Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Jared Norris
 Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint
 of the installer for 11.04. We used the same than Ubuntu, which have
 some advantages (ex: shared development) and disadvantages (ex: memory
 usage is not the priority of the ubiquity devs).

 Installer need some improvements (reducing memory usage, add option to
 install only lubuntu-core ...), but it's not the easiest part of
 Lubuntu / Ubuntu :)

The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu? I just thought I'd ask
the question, I personally have no qualms installing by either method.
I understand the rationale for both having a graphical installer and
using the Ubuntu default installation method but if it's going to go
against one of the main functions of Lubuntu it might be worth
considering the text based installer as the default? I just thought
I'd throw it out there so all ideas are discussed, obviously, for
11.04 this is not going to happen but if the memory requirements
continue to build I think having this brought up now would be useful
to think about.

Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset

  Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint
  of the installer for 11.04.

 The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
 graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?


Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list What do you expect
from Lubuntu and i think that a very important point is it will go where
Ubuntu can't or something like that.
A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory) so
if it's a little ugly (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread PCMan
Text based installer + 1.
The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can
have l10n user interface.
Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's
still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should
we insist that there should be a graphical one?
Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS,
you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available
after the basic system is set up.

Actually, we can do the same.
The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core
components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super
user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and
continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier.

The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good
GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode,
too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite
simple.

Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that
will almost always choose automatic partitioning. Others who like to
use customized and manual partitioning are definitely advanced
power users who don't need a GUI installer.
So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need.

Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian
installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the
text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer
after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does.

Comments?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
jpx...@gmail.com wrote:
  Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint
  of the installer for 11.04.

 The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
 graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?

 Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list What do you expect
 from Lubuntu and i think that a very important point is it will go where
 Ubuntu can't or something like that.
 A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory) so
 if it's a little ugly (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Mittwoch 30 März 2011, um 14:23:52 schrieb PCMan:
 Text based installer + 1.
 The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can
 have l10n user interface.
 Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's
 still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should
 we insist that there should be a graphical one?
 Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS,
 you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available
 after the basic system is set up.
 
 Actually, we can do the same.
 The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core
 components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super
 user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and
 continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier.
 
 The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good
 GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode,
 too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite
 simple.
 
 Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that
 will almost always choose automatic partitioning. Others who like to
 use customized and manual partitioning are definitely advanced
 power users who don't need a GUI installer.
 So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need.
 
 Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian
 installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the
 text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer
 after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does.
 
 Comments?

It needs to be a base system + X11 Otherwise it won't work. 
The other problem is the enormous effort and work we need to put in such a 
project. (e.g. I can promise you lots and lots of bugs, and yes I created an 
installer for ZevenOS-Neptune on my own, so I have a little experience in 
this) 

My suggestions just promote the alternate install cd for everyone who can't 
use the graphical (live) installer. Maybe we can one day also use the debian-
live-installer (which is basically the textinstaller from debian but able to 
run and install from a live system) as an alternative to ubiquity. 
The problem I see from switching from ubiquity to X would be that lubuntu will 
never become an official flavor of ubuntu. (even kubuntu uses ubiquity under 
the 
hood and only created a kde'ish interface for it)

 
 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
 
 jpx...@gmail.com wrote:
   Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory
   footprint of the installer for 11.04.
  
  The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
  graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?
  
  Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list What do you
  expect from Lubuntu and i think that a very important point is it will
  go where Ubuntu can't or something like that.
  A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory)
  so if it's a little ugly (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.
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[Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread Zach Kriesse
Hello all, now I know that I've kinda sent an email like this before but 
the time has come for me to say goodbye. Recent events have occurred 
where I simply do not have the time to contribute nor the desire to 
act like I am...because that's really just lying to not only my fellow 
team-mates but also myself. I will leave the Doc FG for the BT to the 
council, and I will decide on a lead for Ubuntu Youth...I'm sorry but I 
need to really just work on getting back in school, finding a job, and 
starting a career for myself. I simply do not have the time to do 
anything else. It was nice to know all of you, it's been fun and 
awesome. Farwell


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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:53:15 -0500
Zach Kriesse zkrie...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Hello all, now I know that I've kinda sent an email like this before but 
 the time has come for me to say goodbye. Recent events have occurred 
 where I simply do not have the time to contribute nor the desire to 
 act like I am...because that's really just lying to not only my fellow 
 team-mates but also myself. I will leave the Doc FG for the BT to the 
 council, and I will decide on a lead for Ubuntu Youth...I'm sorry but I 
 need to really just work on getting back in school, finding a job, and 
 starting a career for myself. I simply do not have the time to do 
 anything else. It was nice to know all of you, it's been fun and 
 awesome. Farwell
 
 -- 
 Cheers!
 
 ~zkriesse
 
Life does get in the way of things at times, doesn't it :)

Good luck for the future.


