "galculator" app . . . the "tabs" > for the various controls were not drawn as "tabs" but were instead just the > "words" that were strung together without spacing, but clicking on them > brought the various function like "input" "output" and so forth . . . . > Tabs are now showing up as "tabs" and they are working to show the functions. > > When I moved the toolbar to the top of the display, across the bottom > there was left a jagged white line showing where the desktop image was not > extending fully to the edge of the display . . . kind of "not tidy" . . . . > This issue remains, when I moved the toolbar to the top the desktop image doesn't cleanly touch the edge of the display. > > And, on using the mouse to "right-click" in the drop down menu, the items > were not "highlighting" to show whether they were "selected" . . . but, > clicking on "copy" did indeed "copy" and "paste" without showing anything > to indicate that either of those items was "highlighted" . . . don't know > if that is like an "OpenBox" "feature" . . . but I think most OSs will show > some kind of "highlighter" around the moused over item in the menu??? > right-click and mousing over stuff now shows "highlighting" or "flash/blink" > > That's it for now, overall seems like a good build . . . with just a few > details that need some attention . . . . I didn't open every single app, > but went through a few of them, the "normal" stuff . . . . I saw also that > "abiword" is still the word processor, a few years back abiword wasn't > doing very well and we had to "remove it" or something, for the most part > it seems most OSs have gone to Libre Writer . . . ?? > Overall seems like this build is more together than it was . . . not enough time to run an install or deal with LP . . . tested well, seems worthy of the time spent to zsync and reburn the DVD. F > > F >
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