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Believe that as soon as ISO is ready  It will replace my pclinuxos partition :-)

Dear ADcomp
Nice to see you back!!!
Looks beautiful as ever.
From the screenshots I gather this is a xfce version.
Will you provide a OPENBOX version too?
This is not only a quesion, but much more a request...
Secondly this is build on Ubuntu.
Have you been considering about making the switch to Debian??

There is a different question I want to ask you; put it on your site:
    In a screencast on madbox/slitaz I saw a demo of ADmedia, an simple interface for using media files.
I couldn't find it as a standalone app. Is it available somewhere as a standalone app?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQFJa1f0E0 at 1min35

Last edited by pablokal (2010-05-07 15:26:23)

Hello everybody .. ty for comment 

yes .. long time

no , it's openbox , only openbox .. no more Xfce 

I already use Debian .. but not for madbox.  no switch

It's epMedia (using Python and PyGame) .. but no more developed ( since Sep 30, 2006 )
You can't find it anymore but I have a backup : http://www.ad-comp.be/public/divers/epmedia.tar.bz2

Bye

@ADcomp: please forgive my impatience, can you give an estimate when the ISOs will be ready?

Hello,

if you want ,  I have a (basic) working iso.  I can upload it to night ..  /!\ not fully tested , you are warned /!\ 

( firefox , pcmanfm, vlc and xbmc.  openbox/slim , tint2/adeskbar ).  ~ 340 Mo

Screenshot / live on my netbook ( acer aspire one ) :

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Last edited by ADcomp (2010-05-24 10:38:19)

Too late - i heard you...

I'm surely interested in that iso. Just a remark: in case you stick with the old pcmanfm, you might want to integrate this bugfixed version here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? … 10#p295888 .

Works also in detailed view on my custom lubuntu 10.04 installation.

Burned it and will give it a  try...

Edit: What was really impressive that this is the first time on a live cd that  this Nvidia graqphic card  works out of the box in the good resolution 1920x1200.
That's nice; Stadler didn't mange to do that.
Have to swallow seeing the ubuntu splash screen, for more than one reason I want to turn away from Ububtu.
But that says nothing on the qualities of this remix of course.
I find Firefox a lot slower than the Naurama I use in Arch; but this is a live cd of course so I will have to do an install to compare fairly.
I find the font rendering unsatisfactory; something I already noticed on the screenshots.
It is not  as sharp as it should be, a bit blurred and too much shadow..

Also, I'm sorry to say I find the theme a lot less estethically pleasing than  the Madbox theme 9.10, which I  consider to be the most beautiful around; not every change is a change to the better; but of course this will be always a matter of taste. I would be nice though if you provided the old madbox theme as an option.

I miss geany that I discovered  in Madbox 9.10

Pcmanfm does not seem to have the same issues as it has in Arch, where is has become pretty unusable at the moment.
Terminator is the terminal app.
Lxappaerance is installed but not in the right click menu, but you will find it in Adeskbar.
I miss dmenu; should be there I think.

What I like is that there are  not too much apps installed, no office apps except epdfviewer.
The only graphic app is mirage, a very nice app that I used all the time before I moved to ristretto.
The media center program xbmc is  on the the disk and looks very  slick and polished; had problems using the mouse and keyboard there, too much delay and too unresponsive.
Maybe you can[t use this in a live session.

Last edited by pablokal (2010-05-25 09:47:15)

yeah .. don't have time to make a custom plymouth theme.  And you can't remove plymouth 

I thought, pcmanfm in arch should work, since the bugfixed deb version i posted above is based on this guys fix:

Same here (mouse not usable) even on hd-install...

Geforce 6200 here and non-free nvidia-driver not yet installed... So thats the problem...

@ pablokal :

like madbox 9.10 .. modify  /etc/slim.conf ,  line 68  :  replace "madbox" with your username

default_user        madbox

reboot / shutdown should work ..

Last edited by ADcomp (2010-05-25 14:17:35)