*Officially supported ISOs in testing:*
- Server - LGTM, Calamares doesn't like old LVM installs.
- XFCE - LGTM, Only Cosmetic Issue
- MATE - LGTM
- GNOME - LGTM
- KDE - TBD
*Issues:*
- Icons are not uniform. Icons aren't right size in XFCE.
- Solution: Switch default icons to Obisidian for all spins. Obisdian
works in XFCE, MATE, GNOME, and KDE. Obsidian is the up-to-date
version of
Faenza (current MATE icons).
- Calamares doesn't like old LVM installs.
- Solution: tough it out until Calmares 3.2 is released. 3.2-rc4 has
been released. Original Goal for 3.2 release was March 2018. So
its close.
Clearing the partitions before running installer allows for install.
- Anaconda Crashes when pressing F12 during install phase
- Solution: Unknown. Plan is to eventually migrate away from
unmaintained Anaconda and move to Calamares, but due to Calamares being
incomplete at this point in time, and testing will be required after 3.2
completion and before migration.
- Packages require update/upgrade/recompile
- xf86-video-ati (should match xf86-video-amdgpu version 18.0.1)
- nvidia-drivers (should be 390.42 to stop screen flickering
regression)
- mesa
- Missing vaapi flag for Video Acceleration API (hardware decoding)
- Missing virgl flag (enables driver for virtual machines allowing
3D on virtio gpu)
- Openmax (video/audio encode/decode acceleration API)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:33 PM Jerrod Frost <darks...@sabayonlinux.org>
wrote:
> MATE ISO works like a boss. I noticed its using the faenza icons which
> haven't been updated since 2010. Obsidian is based on faenza and was
> updated 13 days ago. It may be better to migrate if faenza style is what
> you want, Obisdian is the new faenza. All applications appear to work
> well. No real issues other than Anaconda. Anaconda evidently has a
> glitch/bug that when pressing F12 during install process, Anaconda crashes.
> I went back and tested this on XFCE and it happens there as well so this
> issue is just anaconda...
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:38 PM Jerrod Frost <darks...@sabayonlinux.org>
> wrote:
>
>> XFCE ISO appears to be working fine. I did notice the cosmetic issue of
>> icons not appropriately reducing/matching size in the applications list.
>> Only simple fix is to switch to a different Icon theme. You can also tweak
>> the icon theme by editing a copy of those icons and reducing size and place
>> them into the smaller icon folders.
>>
>> I really think we just need to pick a theme that works with all spins and
>> desktop environments that doesn't look bad. I'm testing a few in XFCE now.
>>
>> There's:
>> Adwaita: (already installed in XFCE, looks meh) - Works
>> Obsidian (based on Faenza, its the updated current version) - Works
>> Perfectly.
>> Moka (looks like colorful Faenza, MATE friendly icons) - Works, but some
>> icons are missing
>> La Capitaine (Apple based style, clean, community driven) - Works
>> Perfectly.
>>
>> I've tried more, but they all have the same issue we are having now with
>> elementary icons. Different sized icons in the apps list, missing too many
>> icons, or icons don't work in both light and dark themes.
>>
>> Depending on what you want, I'd recommend you try Obsidian and La
>> Capitaine and see which one you prefer. I've used both in KDE so I know
>> they work there, and they both work in XFCE. I've not tested MATE or Gnome
>> yet. Any thoughts?
>>
>
