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sulu is offline sulu
2012-04-10 , 08:52
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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
Hi, is there any way to install ff11 (iceweasel 11) on ED? I tried adding experimental repos but it gave me broken dependencies, something about gtk. I also tried to extract the deb to a folder and run the binary but that didnt work either
I just started trying to dist-upgrade ED to Wheezy. I did not plan to release it before Wheezy is frozen but you have a point here that might make me reconsider that.
My intention was to create a very minimal image, mainly only consisting of LXDE and audio.
The idea was that somebody else with basic knowledge in Debian administration could easily remaster that image for end-users without having to throw out too much "sulu-specific" bloat.
Give me another week or two and I may be able to come up with an image where you can install a recent version of Iceweasel, Chromium or whatever! But since it will be a Testing image you'd have to use it with caution - usually the same caution that always comes with running Testing.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Does anyone know an easy way to post it, without - at the same time - providing users unnecessary cache of web sites visited by me, my cookies, encrypted password cache (sic), or other things? Of course, i mean other way than manually examining every file?...
I know no easy way to do that. But I always thought that it might be prudent to separate ED config files from Maemo config files. This could be reached by not bind-mounting Maemo's .config directory into ED. This on the other hand might bring other side effects that I haven't considered yet. Any thoughts on that?

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
BTW, wouldn't chromium, LibreOffice etc. rebuild it's config files to default, in case of lacking them? Maybe it's important to only post lxde, pcmanfm and things like that?
I think so. At least for chromium I know that's the case. Essentially my config archive only contains LXDE-related stuff.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
I would really like to allow people hassle-free usage of my image (which may be felt - by many users - as preferred, due to already included LibreOffice instead of old OpenOffice, and fast Chromium instead of slow Iceweasel, + LXDE panels tweaked to fit N900 as much effectively as I was able to), yet, this whole config things start to become more complicated than work on image itself.
I totally agree. Do you remember which "bugs" your image had (and probably originated in mine) that should be addressed in a new release? I remember the missing /etc/groups.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
But the portrait mode is 'upside down' for me. No big deal, though.
I know. I did that intentionally because I always felt Maemo's portrait mode to be upside down.
But for the sake of consistency it's most likely better to have ED portrait mode in the same direction. I will keep that in mind for my next image.

If you want to change that on your own have a look at the orientation script (/usr/bin/orientation afair)! There you'll find xrandr commands where you'll just have to replace "left" with "right" (or vice versa, I'm not sure anymore).

As for the cool icon, could somebody please post the icon alone including it's full path? Personally I don't care for the icon but it would make sense to have it in my next image if it's really used the way I have in mind.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
qole, Your version of sulu's image also contain /home/user totally separated from Maemo one, as You suggested (via script) some posts ago?
If that means what I think it means I might have missed an important development. Can I have a link to that discussion please?
 

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