Now that it works, a few bugs.....
1 Desktop is
not stable. I like the taskbar at the top of the screen. Icons keep creeping up, which causes a scroll bar to appear on the right hand side of the screen. In addition, icons will not stay where they have been put. The trash icon keeps moving of its own accord.
Very annoying.
2 There is something wrong with the startup sequence for konsole. If ~/.bash_profile does not source ~/.bashrc, aliases and user specific settings are not available in the first started konsole. If ~/.bash_profile is set to source ~/.bashrc, aliases and user specific settings are picked up by the first konsole started, but all login messages get repeated. As below:
You are working as redmond
Frequently used programs:
Configuration : vasm
File manager : mc (press F2 for useful menu)
Editor : mcedit, nano, vi
Multimedia : alsamixer, play
You are working as redmond
Frequently used programs:
Configuration : vasm
File manager : mc (press F2 for useful menu)
Editor : mcedit, nano, vi
Multimedia : alsamixer, play
localuser:root being added to access control list
t-61soho:/~
redmond:$
3 OpenOffice extention manager is broken. Attempting to use it to add the English dictionaries fails with the following error:
Add extention(s)
The operation on file /usr/lib/ooo-3.1/share/extention/install/dict-en.ost
was started with an invalid parameter.
4 Fonts and menu entries for GTK apps are not adjustable, even using the System Settings for GTK styles. As an example, fonts used in the Seamonkey menu are oversized and will not adjust to a more reasonable size.
5 If the KDE user manager is used to create a new user, it defaults to using a UID of 500. While this can be changed, the user needs to know that it should be changed. The applet does not appear to read existing user records, so it does not increment from any existing users.
6 VasmCC appears twice in the menu - once under settings and once under system.
7 In System > Settings > Advanced > Samba, there is no option to enter the root password, so all options are grayed out unless you are logged in as root.
8 System Settings > Network Settings comes up with a 'your platform is not supported' box, offering lots of options. Would be nice to know what should be selected.
9 System Settings > Date & Time. Locale settings can be set by either user or root, but always request the root password? Seems inconsistent if the setting is local rather than global (which is implied by the fact that it can be set by individual users). Worse, the settings don't stick - if System Settings is closed and reopened, the locale setting will have reverted to the original value.
10 The ~/.bash_profile is created with 'export LANG=en_US'. This is
not the locale selected during install, and should be.
I've probably forgotten some things - more later.....
paul.
