### Window Maker Live (2012-03-18) Another intensive week has passed, and the time has become ripe for yet another update of Window Maker Live. Once you are able to read these few lines, the upload of wmlive-debian release 2012-03-18 to the Sourceforge download location will have already finished.
As usual, ISO images for both amd64 and i386 are now available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files for immediate download. What are the most remarkable feature enhancements for this release? # Desktop related changes: * In addition to standard international English, support also for French, German, Portuguese and Spanish has been added. You can now install an (almost) fully localized system with these languages. Nonetheless, both Firefox and Thunderbird are provided only in English language version, and you are required to download and install localized versions yourself, if the need arises. * The roxterm-gtk2 terminal emulator fully replaces gnome-terminal as the default terminal program, as it supports all the features which were formerly thought to be only covered by gnome-terminal. As both are not needed anymore, gnome-terminal and also xfce4-terminal have been completely removed. * ROX filer is now provided as an additional file manager option and replaces thunar as the default file manager application available in the dock's first logo icon for left mouse button clicks. As before, middle mouse click still launches WPrefs. While thunar had to cede its entry in the main dock icon to rox-filer, it will stay installed and available as an alternative file management tool. * The preferences backup facility has been reorganized. During the first time ever login, a backup of the current default configuration is created. And whenever the user performs a restore of any former preferences setting, the restore script automatically creates a backup of the current settings prior to actually performing the restoration process. * Added the Audacity audio editor, the handbrake-gtk video encoder, and the mirage image viewer, which replaces ristretto. * Added the pyhoca-gui x2go client packages to default install, replacing the formerly installed binary only NX packages. # Under the hood: * Reworked the wmlive-debian-install script, in order to inform the user how to handle a failing start up of the installer, and added a reboot option after successful installation to disk. This should help to make the installation much more straight forward. * Added the debian-multimedia.org and the x2go repositories as additional apt sources options. * Packaged wmlaptop2 as proper Debian package, which is now directly installed into the live system squashfs image without any further complaints by apt. * The formerly not very well working apt-pinning configuration was completely overhauled and now fully works as intended. So no more unexpected dependency related installation disruptions should occur when updating the system from the official Debian package sources. # Known issues: * The VLC video player does not work in the live CD environment, claiming that it can't find it's plugins, but works normally once the system has been installed to disk. * The installation still requires to run an additional script in order to successfully complete. There have been many more changes and enhancements, but which are far too numerous and small to merit any special mention of each. For more detailed changes information, please consult the ChangeLog file, which is also available separately in the Window Maker Live download area on Sourceforge. Unless any further showstopper rears its ugly head, i guess we have more or less arrived at some kind of a stable status. While work will go on, albeit at a slower pace, a newer release can only be expected when some major change or important bug fix requires an update. As this distribution intends to stay as close as possible to the upstream Window Maker development releases, a next ISO update will probably only be provided once a new official Window Maker version has been released. Enjoy installing and using Window Maker Live! Best regards, Paul Seelig -- Paul Seelig <[email protected]> http://wmlive.sourceforge.net -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
