On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:00:19 -0500 rhally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Hally) wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi, Greetings... sorry for the tardy reply. ;) > > Fedora 8 Xfce Spin included almost all the Xfce utilities and > > plugins, all the languages that Fedora supports and retained the > > upstream Xfce layout. There has been some progress and some things > > we would like to get more feedback on certain things. The entire > > list of things being considered is documented in > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/XfceLive > > > > The latest kickstart file is available at > > > > http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/spins/livecd-fedora-9-xfce.ks I think I mentioned on the wiki, but could you add a changelog and version to the comments of the ks file? Would be handy to see whats changed and when. > > I am highlighting some specific changes below > > > > Look and Feel > > ------------- > > > > We did not get default Fedora 8 background in the Fedora 8 Xfce > > spin (due to a bug) and icon theme was rodent which is the default > > icon set for upstream Xfce You can see some screenshots in > > > > http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.php?linux_distribution_sm=Fedora%208%20Xfce%20Spin Yeah. ;( Sorry about that bug... > > The new default look and feel for Xfce in rawhide is this: > > > > http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/Rawhide20080303xfce.png > > > > As you can see, Xfce now inherits the same default background as > > GNOME and KDE and uses the Mist icon set which is also the default > > in GNOME currently. The hard dependency on xfce-icon-theme from > > xfce4-panel and Thunar has been dropped in rawhide. I believe we > > are supposed to be getting the Nodoka theme but that doesn't appear > > to be the case yet. Odd. It should be the default. I will do some looking. > > There has been some discussions about the > > default panel layout and there is a lot of different possibilities > > including a GNOME like layout but we are likely to go ahead with > > some changes by including the trash, mixer applet in the default > > top panel. If there is a preference for a specific layout, let us > > know what (include screenshots preferably) and explain why. Yes indeed. Feedback very welcome! > > ...snipp... > > current kickstart file produces a nearly 600 MB image on x86 > > architecture. Any testing and feedback is most welcome. I intend to > > continue sending progress reports on a regular basis whenever we > > make major changes. Excellent. > > Rahul > > > Nice work! > I run the F8 spin from a USB stick. I'm looking forward to the F9 one. > Thanks for doing this, > Richard > Yeah, I second the thanks! Thanks for stepping up and making this great spin... kevin
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