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Quote (florian @ April 22 2008,15:54)
Hi!
Thanks for a new DSL release!

I'm having some problem with sshfs: this happens after I'm asked for password: "fusermount: mount failed. Operation not permitted.".
This happens with my normal usr and this doesn't work with root user either.

As for the discussion about the "quick launch" buttons: indeed, on my 800x600 screen, the buttons take up half of the jwm taskbar. Could someone tell me what jwm config file(s) i should edit to modify the aspect of those buttons?

Thanks for the feedback.
Got wrong perms on /usr/local/bin/fusermount s/b rwsr-x--x root root
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Aesthetics: This is *really* way dark and the wallpaper is a bit noisy for transparent terminals. I concede the buttons take up too much space. I've changed to a smaller font (edit theme's tray and tasklist sections to 10 from 12) and removed the icons (jaapz: the tray is 28) to get a little more space back.


The wallpaper has been in the RCs without comment or complaints.

The default tray height is 28, see /etc/skel/.jwmrc-tray.
Text was added to buttons to support the noicons boot option.

Tray and wallpaper choice is mostly personal and not everyone can be pleased.
They can easily be changed and will persist if in your backup.

I am always open to suggestions on eye candy.

Personally I use a solid color background because of my poor vision. For me eye candy = eye strain.
I even turn off syntax colors in vim. Too many colors blurs my vision.

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My biggest complaints are related to firefox. The size difference between 2.0 and current 2.0.0.14 probably isn't too drastic, especially considering the severity of the interim security updates.

One thing irritates me more than anything else: the search engines have been stripped so that the only one available is a Google search that runs first through the DSL site. I can appreciate John wants to maximize his Google click through revenue. Does John get a list of all the searches passing through the site and is there a privacy policy? How will this affect users given the number of times DSL has been down or severely delayed the past week? DSL goes down, searching Google through DSL doesn't work? And why should users have to go to Firefox add-ons to re-enable normal search engines? Bad idea, imo. At least that will be gone when I add the 2.0.0.14 version of Bon Echo to my DSL home partition and start with a clean profile.


John would have to address your comments/concerns. I have no knowledge on how this is working. I do know that it is a long and tideous process to 'slim' down a firefox release. With so frequent releases of firefox it must be an never ending process. I am not familiar with XUL as used in FF and therefore cannot comment further. I will pass along these comments and concerns to John.
Quote (roberts @ April 22 2008,22:30)
Personally I use a solid color background because of my poor vision. For me eye candy = eye strain.  I even turn off syntax colors in vim. Too many colors blurs my vision.

The comments about the backgrounds, fonts, and icons have provided insight into the cleaning up both "the look" as well as freeing up a lot of memory.  (Maybe I've been reading lucky13's blog too much!)  Critical posts provide both food for thought as well as a lot of information.

roberts, thanks for the comments on syntax colors in vim.  While my vision is still correctable (with glasses), I'm color blind and sometimes have a heck of a time with certain color combinations.  Thanks to all for the new release.
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