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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread UndiFineD
2011/3/30 Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
 On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:53:15 -0500
 Zach Kriesse zkrie...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Hello all, now I know that I've kinda sent an email like this before but
 the time has come for me to say goodbye. Recent events have occurred
 where I simply do not have the time to contribute nor the desire to
 act like I am...because that's really just lying to not only my fellow
 team-mates but also myself. I will leave the Doc FG for the BT to the
 council, and I will decide on a lead for Ubuntu Youth...I'm sorry but I
 need to really just work on getting back in school, finding a job, and
 starting a career for myself. I simply do not have the time to do
 anything else. It was nice to know all of you, it's been fun and
 awesome. Farwell

 --
 Cheers!

 ~zkriesse

 Life does get in the way of things at times, doesn't it :)

 Good luck for the future.


 --
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Zach don't be a stranger and come round from time-to-time,
even just for a casual chat.
I wish you good luck with finding yourself a career.


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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Jared Norris
 It needs to be a base system + X11 Otherwise it won't work.
 The other problem is the enormous effort and work we need to put in such a
 project. (e.g. I can promise you lots and lots of bugs, and yes I created an
 installer for ZevenOS-Neptune on my own, so I have a little experience in
 this)


Sorry I didn't meant to suggest adding more work by writing our own installer.

 My suggestions just promote the alternate install cd for everyone who can't
 use the graphical (live) installer. Maybe we can one day also use the debian-
 live-installer (which is basically the textinstaller from debian but able to
 run and install from a live system) as an alternative to ubiquity.
 The problem I see from switching from ubiquity to X would be that lubuntu will
 never become an official flavor of ubuntu. (even kubuntu uses ubiquity under 
 the
 hood and only created a kde'ish interface for it)

I think the idea of promoting the alternate might work, maybe make it
an equal of the ubiquity installer in LubuntuLand instead of a poor
cousin as far as website space and documentation? This would also mean
that there is no extra work in making it happen but still provides all
the information for those wanting a light weight installation.

Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Odoom
Zach,

 Wow, this is very unexpected. I regard you the best in whatever you plan on
doing with your valuable time.

With all due respect,



Jason Odoom
https://launchpad.net/~jasonodoom
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JasonOdoom

Sent from Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop.



On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 31 March 2011 02:53, Zach Kriesse zkrie...@ubuntu.com wrote:
  Hello all, now I know that I've kinda sent an email like this before but
 the
  time has come for me to say goodbye. Recent events have occurred where I
  simply do not have the time to contribute nor the desire to act like I
  am...because that's really just lying to not only my fellow team-mates
 but
  also myself. I will leave the Doc FG for the BT to the council, and I
 will
  decide on a lead for Ubuntu Youth...I'm sorry but I need to really just
 work
  on getting back in school, finding a job, and starting a career for
 myself.
  I simply do not have the time to do anything else. It was nice to know
 all
  of you, it's been fun and awesome. Farwell
 
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 Sad to see you go, your work and enthusiasm will be missed greatly. I
 wish you well in your future endeavours and who knows, maybe one day
 we'll see you back in the Ubuntu sphere.

 Regards,

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Julien Lavergne
Following my tests on a pre-Beta ISO :

Le dimanche 27 mars 2011 à 18:28 -0700, Jonathan Marsden a écrit :
 (1) Recent (post-Alpha 3) ISOs do not install from the Install
 Lubuntu
 menu item, it hangs in an X screen.
I reproduce a similar bug, I arrive on a black screen, with a mouse
cursor, without a desktop (pcmanfm). You can still launch a terminal
with a right click on the desktop, and launch sudo ubiquity to launch
the installer.

I think I found the problem, but I'm not sure I'll be able to fix it for
the Beta.

 (2) Lubuntu seems to need more that 256MB RAM to install now, which is
 bad.
Hum, confirmed on a VM with only 256 Mo, ubiquity crashed. Maybe when
the Install mode only will be fixed, we can lower the requirement.
It's time to work on the alternate ISO generation :-/

Beta 1 still planned tomorrow, with probably a amd64 version along with
the usual i386.

Regards,
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Missing tray icons

2011-03-30 Thread Philip Lockhart



 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:22:15 +0100
 From: yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com
 To: lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net
 Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Missing tray icons
 
 On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:29:38 +0200
 Michał Ćwikliński mic...@cwiklinski.it wrote:
 
  Hello.
  
  I'm curious, if You had noticed the same problem as I do - some of
  icons in tray of my Lubuntu 11.04 alpha 3 cannot be displayed (look at
  the attachement). Especially for network manager (and weather applet -
  att.). Have You noticed something like this? 
 
 Yes.  The network manger icon went missing in a recent update.  I don't have 
 the weather applet installed.  This also effects Xubuntu.
 
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
I'll miss ya, Zach!

-Paul

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Pablo Rubianes
pablorubia...@ubuntu.org.uy wrote:
 Ohh Zach. sorry to here this! but I hope you get all you want.
 hope to see you came back soon!!!

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread Jorge Andrés Alvarez Oré
+1 alternate CD
It´s suppose that the minimal memory for use Lubuntu is 192MB, but with
256MB to install it, it´s impossible to use it with a very old computer.

