Hello, everyone! Greetings in Jesus' mighty name! I've been talking with Dave (my partner in the iXthus Project development), and we have some thoughts about IchthuX, and what could be done to streamline the project.
1) there are a LOT of extra packages from Knoppix in IchthuX that just don't really need to be there to meet our stated outreach goals. Looking at the overloaded KDE menu just makes me feel bloated. Can we *please* get rid of the development packages, the unnecessary editors (5 editors? how about just down to Kedit, Kate, and a text editor (I prefer nano over zile, easier for a newbie to use, but it doesn't matter THAT much - most newbies don't do console editing anyway). 2) During the HD install, the script has LILO as the default, but LILO is not nearly as flexible/recoverable as GRUB. Any chance we could switch the two? 3) Since this is going to be an OUTREACH tool that will be given to people who are unfamiliar with Linux, we should probably spend some time naming things so that non-Linux users won't get overly confused. For example: In the KDE menu, what does KNOPPIX mean? Since I'm a fairly experienced Linux user, I know right away what it means. But what if we give this disk to someone who has never even SEEN Linux, let alone the KNOPPIX distro. It will just confuse them. The entire KDE menu structure is WAY too complicated. It should be streamlined down to just a few menu entries, with organized submenus. I know this is possible, because the Multimedia menu is subdivided into Sound, Video, and Viewers. This is excellent - let's continue this all the way through and SIMPLIFY. 4) Raphael: excellent job on pre-configuring Xchat to have Christian Forums right up front. That is GREAT. Can you put a DESKTOP shortcut that says something like "Live Christian Chat" which links to Xchat? 5) The graphics. That little kid coloring book version of Jesus makes my skin crawl. Do we really want to portray our Lord as a cartoon character? I would much rather come up with something that looks a bit more professional and has our theme built into it. We could create a series of themes, and keep the cartoon Jesus picture for the kids, along with the excellent Everaldo Kids' Icon theme. But PLEASE - not for the default install. 6) Right now, it looks as if Raphael is doing the lion's share of the actual work on configuring the distro. Is there any way we could spread out this development process so that we could all work on the project? Perhaps we could upload customized IchthuX packages to be included during the iso build process... all we need is a place to store them. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
