[Tails-dev] Kill plymouth when boot fails?

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Hi, A recent post in tails-support reads: But in that case, I only see the boot window and can choose between the normal and the failsafe version of Tails (0.20), and the boot seems to start ok; but at the point where in the successful case the screen resolution switches (and the progress

[Tails-dev] Display Tails early?

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Hi, An user recently repported taht when using a good bunch of Tails copies, they have hard time to get which version of tails is booting. They suggested to add the version in the boot menu (syslinux I guess, or plymouth). Sounds me like a good idea. What do you think? Cheers

Re: [Tails-dev] SELinux AppArmor

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Hi, On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:40:46 -0400 Stephen Stewart stewartan...@hotmail.com wrote: The NSA's SELinux or Novell's AppArmor, both of which are implemented as Linux Security Modules (LSM) are compiled into the Linux kernel. It seems LSMs are mutually exclusive. Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise

Re: [Tails-dev] [Tails - Bug #6254] Make it easy to empty Trash on persistent volume

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Anyone feels like exploring g_unix_mount_is_system_internal() and finding a way of having it return FALSE for our Persistent folder? I had a look and failed to understand why it would be FALSE in our case. See comments on the ticket. I give up, please somebody else have a look.

[Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categories

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Hi, Seems like we get closer to a nice list! - We added the User role that's not in there. - What I called Have language skills is split here in Content Writer and Translator. I think that makes sense. Yes, probably... unless someone finds a wording that doc writers,

Re: [Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categories

2013-09-14 Thread Alan
Hi again, * People Person - Spread the word * Designer - Improve the website design - contribute/how/website To group the remaining items, what about: * Have communication skills - Spread the word - Improve documentation - Improve Tails in your own language - Improve the

Re: [Tails-dev] [Tails - Bug #6254] Make it easy to empty Trash on persistent volume

2013-09-14 Thread intrigeri
Alan wrote (14 Sep 2013 14:21:08 GMT) : Anyone feels like exploring g_unix_mount_is_system_internal() and finding a way of having it return FALSE for our Persistent folder? I had a look and failed to understand why it would be FALSE in our case. See comments on the ticket. I give up, please

Re: [Tails-dev] Display Tails early?

2013-09-14 Thread intrigeri
Alan wrote (14 Sep 2013 10:41:11 GMT) : An user recently repported taht when using a good bunch of Tails copies, they have hard time to get which version of tails is booting. They suggested to add the version in the boot menu (syslinux I guess, or plymouth). Sounds me like a good idea. What

Re: [Tails-dev] Kill plymouth when boot fails?

2013-09-14 Thread intrigeri
hi, Alan wrote (14 Sep 2013 10:47:41 GMT) : My analysis of what happens is that live-boot/config fails while looking for the root filesystem on the boot medium. I concur. I think that this is the most common boot failure, and that current behaviour is unclear to the user. Agreed. The