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szamot83

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1

Few suggestions

0Hello,
I'm using #! 8.10.1 and I have few suggestions, which in my opinion could be interesting for dev.
1 Forum.
In my opinion forum is missing translation section. I mean place where you (I mean developers) could place text (in English) for translate to another languages.

2 Distro

A - I think that setting network interfaces should be backgrounded at system startup. If you have wireless connection, than you wait till network is up at system start. In my case it takes about one minute. For now I'm using wi-cd, so this don't bother me. In the future I'll learn how to background startup script, and I'll comeback to standard connection way (I mean /etc/network/interfaces)
startup script, that should be backgrounded is /etc/init.d/networking

B - When you add menu into your panel (ading menu adds lxde menu) you can not run exit button, because you're not using LXDE session, so if your native WM is OpenBox it is good to delete Lxsession-logout and made a symbolic link named Lxsession-logout from file openbox-logout. Now I know that is the amateur way, but this is working for me, and this is easiest way, to use LXDE menu (with all its functionality) in Openbox. I think this could be done during installation.

C - This is case to discussion. I have added this repo to my source list:
deb http://people.linux.org.tw/~andrew/debian/lxde/ ./
It brings me some new stuff (like light lxtask, instead of not supported anymore XFCE-taskmanager)) and some updates. This repo not caused any system unstability. What do you think about adding this generally, and about adding this by default?

D - I think firefox should be a choose of user. This program work (and start) very slow for me, so I have installed Kazehakase (read about it) it is fast enough.

E - What do you think about adding "noatime" flag instead "relatime" flag in every mounted drive. You have not used programs like Mutt in this distro, so this flag will not cause any issues.I know this is old Ubuntu method, but this could give laptops battery longer live. I'm using this flag on every computer where I have installed Linux. This is to discussion too. If you want know more about it, please read this:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

F - I think it is good to give choose of default theme at system start. I don't like this blak theme (but I like this distro very much) so my suggestion is, that you could give the choose of bright and dark theme at first boot (it could two another sessions). Of course it is easy to change, but giving a choose is more user friendly.

G - I think, that default terminal editor should be nano. Not everyone is a developer.
That's all for now.
Thank you for your work.
Best regards and sory for my English.

Last edited by szamot83 (2009-01-09 12:13:02)

rizzo

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,102

Re: Few suggestions

Hello szamot83, thank you for you feedback and welcome to the forums

B - When you add menu into your panel (ading menu adds lxde menu) you can not run exit button, because you're not using LXDE session, so if your native WM is OpenBox it is good to delete Lxsession-logout and made a symbolic link named Lxsession-logout from file openbox-logout. Now I know that is the amateur way, but this is working for me, and this is easiest way, to use LXDE menu (with all its functionality) in Openbox. I think this could be done during installation.

A similar solution - http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ogout-fix/