Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-28 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hi, On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:20 AM wrote: > Do we have some kind of roadmap or goal list of what projects we want to > work on next for ToriOS? > > Give me sometime and we shall get to this :-) > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios > Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net >

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-28 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hi everyone, On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:26 PM wrote: > On Thu, July 2, 2020 2:07 pm, Israel Dahl wrote: > > @Laura thanks for wanting to help! I think our goals overlap well, and > > could do with more hands on deck. My main goal for ToriOS is to make > > things easy to use, and look fairly nic

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-23 Thread Israel Dahl
Hi (inlines) On 7/23/20 9:53 AM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > (snip) >> What about modifying an existing solution, like gettext.  Perhaps make a >> wrapper library that uses gettext, but also can TTS (I can't remember the >> base lib for espeak off the top of my head) by overloading/inheriting the >>

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-23 Thread ml
On Wed, July 22, 2020 10:56 am, Israel Dahl wrote: > I know TTS (and vice versa) is spotty.  TTS options like espeak are ok, > and have huge capability but the Speech to Text is, as you say.  Though > I think Mozilla is working on something in that realm, IIRC. Mozilla is working on DeepSpeech

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-22 Thread Israel Dahl
Hi both, (inlines) On 7/22/20 8:19 AM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > On Wed, July 22, 2020 12:20 am, Paul Sutton wrote: >> So we have some text to speech support what about OCR support if that is >> more mature > Tesseract comes to mind for OCR. There are others too, but none of them > seem to match

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-22 Thread ml
On Wed, July 22, 2020 12:20 am, Paul Sutton wrote: > So we have some text to speech support what about OCR support if that is > more mature, what about building that in, with OCR it also should support > pictures Tesseract comes to mind for OCR. There are others too, but none of them seem to ma

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-22 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi all replies are inline On 22/07/2020 00:28, Israel Dahl wrote: > Hi, > Haven't read the second one yet, so I may repeat... > (inlines) > On 7/21/20 2:02 PM, m...@distasis.com wrote: >> On Tue, July 21, 2020 9:42 am, Israel Dahl wrote: >>> Yeah, so lets focus on the operating system (snip) >> H

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread Israel Dahl
Hi, Haven't read the second one yet, so I may repeat... (inlines) On 7/21/20 2:02 PM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > On Tue, July 21, 2020 9:42 am, Israel Dahl wrote: >> Yeah, so lets focus on the operating system (snip) > Having done development for both desktop and mobile, I don't believe > screen si

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread ml
On Tue, July 21, 2020 9:42 am, Israel Dahl wrote: > Yeah, so lets focus on the operating system, if we cannot control > upstream kernel choices.  Lets support it until we cannot.  I think going > forward we need to at least think mobile application support (build in > screen size adjustment).  This

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread ml
On Tue, July 21, 2020 9:42 am, Israel Dahl wrote: > Yeah, so lets focus on the operating system, if we cannot control > upstream kernel choices.  Lets support it until we cannot.  I think going > forward we need to at least think mobile application support (build in > screen size adjustment).  This

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi Israel and Laura > > We need a central collaboration hub for tiny distros.  This way we can > work together on common projects, instead of writing so many similar > programs (even the tiny scripts to turn off the computer or change volume) > I agree here, once we have something like a webs

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread Israel Dahl
Hi both Paul and Laura, (inlines) On 7/21/20 12:06 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: > (snip) [old hardware support] I think we should continue to support as much as we can > I think, if we are going to reach out to projects such as puppy Linux, > we should all reach out to these hardware and software project

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread Paul Sutton
In terms of hardware, there are projects such as https://www.freegeek.org/ which aim to use older hardware, even my Netbook is 64bit it has 2gb ram, the others I rescued from the same batch all have 1gb ram. There is https://hackclub.com/ which supports students with tinkering and learning that

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread ml
On Tue, July 21, 2020 7:24 am, Israel Dahl wrote: > My main question is going to be, what architectures? > > > Mobile is the newest low-spec ubiquitous computer everyone uses.  How do > we support cheap computing easiest?  Mobile, is pretty much the only answer > to that.  And most mobile OS are no

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-21 Thread Israel Dahl
First (what is Ali's new idea???), Secondly, are we thinking small for mobile, eventually. >> As an alternative perhaps we should be looking at free tools such as >> Jitsi.meet for example after. > I second the idea that we use free tools for meeting if possible. Of the > non-FLOSS tools, Google M

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread ml
On Mon, July 20, 2020 7:34 am, Paul Sutton wrote: > In terms of chat systems, is there no reason why we can't simply use > IRC at a set time, it means we can just type and not worry about > getting things such as headphones, microphones and web cams all working. IRC is good. Have some problems

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
s > on behalf of Ali Linx (amjjawad) > *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020 2:14 AM > *To:* toriOS Mailing list > *Subject:* [Torios] Time Investment > > Dear ToriOS family, > > Hope you are doing well. > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
; on behalf of Ali Linx (amjjawad) > *Sent:* 02 July 2020 7:14 AM > *To:* toriOS Mailing list > *Subject:* [Torios] Time Investment > > Dear ToriOS family, > > Hope you are doing well. > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, I

