[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux 013 rc3, some opinions

[André Detsch]

On 10/30/06, Roebe XXX <shevegen at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> - Installation was EXTREMELY easy and straightforward.
>  No glitches found.

Good :)

> Only suggestion: maybe a reboot
>  button, after install was successful. But this is
>  probably not so important.

I'm not sure how to implement it in a clean way at this moment, but
it's something to consider.

> - Very nice GRUB menu. Would be nice to have a default
>   selection done after i.e. 120 seconds or similar,
>   so you dont have to press enter manually to boot up
>   Gobolinux (arent we all lazy...).

I also think it would be ok to set some (big) timeout at default grub
menu. What other people think? (Just to clarify, I'm talking about
GoboLinux 014+ here).

> - At KDE login (after installation+reboot), it does
>   not allow you to login as "root". I personally
>   dont like this (one reason is, Gobolinux resides
>   on a machine without internet connection, and I dont
>   like to be tutored by KDE about what i have to do.
>   I totally understand the new users prospect though).
>   Anyways, No biggie to change it. And SuperUsers
>   powers can be given to new users in Gobolinux easily
>   as well, so again - no biggie.

This is the default KDM configuration. I think it is ok to keep it so.
Anyway, its easy to change this configuration accessing the kde menus.

> - Also, would be cool to have a Gobolinux Image instead
>   of the default KDE one. :>

In general, our packages keep much of the default behavior /
appearance of the original sources. I see two reasons here:
- Reducing the packages / recipes maintenance overhead, since each
small change has to be keep / updated and tested at each version bump
of the program;
- We do not intend to be as intrusive as other distros are, like that
one that spreads small (red) hat's icons all over the system.

Reason '1' is becoming weaker, since management of recipes is becoming
better and better. Not sure about reason '2' (there is no 'official'
GoboLinux policy about this). Probably changing the default image at
KDM would be cool and won't hurt.

> - artsmessage pops up with an error (at least upon first
>   bootup), not sure if this is known. Anyway, sound works
>   out of the box.

OK.

> - GoboLinux Manager KICKS ASS. From 012, and to my untrained
>   eyes, it seemed to have improved a lot.

Thanks :)
Actually, I could not update it much last months, so there may be
relevant bugs there. Scripts have changed during the mean time, and I
could not give Manager much testing.  Please report bugs at
http://bugs.gobolinux.org/, and feel free to also report what could be
better.
If compared to the version shipped 012, yes, there were a lot of improvements.

>   I'd suggest to give it its own default entry in the KDE
>   Menu, i.e. right above "Command Center".

Using Htop package as example, it seems easy to add a menu entry, by
using a Shared/applications/manager.desktop file. Probably I'll add it
soon. I think having it under 'System->' would be the correct place,
right?

> Guess thats it.

Thanks for the report!


-- 
Andre Detsch