On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 15:59 +0100, Martin Bříza wrote: > > Hey, > I've been working on the facelift for a while now. > I think most of this leering is caused by the fact it's not promoted very > well (except a bunch of mails to Desktop and Devel lists I sent in the > past). > Except not being able to add a (buggy) permanent overlay for your files, ... > Currently, I'm writing a Mac backend to the tool, which is kinda > challenging provided there's no up-to-date version of syslinux. It's > possible we'll be able to only dd on Mac. FWIW, I think a sane design for luc in this day and age should be dd only. IIRC the *only* benefits of the non-dd mode are: 1) allow for non-destructive write 2) allow for overlays (persistence) My opinion is that 1) is entirely uninteresting these days. It made sense back when USB sticks cost 50 bucks. It doesn't make sense when you get them free with a box of Cap'n Crunch and everyone has fifty of them stuck down the back of the couch. 2) is more interesting, but if it doesn't work anyway...well :) it's a bit fuzzy in my mind, but IIRC someone said it was entirely feasible to do overlays with a dd write; basically you'd write the image with dd then fiddle about a bit afterwards to create the overlays. That seems like something worth exploring. Another note - I don't know if this is already how it's designed, but I think it would be *really* nice if an overhaul of luc including making it somewhat generic/modular: i.e. things like the list of image downloads and branding should be modules, so that the tool could be shared between distributions. Most distros produce hybridized ISOs these days and to me it'd make a whole lot of sense if we all collaborated on *one* graphical tool for downloading ISOs and writing them to USB sticks, rather than having a dozen different ones. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