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 7:06 AM Israel Dahl wrote: > On 7/2/20 2:14 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > Dear ToriOS family, > > Hope you are doing well. > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, I > just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the proje

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:02 AM wrote: > On Wed, July 1, 2020 11:14 pm, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, I > > just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the project? > > otherwise, it would be pointless to share

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Paul Sutton
Just out of interest which systems are older PAE or Non PAE, I can never remember the difference, I think ToriOS is or was for non PAE systems. In which case, what is the status of general distribution support for 32bit systems The older of PAE or non PAE systems I know that projects are star

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:17 PM Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2020-07-02 kl. 08:14, skrev Ali Linx (amjjawad): > > Dear ToriOS family, > > > > Hope you are doing well. > > > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, > > I just want to know who is willing to invest somet

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi All The ToriOS manual is designed to be a general manual for the distribution covering how to get the OS, ways to create a install media, installing, the desktop, what applications are available. I know LaTeX isn't ideal for everyone here, But I can drop in plain text and add the LaTeX code a

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:38 PM Paul Sutton wrote: > > Hi Ali / Pedro / Team > Hi Paul, it's great to read from you. > > I am like you, not a developer, Same here ;-) > so was / am trying to work on the > Manual, so several versions, I have the latest(ish) on Overleaf, which > is the onlin

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-20 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:12 PM Pedro Albuquerque wrote: > Hi, > > Hello Pedro and everyone else :-) > I'm not a developer, > Who said I'm a developer? you don't have to be one! > so, not much I can do. > There are many things one can do beside coding! > I did start a new translation for P

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-14 Thread ml
Do we have some kind of roadmap or goal list of what projects we want to work on next for ToriOS? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-07 Thread Israel Dahl
On 7/7/20 9:01 AM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > Some options for quick scripted application development include the usual > dialog/xdialog and bash route. dialog can be built using pdcurses and can > work with any backend pdcurses works with. That means you could > potentially use it with Wayland/S

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-07 Thread ml
Some options for quick scripted application development include the usual dialog/xdialog and bash route. dialog can be built using pdcurses and can work with any backend pdcurses works with. That means you could potentially use it with Wayland/SDL. There are several GTK based dialog-like solutio

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-06 Thread ml
On Mon, July 6, 2020 8:42 am, Israel Dahl wrote: > I would like to see FLTK begin to work on other things beside X11.  What > do you think about use here?  I think being able to consider the eventual > mobile device trash heap will need repurposed, and those types of devices > AFAIK benefit from th

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-06 Thread Israel Dahl
Hi, (inline replies below) On 7/6/20 8:25 AM, m...@distasis.com wrote: > On Thu, July 2, 2020 2:07 pm, Israel Dahl wrote: >> (snip) > I'm still working on/trying to find lightweight alternatives that will > work better on older systems than a lot of the typical programs offered. > I really like ho

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-06 Thread ml
On Thu, July 2, 2020 2:07 pm, Israel Dahl wrote: > @Laura thanks for wanting to help!  I think our goals overlap well, and > could do with more hands on deck.  My main goal for ToriOS is to make > things easy to use, and look fairly nice on as old of hardware as > possible. I'm still working on/tr

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-03 Thread Jack Trice
Hi, I'd be interested in learning what new ideas there are. Cheers, Jack From: Torios on behalf of Ali Linx (amjjawad) Sent: 02 July 2020 7:14 AM To: toriOS Mailing list Subject: [Torios] Time Investment Dear ToriOS family, Hope you are doing well. I

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-02 Thread Israel Dahl
On 7/2/20 2:14 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Dear ToriOS family, > > Hope you are doing well. > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I > have, I just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the > project? otherwise, it would be pointless to share ideas th

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-02 Thread Israel Dahl
On 7/2/20 2:14 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Dear ToriOS family, > > Hope you are doing well. > > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I > have, I just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the > project? otherwise, it would be pointless to share ideas th

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-02 Thread ml
On Wed, July 1, 2020 11:14 pm, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, I > just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the project? > otherwise, it would be pointless to share ideas that will remain only > ideas without a re

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-02 Thread Pedro Albuquerque
Hi, I'm not a developer, so, not much I can do. I did start a new translation for Portuguese (Portugal), ISO pt or pt_PT. That I can do, if you're interested. Maybe I can help with the documentation? - Regards, Pedro Albuquerque Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

Re: [Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi Ali / Pedro / Team I am like you, not a developer, so was / am trying to work on the Manual, so several versions, I have the latest(ish) on Overleaf, which is the online Cloud LaTeX editor https://www.overleaf.com/read/tfjmddqmmbbt This version is read only, As I only have a free account

[Torios] Time Investment

2020-07-01 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Dear ToriOS family, Hope you are doing well. I have some ideas for the future of ToriOS. Before I share what I have, I just want to know who is willing to invest sometime into the project? otherwise, it would be pointless to share ideas that will remain only ideas without a real implementation. A