My suggestion it´s to share a text install (alternate CD) by default. Anyway
now Lubuntu isn't for beginners Linux user, so with a text install no body
will be complicated. (My experience: the first Linux distro that i install
[Ubuntu 7.04], i installed with the alternate CD, with my 256MB of ram
memory [and Pentium 4 celeron] was impossible to install with GUI. Even if
was my first install i could do it without a problem. The installations it´s
intuitive.
Sorry for my English.

2011/3/30 PCMan pcman...@gmail.com

 Text based installer + 1.
 The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can
 have l10n user interface.
 Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's
 still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should
 we insist that there should be a graphical one?
 Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS,
 you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available
 after the basic system is set up.

 Actually, we can do the same.
 The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core
 components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super
 user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and
 continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier.

 The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good
 GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode,
 too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite
 simple.

 Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that
 will almost always choose automatic partitioning. Others who like to
 use customized and manual partitioning are definitely advanced
 power users who don't need a GUI installer.
 So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need.

 Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian
 installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the
 text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer
 after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does.

 Comments?

 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
 jpx...@gmail.com wrote:
   Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory
 footprint
   of the installer for 11.04.
 
  The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
  graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?
 
  Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list What do you
 expect
  from Lubuntu and i think that a very important point is it will go
 where
  Ubuntu can't or something like that.
  A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory)
 so
  if it's a little ugly (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.
  --
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Resignation

2011-03-30 Thread Hakim Sheriff
Bye, You will be greatly missed.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Zach Kriesse zkrie...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Hello all, now I know that I've kinda sent an email like this before but
 the time has come for me to say goodbye. Recent events have occurred where I
 simply do not have the time to contribute nor the desire to act like I
 am...because that's really just lying to not only my fellow team-mates but
 also myself. I will leave the Doc FG for the BT to the council, and I will
 decide on a lead for Ubuntu Youth...I'm sorry but I need to really just work
 on getting back in school, finding a job, and starting a career for myself.
 I simply do not have the time to do anything else. It was nice to know all
 of you, it's been fun and awesome. Farwell

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Any major must fix before Beta issues left in Lubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread PCMan
Currently the alternate CD contains a nice text-based installer.
What I suggested is to make a new installer based on the current one
in alternate cd.
However, the new installer only install the minimal base system + core
utils + X11 + gdm + drivers to harddisk. Then, reboot into X11 and
then we can launch a GUI installer from hard-disk to finish the
remaining parts, which can partially based on ubiquity. This solves
all the problems in an elegant way.

1. Text-based installer only does disk partitioning and install base
system. So actually nothing needs to be done by the user manually
except for disk partitioning. It's nearly automatic.

2. After rebooting, we boot from hard-disk into a clean X11 session
with only GUI installer running. So we're not running the live cd and
hence the memory usage can be ``minimal'',  128 MB I guess. The GUI
installer is the only GUI programming running under X11 and we have no
running desktop environment, so it can use all the RAM available. So
we can write the GUI part without worrying about RAM usage. So
developing the GUI installer can be much easier than developing
ubiquity since memory usage is no more an issue. We can do what we
want easily in it.

Personally, I think this kind of installer is most suitable for our
system since it has good efficiency, functionality, smaller memory
footprint, and better reliability then running on live cd.

2011/3/31 Jorge Andrés Alvarez Oré winningl...@gmail.com:
 +1 alternate CD
 It´s suppose that the minimal memory for use Lubuntu is 192MB, but with
 256MB to install it, it´s impossible to use it with a very old computer.

 My suggestion it´s to share a text install (alternate CD) by default. Anyway
 now Lubuntu isn't for beginners Linux user, so with a text install no body
 will be complicated. (My experience: the first Linux distro that i install
 [Ubuntu 7.04], i installed with the alternate CD, with my 256MB of ram
 memory [and Pentium 4 celeron] was impossible to install with GUI. Even if
 was my first install i could do it without a problem. The installations it´s
 intuitive.
 Sorry for my English.
 2011/3/30 PCMan pcman...@gmail.com

 Text based installer + 1.
 The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can
 have l10n user interface.
 Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's
 still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should
 we insist that there should be a graphical one?
 Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS,
 you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available
 after the basic system is set up.

 Actually, we can do the same.
 The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core
 components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super
 user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and
 continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier.

 The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good
 GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode,
 too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite
 simple.

 Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that
 will almost always choose automatic partitioning. Others who like to
 use customized and manual partitioning are definitely advanced
 power users who don't need a GUI installer.
 So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need.

 Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian
 installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the
 text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer
 after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does.

 Comments?

 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
 jpx...@gmail.com wrote:
   Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory
   footprint
   of the installer for 11.04.
 
  The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
  graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?
 
  Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list What do you
  expect
  from Lubuntu and i think that a very important point is it will go
  where
  Ubuntu can't or something like that.
  A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory)
  so
  if it's a little ugly (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.
  --
  jpxsat
 
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