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Suggestions

Posted: 04 Oct 2015, 18:26
by brokenman
Please place suggestions for implementation here.

I am going to create a firstrun wizard now. The wizard will handle keyboard layout, locales, time etc.
Do you think this should be presented in 'dialog' (the blue screen menu) or just simple bash script?

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 04 Oct 2015, 18:42
by tome
It could be choice for both like in usm(gui), but I think "dialog" could be better for newcomers.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 04 Oct 2015, 21:21
by brokenman
Thanks for the input Tome. Once work on 002 begins I will create a GUI for the scripts. For now just working on text based. I'll go with dialog as per your suggestion.

Do you think that having the firstrun wizard available in say 8 languages would be beneficial? If so what should those languages be?

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 04 Oct 2015, 21:29
by francois
US, spanish, french, german, russian, polish, chineese, japaneese

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 04 Oct 2015, 21:56
by brokenman
english is default so perhaps add italian in its place?

I'll check out the top 8 used languages.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 06 Oct 2015, 08:20
by tome
8 languages is enough, I think everyone who want to see or know Linux can understand simple English, but it could be some country specific exceptions ("Russian area"?). If not the best "language" are pictures.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 06 Oct 2015, 15:03
by Blaze
tome wrote:can understand simple English, but it could be some country specific exceptions ("Russian area"?). If not the best "language" are pictures.
In some ways I agree with you. Don't forget about Russian translation :)

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 06 Oct 2015, 15:14
by brokenman
@blue4meridian
busybox applets for these packages doesn't really save a lot of space after the packages are stripped. Plus some applets such as grep and sed which are heavily used in scripts are not full versions. They lack a lot of the commands that the full package has.

Ok, I will work on adding translations for the initial setup. Hope you guys can translate the wizard scripts into your languages.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 06 Oct 2015, 17:16
by francois
@blue:
Package managing under arch is really simple, once you get to know it, you can really add whatever you want.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 08 Oct 2015, 02:06
by francois
Suggestion:
- Is it possible to ask for the folder where to download the modules and have /tmp as default. In text mode this would be handy?
- please insert /modules and /optional empty folders in porteus

Thanks.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 08 Oct 2015, 10:14
by brokenman
Yes I can add this to the config/modules files. Thanks.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 08 Oct 2015, 21:57
by ncmprhnsbl
suggestion
pman
if there is more than one package being used, have choice of one merged module or single xzms..

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 09 Oct 2015, 00:26
by brokenman
if there is more than one package being used, have choice of one merged module or single xzms..
I somehow knew this one would be coming. Working on it now. Thanks.

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 09 Oct 2015, 06:09
by tome
@Blaze :wink:

@all
have choice of compression method for pman? :unknown:

Re: Suggestions

Posted: 09 Oct 2015, 13:57
by brokenman
Do you mean a choice between xz, lzo, lzma, gzip etc?